alchemest1

"How can you say Lady Fifth denied my request? I didn't get to hear her answer either way, that's when we were attacked. Besides that, you forget that three other kunoichi were in the room. If I made even one move towards the Fifth, the other two could have killed me. Unless you're giving my skills too much credit. To overcome a Hokage, a jonin, and a skilled medic-nin- that's not within the realm of my abilities, as I think you believe as well as I do. Perhaps you've said things to me as a friend, such as 'you're skilled', or perhaps you've said it out of truth. But the REAL truth of the matter- I couldn't have done this. I simply wouldn't send the village into turmoil, and I wouldn't kill.

Are looks really irrelevant, Kiba? Appearances can be deceiving- true or false? I think looks give away a lot. No matter how much one hides something about their appearance, it will show through eventually. The eyes are a window to the soul, the chest rises and falls rapidly, the eyes widen...there are many physical symptoms.

As for my sanity...I'm not insane. I never will be. Am I depressed? Yes. Am I entitled to be depressed? Yes. Is it going to break me? No. As I said, you're giving me too much credit. Student of the Third Hokage or not, my skills are not worthy of comparison to his.

I really don't care if your suspicion is on me. But there's a hole in your theory, and one you know very well. I won't say it here, but think about it- Three years of looking from afar, never having the courage to say anything...a desire I can't have. I could never hurt that desire.

I'll make you this offer: I'll go to my home in the mountains. I'll stay there for as long as it takes to prove I'm innocent. Don't think for a minute it's for you, I just don't need the hassle of you bothering me.

The kunai- DUH it has my blood on it! It was pulled out of my back. Of course it would be stained with blood. Have you looked at the floor? The marks on the ground- I wear tabi boots, and I'm the only one in this village to do so. The prints don't match.

Oh, one more thing- stay out of my mind. I know enough about the mind to know it weakens whenever someone enters it...so maybe, since you're so fixated on my sanity that you WANT me to lose it. It's not unreasonable to think that way- you've been poking around in my mind an inordinate number of times."