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Dandelion (Naruto fic)

There was a big crack in the sidewalk that Naruto passed by sometimes, and in it grew the happiest flowers in the world.  The flowers were small and round and yellow and soft and they held the brightness of a thousand smiles. Naruto always said hello to them as he passed, and he never, ever stepped on them, even when he was running from the mask people.  He’d stop by sometimes and just talk to the flowers about his day, about his life, about anything, and the flowers were never upset or annoyed or angry.

Then one day as he came up to that patch of sidewalk, he smelled a weird smell and he looked down and he stopped.  All the the yellow sunshine flowers were withered, deep green leaves reduced to dull brown twisted things, shriveled up into almost nothing, all the light and life of the cheerful blooms extinguished.

Naruto sat down beside them and cried.

Naruto wasn’t a crier.  He’d learned early on that crying didn’t get him anything but snarls to shut up rough punishment, and crying was a sign of weakness that he couldn’t afford.  So Naruto hadn’t cried in the orphanage when when the caretakers gave attention to everyone but him or punished him for no reason. He hadn’t cried when other kids were mean to him, or when strangers called him names or when shopkeepers kicked him out.  He hadn’t cried earlier that morning when he’d found out that there was an extra day this month so his money wasn’t coming until tomorrow, even though it had run out the day before yesterday.

But now he sat and he cried and he cried because it wasn’t right, it wasn’t fair.  Because all those plants had ever done was make the world a little brighter place, and someone had poisoned them anyway, and now they were dead, dead, dead.  And why was the world like this? Why were people like this ?

Naruto sat and cried next to the dead flowers with the poison smell in his nose.  He sat like that for a long, long time because he couldn’t think of a reason to stop crying and leave.

He avoided that particular patch of sidewalk for a while after that, but one afternoon his feet took him there without his really paying attention.  And there, growing out of the crack, was a flower, brightest sunshine yellow, cheerful and kind like nothing bad had ever happened, like nothing could ever hurt it, brilliant and beautiful and brave.

“Hello,” Naruto said to his little flower friend.  And then he faced the world and he smiled.

This picture is so holy and gentle to me

It makes me so fucking happy when people stand up for the rights of animals who don’t normally get much attention. Fish and insects, particularly. And spiders. Because you have people who will agree that eating meat is wrong but then they’ll still eat fish because “they’re not intelligent anyway”. Or people who would never stomp a puppy or a kitten but become enraged when you point out that they also have no right to do that to a spider. I love being around people who take spiders and insects outside, and I love talking to all my vegan friends on tumblr. I hope the whole world will be like this someday.

Is Kuron an animal lover?(i can see him being a huge fan of all 'creepy' or 'ugly' animals like snakes or spiders, maybe he sees himself in how ostricied they are for things they cannot control?? someone mentiones sharks as bloodthirsty in a conversation and Kuron goes full 'uhm ACTUALLY lethal sharks attacks are extremely rare and often happen beacuse of the person's recklessnes-')

You are absolutely right, however i do think with certain animals (spiders, wasp etc) he's like "i respect you, i respect from far here, please respect me by staying far way" like he likes them enough but also he rather maintain his distance and appreciate them from far thank you very much!! He does get to have a pet snake because i say so-