STORY – Through the Violet Eyes of a Kunoichi
AUTHOR – asongforthedeaf
CHAPTER – Ch 1: Beginning
WORDCOUNT – 1,223 words
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DISCLAIMER – The original story and setting of Naruto is not owned by me in anyway and is 100% Masashi Kishimoto's
CHAPTER 1 – BEGINNING
My name is Hateshinai Hakuro. I was born into the Hateshinai clan on the 9th of December along with my twin brother Kisho. My family is from the Land of Water; Kirigakure no Saito, or 'Village hidden in the Mist'. Kisho and I began our studies to become shinobi at the delicate age of 3. My father, Hateshinai Kaito, played a major role in Kiri's military team. He was in regular contact with our current Kage; Fifth Mizukage Terumi Mei and was relied on for dangerous A-rank missions. He therefore was a great role model and fantastic teacher. We were both taught in our clan's private Hateshin dojo under our father before we entered the Mist's public shinobi academy 3 years later at age 6. Needless to say, we were a little ahead of the other academy students our age.
Our father always taught us to never question our superiors, and nobody would ever dare question my father. He was a top shinobi and well-respected among the ninja in our village.
My brother and I had a pretty stereotypical upbringing. Our father was always out on a mission and earned more than enough money to put food on the table. Our mother, Hateshinai Serra, had retired early from shinobi duties due to falling pregnant with us. She was one of Kiri's elite Chuunin; a well-respected medical ninja who had completed a decent amount of high-ranked missions in her time. As I was growing up, she mainly stayed at home to look after us and maintained our house and dojo. I always loved it when we were home at the same time as my mother because whenever any conflicts occurred, she would always take my side. When I look at the life I had back then, I was pretty well off.
Our clan was considered to be evil to many of the Land of Water's people. My family in particular were lucky because rather than being hated or feared, we were respected. I thank my father for that. It's a well-known fact in the shinobi world that majority of the ninja in Kiri didn't exactly wear a halo around their heads. Above seventy percent of all Kiri ninja both live and dead were or are rogue ninjas. Kiri shinobi are not ones to mess with. Our Hateshin clan was just another shining example.
The Hateshin clan is roughly translated to the 'Endless Moon' clan. It was named the moon clan because our seal is in the shape of a crescent moon. It's violet in colour. From their day of birth, all pure-blood members of the Hateshin clan are trained in order to master their Kekkei Genkai (Special Bloodline trait passed down through the blood of ancestors), which is why Kisho and I endured extra training in our own dojo. We have a lot of extra things to learn.
Our aim as a part of the clan is to, by a certain deadline (deadline determined by parents at birth), have successfully performed 9 Jutsu under the category of one specific element. For example, I trained from age 3 to perform 9 Doton (Earth style) Jutsu. The element we are to learn is determined by a piece of paper that came from a legendary tree. Shinobi not only in our clan but others too from many other lands use this paper to determine their most dominant element by channeling their chakra through the paper, and depending on how the paper reacts, their element is revealed as Earth, Water, Fire or Wind. My mother's paper became wet with water; she therefore is mostly a user of Suiton (Water style) Jutsu. My father's and Kisho's paper were sliced into two neat pieces, resulting in them majoring in Fuuton (Wind style) Jutsu. Mine crumbled into hundreds of little pieces; I am an Earth user.
The reason we only learn nine techniques is because the tenth Jutsu is a sealing Jutsu. The tenth Jutsu is the same for every Hateshin member. The sealing technique has been passed down through hundreds of years; its purpose is to seal those nine studied Jutsu into a shinobi's body so that when the seal is activated, the shinobi can call upon one of the nine Jutsu to occur automatically. Jutsu for every shinobi require a series of handsigns. We were always taught as Hateshins that handsigns can be time-consuming, and they are a nuisance. Using a large amount of handseals can become predictable and slow, so when we use the seal, we say the name of the technique we wish to execute, and so long as we have a sufficient amount of chakra, that technique's name is lit up somewhere on our body as it is executed without hand signals. The nine sealed techniques are our bases, our default techniques. Any other techniques we learn further down the track are performed as usual with handsign usage. Getting this technique down is all about a focused amount of chakra, self-control and natural blood-line abilities. As a result of using this seal, our eyes turn violet. Therefore, the usage of this Kekkei Genkai in battle is called Eiesu Baioretto no Jutsu, or 'Violet Eyes Technique'.
Kisho and I were given the deadline of ten years from birth. By our 10th birthday, we were to have all nine techniques learned so that we could be sealed on our birthdays. From the ages 3 until 6, we probably only correctly performed one or two techniques. In this time, we were given our element we had to work with, and we focused a lot on discipline and chakra control.
There is a catch with Kisho and me. We are twins, and we had a rare case. Two shinobi born from the same womb at the very same time were to study 'shared learning'. The Hateshin clan highly respects twins because there have only ever been two other pairs besides Kisho and myself in our clan's history. The clan's ancestors believed that any pair of twins are destined to be something incredible, and to be a 'team'. To our ancestors, 'something incredible' meant a power machine. Think about it. I learned nine Doton Jutsu, Kisho learned nine Fuuton Jutsu, so why not combine them and give us two elements each?
After the last set of twins were born into the clan, our ancestors dangerously created a 'Double Sealing Technique'. This technique was just the same as the original sealing technique, but was designed to seal eighteen elements into each child. I had my own nine techniques, but was also given Kisho's nine.
Our bodies would find the double seal difficult to deal with as it struggles to register even now that I never performed those nine Fuuton Jutsu. A goal I still hold today is to perform those nine Jutsu and figure out which nine were sealed into Kisho, because I have to teach myself these techniques like normal before I can use them in my Kekkei Genkai, yet they have already been sealed into my body since I was 10 years old.
My clan's ancestors were selfish and driven by power. They were impressed by destructive things. This is the reason why the Hateshin clan is still considered evil and is feared by some today, because of them. Their stupid twin sealing was just a disaster waiting to happen…