AnimeIsPerfection
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Sorry, it's been forever since my last chapter but I didn't really have a lot of time until now. 
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We were out in a forest near Tazuna’s house where Kakashi-sensei was beginning our training session. He had mentioned something about chakra and to my utter dismay Naruto had no idea as to what that was.
My immediate response was, “Are you stupid? Seriously, how on earth do you make shadow clones if you don’t even know what chakra is? Surly you’re aware of the very energy that keeps you alive!”
Naruto laughed nervously and I face-palmed.
I’m lazy in school but that’s because I was raised with all that information burned into me as a child. Starting a few months after I turned five (it was a year after receiving the curse mark) Neji worked me hard. He’s only a year older than me but we still trained every day to become strong, despite the fact that there was a slim chance that power would ‘change our fates.’ I went through daily sessions and read all the books I could get my hands onto. I knew more than your average twelve year old, so naturally school was just a recap of all the information that I already knew. Despite this, I still can’t believe that a ninja could graduate without even knowing what chakra, the most important aspect of being a ninja, is. I guess people like that have just become one of my pet-peeves…
Sakura, who was also shocked at Naruto’s idiocy, yelled at him and went into a full-blown explanation about chakra and after all that, he still didn’t get it…
Basically, Kakashi explained that we needed to not only be able to use chakra but also be able to control it. This also was a skill that came naturally to me. Being a Byakugan user means that I need to be able to focus my chakra into my fingers so I can deal blows to the vital chakra points of my enemy. Chakra points run through the entire body and when powerful and unfamiliar chakra is forcefully pumped into someone’s body, the point will either temporarily shut down or bursts. The latter is more fatal but harder for a Byakugan user to accomplish.
Kakashi told us to concentrate chakra into our feet and try climbing a tree without using our hands. We all picked a tree and gathered chakra to the soles of our feet. Once we were all ready, we ran at a tree. I quickly ran to the very top of my tree and stood there balanced on one of the highest branches. I watched the others; Naruto barely made it three feet, Sasuke did a little better but used too much chakra and was repelled, Sakura on the other hand, was sitting on a high branch a little lower than mine.
“This is easy!” Sakura called and stuck her tongue out at the boys.
Naruto cheered for her then asked, “Wait, where’s Hotaru-chan?”
“Up here,” I called, “I learned this ages ago.” They stared, gaping at me. Even Sasuke seemed impressed but Sakura’s stare quickly turned into a glare.
I smirked.
“It looks like the girls are best at controlling chakra. Right now, Hotaru is closest to being Hokage… unlike a certain someone…” Kakashi-sensei said, looking at Naruto. He turned to Sasuke and remarked “I guess the Uchiha clan isn’t worth much either…” Naruto clenched his teeth and went at it again, quickly followed by Sasuke.
I left and found a good sized clearing surrounded by trees. I didn’t practice Ninjutsu too often because I’m best with my Byakugan but I have a few jutsus up my sleeve. Of course I can already use the summoning jutsu, because of my violin, but I also know some earth style jutsus as well.
I made a clone then a few quick hand signs and murmured, “Doton: Ganchuusou!” A six foot radius of earth spikes shot up from the ground and stabbed the clone making it disappear in a cloud of smoke. I was satisfied with the quality of this jutsu. It was C ranked but effective and it wasn’t difficult.
I made a few more hand signs then said, “Doton: Dochu Eigyo no Jutsu!” and poofed away. When the smoke cleared I was a good ways underground in a cavern with several tunnels leading upwards in different directions. This was also a C ranked earth jutsu. It allowed me to hide in the protection of the earth but with the tunnels leading upward I could also attack stealthily.
Those were the two earth jutsus I could currently use. I am also working on a few others but they are ranked higher, so I am not very good at them.
When I use my Byakugan I can perform the ‘8 Trigrams Heavenly Sky’ technique which is just pushing chakra from all my chakra points and spinning, creating a protective dome. The only difference it has from the normal rotation technique is that I also focus the chakra to make it jagged so that anyone who comes within the radius of the dome will get all cut up.
I have also mastered the ‘8 Trigrams 64 Strikes’ which shuts down 64 of the 361 chakra points. It immobilizes my enemy for only a certain amount of time but can still be fatal. I am rather proud of this, to be honest. It’s a technique that takes time to master and when it is accomplished, usually the user is from the main branch.
I practiced until dark then headed back to the house.
Suddenly, I fell to the ground onto my side. I clutched my head in pain and curled up into a ridged ball. ‘Shit, it’s happening… thank god no one is around…’
My body shook uncontrollably and it felt like I was being stabbed everywhere with thousands of senbon needles.
As my body convulsed in a fit of spasms, my mind whirled into that dark room… That terrifying room… I spent two years of my young life in that room… isolated. It was right after Orochimaru captured me. They put me in a dark crimson colored room. They experimented on me to make sure I hadn’t been turned into some sort of monster… to make sure I wasn’t a threat… it was even worse because I am of the side branch… if I was in the main branch they wouldn’t treat me so harshly… the Hokage didn’t know… they put me through all sorts of horrid tests… They played mind games with me… so confusing… so painful… I didn’t know who ‘they’ were, just that they came from the main branch… and that for a year and three months this went on… and during my nine months of recovery, I was still in that room… of course back then I had lost track of time and only discovered this after I was released…
Finally, the images subsided and the pain ebbed. I took in deep, shaking breaths. After lying there for a few minutes, I stumbled to my feet. When I got back to the house I slipped in unnoticed and collapsed on my mattress, falling into an exhausted sleep.
Then next morning, I was still tired but managed to act the same as always. I’ve had seizures periodically ever since being released from my imprisonment but no one knows about them except Neji.
~~~
Sakura and I went to the bridge to make sure Tazuna was protected. It kind of pissed me off how some guys were complaining about how if they keep building the bridge, they might get killed.
As we headed back, a small child approached Sakura and I. He smiled and held out his hands. Sakura sighed and gave him some candy and I tossed him an apple. He laughed happily and scampered away. ‘What’s with this place…?’ I thought to myself, ‘They must be having some serious trouble…’
Tazuna went on to explain that everyone was losing hope and that if the bridge wasn’t completed soon, then things were only going to get worse.
Dinner that night was disgusting… I mean the food wasn’t but Naruto and Sasuke were even competing at eating…and that just resulted in both of them throwing up. “Geez, you guys are nasty.” I grumbled.
“No, I must eat.” Sasuke said, wiping his mouth.
“Yeah, we have to no matter what because we have to become stronger.” Naruto declared.
“You’re just going to make yourself sick and then you’ll have no chance of becoming stronger until you get better and that could take a while. Just stop… it’s unhealthy…” I requested. Thankfully they obliged.
A little later Sakura asked about a picture on the wall and I was dismayed to find that Inari looked pale. I remembered what he had told me before… all about his dad. When Tazuna began explaining Inari got up and left. I guess it’s still a sensitive topic for him. I too, excused myself saying, “I already heard the story from Inari. I’ll go check on him.”
Tazuna and Tsunami seemed surprised that Inari had told me everything but I ignored it and left.
I walked up to Inari’s room and found the door slightly open. I leaned against the wall and said, without entering, “Remember what you told me Inari. Remember how your dad said to protect things that are precious to you with everything you have. You’re dad wasn’t lying when he told you he would love the village with everything he had. Don’t let him down Inari, because even if he’s gone, you’re still here and you can make a difference. Also remember what I told you. Don’t fear death. It’s better to die fighting than die without trying. Don’t let people who are evil get to your head. By saying there is no hope left is like telling them that they are right and that their evilness is more powerful than anything. Don’t think like that.” After that, I walked away.
That evening when Inari reappeared he clung to me like a leech… Me and my attempt at compassion got me stuck with this kid… I sighed and thought to myself, ‘Seriously, I’m just going off of what I’ve believed for years. To achieve my goals, I’ve set that kind of thinking in my mind. I hadn’t intended for my mind-set to change other people. It was just a method for me to keep working. Gaining respect is what I ultimately want and the only way the Hyūga main branch will acknowledge me is through power. I guess that’s kind of ambitious and even if I do gain power, they’ll just end up trying to use me for their own purposes. Thus, I have come up with a way to make them understand the pain I’ve felt and that is to grow strong so I can inflict pain upon them with my own hands. That may sound cruel but then again, isn’t that what Uchiha Sasuke is aiming to accomplish? We both understand suffering and so we both wish to take revenge.’
It was at that particular moment of realization that an overwhelming sense of understanding washed over me; like before when I realized that I accepted the people around me as friends, except this was stronger. Uchiha Sasuke and I share something that hardly anyone else has ever felt. Everyone he loved was torn away from his life and I was tortured only to be thrown back into poverty.
Even Neji doesn’t fully understand me. He wasn’t tortured like me. He even accepted our way of life, or as he calls it; ‘our unchangeable fate,’ which I find rather ridiculous.
‘Maybe my mind being so twisted with conflicting emotions is the result of my past, but even so… there is someone else who understands suffering… and for the first time… I’m not alone…’
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We were out in a forest near Tazuna’s house where Kakashi-sensei was beginning our training session. He had mentioned something about chakra and to my utter dismay Naruto had no idea as to what that was.
My immediate response was, “Are you stupid? Seriously, how on earth do you make shadow clones if you don’t even know what chakra is? Surly you’re aware of the very energy that keeps you alive!”
Naruto laughed nervously and I face-palmed.
I’m lazy in school but that’s because I was raised with all that information burned into me as a child. Starting a few months after I turned five (it was a year after receiving the curse mark) Neji worked me hard. He’s only a year older than me but we still trained every day to become strong, despite the fact that there was a slim chance that power would ‘change our fates.’ I went through daily sessions and read all the books I could get my hands onto. I knew more than your average twelve year old, so naturally school was just a recap of all the information that I already knew. Despite this, I still can’t believe that a ninja could graduate without even knowing what chakra, the most important aspect of being a ninja, is. I guess people like that have just become one of my pet-peeves…
Sakura, who was also shocked at Naruto’s idiocy, yelled at him and went into a full-blown explanation about chakra and after all that, he still didn’t get it…
Basically, Kakashi explained that we needed to not only be able to use chakra but also be able to control it. This also was a skill that came naturally to me. Being a Byakugan user means that I need to be able to focus my chakra into my fingers so I can deal blows to the vital chakra points of my enemy. Chakra points run through the entire body and when powerful and unfamiliar chakra is forcefully pumped into someone’s body, the point will either temporarily shut down or bursts. The latter is more fatal but harder for a Byakugan user to accomplish.
Kakashi told us to concentrate chakra into our feet and try climbing a tree without using our hands. We all picked a tree and gathered chakra to the soles of our feet. Once we were all ready, we ran at a tree. I quickly ran to the very top of my tree and stood there balanced on one of the highest branches. I watched the others; Naruto barely made it three feet, Sasuke did a little better but used too much chakra and was repelled, Sakura on the other hand, was sitting on a high branch a little lower than mine.
“This is easy!” Sakura called and stuck her tongue out at the boys.
Naruto cheered for her then asked, “Wait, where’s Hotaru-chan?”
“Up here,” I called, “I learned this ages ago.” They stared, gaping at me. Even Sasuke seemed impressed but Sakura’s stare quickly turned into a glare.
I smirked.
“It looks like the girls are best at controlling chakra. Right now, Hotaru is closest to being Hokage… unlike a certain someone…” Kakashi-sensei said, looking at Naruto. He turned to Sasuke and remarked “I guess the Uchiha clan isn’t worth much either…” Naruto clenched his teeth and went at it again, quickly followed by Sasuke.
I left and found a good sized clearing surrounded by trees. I didn’t practice Ninjutsu too often because I’m best with my Byakugan but I have a few jutsus up my sleeve. Of course I can already use the summoning jutsu, because of my violin, but I also know some earth style jutsus as well.
I made a clone then a few quick hand signs and murmured, “Doton: Ganchuusou!” A six foot radius of earth spikes shot up from the ground and stabbed the clone making it disappear in a cloud of smoke. I was satisfied with the quality of this jutsu. It was C ranked but effective and it wasn’t difficult.
I made a few more hand signs then said, “Doton: Dochu Eigyo no Jutsu!” and poofed away. When the smoke cleared I was a good ways underground in a cavern with several tunnels leading upwards in different directions. This was also a C ranked earth jutsu. It allowed me to hide in the protection of the earth but with the tunnels leading upward I could also attack stealthily.
Those were the two earth jutsus I could currently use. I am also working on a few others but they are ranked higher, so I am not very good at them.
When I use my Byakugan I can perform the ‘8 Trigrams Heavenly Sky’ technique which is just pushing chakra from all my chakra points and spinning, creating a protective dome. The only difference it has from the normal rotation technique is that I also focus the chakra to make it jagged so that anyone who comes within the radius of the dome will get all cut up.
I have also mastered the ‘8 Trigrams 64 Strikes’ which shuts down 64 of the 361 chakra points. It immobilizes my enemy for only a certain amount of time but can still be fatal. I am rather proud of this, to be honest. It’s a technique that takes time to master and when it is accomplished, usually the user is from the main branch.
I practiced until dark then headed back to the house.
Suddenly, I fell to the ground onto my side. I clutched my head in pain and curled up into a ridged ball. ‘Shit, it’s happening… thank god no one is around…’
My body shook uncontrollably and it felt like I was being stabbed everywhere with thousands of senbon needles.
As my body convulsed in a fit of spasms, my mind whirled into that dark room… That terrifying room… I spent two years of my young life in that room… isolated. It was right after Orochimaru captured me. They put me in a dark crimson colored room. They experimented on me to make sure I hadn’t been turned into some sort of monster… to make sure I wasn’t a threat… it was even worse because I am of the side branch… if I was in the main branch they wouldn’t treat me so harshly… the Hokage didn’t know… they put me through all sorts of horrid tests… They played mind games with me… so confusing… so painful… I didn’t know who ‘they’ were, just that they came from the main branch… and that for a year and three months this went on… and during my nine months of recovery, I was still in that room… of course back then I had lost track of time and only discovered this after I was released…
Finally, the images subsided and the pain ebbed. I took in deep, shaking breaths. After lying there for a few minutes, I stumbled to my feet. When I got back to the house I slipped in unnoticed and collapsed on my mattress, falling into an exhausted sleep.
Then next morning, I was still tired but managed to act the same as always. I’ve had seizures periodically ever since being released from my imprisonment but no one knows about them except Neji.
~~~
Sakura and I went to the bridge to make sure Tazuna was protected. It kind of pissed me off how some guys were complaining about how if they keep building the bridge, they might get killed.
As we headed back, a small child approached Sakura and I. He smiled and held out his hands. Sakura sighed and gave him some candy and I tossed him an apple. He laughed happily and scampered away. ‘What’s with this place…?’ I thought to myself, ‘They must be having some serious trouble…’
Tazuna went on to explain that everyone was losing hope and that if the bridge wasn’t completed soon, then things were only going to get worse.
Dinner that night was disgusting… I mean the food wasn’t but Naruto and Sasuke were even competing at eating…and that just resulted in both of them throwing up. “Geez, you guys are nasty.” I grumbled.
“No, I must eat.” Sasuke said, wiping his mouth.
“Yeah, we have to no matter what because we have to become stronger.” Naruto declared.
“You’re just going to make yourself sick and then you’ll have no chance of becoming stronger until you get better and that could take a while. Just stop… it’s unhealthy…” I requested. Thankfully they obliged.
A little later Sakura asked about a picture on the wall and I was dismayed to find that Inari looked pale. I remembered what he had told me before… all about his dad. When Tazuna began explaining Inari got up and left. I guess it’s still a sensitive topic for him. I too, excused myself saying, “I already heard the story from Inari. I’ll go check on him.”
Tazuna and Tsunami seemed surprised that Inari had told me everything but I ignored it and left.
I walked up to Inari’s room and found the door slightly open. I leaned against the wall and said, without entering, “Remember what you told me Inari. Remember how your dad said to protect things that are precious to you with everything you have. You’re dad wasn’t lying when he told you he would love the village with everything he had. Don’t let him down Inari, because even if he’s gone, you’re still here and you can make a difference. Also remember what I told you. Don’t fear death. It’s better to die fighting than die without trying. Don’t let people who are evil get to your head. By saying there is no hope left is like telling them that they are right and that their evilness is more powerful than anything. Don’t think like that.” After that, I walked away.
That evening when Inari reappeared he clung to me like a leech… Me and my attempt at compassion got me stuck with this kid… I sighed and thought to myself, ‘Seriously, I’m just going off of what I’ve believed for years. To achieve my goals, I’ve set that kind of thinking in my mind. I hadn’t intended for my mind-set to change other people. It was just a method for me to keep working. Gaining respect is what I ultimately want and the only way the Hyūga main branch will acknowledge me is through power. I guess that’s kind of ambitious and even if I do gain power, they’ll just end up trying to use me for their own purposes. Thus, I have come up with a way to make them understand the pain I’ve felt and that is to grow strong so I can inflict pain upon them with my own hands. That may sound cruel but then again, isn’t that what Uchiha Sasuke is aiming to accomplish? We both understand suffering and so we both wish to take revenge.’
It was at that particular moment of realization that an overwhelming sense of understanding washed over me; like before when I realized that I accepted the people around me as friends, except this was stronger. Uchiha Sasuke and I share something that hardly anyone else has ever felt. Everyone he loved was torn away from his life and I was tortured only to be thrown back into poverty.
Even Neji doesn’t fully understand me. He wasn’t tortured like me. He even accepted our way of life, or as he calls it; ‘our unchangeable fate,’ which I find rather ridiculous.
‘Maybe my mind being so twisted with conflicting emotions is the result of my past, but even so… there is someone else who understands suffering… and for the first time… I’m not alone…’