Sai's breath hitched. He flipped back two pages.
He turned to the entry labeled
Underneath, another addendum: She became the stabilizer. For all of them. Underestimated. naruto databook 4
"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. Sai's breath hitched
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. in every entry. The cold