answers to reviewers questions or statements:
Kai: Eh he'll be meeting someone soon that'll more or less help him get over the absolute nightmare he's about to wander into.
DarkLordZay: What's not okay?
PrudishSet: He'll get pretty good, like by the time the events of Naruto Shippuden start he'll be able to take the likes of Yamato and Kakashi head on in a fight and hold his own against the man. He'll also begin to delve into expanding his jutsu arsenal, working on his elemental affinities, the works. He'll start training more after he returns from the Land of Snow and faces off against Satsuki again.
War Sage: Before this story ends, Pītā is gonna give Konoha plenty of reasons to want him dead. Naruto in particular, regardless of his ability to seemingly turn villains good or whatever, like Pein and later Obito.
Disclaimer: I don't own any Marvel or Naruto characters seen, mentioned or used.
To say Tsunade Senju was shocked would be an understatement of near biblical proportions.
In fact few things could shock a veteran kunoichi as old as herself after two world wars and the abnormal everyday life a shinobi, regardless of affiliation, endures. But to come face to face with someone that the Sannin had all but written off dead decades ago, to see him sitting across from her with a cup of tea laced with sake in his hand, horrid she knows, the Fifth Hokage couldn't help but feel stumped on what to do.
On the desk before her was a authentic missive from Hi no Kuni, triple checked and re-verified more times than she cared to count, that expressly stated that one Ryuzo Uchiha's banishment from Hi no Kuni was officially nulled and void and thus allowed to return to Konohagakure and resume his duties as an active shinobi and clan head of the Uchiha should he desire.
'I don't even wanna know how in the hell he got this in the first place' Tsunade thought with a sigh before she regarded the man before her.
Like all Uchiha she knew in her lifetime, Ryuzo possessed fair skin, dark brown, almost black hair that reached just past his shoulders, though the Sannin noticed a fair number of grey hairs mixed in. But his eyes are what set him apart from most Uchiha given his... heritage, they were a bright blue color instead of the usual onyx though they still held that same grave look in them that all Uchiha seemed to posses. He also sported a well maintained beard that like his hair also possessed a few grey hairs mixed in. In fact, if someone were to take a picture of him and compare it to the few left of his grandfather, Madara, they'd find a very close resemblance to one another-
"Careful Hokage-sama, if Jiraiya walks in and sees you staring, he'll get the wrong ideas... again" Ryuzo said after close to ten minutes of awkward silence between the pair.
Tsunade couldn't help but smirk a little at this "Worried you'll have to face him in another 'epic honor duel for my heart'?"
"More of I don't want to put up with his... usual behavior" Ryuzo said with a shrug as he took a sip of his drink "Also I don't feel like having to deal with loud toads ribbiting outside my window for weeks on end"
Tsunade snorted at this "Well your in luck, he's currently away from the village for the next year and a half"
"Oh, and why's that?" Ryuzo asked with a raised brow "Off again on another one of his 'finding himself' journey things of his? Or trying to hit up every hot spring he can for his 'research'"
"No, actually, he's... he's training someone" Tsunade said after a few seconds of consideration "Also making up from lost time I suppose. Though I swear to Kami if he brings that kid back and their just as bad as him I'm gonna rip his eyes and hands off"
"Now that's something I'd like to see" Ryuzo joked as he took another sip of his drink "I've always been curious on who would win in a actual fight between the two of you"
"I bet you would" Tsunade grinned before her face adopted a more curious frown "So why now?"
"Hmm?" Ryuzo sounded.
"Why come back to the village now?" Tsunade nodded towards the missive on the desk "The date that was written was a decade ago. Why didn't you come back than?"
The revoking of exile could be 'cashed in' at any time after it's written so long as the one using it hadn't committed a grievous crime before said cash in, but the longer one waited, the less likely it'd be accepted. And a decade was pushing the very limits given that the Daimyō who wrote it had been succeeded by his son several years ago and had no obligation to accept it.
"A number of reasons" Ryuzo said with a small shrug before he winced and reached up with his free hand to rub his left shoulder with a look of discomfort "Part of it was I didn't like the current head or elders of the clan at the time. And I was still upset with my exile"
Tsunade doubted it was just those reasons why he stayed away until now, but decided to let the matter go... for the time being.
"Well, I suppose you'll want to move back into the Uchiha district?" Tsunade asked before her eyes narrowed slightly "Or would you like me to ask the F-"
"The Uchiha District will be adequate" Ryuzo interrupted Tsunade with... a look.
It wasn't hostile, but it was enough to cut the Hokage off.
Normally she'd be annoyed by such a thing, but considering Ryuzo's history and the circumstances that led to his exile, she was willing to grant him some leeway. Though the next time he spoke to her like that she'll be putting him through the wall behind him... and maybe the one beyond that for good measure. They had lots of time to catch up on after all.
"Fine" Tsunade said with a hint of annoyance in her voice "Would you like me to have a couple of Genin help in restoring it? Since Satsuki Uchiha's defection, the district as fallen into a state of gradual decay and ruin. Might take you a while by yourself"
"I'll be fine on my own" Ryuzo said with a wave of his hand "Though I do wish to speak to you about that apparent defector, Satsuki. What's the story behind it?"
"What've you heard?" Tsunade asked as she leaned back in her seat and folded her arms across her chest.
"Only that the brat was taken by Orochimaru" Ryuzo said with his eyes narrowing "Though something tells me that isn't what really happened"
"Oh?" Tsunade raised a brow at this.
"Not nearly dramatic enough" Ryuzo scoffed as he placed his now empty cup on the Hokage's desk and folded his arms across his chest "If there's one thing my clan capitalizes on, it's being dramatic. I swear if we weren't shinobi, we'd be actors"
"You got that right" Tsunade snorted in amusement.
A part of Tsunade wondered how her grandparents and granduncle would react to her sitting down with the last living direct descendant to Madara himself, joking about the latter's clan for dramatic flairs. Her grandfather would be pleased, perhaps even a little sad that she was able to acquire what he lost with Madara himself, a friend. Mito and Tobirama on the other hand... while Mito never showed outright distrust towards the Uchiha, Tsunade believed that she privately held similar views on the clan as did her brother-in-law, Tobirama.
"So what's the actual story?" Ryuzo asked after a moment.
"I didn't know the girl long enough to get a good read on her, but from what I was able to gather from my own limited interactions with her, and reports on her from her sensei, Kakashi Hatake, she'd grown power hungry and dissatisfied with her progression in the village. Part of it stems for her desire to kill her elder brother, Itachi Uchiha, the man behind the clan's massacre" Tsunade revealed with a frown "I'd like to think the cursed seal that Orochimaruu gave her allows the man to influence her mind to some degree, to make it seem he was the better option, but... I don't know. I've spoken to Anko, a former student of Orochimaru and who has her own cursed seal and she's noted that her mark has no such function. Than again, perhaps my former teammate modified the mark since than..."
"So I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that's part of the reason why the girl isn't labeled a missing nin in the bingo book?" Ryuzo asked.
"Part of it" Tsunade said with a nod.
In reality it was Naruto that convinced her not to, though if Ryuzo asked otherwise, she'd be legally obliged to do so given that the man has now been re-instated as clan head of the Uchiha and thus has final say on the members of said family's status. If he asks to have Satsuki labeled a missing nin with a kill on sight order, there wouldn't be much she could do. True she could refuse the demand as she was his Kage, but the political ramifications could be disastrous, and cause others to call her judgment into question, something she has to put up with on the regular enough as it is. Plus, if Satsuki does something truly terrible like say kill shinobi from another nation, it could very well spark a war between them which will lead to the deaths of hundreds if not thousands on all sides.
Ryuzo hummed at the woman's response and looked past Tsunade to the village outside with an unreadable expression on his face. She had no doubt he was mulling over what to do in regards to the fate of his clan's last female member.
"Honestly, just brand her and be done with it. If she were to ever come back to the village, she'd be a pariah to the end of her days for siding with Orochimaru no matter how you try to spin it" Ryuzo said after some time with a sigh "Any chances of her finding a suitable man to marry and bare offspring will be next to zero, so her value as a heir producer is out the window"
Tsuande grew a tick mark at the man's comment, even after all these years he still held most women in low regards to being nothing more than either caretakers or breeders.
"I'm sure she could still find someone. At the very least a marriage could be arranged with one of the other clans' heir's" Tsunade said in some defense to the Uchiha girl despite the fact she couldn't exactly find a fault with the elder Uchiha's reasoning, even if he could make it sound less... offensive.
"The clans that would humor or pity the Uchiha would offer a low quality heir for her to marry, and thus in turn produce a low quality child and become an even bigger social stigma than it's parents to the father's clan because of it's mother" Ryuzo said with a wave of his hand "You know it and I know it. And I wouldn't be able to, in good conscious, accept or want her as my own heir given her actions. I'd never be able to fully trust her and thus make her a rather poor clan head should the day come where she must take over. No, it's best to cut her out entirely and be done with it. She made her bed, now she must lie in it... or die in it"
"So... I suppose this means you'll be restarting the Uchiha clan yourself than?" Tsunade said after a few moments of silence between the two veteran shinobi.
"Nope" Ryuzo said with a small shake of his head as he reclined in his seat "Partly I'm too old and don't feel like rutting with a girl literally half my age at best just so that she can pump out an heir to two. And I was never a big fan of children to begin with"
"Well aside from Itachi Uchiha, your the only other male Uchiha left in the world, far as we know at least. There will be expectations placed on you by the council as the last loyal Uchiha capable of producing a child" Tsunade warned the man before a faint smirk appeared on her face "Truthfully I really wanna see how that conversation goes down"
Ryuzo's hate for Sarutobi-sensei's teammates, Danzō in particular, was near common knowledge back before the man's exile. Almost as much as Jiraiya's perverted tendencies or Tsuande's drinking and gambling.
"They'll get the same answer I'm giving you, so why bother?" Ryuzo scoffed.
"So I guess that means the Uchiha clan is more or less finished than?" Tsunade stated with a sigh "Because that's what's going to happen if you stand by this decision"
"Ehh, we had a good run. Not many clans can say they lasted for almost nine hundred years" Ryuzo said as he stood up and gave Tsunade a small bow "If you'd excuse me, I must be going. There's a few others that I wish to see before I return to the compound and begin my repairs and renovations"
"Of course" Tsunade said as she stood up and walked with the man to the door "Though I have to ask why you'd bother restoring the clan's compound if you have no intention of restarting the Uchiha"
"Because I'm going to be living there and don't want to live in a old decrypt ruin for the remainder of it" Ryuzo said with a chuckle "And... I'm intending to sell it to the Fūma Clan later on, be kinda hard to convince them to buy a ruin, even if it is ME doing the selling"
"Fair enough" Tsunade nodded though she was a bit saddened for her friend's decisions.
When they were younger, all Ryuzo ever went on about was ensuring the prosperity of the Uchiha clan and have them be held in the same positive light as the Senju were at it's peak. Now... now he just seemed content to let the clan die out and fade away into the sands of history.
'Perhaps he just needs some time is all' Tsunade thought with a mental nod as she gave Ryuzo a brief one armed hug before he stepped out of the office, closing the door behind himself as he went.
It wasn't until Tsunade had sat back down and resumed her duties, which included a lot of paperwork, and before Shizune had returned with even more, that she'll have to find a way to explain to Naruto and Sakura, who were dead set on bringing Satsuki back to the village, that she'll be officially labeled a missing nin with a kill on sight order. Naruto in particular was going to be a pain in the ass in his own right and may force Tsunade to really bring out her ugly side to rein him in before he does something foolish like challenge Ryuzo over the matter.
Who in turn might bring the hammer down on the boy without any remorse or hesitance, the man really disliked children. And barring herself or Jiraiya, Tsunade wasn't sure if there was anyone in the whole village that could take the Uchiha on by themselves and win. Living as a exile, with no protection or support for over twenty years likely forced Ryuzo to not only maintain his fighting prowess but turn him into a rather... dirty fighter.
When faced with death on a constant basis, there'd be no limit to how far one would go to survive.
"I swear to Kami I hope whoever decided I'd be the best candidate for Hokage is pissing out glass shards right now..." Tsunade sighed as she rubbed her temples to stem the oncoming headache she was feeling.
At this rate not even her genjutsu will be able to hide the stress this job will cause her.
...
Far to the north, just a few hundred miles off the coast of Kaminari no Kuni on a small island that was in actuality a massive tortoise from a bygone era, sat a young blonde haired girl that looked no older than fourteen on a small little island before a waterfall.
She possessed long straight blonde hair that reached her waist, and slightly paler than average fair skin that some of the residents of Kumo possessed. Her hands, which were resting on her knees, were wrapped in bandages up to her second knuckles, leaving her red painted nails out on display. Her eyes, which were closed, were dark though if one were to look closely they'd notice her pupils were shaped like a cat's and grew thin or wide like one too depending on the light. But even if her eyes were open, they'd be the last thing to gain anyone's attention given that she was currently dressed down to a pair of spandex shorts and a sports bra which did little to conceal her quickly developing curves.
That is however, until the admire realized who she was... what she was...
"It gnaws on you, doesn't it? Knowing the moment a boy finds out what you are, he'll run for the hills screaming, hmm?"
The blonde haired girl took a deep breath through her nose, but kept her eyes closed and resumed her meditation.
"Aww, look at you ignoring me. How adorable!" the voice cooed.
The meditating girl could hear the sound of someone walking on the water around her, circling her as they continued to speak... with her voice.
"Have to ask though, whose this nice little look you have going for? Can't be that idiot that likes to rap, much too old for you anyway... than again, he is the only one that looks at you with anything but disgust" the voice taunted again "And his brother too I guess, though we both know it's only because of that idiot brother of his that he doesn't. Sad, the only positive attention you get is from a pair of men old enough to be your daddy"
The girl's fingers twitched but otherwise, the girl remained perfectly still as the taunting continued.
"Speaking of daddy, when's the last time you talked to him again?" the voice said before they snapped their fingers "Oh that's right, the day before you were shipped out here to master the power of the Nibi, though I wouldn't call him screaming at you as talking. I mean didn't you just want to shut him up the entire time he was yelling at you? Don't lie, I know you did... how he kept going on and on about how you weren't his, that your mother obviously slept with someone else to have you and pass you off as his. I mean you were born a month early, but anyone can say to justify why you were a bit small for a babe, I mean your sister or brother weren't very big either when they were born too but what can ya do...?"
The girl struggled to keep her face calm and devoid of emotion as she tuned the voice out as best she could. Getting angry and lashing out wouldn't fix anything, until she found a way to deal with this thing, she'll just have to ignore the attempts at provocation until a solution was presented to her. Her 'sensei', had mastered this in a month and she was determined to do the same... even if it's already been two and a half.
She could ask the man for advice, but ever since she was apprenticed to the man, he's been about as helpful as the last several 'teachers' she's had. He was less violent, she'll give him that, and thanks to being the same as she was, he was a bit more understanding of her plight, but that's where it all ended. He'd rather run around and play with the island's wildlife and make up shitty raps than help her master a force of nature that's reduced entire lands to ash and charred husks-
"Oh yeah, I keep forgetting how shitty a teacher he is" the voice said with a giggle "You wonder if he even remembers your name? All he refers to you as is the 'Nibi-gal', like your not even you anymore, just the manifestation of what's inside you. Can't blame him really, the giant flaming cat of fire is waaaay better than some dumb blonde that killed her mother at birth and ruined the lives of an entire family-"
"SHUT UP!" the girl's eyes finally snapped open, glowing with rage as her faced turned red and she snarled at what could only be described as a mirror image of herself, only the whites of her eyes were red and she wore a smug look on her face "Just shut up!"
"Or what?" the dark reflection said before gasping and looking at the girl with a look of mock fear "Are you going to hurt me?"
The girl gritted her teeth at the reflection as the grass underneath the girl's legs began to smoke and the air grew an to unbearable warmth. The reflection smirked as the girl slowly climbed to her feet, wisps of flames appearing around the tips of her hands knuckles as she glared at the being before her.
"Careful girl... wouldn't want a repeat of the Raikage's office hmm? Especially in such a flammable forest" the reflection teased as her nails slowly extended and she shifted her feet slightly "Oh who are we kidding? We loved what we did there that day. We loved burning those people, watching them screaming and rolling on the floor on fire, dying-"
"AHHHHHH!" the girl screamed as she shot a fist out and sent forth a inferno of blue and black flames towards the reflection, causing it to jump out of the way and land only a few feet to the side.
The water boiled under the intensity of the flames while steam rose up and began to slowly blanket the area. The girl took several deep breaths in an effort to calm herself while her dark reflection slowly stood upright and clapped her hands, mockingly.
"Such control now, and it only took a month in solitary confinement to get it" it mocked before it frowned and sighed "Leaving already? How boring-"
The girl's suddenly shot open and she found herself still sitting before the waterfall, the dark reflection gone. With a snarl, the girl climbed to her feet and all but stomped away from the small island and back towards the 'mainland'.
"Dammit!" the girl seethed as she made her way through the island's jungle, heat waves radiating off the young girl and forcing any nearby animals to scurry for shelter "God fucking dammit!"
She lost control of her anger... again.
She could hear, feel the Bijū within her laughing at, mocking her for once again failing to master the first step in learning how to control it's power. The girl stopped in the middle of the path and brought her hands up to hold her head as she did her best to try and ignore the laughing.
"Just shut up, just shut up, just shut up, just shut up... please just be quiet!" the girl whispered to herself as she tried to keep herself from lashing out at everything around her until it was a charred landscape.
The heat continued to radiate off the girl until wisps of blue fire began to appear and lightly singe some of the low hanging vines and plants closest to her. The mocking laughter inside her head could still be heard and just as when it began to look like the girl was about to lose control and reduce everything to ashes, a voice called out to her from somewhere up head.
"Yuigto-san!"
The sound of the Nibi's laughter ceased and Yugito opened her eyes to see the island's sole long term resident, Motoi, calmly walking towards her. She didn't see any revulsion or hate in his eyes like many others back in Kumo looked at her with, but he could've easily hidden it from her. Many of the shinobi she's encountered in Kumo could hide such feelings with as much ease as it takes Yugito herself to breath.
"What is it?" Yugito asked with a frown aimed at the man as she slowly lowered her hands.
"It was getting late and we missed you at lunch" Motoi explained as he came to a stop a respectable distance away from the blonde haired teen.
But in Yugito's mind, the man didn't want to be close to the 'wretched pyro'.
"I'm sure you did" Yugito snapped.
Motoi however remained unbothered by Yugito's anger, having grown used to the young girl's temper. In fact, anger was a common trait that many of previous jinchūriki of the Nibi possessed. He wasn't sure of the reason itself, but Motoi privately believed it was something related to the Bijū's fiery nature and being the lone female out of the nine.
"We did" Motoi explained with a small nod "B-sama was worried that your pushing yourself too hard"
At this Yugito scoffed and made to move around the man "Oh how thoughtful of him. Cares enough to ask about me over a plate of rice, but ohhh no, taking the time to help me train is just too much of a big fucking burden to him!"
"I understand that B-sama is a bit lax in his teaching but-" Motoi began to explain before Yugito stopped and turned towards him with a growl that caused the elder shinobi to take a step back.
"Stop. Making. Excuses. For. Him!" Yugito but out each word as she glared at the Kumo Jōnin "I've been stuck on this island for four months and the amount of time he's actually been around me could be counted in just under a fucking hour!"
"That's not true Yugito-san, he's actually been-" Motoi started before Yugito slashed an arm through the air, cutting him off as she took a step towards the man.
"STOP LYING TO ME!" she yelled, her eyes briefly glowing as they shifted to the green and yellow irises the Nibi itself possessed.
"I-" Motoi began before he stopped and took a deep breath before nodding "Yes, Yugito-san. I apologize-"
"Your not sorry" Yugito snapped as she stared at the man with narrowed eyes, still the unsettling green and yellow of the Nibi "Your just saying that because you know what will happen if you keep lying to me!"
"And what, pray tell, would happen to me if I did 'keep lying to you'?" Motoi asked in a even tone.
Yugito seemed to grown even more angry at this if it were possible and was just beginning to raise a hand when another figure appeared...
"Flaming girl burning hot like the sun, but she fails to see that this is no longer fun!"
"OH NOW YOU SHOW UP!" Yugito yelled as she snapped her attention to the newcomer as they stepped on to the small path only a few feet away.
The man was tall, taller than Motoi at least, and possessed a far more noticeable muscular build. He was dark skinned like a good amount of Kumo's population, with slicked back white hair and a equally white goatee that just stopped a few centimeters below a bull horn he had tattooed on his left cheek. He was dressed in Kumo's standard one-strap-over-one-shoulder flat jacket though he forgone a shirt underneath and a pair grey pants that were held up by a long red rope tied around his waist with the standard hand and shin guards and shinobi sandals. On his right arm in full display was what looked like a tattoo when in reality it was the Tekkō Fūin, a seal that held the Hachibi within the man.
"B-sama" Motoi gave a small bow towards the jinchūriki of the Hachibi and more or less the teacher of the young girl before them that seemed to be on the verge of turning the island itself into a literal burning hell.
Killer B gave a small nod to Motoi but he kept his gaze squarely on Yugito "Chilling is the best remedy, allows you to make a better memory. But raging out won't work out, to get some help just give us a shout"
"FUCK YOUR HELP!" Yugito yelled before a small ball of blue fire with a black core shout forth from the blonde teen's mouth and flew past Killer B, lightly singing his white headband and a few hairs, and struck the tree behind him, engulfing it in blue flames before they slowly turned to the standard red, yellow and orange color.
Motoi flinched and took a few steps back, bringing his arms up to defend himself while Killer B continued to just stand there and look at the young ball of anger before him with an unreadable expression on his face. Yugito was breathing heavily as she glared at the two men, her face red with fury as sweat began to form on her forehead before she turned on her heel and stomped off back towards the house that they were all living in currently with a frustrated yell.
"You really should start letting her see you more often B-sama" Motoi said after Yugito was out of earshot of the two, or rather her enhanced earshot "If nothing else, it could help calm her down a bit"
"It wouldn't... not at this point at least" Killer B said with a sigh, forgoing speaking in lyrics and rhyming given the severity of the situation at the moment.
Normally B would be rapping even when he's in the midst of a fever pitched battle that could very well end with him dead or dying, but even he's learned to recognize when it wasn't appropriate.
"She'd take my usual behavior as me not caring enough or even as mocking" B explained as he stared off in the direction that Yugito departed in "Anger has a way of distorting the truth. Or her paranoia will lead her to believe that I don't have faith in her and I'm simply there for if... when she loses control. Which in turn, will anger her even more"
It was times like this that Killer B's faith in humanity dwindled a bit and he was left with a feeling of... anger towards it. While B himself never had a great childhood thanks to be a jinchūriki, he was spared some of the worse aspects of the life most endured by being formally adopted by the Third Raikage and having the eventual Fourth raise him as his brother. This deterred a number of possible assassination attempts, mostly, and forced a number of Kumo's residents to at the very least resort to ignoring his existence or throw a few things like eggs or rotten food at him rather than kunai.
But Yugito didn't have that benefit growing up, her family all but abandoned her the moment the Nibi was sealed into her, and thanks to the actions of the previous two jinchūrikis' of said Bijū, a lot of villagers looked at her with scorn and hate. Some had even tried to kill her on a few occasions, one of which B himself personally intervened in. Add the fact that the girl had a weaker seal than his own and thus allowed the Nibi more influence on her, you were left with one bitter and angry individual that hated the whole world.
"So what are we going to do?" Motoi said as he glanced at the burnt tree beside him, the flames having since died out only after they left a fairly large mark on it's trunk "The island won't survive for long if she keeps lashing out like this"
"I'll think of something" Killer B sighed as he reached up to remove his shades and rub his eyes tiredly, today really wasn't going well in his opinion.
He couldn't think up a single good rhyme all day and his student was on the verge of losing her shit and killing everyone with a fiery inferno. He warned his brother, A, that he wasn't suited to be the girl's sensei, not for anything outside her training as a jinchūriki, or at the very least until she got her anger under control. But A seemed to be under the illusion that somehow B would be able to reach some sort of breakthrough with the girl when her last thirteen senses had failed simply because their childhoods were 'similar'.
But similar was still too different in B's opinion, and Yugito knew that compared to her, his childhood was far easier. If anything, all it did was cause the resentment she felt for him grow even more.
'Any advice, ya fool?' B mentally spoke to the Bijū within him, the Hachibi, Gyūki.
'Hmm, Matatabi was always a angry one after the Sage's passing' the massive eight tailed ox creature said within the confines of B's mindscape 'Out of all of us, she took humanity's disregard and pervasion of the Rikudō Sennin's teachings the hardest. And being sealed in people for the past hundred or so years to help said humans further ruin his teachings hasn't helped improve her mood'
'So what should we do?' B asked after a few moments with a frown on his face.
'First and foremost we need to help that little girl get her anger under control' Gyūki advised with a exhale of ink infused steam through his nostrils 'And perhaps give her some advice on how to at least get past the first step of mastering Matatabi's power'
'She needs to learn how on her own, simply telling her won't help and it'll just end up giving her dark half something else to use when she does go back and than she might as well be back at square one' B shook his head.
'So you think her just sitting there, trying to ignore the darkness in her will help?' Gyūki countered with a raised brow 'She's not you B, I know you hate hearing this from me again and again, but she's not. Not everyone is born with inherit goodness in them like you and a very chosen few are. Some need help getting there while others never find it. Right now Yugito is at the crossroads of those paths. If you don't help her soon...'
'Yeah... yeah I know...' B thought with a mental sigh.
Why did B have to go and open his big stupid mouth when his brother was trying to figure out a teacher for Yugito?
...
And done.
Next chapter, Pītā reaches the base...