A/N: So, we're over 1,500 hits now, and over 600 visitors. I'm really surprised this story has that already. I don't even think it's that good yet. Shit is only starting to hit the fan now. I need to set up Eiji having a happy life before everything falls apart.
Speaking of lives falling apart, I'm going off to college in a few months with the end goal being an M.D in Psychiatry, a girlfriend, and a home that lacks my parents. Shouldn't effect TBoK too badly.
I haven't plugged Hokage Tower in a good while. It's a great Naruto-centric forum right here on this website. Look it up.
Also, please buy Yakuza 5 if you've got a PS3 and an internet connection. It's a fun-ass video game about Japanese dudes punching the hell out of other Japanese dudes in the most radical ways possible. I actually got my FF handle from a move in Yakuza 4, which is also available on PSN.
~Essence of Clotheslining
Chapter 6: Bloodforged
The Konoha Library was normally a peaceful place. People would come to read books, study for exams, learn new jutsu, etcetera. The Haruno Clan ran it, and they were very proud of the reputation it had as a place of quiet learning. Today, however, Naruto had occupied the place with somewhere around twenty shadow clones. Ten were laying around reading books, and the other ten were actively searching for books. The real Naruto was sitting at a table with Eiji Hyuuga and Sasuke Uchiha, relaying information to them when a clone dissipated and reading manga the rest of the time. The other two aforementioned boys had just finished discussing Sasuke's and Naruto's experience with the Bell Test with Kakashi Hatake.
Eiji stared at Sasuke incredulously. "So that's Kakashi? Some lazy prick that just reads porn all day and lies to you about what lets you pass the test?"
Sasuke nodded. "It would appear so."
Eiji leaned back in his chair. "That's disappointing. My mom said he was cool."
Naruto looked up from the manga he was reading. "Oh, he's really cool. He's just a jerk. Like Sasuke." Naruto motioned in Sasuke's direction with his head.
Sasuke's lip twitched. "Hey! You're just mad because you failed and got tied to a log."
Naruto frowned. "We all failed."
Eiji looked pointedly at Sasuke. "Sasuke, he's not wrong."
Sasuke grumbled.
Naruto set down the manga he was reading, dog-earing a page that depicted two men in business suits with glowing auras beating each other up.
Off in the Land of Iron, an impossibly large and muscular man with long black hair and a tiger tattoo that was eating deer stew in a cave sneezed, spewing deer stew all over the cave floor. He decided to move to a new cave.
Off in Tanzaku Town, a handsome, slender, and athletic billionaire with a phoenix tattoo lay napping on his couch. He sneezed, blowing the monthly issue of Hidden Mist Hotties from his face onto the floor. This would later earn him a slap from his secretary for sleeping on the job and for reading porn at work. He did the same thing the next day.
Off in Kirigakure, an impossibly corrupt and lazy Tracker Ninja/Police Officer with an orchid tattoo sneezed, alerting a group of thugs to his presence. He cursed his bad luck for the umpteenth time that day before beating the snot out of a group of Rogue Ninja with a bunch of arms made of water while he stood around and smoked. He booked the thugs for loitering. They sued him for use of excessive force and abuse of police power. They won, somehow, and he had to pay them money he didn't have. Great.
Also off in Tanzaku Town, a perpetually down-on-his-luck ex-ninja-baseball-superstar sneezed while the Cho-Han dealer was shaking the dice. His sneeze was mistaken for him saying "cho." He had planned to say "han." This mistake net him ten million Ryo. It was all gone by the next week, having been spent on expensive women, and men, and even more expensive exotic weaponry. He was happy with his purchases.
Ryuji Inazuma, who was at home reading a book, sneezed into his cup of tea, accidentally blowing it across the room. He cursed under his breath and cleaned up the mess, his half-sister Sayama berating him for making the mess before going to work.
Lastly, off in the archipelago in the land of water, an impossibly perfect man with a dragon tattoo sitting on the porch of his beachside orphanage sneezed, waking his wife and daughter who had been napping in a hammock. He told them to go back to sleep, kissing each one on the cheek.
Naruto leaned forward, crossing his arms on the table and kicking his legs excitedly "So, did you have to take the bell test?"
Eiji nodded. "Yeah, we did."
Sasuke folded his arms. "How'd the other two do?"
Eiji smiled. "They got the bells."
Sasuke raised his eyebrows in shock. "YOU were the one that didn't get a bell? What the hell?"
Naruto looked disappointed. "Come on, Eiji. You were one of the best in the class. What happened?"
"I-" Eiji was going to respond when all three boys were shushed by the librarian, a cute Haruno woman, shushed them. In truth, she was only an assistant, but these little troublemakers didn't need to know that.
Eiji continued, lowering his voice, glaring daggers at the librarian before resuming eye contact with his adoptive brothers. "I let Mayumi and Kazuko get the bells because I didn't think I needed one. I had the highest scores in both exams of the group, so I took the hit because I knew I could take it."
The look on Sasuke's face was one of blank confusion.
It took Naruto more than a few seconds, but he got it. A grin crept across his face, whisker marks stretching out. "Oh, I get it!"
Sasuke shook his head in confusion. "I don't. You could have easily taken both bells for yourself, but you gave them both to your team."
Eiji nodded. "Yes."
Sasuke was absolutely bewildered. "Because you say you didn't need one to pass."
"Correct."
"Even though Ryuji explicitly told you that you needed one to pass."
"He did."
"So you deliberately let your inferior classmates succeed."
"I did."
"But you failed."
Eiji smirked haughtily. "And I'm damn proud of it."
Sasuke put his face on the table the three boys sat around, groaning. "Naruto, could you get one of your shadow clones to grab a book on leadership skills? Eiji seems to think he's doing his team a favor by doing their work for them."
Naruto shrugged, creating another shadow clone and sending him off in the direction of career-related books. "Alright, but he's making sense to me."
Eiji grinned. "See? This guy gets it."
Naruto and Eiji high-fived.
"You two are the worst." Sasuke groaned into the table.
Eiji and Naruto laughed, but were promptly shut down by the librarian.
Eiji turned back around and lifted his forehead protector, glaring at the librarian with an activated Byakugan, radiating as much killing intent as he could produce.
The librarian's assistant gasped in shock and dropped the books she was carrying. She bent over to pick them up, then she scurried away.
Eiji pulled his forehead protector back over his eye. "That should scare her off."
The young librarian woman, only seventeen at present, would grow up to be an incredibly well-known adult film star in Konoha in her adult years, going by the pseudonym of 'Strawberry.' She would go on to have a role in a scene in a library in the Icha Icha: Paradise film adaptation which would star, as luck would have it, Eiji Hyuuga as the male lead, having decided to utilize his "talents" professionally. They would only recognize each other after the scene's first take, making all subsequent takes both incredibly awkward and incredibly arousing for both parties. Because of his stellar performance, Icha Icha: Paradise would be the first adult/comedy film to win an academy award for best picture. Every subsequent Icha Icha film adaptation that starred Eiji won the award as well.
Such was the way of fate.
One of Naruto's shadow clones walked over to the table occupied by the original and held a book above the table. He dissipated, dropping the book. It was entitled: A Comprehensive History of the Haruno Clan.
Naruto's pupils dilated, then refocused.
"Huh." Naruto said.
"What is it?" Eiji asked, cocking his head to the side.
"I thought Auntie Hima was lying when she told us where babies come from."
Sasuke's eyes widened. "You mean all that stuff she told us is true?"
Naruto turned red, lewd images from a book on human sexuality flashing through his mind. He began to giggle childishly. "Yep!"
Sasuke turned pale green, running off to the bathroom.
Eiji was trying very hard to learn about the Haruno clan from the book that Naruto's shadow clone just dropped on the table, and it became easier after Naruto's giggles subsided.
Naruto wiped a tear from his eye. "So that's what you see when you pull off your forehead protector!"
Eiji groaned. "Yes, Naruto. That's what breasts look like."
Naruto grinned shamelessly.
Eiji looked at him dryly. "Grow up."
Naruto smiled. "Never."
Eiji groaned and returned to the book, a genealogy and history of the Sakura's clan. The Haruno Clan was so widespread and so massive that Eiji suspected Jou Haruno, the supposed progenitor of the clan, to be a very promiscuous man. They had no special kekkei genkai or signature techniques, excluding their unique pink hair. According to legend, Jou and his wife conceived their ten children under a great sakura tree in mid-bloom. Every single one was born with pink hair, and so began the tradition of Haruno conceiving children underneath Sakura trees in bloom. For this reason, most pink-haired Haruno were all born around the same time of year, and held get-togethers on the first of April every year.
Eiji scratched his nose idly as he looked over to Sakura, who was currently sitting on one of the library's couches with Ino and talking about something. If he remembered correctly, she was born March 28th, meaning that she had to have been conceived late June or early July. She was living proof that the belief that conceiving one's child underneath sakura in bloom would result in a pink-haired child was at least partially incorrect.
She noticed him looking at her and she waved, giving him a friendly smile. He waved back excitedly, grinning like a fool.
Sasuke then decided to return from the bathroom, drawing Sakura's eye as soon as he was within her field of view.
Eiji look on at this sadly and returned glumly to his book.
Sasuke observed this interaction, groaning internally. Eiji turned into a completely different person when he interacted with certain members of the opposite sex. He became shy. Stupid. Weak. A stark contrast to his normal personality of dry wit and patience. According to Himawari, Itachi had been like this around her, though he had at least retained the dry wit.
Sasuke had trouble believing that Itachi was anything more than a murderer. A kinslayer that deserved nothing more than the most painful death imaginable.
Just thinking about Itachi made him want to hit something.
Move around.
Exercise.
Set something on fire.
Teach someone else to set something on fire.
Then laugh with them at the flaming object.
He stood up abruptly and started towards the library exit.
Naruto noticed him do so. "Where're you going, Sasuke?"
"Third Training Ground. I need to go set something on fire."
Naruto sat up. "Cool! Can I come?"
Sasuke did not stop walking. "No. Eiji, if you want to learn the Fireball Jutsu, then come with me."
Before Naruto knew it, Eiji was at Sasuke's side and the two exited the library.
Naruto shrugged and resumed reading about the two men in suits beating each other up.
The third training ground was usually closed off at night, but when had a fence and a sign ever stopped two kids that wanted to set things on fire?
"Wrong." Sasuke observed, pointing at Eiji's hands. He was using the wrong seal. For a boy with simultaneously stellar and terrible chakra control and almost completely uncontrolled chakra flow, hand signs were incredibly important, because they were the only things that were currently capable of ordering Eiji's chakra around.
Eiji's concentration faltered and he fumbled his hands into another seal.
"Wrong again. You want the tiger seal. Like this." He demonstrated the seal in question, bringing his hands together, crossing his thumbs, extending his index and middle fingers, and folding his ring and pinky fingers.
Eiji nodded nervously, rolling up his oversized sleeves and carefully putting the seal together.
Sasuke nodded approvingly. "Good. Now do as I do. Watch what my chakra does."
Eiji nodded and removed his forehead protector, stuffing it in his pocket.
Sasuke inhaled deeply, focusing his chakra in his lungs and throat. Then, he exhaled, blasting a massive ball of flame at some training dummies. They were incinerated.
Sasuke coughed up some soot. "Now you."
Eiji dug his heels into the soil, aiming at the sky so as to not hurt or damage anyone or anything important. He inhaled deeply, forming the tiger seal, and exhaled. Instead of a concentrated fireball, he spat out a wide swathe of flames, guiding it with the tips of his index fingers. He managed to maintain the stream of flames for five seconds before running out of breath.
Eiji coughed, desperate to suck down air.
Sasuke nodded. That was one hell of a first try. "Good, but try and concentrate it into a ball this time."
Eiji got dizzy and stumbled. He fumbled a chakra pill from his pocket and into his mouth, gulping it down.
Sasuke frowned. Those had to be addictive. But if he didn't use them, Eiji would be exhausted all the time and would faint if he did anything even remotely intensive.
Eiji stood up straight, regaining his composure. "Alright, gimme a few minutes."
Sasuke nodded. "Yeah, sure."
The two boys walked over to a large rock and sat down. Eiji had pulled his hair back in a ponytail so as to prevent accidentally igniting it.
Sasuke looked at the boy's eyes. One was white, a Byakugan with a slight red tint. The other was black, like Sasuke's. There hadn't been any trauma significant enough in the boy's life to trigger a Sharingan yet, but it was a dominant trait for the Uchiha. Then again, so was the Byakugan for the Hyuuga.
Sasuke briefly wondered why Eiji had one black eye and one white eye. He also wondered exactly what caused his chakra to run rampant the way it did. Sasuke had never asked Eiji before, so he decided to now.
"Hey Eiji?"
"Yeah?" Eiji looked over to Sasuke.
Sasuke pointed at Eiji's eyes. "Why is it that you have one Byakugan and one normal eye, and why exactly is it that you can't control your chakra flow?"
Eiji chuckled tiredly, then he looked towards the sky, single black eye reflecting the sparkling heavens above. "Which first?"
Sasuke contemplated that for a moment. "Chakra flow."
"Okay, then. After some DNA testing back when I was a baby, the doctors at Konoha Hospital found out I had something called Uzumaki Syndrome."
Sasuke scoffed. "What is that, you compulsively shout 'Believe it!' too much?"
Eiji laughed. "Heh, no, it's a very rare condition that affected Mito Uzumaki, the First Hokage's wife. Someone with that disease can't control their chakra flow, meaning that they use chakra all the time in every single thing they do, which is why I tire out so easily and run out of chakra all the time. They can control their chakra, mould it and perform nature transformations, but not how much of it they use."
"Huh. That sounds frustrating."
Eiji chuckled mirthlessly. "It is. You have no idea how many times I hurt my mom or some other Hyuuga that was babysitting me when I was a baby."
Sasuke leaned back, looking up at the stars. "That sucks."
"Yes it does. Comes with some advantages, though. Your body builds up astronomical chakra reserves to compensate for losing it so quickly. According to my grandfather, I have chakra reserves comparable to a jinchuuriki."
Sasuke raised an eyebrow. "What's a jinchuuriki?"
"Tell you later. Still, doesn't really matter if throwing a few punches or spitting out a fireball almost knocks me unconscious."
"Is there any effective treatment?"
Eiji nodded. "There are a few things to do. I've been taking chakra pills for a while now; that was my mom's idea. It's not a good solution in the long-term, so we've been looking for something permanent."
"Is that what those late-night discussions you've had with her are about?"
"Yeah. The problems with all the permanent solutions is how expensive they all are."
"Such as?"
"A few million Ryo for chakra-regulating implants."
Sasuke whistled. "Wow. That's a lot."
"Yeah, and I can't control the implants, so that option is out."
Sasuke had an idea. "What about fuinjutsu? Could you apply seals to your tenketsu or something?"
Eiji nodded. "That's actually what Mito did, sort of. She invented some kind of chakra storage jutsu or something called the Strength of a Hundred Seal. Supposedly, it was a little dot on her forehead that prevented her from wasting any chakra when performing jutsu, with any wasted chakra just going into the seal, which fed it back into her."
Sasuke sat up, looking at Eiji. "Then why haven't you done that yet?"
"My mom says there's only one ninja in the world since Mito who pulled it off, so it must be really hard, and any scrolls that would tell someone how to do it are in the ruins of Uzushiogakure." Eiji explained.
"How far away is Uzushiogakure? We could propose a mission to the Hokage, right? An expedition to recover lost jutsu, we could call it."
A grin crept across Eiji's face. "It's over in the Land of Whirlpools, if that map I looked at earlier is correct. Naruto would probably want to come, given that that's where the Uzumaki came from."
Sasuke waved his hand dismissively. "That's not too far away, and we could put up with Naruto. We could have his shadow clones our our things."
Eiji coughed. "I wouldn't want to leave my team alone for this one. Mayumi barely qualifies as a ninja and Kazuko's better at patching people up than hurting people."
"We could use a medical ninja with us in case someone gets hurt."
Eiji frowned. " But how are we going to get there? It's across a body of water. As far as I know, there isn't a bridge there."
Sasuke shrugged. "I'm sure there are boats we could hire."
Sasuke slapped his forehead. "Oh shit. I forgot we'd have to pass through Kirigakure."
"We could pass the mission off as a diplomatic mission. Maybe we could stick around and help them out with some things around the village."
Eiji paused a moment. "Did we just come up with a plan to fix me?"
Sasuke smirked. "I think we did."
Eiji paused again. "Wait, what rank would that kind of mission be?"
Sasuke began counting risks on his fingers. "Let's see. It involves huge potential for bandit attacks, we'd be transporting highly valuable and incredibly powerful jutsu scrolls, and we would likely meet with the Mizukage."
Eiji groaned. "So an A or S-Rank."
Sasuke exhaled. "Yep."
Eiji frowned, disappointed. "There goes that mission. Maybe I could convince my mom to propose it. She, Ryuji, and some other Jounin could go."
Sasuke had an idea. "Wait, isn't she on her way to Kirigakure now? Send her a messenger bird. Ask if she can poke around Uzushiogakure before she comes back."
Eiji smiled enthusiastically. "That's a great idea. I'll do that before we go home tonight."
The two boys lay there for a good while, drinking in the cosmic beauty of the stars.
Sasuke broke the silence."Hey, Eiji?"
"Yeah?"
"You didn't ever tell me why your eyes are like that."
Eiji sat up, sliding from the rock. "Oh, that's simple. Heterochromia."
Sasuke stood up and jumped off the rock. "You are just a bundle of genetic disorders, aren't you?"
Eiji laughed. "Hah! It really seems like somebody upstairs really didn't want Uchiha and Hyuuga having kids."
Sasuke smiled warmly, a rarity. "Yeah? Well, fuck 'em."
Eiji gave Sasuke a toothy grin. "Agreed. Fuck 'em."
It was times like these that Sasuke could forget all about Itachi and be happy about the family he had in Eiji, Naruto, and Himawari.
Eiji was the little brother he never had. The Sasuke to his Itachi. Sasuke himself wouldn't make that comparison, but the author would, given his knowledge of the future, past, and truths of this world.
Naruto was his rival. His best friend and greatest enemy rolled into one wonderfully and woefully annoying blonde kid. It was truly rare and special when you find a person that communicates that they love you by attempting to punch you in the face, and every man needs someone like that.
Himawari was Mikoto Uchiha's complete opposite; what Mikoto should have been but never was. Himawari was always doting on him, encouraging him, nurturing him. Being a mom. He couldn't remember the last time he really and truly thanked her for all she did for him. Perhaps he never had. He resolved to start doing that.
Then a salvo of shuriken came out of the woods and hit Sasuke in the back. He screamed and fell to the ground, convulsing in pain.
Eiji whipped his head around, looking in the direction the shuriken came from. Five ninja emerged from the woods. All five wore uniforms that mimicked the design of Konohagakure's perfectly, excluding the all-black color scheme. Their faces were covered by black shrouds.
The apparent leader of the ninja stepped forward. "I'll cut to the chase. We want your eyes."
Sasuke stood up shakily, Sharingan blazing. "You'll have to kill me, first."
The leader of the boys' assailants laughed. "That's the idea. We kill you, that activates Eiji's Sharingan, we kill him, then we take your eyes."
Eiji froze. He considered what was happening. This is his thought process converted into the English language: Okay. So we know the following: There are five enemy ninja right now. Sasuke's fucked up. I'm emotionally compromised. I'm low on chakra pills and low on chakra. They know my name, probably both our names. They want our eyes. Looks like I've got three options.
Option A: Grab Sasuke and run.
Option B: Knock the enemy ninja out and interrogate them.
Option C: Kill the fuckers.
Then Sasuke fell back down and his Sharingan disappeared.
"Sasuke?" Eiji whispered.
He did not get a response.
Eiji immediately discarded every possible option but Option C.
The leader clapped, pointing at Eiji. "Oh, hey! Look at his eyes! Never seen that before. Looks like we won't have to kill the Uchiha brat first. The little one just-HORF"
Eiji punched the leader in the stomach with what would best be described as a roar, rupturing most of his internal organs and shattering most of the bones in his body.
The leader of the enemy ninja flew back into two of his subordinates with a sickening mixture between a splat and a crunch, killing both of them and knocking down a tree.
Eiji stood there, fist bloodied, teeth bared, and eyes recently hybridized into two Byaringan. Both of his eyes were now white with a black pupil orbited by a single tomoe. They blazed in unspeakable rage. Any and all rational thought was now gone, replaced by bloodlust and the desire to tear these ninja to pieces.
One of the two remaining ninja removed a large horn from his pouch and blew it, likely signalling reinforcements.
Eiji dashed to said ninja and ripped his arm off at the shoulder. The ninja screamed in pain before Eiji used the ninja's arm like a bat and swung it at his head. The result was a very messy decapitation, Eiji being splattered by blood and brains.
Eiji moved to the last one, a female.
She held up her hand and fell on her back, cowering in fear.
"Please!" She shouted, shivering in terror.
Looking at her, Eiji hesitated. Even in his blood-drunk state, he hesitated in killing a woman.
Eiji felt himself fading fast. He needed more chakra, and he knew every pill in his pouch wouldn't be enough this time.
Then he had an idea. An absolutely abominable idea fueled by bloodlust and an almost complete lack of chakra, but a coherent thought it remained.
Hyuuga could expel chakra from any and every tenketsu in their body, as well as surgically inject their own chakra into another's chakra pathway system. Who's to say it wasn't a two-way street?
He stumbled over towards the woman. Sasuke, not nearly as dead as Eiji thought he was, watching in morbid curiosity.
She tried to crawl away, but Eiji removed a kunai from his belt and jammed it through her leg and into the ground, pinning her in place. She howled in agony, a stray movement of her arm removing her shroud. Eiji walked up to her and looked at her.
She was a pretty woman with sweaty dark green hair and terrified purple eyes. Couldn't have been much older than twenty. Blood trailed down her leg where the kunai pinned her in place.
Eiji crawled onto her and placed his hand on her face, lining up the tenketsu in his fingertips and the tenketsu near her brain.
Then he began to drain her of her chakra.
She screamed at the sensation of having her literal life force drained from her, kicking and flailing with gradually weakening strength.
Sasuke looked on in horror. Chakra absorption jutsu existed and were used regularly. However, this was something different. Those jutsu absorbed another's chakra. It was impercise and nonlethal. This jutsu leeched it. It sucked the person dry of everything they were and everything they could ever be. Their chakra was converted into the user's own and increased the user's reserves. Orochimaru described Yoroi Akado's use of his chakra absorption jutsu as "unholy." Had he been here to see this, he would have described it as "terrifying." Eiji was literally taking another human being's life and using it to increase his own power.
Sasuke, not being Orochimaru, just threw up and passed out.
The screams gradually became weak coughs and groans, and then subsided completely as Eiji vacuumed every last drop of chakra from her body. Her heart stopped beating and her chest stopped rising.
Eiji stood up.
He didn't need to turn around to see that reinforcements had arrived, his new Byaringan providing him an almost complete 360-degree field of view.
He was surrounded by eight more ninja, all clad in black. This time, none were female. One was armed with a spear, and another was armed with a sword. The rest were unarmed. This would be easy.
The following paragraph occurred in ten seconds.
He sped towards the one with the spear. The spear ninja jabbed frantically at him, but Eiji was far too fast. Eiji yanked the spear from his grip and swung the blunt edge around to the ninja's knee, shattering both the spear and the ninja's knee. He turned around and tossed the spear at another ninja, sharp edge first. The spear flew through him and pinned him to the ground. The remaining six ninja were momentarily stunned by what they had just seen: a small ten-year-old boy had just killed two chunin-level ninja with chakra-enhanced taijutsu. This distraction was long enough for Eiji to disarm the ninja with the sword, lop off his legs, and dismember two more ninja. He tossed explosive tags at the three remaining ninja, blowing their legs off.
Now, Eiji had eight more sources for more chakra. He sucked each and every one dry of every last bit of their chakra. Eiji Hyuuga had just created an A-Rank Kinjutsu usable only by the Hyuuga: The Chakra Leech.
Enemies gone, the bloodlust subsided.
Coherent thought resumed.
Eiji looked down at his hands. Both were drenched in gore, as was the rest of him.
He looked at the carnage around him.
He turned white as snow as realization set in.
Oh no.
He fell to his knees and began to cry, his body wracked by heaving sobs.
When Kakashi and Ryuji found the scene, having heard the screams and yells, Eiji had cried himself into unconsciousness.
A/N: BOY HOWDY DID THAT END A LOT DARKER THAN IT STARTED OR WHAT
Anyways, Eiji's eyes are now symmetrical, which was something that was bothering me a lot. He also now has basically the reverse-equivalent of medical ninjutsu: the Chakra Leech. It's like what Cole Macgrath does in the inFamous games. The Bio-Leech.
The story's going to get darker from here. Lots darker. But it won't happen fast. Just like Sasuke, Eiji's affected by the Curse of Hatred, but it manifests more in forms of self-hatred than hatred of the world. He's never acted on those feelings, but now that he's got the blood of thirteen people on his hands, that might change.
On the subject of the Byaringan, it's just the Byakugan and Sharingan fused together. It has the abilities of both, but twice the chakra drain. Not fun. Speaking of chakra drain, I want to explain Uzumaki Syndrome. It's not common, it's actually incredibly rare, and it's a weird genetic disorder. Like a birth defect in the chakra pathway system. The Eight Gates are still there, but they're about as solid as Swiss cheese. Tons of holes. Lots of chakra slips through the cracks, which means lots of wasted chakra. Mito Uzumaki invented the Strength of 100 Seal as a workaround to eliminate the symptoms with some added bonuses. Instead of plugging the holes, it just reintroduces all wasted chakra back into the system. Not a solution, but a workaround that works better than a solution. Seems like that's just the way Uzumaki deal with problems.
Also, Eiji's super addicted to chakra pills at this point. Doesn't know it yet, but he is.
Got a song for Eiji's awakening of the "Byaringan." As per usual, take out the spaces and add a dotcomslash in-between the "youtube" and the "watch." Also as per usual, it's from Ryu ga Gotoku Ishin:
www . youtube watch?v = H48aWIEDg9E
