[The grass was always greener. He'd had his hands full with a jinchuuriki wife (plus keeping her safe, their secrets hidden), the aftermath of a war, every lady in life getting kidnapped, an entire world that labeled him an enemy, and the ever precarious situation with the Uchiha.

None of them had had it particularly easy.]

A shame it had to come to that.

[Only not really because fuck those guys. But he did try not to speak too harshly of his elders.]

I realize Homura and Koharu [-san, their names offered with politeness- he certainly wasn't on a casual first name basis with them despite his own rank.] have the village's best interests in mind, but even in my time they pressed for a failing system, too accustomed to a time when it might have worked to realize a change was necessary.

...By the sounds of it, they did the same to you.

[siiiiiip]

Too stubborn and stuck in their ways. Konoha... and the shinobi world itself, really, needs something new.

[An eye for an eye made the whole world blind. If they didn't stop perpetuating a cycle of hatred, there wouldn't be anyone left.]