Raishi Uchiha Chronicles: The Manipulation

Summary: The younger brother of Shisui Uchiha definitely took after his elder. How will having a bright personality around all the time effect Sasuke - and can Raishi actually keep such an outlook considering all the outside forces trying to manipulate him and the last of his family - Especially when the shadows within Konoha itself were closing in.

Warnings: Cannon typical violence, homosexual relationships, language, and sexual content.

Authour Note: I am basing the relationship between Ino and Raishi a little bit like Shizou and Izaya. I like the teasing that Raishi is raining down on Ino, and Ino herself is developing along toward becoming a better ninja. We also have some relationship aspects for RaishixShikamaru below, and I love how they came out. My Asuma is lacking - That's a good deal because I don't like his character, mostly because he isn't really much of one. He has a past, but no real personality.

I put a poll on my profile to vote what you think Raishi should summon. Panther is currently winning by a fair margin. I have heard a few people say now that Panther is very cliche, if you feel this way as well, go vote for something else! I have original ideas for summons, but not a lot of people are voting for them. This is a true democracy here, the people will get what they want!

Edited: 17/10/2017

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Asuma had led the others back to the dinner table, announcing that after we had eaten, everyone was going out for training. He included me in those numbers – Despite the fact that I should definitely still be here with Kakashi in case something went wrong. Regardless, I stayed behind for a moment to talk to my sensei as everyone else left.

"Kaka-sensei, you had better eat that food," I stated in a firm tone, glaring at the man.

He seemed almost bashful in demeanor, "I will, but I don't have the chakra for Genjutsu and I have to take my mask off to eat…"

"You stubborn being. You're meant to be a genius but you're actually stupid and shy." I gave a little snort before it turned into an amused grin. Now that I understood his reasoning, I couldn't maintain the unnatural firm tone, "Don't worry sensei~ I won't tell anyone about how shy you are. I'll just go out and train with the others. If you feel any abnormal waves in your chakra output or sudden pains, you better call me back."

I threw a wave over my shoulder and walked out of the room. I took out one of my ration bars and started to eat it – Something about eating the client's food rubbed me the wrong way. Especially considering the current financial crisis throughout the village.

When I got into the kitchen I looked at the table, and the only available seat was between Shika-chan and Ino-kun.

I almost blushed, because I could feel the wave of warmth that went through me when I laid eyes on Shikamaru. I'd almost forgotten about my crush on him, and that was a good sign that it was just that, a crush that would fade – I still didn't want him to find out though. That meant acting like I normally would. How would I react to something like this without knowing my feelings for Shika-chan?

"Shika-chan~! You'll never believe what happened to me earlier, it scared me so much." I sat down next to him, plastering myself to his side and getting as far from Ino-kun as I possibly could I could before I continued with my little act, "A blonde monster was watching me heal Kaka-sensei, he almost got so angry that he attacked me! I can't believe that you can be on a team with a man like that~ Honestly, how are you still alive Shika-chan?"

"Rai...shi...-kun…." I heard Ino draw out next to me, hissing in anger.

"Ahhh~! There he is again Shika-chan, you'll protect me, won't you? A delicate woman like me can't deal with such manliness…" I hopped off the bench and 'cowered' behind Shikamaru in the face of the blonde's anger.

I could feel Shikamaru practically wilt and wondered why he would shrink in on himself, unless - "… Urgh… Rai stop being so troublesome, if you stop angering him then he'll probably leave you alone."

I burst out into laughter, falling onto the floor and holding my stomach. Naruto was quick to follow in the reaction – Leaning against a suddenly blushing Uchiha so that he didn't fall to the floor as well. Chouji was looking a little bit worried, looking back and forth between his two teammates, and Asuma was chuckling lightly. The civilians looked at us as if we had lost our minds.

Ino, on the other hand, reached over and smacked Shikamaru about the head without hesitation. I could hear his groan, but I knew what his face looked like in the aftermath of the little tease, he would have the smallest smirk, and it would have looked adorable had I not been looking at the back of his head –

Stupid thoughts, but I couldn't help but love Shikamaru's sense of humor.

Before Ino-kun could express the vast remainder of her anger, Asuma stepped in, "Alright then, considering how much energy you are showing, I suppose you are good enough to start the training we have planned."

Why did that still sound more like a threat than a kindness?

We walked out to the trees; I suddenly got the idea of what this would be. Considering I already knew this technique and the one that came after it, most likely Asuma would either leave me to give them some training tips or send me somewhere else to train in something else.

"Alright, so we're going to be climbing trees," Asuma said, pointing toward one for good measure, watching each of our faces.

This was likely a little test to see who knew what he was talking about, a test that Shikamaru and Chouji passed.

"Huh?! We learned that ages ago!" Naru-chan exclaimed, a little pout on his face.

I tried not to smile, knowing damn well that Naru-chan was about to surprise them all with his ability to do this exercise. I couldn't wait to see Uke-chan's face when he realized that the blonde had one up on him, that Naru-chan was actually a good rival in ways that couldn't be predicted. Still, by far the best reaction was Ino-kun's, who seemed almost angry once again. She had quite the temper, a double-sided weapon I reckon. Sasuke seemed offended as well but withheld a verbal response.

Shikamaru seemed nervous about something.

That was weird because I knew Shikamaru wasn't one to get nervous. The only time I had seen it in the years that we had been together was when he was afraid he had angered his mother.

"Not just climbing the trees, but doing it with no hands," Asuma announced, trying to be dramatic, but his tone fell flat.

If it were Kaka-sensei, the moment would have had a lot more impact.

Instead, Naruto just gave the man a bored look, "That's it? I could do that ages ago."

Suddenly, I had the weird image of Naruto sticking his whole foot through the tree each time he took a step to 'tree walk' and snickered to myself.

Without waiting for a reply, Naru-chan walked over to a tree and started to walk up. His footing was a little bit shaky, there were a few times he almost seemed like he would blast off, but he reined it in. Impressive, he had clearly been practicing, he wasn't far off from being ready to learn water walking – Although I'm sure Kaka-sensei could be the one to take care of that. Teaching Naru-chan anything was an uphill battle because the blonde was smart, but only in the way that he learned – and it didn't match my way of teaching.

The blonde looked back at me with hopeful eyes.

I was taken back to the time when I first was becoming his friend. Naruto had looked at me with a heartbreaking hope that I wouldn't leave, every day he searched me out to make sure I wasn't going to become like his other 'friends' that left him.

"Good job Naru-chan~ I'm proud of you." The smile I got was blinding.

Asuma was looking rather impressed, and Sasuke was staring at Naru-chan as though he'd never seen the blonde before.

That hadn't been my intention when I taught the technique to the blonde, but close enough, especially when that smile he gave me turned into a hug that knocked me off my feet. My hand went into Naru-chan's hair and played with it a little, and I felt happiness blossom even more within me. Seeing Naru-chan happy made me happy in ways that were hard to explain.

Shikamaru could feel his lips twitch at the warm scene, but was still a bit tense. The second he tried this technique, Raishi would be able to tell Shikamaru was capable of it – Of this, the Nara was sure. Even if he purposely flubbed it, the Uchiha's sharp eyes would spot it.

In short, Shikamaru was screwed, because, with that one clue, Raishi would be able to put it all together.

"Fuck." Shikamaru cursed under his breath, feeling slightly flustered and out of character. A flush was climbing onto his cheeks, and should he even bother to hide it at this point?

"So, like Naruto showed us, you use your chakra on your feet to climb up. Too much and you will blast away, too little and you will slip and fall. Just keep doing it until you can get to the top. This is a chakra control exercise, the one that comes before the water walking." Asuma stated.

With that, he looked at me, "Mind watching them? I'm going to go talk to Kakashi for a bit. I'm sure you can think of something to teach Naruto in the meantime."

I almost cursed under my breath that didn't mean the best things for my own training. Normally I would be perfectly fine to take away from my own training in order to help my brothers, but I had something else I had to do. I needed to be able to face Zabuza's partner, and I needed my own training to do that...

Asuma was already walking away though.

Might as well turn this into an opportunity though, "Naru-chan, why don't you help Uke-chan do it. You can catch him when he falls~ It'll be romantic."

Naruto, who had been so happy with me a moment before blushed and glared at me with an embarrassed sort of heat – So he wasn't as in denial as I thought? Probably because of that kiss during team assignments.

"Raishi please don't say things like that." He whispered frantically, whipping his head back and forth as though it would shake the thought off.

"It's fine Naru-chan, I think you two together would be utterly adorable. Now go help him." I whispered back, a teasing twist on my lip, before pushing him toward the scowling Sasuke, who disliked not knowing what other people were saying in front of him.

Shikamaru was actually sweating – Now that, I hadn't ever seen.

I studied him, wondering just what was going on with him, but I wouldn't ask in front of everyone, it could wait.

"The best way to go about this is to run up and mark your place with a kunai, keeping track of how high you are going, and then flipping back down when you inevitably mess up. I suspect Ino-kun will have trouble with this – Hot blooded males usually do." I placed a finger on my mouth, as though considering the blonde and her abilities to do this exercise.

She glowered but turned her determination toward the tree instead.

Impressive self-control. Chouji just nodded, although he did look a bit worried Ino-kun would try to attack me.

Shikamaru still seemed weird, although I couldn't put my mouth on why.

"Alright, start!" I clapped my hands twice, forcing the worry away replacing it with a reassuring smile.

All three of them ran toward their tree, I had been about to start shouting out tips when I noticed that Shikamaru was solid, so solid – Too good at the technique. Why hadn't he said something? Why bother to hide the fact he could do it, and he looked so nervous before too why would he? It was a good thing that he could do that technique. In fact, it was essentially the same level of ability I was with it.

Back up, that was it.

If he was at my level of ability then he was sinking his chakra into the bark, not just sticking to the surface – Something you learned when you could water walk…

Water walking meant that he didn't need my help before which meant…

Oh my god… Shikamaru played me! That lazy little… Oh sage, how did I not notice that... how embarrassing! Him pressing against me like that – He had to have noticed my reactions, why did he press against me like that though, he even had I messed up he could have just water walked himself and never would have gotten wet which meant –

Yes, he soundly played me. He was experimenting wasn't he; it was a Shika-chan thing to do. I could tell by the way he was staring at me now that he knew I was figuring it out. He didn't bother to hide the fact he could do it either, the Nara must have known I would figure it out. At least he wasn't out to insult me, but he played with my feelings like that. He had to have known about the crush, or maybe he was just trying to make sure he was correct about it. Still, he soundly manipulated me.

I was blushing; I could feel the heat on my face, and I knew why.

I liked what Shika-chan had done.

I was a bit surprised by the feeling, to say the least. I should have been a lot angrier, but I was actually more impressed, happy, attracted to the mind that could actually play The Game with me, and on a level like this… Sure, I caught him, but that was beside the point. I wasn't the type to fail in noticing manipulations – My mind was wired to hide things, to figure things out due to my appreciation for Shisui-nii's teachings, to KNOW people. Shikamaru had gotten around that.

Yes, a skill like that was astonishingly charming.

"How does this lazy ass know a technique like this before I do?!" Ino squawked, pretty embarrassed.

I pushed my thoughts away and my blush down, "I guess he's just more skilled that Ino-kun, after all, Shika-chan doesn't have anger problems. Even he's more of a woman than Ino-kun~"

I honestly had no idea what to do with the new information presented to me. I wanted to understand why Shikamaru had done it, but I could exactly ask him when we were surrounded by everyone else. Instead, I just looked at Shikamaru and nodded my head toward Chouji. Shikamaru lost some of his tense demeanor when I did this. What, had he thought I would actually attack him or something? Publicly call him out? If he made assumptions like that about me, maybe I should next time.

Instead, I went on to ignore them, knowing Chouji was in good hands and focused on Ino.

"Way too little chakra Ino-kun, once you find the right amount, focus only on that. Empty your mind of everything else, shouldn't be hard for such a simple mind as Ino-kun's~" I sang out, giving a twisted smirk toward the blonde.

I actually started to like her now that she wasn't hanging over Sasuke. She had a fiery personality and a lot of determination. She would need to learn to control those things, however, and what better way than to constantly say them in her presence. If she could tree walk with me teasing her, then she could probably do it when fighting. I was good at what I did, after all. Though I honestly couldn't keep up the training, I really did have my own training to do. At least, I tried to keep that in mind, but somewhere along the line, I became too enamored with helping my friends.

It didn't take too much longer for the tree walkers to get tired. We all headed back to the house, but I stopped Shikamaru, placing a hand on his shoulder. The rest of them looked back at us for a moment, giving us questioning looks, but I waved them off, "Shika-chan and I are going to watch the clouds for a bit."

No one other than Chouji was interested in doing something like that.

Chouji left without looking back though – He certainly knew that something else was going on between us if he was giving that reaction. Did Shikamaru let him in on the little Game he played?

I didn't say anything, just gave him a look.

His shoulders slouched a bit, "Troublesome… I guess I have to explain myself then. I was curious about you, and I guess I wanted to figure you out, so I dug a bit."

"You've known me for years, you pretty much know everything about me, tell me why you did it." I stated, not buying his vague statement for a second.

A drawn out sigh escaped the trapped man, "I guess that I wanted to see your reactions. It was worth it, they were… intriguing." Attractive, Adorable, Enduring, and I want more, Shikamaru developed in his own mind, shocking himself, he'd never faced feelings like that, good thing he had the foresight to shut his mouth. The last thing he wanted was an angry Uchiha on his hands.

"Shika-chan tried to seduce me~! He knows how much I like The Game and used it in such a way… He's definitely trying to attract me." I teased him, but my own face was red.

Shikamaru seemed to choke on his own spit; I don't think I'd ever seen him react with so much energy before. I could get used to that.

"Either way, Maru-kun, you are just going to have to wait longer before you try something like that again. Don't put so much on my plate." I scolded him, "Playing with me like that before you even ask me out on a date… On a mission too… How audacious, too audacious. I thought Maru-kun was slothful, but really, he needs to cool down a bit. I mean, seducing me before we are even thirteen, shame on you."

"I wasn't seducing you, troublesome Uchiha! I was testing a theory." Shikamaru denied, waving his hands in front of his face, the flush still present.

"Not seducing me… So you were just playing with my emotions even knowing that I had a crush on you… What a heartbreaker…" I pouted at him, inwardly laughing as he scowled at me.

"You better ask me out soon Shika-chan, or I'll tell your mother how you took advantage of my feelings like this." I suddenly intimidated, but I wanted him. We were young, and I still think it is nothing more than a passing crush, but the way that Shikamaru had slyly played me like that… It was too much of a good thing to allow slipping through my fingers. If we tried and it turned out horribly, well, we could just blame it on misspent youth.

After saying that, I leaned over and gave Shikamaru a kiss on the cheek, lingering close for a moment and walking back to the house.

I could feel Shikamaru's eyes on my back, and it felt good, knowing that I had a similar effect on as he had on me.

After I discovered the 'Shikamaru Seduction' I had gone back to the house to check on Kaka-sensei and sleep. The next day, I would work on the Shunshin technique, because as Kaka-sensei had pointed out, I would need it to keep up with my current most hated enemy – and I would kill that person. The threat that they posed to my loved ones was just too much to look past, and I had already put it off for far too long. I should have been doing this instead of taunting Ino-kun.

I walked around all day, moving my chakra around my body, figuring out how best to go about it. My brother had left steps on the technique, extremely detailed.

The first was just to get used to channeling chakra to your feet and legs. After that, you would start doing the same for extremely specific muscles. Every muscle that you used to do the 'step' would flood with chakra. That's what it was, after all, it was less like a teleportation jutsu and more of a teleportation step, and a few back to back got you far.

It was hard to explain. It's as if each step had the same power as a single Shunshin. That was why it was faster, but it was almost more dangerous.

I don't want to imagine how many times my brother had hurt himself doing this. I knew without even trying my first step that I was going to be ripping my muscles apart. It was lucky that I was a med-nin; otherwise, I probably couldn't learn it without paying one to standby.

My brother was crazy to come up with and actually use this.

Shisui-nii had left it to me thinking I could learn it as well, so I would. It didn't make him less crazy; after all, Shisui-nii hadn't been a medic-nin like me.

I spent hours, just channeling chakra to my legs, learning the flow that I would need.

While I did this; I sat next to Kaka-sensei.

"You're a disobedient little soldier aren't you?" Kakashi said the moment I had started.

I grinned, "If I listened to everything a superior told me, I wouldn't make a good shinobi. Besides, this is better than me doing it all by myself like I had planned~ You're proud of me, aren't you Kaka-sensei?"

He didn't respond, but he was sitting up on the bed watching me as I practiced.

The others were out at the trees practicing. Shikamaru had taken over Ino-kun's training after I told him I'd be training myself but inside. He seemed almost eager to agree with what I said in the face of all the emotions the night before. It was vaguely amusing; you would have thought I was the one to play HIM with the way he was acting.

Eventually, it was time to start working on the second part, "Well, time for me to start actually practicing Kaka-sensei~ Don't worry, if I need help I'll scream so loud the rest of the Genin can hear and come get me."

He gave an eye smile, and without a single note of sarcasm in his voice spoke, "Well, that's reassuring."

I choose a clearing pretty close to the one my friends and teammates were currently using. I could even hear Naruto and Sasuke arguing from here:

"Teme, concentrate!"

"… Hn… Don't tell me what to do dope."

Honestly, Naruto was probably right. It was unlikely he knew the real reason my cousin was so incapable of controlling his chakra, but he could tell it was something getting in the way. My cousin's obsession with his brother was ridiculous. The amount of hatred that he still held onto wasn't healthy. This became even truer when I remembered my cousin as a kid – He wasn't a stiffy. He was actually quite a bit more like Shisui-nii and me but he was turning out… Just like the rest of the family. I didn't know what I could possibly do to help him.

I'd just have to become strong enough to protect him.

Step two was channeling the chakra but using the technique as though you were walking. It should boost you into an extremely quick run, but at least manageable so that you don't hurt yourself too much.

It was interesting to imagine Shisui-nii learning that lesson the hard way.

I took a deep breath and took a step, crossing the whole clearing before I felt a sharp pain in both my legs, searing, shredding.

I choked down the sound that tried to escape my mouth. My chakra had taken a hit as well, half of my reserves in one jump. I knew Kakashi had said this was dangerous to learn alone, chakra intensive, but I hadn't expected this.

I flashed through the hand signs for Mystical Palm – No need to waste the chakra on the numbing jutsu, I deserved the pain a little bit for my failure. Surely it would motivate me to do better next time. I had several small cuts on my muscles, small, but deep. My chakra had torn through my legs at in a jagged way – It was meant to be smoothed via tight control over your chakra. Instead, the jagged uncontrolled chakra caused more energy to leak out than it should have, forcing me to use more to keep momentum. I was lucky I didn't rupture my chakra pathway with that risky irregular chakra spike. If I had, then I wouldn't have been able to heal that and it could have caused a more serious issue without a healer on hand.

I wouldn't give up though; I knew it was going to be a hard and painful process. If it were easy, then everyone would do it. This was part of the reason only Shisui-nii had done it, and I had a lot to live up too.

Besides, the look on my enemy's faces when they realized that there was someone around with the same techniques as Shisui no Shunshin would be priceless – worth the pain. I could practically imagine Naru-chan looking up to me with those eyes, that sparkle that entered them when he saw something cool – The best kind of motivation.

My thoughts had distracted me enough, and before I knew it, I had healed myself enough that I was just sore. Wasting more chakra would cut my training short – I had just about forty percent left.

I heard a crack of a twig and twirled around, reaching for my absent umbrella, only then realizing how utterly stupid a move it was to leave without my weapon.

It was a girl in a classical looking outfit, a choker around her neck, and yet I couldn't help but feel something off.

Hatred ran through me, I reached for my kunai and my eyes activated, this was the third time in my life that I felt something so strongly, "Who are you?"

The civilian's entire demeanor changed, and I knew I was right to be suspicious, "I hadn't planned on this, but since you are so suspicious there isn't anything I can change. Despite how much I regret this, for Zabuza-sama I must become the tool he made –"

I ran through hand seals, no longer waiting for the girl to finish her explanation. The second I heard the name 'Zabuza' from those lips, filled with such devotion, I couldn't withhold the urge.

"Genjutsu: Nijū Shiryoku"

Immediately after casting it, I ran toward the girl, pulling out my single kunai as I did so. The Genjutsu would make the devotee see two of me coming, instead of one, this meant if they didn't release the Genjutsu, it would show overlapping images of myself attacking, making it near impossible to block.

I went to ram my kunai right through the devotee's neck, my wrist was grabbed. The devotee had apparently released the Genjutsu before I had gotten close enough to attack; they were quick too, not as plainly fast as me, but close. My eyes caught the hand signs that they were making, and I swung a mediocre kick toward her head.

I disliked Taijutsu, but I wasn't above using it, despite how much I wished I were.

The girl released me and retreated, staring at me, and I did the same.

Truly, I didn't know how to beat the devotee. I had the one weapon, but Niju Shiryoku was one of my best Genjutsu. If they could release it so quickly, there was little hope of my Genjutsu working to a good enough, I would have to rely on speed, maybe I could use chakra needles like were needed in the Iryō Ninjutsu: Chakra no Kōkan as a weapon, but it was a long shot.

The truth was, I needed help – I didn't want it though.

Was this the pride that Shisui-nii warned me was the downfall of Uchiha?

No, this was my want to protect Naru-chan and Uke-chan above all else, even my own safety.

I had a plan, and it wasn't the smartest plan that I've come up with.

"You fight with anger… That is why you will never beat me – Who fights and lives my life only for Zabuza-sama."

Oh darling, you clearly don't know me. I always fought for the people I cared about, my own needs rarely came into the equation at all.

I made a single tiger hand sign, "Genjutsu: Kokuangyo no Jutsu."

I could feel myself weighed down by the chakra lose, it flowed into the target so quickly – I wouldn't let that stop me though, instead, I forced myself to concentrate and run over to where the now prone target was and stabbed them. I knew of course, that they could still hear, and planned accordingly, instead of going for the most obvious and easiest vital spot – The neck – I went for femoral artery.

It would take longer for him to die, and therefore give him the possibility of striking back in his last moments.

"SHIKAMARU!" I shouted at the top of my lungs, determined to hold the Genjutsu as long as possible, but my chakra was fading.

So was my vision, into an inky blackness that didn't mean good things for me, considering my opponent hadn't completely bled out yet, but before I fell under, I felt sharp pain spread through my body and heard a worried shout – "RAISHI!"

R&R

AN: What do you think of Raishi facing Haku early? Also, how do you feel about the Shunshin that Raishi is learning? I'm not the best at technical aspects, but I think I explained the idea reasonably enough.