"10 years…" a gritty voice muttered "it's been 10 years since I've been back here, I guess its finally time." The boy said as he began to walk towards a large gate-like structure, the boy had caramel brown skin, he also had burgundy red hair that flowed a little in his face over his amethyst purple colored eyes, but the rest was hidden by a cone shaped hat. He wore a white cloak that covered up his mouth and stopped a little under his nose, black pants and black shinobi shoes. He also had a headband wrapped around his waist that he began to take off as he got closer to the gate, that seemed to be hidden deep in a forest.
As he approached the gate two guards stopped him, they had similar headbands that the boy had around his waist, their headbands were black with a metal plate in the middle with an insignia on it similar to a leaf. They also wore green vests and black long sleeve's under the vest with black pants. "Stop state your name and business!" one of the guards said as they stared at the boy, "my name?...my name is Ethos…Ethos Rai and I wish to join the hidden leaf village." Ethos said as the guards simply stared at him "I'm afraid it doesn't work like that" one of the guards stated "yeah you can't simply just walk up and join any village you want you have to be from th-" "I think he should speak to the hokage" the guard was cut off by a calming voice. The guards turned to see another shinobi with white spiked hair, a black leaf headband that covered one of his eyes, and a cloth over his mouth, also wearing the same outfit as the gate guards, "Ka- Kakashi?!?" the guard said with a shocking voice "yes right away" the guard said as he nodded towards ethos to follow him, before leaving ethos and kakashi's eyes locked almost as if Kakashi knew who he was.
Shortly after ethos and the guard they began walking through the districts of the leaf village called Konoha, almost as if the guard were giving him a secret tour instead of taking him straight to see the Hokage. The two continued to walk remaining silent as ethos was admiring the buildings and structures, they passed by a ramen shop as a tall boy with an orange and black jumpsuit type of outfit walked out "best ramen ever" the boy shouted rubbing his stomach, he had spikey blonde hair, water blue eyes and three lines across his face on each side which also looked like whiskers. Instantly Ethos recognized him "tha- that's Naruto Uzumaki" he said as he had heard stories about him. "That's right one of our prized shinobi" the guard exclaimed as they continued to walk, ethos locked eyes with naruto as the two passed him. Naruto continued to stare as the two walked off "those eyes…man he seems powerful…but I've never seen him in this village before I wonder who he is?" Naruto questioned himself as he began to walk in the opposite direction.
After about 15 minutes of walking the two finally arrived outside of the hokage tower "here we are lets go see Lady Tsunade" the guard said the two walked inside of the tower. Outside of the hokage's door where they heard two female voices "Shizune why must you keep filling my desk with useless paper" "it's not useless lady Tsunade these are all documents that need to be filled out by you." The other woman explained as you could hear Tsunade let out a large sigh, the guard then knocked on the door and walked in "lady Tsunade this young man walked into the village asking to join, and Kakashi told me to bring him to you" "hmm Kakashi said it huh?...So kid what's your name?" "Ethos Rai my lady" he said as he took off his hat and bowed before the hokage. After taking off his hat Tsunade got a better look at him, she stared for a moment before uttering a word "ok we'll see what you can do, I can tell just by looking at you your strong we'll start you off as a genin and you'll have to wait until our next chuunin exams to really prove yourself." She said as he bowed again "guard set him up in a hotel until I assign him a squad all expenses paid by the hokage" "yes my lady" the guard said as the two walked out. "There's something about that boy" Tsunade said as she stood up from her chair and began to stare out her window.
Shortly after getting to the hotel and making himself comfortable Ethos received a letter from under the door, which read "find your way to the training grounds we need to talk" the letter read. As ethos left the hotel and began to follow the instructions made it to the training grounds where he saw the man known as Kakashi from before, standing by three stumps reading a book. "You called upon me Kakashi?" ethos stated as he took off his hat and dropped it to the ground and began to stare down Kakashi once again. "Yes I did…Ethos Uchiha!" ethos appeared shock but still showed no emotion. "How did you put it together?" "one glance was all I needed, I was one of the anbu black ops at the time of the uchiha massacre, all the bodies were accounted for except yours and looking at a picture of you as a child your face remained the same" Kakashi said closing his book and putting it in his back pocket. "Somehow you may have changed your eye color and dyed your hair but your still an uchiha why hide it?" Kakashi questioned as ethos remained silent. "Because…the world only knows of two living Uchiha…and I intend to keep it that way…I should have died that night I don't know why I was spared…but the world doesn't need to know of me" he stated as he looked at Kakashi who seemed to be sizing him up. "I see…well then you're an uchiha…uchiha are supposed to be powerful…and I can tell you've had a lot of battle experience for someone who's only 17" Kakashi stated as Kakashi lifted his headband to reveal his Sharingan, ethos smirked as his eyes changed into the same as kakashi's sharingan except white. Kakashi looked shocked "ah now I really know who you are…Shiroi Akumu (white nightmare), I've heard rumors of a person with a white sharingan but now it all makes sense." Kakashi said as he took a fighting stance "your supposed to be really deadly killing any opponent you face…lets see how you fare against me" "I'll show you Kakashi Hatake the copy ninja…I know of you as well" ethos said as he remained motionless. The two stared each other down as ethos began to let his arms dangle and began swaying from left to right, he then quickly vanished from sight as he appeared behind Kakashi with a kunai to his neck "are you sure you want to do this?" ethos questioned "trust me I do, I'm actually eager to fight you" Kakashi said as he appeared behind ethos and the Kakashi that was in front of him went up in a puff of smoke. "enough games then lets begin!" ethos said as he came crashing down from above Kakashi and the other ethos began to turn to cinders and fall and float away, while Kakashi jumped back to dodge the attack ethos stood up and the two were back to staring each other down "this could be interesting." Kakashi said as he gripped his kunai.
