Hello and welcome to the seventh chapter. The story is staying an ItaSaku story.
Chapter Seven: A New Me
-Sakura's Pov-
I felt memories flowing into my mind once again after the pain faded out completely and I had blacked out. I was being reborn once again. This time, I was my old self, except I had many more abilities than that of my past life. I had been blessed with the power from my father's shinobi clan bloodline, the Ryuu (Dragon Spirit) Clan, which I had secretly awakened and learned of from my father, Ryuu Haku (Dragon Spirit White) at the age of 3. I was a prodigy. The kekei genkai was called the Rongan. (Dragon Eye)
My mother, Haruno Yuri (Spring's Lily) knew nothing about my father's shinobi clan bloodline. If she did, she never would have married him. For some reason, she always looked as Shinobi with cold eyes. She had me take music classes and I learned to play the piano, guitar, violin, flute, and harp at a high level by the age of 5.
My father had secretly entered me into the academy, when I asked him to. After my mother had found out, she had been extremely emotional and angered. She had been crying and screaming, yelling at my father to never come back. I had been crying when I watched them fight. My mother had gone back to the dining room. I had heard sobbing from there. I was in the hall crying silently. My father had been silent and he comforted me for a short time. He seemed to have decided something else as well. I could remember what had happened very clearly.
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"Tou-san," I murmured.
He hugged me and I hugged him back tightly.
"Sakura, I have to leave," He told me softly.
"Why?" I asked looking up at him with tear-filled eyes.
He put his hand on my head.
"I will tell you something. Your mother had a younger sister. She was an extremely strong ninja, but she had died months before you were born. Your mother had lost her father and sister because they were all ninja. She is frightened of losing other precious people. You have a part of your aunt's power, the Heiwana bloodline, in your blood as well as my own bloodline, the Ryuu bloodline," he responded.
Father sat down on the ground and pulled me into his lap. I turned my head to look up at him as if begging him to continue.
Daddy looked down at me and sighed before continuing on with what he was saying, "You were also named after your aunt since you look exactly like her, but your mother fears losing you again. You must master your power. If possible, keep it secret until you believe you can take care of yourself against any enemy. There is something that I must do, as well. I am leaving to do what I have to do. I am giving you some things that will help you." He went to grab a few things from his room.
He came out with two blades, two scrolls, and a glowing medallion wrapped in silk. I could feel a tingle of energy in the air. The two blades were lovely. One was black blade with rubies in the hilt while the other was silver with dark amethyst jewels in the hilt. I could tell that these jewels were meant to hold ones chakra. These were meant for all kinds of uses and probably worked a little similar to Amiti did.
"What's that?" I asked looking at the medallion.
"This scroll explains everything about this medallion. You must keep this hidden. No one must know about this medallion ever, until it is either a situation that will threaten the world or what is sealed inside is about to awaken and it is impossible to avoid its awakening. You'll understand when you read the scroll. Keep it secret," He said handing me a scroll with silver rimmed edges wrapped around a gold painted wooden center piece.
I nodded and took the scroll. He handed me the medallion, wrapped in the silk.
"The silk holds back the power. Keep it hidden. You'll understand why once you read the scroll." He said.
I nodded. He handed me the second scroll. It had red rimmed edges and a white dragon symbol on the outside, along with a red wooden center piece.
"What's this scroll?" I asked completely curious.
"This scroll contains all the information on our clan's techniques along with all possible techniques you would be able to learn. Keep it well and study it. It will be your guide throughout your training." He responded. "And lastly here these two blades, they used to be mine, but I will give them to you. They're extremely rare and made of pure diamond. They'll cut through anything but chakra itself. Learn to use them."
"But daddy how did they become such color diamonds are usually see through not colored," I say drawing on my knowledge and curiosity.
"Ah, but baby these blades were made by fire chakra and therefore they took on the coloring of the persons chakra who made them. Both blades were commissioned by my grandfather for me by two different blade makers," he answers me with a smile.
I nodded my head to show my understanding. He gently patted my head in a comforting way. I could tell he was trying to make this easier on me.
"I want to see you as a strong ninja when you grow up. Train hard," He told me.
I nodded looking down. He sighed and pulled me into a warm hug. I cried and held onto him tightly. Then he had left and never came back.
I had read the scroll he had given me containing information about the glowing medallion. I had been shocked at the information he had entrusted me with.
In the past, there had been two Goddesses who were sisters, both beautiful and powerful that lived on the Earth, like the humans with human forms.
The first was childish and extremely friendly to the living beings on the world. She was the Goddess of Chaos, named Yune. Her true form was like that of a human child's with red eyes, and bright orange-red wavy hair that flowed down. She wore bright colors and was always quite cheerful.
The other was mature and detached to everything. She was the Goddess of Order, named Ashera. Her true form was like that of a woman at her peaking point. She was beautiful and her body was curved in the perfect places. She wore black and white, shades, symbolizing balance, and was always serious.
They were sisters but opposites in everything, however, both of them had one single thing in common. They loved the world. They were also linked. When one slept, the other slept, when one woke, the other woke as well. The Goddesses lived on Earth watching over the animals and the humans.
However, the humans had started warring on the Shinobi Continent area and many killed each other. The Goddess of Chaos had been shocked at this and her emotions turned to anger and fury, at how the humans continued to fight on with no end. Her emotional loss of control brought up a large earth quake that broke the Earth and killed many more humans.
The Goddess of Order blessed the Sage of Six Paths, and the Ryuu Clan Ancestor, Ryuu Kohaku (Dragon Spirit Amber) to fight for her and seal away the out of control Goddess of Chaos, her sister, Yune. Yune was sealed within the medallion, known as Kohaku's Medallion or the Fire Emblem in its more common name. The Goddess of Order had also been angered at the killing and wars of the humans, and the Sage of Six Paths and Kohaku made a pact with the Goddess of Order. They made a promise.
They promised they would start no wars among all the nations for at least one thousand years. If this promise was broken, Ashera would destroy the world, fearing that this kind of violence would spread through the world. Afterwards she would create a new world, and try again.
The humans all knew of the promise and the fighting stopped. It was after the ten tailed beast was created and the Sage of Six Paths died, that the rumor came about of the ability to control the power of the medallion. Ryuu Kohaku had hidden himself with the medallion becoming its guardian with his own clan in the forests, hidden in secrecy.
The people searched for the medallion and found nothing. The promise was spoken of, and the people started the wars once again to try and awaken the Goddess. It had been nearly awakened, when the promise was said to be fake, along with the story of the Goddess and the blessings. The people stopped fighting and the wars stopped once again. After a while though, the people started fighting because of political issues.
The Goddess within the medallion had nearly been awakened a few times but never had awakened fully. The brighter the medallion glowed, the closer it was to awakening. A Ryuu clan member could feel when the goddess would awaken, and they also had the ability of holding back the goddess from awakening, singing special songs called "Galdrar" that had special powers. There were also special hymns that had special powers as well.
The Ryuu Clan was extremely powerful. My father had told me that the clan had lived hidden deep in the forests. No one knew about them. However there had been someone who discovered their clan and was able to use space-time ninjutsu. The one who killed the clan off and had nearly killed my Father, but he had managed to escape.
I finished reading the scroll on my family after only a few hours. Nothing could have made me out that scroll down. My mind was curious about everything it had in it. When our kekei genkai, the Rongan activated for the first time, a black dragon tattoo would appear on our skin over our hearts. It was a small circling dragon that covered a perfect circle area over our hearts. There were four stages to the kekei genkai.
When the first stage activated, the irises of our eyes turned from a light blue to glowing silver. The first stage gave us the power to communicate telepathically with all living things, and look into their memories without interference. Extremely powerful kekei genkai users could communicate telepathically from extremely long distances. With the first level our senses of smell, sight, and hearing would also become extremely sensitive along with our chakra sensory ability. Everything would also turn to a slow motion to us when we activated the kekei genkai so our speed would increase ten-fold.
At the second stage when first activated, a mark that was somewhat like a birthmark tatoo would appear. Our eyes would turn silver-red. The mark could appear anywhere. At the second stage, we usually sign a contract with dragon summonings. Once we had gotten our kekei genkai level to the second stage, we were given the ability to use any element at any time, even without the kekei genkai activated. We could also start creating energy crystals for emergency cases.
At the Third Stage, a number of red sparkles would appear in our irises, around the pupil. When the Rongan was activated at the Third Stage, we were able to summon our own "Zanpaktou" (Soul Blades) which were blades born from within our souls that had their own souls. To awaken the true power of the Zanpaktou, you had to learn the name of your Zanpaktou. The Zanpaktou were able to cut through not only the body, but the soul, to ensure the death of a person. Damage to the soul was impossible to heal.
At the last Stage, our eyes would turn red, and our pupils would turn to slits. At this stage, you became extremely powerful by borrowing the power of the dark dragon spirit within you. The power of our clan at the last stage was somewhat like a curse. The dark dragon spirit was extremely powerful, but if you over used the power for too long, the dragon spirit could over-take your mind. A black color would slowly cover the white of your eyes if you stayed at the stage for too long. If it fully covered both your eyes, you would be completely taken over. When that happened your body would turn into the spirit's original form, which was an extremely painful transformation, and you would lose yourself, destroying everything possible until you your body died.
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I had learned to use the first stage at the age of 3, and learned to master the power of the first stage with my father after 3 months of training. Then I had activated the second stage of the kekei genkai on the 4th month of training when my father had accidentally almost hit me with a dragon flame fire ball.
The dragon's flames were extremely powerful and could burn through anything like Amaterasu. I had managed to do a last minute fire ball jutsu and my kekei genkai had activated. Both fireballs had exploded, and my kekei genkai had activated to the second level.
The mark I had gained were a pair of pale white ragged stripes that were just unnoticeable against my skin. One stripe on each side of my face, on my upper jaw. If you looked extremely closely, you'd be able to see a slight contrast in the color of my skin and the markings. My mother hadn't noticed it.
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At the Academy start my third and final year, I was there with my mother. She didn't seem to be herself after my father had left. She stared at me with such sad eyes, and I knew that she almost completely hated me for making this decision against her will. I only trained with determination in the woods when I could. Most of the girls had been eyeing Sasuke, but I ignored him in favor of making it seem like I was paying attention. I noticed Sasuke's father was there as well.
There was be four teachers mainly teaching in our year. Iruka-sensei was our homeroom teacher. Suzume-sensei, the female, was be teaching special kunoichi classes that we kunoichi would be taking to develop more skills. Daikoku-sensei, the another male sensei, other than Iruka was be responsible for keeping an eye on all students' skills and putting teams together along with arranging special field-trips and events for the students. Mizuki-sensei was be teaching the normal classes along with Iruka-sensei. My homeroom teacher was Iruka-sensei, like in the past. The entire rookie nine was there in Iruka's class. I showed smarts but no physical skill or ability. I never showed my true ability.
Naruto was still the same idiot like he was in the past. In the beginning Iruka had been cold to Naruto and ignored what Naruto did, acting as if he wasn't even there, not even acknowledging his pranks. However, after a while, when Naruto had recklessly done something dangerous, Iruka-sensei seemed to have been extremely worried and went after him. Then after that, he seemed to start acknowledging Naruto as a child and not as the Kyuubi. Sasuke was the perfect boy in class and many girls got crushes on him when he was acknowledged by Iruka as the best student in class. I acted weak and many girls would always glare at me when Iruka said that I had gotten perfect along with Sasuke in our written tests. They bullied me. Things continued on like they did in my time with only a few exceptions.
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It was hard for me to keep up the weak façade but I did it. The only time I allowed it to fall was when I was training with Hinata near my home. Hinata and I wanted to become stronger so we began to train together.
One day Hinata and I were in my training spot behind my house, she stood beside me as we went through our usual warm ups. It helped to have someone else to train with in secret. We both agreed that we would keep our skills secret and between us both.
"So Sakura, what are we doing today," asked Hinata as we finished with our stretches.
"I was thinking we could work on our hand to hand combat today," I replied as I straighten up.
"Alright, it sounds great," she said as she walks across from me to the other side of the clearing.
We both got into our fighting stances. Hinata into the fighting stance the best helps her fighting type for her kekei genkai, her feet spread apart with both of her hands up but slightly forward of her sides. I spread my feet some and bring my fists up. We began to circle each other and Hinata was the first to move forward at top speed. I run forward and we clash. Hinata sends chakra to her hands and tries to shut off my pressure points but I keep her from hitting those points and land a few blows on her. After a few more seconds and Hinata landing a hit or two we both break apart and relax out of our fighting stances.
"That was good but I think you need to relax your stance some and be looser. You being so tight and winded up just makes it harder for you to move quick enough," I told her as I sat down for a moment.
"You are almost perfect like always Sakura," Hinata said as she also took a seat. "After this, do you want to go over to my house?"
"Sure, how about three more rounds before we go," I asked her.
"Alright," she replied standing up and getting into a fighting stance.
I repeated her movements and we started our fight once again. This time we lengthened it to ten minutes. Hinata landed a few hits on me and I was landing less on her than earlier. This was good for her and for me as well. The next two fights last about twenty or thirty minutes apiece. The good thing about this was that both of us get something out of this. Hinata got to become stronger and faster as well as more knowledgeable. I got to learn more about manipulation of chakra and how to create barriers with my chakra.
Our last match ended with both of us one the ground breathing heavily. I laughed and Hinata soon followed me. We both have not had that good of a match in a very long time. My father's last training session with me was a little over two years ago. I came to my feet and walked over to Hinata. I stuck my hand out for her to grab and she grabbed it so I pulled her to her feet. Hinata and I walked out of the forest and walked to my home. I opened the back sliding door and stepped in motioning for Hinata to wait outside.
"Mom," I yelled into the house.
"Yes, Sakura," she yelled back from the kitchen.
"I am going over to Hinata's house for dinner is that alright," I asked her as I walked into the kitchen.
"Alright just be safe. Any other plans," she demanded.
"I might spend the night at her house. If not, I will come back home," I told her as I hugged her.
"Like I said just be safe," she replied with a nod of her head.
"Thanks mom, bye," I yelled as I ran out the back sliding doors.
I motioned for Hinata to lead the way to her house as soon as I closed the doors. Hinata jumped up on one of the roofs and we transverse the city rapidly. We soon arrived at the Hyuuga Compound. The guards let us by without a problem and did not stop me because I was with the Hyuuga heir. Hinata took me to her home and we entered the house. Hiashi was waiting for Hinata in the kitchen. She bowed her head in respect to her father as I bowed at the waist just enough to show proper respect to the head of another ninja clan.
"Hello father. How has your day been," she asked him.
"It was fine until my daughter decided to skip her combat class with me," Hiashi growled loudly.
"I am sir but she was with me. For the last few weeks Hinata and I have been training together at this time. She must have confused the times that she was to train with you. I am sorry for any disturbances," I said and bowed much deeper than earlier.
"So you went and trained with this girl who has no fighting abilities at all," Hiashi growled even louder.
"I am sorry sir but I can fight sir," I growled in return straightening back up.
"Girl do you know who you are messing with," Hiashi snarled.
"Yes, I do. I am speaking to Hiashi Hyuuga, the head of the Hyuuga clan. I maybe young sir but I still have the powers of my clan, the Ryuu clan," I told him in a sickeningly sweet voice.
Hiashi stood there frozen. I could see the dots connecting in his head. He was connecting my looks and comparing them to what is known of my clan. The Hyuuga Clan was the only people who knew where my clan went. Our clans had a close connection before and after the Goddess of Order gave us the medallion to protect.
"Well good then. Continue with the work," Hiashi told Hinata and me before walking out of the kitchen.
I heard him stop before turning back looking back into the kitchen.
He paused for a second before he said, "You can come by anytime you want …"
"Sakura, sir. Haruno Sakura," I replied with a polite bow of my head.
"Ah. Are you in any way related to the late Heiwana Sakura," he asked me.
"Yes I am her niece," I responded with a slight nod.
"As I said, you are welcome to come by at any time for any reason," Hiashi stated me before leaving the room.
"Yes sir and thank you for your hospitality," I said as I bowed watching him leave the room.
"Wow you survived a talk with my father," Hinata said with a smile on her face.
"Of course, my father was just like him," I replied with a smile.
"Shall we do some practicing of the fan dance moves or seduction classes," Hinata asks me as we sat down for dinner which one of the branch family served us dinner.
We ate dinner before heading outside for practice with our fan dances for seduction class. Hinata is very good in dancing but she had some problems with the seduction part because she always blushes. It would be harder for her to complete these type of missions if she blushes. I always told her to image the person she is seducing is me or her someone close instead of the person who they are seducing.
Tsurara11: Okay that is it for now. Sorry but I am tired long day.