Blood and Loyalty

How dare they speak to him of loyalty? How dare they look down on him, when they had not been on the battlefield? Were they so young and wet behind the ears that they had never had to fight viciously, with survival the only prize and nothing but bloodshed defining your relationship to others, be it the blood drawn as enemies fought, the blood spilt to defend an ally, or the blood of families and kinship ties that had brought about the battle in the first place?These sparkling new Hidden Villages didn’t change what it meant to be a shinobi. They couldn’t. Soon, even these pathetic weevils would learn. To shinobi, there was only blood until the day you finally bled out. They could try and walk away from it, try and deny it, try and act like loyalty suddenly had a new meaning. But that didn’t change the truth- for shinobi, loyalty was blood was loyalty.Kakuzu's relationship with Hidan changes as his understanding of Hidan's understanding of loyalty changes.