"So, how was your school?", Shiori San asked. I was at her place, eating dinner. She made all my favorite dished which I fell in love with during the past few months. It was our little celebration.
"It was great. I made a few friends as well!", I said with excitement. She didn't know but I was extremely excited about this because these friends could be of great help for me in the future. If I was a 2D character, my eyes would be replaced by stars. That's how excited I was! I just have to slowly introduce with to the world of Wesen. Not that it is any easy.
"Look at you getting all excited. I should take a picture frame it", Shiori-san teased me.
We exchanged words and laughed. It was a fun night. But towards the end, Shiori-san's face turned serious.
"The Verrat seems to be getting really reckless these days. From what I know, they're looking for me"
"So, are you gonna move away? To the resistance?"
"Like hell I am! I will rip the throats out of those dogs!", she sneered, to which I couldn't help but laugh. Shiori-san, despite her gentle attitude, had an extremely ruthless side to her. I had seen it, and it urged me to train my kamui better.
"But why is the royals after you though?"
Verrat was the organisation under the old Royal family. They're like the secret task force of the royals. Comprising mostly of hundjagers, they are expert in tracking and killing their targets.
As for the royals, they used to be all humans, aka kuraishira. But during the 2045, during the early days of World War III, the old seven royal families were wiped out. Nobody knows what happened because their was no conclusive evidence.
But this was only known among the wesen community. For the Kehrseite, the seven Royal families of the European Union still exists. That is because, a new group taken their place as the royal family.
The new Royal family came into power towards the end of World War III, when the entire world was in still lacking in proper order. What's even more interesting is that, they aren't kuraishira. They were hexenbiests and zauberbeists. Nobody knows if they killed the old royals because there wasn't any proof. But the rumors were still around.
And now, since they are taken the royal of old royal family, the resistance, Laufer, decided to rise up again.
Shiori-san was a member of Laufer, high ranking one at that. But she decided to move back to Japan since the influence of the royals or any great organizations were greatly hindered in Japan. That was because of the 10 great families.
The Ten Great Families, which have terrifying influence over Japan, wouldn't let any of the wesen powers control Japan under their watch. Few OMG the high ranking members are kuraishira themselves. Even a few wesen work under them.
"I don't think they would be reckless enough to cause trouble in Japan. Unlike the early 21st century, the world today has way too many powerholders who knows about the wesen community. The Royals can't just overlook it", I commented.
"But even the 10 great families wouldn't interfere unless the matter puts them in jeopardy", Shiori-san said.
"...", for this, I had no reply. While my knowledge about the 10 Great families are fully based on the origin series and few minor details I collected so far, I knew well enough that they only cared for themselves. Unless it's beneficial for them, they won't bother helping us.
"... That is, unless we seek the help of Kudou family", I said, after a few consideration.
"You know that's also not an option", Shiori-san sighed. " Even the 'Patriarch' can't recklessly interfere in this matter".
The Kudou family was a family of Grimm lineage. It was a surprise for me because I thought the Grimm originated from Germany.
But it doesn't matter any more, considering the only alive Grimm among the Kudou family is Retsu Kudou, aka the Patriarch.
So, by the time he's 6ft under, the entire lineage may be disappear. But the chances of their rise again is also there, considering the Grimm lineage is one hell of a cockroach.
"He can still help us. The Grimm have an especial hate for hexenbiests as far I know", I said. But I do know of one Grimm who's the opposite. But she doesn't need to know that.
"Maybe"
....
The next morning, I adorned in my first high uniform, left my house. With my school handbag in one hand and a skateboard, I left my sweet abode.
Why a skateboard you ask?
Maybe I used it in my previous life, I had a particular fondness for skateboards. And applying magic to it made it even more fun!
*ZOOM*
The skateboard, enchanted with acceleration Magic, moved at extreme speed. It didn't matter if it's uphill or downhill, magic made it with ease.
The streets were practically empty this early in the morning.
And doing tricks on the skateboard in the middle of the street, and with magic was the best!
As I finally reached my intended destination, I put away my skateboard in my kamui dimension.
From there, I walked up a set of stares, that brought me in front a dojo. No, The Temple, owned by Kokonoe Yakumo.
Why am I here?
For training of course. No ulterior motives.
Okay maybe I am trying to get close to the Alab- cough, Shiba siblings, but that's just a side quest.
As I gazed forward, my eyes fell on the bodies planted on the ground, looking like beaten up sand bags, and two guys exchanging blows after blows. One was a familiar face while the other was a bald man with a sly smile plastered on their face.
And finally, a beautiful girl, focusing her attention on the duo during it out.
I walked up to the girl from behind and
"BOO!"
"Hyaa-",the startled girl exclaimed and jumped away. But before she could turn around, or I could fully prepare, a two fists was already in front of my face.
Did I let my guard down that much?! This was too sudden.
But those punches didn't hit me.
My mangekyou sharingan activated itself. It was a programmed response. A genjutsu I put on myself to activate whenever I sense a threat is detected
But it was totally unnecessary. Because the two fists stopped right in front of my face.
"That's quite the interesting eyes you have young man", the bald man said, withdrawing his fists. He was eyeing me as if he found an interesting toy.
"Tobi?", Tatsuya also did the same, looking at me in surprise.
"That's some way of greeting you two got!", I overreacted, "are you two trying to give me a heart attack?!"
"Then next time, you don't sneak up on a young lady like that, young man", the baldy, or Kokonoe Yakumo said in a laid back attitude.
Like you're one to talk!
"All I did was jump scare her. Why are you two acting like some bodyguards in movies?!"
"what are you doing here, Tobi?", Tatsuya asked. His gaze was sharp, as if trying to see through me.
"And that's some impressive concealment trick you have", although he said with his easy going attitude, I could feel that Kokonoe Yakumo was also evaluating me.
"I am here to meet kokonoe Yakumo-san", I said, turning towards him.
"Oooh?", Kokonoe-san looked surprised. But I had a feeling he didn't fully believe my words.
"Yes. Please train me!", I bowed down in a perfect 90 degree angle.
It was a simple request, because had no idea how to make it formal. My knowledge of Japanese culture was still too lacking.
"oh~", Kokonoe-san looked at me with interest. "You wanna train in ninjutsu?"
"No, more exactly, I would like to fully master my own ninjutsu", I corrected him. "I want your guidance to fully understand my own style and become a true shinobi". Did I sound like a Chuuni? I definitely made sure to sound like one.
"Finally, an aspiring shinobi among this ignorant generation", Kokonoe-san clapped his hands. "Tobi was it? Boy you came to the right place"
"Sensei, like I said, shinobi don't exist in this er-", Miyuki wanted to correct us, but me and Kokonoe-san gave no ear. His passion for ninjutsu and my passion as a Naruto fan, the flames of shinobi shining in our hearts ignored the words of knowledge by Shiba Miyuki.
"So, Tobi-kun", Kokonoe-san smirked, "since you said you wanna perfect your own style, do mean you are trained in ninjutsu?"
"Yes", I said. It was a lie but he doesn't need to know that.
"Then would you like to undergi my test?"
"Sure"
With a slight nod, Kokonoe-san clapped his hands. In response, one of the disciples stood up and stepped forward
"Sensei aren't you-"
"Begin!", the announcement interrupted my words and the disciple shot forward. He was fast, but not as fast as Tatsuya or Kokonoe-san.
As he reached me, I disappeared from his view. .
Body flicker technique.
With this, I practically teleported behind my attacker. With a neck chop (which I picked up from Shiori-san when she used it on me), I knocked him out.
"As I was saying", I glanced at Kokonoe-san, "aren't you underestimating me too much?"
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