[Fic] It’s Just That Any One of Us Is Half Without Another One Is You - Chapter Nineteen

[branchandroot]

Cross-post from my archive.

Fandom/Arc: Avalanche, Naruto
Characters/Pairings: Haruno Sakura, Hatake Kakashi, Jiraiya, Sai, Shimura Danzou, Tsunade, Uchiha Madara, Uchiha Sasuke, Uzumaki Naruto
Summary: Kakashi takes Sai under his wing and Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura help Sai start to find his emotional feet. Just in time for Madara to make his move on Konoha.
Meta: Drama, Angst, I-4
Wordcount: 5447

"Shinobi are the weapons of their villages. Their nations. Their employers. True enough. But a shinobi without the will to evaluate orders, and even modify them if field conditions demand it, is a blade without a sheath. And members of ANBU are ground to a sharper edge than any others. That's what you've been waving around your own village, Danzou."

Read: It's Just That Any One of Us Is Half Without Another One Is You: Chapter Nineteen

Comments

[annotated_em]

*hisses* Danzou is a fucking bastard, isn't he?

[branchandroot]

*brightly* Yes. Yes, he is. I really am convinced he's more than a little unbalanced (not that this is anything odd for a ninja, to be sure). He's very devoted to the village, but only to /his/ vision of what the village should be, and that's a vision with Danzou at the center.