The uchiha district-a place filled with people containing many wicked eyes that reap souls.
Wielded by a jaded bunch. a guarded community. these eyes can tell many stories as well as they can end them...a blessing and a curse.
The eyes that allow pictures and scenes to be forever frozen in time-things they can never forget. THE SUFFERING.....
A silhouette sitting on a stump...
Glass in hand, swashing it around, clearly a sign of a sophisticated lifestyle. a face seemingly held by introspection...
Another figure....one hidden....
Like a deliberate predator they-
"fire release: burst flame spear." a fast approaching blazing projectile looking to snuff out life. Hitting its mark-
On the glass of wine?
The sitting figure barely reacts as the glass of wine shatters and its fragmented pieces melting in real time.
"...wasted a third of your chakra before the spar began for this? you know that's a B-rank jutsu your using for this worthless purpose right." the sitting figure reprimands
The hidden figure reveals themself....."You thought it was a good decision to teach an academy student a B-rank jutsu!?" they complain.....
Getting up from the stump, rising to their full height, the figure turns revealing their face. The searing edge of the uchiha clan, clad in Konoha jonin uniform with the uchiha symbol emblazoned on the back and shoulders, head band glistening in the afternoon sun. "Oh~ that's right you actually thought it was a C-rank jutsu until way too late in the learning process. I honestly didn't really think you would meet my out of the water ballpark estimate of learning it within 4 months.....after all it is a jutsu reserved for mostly jonin and experienced chunin. It usually takes more than a year on average to get the basic mechanics down." our dear Uchiha chiyoko explains with a bit of fanaticism
"YOU CANT BLAME ME. I thought It was some really powerful C-rank jutsu but then I found out it wasn't-AND YOU KNOW HOW I FOUND OUT, DEFINATELY NOT FROM YOUR MOUTH, A LITERAL NOTHER RANDOM UCHIHA TOLD ME IN PANICK WHEN HE CAUGHT ME PRACTICING IT!!" I, the greatest uchiha ever known, uchiha mutoyuki, shouted in frustration
That's right. The same jutsu that I first learned about from her and put through the wringer to get it down in a short amount of time. the burst flame spear wasn't even a jutsu I was meant to learn yet.
The learning process started with not the jutsu mechanics itself but basic things like tree walking and water walking exercises to get my chakra control to a much more decent level and it definitely made a world of difference the chakra I usually wasted performing jutsu like the great fireball technique was significantly reduced along with my pretty decent chakra reserves for my age I can comfortable put out 21 great fireball jutsus before running dry...and I can only use the burst flame spear jutsu 3 times with my current reserves....it took the first month and a half to master these basics and the rest of the time was spent refining fire release chakra transformation and manipulation and learning the jutsu itself....it sounded crazy now that it was put into perspective.....learning a B-rank jutsu within 4 months. I was not expecting my talent to be that high. While this record may not beat out naruto and sasuke's learning an A-rank jutsu within a month its definitely nothing to scoff at.
"I...honestly was not expecting my expectations to be met I was just looking for something to tease you about before I eventually have to return to the battlefield. It was meant to be a long term goal for you for when I was gone....and now the plan is pleasantly ruined...." She gains points for honesty here. I myself am also surprised. "You have chakra reserves just short of an entry level average chunin so I guess it works out for you." chiyo-nee reasoned.
Ofcourse learning the jutsu doesn't mean it was mastered. There is still a whole heaps of kinks to work out with the jutsu and the power of it is still not as good as it should be all of this needs to be ironed out before mastery could be achieved. But its only a matter of time and practice.
"....I'll be regrettably leaving you alone tomorrow and you will definitely miss me, so how about that final spar today" a predatory smirk appears on her face after saying that.
"You just want to beat me up for the final time. you wicked witch" I accuse. hopefully she will say no as-
"My~ how did you know" she says with an innocent expression. which fueled my rage enough for me to take the bait and attack again with kunai in hand and a twitching eyelid. ofcourse she side steps with ease but that seemed to signal the beginning of the famed spar.
Crossing over and turning with the same kunai thrusted forward aiming toward her right lung, her arm flashes and her palm slaps my wrist hard, forcing the kunai flying out of my grasp. The recent frequent spars however taught me that even if your first attack fails you must always flow into the next one as if it was planned all along. You must never disrupt your own combat flow in Close Quarters Combat, aim to succeed but plan for failure. Instead of backing off in leu of my failed attack I continue with a left sideways kick to the kidney which she stepped out of range of as if predicting it was gonna come out, I follow up by dashing in with a right underhand punch to the gut which she deflects by slapping it ofcourse to the side. Not deterred I quickly flash my left hand to my hip pouch again flashing at her neck with another kunai from the left but she just grabs my arm and yanks making us cross each other again as she pulls on the arm taut causing some pain and causing the kunai to drop "urgh" I groaned but was still not deterred as I twisted around aiming a right straight punch to the cheek of her face.
Her head tilts out of the way casually her face was embroidered with a casual smile eyes still not bleeding red as if her opponent isn't there yet. Nevertheless I yank back my right arm that missed her face in order to hand chop at her arm still holding mine. She simply concedes without a fight and lets go of my arm before I could strike.
I subtly flash my left arm to get rid of the ache and continue to challenge her in taijutsu. She hasn't made a single comment so far, Still evaluating it seems. She was effortlessly dictating the flow of combat....there was no back and forth just flow in the way she wants it to. Dashing in, I was ready to continue my offense but-
"En Garde" I hear from her mouth as she steps in with a flourish of a chop to the neck from her of which I scrambled to duck under.
She was now ready to put me on the defensive it seems.
She continues to pressure, as I get up, I see a knee coming for my face of which I crossed both hands to block and soften the blow, the force of the strike pushing me back a few as I use that moment to recollect myself before she charges in after a very "deliberate" pause. Obviously not using her top speed but still reaching me in world record time, she feints a punch to the face with her left arm but retracts and flows into a palm strike to the gut-a feint I definitely didn't fall for...more like purposely made so that I wouldn't fall for it...I scramble to deflect the palm but she follows up immediately with the presumed left punch she feinted with but this time it was real, catching me in the face sending me flying a bit "agh-damn" I right myself flipping in mid air to land on my feet. A planned maneuver from her....a feint that tricks you into thinking the feinting attack wouldn't come out after use-a misdirection suited for a shinobi 'I'm stealing that trick and using it for myself.' I regarded it with respect.
"Taijutsu capabilities greater than the average genin but still a bit too rough for the next level." She commented as easily as she breaths. "so lets shift the gears now" I listen to that last statement with rapt attention as I know what she means by shifting gears.
"Wind release: gale palm." she made at most 2 handseals and fired off a gust of wind powerful enough to knock me away and smash me into a surface hard.
I, not one to take this sitting down, quickly went through my own handseals before the attack could reach me "Fire release: great fireball!" I spit out a large ball of golden fire that quickly eats up her wind release and empowers the fireball heading towards her with far greater power and destructive capability.
but ofcourse she was unfazed as she herself copied my move and went through a smaller amount of handseals than me "fire release: great fireball" another ball of golden fire but with much more power and presence than mine when it was not empowered by her wind release jutsu, meets my great fireball half way and clashes hard. Searing heat offloads into the surroundings as the clash continues, grass underneath us burning to black ash....
until-
BOOOOOM~
an explosion with tremendous force erupts causing me to leap back with the force, a sleuth of smoke and embers blocking my sight of chiyo-nee.....
I stand. my thoughts enveloping me for a moment. 'That first wind release jutsu was purposefully done to empower my inevitable great fireball. She basically baited me into using it just to get this clash.....what's she aiming for' I grit my teeth a bit as I felt I was read like an open book too easily before sighing 'ofcourse...'
My opponent still blocked by a shield of smoke, my thoughts ended with me using a tool I purposefully limited the use of as not to grow too overly reliant on it this early in my career.
My eyes close but in that next moment they snapped open-bleeding red with a comma like structure spinning in it, a tomoe.
THE SHARINGAN.
Revealing itself to the world and the world responding in kind with my vision becoming more sharp, perception slowing down and a the ability to faintly see chakra.
Following the chakra in my sight. I see it in the shape of a person beyond the uncleared smoke of the clashing fireballs-the chakra moved and swells in a controlled manner.....
My eyes widen a tonne as I jump to vacate that area immediately as a LITTER OF SMALL BEAD LIKE FIREBALLS BLASTS THROUGH THE SMOKE SMACKING INTO THE AREA I WAS JUST IN EXPLODING AND BURNING THE GROUND TO CINDERS.....
"Fire release: Phoenix sage fire." I hear as I land from my previous jump.
"Why hello there red eyed boy~" The assailant sings as the smoke clears revealing her unblemished, unshaken, unbothered appearance.
"You-" my face had the textbook gloom of one who was too old, too tired and didn't get paid enough for this shit.
"Don't worry I was only aiming for the ground around you-ofcourse I was expecting you to still dodge." She cuts me off with a lazy monotone.
I look to the affected area where the scorch marks are patterned out to avoid the one small area I was actually standing in. My smile rings but it was fake and twitching "Oh thankyou for the consideration" My definitely 100% appreciative thanks was met with a nice closed eyed smile from her as her upper body leans over with hands in her pockets.....and then vanishes in a cloud of smoke!.....Obviously a clone.....
I hear ground breaking. The telltale sound of the headhunter jutsu ending and forcing the caster out of the ground. I feel her presence just behind me, hands spread ready to bear hug grapple my dumbass.
Which would of happened if my sharingan didn't already pick up a wisp of chakra under the ground while I was airborne and flicking my eyes around the battlefield. Chakra purposefully discharged underground to test if I was paying attention-basically a sharingan skill check.
Time seemed to slow down as I moved quickly. Kunai already in my grasp as I turn with my strike to maximize rotational force. Kunai flashing towards her stomach, trying to catch her off-guard with her wide open self as if asking to be punctured, my red eyes turning in my sockets ready to predict her next actions as if expecting her to dodge, somehow counter...or just be straight up suicidal and take it to the gut....you can honestly never tell with her. And ofcourse just my luck, with shock on my face this damn woman for some reason CHOSE THE THIRD OPTION!?
The kunai sinks in with a wet squishy Welsh as the weird scene pauses....."wha-" I was honestly ready to shout at her in dismay about her decision....up until I sense another presence.
Looking around I see another chiyo.....deliberately slowly going through handseals for another jutsu as if teasing him...
Ofcourse I fully panic after witnessing this "HEY-" I was about to move while shouting only to find out that the "chiyo-nee" that I sunk my kunai into did not disappear in smoke like expected of the usual clone but instead started slowly cracking up until it eventually started crumbling unlike usual which gave it the time and opportunity to still grab and squeeze my panicked self in the planned bear hug grapple arms fully restricted, eliciting panicked thoughts from me as I was held immobile.
'T-THIS IS.....A ROCK CLONE!?!?' My thoughts are interrupted by Her again as the possible real chiyo sounds out her jutsu.
"Earth release: flowing stone lances" I hear she sound out. A jutsu I Haven't really heard of before.....thin spikes erupt from the ground in a square like array making me more panicked.
I began to push and shake and wrench myself free from the stone chiyo but even with her crumbling self she still held on tight which was making me wonder what the fuck was going on!?
Sharp thin lances of earth closing in, slow motion to my eyes, as I try harder to wrench and wiggle hard.....the situation looking grim until.....a slight loosening on one of the stone Chiyo's arms...I don't know if it was done on purpose or not but I don't bother to think about it.
Wrenching one of my arm free from that stone Chiyo's arm, the offending arm fully crumbling to the ground as I did so, without missing a beat I went and elbowed the head of stone chiyo forcing it to crumble quickly off me, freeing me and granting me enough time to try to do some of the quickest handseals I've ever done period before-
SHUNK~, SHUNK~, SHUNK~, SHUNK~, SHUNK~, SQUEEELLSCH~
The stone spears impale me all over. Eyes, neck, liver, spine, thighs, all over. A costly end to a spar it would be. A traumatic scene frozen in time, blood leaking furiously from all available holes on the victim. a scene you would expect would have the assailant steeped in horror and unimaginable guilt-
"Heh" The assailant only chuckles...an out of place reaction to have when it comes to a scenario like murdering her only family left.
Facing the impaled mutoyuki a grim reminder of the accident without a streak of remorse until-
That same hole ridden Mutoyuki ERUPTS INTO SMOKE!-
AN UNASSUMING LOG IN HIS PLACE, IMPALED BY ALL SIDES LEAVING NO MORE ROOM FOR WANDER ABOUT THE SITUATION.....
The scene halts with the "log murderer" staring blankly at the Impaled log. A sign of her horrific dirty work before-
"FIRE RELEASE: BURST FLAME SPEAR!!" A shaky hidden voice sounded out all before-
THE CURRENTLY STANDING CHIYO IS IMPALED IN THE BACK OF THE CHEST WITH A SPEAR OF FLAME ABSOLUTELY OBLITERATING HER HEART IN THE VERY NEXT MOMENT. BEFORE THE PROJECTILE IN HER CHEST EXPLODES WITH A BURST OF FORCE AND FLAME OBLITERATING THE REST OF THAT CHIYO. WITH NO ROOM TO WONDER ABOUT THE ACTIONS OF THIS NEXT ASSAILANT.
A text book revenge action.
...A hidden mutoyuki walks out of the nearby forested area with about less than quarter of his chakra to spare. completely out of breath, sweating hard and shaking furiously-unknown whether it was out of fear or the strain. He put more chakra than necessary into the jutsu, overpowering it, straining himself while casting it in the process. It was on purpose...all to communicate how he ABSOLUTELY felt about that forceful jumpscare. An unbelievably lethal jumpscare, unlike a genjutsu which induces fake signals and is not physically damaging.
Ungracefully falling on the ground panting like a broken record, completely out of stamina, painfully trembling as his hands reach the ground in his bending over...
Yet the eyes-the sharingan still blazing. somehow still more lively than his freshly rested self in the morning, the 1 tomoe spinning alot faster than its ever done before, blurring in the iris....like the eye itself is threatening to change in a uniform way in response to the situation "Ghg...ghg...hahh....ghg.....hahh" he pants....emotions in so much disarray that even the best puzzle enthusiast would take an unbelievable amount of time to put them back together...
But then the famed greatest uchiha of all time, seemed to have started to unconsciously gather himself.....desperately piecing himself back together like he was greater than the greatest puzzle enthusiasts in the universe. emotions gradually fading to non-abnormal level like a master monk who's meditated and studied their inner self continuously for more than 6 decades, achieving a great form of inner peace. The famed yuki lifting his hand slowly to his face, touching, caressing it.....
With the fading emotional stimulus the sharingan, losing its fuel, starts to change its mind on its previously thought inevitable upgrade, rotating slower and slower...until-
"I deserved that." a voice invades his mind like an unforeseen bullet to the body.
Quickly snapping his head around....the fastest he's ever moved a part of his body. catching a figure he definitely didn't want to see in his sight right at this moment. An emotional floodgate fully burst. chakra surging from within his brain to his eyes and to the rest of his body!
The outward affect happening in close to less than half a second. The sharingan blazingly fast spinning until it finally shifted-now with an extra comma.....still spinning dangerously. The second tomoe erupted within his wide shaking eyes!
a pleasantly surprised look blankets the offender's face "o-" but before they could say anything.
"YOU!!!" The burst of raw intense emotion and exhaustion blanketing his voice in an exceedingly raspy choppy tone somehow leading to an uncharacteristic flinch back in surprise from the now usually unflinchable uchiha Chiyoko-No...
The voice wasn't the element that caused this reaction out of her.
IT WAS THE ENORMOUS AMOUNT OF RAW UNFILTERED KILLING INTENT, MIXED WITH THE NOW SURGING CHAKRA FROM THE EVOLUTION AND HIS ALREADY UNUSUALLY HIGH AMOUNT OF YIN RELEASE CHAKRA IN HIS BODY. ALL RUSHING OUT OF HIS BODY AT ONCE COMPLETELY FOCUSED ON ONE TARGET.
THE OFFENDER.
If you look closely at chiyo....you can see the very slightest uncontrollable tremor from 2 of her fingers on her left hand not only because of the suddenness of it but also the sheer amount of it-
KILLING INTENT AS POTENT AS A SEASONED ELITE JOUNIN ALL PUSHED OUT ON HER IN THIS ONE MOMENT. THE SHEER PRESSURE OF THIS ENHANCED KILLING INTENT ROOTING HER IN PLACE!
THE KILLING INTENT EVEN BEGUN TO MARR DOWN HER EMOTIONAL STATE AND THOUGHTS....
'W-what was I doing...This was t-t-too far...I deserve to jump in a pit of blades-' before the completely negative thoughts could spiral even more the killing intent recedes abruptly like it was never there-poof.
She wakes up from her thoughts in surprise again. To her it felt like she was under that spell for hours but now fully awake she realized.....she was under it for only 3 seconds in total....
in her stupor she suddenly stumbles from the abruptness of its ending-
"uuuughh" Before she could catch her self she heard something that made her heart tremble and her sharingan unconsciously opening as she dashes to the quickly falling over mutoyuki.....
Catching him in a gentle embrace. one the complete opposite of the grapple during the spar. both collapsing on the ground on their ass.
She was expecting him to lash out but.....Not hearing anything from him made her panic uncontrollable...She slowly looked down expecting to see something actually horrifying and losing the only one she had left until-
fuuuuuh~
She felt and heard his very faint breath.....
she paused a moment to take it in.....making sure that what she was experiencing wasn't a horrible trick before slowly releasing a relief filled breath of air.
she was really afraid for what would happen if she accidentally released her own full killing intent in defense.
feeling how fragile his body is now, it could of ended very terrifyingly.
.............................
in the middle of the night.
Laying down the patient of the sharingan advancement treatment she provided, in his room's bed.....making doubly sure he was sleeping soundly right now and not in any danger. Uchiha chiyoko's thoughts drew inward with a somber attitude.
'It worked......but at what cost' she couldn't help but feel like she caused some irreparable damage...and not the physical kind that's easier to heal....
only once he woke up would she be able to tell.......her village needed her on the battlefronts tomorrow in the day but that seems to have fled her mind at this moment.....more like she wouldn't care either staying awake for one night wasn't gonna restrict her later she's done all-nighters a whole heap of times.
Thus she sits and waits. watching patiently as his chest rises and subsides
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Sorry about the wait I had fun writing this one just like I said this one is a turning point, I'm sure you all could see why, see you all next chapter.