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Becoming a Man

Kenshi had been travelling for a long time and was soon realizing that he couldn't fix all of the problems just by killing those that were known to be traitors. As he sat in a tea shop near the land of waves he watched an elderly man, probably late fifties he thought, talk with a man who seemed rather edgy. Once they were finished did he sense the killer intent. Standing slowly, reaching for one of the hilts of Misuteriburedo he tensed for an attack. Then they struck, three ninja's each carrying what looked like some kind of sealing scroll. They each opened their scrolls and large snakes emerged to attack the old man. Moving quickly, and unsheathing both blades he lopped off the head of one of the snakes, turning to attack the next when he saw that the old man had already disposed of them. The three assailants started to run but were stopped when a dark swamp opened up underneath them.

"Now where do you think that you three are going?" the man asked.

"Let us go!" One shouted.

"Release us! Or face the wrath of Lord Orochimaru!" another shouted. The man just shook his head as Kenshi walked over.

"Thanks for the help, but it was unnecessary." He said.

"How was I supposed to know that you were a powerful ninja." Kenshi grinned as he looked at the trapped assailants "So what are you going to do with them?"

"Interrogate them, find out what they know." He said as he performed a summoning jutsu. Once the smoke cleared a large frog sat there and swallowed up the three attackers. It then disappeared and the man turned to look at Kenshi and seemed shocked.

"Who are you?" he finally asked.

"Kenshi Hyuga, of the Hyuga clan of Konaha." Kenshi replied as he sheathed the blades.

"Konaha? You are a long way from home."

"I left the village behind me." Kenshi replied as he returned to his table at the tea house.

"Really? Are you a rouge?" the man asked.

"No. I left for personal reasons. I felt that an injustice was done and that until I understand myself better, I won't let them use me as a tool." Kenshi answered.

"Well the world is full of injustices. It's an unfortunate part of life. It's if you can see beyond the injustices that really determines a man." He said.

"Wise words from Jiraya the toad sage." He grinned. The man tensed and seemed worried that someone recognized him.

"How do you know me? Have you been reading my books?" Jiraya asked.

"No. I pieced it all together. The first clue was when the men said they served Orochimaru, then when you asked what village I was from, you relaxed when I said Konaha, and lastly only one who has been betrayed can truly understand injustice in the world." Kenshi grinned "How about you tell me why you looked worried when you saw me."

"You just reminded me of a former student of mine. You look a lot like him." He said sadly.

"One of your students? Then they must be powerful." Kenshi said.

"You interested? You look like you have potential."

"Why not. Though I doubt that there is much to teach me. I was jonin when I left the village."

"Well I have a jutsu for you that the Yodaime Hokage himself developed. He was a student of mine, the one you kind of remind me of." He said.

"Really. One of the Yodaime Hokage jutsus. Those are A rank at the least. Alright, I'm willing to learn this almighty jutsu." Kenshi said, imagining how powerful it must have been.

Jiraya then bought a bunch of water balloons, rubber balls and regular balloons and explained to him what he was going to have to do.

"This is a three step process. The first is to use your chakra to make the water in this balloon spin in multiple directions until it bursts." Jiraya said as he tossed him the balloon. Quietly focusing his chakra he began to fill the balloon with it and began making it spin in multiple directions. After several minutes he finally managed to get the desired result.

"Alright, now the second stage. I want you to do the same thing that you did with the water balloon except with the rubber ball." At first Kenshi felt a major increase in the chakra that he had to put forward until finally he managed to put a hole in it instead of making it burst.

"Hrm." He grunted as he took another ball and this time focused all of his chakra into it and with a resounding pop, the ball exploded.

"Very good. You are a fast learner, it took the Yodaime years to perfect this technique. Now it's time for the last stage." Jiraya grinned as he threw him the regular balloon "Now you have to do exactly what you did with the last two except you don't want to pop the balloon." And with that Kenshi began to do everything the same until he began to feel the balloon stretching too thin. After several attempts Kenshi finally discovered the proper speed of the rotations so that he could maintain the force without distorting shape of the balloon or popping it.

"Impressive. You mastered it faster than anyone else." Jiraya praised.

"I'm a Hyuga. We are masters of chakra manipulation." He retorted.

"That's something that I want to ask you about. How come your eyes are not the usual Hyuga eyes?"

"My father said that it was called a throw back. Once every couple generations they manage to not have the usual eyes and instead the irises go completely clear and show the blood behind them. He says that it is a recessive gene in the family." After speaking of home for so long he felt a pang of homesickness.

"Miss home don't you?" Jiraya asked, clearly reading his face.

"Yeah. I've been gone years. My little sister must have graduated the academy by now, and maybe even gotten the guts to talk to her secret crush." He laughed "I've been gone for too long."

"Then go back." Jiraya said. Kenshi opened his mouth to protest when Jiraya started talking again "I understand that you are mad about the injustice that was done, but use it as a way for you to grow stronger, to try and fix what was wrong and make sure that it doesn't happen again. You have the potential to grow strong, to become a great shinobi, you just have to know what steps to take. In my eyes you already are a great man." He said as he patted his shoulder. Nodding, knowing that Jiraya was right he left some money on the table and looked to Jiraya.

"Thank you. I owe you for teaching me this jutsu and for teaching me how to finally move on with my life. I hope to see you again." Kenshi said as left and began the many week journey back to his home.

'That kid doesn't even know how great he could be.' Jiraya thought to himself 'Minato, you'd be proud of your son.'