Chapter 6
So a few months flew by just like that. Caring for Yoyo-ya, playing ninja, and being on Team Yoyoya(lol) were not the only thing I did though. I also researched and thought, drew up even more proto-types and ideas on seals. Ink is really messy, when it spills you get it everywhere. On the floor oon the walls and it splatters and splashes. The ink disasters have only increased since I've recieved Yoya and don't get me started on ink stains in clothes. Yoshino even nagged me into learning how to wash some of the particularly difficult ink stains out.
So...one day I even created a seal for the sole process of getting ink stains out of clothes, household surfaces, skin and hair. I know that you could just reinforce some objects to hold chakra so as to prevent staining but well it has to land somewhere and you can't do that process for everything. There's also the fact that if you don't chakra protect it before hand the ink would still take. So there's that.
A year rolled around and its right before the Academy starts, and there isn't any doubt that I'm not going to join Shika at the Academy. Since this time around our parents probably know that I can use Chakra even if I was diagonosed as chakra hypersensitive. I guess you could call me a miracle child. But before we did though we had to go to the hospital to be vacinated. I've noticed that this world is heavily influenced by medical ninjutsu.
There are needles and I.V.s but there aren't any microscopes. So how does Konoha have vacines and not know specificly about the microsophic bads that go with it? So how exactly do they keep plagues from happening before they happen? It's not like medic-nins can heal each and every individual, especially if a war breaks out. It seems that medical ninjutsu helps points the this world's medicine in the right direction without telling doctors exactly why it is so. Being here has only enhanced the backwardness of the Naruto-Verse that there can be computers for medical use but not telephones. How did this world even get so jumbled up? Shouldn't it go step one, step two. I'm suprised ninjas didn't just make an atomic bomb and blow themselves before they even gathered in villages.
So I was the one to get a vacination first and got out of the doctor's room before Shika. Out in the hall, I recognize (from all that chakra (people) watching I did as a bored baby) a lot of the chakras signatures to be from the Nara Clan. You see the village's hospital has different factions in it. Every clan that ususally go into the medical field like the Suzus and Naras etc., each have tehir own area. And each gave the people of their own clan's special privellages. The other people, the civillians and ninjas of other clans are really more of a free for all. If you needed to be healed for this or that; you go to this or that clans specialization. So of course me and Shika were in the Nara section its just that what I heard in the halls that got me all riled up.
They were talking about the Nara Clan Head's twins, about how they were both really smart, characteristic of a Nara but that they were eery as hell. Never mind that they were just talking about us, but they were also talking about Yoshino's children. Yoshino that's probably going to turn a corner and hear them. The little gossips, the Clan Head's Heirs were here with the Head's wife. What were they doing gossiping about us where we could here them. Was it on purpose? What really got me really mad was what they said next: That they're worried about the succesion of the heirs but it wasn't just that. I've heard some Naras talking about that in passing because of our weird birth order and validity. It was the fact that they started to diss Shika, saying that he wasn't just the characteristic lazy of a Nara but that he was down right apathetic. Sure there's parts of Shika's outlook on the world that leaves much to be desired. And I guess now that I look back on it people who didn't know Shika personally would see him a little differently.
But how could they label a five year old child that. It wasn't that he didn't care about them, about Konoha. I know in canon one of the things that Shika said was that "he wasn't lazy but that he just didn't care". But it's not like Shika doesn't care about anything; he just doesn't care for troublesome things that comes after. Label my older/little brother that he just doesn't care for their best interest. Maybe that's why Shika never became Hokage in Canon, people probably still had that misconception about him. Even when he did a lot in their name, it was always somehow outshined by Naruto's actions. By Naruto's passion and outlook on life.
I was already planning on what I was going to say (since public speaking was not my greatest trait), and tell them off. When I heard one of them mention that there was always me to fall back. That I seemed very easy to manipulate. But then the third one said that I was too volatile to be clan head and there was also the fact that I was a girl.
At that point I just snapped. Maybe it was because I was in a part of the hospital that was apart, away from preying eyes. That I just jumped right around the corner to prove that I could do anything I could also make a great Head of the clan, (lol) my earleir plan forgotten. And being a girl didn't have anything to do with it. I'll show them, I thought. As I brought out a small scroll, and ink that was laced with my and Shika's blood. I improvised, remembering Yin-Yang and nature sealing styles. I had this inkling for a while that nature sealing had to do with DNA. And Yin and Yang had a lot of possibilities. It had both connotations about the mind and body yes, but also about gender.
I quickly drew something like an octagon, with the character for yin at the north and yang at the south. There was the character for earth(representing the body) at the NE direction with the character for malleable/merge in its exact opposite. In the NW direction there was the character for heaven amd at its polar end the character for whole/seperate. On the W and E side I had the charcter for Yang on the E side since I was switching the yin/yang direction of my body. In the middle had a circle that again looked like a summoning circle.
I saved that for later though as I draw the same exact thing on the back except the yin-yang directions are both swaped and the character for earth has the character for base/example on its opposite end. For the front summoning circle I bit my thumb until it bled onto it and for the back I took out a vile Shika's pure blood out of my Organized Pocket Dimmension (OPD for short) and dropped a few onto that summoning circle. Recently I've been practicing the speed of sealing so that it could be practical in the middle of battle so during all this, the doctors probably couldn't read all of it in the time it took for me to make and activate my seal/summoning hybrid with some of intent filled chakra. My body is engulfed in a puff of smoke, and I was about to pull down my pants to show them how exactly awesome I am. Shika tackles me from behind, even without our minds 'brushing' he could probably still predict all the carzy things I'll do.
I yell at him, "Hey I was just about to show them how -" And Shika interrupts me, "You were about to flash them, one of which is a woman." That totally threw me off and calmed me down. Hey that guy from earlier was talking about girls like that in front of a female colleague? Such an ass. I shook my head to clear my thoughts as Shika gives me his hand to help me up. We brush each other off from our short skirmish. And well, I put on a really big, shit-eating grin, and ask, "Hey do I look any different?"
To which Shika promtly replied with a lazy: "Nope." "Oh," I exhale faintly dissappointed. That means it worked though, I wasn't supposed to look all that facially different. I had used Shika's blood, his "body," as a base to make mine male. Technically it was supposed to make copies of our own bodies, sending them to somewhere else, glomp them together. Switch our genders, where Shika's clone would then dissapear as if a storing seal was broken and mine would dispell bringing with it the changes back to my body. But I guess you could also say that parts of our genes were selected and moved around. At least that's my theory about the parts about nature sealing that I had quickly drawn on there while giving the seal intent-filled chakra.
Of course after that accident I had to explain, my new seal though. We had to go to a private Nara doctor though, one for head family bussiness. At first that they didn't believe that at first. But when I had undressed, they then thought that maybe Shika and I had beend crossdressing and impersonating each other. We were a very close pair of twins that knew each other very well. The thing was that when Shika undressed to and showed them that we weren't lieing about the seal, and Yoshino was sure that she hadn't raised twin boys without her knowing. They planned to keep my affinity with seals and this incident all very hush hush, only spoken behind Nara walls.
After we went home, had dinner and Yoshino filled in Shikaku in on todays events. Shikaku took me aside and gave me a very awkward talk. I got the gist of what he was trying to say, and I had to very carefully explain to him that no I don't want to be a boy. They had thought that I wanted to be transgender. Shika had laughed at me about this incident for months afterwards, that I was about to flash random strangers with my boy parts. I stewed on that and kept silent, I didn't have anything to say on that.
Author's note: My sealing has its many of its properties lie in the seals words/characters but also in the chakra that I send with intent, with a directive with what exactly I want in mind. That's how I can make really simple seals out of just prose/sentences.
No this is not a gender bender although she can and will be changing it at will. Shikako will be straight, as in she's a girl looking at boys straight.