Uchiha Shisui & Hozuki Mangetsu

To me, Ares is energy. He's courage and He's determination. He motivates us to push through when we feel like we can't. He is the voice in our head which tells us to keep going. He's strength and He's perseverance, He's warmth and support.

When you fight for what's right, He's standing right there beside you. He pushes us to be the best, to achieve greatness, but He won't let us break. He's the older brother who watches you struggle so you learn and get stronger, but He still loves you and wants the best for you.

He's kind and He's gentle and there's so much to Him that I could never put in words. So don't write Him off because's He's the God of War.

Shisui and Obito may have met in passing, but Shisui never really got much of a chance to interact with him. They just never ran in the same circles. There is no enmity or hate or any shred of bullying streak on Shisui’s side, he just… doesn’t have much of an opinion about Obito– only that he fought bravely and that it was truly a tragedy for the guy to end up dying the way he did. He doesn’t begrudge him gifting Kakashi his eye, either; for that, Shisui is glad that Obito managed to make a friend. Since, well, it appears as though the guy was lonely within the district. But they weren’t, and wouldn’t have been, on the same wavelength, so would not have been more than acquaintances.

Shisui isn’t Itachi and Sasuke’s first cousin. Nor is he their second cousin. He wouldn’t refer to them as such, but simply as clansmen. He knows they are related in some way, obviously, but they’re not close enough to be referring to each other as cousins. In canon, he doesn’t really meet Itachi until Itachi is 5 years old– which would indicate that they aren’t close relations at all. You would expect someone more closely related to know you before you hit five, really, especially if you lived in the same corner of the village.

Shisui has never met Kagami in person, but only heard of him through his parents and the rest of the clan. He has always looked up to the man and has tried to emulate him, especially after the incident where he awakened his Mangekyo. If ever he’d find himself in a dark place, something that would always help him come out of it is asking himself ‘What would Uchiha Kagami do?’ This is especially true when Uchiha-Konoha relations were visibly crumbling by the day and talk of a coup was imminent. Kagami was the only Uchiha able to gain the trust of Konoha’s highest authority at the time, but be able to represent both clan and village at the same time, and proudly, without having to pick sides. That sort of middle ground, publicly displayed as proof to the people of both clan and village, is what Shisui had always wanted.  

Shisui takes up working on a speed-related jutsu (his version of the shunshin) after hearing about how Kagami was trying to do the same, in honor of Tobirama’s hiraishin. 

Shisui is descended from the line of Uchiha that created Izanami as a means to prevent abuse of power with Izanagi.

“… um… I protest everything about this.”

tagged by: @uchihaprodigy​ (…. i blame you)​

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