Author notes:
So, I'm just updating this chapter with a few tweaks that better reflect Kageki's personality and so it doesn't contradict future chapters now that I have a better understanding of Kageki's personality (in the sense of I've been tweaking with it and found one that fits his experiences). So here's the updated chapter, and I'm almost done with Chapter 10, so just please wait a little more.
[Tenzo POV]
We've had a few good weeks so far. During our first week Kageki and I read up on this "Dust" stuff that people use here along with their "auras" and everything assorted with them. Turns out that each person with an "aura" has what's called a "semblance" which is unique to the person, almost like our kekkei genkai except our kekkei genkai is more unique to a group of people than just one person. Also, since a person's aura is a manifestation of their soul it seems as though even Kageki and I have one, though it is locked. Whether or not our chakra has anything to do with that no one knows. Weiss offered to help us unlock our auras but Kageki declined. His reasons were that we would have no idea how it would interact with our chakra. On one hand it could boost our already powerful abilities to levels unthinkable, but it could also not be compatible with chakra causing our bodies to reject both of them and killing us. So we went with the safe option and just left them locked.
We started getting accustomed to living in Vale, learning its history, learning about the weaponry, and practicing with said weaponry, although Kageki was far better at it than I was. Even with a sharingan I can't aim worth crap with a gun. Kageki however has always been amazing with all kinds of weapons and had already gotten the hang of shooting. Ruby still tried convincing us that we needed to make our own customized weapons but honestly I don't think we need them and frankly I don't want one. I can't speak for Kageki though. Today we had our "combat class," as Kageki and I call it, after breakfast and Kageki has been itching to test out his jutsu on actual opponents.
I was sitting at a table in the cafeteria reading up on Dust and watching/listening to the conversation going on between our team.
"Why are you so excited for combat?" Weiss asked Kageki.
"Because I can finally see for myself if my abilities are better than those used by you guys." he responded.
"Why does that matter?"
"Because my brother is the competitive type." I cut in.
"Still, you need to be careful," Blake said, "you don't have an aura to protect you so you will get hurt."
"If my opponents can even touch me." Kageki said.
"Someone's arrogant." Yang chimed in.
"Doesn't mean it's not true."
"Even with your training there's no way you're that fast."
"Who said I had to be fast?"
"What are you saying?" I asked Kageki.
Kageki smirked. "Well Tenzo, let's just say you don't know all my tricks."
I rolled my eyes as the bell chimed through the hall. Everyone stood up and stretched a bit.
"Time for class." I said.
"Yay…" Kageki said unenthusiastically.
Kageki and I slowed our speed and dropped a bit behind the others.
"What's with you, I thought you were eager to fight?" I asked him.
"If they even let me. Remember the scoreboards and the aura meter they use to determine when to stop the fight?"
"Yeah? What about it?"
"We don't have an aura. The meter won't fill up so they might not let us fight."
"We'll cross that bridge when it gets there."
Kageki gave a dissatisfied grunt and followed our teammates into the arena-like classroom and sat down. Glynda walked out into the arena and started the class the same way as always, telling us the purpose of the class and stating the rules for fights. She selected a guy named Cardin Winchester as the first fighter and asked if anyone wanted to volunteer to be his opponent. Immediately Kageki raised his hand, but Glynda ignored it looking for others. Unfortunately no one else raised their hand. Kageki stood up getting ready to jump down when Glynda shot him a glare.
"Absolutely not." She said to him.
Kageki glared back in defiance. "And why not?"
"Yeah, why not let me beat up the foreign kid?" Cardin asked, clearly trying to belittle Kageki.
Glynda shot a glare at Cardin before responding to Kageki. "Kageki as you are aware your aura is still locked and you have refused to have it unlocked. Without it you will suffer injuries in any fight and we have no way of knowing when to stop the fight should you lose."
"Hmph, that wouldn't be necessary." Kageki glanced over at Cardin, "I bet you that pathetic guy wouldn't even be able to put a scratch on me." Kageki said smugly.
"What did you say?" Cardin asked, clearly annoyed by Kageki.
"Impossible." Glynda said.
"Actually, that feat would be all too easy for both Kageki and me." I chimed in.
Glynda looked up at me. "And why do you think that?"
I pointed at my eyes. "Our sharingan. It allows us to use very powerful Dojutsu, or visual jutsu, that serve a variety of different functions. Most notably genjutsu, which are illusions. Because of this, when fighting an Uchiha with a sharingan your first and often fatal mistake would be looking him or her in the eye. As soon as the battle starts Kageki could cast a simple genjutsu on Cardin rendering him immobile and win immediately."
Kageki narrowed his eyes at me. "Tenzo, did you forget how genjutsu works? For genjutsu to work on people they have to have chakra for me to manipulate. These people don't have chakra, genjutsu won't work on them."
"Well then the only other way for you to win without a scratch is-" I stopped before I finished.
Glynda looked at me, "Well? What is this other method?"
I looked away for a moment and didn't answer leaving Kageki to answer instead.
"The method that Tenzo is thinking of is one that I'd rather not use unless I have to since it does pose some serious drawbacks." he said.
"Well then, since you haven't told me a suitable way for you to fight properly I'm afraid I can't let you participate." Glynda said.
Kageki glared at her. "Fine, then how about this. If that oaf manages to land a hit on me, I lose. Is that good enough?"
Glynda thought for a moment before sighing and nodding. "Fine."
The scoreboard turned on showing Cardin on the left and Kageki on the right, but only Cardin had a green bar representing his aura below his picture. They stood at opposite ends of the arena and waited for the signal to start.
"What is the method you guys were talking about?" Ruby whispered to me.
"Well, it's not something I should be saying. Ask Kageki later." I responded.
"Aw, c'mon at least give us a hint." Yang asked.
"All I'm going to say is it concerns Kageki's sharingan. Now shut up, I actually want to see how Kageki does." I turned my attention back to the arena just as Glynda told them to start.
Immediately Cardin rushed towards Kageki with his mace attempting to smash it into him but Kageki deflected it with his sword and kicked Cardin in the gut, which he followed with a few quick jabs to the face and then jumped backwards and started weaving hand signs. Cardin attempted to rush him again but Kageki jumped high in the air and let loose several small fireballs which bombarded the place where he was. Cardin's aura meter fell down a little but not much. Hmm, so the phoenix flower jutsu doesn't do much then? I thought to myself. When Kageki landed I saw a look of annoyance on his face as though he had the same thought. I decided to activate my sharingan and was not surprised to see that Kageki had already activated his. I saw him begin to weave the signs for the fireball jutsu but was interrupted when Cardin used his mace to send a wave of energy in his direction. Kageki jumped up to avoid it, but Cardin was waiting for that. He threw his mace after charging it with some Dust and Kageki barely had time to bring up his sword to deflect it, only it wasn't working. The mace wasn't being deflected by Kageki's sword and actually knocked it away. Kageki tried to spin in midair in an attempt to dodge it and strangely enough I saw a spike of chakra in his eyes. The mace flew past Kageki without hitting him but to me I thought I saw it pass through his shoulder. No way, Kageki shouldn't be able to use that technique. I thought. Even if it hadn't passed through him it would have only just barely hit his shoulder so everyone else didn't notice. When Kageki landed he glared at Cardin and started gathering his chakra into his left hand.
"Best to finish you off in one go then." Kageki muttered.
The chidori sparked to life in his hand and Kageki charged straight at Cardin at an extremely fast speed. Cardin had almost no time to respond before Kageki directed his chidori at Cardin's shoulder and hit the armor but didn't pierce it. Cardin's aura meter dropped all the way down to a quarter but was still yellow. Before Carding could push him away Kageki caused his chakra to spread around Cardin and lightly electrocuted him, bringing his aura meter into the red and ending the match.
"The match is over." Glynda announced. "Kageki is the winner."
Kageki smirked at Glynda. "See? Told you he wouldn't hit me once."
Glynda rolled her eyes and called out two other people for the next match. Kageki easily jumped back up to the stands where I grabbed his arm and pulled him towards the door.
"Hey Tenzo, what gives?" he asked me.
I didn't answer until after the doors closed behind us and then I turned back and looked at Kageki.
"How did you do that?" I asked him.
"Can you be more specific?"
I narrowed my eyes. "Don't play dumb. How did you make it so Cardin's mace passed through your shoulder?"
Kageki narrowed his eyes, "There's only one answer to that Tenzo, and you know it."
"But it's not possible. You shouldn't be able to use Kamui. When could you have awakened it?"
"What's today?"
I thought for a moment. "Tuesday." I answered.
"Then it was about… a week ago."
"How?" I asked, surprised.
"Well, as I'm sure you know I haven't exactly been showing up to every class."
"Yeah, the teachers gave us a break so we could be in the library to read up about the abilities of Dust and aura, but you said you were good after the first week."
"Well, after that then I started skipping class to go train in the forest."
"What forest?"
"The one where we had our initiation. I spent time testing every jutsu I could on the Grimm to see how effective they'd be in the kingdom. Last week I was fighting these two bear things, the Ursa, and when I wasn't paying attention I ended up being stuck between them and a large pack of Beowolves. At first I thought I'd have to use you-know-what, but when one of the Beowolves charged at me, my mangekyou activated and it just passed through me."
I just stood there completely baffled at his explanation and I just couldn't believe he now had, in my opinion, the second most powerful mangekyou sharingan technique.
"Well that's just great, not only can you be intangible now, but also it's one of the only two techniques that don't corrode your eyesight. At least tell me you didn't somehow awaken Kotoamatsukami as well." I asked.
"Nope. That jutsu is still unique to the legendary Shisui Uchiha."
"Alright, that's good. Anyway we'd better send a letter back to the village telling father your new jutsu-"
"Absolutely not." Kageki said, interrupting me. "I ask that you please keep this a secret from everyone."
"Why?"
"Well, you know about the last Uchiha who possessed Kamui, right?"
"How could I not? Obito Uchiha was one of the two Uchiha that started the Fourth Shinobi World War, and also was the Ten tails' jinchūriki. He also had a large role when helping Naruto and Sasuke to stop Kaguya. Sure, he was kind of evil to start but he partially redeemed himself."
"But you haven't heard what the members of our clan say. They believe that anyone who awakens Kamui will end up like Obito."
"So, they think you'll put the world in danger, only to end up saving it later?" I asked.
Kageki narrowed his eyes. "You know what I mean. Besides, it doesn't matter, I won't be using it intentionally."
"Dammit Kageki, why would you not use it? Why do you not use your mangekyou AT ALL?"
Kageki glared at me. "You know why."
I held his gaze for a moment before looking away. "I understand that, but Kamui is different."
"Don't care. Besides, I wouldn't be allowed in tournaments with it anyway."
"Well, that might not be true. See, when I was reading about semblances yesterday, I found that there were some people who were recorded that possessed a semblance that made them intangible. Not only did people find a way to counteract it easily, if they fight another person with a similar intangibility semblance, they would be able to hit each other by having both of them be intangible."
"Tenzo that's all completely irrelevant."
"What do you mean?"
"Kamui's 'intangibility' isn't actually intangibility, remember? Kamui is a transportation technique, nothing more. It teleports the parts of your body that are about to be hit to the Kamui dimension. It just looks like intangibility."
"Oh, right."
"Just, don't tell anyone ok? Promise me."
"Fine, I promise not to tell anyone."
Kageki nodded. "Good."
"Yeah, now if only I could get a mangekyou we could try that crazy idea you had."
Kageki glared at me. "Dude, don't even joke about that. You know just as well as I do how an Uchiha awakens a mangekyou."
"Sorry."
Just as we were about to go back inside the room the bell rang and everyone started filing out. Before either of us could even move Glynda called us both over and gave us extra homework to do for skipping the rest of the class.
