Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ A Life for a Life ❯ To break a seal Part 2 ( Chapter 15 )

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Chapter 15

“A Clan Shrine?” Arashi asked with a little bit of surprise.

Nodding his head, Hiashi pulls out a couple of scrolls that he had brought from the Hyuuga clan. “You asked specifically for our history right? We as a whole had never been ashamed of our past, before. We even show when a part of the family left correct?”

“To form the Uchiha clan.” Arashi nodded. “Those two scrolls you set aside are the ones that explain it, including your family tree. But there is no listing of a Hyuuga with the name Madara on it.”

“Who is to say the name wasn't changed.” Hiashi stated calmly. The only other ones there are the ones for those who show signs of our bloodline limit and how to properly use it.”

“That is of course common, for any noble clan to have with bloodline limits.” Tsunade said as she interrupted for a moment. “Where are you going with this Hyuuga-san?”

Noticing the token tone of friendship and trust from the Godaime, Hiashi can't help but beam a little with pride. “The clan shrine in the Uchiha clan might hold their family tree and how the Sharingan came about. You have to admit, considering that we share the same ancestors, the fact that the Byakugan could develop into that in one or two generations…”

“Would be impossible without help…” Tsunade quips as her mind goes deep into thought. “Arashi…you were right.”

“Hmmm?”

“I don't think Konoha in general is going to like this.”

Nodding his head in response to her statement, the small group sighs somewhat in defeat.

“Depending on what he says the seals are, can I break them?” Kakashi asks, surprising the people in the room. Even Shizune is startled awake by the sound of the normally quiet ninja's voice. All almost having forgotten that he was there in the first place…

“Kakashi…you can't do anything if even one of them is a blood seal.” Arashi said wryly.

Pointing a finger at his eye, covered by the mask, the other man says one name alone that holds many memories for the Fourth.

“Obito…”

The others look at Arashi with a questioning gaze. The Fourth sighs with a sad remembrance of happier times. “One of my former genins was an Uchiha. Something happened…the result was Kakashi got his eye…”

As all look toward the Copy Ninja who just looks amused by the situation, the Hyuuga nods his head in agreement. “Then it might be best of Kakashi does do it. More then likely there is going to be at least one Blood Seal or a Skill set only to reveal at the presence of someone who has the potential or already does have the Sharingan.”

“Is this all right with you Kakashi?” Arashi asks, his obvious concern for his friend and former student evident in his eyes.

The silvery white haired man just puts up his usual sign of it was, `See you there in a bit!', and vanishes.

Shaking their heads in annoyance, Arashi reluctantly grabs a hooded cloak, he has been told to wear when he wanders about town. His cane in his hand, should he need it, was mostly for show nowadays. Wishing he could just walk down, the street normally, he can still understand the need to keep his presence a secret.

Hinata having been sent home, and Shizune tying up loose paperwork, the three head toward the Uchiha compound in silence. The three remaining members, walk out of Hokage tower and head towards the abandoned Uchiha complex.

About thirty minutes later, the trio find themselves in a room that is empty. The candles have long since burnt down to nothing, leaving a mess of wax, over a dark blue cloth. Pictures of past and present Uchihas over the wall, the trio alongside and now arriving Kakashi, make a few silent prayers to honor the dead.

They are startled as a moment later, the Copy Ninja drops to the floor, and points at a segment of mats. “This is where I sensed all those seals.”

Making a motion in acknowledgement of Kakashi's words, the Fourth pushes his hood back and gets down on his hands and knees. Closing his eyes for just a moment he concentrates on the seals themselves, detecting their chakra or whatever else that could be blocking their way to it.

Going into a trance of sorts, Arashi opens his eyes a few minutes later with a tried expression on his face. “There is a seal, normally I could break it, but I detected a skill seal interlaced within it all. Use your Sharingan first, to give you access, then do these motions above it.

Nodding his head as Arashi pulls him away for a moment, to demonstrate the complex release seals, Kakashi practices a few runs through. Satisfied with his speed and memory a few minutes later, Arashi sends Kakashi in with mention of having Hiashi and Tsunade to come out.

Should something go wrong…the seals he had demonstrated were complex, and had to be done precisely. One mistake and it could mean that the chakra in those seals could literally…explode.

A bright light shines, red and almost full of malice a second later. Arashi for a moment was frightened for his former student. One of the seals was extremely deadly, almost as if no one wanted anybody else, but the one who made it inside. That was another reason why, he told Kakashi to send out Tsunade and Hiashi.

Both of them were far too valuable for Konoha to lose.

Venturing in to make sure nothing else happenings, he gestures for the other two to remain where they were outside the shrine room. Finding the room empty, and a mat removed, Arashi jumps into the hole in the ground. His cloak flying behind him, the blond Hokage finds Kakashi staring at a scroll.

His normally cheerful and amused eyes were trembling with so many emotions. None of which made Arashi's senses easy….

“Kakashi?”

Whirling around, the silvery haired man looks at his former teacher. His eyes filled with shame and uneasiness, the Ninja takes off in what could only be despair.

“If I had only known…” Kakashi words softly as he vanishes. “I'm sorry Arashi…”

Blue eyes confused and startled by the emotions radiating off his normally calm and stoic former student, who disappears in a puff of smoke. He turns to what he was looking at that made him tremble.

As he reads he not only notices what made the ninja upset. As he begins to read, emotions are pouring off his body as he remembers Jiriaya's words over a month ago. Those that are concerning the missing Uchiha boy, Sasuke….and the events that forced his son to fight the youth…someone whom his former sensei, said that Naruto viewed as a friend.

Perhaps even a brother…

When I had made that deal with the demon so long ago, I never expected that this would be the result. Although I still have the Byakugan, my children do not. I wish now that I had never left my clan to start a new one.

My sister and I were twins and because of that, my foolish members had decided to curse me with a seal. One to prevent me from ever obtaining the leadership, all I would do would be assigned a lesser rank and forced to protect my sister.

I did not want that, so I left.

They were coming after me then, to force me to take the seal. To force me to do something I did not want. Just because she was born first and not me….

Our father's only son…to be free and not take the curse seal I would have to fight my father in a month's time.

I decided to try and seek help, any kind of help from members of the other clans. But no one would, they said it was my duty.

Well it was a duty that I did not want or desire to have. In the end I desired to escape…I made a foolish pact with something to do so. To change my eyes into something else….something with enough power to defeat the Byakugan.

I had to escape. So to paraphrase my father…sometimes you have to make a deal with a demon to get out alive. Hewas always referring to his enemies when he said that…

Me? I did something better or perhaps worse to be honest…I made a deal with the Kyuubi no Yoko. The Nine tailed Fox demon in other words…

It infused some of its essence within me, changing my eyes to red instead of white. But as I looked into my reflection in the water, my eyes slowly turned to black. That blasted fox had said now that it had done its part, that I should know this.

Although I would never fully be able to access it without pain, any child I have would and be fine. But that it came with a price. One that the demon was definitely amused with….he would not tell me. He just told me for it to grow in power there were two ways…

Still I won my fight, for as I battled my father, it began to evolve into something far stronger and better…

When I was free and happy…I never knew what I was doing to my children…

My son Madara displayed much talent when he was born. Although his eyes were black, when his Sharingan appeared it was much to be celebrated. It seems that it was much like the Byakugan, but unlike its forbearer, it was more detailed, more psychic. In battles it actually enabled him to see what was going to happen…

Later on it even allowed him to copy what his opponent had done…

I thought, what was so bad about this. Maybe a demon being amused wasn't so bad. But when he was 16 and in training with a friend…

He found out something else the hard way…

There were two ways to evolve the Sharingan's abilities. Just as the demon said…

One was to let it happen naturally. Over time the essence that the Fox had infused to my body would evolve on its own, through their blood. Taking months or even years depending on the bearer and his or her actionsin battle…

The other was far worse….

I even went to the fox again just this past month, and he simply smiled. I knew then he wanted this to happen…he wanted to see what I and my family would do with this gift. So I write this down to all of my descendants…as a warning.

The Fox, this time around, had told me that to obtain the most powerful part of his essence in our blood.

We must kill our closest friend…

I had cursed my descendants…

At this moment Madara is packing, he is hoping that the demon will take back his present.

Something tells me the Fox will not do it…

I pray that he does…for my family's sake. I pray that he does. Madara's brother, Naoe is already displaying an insane desire to get it himself; there is someone who belittles us in town. He wishes to avenge our family's honor rather then ignore it…

We have seen what this Mangekyu eye can do though…to its victims.

It is not pretty…it is highly demonic in nature. To drive your opponent insane with could be years of torture in just a few moments, with a single look…

It is my fault and for that I am sorry…

We Uchihas now as I can no longer claim my birth name of Hyuuga are cursed. May I pray someone finds a way to set my clan free…

Chiaki Uchiha

Paling at the words, that this Chiaki had written, it would explain so much that has happed. Demons were known fickle creatures. What they could give once, they will happily take away…

“Arashi-san?” Turning around rapidly, he finds that both Tsunade and Hiashi had come in to the room. Scrolls all around describing more of the Uchiha history and skills, the two other adults look for someone else as they stand there.

“What happened to Kakashi…?” The elder woman asked.

Saying nothing as he shows her the scroll that he had caught the ninja reading, she reads it and sounds of despair erupt from her lips, when she is done. Hiashi taking it as well as she drops to her knees on the floor begins to read the letter. Never before has anyone seen a Hyuuga whose pallor within moments, matches the color of their eyes.

“My god…”

“It explains a lot doesn't it…?” Arashi laughs insanely. His mind clouded with grief for so many reasons. “To escape, an ancestor of the Hyuugas and the Uchihas made a deal with a demon. And not just any…the GOD DAMN NINE TAILED FOX!”

Saying nothing, the two watches as Arashi collapses to the floor. His hands beating against the ground in loss…

“He should have known! HE SHOULD HAVE KNOWN THE DEMON WOULD WANT HIS ESSENCE BACK!”

“Arashi…” Whispered Tsunade, her heart reaching out to her younger friend, she can't help but do for him what she does often for his son. Her arms reaching and wrapping around him, he fights her halfheartedly, but she doesn't let go.

Instead she just begins to rock him…rock him like a mother would her child…

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Inside a seal, his power flowing as he and the other are connected through his jailer…

The Kyuubichuckles…