Kiba realises there’s too much wrong with the shinobi system after the 4th shinobi when he realises that they’re all hurting so damn much.
Shikamaru’s smoking more than ever and that distant vacant stare he gets worsens with each day like he’s staring into another time. Ino is jumping at shadows and loud noises, wired up like she’s going to explode. Sai hasn’t even tried to smile since stepping off the battlefield and Naruto’s lost an arm and a big portion of the easy calm he used to be able to hold on to so easily.
They’re all broken and damaged in the aftermath of the war and the system accommodates for none of it. The system is only hurting them more.
Kiba realises he’s been living the same missions over and over and sure he hunts down criminals and he’s helping Konoha and getting paid or the while, but that isn’t enough anymore. Kiba needs a better reason, and ‘for Konoha’ as a reason for killing isn’t cutting it anymore.
However, on one mission, the missing-nin with a child in her arms gives her reasons for leaving, her thoughts on the world they live in, offering him the advice that he needs but doesn’t want. Kiba’s fears are only confirmed – he’s a slave to the very system that’s hurting him so much.
Kiba is a shinobi, a bounty hunter, but regardless of fancy terms, he is a murderer.
Kiba goes back to the village having let the missing-nin go, lies in the mission report and tells Tsume of all his plans. He stays just long enough to ask Kakashi for leave and walks out the gates of Konoha.
He’s never been a great friend of Sasuke’s, never liked him very much, but Kiba finally understands why Sasuke wanted to destroy the village and how staying in Konoha would be the worst thing for him. Sasuke is the only one who’ll understand Kiba’s goals and he needs to do something to fix the system, and it’s pretty clear he can’t start in Konoha.
(People are like leaves, they fall so easily only the landing is rarely soft.)
I may be three-quarters through writing a fic for this one why do I do this to myself
Whistling through the cherry trees (leaves fall down)
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