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I look around to see the fireflies dancing in and out of the grass. The cool water cascading through the rocks and the breeze making the leaves on the trees dance. This is and always will be my favorite spot to be. Always peaceful, life becomes a disaster without peace.
I haven't been here since the time I brought Kankuro here. And that's been a long time. I jumped onto a low tree branch, resting my back into the large trunk, I'm pretty sure my back has left an imprint into this tree. I pull out the three envelopes and scroll.
I take a deep breath and open my moms letter first.
To my little Butterfly,
Be the light in someone's storm Mayumi Sarutobi. You always have been my light. You have helped me through so much more than you would ever know.
I hope when you do finally read this you are much older. But there are things in your life that you never knew, or knew about yourself.
You are special Mayumi. You truly are a unicorn in this world. But before I get to that, the reason why your father and I left was to get him away from you. And the only way to get him away, was if I were to go also. We both know he is a dangerous man. I couldn't keep letting him stay in the village with you. So when your grandfather let us leave for a long mission. I quickly accepted it.
I know Asuma was also a help in that too. He loves you and I hope you never turn your back on him. Because one day you're going to need him one day. And he will need you.
I know about your grandfather training you. I know that you are able to use all five elements. I know about your chakra seal that your grandfather helped you with. He has taught you so much to be able to defend for yourself. And I know you will only become stronger. I know you want to be able to learn as much as you can and will do as much as you can as long as your body allows it.
But enough of all of that. I need to talk about you, Mayumi.
You may or may not know by now your chakra drains so easily to your seal without you personally doing it yourself, naturally storing itself. When in battle you are only having 40% chakra, as for the 60% goes to the seal.
The day you release the chakra seal you will release so much chakra, you will be powerful, but only at a cost. You need to be careful when you release it.
Now, onto your kekkei genkei, yes, you possess both ketsurygan and Fuinjutsu. You get those from me. My grandfather had the Ketsurygan and my grandmother had the Fuinjutsu. It is something I hid for years, my father also had the Fuinjutsu, but that was it. It skipped me and carried onto you. Sadly, I know hardly nothing of either because everyone was so secretive about it.
All I know about it each. Are very powerful once you master it. To be able to have them together I can only imagine the power you hold with both. There are two people that I know that can help you. One has moved to the Land of Moon. The other is in the Land of Sky. I hope you travel there and see how beautiful it is and able to train.
The Land of Fantasy. Where do I begin my butterfly, I was born there. I'm pretty sure a few members would remember me. Sadly enough as far as I know, there are no family members left there. They all had left and separated. It may look like a run down village, but it's really art. Genjutsu is really a beautiful type of art. You are an artist with yourself, it is up to you on how to perfect yourself, but make sure you don't make mistakes because you may never be able to erase them.
I know deep down you will make a difference, you are strong, brave, and loving. I hope one day you become a great Kunoichi, scratch that, you will. And I know you will.
When you can't find the sunshine Mayumi, BE the sunshine.
I love you to the moon and back Mayumi, I hope you find your place in this world, I hope you achieve every dream you have ever wanted. And I hope you do it with pride.
-Mom
It's amazing how how we take life for granted, only for it to end up in a tragedy. I mean really, we love our lives, so many happy moments only to die at the end. Life truly does suck when you look at it. I wouldn't ever say that out loud though.
My mom what seemed like my biggest supporter when I was little. But little did I know, she wasn't, k never realized that until later on. She just cared for me. I just want to have one more conversation with her. To feel her tight embrace around me...
I lazily pull out dads letter and let out a sigh.
Mayumi,
If you break like glass, life is going to eat you. No one notices your tears, no one notices your sadness, no one notices your pain, but they all notice your mistakes Mayumi.
I have made plenty of mistakes in my time, and I am not sorry. But I'm not going to bore you with a sappy story instead, I am giving you my most prized sword. One thing you never knew about me is I was part of the seven swordsman. I kept my sword for the son I was going to have. But instead, for my daughter. I think you will find it smooth, good balanced and very light weight when you channel your chakra through it. I assume you know how to do that.
We have never been close, and never will be. But, I hope you live a good life, make your regrets and mistakes.
I will see you one day Mayumi.
-dad.
He.. he was one of them?! I wonder if that's why I felt a strange connection to Kisame? And why I love Kenjutsu so much? Dad was never one to ever be a soft person. He was always hard, maybe that's where I get my stubbornness and hard headedness from... I pull out the scroll and open it and release the seal from it and a massive sword appears in my hand.
I look at it in amazement. I have never seen him carry this sword before. I wonder if it's the one he carried when he was with the Swordsmen? I wonder how many people he has killed with this..
I look down the blade and realize it has a slight curve to it towards to left. No doubt it has been through a hard hit. Scratches all over the blade too. It's longer than me, a good two foot taller than me.
I look down at the handle and see that it's made out of Iron, no doubt some really good and expensive Iron. And a small butterfly engraved into the handle. I would have never noticed if it wasn't for the moonlight hitting it a certain way.
I wipe my eyes not even realizing I'm crying. And take a few deep breaths and set the sword to the side and grab my grandfathers letter. This one is going to be the one that really hurts..
Grandfather-
Stop leaning back into darkness. I know that's exactly what you are doing my dear granddaughter. I know since you are reading this it means I am gone. There are a few things I want to say, and hopefully you can move forward with your life.
Mayumi, you NEED to slow down. You NEED to stop and think. You are braver than brave, everyone know that. Everyone knows that you always rush into something, protecting everyone no matter the cost. STOP. Stop it. Little butterfly, please, I would love to be able to hug you once more. But I want to see you grow into the beautiful flower that is about to blossom.
You have so much going for you. But you are too hardheaded to understand that. As much as you help others, LET THEM help you.
Mayumi, I knew my time was going to come. I was aware of the situation. But I also did it for my village, for my people, for you. I hope you understand it. This village along with you, was my pride and joy. I loved every person in this village.
I hope you don't follow in my footsteps. I believe you can do exactly what you have always wanted too.
Mayumi, You can change the past with y'all you are achieving. You truly are the greatest blessing in my life. You can do anything Mayumi. I believe in you, and so does this entire village. This village is all for your protect. And I know you will. You are great at protecting anything in harms way. And with that, you truly are a Shinobi. Believe in yourself more.
Don't let the hard days win. I love you granddaughter.
Raise some hell.
-Grandfather.
I wipe my tears and nose but the waterworks keep coming. I feel at peace, but I feel so empty. I sit on the ground for a while longer crying, staring up at the moon until my tears dry up.
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