...that was a man?! I totally thought it was his aunt!
I know, what a total bastard. He should have said, "They're afraid of your power," which was obvious to poor little Baby Gaara already, and died with his mouth zipped about the rest of it. And I had been thinking up until that point, "But Gaara did have his own Iruka... huh... guess his aunt is about to die tragically and leave him alone and bitter." And it was so much worse than that. In fact, that is the worst thing you can possibly tell a child.
It reminded me of the time when my mother, who I later found out was going through menopause and was temporarily insane (in case you've read my book, by that I mean "more than usual"), got in a huge argument with me over where we had left the car and ended up saying, "This is why you have no friends." Luckily at that point I was about twenty-five, and so responded by saying, in a very mature manner, "I do too! I have lots of friends!" rather than by becoming a psycho killer. To which, incidentally, she replied, "I find that hard to believe." Yeah, large parts of my past really do resemble that of the typical manga hero.
Well, I do think that Gaara had an additional disadvantage that Naruto didn't, which is that his demon was much less tightly bound or more evil or something than Naruto's, but yeah, Naruto definitely could have easily gone really, really wrong. And Gaara would surely have turned out much better if that utter bastard of an uncle (I am still having trouble wrapping my mind around the gender, but whatever) had actually cared about him, or at least kept his mouth shut.
"Do you want to keep your last name when I adopt you? The mongrammed towels will be the same if we spell them with romaji."
Ah-ha-ha-ha! So true!
I also love that in a series that's all about power and fighting and who's got better jutsu... it really isn't all about power and fighting and who's got better jutsu.
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I know, what a total bastard. He should have said, "They're afraid of your power," which was obvious to poor little Baby Gaara already, and died with his mouth zipped about the rest of it. And I had been thinking up until that point, "But Gaara did have his own Iruka... huh... guess his aunt is about to die tragically and leave him alone and bitter." And it was so much worse than that. In fact, that is the worst thing you can possibly tell a child.
It reminded me of the time when my mother, who I later found out was going through menopause and was temporarily insane (in case you've read my book, by that I mean "more than usual"), got in a huge argument with me over where we had left the car and ended up saying, "This is why you have no friends." Luckily at that point I was about twenty-five, and so responded by saying, in a very mature manner, "I do too! I have lots of friends!" rather than by becoming a psycho killer. To which, incidentally, she replied, "I find that hard to believe." Yeah, large parts of my past really do resemble that of the typical manga hero.
Well, I do think that Gaara had an additional disadvantage that Naruto didn't, which is that his demon was much less tightly bound or more evil or something than Naruto's, but yeah, Naruto definitely could have easily gone really, really wrong. And Gaara would surely have turned out much better if that utter bastard of an uncle (I am still having trouble wrapping my mind around the gender, but whatever) had actually cared about him, or at least kept his mouth shut.
"Do you want to keep your last name when I adopt you? The mongrammed towels will be the same if we spell them with romaji."
Ah-ha-ha-ha! So true!
I also love that in a series that's all about power and fighting and who's got better jutsu... it really isn't all about power and fighting and who's got better jutsu.