Chapter 17: Shadows' Prosperity
My room was filled in with silence as kaa-san stared at me with horror in her eyes. Tou-san stood by the door, his arms folded and his eyes coldly staring at me like he sees the very depth of my soul. Shikaku-san did the same. "Golden eye…?" I repeated my father's words, tilting my head to the side as I broke the deafening silence.
Okay, now we're definitely not in canon. There's no such thing as "Golden Eye" in the Naruto universe—no, no. Heck, the Rukas clan didn't even exist.
Well, I did see it coming but I'm still a bit shaken up after my father had revealed what might actually be the reason people are after me. Seriously—what is my luck to end up having a potentially useful, maybe even dangerous, dōjutsu? What's more? I now have people, who knows that I had been reborn, who are after my eye, and worse, my life.
I'm fucked up, aren't I? Well, to be fair, my life in here had been too normal—in the Naruto Universe, at least—so, the universe might've thought to ruin my life for amusement.
"We don't know for sure what your eye can do for people to want it badly, but we do know it's powerful enough to attract enemies." Shikaku-san stared coldly, his words harshly processed in my mind. "We don't know where it came from… and we don't know anything about your eye so," Tou-san coughed, "the only way to gain information about said eye is through you, Orion."
Kaa-san stood up, knocking her chair over, "Wait, no." Her cold, booming voice rang in my room. "I'm not letting anyone experiment on my son, if that's what you're trying to say, Kuro."
"That's not what I'm saying here, Kaiya. Wait for me to finish." Tou-san didn't bother to raise his tone, but it was evident that his words are filled with unkempt rage. "Even I don't want Orion to be put on that horrid thing, so I turned down that idea. The only choice now is for him to train harder and develop whatever his eye prowess is—of course, protected by several, dozens, even, of trained professionals for his safety."
I'm a bit lost with that sudden spike of rage between my parents, but after collecting my thoughts, I got what tou-san had meant with his stern tone. They're going to try and learn about my eye by developing it and to see what it can do, if it's truly worthy to have people set their eyes (no pun intended) on me, well, my eye.
"I'm taking him under my wings to train for two months before a break. Of course, Shikaku will be there too, to record the progress for the first few weeks and so on." Tou-san walked over to me and held out his hand, inviting me to take them. "We don't really have a choice for now, Orion…" His tone became softer as I stood up with his help. He then scooped me up and cradled me, making me sit on one of his arm with mine slung over his shoulder, facing front.
"Just… make sure Ori-kun's safe, okay?" Kaa-san sighed, picking up the chair and setting it down the right way before sitting on it. She placed her hands on her belly, caressing it softly, "I don't want his imouto to worry."
I choked, coughing violently after hearing my mother's words. Tou-san began to panic, rubbing my back to hopeful help his child—me. "Woah—you okay there, lil' Nara?" He asked as my coughs slowly subsided.
I wheezed internally, if that's even possible.
Kaa-san giggled as I recovered from that sudden coughing fit, placing her hands over her lips, "I think Ori-kun was taken aback by the sudden news, am I right, deary?" She asked tou-san, smiling sweetly as though the heavy tension from earlier didn't just happen.
That was actually quite smooth, dear mother—really smooth that I almost died choking on my own saliva. A sister? My wish came true, at least, but that wasn't the reveal that I expected.
"Ori-kun's going to have an imouto." Kaa-san repeated, smiling sweetly.
CLICK
Kakashi then came through the window, holding a Polaroid camera in his hands with a cheeky smile on his face. "Got that one too, at least." He mumbled, going through the Polaroid's he has before pocketing them and somehow making his camera disappear into nowhere. "The Hokage awaits your presence, Nii-sa—Kuro-sama, Orion-kun, Shikaku-sama." He stated out of the blue, disappearing once more without a trace.
Lots are happening today, am I right?
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The Hokage ruffled my hair when we arrived, looking at me with his eyes shining with hope and assurance. Us three whom he had invited walked beside him as he led us somewhere—somewhere not too deep in the Forest of Death, which is definitely "assuring".
Just hearing the name of the place creeps me out.
The Hokage chose this place to be my training ground for the next two months. Is it a good choice? I don't know, but we'll see soon enough. The forest is practically a Nara's great environment, so it's good to train in here once in a while. The only downside is that, as the Hokage briefly told me, "There are creatures lurking in the forest, but rest assured, once you're strong enough, you'll be able to face them."
It's like he's telling me that in order to survive in there, I need to gain control over the forest.
Bruh, I'm only a kid.
"I'm going to take over now, Hokage-sama." Tou-san bowed, placing his hand on my head. The Hokage gave us one last smile before turning around and leaving us with a few words, "Good luck."
"Now then," Tou-san looked down at me, "I heard from a birdie that you created a jutsu in the midst of an attack. May I see it?" He smiled, taking a step back. I blinked at him, not really sure what to do since I only did it once, "Uh, sure?"
"I heard it was inspired by Shunshin, is it not?" Shikaku-san asked from behind, I nodded.
Now, if my memory doesn't fail me, I created a physical shadow beneath my feet. Since shadow has been deemed to be slower than light in previous studies in my last life, I had to bend that concept in my accord, making the shadow, which I'm standing on, speed through the air, making me appear a few steps away from the two under a few seconds. If bending light is possible, then shadows should too. That was my theory, and hey, Nara's can do said thing.
No, I wasn't as fast as before, but I did my first in the nick of time. Replicating such move is hard, especially when two observant people are watching you. "I call that 'Shadow Step'." I smiled at them as they both blinked back.
"Interesting…" Shikaku-san mused, almost in a mocking tone, as he glanced at tou-san, patting his back, "Your son is definitely a genius, Kuro-kun." Tou-san somehow managed to make his surroundings seem colder as he only let go of two, short words, "Shut. Up."
Shikaku-san raised his hands in a defensive manner, laughing, "Woah, okay."
I can somehow see similarities between my father and me. He, too, doesn't like the '-kun'… and sometimes, I wonder what his ties with the Nara head—they seem close enough to bicker with each other. I know the Nara head to be a serious man from the anime, but right now, he is definitely out of character.
"Anyways," Tou-san brushed off, "I agree, it was interesting… but I assume you can go faster? That speed alone is not as distracting based on what a certain crow had spilled to me." He pressed, folding his arms, "I'm sure my son can do better, yeah?"
As the physical shadow faded away beneath my feet, I lightly dropped onto the ground, slowly nodding at him. "I can maybe use the forest's shadow at my advantage? The higher the contrast of my shadow is, the faster I could become using Shadow Step, I think." I said out loud, looking around at the scenery around me.
To be fair, I hazily remember that the forest also helped me that time, when Xavier attacked. It was dark, and the atmosphere was heavy. That plus seeing Shisui-niisan almost die in front of my very eyes pushed me over my limits, creating and perfecting Shadow Step at that moment.
I'm actually glad that Shadow Step worked out. I mean, I've been thinking about creating it for years now, but only got the chance to slowly experiment on the idea from time to time because I focused more on the Nara Clan Jutsus, since they will help me for future references when I decide to make or think of another jutsu.
Now that I can actually do Shadow Step, the next thing I want to work on that is the silent yet somehow fancy after effects to incorporate with it as I go about appearing here and there when I master it. I want it to be cool like the one Gabriel Reyes (aka the Reaper) from Overwatch uses. Fuck that was cool.
Oh, how I miss video games…
I'm itching to play one right now.
"That could be theoretically possible, and of course, since it's you," Shikaku-san smiled, "you'd be able to prove it, right?"
"I hope." I smiled back.
"Also," Shikaku-san placed his hand on my shoulder, "I'm intrigued with the swarming cage that you used to almost catch the crow. The way he told us that move is very fascinating."
I looked up at him, smile not faltering, "Oh, that?" I began to run through a swift set of hand seals to control Kage Nui more efficiently, releasing hundreds of shadow threads appearing behind me, "Multiple, well, hundreds, maybe more, Kage Nui is used to make it. Of course, mad chakra control is needed but I can manage for a short time. I call it Shadow Cage, for simplicity's sake."
Tou-san touched one shadow as it swayed left and right, "These are all solids?" He asked just as when he touched another one, his fingers went through it.
"Nope." I shook my head, controlling the shadow to follow the nearest entity, which happens to be a bird, and swiftly enclosing it in my shadows, only for it to escape through a small patch of decoys. "A few decoys are mixed in to reduce chakra consumption… but if I encounter a real enemy, I'd be forced to eat up most of my chakra to make every thread solid."
Shikaku-san, who seemed really fascinated, with his eyes almost showing sparkles, perked up, "Do you have any more remarkable and jutsus in your disposal?"
"I have…" I looked up, dissolving the shadows from behind, "… ideas."
Yes, I have many ideas. Some are almost impossible, but since we're in Narutoverse, it's not going to be impossible. Heck, if one can warp through time and go through pockets of dimensions, why can't I use the advantage of the darkest night to gain control over everything?
That will be my greatest feat if I complete that dream of mine. I've already created one, and another in a great pinch, so why not dream higher? Controlling the whole other face of the earth during night time will be absolutely amazing since night is just earth's shadow. It's going to be much more powerful if it's a moonless night because it's going to be total darkness.
But, I have to be careful on to using it. Shadow is not shadow if there's no light. That's the only con that I could think of, for now, at least.
It's just great that the sun is producing a shadow over the earth when the said planet is rotating.
OH.
CLOUDS TOO.
CLOUDS ARE USEFUL.
That's an idea that popped up just now.
Also, if there's enough shadows, I can maybe create giant web-like structure either to aid allies or kill and trap enemies. That's one of my ideas too.
Oof—this is gonna be good—
A~h… I have soooo many ideas that I want to make real. I sighed, wanting to experiment and think of ideas longer, "My ideas… they're… not possible for now, seeing where I currently am."
"So… improvement with chakra consumption, yeah?" Tou-san inquired before ending up to talking to himself, "Maybe even work with expanding your chakra reserves… yeah, that's a better choice." He then cleared his throat, placing his hand on his waist, "Expansion of Chakra Reserves it is then."
'That's very useful,' I smiled, nodding at him as his smile widened. The smile on his face is definitely similar to Shikaku-san when he's training Shika-kun and me. That somehow… does not seem good.
Why do I feel like it's gonna go hell from here?
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Mistemus I feel a bit bad for not publishing stuff for this story QwQ I got hooked up with a story idea on BNHA and was immersed writing it (the title's "The True Hero", btw lol)
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