Days later
Tazuna was walking to his backyard and saw Naruto waiting for him there meditating in front of a fire*
Naruto:hello tazuna Sama
Tazuna:hey kid, why did you want to talk to me before we left?
Naruto stretched his arms as he looked at tazuna and offered him a kind smile*
Naruto: please sit down tazuna Sama. I wish to tell you an old iron country tale. It's story the scholars has found and piece together over time
Tazuna:ok? Guess I owe you that much
Tazuna said with a soft chuckle since he owes Naruto everything. He sat down in front of Naruto as he started*
Naruto:long ago, long before the samurai and the Shinobi went to war for the soul of the elemental nations. There was this samurai who had the power to walk on they sky a Skywalker if you will, his name and the name of his beloved was lost to the sands of time. But his story and message lives on
Tazuna:alright, I'll bite. What's the messages?
Naruto chuckled and grabbed a bag of dust from his pocket. Tazuna looked confused but went along with it*
Naruto: patience tazuna Sama, patience. This Skywalker was a grand and powerful samurai, who lived by the way of bushido. That is until he fell in love with a beautiful woman
Tazuna:why is that bad? You samurai aren't allowed to date or something?
Naruto shrugged thinking of the man who could walk on skies, and how even if he did loss his honor, he could understand why when his clan all but forced him do that route*
Naruto:we are, but the group this Skywalker was in, forbade attachments. There mentality was that attachments led to breaking the bushido code, honestly
it just made them weaker in my opinion. We human are emotional creatures, to live a life without emotions is no life at all
Tazuna:ah, ok continue
Naruto threw some dust on the fire and tazuna's eyes widen as a picture was starting to form in the smoke a man and a woman with a strange head gear*
Naruto:Skywalker and his beloved had to keep there relationship a secret less his clan find out. If they did he would have to commit suppuku to regain his honor. Slowly but surely there love grew but with that also his fear of losing her. He started to receive nightmare of his wife dying, he searched for a way to trick death in to keeping his wife by his side. He unfortunately found a way, an ancient evil way to keep his wife alive. He trusted a Shinobi, who told him of a Jutsu that could fool death itself
Naruto threw another handful of dust to the fire and the image of a vile creature like human took form from the smoke*
Naruto:But the price was much too great, he lost himself in search for the solution where he went back to his clan and killed everyone. The men, woman and children stood no chance, he truly was a powerful soul, his blade once as blue as the very sky he walked upon, now turned as red as the blood of his victims. His beloved tried to stop him and bring him back to the light but she couldn't do it. He was simply to far gone, At the end his former mentor, master, and brother in all but blood had to fight him and put an end to his madness. They fought inside a volcano, there fight so spectacular, that it lived on throught the ages*
Naruto threw most of the dust in the fire showing a spectacular fight that has yet to be bested*
Naruto:in the end with the master becoming victorious chopping all the limbs of the Skywalker, and leaving him there to burn to death from the hot air and lava.
Naruto grabbed the last of the Sand and threw it at the fire and a final moving image showed up*
tazuna was taken out of the story when Naruto turned
off the fire, tazuna swears he could almost hear the Skywalker scream when the fire was turned off by the bucket of water, he could almost hear "I hate you" coming from the wind*
Tazuna:ok? So what's the messages? Not becoming a killer?
Naruto:no tazuna San, the story is not yet finished. Somehow the Skywalker survived, his anger and hatred kept him alive long enough for the ancient evil that promised to save his wife to save him. But he wished he didn't, he used his magic to transformed him in to something unrecognizable.
Naruto took a scroll out of his kimono and opened it*
Naruto: Thankfully this part of the scroll was mostly undamaged from the passage of time, it reads
Naruto:"This is how it feels to be -ni- Skywalker, forever. The first dawn of light in your universe brings pain. The light burns you. It will always burn you. Part of you will always lie upon black glass sand beside a lake of fire while flames chew at your flesh. You can hear yourself breathing. It comes hard, and harsh, and it scrapes nerves already raw, but you cannot stop it. You can never stop it. You cannot even slow it down. You don't even have lungs anymore. -- into your chest breathe for you. They will pump oxygen into your bloodstream forever. Lord Vader? Lord Vader, can you hear me? And you can't, not in the way you once did. - in the shell that prisons your head trickle meaning directly into your soul. You open your scorched-pale eyes; -- integrate light and shadow into a hideous simulacrum of the world around you. Or perhaps the simulacrum is perfect, and it is the world that is hideous. Beloved? Are you here? Are you all right? you try to say, but another voice speaks for you, out from the strange black box that serves you for burned-away lips and tongue and throat.
Beloved? Are you here? Are you all right?
I'm very sorry, Lord Vader. I'm afraid she died. It seems in your anger, you killed her. He heard the very demon who promised him he could saved her if he would've submit. This burns hotter than the lava had.
No...no, it is not possible!
You love her. You have always loved her. You could never will her death. Never.
But you remember... You remember all of it.
You remember the dragon that you brought Vader forth from your heart to slay. You remember the cold venom in Vader's blood. You remember the furnace of Vader's fury, and the black hatred of seizing her throat to silence her lying mouth...
And there is one blazing moment in which you finally understand that there was no dragon. That there was no Vader. That there was only you. Only - Skywalker. That it was all you. Is you.
Only you. You did it. You killed her.
You killed her because, finally, when you could have saved her, when you could have gone away with her, when you could have been thinking about her, you were thinking about yourself..."
Naruto:after that, the original scroll stopped whatever else it read was lost to history. But the message still remains, and you need to learn this lesson tazuna Sama, as you are walking the same footsteps as this Skywalker
Tazuna looked at Naruto confused, Naruto just placed the scroll back on its place inside his kimono*
Tazuna:what are you talking about? I haven't fallen in love with anybody
Naruto:love wasn't the point of my story tazuna Sama. Skywalker's love turned in to an attachment that he was willing to do anything to preserve. He let his love twist and form in to an obsession. For you? Your letting your bitterness and resentment, turn in to hatred and disgust, now that gato and his bandits dogs are gone the people has come back to help us finish the bridge. I've seen the way you look at them tazuna Sama
Tazuna sighed and drink of bit of the new higher quality sake he got from iron country, enjoying the sweet fruity taste*
Tazuna:can you blame me? After everything I've been through, after having to work on that bridge a second time
this time by myself as the villagers called me a fool at best and at worst words that I do not wish to repeat with you. How do I forget all of that? How do I forget all that has happened to me, all that I sacrificed?
Naruto:i do not, I understand I truly do. They abandoned you over fear. And I'm not asking you to forget it, I'm asking you to move on from it, to maybe one day forgive them but never forget, less you become just like the man who walked in the sky, and let your feelings control you. You are the greatest of your people in this village tazuna Sama, of that there is no question
But even the greatest of us can be subjected to fall and become broken if we do not humble ourselves
Naruto got up and place a hand on his shoulder with a kind smile*
Naruto:think of it as a favor from me. Since I wish for your remaining years to be filled with love and kindness, not bitterness and resentment. To die like that is not a fate I want for you
Naruto started walking away he stopped when he heard the voice of tazuna*
Tazuna:that man, Vader or Walker whatever his name is, what do you think happened to him?
Naruto:he was a samurai tazuna Sama, i would like to think that at least at the end he regain his honor through seppuku. Remember his tale tazuna and never forget it, feelings are like a forest one can easily become lost like the man of the sky did. to have feelings is human, to let your feelings consume you is how monsters are born. I shall go check on the bridge
Tazuna:Naruto.
Naruto:yes?
Tazuna:that's the name of the bridge, the great Naruto bridge. I hope your story will live on through the generations
Naruto:heh you honor and humble me tazuna Sama, i may be a little selfish to sya this. but may that happen indeed
Naruto said with a soft chuckle as he walked out of the house, Naruto made it to the village. He was greeted like some kind of god, Naruto just smiled and waved at the people, but he remained humbled as miss Takeda has taught him to be "always strive to be a humbled person". It did warm his heart seeing workers of iron country already have arrived and started fixing the village not just them but there were also workers giving out clothes, warm food, everything the emperor promised them*
Naruto:the warriors that will protect this land should be here In a day or two. Soon my journey continues
Naruto said out loud feeling a little bittersweet on the fact that soon he'll have to leave tazuna and his family, Since Naruto's fate does no lie here. with a sigh his smile became a little smaller as he continued his walk to the bridge, with tazuna Sama not far behind him but both wanting to walk there by themselves this time*
Author note:just putting it out there
1. Yes I'm a huge star wars fan
2.yes I'm in the group that does not blame Anakin for his fall
3.yes I love the prequels
4.and yes I'm an anisoka fan
Now hope you've enjoyed the read Imma go back to playing Jedi survivor
To be continued
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