"That is a very interesting offer, Ketsueki-sama, however I will need some time to think about it. I hope you don't mind if I consider the pros and cons?" Sekibaku said.
Wow! The personal student of the Kazekage! That is amazing... However, I will not be able to be with my brother and sister then... And perhaps I will never be able to be Hokage one day. This will require some serious thinking over. he thought.
"However, Lady Kazekage. I am very interested in the rest of the tower, and even more so, in your Sharingan..." he said with a slightly smug look on his face.
Ketsueki then activated her sharingan eye and pointed to it with her right thumb.
"Oh this? I've known how to use this since I was eight years old. My father was a real slave driver, I guess I take after him in that way." Ketsueki said with a smile, though not deactivating her sharingan, "Are you sure you want to know the history of my little parlour trick?"
"Why yes, the Sharingan has always interested me, as has the Byakugan and the Rinnegan. I've always wanted to posses one of the three Great Dojutsu, however since I am not of the Uchiha or Hyuga clans, and the Sage of the Six is long dead, that's not going to happen." Sekibaku said, biting his lip in regret, "Looks like I'll have to stick to my Chakra Blades Kekkei Genkai, however that doesn't stop me from being interested in learning about the Dojutsu. Especially the Kaleidoscope form, the Mangekyo, of the Sharingan."
He walked around the dining room a bit, admiring the paintings on the wall.
"It's surprising how little information I've managed to gather. All I could find was, that the Akatsuki members, Sasuke and Itachi, both had it."
"Madara and his brother as well." Ketsueki added as she deactivated her sharingan, "If you must know, the Sharingan eye possesses many abilities, but they can be put in a few categories to sum things up. The copy eye, where the sharingan user has the ability to copy another ninja's jutsu. It is quick enough that the user can copy the jutsu at the exact same time the ninja is preforming it. Secondly, the ability to read an opponents moves. If I was in a fight with you, I could guess what you were going to do right before you even knew yourself. Thirdly, there is the eye's genjutsu, where a user can create illusions in an opponents eyes. Making their eyes play tricks on the opponent's mind."
She smirked as she continued with the explanation.
"Then there is the Mangekyou sharingan. Not all too much is known about it, but there is this," Ketsueki paused and gave the boy a very over-powering look, "It contains the most power ninjutsu and genjutsu ever to be performed on this earth."
Severely taken aback, Sekibaku stopped in his tracks and looked towards the Kazekage.
"Surely that power would come with a price, wouldn't it?" Sekibaku said in a low and serious tone. There was an awkward silence after that, and he sensed he shouldn't push it any further. To lighten the mood he instead talked about the original Sharingan.
"Anyway, the regular Sharingan seems quite interesting. Copying every move of your opponent, knowing what they are about to do. It seems like a major advantage in combat." he said, still with some astonishment in his voice, "Even more so than I could find out about the Byakugan, although seeing and blocking your enemy's chakra points would be quite an advantage as well."
He resumed looking around at the statues and paintings in the dining hall.
"That aside, I would still love to see the rest of your tower, Ketsueki-sama." he added.
"There is a price for to gain Mangekyou Sharingan, yes. You need to kill your best friend to achieve it, also you need to take your siblings Mangekyou Sharingan eyes if you want to maintain it and immortality without going blind." Ketsueki explained before dropping the look and smiling, "Besides, I don't see this place as a tower. It's fatter than it is tall. Reminds me of those Konoha Akimunchi clan... or was it Akimichi? I'm not sure... I don't visit the leaf very often nowaday, I'm too busy here..."
Sekibaku laughed at the Kazekage's comment on the Akimichi clan.
"Yes it's Akimichi, though Akimunchi is more like it since they never stop eating." he said when he had composed himself, "Supposedly, they turn calories into chakra."
He turned and faced the Kazekage, taking in her full figure, astonished that he hadn't noticed her beauty before.
"Even so, I would still like to see the rest of this place, and I still have a lot of training to do." he smiled.
The nineteenth kazekage smiled at the boy's enthusiasm. He reminded her of a boy who was, as her father called it, on her temporary squad, even though she was on it for three years...
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"A mission? Goro-sensei, didn't we just get back from the last one?" A young, thirteen-year-old Ketsueki asked as she placed her hands in her jean pockets, "I mean, c'mon, you can't be serious. We have to go all the way to Iwagakure just to escort the Tsuchikage's snobby kid around the village? That's not fair..."
"Ketsueki, you are fully aware that you have no right to be cruel to Akane, since you, yourself, are also one of the three children of the Kazekage. You're strong, Ketsueki, I'll hand you that, but you are not strong enough to ridicule everyone else. You're a bit too cocky." Goro, a calm, twenty-year-old jounin said, his toothpick bouncing up and down as he spoke, "Besides, it will be fun, and you above all people know how much of a slave driver Lord Kazekage is."
"Goro-sensei's right, Ket, it'll be fun! Besides, you so gotta help me pull off a master prank on the brat! You in?" Her teammate, who happened to be two years older than her, asked, beaming as his spiked white hair flung around a bit in the wind.
"Masuyo, Ketsueki, could you cut it out? You are getting on my nerves. It is just another mission and that is all. Stop your whining." Kaito, Ketsueki's other teammate said with a blank expression. Ket growled in annoyance.
"Why do you always have to be such a prick, Hyuuga?" She groaned as she went and folded her arms, "Grow a brain, boy, and remember that three years ago I was top genin and I was only ten while you and Masuyo were twelve, so shut up, show off."
"A written test means nothing, anyways." Masuyo said with a smirk, "Besides, what's the big deal? Damn, why do you two always fight?"
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"That kid was worse than I remember!" Ketsueki growled as she walked through the desert with her team, returning from a mission, "Do this, do that! Come on! You'd think she was the Tsuchikage herself... brat..."
"I've gotta agree! That kid had some nerve! No one insults me and gets away with it! Next time I see her, she's toast!" Masuyo shouted in agreement as the two high fived, Kaito and Goro just shook their heads.
Suddenly a rogue ninja appeared out of no where and immediately took Ketsueki hostage.
"Nobody move or she dies!" The rogue ninja said in a sour tone, Ketsueki smirked.
"Not yet I wont..." The kid said before turning her head to face her masked capture to show a three tomoe sharingan, "It's times like these I'm thankful my father was a slave driver!"
With that, she escaped the man's grip and returned to her teammates.
"Good job, Ketsueki!" Goro said in acknowledgement before his eyes opened wide in horror when he looked over at Masuyo Namikaze.
The fun-loving, prank-pulling, always-enthusiastic boy was dead...
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"You remind me alot of Masuyo, kid. He would've made a good jounin if he were still alive. Always enthusiatic about things." Ketsueki said with that warm smile, even though it still never reached her cold eyes, "Ok, where first? The library? The kitchen? The hall? The bedrooms? Where do ya wanna go?"
"Another person you saw die huh?" Sekibaku said sadly. "I saw one of my friends die as well, Mimoto Hyuga, his name was. We were playing ninja in the forest, and suddenly I saw a real kunai whistle through the air, hitting Mimoto in the neck. When I saw the ninja who threw it, I immediately recognized him as the ninja who killed my father." he said, looking down and clenching his fists.
"But as you said, I have to move on. I would like to see that library you mentioned. I'm sure there is some information there I could find useful." he said, lightening the mood.
"He was my best friend, Masuyo was. Died age 15. Being the brainiac, Kazekage's daughter, I was 13 on that squad. We'd been going for 3 years as genin. My brother took his place. When my youngest sibling graduated, we were transferred to Ryuu's squad. My other teammate, Kaito Hyuuga, was put on a squad of new genin, two girls for that matter too. Shinobu Ikemizu and Takako Hyuuga, his little sister. They're all skilled jounin now, all three are accompanying Teiru on his mission along with my old sensei, Goro, and some others." Ketsueki explained before walking over to a large door on the other side of the room and turning back around with another false smile, "Now are you coming, boy?"
As he ran over to the large door the Kazekage stood by, he thought of his old friend Mimoto.
Mimoto... I miss you so much. I swear I'm going to avenge you. You... and my father...
When he got to the door, he said to Ketsueki:
"Ketsueki-sama, there was one thing I didn't tell you about Mimoto. One of the reasons I miss him so much, was how much he taught me. He taught me how to control my Chakra, and he told me so much about the Byakugan. It was no wonder he always won when we played Ninja. When he was killed, he had his Byakugan activated. I could tell immediately that the Sound Ninja had hit his blind spot.
He was my best friend. The one person I let in. The one person who ever offered to help me out."
A single tear left his eye and fell to the ground.
Ketsueki looked at the younger male and sighed sadly. She knelt down and brushed the tear away, her face full of worry.
"I wish I could say the same, but I was always cocky as a kid, let everyone who wanted to be in, in. I think after Masuyo's death, I changed. Became colder, more distant. I didn't talk so much, I didn't complain about the constant missions and I didn't protest against the beatings... I just took it. I guess father's death was a relief to me in a way, it was just the betrayal of my one best friend that killed me." She then smiled that smile that never reached her eyes as she placed her hand on Sekibaku's shoulder, "Don't think I'm telling this as to boast about the incident or show it off,I'm telling you this because you need to know. I can see curiosity in your eyes, mixed with hatred, anger and confusion. You're lonely and repressed, but you try not to get in people's way and act like you think they want you to act. I don't need to have the Sharingan eye to see that, it's all in your eyes."
She then stood and opened the doors to reveal a massive library.
"Now you wanted to see the library, did you not?"
As the large doors creaked open revealing the vast amounts of books within, Sekibaku's eyes widened and he couldn't help but let out an amazed "wow...". He stepped in and looked at a few of the aisles, there were books on every Kazekage, on Gaara, on the Kabeda, on Sunagakure itself, books on everything!
He walked along some more of the aisles looking for a specific book.
"D... D... D..." he whispered to himself, "Deals... Dogs... Dojutsu!"
He had found his book.
Hm.. let's see if what Mimoto told me was true... he thought.
Right. Byakugan.
"The Byakugan is the primary focus of the Hyuga's special arts. When the Byakugan is activated, their pupils become more distinct, and the veins near their temples bulge. Once active, the Byakugan gives the user a near 360º field of vision, except for one blind spot at the back of the neck above the third thoracic vertebra." he was right... Wait, what's this?
""In terms of sheer enlightenment, the Byakugan is more powerful than my Sharingan." - Kakashi Hatake" interesting.
He was deeply absorbed in his reading, that's how interested he was in those Dojutsu.
Ketsueki smirked as she saw the boy become immediately engrossed into one of their family's dojutsu books.
He's definitely a smart one... She though with a smirk before clicking her fingers and running down to the 'N-S' isle.
She quickly got to the 'S' section and began to run her finger across the books.
Sannin... no... Sunagakure... no... Ninjutsu... no... hey wait a minute... dammit, Teiru needs to learn how to put things back where he gets them... hm... Sikinara... no... Senju... no... Sharingan... yes! She thought as she took out the book labelled 'Sharingan' along with the ninjutsu book.
On her way out of the isle, she put the ninjutsu book back where it belonged and walked over to where Sekibaku was reading. She then tapped his shoulder and handed him the book.
"Here's a book explaining everything you need to know about the sharingan and how to use it. You can borrow it along with that dojutsu book as long as you return it before I'm dead. Sound good?"
"That sounds awesome!" Sekibaku said as he lifted his head out of the book, with starry eyes, "However, there are three more books I would like to see if you have."
First he ran a bit further down the A-F aisle and found a book on the Byakugan. Then he ran to the G-L aisle and found a book on Kekkei Genkai, finally he went over to the N-S aisle and found the last book. Rinnegan, then he returned to the Kazekage.
"Ketsueki-sama, these books also catch my interest, and I would like to borrow them as well." he asked with great anticipation painted on his face and obvious in his voice.
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