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She... she said we'd see each other again! S-She promised!

Had it been her plan to go down fighting? 

Had she wanted to die this entire time? 

When she used that strange power, I thought she was... invincible. I had never heard of, or seen, anything like that before. She lit a person on fire! With her eyeballs! And those people who attacked us, who were they? Why did they have to come?! If I hadn't gotten sick; if during my birth I had been even just a little more lucky... my parents, and Makara-sensei, they wouldn't have had to sacrifice so much. Their family, their lives... For me.

Why... is this happening? Why does it have to be like this? Why did my family have to sacrifice themselves... for me?

"I... I can't cry! I swore... I swore I... I-I wouldn't cry." I take a great, deep breath, and quickly wipe my face. "... I have to get to the Hidden Leaf."

"I... um..." I scratch my head and glance down at the map for the seventh time in the past two seconds. "I... should've turned left... back there..." I turn around and run the other way.

"I already turned left! How the heck am I still lost?!" I should've already been at the village's gates!! So why aren't I?! "Oh. Wait a minute." I stop walking. "I turned right... didn't I? That means I have to go left... all the way... again."