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Ethics [Tuesday, March 10, 2nd period]

"Love is patient, love is kind," Anakin began, looking down at his notes, then snorted and made the universal symbol for "blah, blah, blah" with his hand.

He might secretly be a soft touch on the subject, but he was hoping no one in the room would call him on it.

"In my version of the Jedi Order, we were taught that in order to maintain the proper distance necessary to negotiate impartially across our galaxy, we were to strive for serenity, not passion. To be Jedi, we should not know anger, or hatred...or love. When we were very small children, we were raised in the Temple so that family loyalty or planetary allegiance would not get in the way of following the will of the Force."

He crossed his arms over his chest and glanced around the room. "Is this an unreasonable standard to hold someone to? Can you stop someone from falling in love? What do you think they were trying to prevent?"

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"I plan on returning home," Temari replied. "Softness will get me killed."

"I went back, too," Anakin replied. "You'll compensate, or you'll stop making friends. It's your choice."

"And then you returned here," Temari pointed out.

"After many years," Anakin replied. "My generation of Jedi are gone." Not that he had anything to do with that. Really. "It's time for a new group to take their place. My son is working on that. I'll stay here, out of the way."

"My generation is the new group. I never actually thought I'd live to see it, though," Temari admitted dispassionately.

"I've heard that a lot," Anakin said. From teenagers. If he stopped to think about it, he'd be depressed. "Big, ugly war?"

"Before my generation, actually. The war of my father and his father," Temari said. "We simply live with the consequences and try to clean up the mess left behind."

Like the rivalries with other villages that nearly turned to war again.

"The older generation excels at leaving messes," Anakin said, nodding. "Mine managed to break an entire galaxy twice in forty years."

"My father's attempted to make weapons of their children," She informed him with a wan smile.

Anakin's eyes looked horrified before his expression flicked back to his normal iron control. "How?"

"We have demons back home. Nine great ones of unimaginable power and evil," Temari said, looking away. "To keep people safe, they were sealed away. Into Jinchuuriki. The great human sacrifice."

"...Jinchuuriki was a person?"

"A living prison for the creatures," Temari confirmed. "My brother was one of them."

This was easily one of the more horrifying things he'd ever heard. "How long did they remain a living prison?" he asked carefully.

"Until someone tries to remove the demon. Or they're no longer useful as a weapon."

There had been others before Gaara.

"And how are they used as weapons?" Anakin asked.

"The demon wants to live as badly as we do. If the prison dies, they die. So they will protect it at all costs."

She assumed he could figure that one out.

Anakin looked suitably disturbed, yes.

"Kriffing hells."

"Weakness isn't something they take lightly back home."

"I can see that," he said a little faintly. "Is there no other solution to this problem?"

"Better in our hands than in that of our enemies," Temari replied with a small shrug.

"I suppose..." Anakin said slowly. "The demons require a human host?"

"They have a body of sorts," Temari replied slowly. "Giant creatures that can level a city without a care."

Because it was like Japan. At least there was no Godzilla bijuu.

"Don't suppose they could be stuck into something non-sentient, huh," Anakin replied.

"Tanuki was placed in a tea kettle before Gaara." Yes. A tea kettle.

No, it didn't make sense to her either.

"But word reached my father that a child in another village had been sealed."

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