He stood atop a branch, staring intently at the white-haired child using the prowess of his golden eye. He subsequently vanished after meeting the eyes of an Uchiha, gritting his teeth for he can no longer observe and play if his identity would be revealed in an inconvenient time.
Appearing in a black void of mass space, he was greeted with an annoying tone, "Gee-sama~ you're back! I was getting bored waiting for you." He only nodded at the man behind the white mask that is resting on a bed. Xavier was his name, if he remembered it correctly. "Were you snooping around Konoha again? You're the one who said it was risky." The masked man told him, as if scolding a child.
Well, he is in his child body.
"Of course it'd be risky if it was an idiot… just like you." He spoke with nobility, glancing around the dark void, assessing something. "I never made such a scene when I was out there, unlike you who actually almost got yourself killed by two children."
"Ah—you know where to put salt on one's mood, eh?" Xavier shook his head, tone rapidly becoming serious as he spoke of his next words, "But that child… you sure do know lots about him, and both of you share..." he trailed off.
The child paused, knowing what Xavier had meant, before continuing creating a screen in front of the two of them, which showed several perspectives of several people making contact with the white-haired child. Some are blurry, some are clear as a glass. "Why wouldn't we?" He smiled as he stared at the view, leaving unspoken words for the masked man to wonder.
He pulled up his black mask, hiding his features. "In two months' time, we will take him back…" He trailed for dramatic effects, continuing with such poison in his tone, "… dead or alive."
Xavier narrowed his eyes.
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I shivered for a moment, making me hug myself in discomfort. Whoever's talking ill about me right now should quit their bullshit—it's very improper. With that, the people inside my hospital room, which had been turned into a meeting room with them (Shikaku-sama, the scarecrow, the crow, tou-san, and a few people from Cipher Unit), abruptly looked at me with their brows raised.
"What's wrong, Ori-kun? Is something the matter?" Kakashi asked, taking his eyes off of the piece of paper he had brought to me for a quick moment. I shook my head, casually taking the paper in his hands. "You see," I started, tucking the stray lock of hair that fell between my eyes behind my ears, "I've heard this before."
Kakashi blinked, "Huh?"
I turned to Shisui-niisan, "We both heard this before, Niisan, before we got attacked by that masked man, which is probably the Xavier uncle and Shikaku-sama is talking about."
"Ah, that?" He asked, I nodded. "So that's how it's written in notes?" He asked, peaking at the paper.
"Mhm." I said, and started humming the notes written on the paper.
"Yes! That's what played before Xavier, dubbed Shiro, attacked." Shisui confirmed.
Shikaku-sama coughed, "So? Does it contain a code or something?" He asked.
"Sure?" I shrugged, and the people in the room looked rather disappointed. Sighing, I placed the paper on my lap and smiled at them, "Get me a piano or something—I'll translate it for you."
Well, with that, they became somewhat eager and hurriedly sent someone to get me a piano.
"Oh?" Tou-san mused, sitting on the end of my bed, "Since when did little Orion learn to play an instrument?" I shrugged at his question.
Shisui narrowed his eyes at the corner my eyes, making me forcibly create an answer, "Well, I've been reading books… and self-studying using paper-drawn piano…" Actually, that wasn't really a lie. I was a natural since my last life and only polished my skills even further when my mother had seen me practicing on a drawn-piano in an illustration board.
A smile flashed onto my face… then a loud crash consequently wiped it away.
"Do you all honestly need to use the window as a door?" I muttered as they placed the piano on the bed. I sighed, prepping the piano as I eyed them, "Well, first, and explanation is needed on how I could read the code…" and it's rather creepy (left that unspoken for now), "Solfa Cipher; Solfa Code, whatever you call it, the letters D, R, M, F, S, L, and T refer to the seven diatonic scale degrees , Do, Re, Mi, etc.. The numbers refer to one of four possible count placements based on a unit duration, like an 8th note…" I stopped as I realised that some of them weren't following.
Flipping the paper to have a blank space, I drew the diatonic scale, naming them orderly and giving them placements.
"For example, Mi2, that one will definitely be translated to A—if we disregard any decoy keys. The position of the notes on the staff will be the same with the decoy, but by selecting a different clef and key signature they will be interpreted as the wrong scale degrees. Selecting a decoy time signature can also help hide the basic rhythmic unit.
The Solfa Key displays bar lines to indicate when the first note of the tune does not start on a downbeat, like, if it's not 1. Thus, changing the placement of the first bar line in the decoy would also confound decryption. The original Solfa Key will be needed to decipher the melodic message and should be passed on separately from the encrypted melody.
If your recipient has a good ear, you could play the melody to pass on the message, which I'll be demonstrating using the piano."
Well, seeing that only a few followed, I'll be definitely lost in explaining this. They'll just have to bear with me until I show them the code.
"To extract the solfa cipher from an encrypted melody, you must determine the scale degrees and unit placement for each note based on the original Key." I then drew the cipher grid beneath the diatonic scale.
Under the Do's from one to four are the letters T, K, R, F; under Re and Ra are I, Z, C, Y; under Mi and Me are A, X, H, G; under Fa and Fi are S, QØ, M, P; under So's are E, J, D, W; under La and Le are N, Å, L, B; and lastly, under Ti and Te are O, Æ, U, V.
I then stopped, realising my mistake as soon as I felt people looking curiously at me. I unintentionally wrote everything in the English Alphabet. In. Freaking. English. Well, no matter. No one's questioning it so I will continue. Turning on the piano, I turned the paper over and started following the notes as I play, adding a beat to it as it was dull the first time.
"Ah—" Shisui rose from his seat, pointing accusingly at the piano, "that's…! That's exactly what we've…!"
"Mhm." I knew it.
""A, E—no, L, L…"" I started mumbling, stopping as I wrote scribbles onto the space left on the paper. The contents confused the others, but I continued writing anyways. I've tried my best sharing them what I know, but I lack the actual composure to teach them.
I'm no teacher after all.
Mi2 La4 La4 Mi2 Ti3 Fa1 So4 Re4 Fa2 La2 Ti4 Fa4 | Do2 Mi2 So3 Fa3 Ti1 Fa4 Fa1 So4 Do4 So4 So2 Do4 Mi2 Mi2 So1 So1 Ti4 Do2 Mi2 So3 So3 Mi2 Re4 Do4 So1 Do3 So3 Re3 Mi2 Mi4 Fa3 Do1 Mi2 La4 La2 So4 | Do2 Mi2 So3 La3 La2 Mi2 Re3 Do4 Do3 So3 Re3 Mi2 Mi4 Fa3 La1 So4 So4 La3 Do1 Ti2 Do1 Mi1 Ti4 Do4 Do4 So4…
Those are what I've written on the paper.
"You actually doing it makes great sense now. Your… big words couldn't… I couldn't catch up with them." Tou-san chuckled, ruffling my hair as he eyed what I've written.
'Lies.' I rolled my eyes as I started reading the actual code, ignoring a few decoys I purposely left out from writing, ""All hope is lost; the puppeteer had won. The white key has fallen; the black key has been forgotten.""
Silence rang inside the room. No one dared to let out a single noise as they froze over after hearing the contents of the code—well, until I broke the silence. I'm someone's bastard nephew, after all. "Well, 'All hope is lost; the puppeteer had won. The white key has fallen; the black key has been forgotten,' is what's written on there," I repeated in Japanese, eyeing the others, "but I'm sure y'all know that already."
"Analysing that now, is Xavier talking about the man behind this brewing mess? The puppeteer, I mean." Kakashi spoke up, looking at Shikaku-sama who's writing down everything he had heard.
"Probably." Shisui nodded, "He kept referring to someone as 'Gee-sama' or something when he fought with the both of us, well, Orion, mainly." He eyed me after feeling my worry, reassuring me that he won't say a single word about what he had learned… yet. It's not like I don't trust him… but I trust him on this that he'll keep it between the two of us.
"I thought things would stop when Xavier had killed his own father but it seems like…" Shikaku-sama brought down his clipboard, eyes narrowing, "that was just the beginning."
"I agree in that case so," tou-san stood up from his seat, walking over towards the window, "it's possible that they have a specific target and are just distracting the police with other issues, and of course, you, people with high positions," he emphasised his words as he eyes Shikaku-sama, "to get to their goal."
Shisui immediately looked at me, and I looked back with the look asking him, 'I'm the target, aren't I?'
He subtly looked away, his looks telling me he's blaming himself for not realising sooner.
"That does make perfect sense," the Nara head nodded, walking over to tou-san, "but who is that target you're speaking of?"
"Hah." Tou-san laughed, eyeing me and Shisui-miisan with amusement. Don't get me wrong, but this father of mine is as sharp as he could be, "Seeing my son's reaction just now, I definitely know who it is."
"And that is?" The scarecrow asked the black deer, looking at him with curiosity, "You don't say it's—"
"It's Shisui." Okay, I take back what I've said. Tou-san isn't that sharp. After a sigh tou-san chuckled, "I'm messing with you, okay? It's obvious by now that their target is my son. Reason? I don't know."
The Nara head pinched the bridge of his nose, swatting tou-san's head. "Kuro." His tone was full of warnings, "Be serious on this case, dammit."
"Ow—" Tou-san shielded his head, before his face turned very, very serious. "Why it's you, Orion?" He eyed me sternly, "Well, why on earth would the one who started everything specifically direct an attack on you? Why would he sought you out, of all people?"
The room fell in silence.
I looked down on the piano, distracting myself from them. It's true. I'm their target, whoever Xavier is with.
In different perspective though, such as mine, it seems like he's trying to warn me… help me figure out things that people here couldn't. Sure, he's crazy, but I felt sympathy in that man—sadness, even. The pity look in his eyes when he realised that I could've called someone to help us sooner but didn't sure etched in the back of my head.
He's the good guy here. He's trying to help me, help Konoha. He didn't just kill Klavier just because he could. He did it to sneak out his message from his mask… to relay it to me. I may be thinking out of the box but… it makes sense in my head.
Just what on earth happened to my once peaceful life here in Konoha?
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Shikakuro let out a sigh, looking out the window in the Hokage's Office, thinking about the recent events. He never really knew why people would target out his son, his one and only son, of all people. Sure, he knew Orion is very gifted, special in fact—learning and picking up on things quicker than any kid, suddenly speaking fluent ninja language in front of people, and a bunch of other things—but none of that would draw out an enemy.
From the sound of it, the 'Gee-sama' guy doesn't have anything to do with recent enemies—Orochimaru and the like. It could very well be a new person, someone they've never heard or seen of. Maybe one of his enemies? It could be since in the battlefields years ago, he had accumulated many enemies, though he doesn't quite remember some well. He is Konoha's—
"Why would someone target your son, Kuro-kun?" The Third asked him. He shrugged, "That's what I would like to know too—why people would dare to target my son."
Kakashi shared a look at Shisui, who's behind his crow mask at the moment before he hand signalled the Hokage to activate the seals he kept inside and outside to prevent information leak. The Hokage did it with no hesitation, going to the lengths of letting his person ANBU's to go out for a moment.
"You both seem to know something." The Hokage inclined, propping his elbows on his desk before placing his chin on the back of his hands, "Care to enlighten us?"
Kakashi hesitated for a moment, but since he had started it, there's really no going back. "Is there… any records for… a golden-eye dōjutsu?"
"Pardon?" The Hokage pulled his head back, tilting his head while Shikakuro remained silent.
"A dōjutsu that is golden in colour and… it gives off a chilling yet warm aura…" Shisui remembered back when Orion stared at him, his Sharingan wavering.
Kuro narrowed his eyes, "You're not implying that my child possess whatever the both of you are talking about?"
"Exactly that." Kakashi folded his arms, "Hatake's and Nara's do not have any dōjutsu, as far as I know."
Shikakuro nodded, stepping away near the window and next to the Hokage, "So, I'm assuming that the both of you have seen it?"
"You don't know about it, Kuro-kun?" The Hokage looked at him with his brows raised. The said man shook his head, "Uh, no… not until today."
"To answer your question, Kuro-niisan," Kakashi spoke up, "yes, we have."
"I'm sure it's as mysterious as it can be, Hokage-sama, Kuro-sama." The crow told them, "Even my Sharingan faltered upon seeing his golden eye."
The Hokage seemed to be curious, "Really, now? A dōjutsu that is potentially more dangerous than your clan's Sharingan?"
"You said eye, right?" Shikakuro pointed out.
Shisui blinked, "Uh, yes, Kuro-sama."
The Nara sighed, placing his hand on the Hokage's desk, "I don't know how they knew about Orion's eye, but when Kakashi told me how Xavier had reacted when he saw 'something', before you revealed the eye Orion possesses, made it clear to me." He paused, gritting his teeth. "Now we know why they're after my son."
Another chapter @_@ I'm feeling generous today so yep.
https://youtu.be/EgI4SeDviSQ <- here's the link if you want to hear what the tune Orion and Shisui had encountered. I made it myself uwu
Anyways... Y'all better watch that...
Well, I might comeback and release the next chapter on February... oh, there's Valentines too, come to think of it *insert lenny face*
That's all.
Thank you for reading~<3
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?
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)
Here's a chapter that's supposed to be published a week later as a gift ^^ also, we crossed over 100k views so yay~
I decided to create a discord channel for you peeps as a celebration, maybe? uwu here's the link: https://discord.gg/88G79Q7
Thank you for reading ^^
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