New chapter time! I played a great marching band show today so I'm giving you guys a gift in good faith! On with the show!
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What if Some Things Were Different?
Chappy 7: Rei's conflict with the Hyuuga
"Remember, the Uchiha use the interceptor stance as a default, but without the sharingan he won't be able to react to your speed if he tries the interceptor stance, and they aren't stupid. Fugaku will change stances to fight a swift enemy after he fails in the interceptor stance." Rei said as he pushed Kyuubi harder into his training. "You must train your human form to incredible strength, as Kitsumaru was a general who's duties were to the devil world, so he had to remain in either demon or devil form, but never human." Rei continued, stepping on Kyuubi's back through his pushups, bringing him to the ground. "Your strength is that of an advanced academy student, while it should be the strength of your demon form." Rei stepped off of him and backed away a few steps. "Continue your training, you must be able to take me on in an all-out taijutsu fight for at least five full minutes in pure strength while I attack you using speed and defense on top of strength. You can't even block my attacks, you have to counter all of my attacks for at least five minutes without using leverage until you will be ready." Rei said, knocking Kyuubi to the side with his foot. "Up your weights to 100 pounds. If you don't make it to at least one ton by the end of the day you'll have to be fighting Fugaku with as much human chakra as you can hold, because you won't be able to fight in pure taijutsu or use your own chakra, if you lose this much or you use your chakra your secret's blown."
"I KNOW!" Kyuubi shouted.
"Obviously you don't, because you're still on 100, you should be up to five hundred by now but you aren't, so get back to work!" Rei said walking away, leaving Kyuubi to his training.
'Fucking slave-driver' Kyuubi thought with hate.
"I heard that." Rei shouted from the distance. Kyuubi honestly and truly hated Mind Reading.
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(With Rei)
Rei was walking through the streets of konoha to get some groceries that he needed in order to feed his family for another week with the money the hokage was giving him until they could enlist him as a samurai to do ninja missions. He was getting hated glares from all of the villagers. He had been hated as someone under the influence of the Kyuubi. They believed that the Kyuubi, though they thought it was in a sword, that it was able to use "Kitsune magic" to change their views, whereas the Uchiha would probably be praised as "Demon Tamers" or some such non-sense.
On his way to the market there weren't any people stupid enough to approach him, due to his strange appearance. (I know, common appearance but its feudal japan, to them his clothing is frickin' weird.) At least not until he was in front of the market place, where they stopped him because they expected him to rob the market place blind.
"Demon-lover, stay away from here! You have no business robbing these good people!" the apparent mob-leader shouted in hatred.
"I'm sorry, do you have proof that I'm under the Kyuubi's influence?" Rei asked.
"No, but why else would you help those weakling no-clan fools!" A random idiot woman shouted.
"Well for 1) those no-clan fools are my friends, for 2) I happen to not be in a clan and am able to destroy the planet we live on if given ten minutes and a motive." Rei said calmly. "I can control the very air you breathe. I can remove the nitrogen from the air and make the air so flammable that the heat of the inside of your lungs would cause fire to form. I can kill you in hundreds of gruesome ways on a whim, I suggest you allow me to provide for my family honestly, or I just might choose to rob the market and leave the rest of konoha to starve for a week until the new shipments arrive." The mob instantly dispersed and Rei was allowed to buy the food, take it back to the apartment and roam for awhile. He eventually ended up in front of the Hyuuga compound. "Hmm, I wonder if they're going to try and get me to help them out. They might at some point. Maybe I should've mentioned I improved upon the kaiten and hakke." An ANBU appeared in front of him wearing a cat mask.
"Rei-san, Hokage-sama requested your presence in his office. Your wife is waiting there with your daughter." Cat said, vanishing after delivering the message.
"Hmm, a little eager to leave aren't we? Better be ready for some political bullshit."
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Hokage's office, one Kurai Hiraishin later
"You rang?"
"Yes, thank you for coming Rei. The council has come to the conclusion that if you're going to be a samurai for the village, then you're going to have to pass the chuunin exams without using your ki powers as you called them." Sarutobi explained, turning to Ari. "You'll have to take the exams on his team as well. We're not going to risk your daughter's safety, she'll be in Adarei's care during that time, but we won't let you leave the village, so you'll have to wait for the chuunin exams to come here. That won't be until six months after the graduation exam in the academy, so you'll have to wait for awhile. I'll continue with the weekly loans until then."
"Thank you Hokage-sama, with your permission we'll take our leave." Ari said, leaving as she hooked her arm with Rei's. They exited the office and Rei looked at her.
"You seemed in a hurry to get out of their, is something wrong?"
"Yes there's something wrong! We hate Konohagakure, I was properly loved nowhere until we settled in at Shigakure and there we absolutely hated konoha! And on top of that, that man was one of the only people that Naruto-sama specifically said to leave alive if we ever met him in our travels because he loved Naruto-sama like a grandson! I respect him, yet I hate one of the things that he loves the most! It's just wrong to pretend that I'm okay with it!" Ari shouted, tears starting to form.
"Hey, hey, hey, come on, it's okay, we'll get through this. Once he goes out into public something will happen that will make him lose his respect for the village. You don't have to pretend about anything when it's just you, me, Sora, and Sarutobi." Rei said, trying to calm her down. "Here, let's get you home, you've held this in too long. I don't want you to be uncomfortable, let's go."
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Later that day, in front of the Hyuuga compound
Rei had showed up here as he had been tired out from calming Ari. He had ended up helping her to the bad as she collapsed out of stress. When he left she was asleep with his shadow sentinels watching over her. At the moment he had Sora with him. He was just sort of staring at the compound, Sora sleeping peacefully in his arms. After awhile Hiashi had enough of simply watching as Rei stood there holding Sora. He approached Rei.
"Why are you here? You've been staring at the sky behind the compound since sun-down. What can you possibly gain from this?" Hiashi asked, not liking someone so enigmatic staring at his home.
"I can't gain anything from this whatsoever, I was just wandering how long it would take for you to get fed up with watching me. Why were you following me anyway? What I do is none of your business." Rei asked, looking at Hiashi with a blank face.
"Well, you see, I have a proposition for you…"
"Took you long enough, though my answer will probably be no to whatever you're about to ask."
"Would you consider an arranged marriage between the Hyuuga clan and your daughter?"
"Like I predicted, answer's no. I wouldn't consider it. My daughter's hand in marriage is not mine to give away. She will marry whomever she wants, be they human, demon, straight, gay, whatever the case may be, it's her choice." Rei said firmly to push his point across.
"Very well, but earlier, I had someone tending to the garden's in back and they heard you murmur something, what was it?" Hiashi asked, curiosity actually showing in his voice.
"I was asking myself whether or not I should tell you about my improved versions of your kaiten and hakke." Rei said, looking at the full moon that shone brightly in the night sky.
"You improved them? That shall be interesting, especially since my nephew Neji will be participating in the chuunin exams the next time they're in konoha. Perhaps you will end up fighting him and be able to show me these techniques."
"perhaps, but when the council gets wind of my refusal they're going to go ballistic aren't they?"
"most likely."
"Good luck man, you're gonna need it with the migraine you'll have tomorrow."
