There is only one person who matters to me, and I live to protect and serve him. That is my purpose. To show mercy to those who oppose the one you serve, to allow his enemies to live when you could strike them down, this is not compassion. It is a betrayal of your life's very purpose. For what reason do you exist then? You're of use to no one. Your life has no meaning. It is mere existence. Day after day of pain and struggle signifying nothing.
Yeah well speak for yourself.
Are you really that blind, little one? I am speaking of myself. This day has shown that I am no longer of any use to Zabuza.
Zabuza. Why that guy anyway? Do devote your life to a rotten skunk who doesn't know the meaning of the word honor. If he's really the one person that matters to you... Man, that's the sorriest thing I've ever heard.
There were once others who mattered to me long ago. My father and my mother. I was born in the Land of Water in a small village where the snow lies deep in the winter. My parents were farmers and very poor. Our life was hard but we were content. My parents were good to each other and kind to me. Yes we were happy once. But then everything changed. Because of something that happened long before I was even born, everything changed.
What do you mean? What was it? What happened?
It wasn't my doing. It is in my blood.
Blood? So what was it? You said something happened that changed everything!
It was my father who changed. He killed my mother and he almost killed me. [Naruto is shocked] After years of suffering the horrors of civil war, the people of my land had come to fear and hate anyone who carried the Kekkai Genkai in their blood.
Kekkai Genkai?
The advanced bloodline trait of a clan. Its jutsu and abilities passed down from generation to generation. Because of their unique abilities the clans were used as mercenaries. They fought in many battles and were much feared. But when the war was over they were despised and shunned by the people who feared their presence would only bring more war and misfortune. So it was that after the wars these clans went into hiding, denying the bloodline trait that flowed in their veins, concealing their unique abilities, knowing that to be discovered meant certain death. [on Sasuke] If you had searched that boy's memories, I'm sure you would have found it there too. The cruelty of people, the fear of things they don't understand. For years my mother was successful in hiding her bloodline trait. She met and fell in love with a simple farmer and they were married. And after that my mother thought she would lead a peaceful ordinary life to the end of her days. [Flashes back to awakening his powers to his mother's horror] My father had seen so he knew our secret, my mother's and mine. [Flashes back to his father murdering his mother, only to be killed by Haku's power] When at last I was myself again, I was no longer myself. My father and mother were gone, but I knew that something else had been taken from me, something even more important. And that is when I truly despaired.
More important than your mother and father? What?
My purpose. In all of the world there was no one who needed me. I was unnecessary.
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