ITACHI UCHIHA

 

REMEMBERED AS VILLAIN, DIED AS HERO...

• Obsessed with the organization, obsessed with the clan, obsessed with our lineage... A worthless compulsion that enslaves us and limits our capabilities, leading us to fear what you don't understand. 

 

• Being the best isn't all it's cracked up to be. When you have power, you become arrogant and isolated from the world, no matter how coveted and sought after you are in the beginning. 

 

• I'm always going to be there for you, even if it's only as an obstacle for you to overcome. Even if you do hate me... That's what big brothers are for.

 

• Even the strongest of opponents always has a weakness.

 

•  It isn't that if you become Hokage everyone will acknowledge you... It's the ones who are acknowledged that can become Hokage.

 

• People live their lives bound by what they accept as correct and true. That's how they define "reality". But what does it mean to be "correct" or "true"? Merely vague concepts… their "reality" may all be a mirage. Can we consider them to simply be living in their own world, shaped by their  own beliefs?

 

• Appearances and preconceptions aren't going to tell you anything.

 

• It is foolish to fear what we’ve yet to see and know!!

 

• Those who can’t acknowledge their real selves are bound to fail.

 

• True Change cannot be made if it is bound by laws and limitations, predictions and imagination.

 

 

• How can we evolve when regulation is all we know?

 

• Forgive yourself on what you aren’t able to do, if you want to know who you are, you have to look at your real self and acknowledge what you see.

 

• No. I’m telling you to learn to forgive yourself for not being omnipotent. It’s because we can’t do everything ourselves that we have friends to fill in the gaps. They also make sure we don’t undervalue the things we can do. If you want to know who you are, look at your true self once more, and accept what you see. I failed to do this. I lied to everyone, and I spent my life deceiving myself as well. Those who cannot accept themselves will fail. Just like I once did.

The village does have its dark side and its inconsistencies, but I'm still Itachi Uchiha of the Leaf. 

GAARA

'THE KAAZEKAGE'

I am Gaara of the Desert, wherever there's rock, wherever there's Earth, I can make more sand.

• I took the life of the woman I was supposed to call mother in the process of being born... in order to become the world's strongest shinobi... I became the incarnation of sand..

 

• You have someone in your life whom you honor and revere so much that every hurt on them is inflicted on you as well. And the closer they are to you, the greater the pain.

• If love is just a word, then why does it hurt so much if you realize it isn't there?

 

• I would fight only for myself and love only myself. If all other people exist to magnify that love, then there is no more a splendid world than this one.

• A battle... is a gamble... where one pits one's existence against another's... and you try to kill each other... and where only the victor gets to savor the worth of his existence.

• We have walked through the darkness of this world, that's why we are able to see even a sliver of light.
  

• In order to escape a road of solitude, one has to work hard, and forge a new path with their own power.

• Gaara's speech before  4th Ninja War: Three times now... We've fought world wars for our own nations, our own villages. We've hurt one another. We've hated one another. That hatred bred a lust for power, and that lust for power created ME. I was a Jinchuuriki, the embodiment of hatred and power. And I hated this world, and all the people in it... I wanted to destroy it with my own hands. The exact same thing Akatsuki is trying to do today. But one man, one ninja from Konoha stopped me. I was his enemy, yet he wept for me! I hurt him, yet he called me his friend! He saved me! My enemy, my fellow Jinchuuriki... He suffered the same pain as me, yet bore no ill will! There are no enemies here because we've all suffered at Akatsuki's hand! SO THERE IS NO SAND, NO STONE, NO LEAF, NO MIST, NO CLOUD! THERE ARE ONLY SHINOBI! And if you still hold a grudge against the Sand, then when this war is over, come and take my head instead! Our enemies are after the friend who saved my life! If they take him, if we hand him over, our world is finished! I want to protect him, and I want to protect our world! But I'm too young to protect it all on my own! All of you lend me your aid!

Now there's something I understand a little better. Hate, sadness, even joy. To be able to share it with another person... Naruto Uzumaki. From fighting him I learned that. He knew pain like I did and then he taught me that you can change your path. I wish that one day I can be needed by someone. Not as a frightening weapon... But as the sand's Kazekage.