Databook 4 — Naruto

"I have spent my life recording the weapons a shinobi can become. But I never recorded the one thing that saved me. The thing Naruto never lost. It is not a jutsu. It is not a bloodline. It is not even a strategy.

The ink was cold.

If anyone reads this after I am gone, know this: the Fourth Databook is incomplete. I left out the only stat that matters. It has no rank. It cannot be trained. It is called 'Benevolence.' naruto databook 4

Subject: Uchiha Sasuke (Defected / Rogue / S-rank) Analysis: Emotional attachment to revenge is a critical flaw. Expected outcome: Self-destruction within five years. Recommend termination.

Assessment: Medical-nin, adequate. Chakra control: exceptional. Emotional fortitude: brittle. Prognosis: Will break under pressure without a stabilizer. "I have spent my life recording the weapons

"For the next generation. So they know what the darkness learned too late."

The pattern was there, in every entry. The cold, objective truth of a man who had tried to erase his heart... and then, in the margins, the quiet, desperate corrections of a man who had found it again. It is not a jutsu

He turned to the entry labeled