Maikeru let out a long, disappointed sigh. He was tired, so, so tired. Mentally, physically, every muscle in his body and thought in his head was screaming at him to just quit, to just leave. Leave this tutor, leave this village, leave everything. For months, he had been struggling with his perception of what the leaf really was. He had been slowly, day by day, losing faith in his village. It had been slowly being restored by his friends, the so called academy crew, by his mentors Kenshin and Asuka, and most importantly by Reicheru. But, in a single moment Asuka had just shattered every ounce of work those wonderful people had done.
"Asuka.." he began, his eyes full of disappointment and shame. "What exactly was your plan here?"
It was a simple question, but one that Maikeru had put a lot of weight behind. In those words he had summed up his thoughts about the leaf as a whole, about this whole village that seemed to be full of nothing but rampant nepotism and murder of one's own people.
"You didn't expect me to show up, you didn't expect Kahora to show up. It was supposed to originally be a lesson for young Daisuke here. I put emphasis on the word young, because he is. He's a new academy student, with barely his feet wet in the fundamentals, and you would throw this at him? Your plan was to test him in a no-win scenario, why? Let's ignore for a second that your explanation is not at all how explosive tags work, or the laws prohibiting their use inside of the village. Your plan was to come here before hand, bury and set two-hundred explosive tags, and ask Daisuke to escape with no chakra or movement? I just ask, why? Of course, there is one solution to this problem, using your made up rules for how explosives work. Throw some kunai, clear a path, and pray to the gods you can jump and move from where you are quicker than the tag can count down. But of course, in real life, one explosion would just trigger the next, and the next, and so on. I'm sure you can all see where that leads."
Maikeru shook his head, looking down at the ground as he bit as his lower lip. This was honestly hard for him, for a number of reasons.
"This village.. it has a lot of issues, but, it's home. Honestly, it needs a cleansing. From top down, the whole system needs to be shaken up, to get rid of all of the problems that this place has. You, Asuka, could have been the one to solve all of these issues." He looked her in the eyes as he said this, his charcoal eyes full of pity. "We've never met, and yet I still know who you are. You should be someone that every child in this village, and especially the kunoichi, are proud to look up to. A member of the Uchiha clan who not only rose to Jonin, but also mastered her Sharingan before age sixteen. You should have risen to be a legend in this village, someone whose name is on the lips of everyone inside of it. Instead we got.. whatever you are."
He let out another sigh, before continuing.
"A sociopath with no regard for the concern of others, a child stuck in the body of an adult who laughs while explaining to three academy students that they very well may die. Do you have any compassion at all in that cold, dead heart of yours?" He asked, taking a step closer to Asuka. He didn't care about the explosive traps. If this was what the leaf was becoming, he welcomed them with open arms. "You're treating this, all of this, like it's a game. This.. this isn't a class, or a tutoring, this is your sick fantasies come to life. Who the hell, and i'm gonna quote you on this, has this as 'something they've always wanted to do'?
Another step, and another, getting closer and closer to Asuka.
"I'm going to tell you something Asuka that I don't think anyone you're really close to has ever told you. So, that burden falls to me. So, Uchiha to Uchiha, cousin to cousin. Grow. Up." He stopped moving now, standing with his hands at his side, his eyes drawn into a tight scowl. "You are an embarrassment to both your title of Jonin, as well as your name as an Uchiha. You, Uchiha Asuka, have failed this village."