On this bright evening with the bustle and hustle of the uchiha clan compounds. Uchiha's moving to and from outside the compound, either from the battlefields or just other parts of the village, loitering and conversing. There can be seen one of them on a mad dash ignoring every other clansmen.
Uchiha mutoyuki making it to his home and was about to enter. but then what he hears surprised him greatly.
"what's the rush?" a random male sounding voice I haven't heard before.
I stiffen, I look around and saw...nothing...thinking I was imagining things, I reach for my front door but....
"Its rude to ignore when someone is talking." that same male voice....
now I know someone's here.....
"you know, if you want me to actually listen to you, you would give me the respect I deserve and introduce yourself." I spoke cautiously looking around at everything but still unable to pinpoint where the voice is coming from...the voice sounded like it was coming from everywhere at once.
"heheheh....." a laugh was heard from the same voice "Impatient are you....."
I back away from my home, sweating "enough of this! show yourself" I growl with false bravado.
I feel this deep entrenching fear, for what, I don't know.....its like something is tricking my mind and body into feeling that way
"No need to run heh, I'm right here where you need me to be" the creepy male sounding voice starts...transforming half way through the sentence which confuses me, the intrinsic fear also starts to dissipate along with the transformation.
My surroundings start to blur and wobble as well as a new voice, a soft female voice, sounds out halting me in my place. "you want me to introduce myself? you need no more than to check your memories to re-acquaint yourself with who I am. I'm sure it hasn't been that long" the new female voice becomes clearer and has a teasing playful edge to it.
A figure starts to take shape in front of me as the voice continues "Its only been a year and a half since we've last seen each other but it seems you have already forgotten me yuki~" the teasing voice sounded out in a fake hurt tone. The figure now clear to my eyes and I immediately pick up on who this is.
Standing in front of me, someone in the standard green flak jacket of a shinobi from the hidden leaf village, dark blue long-sleeved shirt with the uchiha crest on its shoulders and dark blue pants, black shinobi sandals, a chokuto sword on their back, black long hair in a hime cut style tied up in a low pony tail at the back, a small smile on their smooth face and the most striking-stand out feature of this person is their eyes. Bright ruby red iris, black pupil with 3 black commas spinning within the iris....a 3 tomoe sharingan!
She stands relaxed with 1 hand in her pocket. "hahaha you always make the most spooky entrances, using genjutsu on me like this.....chiyo-nee when did you get back" I grumble as the memories flood my mind about the person that appeared in front of me making me interact with her instinctively.
That's right this is one of uchiha mutoyuki's last living close relative, uchiha chiyoko, 17 years old, basically his aunt...the sister of his father...and a jonin of the hidden leaf village!
"mm just today and seen as you have basically forgotten about me, I guess I should just walk out of here like the stranger I am~" she teases while turning off her sharingan, about to turn but-
"WOAH~ not so fast, you just got here, how about we re-introduce ourselves" I playfully retort as I clutch on to her, looking ever much the kid I'm supposed to be.
"hm~ that's true, well I'm called uchiha chiyoko, the searing edge, what's your name little stranger" she introduces herself with her title "the searing edge" which is in reference to her ability to mix swordsmanship with her fire release, basically she can make a very hot flame sword that does alot of burning damage if it hits you among other things. A fire release chakra flow!
"they call me uchiha mutoyuki, the greatest of the uchiha clan~" I mimed as I let her go.
"Hehe that's a new one hm~. I guess your so great they don't put you in the bingo books out of fear, that right?" She proclaims, still with that teasing tone.
"nah it's because your the first to ever hear of me~" I continue to mess around.
"Pptttpp~" she couldn't help herself now "I'm getting tired of this open air, how about we head inside now" she states.
"Ofcourse, uchiha chiyoko of the searing edge~" I teased "Oh and you better tell me all about the war stories you've stockpiled, or else~" I lead her inside the house.
"oh~ or else what?" Her teasing tone makes a return.
"To be honest, I can't think of anything right now, so whatever." I shrug, obviously not serious about my threat.
I feel hand on my head messing with my hair "I'm sure you'll think of something." she teased.
"urgh-come on why did you have to mess up my perfectly styled hair like that....." I complain.
"Life is full of imperfections yuki, embrace it." she says in a wise and reflective tone as she enters the living room taking relaxed seat on the couch.
"Yeah, yeah. Your a wise old man, I get it" I grumble out. I hear a chuckle for my troubles as I fix the mess made in my hair.
"but anyway....." I halted "hey.....what are your elemental affinities again?" I asked.
"Hm? did you forget? I'm not really that special. My main affinity is fire. Well.....i also have a VERY lackluster secondary affinity for wind but we can just ignore that one." She reasoned.
"...Last time you told me you had earth as a strong secondary affinity" I can feel the twitch in my eyebrow "What's the deal here?" 'is my memory going or...' I can't help but think.
"Its been over a year, I can't remember what I said" She concedes.
"What!?-no! your messing with me.....you don't forget things like this-nevermind." I shake my head. "I'm just gonna go train the jutsus I know for a bit." Shrugging off that conversation, I was about to go outside to the personal training yard of the house but then.....
"phew~" Wind stronger than the average exhale, was fired off from her mouth rustling my clothes hard and blowing my hair out of order.
"I believe you!!-you can stop!! You said your wind affinity was lackluster!?" I couldn't help but complain while shielding my face from the wind...
"Truthfully this time, I actually have three affinities of varying power and earth release is my least powerful." With theatrical chomp of her mouth the wind dissipates.
'My predecessor also heard from others that you had fire and earth alone. She basically lied on her resume then!? What if i report you to your boss.' I gave her a strange look.
'She's just sitting there.....smiling.....MOCKINGLY. I ain't having anymore of this! My original plans remain unchanged.' dashing out to the private grounds.
I stood in front of a log target.
I performed handseals that were a bit alien to me but very familiar at the same time. with each seal my chakra moves and molds itself with the aid of said seals.
I take a deep breath, fire release chakra takes shape and molds in my mouth.
I exhale and a fireball two and a half times the size of me flies out of my mouth dashing towards the log...when it hits.....a big explosion and a sharp increase in heat in the area....the feedback for what I've just done.
'that just sapped a little over quarter of my current chakra reserves, which means I could perform the jutsu up to 4 times basically....which is an increase from the usual 2 times my predecessor had just before-my chakra reserves increased a good bit somehow. Interesting.' I deliberate.
testing the handseals again by continuously weaving them without the input of chakra, the alienness gradually and fully disappears as mutoyuki's muscle memory takes over. Looking at the charred log target-
"Mn-you've gotten better at it, your still wasting more chakra than necessary when casting it though" I hear from towards my left.
'.....so basically a chakra control issue' I make an obvious assessment. Before I could say anything though-
Chiyo-nee blitzes through the handseals in a blink and then-
A fireball many times larger than mine and packing many times more heat came out of her mouth-
A MUCH larger explosion sounds out when it hits, completely dwarfing my attempt.
".....You...such a show off..." I complain, as the demonstration was basically unnecessary.
"It is within the nature of our clan to assert dominance whenever possible" She clapped back with seemingly the straightest face possible, no, she's the farthest thing from being serious in this moment.
"I'll make sure to give a good smack to the back of your head when I get stronger then." I nod to myself. Its already an inevitability.
"You have such strong motivations~" she teased. "The frontlines are calming a bit right now so I'll be here for the next few months, waiting." She informed.
'Wait does she expect me to get strong enough in these next few months to follow up on my threat?...LADY YOUR EXPECTATIONS ARE KILLER-'
"I believe in your talent" She quirked as if reading my thoughts.
I raise an eyebrow wondering what made her so sure of my talents.....but nonetheless, I know she isn't really being serious about it.
I shrug it off as I got back to practicing the only fire release jutsu i know right now
I pay no mind to chiyo-nee watching from the sidelines.....with her sharingan active no less? What does she need the sharingan here for, I don't know, maybe she's glimpsed something interesting I ignored. She'll probably tell me eventually, that's how she is.....atleast so my predecessor memories evaluate about her, don't know if she's changed a bit from that over a year on the battlefield.
......Finally at the cusp of running out of chakra, I turn and my eyes meet the sharingan of chiyo-nee.....
meeting the eyes of an uchiha is dangerous especially on the battlefield where chaos ensues and especially for someone like me who has next to no defense against it.
I wont deny, out of all of them uchiha itachi from canon left the greatest impression on me-a standout of the clan-even more so than uchiha shisui, in short it made me very interested in sharingan genjutsu...
Maybe experiencing it some more could lead to insights that my predecessor overlooked-could make me better for when I finally unlock the sharingan.
"Heh do it again if you dare~" I taunt playfully. still looking at her eyes in defiance.......and a strange form of determination.
Chiyo-nee, as if seeing something within my eyes at this moment, her face flickered but quickly returns to neutral, as if hiding something.
"Hoh? I wander what gave you the confidence to meet my eyes straight on again" She responded, completely amused. Her voice becomes distorted towards the end and I nearly hitched-no I did hitch-as her form changes to a well known hidden cloud shinobi, the third raikage A.
Even knowing it was a genjutsu didn't matter much as all my senses had gone haywire and there is this distinct fear and weakness creeping up again which I now know is a form of emotional manipulation due to her genjutsu.
Before i could think, the "third raikage" in his absurdly powerful aura and killing intent disappears from my sight, completely blitzing me, ready to deliver a killing blow, as I panted and sweated profusely...
"URGH-" The sheer intensity of the moment forced me to unconsciously move....barely dodging the blow coming to my head, a massive cloud of smoke and destruction emerges from behind me and I froze
The miniscule amount of chakra I had left started to frenzy beyond my control for a bit, the imbued fear reaches a peak as I shout denials in my head.
'ITS FAKE, ITS FAKE, ITS FAKE-' The scene shifts and I found myself someplace entirely different and the third raikage gone.......'WHA!?-' I was cut off by a groan making me turn.
My emotions went awry from what I'm seeing....
Dead bodies strewn across the grounds in different forms of gruesome dismemberment-my face paled massively-this genjutsu has went far beyond what was usual from my memories-
"So your the last one huh...." I actually heard a voice....
Making it grab my full attention-anything to distract myself from the corpses to be honest-my heart stopped.......
Laying witness to what looks to be someone with a hidden mist headband and holding onto.....special looking swords.....one reminiscent of the seven swords of the mist. More specifically the kiba blades.....that isn't what made my heart stop however.
It was the sight of none other than who the kiba blades user was speaking to....bloodied all over and looking like they'll fall over at any moment.....chiyo-nee.
seeing her like this made me halt and again I felt a huge spike of dread coming from nowhere, forcing myself to look at her properly she looked younger, she had lost her flak jacket and her eyes were different instead of a 3 tomoe she only had 2 currently spinning in her sharingan....before I could investigate more, a fight broke out between them...a very one sided fight, chiyo-nee looks like she's being toyed with, she's devolved to throwing wild and desperate slashes with her chokuto which was very chipped, her breathing un-even and in gasps meanwhile the kiba blades user seems to be having the most casual "spar" imaginable with her
'Wait....this fight...' taking a moment to think but again my thoughts halt as more dread and fear spreads throughout my being as if in preparation for something.
TZZZZ~
Crackling noises were heard, similar to lightning and then chiyo-nee's blade as if succumbing to a decree was shattered and a new cut amongst the many bloody ones on her body appeared across her abdomen, bleeding profusely and at that point she collapses-paralyzed.
.....seeing this, something in me snaps and out of my control I shout. "HEY!!!" trying to grab the kiba users attention but
......nothing.......
As if I wasn't heard at all the kiba user walks down the body of chiyo-nee stopping in front of her.
something in me was tearing at me during this scene and I immediately break out into a sprint, despite how strange and out of place this scene was in my current life within the walls of the village, despite the fact that chiyo-nee was with me just fine before this scene appeared-my emotions and senses were in such disarray that the lines between illusion and reality keeps blurring seamlessly. As if this event was something truly real.
"Pathetic....." I head the kiba user call out in a bored tone-nearly tripping on a "corpse"-I continue to dash like mad. The dread pooling off me in oceans.
the kiba user raises his blade as if to finish her off.....
The madness seemed to be getting to me at that point, as i start weaving handseals for the one offensive jutsu that I know preparing to fire off another mass of fire only for...no chakra to move within my system....as if it wasn't even there in the first place...more dread clouds my mind.
the kiba user continues unimpeded as his blade moves downward.....
The emotions within me exploded-"NOOO!!! YOU WONT-DAMNIT!!!" I can feel wetness cascading down my face, my sprinting pace increases and my mouth becomes dryer as I continue to shout non-sense....
The blade inching closer and closer in slow-motion as if perception of time has slowed yet I continue to dash and shout curses at the kiba user my blood-boiling over into pure rage and urge to kill.
The kiba blade lit up with lightning barely an inch from chiyo-nee's face, a violent happy smile on the users face as if the concept of overkill bringing immense joy...
The amount of crying and pleading I find myself doing was unreal....but then....I look at chiyo-nee's face and....
Instead of a 2 tomoe.....now there's a 3 tomoe in her eyes spinning rapidly.......all of a sudden I hear a calm somber voice not from the chiyo defeated, bloodied and on the ground....
But from beside me-"....Somehow.....it actual worked this time....." Halting me in my place....
Out of nowhere, cracks in my "reality" start to form....until like glass, they break and fall away to reveal....
Back in the personal training ground, everything back to normal.
Yet the perception in my eyes still felt slow.
My face now blank-mind devoid of thoughts-I turn, my vision now filled with the real uchiha chiyoko. All of a sudden the details of everything within my vision was exceedingly crisp and I can judge and predict her movements like never before.
her hand moved and I feel my face being wiped of the wetness originating from my eyes....
My mind begins to reboot.
all of a sudden what comes out of my mouth...."T-that...a-a-actually happened...to you...." I felt myself tremble...
"The horrors of war...the events I usually hide from you. After the upgrade of my sharingan, a genjutsu fell upon the enemy-not my genjutsu-one from another uchiha who got there on time, who goes by the name shisui. I wasn't awake for the rest" She spoke, in a flat tone, of the event as if she herself wasn't a direct victim in it which made my blood run cold, my thoughts raced 'shisui was there!?-no more importantly this event happened-' my thoughts were halted.
"right now I want you to be fully aware and prepared for things to go this south, When you finally reach the battlefields, I want-no I need you to be able to come back intact. I know that even with what I just showed you, I can't truly stop you from aiding in war efforts. your determination is an abyss. My biggest job right now is to equip you with all the tools you will need to survive." She continues. Making me realize, despite her put-up front, the deep trenches of her emotions...something in me told me she wasn't completely over her brothers death...hell even my predecessor had moments where the death of his parents got to him after the fact but he was somehow able to snap himself out of it quick enough...this determination...my determination now...we're both of the same people who's hearts are set after our losses.
I was starting to feel weak for some reason, like i was about to keel over-
"turn it off" I hear.
".....what?" I reply
"your eyes" she commanded.
'what do you mean my eyes? they aren't lightbulbs they're always active-' my roaming thoughts halted.
"It....can't....be..." Is what comes out of my mouth my face ever the epitome of trembling surprise.
In my eye-there was seen a mutation, the black now replaced with red.
the eyes of the clan......
hello again readers. so originally this chapter was supposed to be mixed with a training montage, but i decided its best to separate them I wanted the vibes of this character introduction to be completely intact, in other words I wanted you guys to feel the connection between the characters in this story, yes i wanted you guys to feel~ without distractions....because the character is very important in the story. but anyway hope you enjoy and see you next chapter.