To Start Anew
Chapter 2: Skill Assessment
After Kagome and Tsume left the ramen stand, Tsume had learned to never talk bad about demons. She didn't want to see Kagome's rage again, it was terrifying. They were now being seen standing in front of the Inuzuka compound. The smell of wet dog was highly noticed in the air by just standing in front of the large house. Kagome was pleased that it wasn't a run down apartment. The both of them walked forward when Tsume's son Kiba Inuzuka noticed them.
"Mom?" he inquired, then noticed the most beautiful woman he had ever seen standing beside his mom. He started to drool, as he took in her curvaceous body, her wonderfully sun kissed skin that had no tan lines. He took notice that she had demonic attributes but wasn't at all bothered that she was a demon. Beside him was his outrageously large white dog Akamaru.
"Oh hi Kiba, this is Kagome. She will be living with us until the Hokage can find a suitable place for her." Tsume said with a warm smile.
Kagome looked at the teenage boy with wonder. He had short spiky black hair with dark brown eyes, tanned skin, with the same red triangles under his eyes. He wore a white jacket with fur on the hood. Black pants with bandages wrapped around the right leg, a belt with pouches and black open toed sandles a black hiate itte tied loosely around his neck. Just looking at him made her hot, it was a hot summer day and he was wearing a jacket. Kagome sweat dropped frowning at him.
"Hello, I'm Kiba Inuzuka. Nice to meet ya!" Kiba said grinning showing off his abnormally long canines.
Kagome nodded smiling at him. "And I'm Kagome Higurashi." Kagome replied.
"Well bye mom, I gotta go train with my team, see ya!" Kiba said loudly before he disappeared in a swirl of leaves. 'I gotta learn how to do that! That was awesome!' Kagome thought to herself.
Tsume laughed when she saw Kagome's wide eyes that stared with awe at the spot Kiba just was.
"That my dear is called the shunshin no jutsu, it is a teleportation jutsu that can get you anywhere in just seconds. But first you have to know exactly where your going, you have to vision the area in your head with exact detail." Tsume explained.
Kagome took in what Tsume said with great interest. The thought of learning the jutsu explained brought great excitement. What Tsume didn't know was that Kagome was a prodigy. Back when demons ruled the world, and humans feared demons at an extremely high extent; there was a powerful clan. The Higurashi Clan was powerful, and feared unlike no other. Because of their abilities, power and bloodline limit such as a kekai genkai, called the hyoryurenehangan. This kekai genkai was the most feared, and the most powerful as well as the most dangerous. It was a mix of Hyonan a blood limit that controlled both ice and water. The Ryugan was a powerful kekai genkai next to the Renegan and Sharingan. It controlled fire, earth and lava based chakra's. Lastly the Renegan, a powerful kekai genkai that controlled wind the mind and body, and copied thousands of jutsu's just like the sharingan, not only that but it also allowed the user to read the minds of anyone the user chose. So in that case, the user would know every move the enemy would make before it happened.
Back in Tokyo, where ninja's were close to being extinct. Kagome did all she could to learn her family's kekai genkai. She had mastered it on her seventh birthday. After that her mother had her train in every jutsu related to her powerful kekai genkai. She always felt out of place because of how smart she was. The students around her were often jealous of her skills. But no matter what it didn't hinder Kagome's learning. Her mother was proud when Kagome only learned the Hyoryurenehangan in only five hours.
Kagome's brother Souta however it took him nearly a week to learn it. Even though Souta was smart, he wasn't a fast learner like Kagome was. Souta was often jealous of Kagome, since she mastered everything taught to her in a matter of hours. Returning back to reality, Kagome smiled. She wondered when she would finally become a ninja of Konoha, she also wondered who this Kurenai was.
"Say, Tsume, who is this Kurenai?" Kagome asked raising an eyebrow.
"Ah! Kurenai is known as the ice queen, and known as the genjutsu master in Konoha. She specializes in every genjutsu known to man. She is also a jounin, a powerful jounin if you ask me. Her skills in genjutsu are unparalleled." Tsume said with a smile as her eyes glittered up like a christmas tree when she talked about her idol.
Kagome nodded thoughtfully. 'This Kurenai would seem like a lovely opponent. Too bad for her, I've already mastered genjutsu as well as taijutsu and ninjutsu. What they don't know is that I'm at least kage level in power and skill. But I can't have them knowing that, I will leave that for last. Good thing I put chakra and power limiter seals. I can't have my power be known by the entire village. The seals only allow me to use at least 50% of my power since I'm a miko as well, I don't have the chakra they speak of. Mine is much more powerful then they've ever imagined possible' Kagome thought to herself.
Tsume looked at Kagome a little worried when Kagome's eyes took on a glazed look. That told her that Kagome was deep in her thoughts. 'What could Kagome be thinking about?' Tsume thought to herself a bit concerned.
Kagome soon enough snapped out of it when she felt Tsume's eyes on her. She looked at Tsume and raised an eyebrow silently asking her what. Tsume smiled nervously.
"Well I would like you to meet my daughter Hana and her three dogs, Miya, Toramaru and Seiya." Tsume said when her daughter Hana walked into the front yard with her three dogs.
"Hello I am Hana Inuzuka. And you are?" Hana said as she pet each dog on their heads.
"I am Kagome Higurashi, I will be living with you guys until the hokage can find a suitable place for me to live." Kagome said giving a smile.
"Nice to meet you. Well I will be seeing you later." Hana said before she vanished in a swirl of wind.
'Ah Hana has a wind affinity. That's awesome.' Kagome thought to herself with a smile.
The next day, Kagome went to the place she was told to meet Kurenai at, which happened to be training ground 8. When she got there, there was a bunch of people chatting among themselves. Kagome's guess was that they were here to see what her skills were as well. Kagome smirked well they were in for a hell of a surprise.
"Welcome Kagome. I'm Kurenai Yuhi I will be the proctor to test your skills." Kurenai said her blood red eyes cold as ice. No kidding just as Tsume had said, she is the ice queen for sure.
Kagome nodded not saying a word. "First you will go up agaist Sakura who will test you in the basics such as bushin no jutsu, the obstacle course in which would test you in stamina, speed, strategy, and cordnation. Then we'll test you in information tactics to see how fast you can gather your information in certain situations." Kurenai said with a small smile.
Kagome nodded once again not saying anything. The people around her were beginning to think that Kagome was a mute. Kagome mentally sighed, she approached the pink haired girl while looking at the girl with distaste.
'What the hell?! The first thing they do is have me fight this puny weak looking girl? By the looks of things she's a fan girl type. Ugh how I hate those types.' Kagome thought bitterly as she narrowed her eyes.
"Let's battle!" The pinkette yelled, even her voice was annoying. Kagome's eye twitched with annoyance as she winced at the high pitch sound of her voice.
Kagome narrowed her eyes even more if that was possible. The first thing that this pink haired banshee tested her in was Ninjutsu. A thing that Kagome was highly advanced in.
"Wind Style: Wind Daggers!" Sakura yelled out. Before the daggers even had a chance to reach their destination Kagome went through a series of hand seals at an impossible speed.
"Wind Style: Pressure Damage!" Kagome said calmly, she formed her hands at her mouth as she blew out a massive explosion of wind that destroyed everything in it's path. Sakura to avoid dying, used a substitute jutsu to escape. When the attack ended the spot where Sakura was standing before was nothing but a large crater.
Everyone's eyes were widened, did Kagome just use a B rank jutsu? "Earth Style: Muddy Bullets!" Sakura yelled not a moment later. Kagome smirked she then flashed through a series of hand seals.
"Katon: Great Fire Ball Jutsu!" Kagome raised her hands to her mouth once more and blew out a massive fire ball that was even larger then the one Sasuke used in the bell test with Kakashi. Sasuke was shocked because that jutsu was basically limited to the Uchiha clan. It was their family jutsu.
With a bashee like scream Sakura jumped away from the massive fire ball only coming out with a few second degree burns on her arms. Kagome smirked, without warning, she flashed through more hand seals.
"Katon: Great Fire Phoenix Jutsu!" Kagome growled out, a giant phoenix appeared not a moment later shooting large lava balls at Sakura, when she tried to dodge, a lava ball hit her leg causing her to scream in large amounts of pain. She could no longer fight, so Gai-sensei took her place. Kagome was horrified to see a man in a grotesque green spandex with orange arm and leg warmers. He had a horrendous bowl haircut, and large catapiller eyebrows. He had a large ridiculous grin on his face.
"Yosh! The flames of youth have given me this chance to see what this beautiful maiden has got!" Gai loudly yelled, as he striked the good guy pose. Kagome looked at him with disgust. Kagome's ears were ringing loudly, she winced in pain.
Without warning with hand seals being made so quick no one saw what jutsu she planned on using.
"Earth Style: Head hunter no jutsu!" before Gai could evade it, he was pulled underground. While no one was looking she had put one of her shadow clones underground. The only part of Gai's body that was visible was his head.
"Did you honesty think someone of my caliber would want to fight someone as ugly as you?" Kagome asked coldly as she glared at the offending green wearing sensei in the ground.
Kurenai had seen a skill that wasn't seen in any girls her age. She had just defeated a jounin single handedly.
"Well done, Kagome. You have some skills. Let's see if you can beat me." Kurenai said as she took Gai's spot in front of Kagome. Kagome smirked.
Everyone was worried, because Kurenai was a genjutsu master. Who knows what sort of genjutsu she would cast on Kagome. Unknown to them Kagome was also a genjutsu master. If was why she wanted to fight Kurenai so badly.
Before Kurenai could even cast a genjutsu Kagome already had one in place. It was the worst kind of genjutsu's. It was called Ryuhyo no jutsu. A powerful genjutsu, that when cast shrouds the target in ice then then ice starts to eat off the targets chakra when they try to escape using chakra, not only that but the ice then takes the form of a dragon, this dragon then stabs the target with uncurable poison spikes.
"I would figure how to get out of this genjutsu Kurenai before the ice takes the form of a dragon. Because if you don't you will die." Kagome said with slight concern heard in her voice.
Everyone gasped, Kurenai was sweating bullets. She had never faced a genjutsu that could kill someone. Once Kurenai had freed one of her hands, she created a one handed seal.
"Kai!" with that single word said the genjutsu was released. Kagome smiled in relief that Kurenai had released herself from the genjutsu. She knew that Kurenai could do it, in the end though Kurenai used the last of her chakra releasing the genjutsu seeing as the ice ate at her chakra faster then she could blink.
"You win kid. I don't have anymore chakra to use. Well done. Now Kakashi will test you in Taijutsu." Kurenai said before sitting under a tree.
Kagome nodded, and a silver haired jounin that she recently met stood in front of her. Without warning Kakashi charged at her with intent to kill, and she countered it with a taijutsu style no one hsd seen before. In just less then five minutes with a few punches located to his joints that allowed him to move he fell to the ground motionless. Sakura ran to her sensei concerned for him. "Sensei!" she yelleed. In minutes Kakashi passed out with one thought on his mind, 'god damn it she beat me again effortlessly.'
