HAZŌ is sat in his office, he works on clan affairs. Enter AKANE.
AKANE:
My dear Hazō, of news you should be warned.
HAZŌ:
Beloved, to hear your words I burn of curiosity.
AKANE:
I must before request the utmost secrecy.
HAZŌ:
My heart, my lips, my soul, have surely sworn't.
AKANE:
I trained all day in forest deep, and hark!
My chakra sent to cool the air did spark;
From trees of vert, untouched by winter's atrophy,
The whelmy storm did make a tomb of canopy.
A milky coat atop the trunks remained:
'Twas snow purest, and heavy still it rained.
Enter WATCHERS behind HAZŌ. AKANE blanches.
HAZŌ (
who does not notice them):
Incredible, ex-apprentice of mine! This means you won
Athwart the rule of nature, only one -
'tis
you, indeed - can make a-bend its truth,
You can now take a sphere in welkin, sooth,
And thunder shall you rain on all our enemies.
Now none can-
WATCHER 1:
be allowed this war on Life!
The role
we share is one to stop these perfidies,
As such alike the one we observe in your strife!
WATCHER 2:
Know'st thou not, hear'st thou not, thou knave,
The duty human, shared by all on Earth?
The one that lives and causes all the worth
of Time? Think'st thou not afore dost misbehave!
HAZŌ:
You misapprehend: I defend Life my best,
The world I would uplift, if power I possessed!
WATCHER 3:
Are we to understand this power fits the quest?
It look'th to we who Watch this is in jest:
You'd break the world and build it back from rest -
'Tis not a conservation to write a palimpsest.
HAZŌ:
I tremble so, my cause is just, and see,
This blame for deaths not caused is baseless injury.
Besides, aren't you meant to keep to seals?
Your role, as I learnèd, is focused on their deals.
WATCHER 1:
And this thou know'st, and this thou say'st, but fye!
An thou dost question those you never met,
Let I show thee the one that you defy.
Come, the Listener, warden for Jutsu threat!
He strikes the soil with his staff. Exeunt WATCHERS. Enter LISTENER. He is tall, and his upper body muscles are particularly developed.
LISTENER:
You kid, my kin do speak of truth, and just.
Aye, power you need, but after power you lust,
And those are different. Do not be power-mad.
Heed you my words, or I'll beat you really bad.
Exit LISTENER
AKANE:
This hurts, I know, but let my words appease.
Picture for a moment how worse it could have been!
A seal could fail somewhere, a letter forbidden.
'Tis hard to plead, without the use of [
ðɒ̈ʢ₹ɰ̪]
OROCHIMARU (
aside, after he casts his costume off):
This lesson must be learned, 'tis true...
You're not sufficiently paranoid yet, nephew.
Exeunt.
Scene.
