Power of the Uchiha Clan. [Flashback] (Sharingan and Jutsu Training)

Today was once again another day in which Kileos was supposed to be training with his sister, there sessions always ended in pain exhaustion but there was no denying that he was learning. The fact that he was being forced to train harder than he was used to was probably because of the fact that he had yet to awaken his sharingan, this was something that worried his family. Although it was not very common but some Uchiha did not have the ability to awaken the copy wheel eye even of times of great stress and loss. Kileos was now fifteen years old and approaching the threshold in which id the eye hadn't manifested so it wouldn't ever.

Only few could understand the pressure Kileos was under. He was the son of Kosuke Uchiha one of the strongest ninja of not only his generation but in the history of the clan and yet somehow he had not awakened his sharingan. Kileos couldn't help but feel that he was a disgrace to his father but of course this would not stop him from pushing himself to his limits. For that very reason he had begged his sister to train him or even beat the sharingan out of him it that's what it took.


"I wonder where Kazue is, she's never this late... I hope she isn't plotting something diabolical...."

[1/10]

Kazue had been waiting for Kileos for some time in a darkened corner of the room. When he finally showed up, it seemed to be that he didn’t notice her. Perfect. Deciding to start things off with a bang as she had been tasked with helping him to unlock his latent Sharingan. Apparently their father had sensed that the Kekkei Genkai was on the brink of being unlocked and just needed that final push. She was that push. She was not going to hold back on him at all. So, launching herself from the ceiling as hard and fast as she could, she would aim herself to land on his right foot with enough force to break bones. If it should hit, it would definitely break the bones in his foot, but should it miss, it would be enough to crack the floor. She would then look him in the eyes with her obsidian orbs. “Hello new victim, my name is Kazue, I will be your death dealer today. Please enjoy my services.”

Jumping back, she would wait to see how he reacted. He usually had fun reactions to the pain she caused him, but she could tell that over the time of their training, he had been getting more pain tolerant. Which was both good and bad. Good because it meant she was actually helping him and bad because she got a lot less enjoyment from it.

1/20

Time and time had past and his sister still had not been here, something was up. Kazue was never late to anything she had set her mind to and but of course she would miss tortur- teaching her little brother. Kileos would turn around and began scanning the room, as he would turn ninety degrees he would see a shadowy figure moving at almost blinding speeds. Before he could even react the figure would into his right foot full force sending a enormous wave of pain through Kileos foot.

"DAMMIT, ARGHHHHHHHH."

The bones in his feet were obviously broken and while it hurt he was use to this sort of pain from his sis-. Of course it was her but before he could speak out, he could already hear the all to familiar voice of Kazue. It was already too late for words as evident in the fact that she refereed to him as victim. That was one of the things Kileos had admired about Kazue, although most would deem it as a flawed personality trait her ability to disassociate herself from not only her feelings of people she loved but treat them as a target was perfect for her line of work.

But of course this was dangerous for anyone fighting against her, even Kileos himself, her little brother. "Dammit Kazue did you really have to break my foot right off the bat, how am I supposed to defend myself against you, not that I could, without being able to move at my best..." As his sister would leap back he had known that she was expecting some sort of response to feed her sadism, and Kileos had tried his hardest not to give into her. That was the one thing you should when dealing with a sadist, giving into their wanted will only justify their actions in which any case would only bring more pain. "One of these days I fear your gonna do something to me that cant be fixed with healing and rest, but that just means that Ill need to get stronger to take you on."

Using his left leg to propell himself towards his sister he would rush right at her, this would probably not be the reaction she expected and Kileos hoped that this would give him a chance to close the gap in between the two. The moment he would be in range he would aim his strongest punch towards her stomach, this was not going to go well...

[2/10]

Kazue grinned sadistically as she saw his reaction to the pain. Yes, yes. It was a good feeling. Her mind wandered back to when she had first discovered this side of herself. Back to her chuunin exams.
[FLASHBACK]
Kazue and her team had just arrived in the exams hall and had been ushered into a small room almost like a cubicle. It had a single chair in the middle of it and they were thoroughly confused. They heard a voice come over the intercom saying, “Your village has just captured a traitor in their midst. Your team has been given two hours to extract any and all information the traitor has on the village and its enemies using any means necessary barring killing the prisoner.” At that a bell sounded, the door opened and a man with a sack over his head who was bound both hands and feet was thrown into the floor. Her team all looked at each other as Riiz took a semi-confident lead and picked the man up and put him into the chair. Upon removing the hood, Kazue was shocked to find the man looked oddly like her deceased older brother, Kazuto. It would seem there as a Genjutsu in place to make the traitor appear to be someone who genuinely matters to the interrogator to simulate real betrayal. This would be harder than she thought.
[FLASHBACK PT1 END]

She would come back to her senses to find a fist buried in her gut. Making a clicking sound with her tongue she would place her hand palm open on her brother’s chest and give him a good hard shove. It was clear she would have to turn things up a notch to see where his real skills lied. Flashing swiftly through a set of handsigns all to familiar to any Uchiha, she would fire off a fireball from her mouth headed straight for her brother. It wasn’t an overly thoughtful technique but perhaps it would signal him to put in a bit more effort and thought into his attacks.


2/20

This was not good, Kazue had already devolved to day dreaming and not talking luckily this time he was only shoved away from her but that could have ended much worse. In any case Kileos could tell that his hits did almost no damage, even at his full strength he could do nothing against her, so what was he to do now. At the very least he would have to get creative. Seeing what appeared to be hand signs going at blurring speeds Kileos knew something dangerous was coming. Using the momentum from the forceful shove he would flip his entire body backwards allowing himself to land on his hands.  From this hand standing position Kileos would use his entire upper body strength to launch himself into the air back into a position in which he was facing his sister once again. But just as he would look upwards he could see a fireball racing towards him.

At this point there was nothing he could do but take the attack head on, raising his and crossing his arms to protect his face. Kileos would force himself to entire a fetal position before the fireball made contact as a form of minimizing the the damage as much as possible. The heat from the attack was almost unbearable but thanks to his defensive form most of the damage dealt to him were small burns that covered his arms.

Landing back on the ground smoke danced away from his burnt clothing, the pain and mixed adrenaline from the fire was almost enough to distract him from the shooting pain of landing on his broken foot. How in the world was he supposed to continue under these conditions, this was something he himself was unable to answer but of course he wasn't done fighting just yet. Deciding to use the cover of the thick lush forest around the pair to his advantage Kileos would leap behind a pair of grouped trees shielding himself from view. Using the cover to his advantage he would leap to the right of his sister gaining height via the trees due to swinging himself upwards with branches to avoid additional pressure on his foot.

Upon reaching the top of the trees he would throw a pair of shuriken towards Kazue from both the left and right side of her. Hoping that the shuriken would distract her for a moment before leaping out of the tree brush directly infront of her wielding a kunai once again aimed at her stomach.

[3/10]

[FLASHBACK]
Kazue looked at the man who appeared to be her brother, he looked to be overly confident and seemingly thinking that these young Genin couldn’t get any information out of him. Kazue didn’t know what to do, she didn’t want to hurt the man who looked so much like her beloved brother, but she didn’t want to tarnish her brother’s memory by failing the exam. It was at that moment that there was an almost audible snap. She leapt at the man with a primal yell and tackled him to the floor and immediately started to beat him with force she didn’t know she possessed. Her teammates were too taken aback by shock to say anything. The man eventually spoke through blood stained and gritted teeth, “That was weak. If that’s the best you got then they might as well just take away your headbands.” This was most definitely not what Kazue wanted to hear so she began to break his fingers. Each part. One by one. Finally he seemed t be ready to talk sense, but she didn’t stop there. She broke his arms and legs and feet and toes. She broke three of his ribs before he finally broke and began to just spew all of the information that the team would need to present in order to pass this part of the exam. Kazue’s Red Sharingan eyes now shone brightly as she wiped the blood away that had splattered on her face and shrugged off the horrified expressions her teammates were giving her. As far as she was concerned, she gave them this pass. Next it was on to the survival portion.
[END FLASHBACK PT. 2]

Kazue would react easily to the two shuriken that seemed to come from around her. He had used the resulting smoke from taking her attack head on as a cover. Clever prey. She reached her hands out and caught the two shuriken between her index and middle fingers on each respective hand. She then felt something poking her stomach. It was Kileos, poking her stomach with a kunai, but it lacked the force to pierce her durable skin. Taking the shuriken and jabbing them into the sides of his shoulder she would speak in an almost sing-song way, “Gotta do better than that prey, if you want to survive. Ya see, Ive been given orders to come at ya with allllll I got. And that’s exactly what I plan to do!” She would then punch him hard in the chest. Not in such a way that it hurt him even, but more that it would send him hurling backwards with great force should it connect.

3/20

Of course this attack would fell to... How and the hell would he be able to take her down if he can't even scratch her with the added power of a kunai? But before Kileos could even think about what to do next he would feel piercing pain shooting in both of his smoldering shoulders at the same time, "Arghhhhh-" Before he could even finish his scream a powerful punch would make contact this his chest knocking the wind from his body. This time when being sent back he would not be able to preform some flashy back flip, no this time he would be sent crashing into the ground and sliding across the open area into a large tree trunk.

Forcing himself to sit up Kileos would weakly pull the shuriken from is shoulder before attempting to stand. With blood running down his arms already littered with second degree burns Kileos, would push himself off of the ground yet again. His spirit was not broken just yet, he was going to show his fighting spirit even if it meant standing right where he was. "I'M NOT DONE YET!" Kileos would rush his sister once again but this his speed would be comparable to that of a crawling toddler. Despite this his eyes were filled with a burning passion something that not even most ninja would have in a losing fight like his.

[4/10]

Kazue heard him yell and saw the burning determination in his eyes and for a moment, she could see herself in him. Kileos was sure to become a powerful ninja in the future with a will as strong as his. She would take a moment and plot her next move. She needed to put him in a situation that he felt could kill him. Hmmm, deciding to go with the use of taijutsu for a moment, she would run towards him at a slow pace, well.. slow for her, that he would be able to track, she would throw basic punches and kicks, to get a feel for both how he was against one of his own caliber in speed. Because if he wasn’t able to keep up with her attacks here, he wouldn’t be able to use the sharingan to its full effect.

4/20

{OOC: Since Kileos is now gonna be an NPC I'm just gonna continue this solo..}

Kazue was not surprised when her brother failed to react to her attacks in time. She however didn't expect to knock him out cold with her punches. Sighing, she would pick him up and sling him over her shoulder to take him back to the clan compound. She would need to train on her own now. He had done relatively well to have been so outclassed, but alas, it was not up to her to determine what level he should want to get to. She just had to do her best to help him out as she was told to do. 

Laying him down in his bed, she would then proceed back to their training ground to continue her own training. She had a few hours before she had to go in for her final interrogation of the day and she planned to make the most of those hours. Getting into a stance, she would rush through the trees punching and kicking them hard enough to crack the bark.

5/20

[Force Exit @Kileos]

She had a lot of work to do if she wanted to make a difference in her training here. She was an ANBU for crying out loud, she should be in much better shape than she was now. Thinking back on her training in the past few years, she would sigh at the way she had slacked off some only recently. Remembering her days in the Chuunin Exams, she would continue to punch and kick the tree stump.
 
‘They had just gotten into the forest when they came across their first opposing team. It would seem the team was from Iwa as they used an earth release technique to separate the three Konoha Genin. Kazue looked forwards and saw that she was facing a Genin who was roughly twice her size. He seemed very brutish, he had on typical brown and earthen colors, though he wielded a great sword that had been stained red with blood. So it seemed this team was  out to kill…’
 
Looking forwards, she had managed to splinter the tree significantly. She wasn’t using her full might though and this was starting to piss her off! With a loud shout, she would punch straight through the log. Shattering it.
 

6/20

‘The beastly Iwa Genin dashed forwards, moving at an insanely slow speed to Kazue’s two tomoe Sharingan. But, she had to humor him at least a little. As he swung his blade downwards in a vertical slash she would sidestep it and punch him in the gut. It would however prove to be a futile hit as her fist seemingly sunk into his oversized stomach. He then took her moment of surprise to send her careening into a large tree with a swipe of his massive arm. Getting up shakily, she would see him lumbering towards her. Her life flashed before her eyes. She wasn’t sure what brought it about but her body got moving again just in time to narrowly avoid being cleaved in half. She took a brief moment to ponder how her team was holding up.’
 

Sending another punch to a different log now she would sigh. Breathing heavy now was really pissing her off. She used to be in much better shape than this.  How was she supposed to progress with this weighing her down? The sins of her past? The things she had done to get to where she was today.

7/20

‘It was in this moment of distraction, that the man beast was able to get a punch nestled comfortably on her face. It would seem that he hadn’t gotten any weaker since the last time he punched her. She was beginning to get fed up with his brute strength. As he slammed his sword down yet again, this time she was ready. Pounding an axe kick into the top of his head, she would then spring off of him to gain some distance while he was distracted. She would then form handseals at a blinding rate. A fireball would be his only reward for pissing off the Uchiha Princess! He didn’t seem to be dead after her attack, which almost made her feel slightly depressed. She would approach him and slice his throat with a Kunai before heading out to find her teammates. It was rather sad that she had resorted to killing that behemoth, but these exams were kill or be killed.’
 

She realized at some point, she had sat down and just daydreamed about the past. How could she grow if she held such heavy burdens? It added to her personality that she used to hide her true emotions from those around her.

8/20

‘She arrived in a clearing finding the other two Iwa nin standing over two mangled corpses. Her first thought was that her teammates had escaped and made it to safety. After dropping down from above and quickly stabbing the two shinobi in the necks, she would realize.. the two mangled corpses were her team. They had been killed in what appeared to be a gory and painful fashion. She almost didn’t recognize them. Turning around, she would burn the bodies of the Iwa nin before taking a moment to bury her teammates. She knew that it wasn’t what most shinobi would have done, but she wasn’t most shinobi. After taking the time to bury them, she had to worry about completing her mission which was to get their intel and valuable intel from a foreign team to the drop zone. And she now only had two days to complete her task. It wasn’t something that she was looking forwards to for obvious reasons. But even more so was having to look her father in the ey… headband… and tell him it was due to her inefficiency and arrogance that her team was killed.’

It was her greatest sin. But not her darkest moment.

9/20

Chuckling darkly, she would stand back up. No, that wasn’t her darkest moment. Her darkest moment came the day she was inducted into ANBU. She couldn’t blame the organization for her darkness, no, it didn’t make someone dark. It simply used the darkness that is within few shinobi to complete tasks that the majority couldn’t even stomach.
‘She had been approached by her father a few months after the exam with a special mission. He had come much more seriously than he normally did, but she brushed it off and accepted. It wasn’t everyday one got an S-rank mission directly from the Hokage. So, of course she would accept. And it seemed a simple enough mission, though one that would prove to be difficult. She had to assassinate the Daimyo of the Land of Grass. He had been dealing in an underground child trafficking ring, allowing smugglers to bring children of the Land of Fire into the Land of Grass for hiding. They had proof, but nothing concrete enough to take down the trade, so they were simply going to kill him off.’

It was about time for her to head back into the T and I department. She could finish reminiscing later.

10/20

‘Crossing the border into the land of grass had been the easy part. Getting into the capital had been slightly more difficult, but after placing the guards in a double layered Genjutsu, she had no troubles. The land of grass was comprised of mostly plains and prairies. It was a rather dull place if you asked Kazue due to lack of Foliage and trees. The capital stood out on the horizon like a sore thumb. It had rather tall buildings and a gate surrounding it. Of course it couldn’t compare to a Village like Konoha, but it was of no matter. Once she was inside the city, it was no struggle to find the palace. It had its own fence and guards on rotation every hour. Each exit and entrance seemed to be watched by archers and other manner of civilian type guards. This might be easier than she thought.’
 
Here she was again. Weeks later from the last time she had these thoughts. Back to that day. But, she didn’t care. She was alone in a training ground at the middle of the night and she would daydream if she damn well pleased. It seemed her training had helped her out from when she started training, but she was nowhere near where she wanted to be.
 
11/20

{TIMESKIP TO PRESENT}

It had been a long day, longer still because Rei's day was not over. Business arrangements, an elder meeting, jyuken training with her father and a couple other miscellaneous things. All of these combined, had made Rei's day start before dawn and go further late after the sun had set. the short hyuga princess knew that if she stayed at the dojo n the clan compound, she would have fallen asleep out of boredom. As the heiress, she refused to allow others to see her relaxing or taking it easy. It was her duty to be both strong and present herself strong. As such, Rei figured that the best option was to go to the training grounds this late at night and train in solitude. If she fell asleep there, at least no one would be around to take note.

She dressed in her typical clothing. Her black haori, white waist sash, black shinobi sandals and white hyuga overcoat. Of course she had worn this all day, she held many outfits just like it. She believed in consistence rather than flashy changes of clothing. As a traditional woman from a heavily tradition-influenced clan, it was an important symbol. This spot should do nicely. she subconsciously tol herself as she found a level spot in the training grounds. It would prove comfortable but held much scenery around it for her to train er byakugan in fine detail with. She activated her Byakugan then, the veins around her eyes bulging with chakra as her sigh suddenly became enhanced in the dim light. The first thing she saw, was something peculiar and all too familiar. Not too far away was her good friend Kazue. Had she noticed Rei yet? Not certain, a little smile crept over Rei's lips as she began to tiptoe towards Kazue in the dark, ready to pounce and scare her friend.
CP- 350/355

Spoiler:

‘The palace was large, obviously made of multiple floors. Her first objective would be to infiltrate and find both staff schedules, building schematics and the Daimyo’s schedule. In a place like this, those things were sure to be kept track of somewhere. All she had to do was find out where. She noticed that the servant staff had a meeting house that didn’t seem to be overly guarded. Obviously, the Daimyo was the priority here. So, adding a quick Henge and entering the building she would find the Servants gathered around chatting and spreading gossip. One of them questioned her on her identity, “I was sent from the Land of Fire to learn from the Head Servant. I am supposed to learn to keep up with files and the routines of a Daimyo.” They seemed to buy that and sent her into the main Palace looking for a woman named Shuzio. It only took her a moment to find her, clinging to the side of the Daimyo. This was a blessing in disguise. While most would think of this as a moment that she was caught, Kazue used it to turn this waaay to her advantage.’

Kazue was almost completely zoned from her trip to memory lane, but it was not enough to leave her susceptible to attack. She felt Rei's presence when she felt her spike of chakra. She just was so enthralled in her own mind she hadn't made a move to greet her friend yet. 

12/20

As she crept forward, she believed she held the upper hand. Whatever Kazue was thinking of, was enough to apparently keep her enthralled in deep thought. She crept up all sneaky and them pounced when her friend didn't move. She would leap onto Kazue's back and wrap her arms around the taller girls's shoulders if the uchiha didn't resist. "Boo! You know, if you let your guard down while at night in the dark and all by yourself. Some pervert might attack you!" she would say teasingly and laugh at her friend's assumed misfortune. In truth, both of them knew that if a pervert was to attack Kazue at night: IF they lived, they wouldn't to tell the story for the rest of their lives.

Rei would leap down though, landing softly to the ground with her byaugan seeing through her friend. "What are you doing here after dark? Getting in some extra training like me or m I catching up to you finally?" she would inquire, pointing at her Byakugan.

Kazue would allow Rei to leap onto her back, letting the brief moment of conversation tear her away from the memories. Shaking off the morbid thoughts she was having she would scoff, "If some pervert wants a piece of me he has another thing coming. I would torture him so bad he wouldn't look at another female for as long as he lived, and that would have nothing to do with me removing his eyes!" Laughing lightly she would then fall a bit more serious as she heard Rei's next questions. "I was just out here thinking and reminiscing on my Chuunin Exams and then my promotions. A lot happened so fast during those days, makes me appreciate the peace and quiet now and then. I was also getting a bit of training in, cant let myself get soft!" Though her thoughts had already drifted slightly again.

‘The Daimyo of course had asked her who she was and she had said she was a concubine from the Daimyo of the Land of Water who had heard of the Land of Grass and it’s Daimyo’s prestige and skill when it came to the art of… well, you get the idea. He had paused for a moment, but she knew she had him when he moved away from the other woman who was apparently his servant. He told her that he would show her exactly what she came to see provided she became one of his permanent lovers. She of course ‘agreed’ and followed him into his chambers. It didn’t take long for the man to begin to try to order her around. This however didn’t take. She quickly allowed her Henge to drop revealing her true appearance. Though, she was wearing an ANBU mask her father had given her for this mission to help conceal her identity. It was blank white with only two eye holes. It apparently freaked the man out some as he pissed his pants when she looked at him.’

13/20

Kazue was a shinobi who prided herself in Genjutsu. She was skilled and genjutsu could be the worst kind of torture that anyone could experience. Kazue had her other areas of skill too and even though Rei had a certain resistance to Genjutsu- it was the most fearsome part of kazue that Rei didn't wish to fight. It sounds like you have a lot on your mind Ka-chwan. I guess we'really bother trying to advance our doujutsu. We should do it together. It was more of an excuse to just hang out, but Rei wasn't going to shirk her responsibilities to her clan either.

‘Forming a few handsigns, she would mold her wind chakra and take control of the air immediately surrounding the Daimyo. Creating a dome shape around him, she would form a vacuum. He lost the ability to breathe and his lungs ruptured. Releasing her jutsu she would leap away using the Body Flicker Technique. No one in the Land of Grass knew exactly what happened to their Daimyo, nor who exactly to blame for his death as they had no idea what could have caused his lungs to rupture like that. When she returned to Konoha and faced her father, she could feel the pride radiating off of him, even if his face remained as neutral as ever. He granted her a personal welcoming into the ranks of the ANBU Black Ops. She was given the codename “Kukyo” (Emptiness). Her father made a final remark that caught her off guard as she left his office. “I was wondering when your Sharingan would fully mature.” The door closed and she was on her way home to check behind him to see if what he said was true.’

Kazue would nod to Rei. "I do have a lot on my mind, but that's nothing a little training can't fix!" Her eyes would shift into her Sharingan. the three tomoes swirling fervently around her pupils. Looking at her training partner for the moment, she would ask, "So, what do you want to do? We can train whatever you need Rei-Chan!" Her chipper and hyper persona coming out again. It wouldn't do to be depressed all the time! 

14/20

555/565 Chakra

Spoiler:

It lingered a moment longer, but then Kazue's cheerfulness began to return. She had a lot on her mind and Rei could see that: she wanted to help her friend forget whatever unfortunate thing she was thinking about. All she could do right now though, was train with her friend. She took a couple steps back from Kazue and took up a low stance. The light is really bad here, so I figure some melee in the dark will be a good way for our eyes to adjust and get used to becoming more comfortable with out doujutsus. it was a rational idea, though Rei wasnt too good her friend was at taijutsu. It seemed a bit unfair, being Rei's area of expertise. Then again, she didnt plan to use any chakra or do any serious harm. It was mostly to get the blood flowing and the eyes to move erratically. She motioned with her hand for Kazue to take up and be prepared as well. Her Byakugan giving her clarity in the dark: similarly, the sharingan also possessed such a skill.

‘It hadn’t taken as long as she thought it would to get acclimated into ANBU, nor did it take too long to get used to her newly mastered Sharingan, but she didn’t let these things slow down her training, but give it a much needed boost. She quickly made her way through the ranks within ANBU until she found her niche, torture and interrogation. It was like she had been doing it her entire life, she was simply a natural at breaking criminals, though her methods tended to be a bit extreme with her superiors constantly having to revive or perform life-saving surgery on her victims, or clients as she called them.’

Kazue would shake off her thoughts again and get into a ready stance. Taijutsu was not her main focus as a Shinobi, but she could most certainly hold her own against most ninja. "I'll give you the first move, Rei-HIME." She would stress the honorific as a means to poke fun. It never ceased to amuse her, she loved trying to get under Rei's skin. Her Sharingan was now spinning rapidly watching every single muscle twitch that Rei made. While her opponent had more general knowledge of Taijutsu and an actual form, Kazue was fast and strong. This made up for some of her disadvantage. But as far as she could tell, this was just a basic Taijutsu match, no chakra or ninjutsu involved. So, she would stick with the unspoken rules.

15/20

550/565 Chakra

(Maintaining Sharingan)

Rei would begin immediately, no sense in allowing Kazue to dwell upon the other stuff. As soon as she heard the "hime" title, she launched forward the couple feet between the two princesses. Technically Kazue too was a princess of her clan- though they all resided under the same banner, the village of Konoha. She sprung forward with her full speed(90), likely a surprise to her friend... but Kazue possessed the sharingan. It would be difficult to get the upperhand on her friend who possessed slightly faster speed and the legendary sharingan.

Her first strike, a quick palm forward to Kazue's stomach, attempting to knock her flat on her butt. She was a lot shorter than her best friend, so the only time she could look down on Kazue, was when she was on the ground and Rei was standing up. Who are you calling Hime, Princess Kazue!
CP-330/355
maintan Byakugan

‘Even a few years later she had excelled at her job in the ANBU. Her father had even hinted at a possible promotion in her future, but said she wasn’t quite ready yet. Something about needing to weather a storm or something. He was always too cryptic for his own good. Acting like some ancient sage or something. But, she knew he had her best interests at heart even though he had to put the well-being of the village as a priority. She realized that while she had been speeding through the ranks, many her age were still Chuunin or even Genin, like her closest friend, Rei. Their father’s had been friends since a few years after the village’s conception. And as such, the two girls had become friends. Though, it was more like Kazue threw herself at Rei with open arms as she seemed to do to everything.’

Her Sharingan made the palm thrust Rei sent at her easy enough to read, but her old friend had gotten a lot faster since they had last sparred. It was good to see the progress of one you hold as a good friend, but it was another thing to feel that progress in your stomach. Not wanting this to happen, Kazue would push Rei's thrust to the side by her wrist. If successful, Kazue would send a sweeping kick to knock her friend's legs out from under her. Should her little counter not be effective, Kazue would take the hit from the palm easily enough and use the new momentum to perform a back handspring to generate some distance again to prepare for the next exchanging of blows. She had gone into combat mode, disassociating anyone from friend or foe. Now, there was only prey.

16/20

545/565 Chakra

(Maintain Sharingan)