Knot

Knot - Inktober Day Four, 2021

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The shinobi who seeks the kind of knowledge that only few dare to risk anything for, met with a tragic, ironic end.

He wanted to live forever, thus began an endless journey of finding methods to become immortal. The scrolls were not enough for our homeboy, he went to the secret lair of the Hokage to access forbidden scrolls. He read good amount but then the useless ANBU shinobi came to sabotage his plans, and somehow were useful to the Hokage. Psyche... they were not. He escaped from their potential trap.

He successfully fled the village and went to set up his own lair, bigger than the Hokage's, and it is also a laboratory and does all kinds of experiments. He was a great scientist after all. No one ever acknowledges that fact. I mean, on second thoughts, understandably so; as he experiments with human subjects and uses evil means to do his research. Now, some animal rights organizations might, for a second, feel a bit relieved to know such an individual is not harming animals. But for you kind information, he summons snakes and the snakes come out of his shirt sleeves, which who knows when he washed last time, he takes showers though, with a candle light that too, but never changes clothes. Anyway, sometimes to dodge an attack he uses snakes as a shield. So, maybe not that kind towards animals either. But again, he is a snake himself. So go figure.

No matter what he was always in a knot about mortality and yet didn't learn anything from Voldemort. Dude lived less than normal lifespan because of his evil ways.

Even if we put aside all this, I never understood why he always used thicc fat ropes as a belt? Why not use better belts? Normal ropes maybe? And there was this huge knot at the back, scaling from waist area to shoulders, because the ropes were that thick.

Anyway, a lifetime of efforts later, his potential successor betrayed him and killed him, while he was ill and weak and defenseless. His dreams and plans were hanging by a lose thread with many knots in it. The successor not just burned, but amaterasu-ed the whole thread itself.

The successor was none other than Sasuke, the Vessel from yesterday. Go read that too. Who, by the way, also used those same ropes, but was more style conscious so he just tied them like regular people, and used it to put his sword as well. Neat. What's not neat? Him plotting against an elderly scientist on his death bed. Grow up foolish little brother, find someone that's healthy and alive and is aiming for Hokage's seat and then compete them for... Hokage's spot... Oh no. That was his plan all along, he just used cheat codes. He GTA'd the accursed world of shinobi. Wow. Orochimaru taught him well after all.

Inspired by long luscious silky smooth straight hair of Orochimaru. That he never tied in a knot. Don't know how he didn't sweat at the backside of his neck when he was hiding in dungeons and the whole place was lit with thousands of candles. Also, as a scientist, he must've used some sort of serum for hair care. One that was not available in market. Maybe he made money selling it to people underground and rogue.