"... I know there are times and places to kill. We're shinobi. That's part of the life we've chosen to take. Maybe I made a bad call then, but all I can do is move forward, remembering the past and using it to effect the future. Killing someone for my own gratification is something I could never do, because someone's life is too heavy a burden to be taken just like that."

She left then, walking away as she took a breath and steeled herself further. The last thing she wanted to do was break down in front of the Hokage. Maybe Ami was right in that she was pig-headed, but it was the same thing she had written to Sephiroth. She had to believe, with all of her being, that her 'soft' heart was her strength instead of her weakness. That was the noble thing. That was what she'd do.