But that doesn't mean you've gotta be powerless, Hime-chan.
[He doesn't say it lightly because Naruto understands what she's saying beneath those words. He understands what it means to have people like that walking ahead of him, and to know how much he has to live up to. In a lot of ways he's been fortunate to have the kind of mentors and teachers he has- they're all distinguished in their own ways, and they've left their legacies behind to be carried into the future.
But he's also seen what the weight of expectations like that can do to people. The way it can eat them up inside. The things that get erased.
There's nothing wrong with having a dream, or people to aspire to. But wishing to be someone else just feels like a waste of the people they are. It makes it sound like there isn't any value to her for the way she is.]
I know what it's like to want to change.
But I think it's important to become your own kind of strong. Not like your mother or your sisters, but like you.
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But that doesn't mean you've gotta be powerless, Hime-chan.
[He doesn't say it lightly because Naruto understands what she's saying beneath those words. He understands what it means to have people like that walking ahead of him, and to know how much he has to live up to. In a lot of ways he's been fortunate to have the kind of mentors and teachers he has- they're all distinguished in their own ways, and they've left their legacies behind to be carried into the future.
But he's also seen what the weight of expectations like that can do to people. The way it can eat them up inside. The things that get erased.
There's nothing wrong with having a dream, or people to aspire to. But wishing to be someone else just feels like a waste of the people they are. It makes it sound like there isn't any value to her for the way she is.]
I know what it's like to want to change.
But I think it's important to become your own kind of strong. Not like your mother or your sisters, but like you.