Chapter 4: Training/Murder/Kidnapped
Three years later… (Kwan is nine and Zin is 12, just graduated and is now a Genin)
Kwan walked out of school by himself and began his trek home. Kwan is no longer in the class he was previously was. He skipped a level (along with an excellent female) and is just a few years from graduating.
He walked in the shadows avoiding contact with other people. In school, he only speaks when he is asked and acts when he is told to. All of the other classmates leave him alone.
Kwan made it home and walked inside; no one was there. He walked over to a table where a note was and read it.
Hey Kwan! Zin is doing his missions and I'm at meeting with other Chuunins.
There is some food in the fridge. We'll be home later.
Seiko
Kwan walked to the fridge and picked out some food and ate it. He sat at the table awhile figuring out what to do. Then he stood up and began walking to the forest where he decided to train his body.
He stood before a tree and studied it. He held his hand and a black katana appeared. These were Shadow Weapons. He could summon and weapon he wished using the element of darkness. His clan was well-known for this.
He took a step back then lunged at the tree swinging the katana with one hand and then swung back many times at amazing speeds. When he was done, he was panting. The tree seemed still for a moments before it fell to the ground in many pieces.
He practiced with the other weapons too: kunai, shuriken, needles, etc… After awhile he then rested a bit then stood back up and began to make a seal.
"Daaku Bunshin no Jutsu!" he cried out. An exact copy of him appeared but he was all black like a shadow and was full of Chakra. This move is a better version of Kage Bunshin no Jutsu (Shadow Clone). Daaku Bunshin no Jutsu (Dark Clone) created an exact copy of the original from darkness with more Chakra than the user.
This jutsu drains quite a lot from the user and only a few ninjas can use it without passing out or exhausting all their Chakra. Unlike Kage Bunshin no Jutsu, the Chakra isn't divided more extra Chakra is created in the copy. This is useful to use the copy to fight while you either run, or recover the Chakra you just used for the clone, or use it as a distraction, or to complete another jutsu that requires more Chakra than what you are capable of.
When using this is very risky because it his hard to control the clone because sometimes it gains a mind of its own and may turn on its user. Plus, so much Chakra is drain just to do it, so most of the time it's pointless.
Kwan stood their breathing even harder. His shadow then moved from Kwan and went to the clone and enveloped it. The clone walked over and restored some of Kwan's Chakra with a medic ability.
"Fight me now," the clone spoke.
Kwan, breathing normal now stood motionless. Then he attacked. He ran forward and threw a punch and before he hit his clone he disappeared behind the clone and continued the punch. The clone vanished.
"Using shadows won't work against me Kwan. I am after all the first Shadow Master. If you can somehow use your shadow skills against me, I'll be surprised," the clone spoke behind him. The next thing Kwan heard was his own body thumping against the ground as he was punched from behind.
"I know that. You've told me a million times. This is training. Too bad you can't protect me," Kwan spoke.
The clone laughed. "Don't depend solely on me. What if there is a time when I can't? What will you do then?"
Kwan stood up. "Then I guess I'll just have to protect myself." Kwan vanished once again and appeared around the clone with Kage Bunshin no Jutsu. They lunged at him. The clone vanished once again.
"Ryuuka no Jutsu!" they heard from above. They shadow clones were incinerated and disappeared, none of them was the original Kwan. The dark clone was standing on a branch.
Then Kwan appeared and kicked the branch causing it to break making the dark clone fall.
"Doryuu Taiga!" Kwan cried out completing a seal. The ground below the falling clone became thick with mud. The clone fell in it getting stuck in the mud. Kwan then completed some seals and cried out another name.
"Housenka no Jutsu!" and many fireballs came zooming toward the clone.
"Clever," the clone cried out. The clone collected a lot of Chakra around his hands and feet and was able to stand on the mud and jump out of the way.
"If it was somebody else, you probably would have won right there. Getting an opponent stuck in mud and then using a multiple fire technique. The opponent would then counter with a water barrier, but hidden in the fire are shuriken and the opponent wouldn't be able to block. Summoning an earth barrier wouldn't work because the fire would explode on the Earth. You are improving quite well."
"Well, I am being tutored by the Shadow Master himself," Kwan replied grinning as he landed.
"Don't need to flatter me," the clone spoke and putting his hands behind his head. "Come at me again."
"Okay…" Kwan vanished once again. It was quiet for awhile. Then he appeared with a mass amount of shadow clones around the dark clone.
"Kage Shuriken no Jutsu!" he cried out and each of the shadow clones threw a shuriken with another shuriken hidden in its shadow. Before the shuriken hit the dark clone, a dark shield enveloped him stopping all the attacks.
Then the dark clone appeared right in front of Kwan and punched him in the stomach.
"No fair..." Kwan gasped.
"Do not underestimate anyone. Think beyond normal. What if one day you meet someone like yourself where there is a spirit that protects them? Expect it," the dark clone explained. And Kwan fell over unconscious.
The dark clone summoned a katana and stabbed himself with it. The clone disappeared and Kwan's shadow returned to him. The sun had just set.
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Kwan was standing in a dark world. He could see nothing except another boy. The boy had red hair and light green eyes with the word "love" on his forehead.
"Who are you?" Kwan cried out. The boy just stood standing. Kwan looked behind the boy and saw that the shadow was of a raccoon. The shadow spoke though the boy did not.
"I am the traitor…" the shadow cried out. A shot of pain went through Kwan's head. He collapsed to the ground and looked at the boy. Anger and rage pulsed through his body.
"I will kill you!" a voice behind roared. Kwan turned around and saw two shadows: one of a man and one of a panther. He turned back around and looked at the boy.
The boy was now sitting down his head buried in his arms, his arms resting on his knees. He seemed to be crying.
Kwan looked down at his hands and feet, and saw that they were huge black paws. He began to run; he ran on his legs and hands. The next he knew, he had sand and red stuff in his mouth. It was blood…
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Kwan woke up with a start breathing hard.
"A dream…" he whispered. Then he looked at the sky. The moon was high above him.
"Oh my god! How long have I slept?" Kwan cried.
"It's around midnight," the Dark Spirit spoke to him.
"Oh! I should be home already! Why didn't you wake me up?" he cried.
"You needed your rest. You used a lot of Chakra."
Kwan stood up and vanished, traveling in the shadows. He then appeared outside his house and approached the door. His hand went for it and then stopped. Something felt wrong. He shrugged it off and stepped inside and saw a body on the floor. Chills went through his body. He approached the body carefully and looked at it.
"Seiko!" he cried out. He bent down and turned her over. She was barely alive. There were cut marks every where and many of her ribs were broken.
"Kwan...we...we were attacked…They captured Zin…" she managed to say.
"Who? Why?" Tears began to go down his face.
"They want to see the secret of your clan. They...they…they're going to kill him."
Kwan gasped.
"I'm sorry, Kwan. I'm going to miss you. I wanted to see become the great ninja that you declared. I love you…" and her voice trailed off and she was silent.
Kwan cried as he laid his head on the body. He clutched the dead woman's hand and held it. Then he let go. He stood up and wiped his tears away. He vanished once again and appeared outside the village and next to a house near a stream. He looked around and then vanished once more and was inside.
Before him was a group of men huddled around something. Kwan then appeared in the center of the group and looked at his brother.
Zin was strapped to a table and was breathing really hard. The group of men took a step back.
"Kwan…" he spoke with a raspy voice.
"Zin…"
"I'm sorry. I won't be there for you anymore. I've been poisoned. I can feel it draining me away…"
Kwan summoned a kunai and began to cut Zin off the table. A few men took a step forward and Kwan glared at them. The men grabbed their heads and collapsed to the ground screaming. The other men bent down to see what happened to them.
"I'll say hi to mom…take care. You are going to be a great ninja…"and his voice trailed off just like Seiko's.
A tear dropped from Kwan's eyes and his hands squeezed on his kunai. "You're wrong. I am going to be the greatest ninja…" he whispered to himself. The screams of the men stopped; they were unconscious.
"Well, we have the last of the Shadow Clan. Lucky us," one of the men spoke. "We have to bodies to search now. The more the merrier." And he laughed.
Kwan merely glared at him and his eyes became bloodshot and he began to scream grabbing his head.
The group of men began to back away.
"I will kill you all!" Kwan cried out. The men began to run. They tried the doors and windows but they did not break or open. The walls also didn't break. The men turned around and stared at Kwan in fear.
The men then began to attempt to kill Kwan. All their attacks were stopped though by the Dark Spirit. They all stared into his eyes which were a mistake. They all screamed grabbing their heads.
Kwan vanished along with the body of Zin. The place was engulfed in flames. The men did not feel the flames though, they were screaming with the nightmare inside their heads.
Kwan appeared back at his house and laid the body of Zin next to Seiko. He looked at them and began to cry again and fell asleep…
-SandVillage-
A boy with red hair roamed around the streets; everyone avoided him. It was dark and was quite dangerous to roam around the streets at this time. Not because of any thugs, but because of this boy.
An unfortunate man walked around the streets with a bottle of sake in his hand. He was apparently drunk. The man continued to walk until he bumped into a little kid.
"Hey watch it punk or you'll going to have to run home and cry to your mommy!" he threatened. The boy stood still and the man looked at him confused.
"Hey! Did you hear what I—" and the man noticed that his hair was red and there was a gourd on his back.
"Oh my God!" he screamed as sand surrounded him. The sand began to tighten and then it crushed him, mixing the blood with the sand.
The boy continued to walk, as if nothing had happened.
-Konoha-
A boy with blonde hair walked around the streets looking to see if any of his friends would play with him. He approached a house and knocked on it.
"Hello? Who is it?" a woman answered the door.
"Hey! Can Kiba come out to play?" the boy asked. His answer was a door slammed against his face.
"Damn kid! Kiba! Why are you friends with this freak?" the mom shouted as the boy walked away sad.
"Man! No one wants to play with me. Everyone's parents seem to hate me, except maybe Shikamaru, but all he wants to play is chess, and I don't even know how to play…" he spoke to himself solemnly.
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Well, that's the end of chapter 4! This is also longer than my others… Remember that everyone has black hair and usually wears dark clothing. If you didn't understand during the training; the dark clone was being controlled by the Dark Spirit. And the jutsu that Kwan used on the men is very similar to Tsukiyomi. I haven't come up with a name yet, hoping for suggestions. It can't be called the same because Tsukiyomi requires the Sharingan, and Kwan obviously doesn't have it. Instead he has black eyes (iris is black), which only appears very rarely through out the Shadow Clan and only a few has ever had that ability. More to come! Please review and add suggestions.