Chapter 2 - Hattori clan and Initiation
As the mother and son duo neared the settlement, Shinjo looked at the darkness that seemed to envelope everything. Trees and foliage preventing the sun from reaching here, shrouding the settlement in an eerie calm.
Ever since he was born, he had felt an affinity for the shadows. Perhaps he was imitating the adults who more often than not, lingered in it, rarely going out in daytime. The darkness felt comforting and all-encompassing.
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The Hattori compound had 20 odd, 2 storied houses, surrounded by a 3 meter tall earth barrier that prevented any intrusion from the unintentional passersby. The entrace was wide and sturdy, fixed with a heavy iron door. At the moment, it gave the feeling of a gaping maw of an underworld creature.
At the center of the settlement was a teo storied manor, looking sturdy and stable. No exaggerated decorations, simple and efficient.
The mother and son duo neared the central building, where they could see a few people scattered around on trees, on top of houses, hidden in shadows. All eyes scrutinizing the toddler with subdued anticipation.
Inside the manor, Hana led her son to the basement under the first floor. Opening the door, there stood a stoic middle aged man, his body, covered in an all-black suit and a green jonin vest, lean masculature and packed with explosive muscles. He was an exact replica of the child, or perhaps the child was an exact replica of the man, sporting pitch black hair and eyes a lighter shade of black. Behind him stood three older men, one of which Shinjo recognised as his grandfather. Like his father, all were dressed in an all-black suit and a jonin vest, all sporting similar black hair and black eyes, which now seemed a hereditary identity of some sort.
Hattori Kaemon. The father. 35 years old.
Hattori Kiyoshi. The grandfather. 60 years old.
As Kaemon saw his wife and son coming in together, his hard face softened a little, he uncrossed his arms and proceeded to elaborate.
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20 years After one country, one village system was established (20 AV)
Hattori Shinjo. 2 years old. Young heir to the enigmatic Hattori clan.
Hattori clan was a clan of assasins, fewer in numbers compared to the famous Uchiha and Senju but very professional and mysterious. In the warring states period, it was said that once the Hattoris took a job to assasinate, one might as well give up any hope of surviving. Because they NEVER fail. Ever.
Hattori clan was a very systematic assasin clan, they trained their children from a young age in the ways of assasin.
In a world of ninja, every ninja was a verified assasin, but Hattori clan took it up a notch. They were the true Shinobi among all shinobi clans.
They had their bottom lines, never taking up job that would harm innocents or their interests. They would do their homework once a job was submitted. After all the verifications were done, should they deem it appropriate, that their target was guilty of the accusations, they would do everything in their power to complete it. Of course for an appropriate compensation and their service was quite expensive.
They had come close to extinction more than a few time in their long history spanning back to the days before The Sage of Six Paths was worshipped. After a target elimination, the family or friends of the target, if powerful, would come to hunt them down.
Despite this, they never faltered from their creed. Never breaching their bottom line. Never stopping to doubt if what they were doing was wrong. They would go into hibernation and bounce back after a period of time and exterminate the clan that came close to killing them all.
History had stood witness to their tenacity and strength. But after receiving invitation afrom Hashirama a few decades ago, the supposed God of Shinobi, they recognized the changes in time and the fragility of a singular clan against an entire village of Shinobi and joined Konoha, the village hidden in Leaf, country of fire. Since country of fire had always been their base of operation.
It was to this prestigious, mysterious and Enigmatic clan that Hattori Shinjo was born.
From infancy, Shinjo had awareness and understanding of his surroundings. He even had memories from when he was in his mother's womb. Though he would never admit that to anyone.
At merely 6 months old, he learned walking, despite the fragility of his physicality. At 1 year old, he learned speaking the Shinobi language, recognising complex kanji words and scripts and showed the ability to have complex thoughts. Despite his family treating him like a little genius, he thought it was pretty normal, since it was so natural to him.
However even though he had astounding clarity in his mind and capable of mature thought process, he recognized the lack of foundation and knowledge. So, he would scour through their clan library. Hoping to learn and brighten his consciousness with their clan history, their age old profession and geo-politics that came with the village system. It sure was a slow build-up. But atleast he would have the framework down. Though he didn't have access to THE actual stuff that mattered, Jutsus and Shinobi related professional knowledge, what him being a child and all.
Soon he came to realize his own frality, when he was about to become 2 years old. He percieved his mental faculties (senses, relative clarity of thoughts, brain function) was constantly increasing, as he aged. But his physical body couldn't keep up. He slowly lost the energy to even walk around their compound, which was already too small.
Seeing their son reaching 2 years of age and his gradual inability to function, his parents started preparing the Initiation Ceremony that every Hattori had to go through.
Hattori clan members had an extreme Yin physique, that alluded to their affinity to shadows, in particular. Which almost always affected their growth and potential in infancy. Being an ancient clan, they had found a way out of this precarious situation.
That is, once an infant of Hattori clan comes of age (2 years old), it had to go through an initiation ceremony, that was mandatory. The infant had to be submerged under a nutritional solution, product of a secret recipe passed down in their family, developed after arduous efforts and much sacrifice. It would give a nudge to the infantile body to match their ever growing spiritual energy with their physical energy.
Although the spiritual energy would keep growing until they hit 20, at least it would help them, having a physical body that could somewhat resist the gradual corrosion of their spirit.
Shinjo, being an anomaly even among the Hattoris, reached this phase sooner and had to go through the initiation before he was 2.
Now he laid submerged under the nutritional solution that filled his view with a greenish hue, stoically observing the strengthening of his body and the gradual combination of his physical and spiritual prowess. He felt an energy slowly filling the corners of his body. He felt full like never before, as if he had an all-you-can-eat buffet, FREE of cost.
With that thought, he gave one last look at the occupants of the basement, where they stood guard to account for any emergencies and his dear mother, before slowly drifting into slumber.
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クリエイターの想い 
rorschach
rorschach These were 2 chapters at first, but too short. So I combined them.
Don't worry, the chapter length will increase gradually. I intend to paint a complete picture of a shinobi, along with their skills, thought process, IQ, battle strategy and romance, everything. I didn't find any such ff, so lets create one, why not.
Like it? Then add to your library and hit me with them powerstones. Ciao.
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