I’m going to protect your legacy!!

For the first time in my life, I have actually lost a sense of direction.

After graduation, I was happy to make my parents proud and to have fulfilled my promise to my grandfather. Right now I work as a technician who helps customers fix their satellite equipment and stuff. I earn money. I live. i laugh. I love (?).

But let me tell you the story of a ninja village that’s now at a crisis:

“There was once this hidden ninja village whose shinobis are one of the finest and most determined soldiers the ninja world has ever known. They were swift as a coursing river, their force was of a great typhoon and their strength was that of a blazing fire. They were fighters, for real, whose will of fire decimated their opponents in one fell swoop. The thing that separates these shinobis from the rest is their hunger, their determination, to protect their loved ones and their village (let’s just call it konoha). Years passed and their will of fire was passed on from generation to generation. Spawning champions and great shinobis whose influence and skill inspired others to work just as hard. Topped with the bond forged through the elements that went against them, theirs was a force to be reckoned with if not totally feared.

Of course, problems arise for Konoha and resources were often scarce and some of its genin (newbie shinobis) and chunin (junior shinobis) were losing that spiritual fuel needed to fight. This was redeemable though because the other jonin (elite shinobis) helped them out whenever they can- in the process though, they get killed. But that’s natural in the shinobi world and their legacies stayed with most of their subordinates thus perpetuating the wll of fire.

Now, as shinobis, they always head to battle headstrong and prepared. However, there was a battle ahead that has not been decided. And Konoha has a lot of things in its hands now as it prepares for another war it has started. The 4th leader of these shinobis, the yondaime hokage, forecast the arrival of a child. The child of prophecy, as he calls it, who’d bring more fire to the already burning hearts of the warriors that have been weathered by the loss of other battles and the loss of their comrades. One who would lead with utmost vigilance. Unfortunately, for some reason, the child of prophecy never arrived for due to reasons none of them could control. Now, Konoha is in a position it wouldn’t want to be in. With its shinobis weakened and the administration under threat by political stress and instability (not to mention the threat of an obese eagle-eagel monster wo has the knack for eating nicotine leaves), the retired jonins take up their armor once again to help alleviate the village’s status and help aid in the war. Regrettably, there’s been great criticism with regards to the fate of Konoha- and it even made some of the retired jonins lose hope. How can Konoha fight a war with unprepared shinobis and a failing leadership? Now things are as uncertain as ever and the will of fire seems to be dwindling away with the fallen jonin….”

This story hasn’t ended yet so we’ll all have to wait.  But there’s the story of the failsafe shinobi, a retired jonin who does the best  he can to help. Foolhardy as it may seem, he wants to bring back the will of fire and bring the dead jonin back to life. He promised to protect the legacies of the past hokages and he hopes that the child of prophecy arrives in time.