The straw that broke the camels back had just come to furious as the Hokage stood there, the wind gently breezing at him as he allowed himself to feel the anger that passed to his second body, watching as the red cloaked figure walked up behind Ziren, the sunglasses reflecting the man’s back to him as a sinister smile crossed the path’s lips as it judged him in those split seconds, deeming if he was worthy or not of being a threat. It tilted its head slightly catching the end of the conversation before speaking, calculating the words with precision.
“You say that, but Maru tried to make his actions get fixed with his fists, by changing people to see things from his point of view, he tried to fix the situation in his own way. You are exactly like Maru and the sad part is you cannot even see it, even after it cost you an arm you cannot see that you are still falling short of the expectation. Instead you wish to stand here and judge me? I have sacrificed more than you will ever know for this village and you stand here and try and judge me on my actions.”
The man with the red hat glanced up at Ziren, the pure anger, pure malice and pure insight into those eyes was enough to make most back away. Ziren didn’t have that luxury as now he was standing between the two of them. Each one glaring down at him as Takeshi allowed himself to consider the words of Ziren, the anger that flowed inside of him he calmed down. Remembering back to a time with Umashi and how that ended he pondered for a few seconds as he wanted to try and resolve this peacefully.
“Your right Maru, I should take more care in how our next generation is grown inside of the village. And tell me Ziren, how would you handle an attack on your family directly. Would you just let it happen? I think not. I struck them down, so they can pick themselves up and dust themselves off. You have not done that, you have held onto anger, held onto weakness. For that I cannot accept that you see me as picking on the weak, Asuka has grown strong, has grown into something that is powerful. Yet you see what I did as weak, maybe that is because once again you did not learn from your lesson, you did not take it in and you have once more managed to not understand the mistake that you made.”
Takeshi allowed himself to stand dormant in front of Ziren, it seemed the boy wanted to throw blame at the Hokage and never himself, that would be a mistake that he came to understand was a grave one.
“You brought that on yourself and those that you care about, your actions have consequences. Yet you blame me for it, and sorry is what people say that insult someone, not try to kill someone from this village. Next you tell me that you turned to serve the ANBU when you where injured, you became a problem to them, you became an issue to them. You could have got them killed trying to protect you while you were injured and want to tell me that was a good decision. You want me to tell you that you did the right thing by endangering the branch?”
Takeshi allowed himself to frown Ziren needed a lesson in education and he would be the one to see it given to him. He allowed himself look at the body stood behind Ziren it seemed strange to see himself like this again.
“Fine, If you do not understand what your actions do, and you do not have anyone to look up to. I suggest that we send you to my personal tutor. I am going to demote you, you may be angry, you may be frustrated but work hard, push yourself to the limits and I will make it worth it for you. Report to Kenshin, Main Branch Sennin, we will make sure I do not make the same mistakes I did with Maru. Yes, I make mistakes but do not take what I do as one now. You are here by demoted to Academy Student. Speak with Kenshin he will teach you some loyalty and understanding for the way this world works. Also, he will allow you to learn to become something great. Look at it for the opportunity it is. Do not pass this chance up. Once you have passed to Genin come and find me, I will teach you a contract that will help keep you on the right and straight path.
[Ziren Demoted to Academy Student]