Firstly, spell checking, Thanks again to NarHina for keeping me right. Jutsu was a word i saw a million times and didn't realise i had been spelling it wrong. I've always heard the word as Ji-tsu. While where i am from; a 'u' makes it sound like Juh-tsu which sounded wrong to me personally. Also I spell with UK English so S's instead of Z's and the odd U added into various words. But NarHina (and anyone else who noticed) I totally understand why you felt it was annoying, i once read a fiction where 'sign' was spelled as 'sigh' which annoyed me to no end.
Also where it is "-Italics-" The majority of characters cannot understand but i've written it so the viewer can understand.
Please keep on reviewing, commenting, following. Again sorry for the spelling mistakes.
"We have a male who appears to be seventeen years of age. Lineage, unknown, and place of birth unknown."
"You don't know where he is from? Or which village he identifies with?"
"Honestly no, no indications on his person or body."
"What about his injuries, when will he be awake for interrogation?"
"Around a fifth of his body is scar tissue. Small scars which are mainly located on his back suggest torture methods, maybe a whip?" The pink haired Sakura reported as her green jutsu worked over the body of the foreign shinobi. He was still incapacitated and was laying on an operating table, shirtless but with seals covering his own chakra seals and his right eye in fear his teleporting was a kekke genkai. "His major scars to note are two on his face. The first from his left ear to nose, it's older and suggests this is what destroyed his eye. The second is from the base of his cheeks to the forehead. It would have also destroyed his eye had it not already been missing."
"So no chance he was covering a unique kekke genkai? as the reports suggested."
"No." Sakura continued to Kurotsuchi who was obtaining the official report on the 'lightning demon'. "He is blind in his left eye by all definitions of the word."
"Continue with the rest of the injuries."
"As far as scarring goes he has the injury on his right shoulder, it's been cauterised." Sakura shuddered as she remembered how he howled in pain. "It was done by someone who had no training and so the injury became infected but is responding very well to treatment. He also has a scar from an attack which ought to have killed him. Scarring from infront of his heart on his chest and back both suggest he was impaled but was somehow able to recover from the wound, somehow." She stressed the word somehow.
Sakura waited for some sort of interruption but after a moment she continued. "The body also has two injuries of intense chakra burns. Honestly, I've only seen burns like this on Naruto. The first site is around the chakra storage seals. I suspect that was the result from defending his body from genjutsu. According to Sasuke Uchiha it was a very blunt method and burned far too much chakra but if it was his only defence it would have been preferable over nothing." Sakura waited for Kurotsuchi to finish writing down some notes.
"The other burn is on his left hand. Confirmation from Hinata Hyuga, shows this injury is caused from sustained chakra damage from leaking chakra in the nodes in his fingers. I suspect that the tattoo up his arm is actually a form of fuinjutsu and plays a role in forcibly opening his chakra in such a manor. For what reason, I do not know. Sasuke also confirmed it played no role in his combat strategy which also unlike what previous reports suggest."
"Any other injuries or observations about this person you could add to the report?"
"His body is badly malnourished, his eyes and his chakra sample also pointed to meditation over sleep. This has meant his chakra has been sub-standard and likely had a significant impact on his fighting ability. He may have been an effective shinobi with unique and powerful justu but he had been pushing himself far beyond his physical capacity. I think if he kept this up he'd only be able to keep up his strength for another month before collapsing from exhaustion. Coupled with his amounting injuries draining chakra; he really was going after those pages with everything he had."
"Thank you, Sakura, you have been a great help. We can take him from here."
"It's been my pleasure, I guess we've all been curious to who he is." Sakura got up to leave Kurotsushi to her report as she was scribbling her own notes down to her notebook.
"Sakura… What are you going to do about Monica?"
Sakura froze for a minute, Kurotsushi's voice was cold as if it demanded a suitable answer.
"We are going to have a talk with her tomorrow, depending her reaction and the testimonies of that man, and Druarni. We will punish her accordingly."
"Good because I am sure you understand our position here."
"I know." Sakura left with a heavy heart. She wished whole heartedly that Monica was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. She passed Sasuki who had arrived just before Fukushi attacked, they hardly had time to talk before the order was given to reinforce the fight. He gave her a quick smile but before Sakura could say anything he had entered the room to where she just had left. She sighed and walked to see the rest of her team.
"Sasuke." Kurotsushi spoke once he entered the room. "Are you able to use the sharingan on this… Fukushi?"
"Are the seals in place and checked? His technique may be blunt but it hurts when he manages to shake you off." Sasuke spoke plainly but Kurotsushi got the message and double checked that the seals were secured on Fukushi's body.
"He isn't awake though, I could call…"
"I'll wait, I could do with a rest anyway." Sasuke snapped a little, still somewhat cold from his actions before Naruto beat sense into him two years ago.
Kurtsushi nodded. "Once you have finished I'd like a full mental report."
"I will." Sasuke took a seat across the room while Kurotsushi left and locked the door behind her. Without wasting any of his time Sasuke slipped into a deep sleep.
After some time had passed; Fukushi woke up slowly to utter darkness from his blindfold. He didn't panic for he had been in this situation before, captured and bound. Fukushi listened carefully to his surroundings and he could hear the quiet breathing of someone asleep. A minute passed, and almost like the other person in the room sensed he was away he too also woke up and Fukushi could hear the other person getting up and approaching him.
"You're awake, great we can talk now."
"That sucks, I have nothing to say." Fukushi snapped after realising it was Sasuke from before, his cool voice was unmistakable. Sasuke ignored his comment.
"Now that you aren't in a rush, why did you attack iwagakure?"
"I doubt politely asking at the gates would have gotten me anywhere."
"Funny, so what was on this page that you mentioned?"
"I don't know!" Sasuke kicked the table next to Fukushi hard with his foot.
"Try again!"
"I mean I don't know specifically what's on the page. You won't be able to read it, and that is the way I'd like it to stay." Fukushi spoke calmly, he had nothing to lose but he still refrained from answering Sasuke fully.
"Another language?"
"-Yes you asshole, now fucking let me go and I'll kill you for defeating me.-"
"I see." Sasuke didn't understand the insults but the intent was evident in his voice so in a way he understood. "Asking questions is going to take too long, so I'll tell you what, I'll use my sharingan."
"-Bastard.-" Fukushi muttered as Sasuke threw off the blindfold and with his dark red eye he peered into Fukushi's purple eye.
"Sharingan." And the room faded to black.
Fukushi's mindscape.
Sasuke was not sure what he was expecting once he entered Fukushi's mind. Most people had nothing but floating memories but Sasuke was surprised over what he saw. A battlefield bathed in a blood-red light. Bodies were contorted into a range of grotesque shapes all with faces of anger or pain. Sasuke spent a few moments gazing at the horizon it was pretty uniform with very few landmarks or anything of notable interest. However, as Sasuke scanned the mindscape he quickly found large cracks and chasms throughout the landscape. To anyone untrained in mind-walking they would have thought them as part of the landscape but once the 'physics' of the mindscape were broken Sasuke saw the strains of a cracked mind. He continued his search and over time as he looked around he saw two figures that stood a distance apart. One looked like Fukushi himself, he was doubled over and sobbing at the base of the statue. The statue had the symbol of a black sun which appeared to be either setting or rising but the red light made it difficult to tell.
The other figure was a blue haired woman staring longing out into the black void. As a person would wait anxiously at port for a ship to arrive. 'Two personalities?' Sasuke thought to himself. It was his immediate guess. He left the sobbing Fukushi to approach the other 'Fukushi' as he technically hadn't met her yet. He approached the woman slowly so he didn't startle her. She finally noticed someone approaching and Sasuke immediately saw something was wrong with her. As she moved her features flickered. Sometimes changing size or colour, vanishing and becoming corrupted.
"Are you Fukushi's other personality?"
The woman shook her head and spoke. Her voice once was beautiful as Sasuke thought but now it had been corrupted and sounded harsh with static overlaid on top of her voice. It was almost impossible to understand the woman as she spoke but Sasuke's sharingan was able to catch several words by reading her lips.
"You, you were soul bound together?" Sasuke managed to understand as much. His first impression was some sick and twisted idea that Fukushi had on some innocent woman. She nodded and brought up a door seemingly from nowhere. A memory. Sasuke hesitated, the memory had been damaged as with the rest of the world. He entered regardless and he only saw a few images which had survived. The first was an image of two happy kids playing, chasing each other. one had blue hair while the other had Fukushi's brown hair. Standing over them were two adults talking about something important, but the two men were relaxed with each other and the image didn't suggest any tension between the men; 'Friends maybe' Sasuke noted. The second image appeared to be a wedding ceremony. Only the 'bride' and 'groom' Were the same two children. Wearing smart clothes and witnessed by both families and friends. The third image was seemingly a few moments later when both kids were in the centre of a ritualised jutsu, the pair were holding hands as their arms glowed bright yellow on the boy and a pale blue on the woman. Sasuke was then booted from the memory.
The spirit continued on what Sasuke said and described it was important for a pair of children to be bound early so they both flourish together into adulthood.
"So what happened?"
The woman pointed around the landscape, Sasuke immediately understood what the bodies were. Spirits, or more accurately, memories rose up from each body, each person being someone from Fukushi's past. He held onto their memories and judging by how they were manifested in his mindscape, he regretted their deaths.
"A massacre?" He looked down and sighed heavily. His own memories of losing his entire clan to Itachi. He tightened his fists in anger that someone else had the same fate. He heard the spirit speak again. She was talking about the second chance she gave Fukushi.
"So you sacrificed yourself to bring him back from death? Reanimation, I've heard about it but not used in such a way as this." Sasuke looked at her. "It's a powerful jutsu, but a double-edged sword, your death caused a synaptic feedback that destroyed most of his mind. That explains what I am seeing here, but tell me spirit. Why is he after these pages so much?" He was directed to another memory behind him.
Sasuke was thrown into a more complete memory, one where Fukushi was gasping for air and clutching his chest, judging by the amount of blood he had just been saved from a stab through the heart. He was crying and crawling towards his dead blue haired friend. They both had matching arm tattoos at the point. He kissed her forehead and broke down in tears. Rocking his head in pain and scratching at his arm as he must have felt her die. A book was thrusted under him by and an older man. Also, covered in blood. He picked the boy up to his feet and stared him directly into the eyes. The older man knew he wouldn't see him again and the look in his eyes was a mix of pride and sadness.
"Son, protect this book with your life. Let no one use it!" His apparent father also threw his katana by his son's side. What seemed like all his strength he grabbed the blade. At first he stayed still with tears flowing freely down his cheeks. The father also hesitated before pointing at the dead girl. "She gave her life so you could keep going, don't waste it son. Just go. Run!" Fukushi got up and reluctantly turned to run; leaving his father to face off whoever was attacking. "Everyone buy my son time to get away." He roared along with other unseen warriors. Sasuke left the memory.
"Another question if I may ask, how did the pages become scattered?"
The spirit looked down in sadness and mouthed the word 'Betrayal' before pointing to another door. Through the door was Fukushi again. But he was a little older now. Wearing hardly anything to protect his modesty. He was dirty and very thin with bones showing across his body. He was cuddling himself while dragging a sword which was still a little too big for him. He kept quiet and was too shy to approach anyone. He was gazing up at the people as he passed. Sasuke realised he had no idea what anyone was saying after her blanked out some insults once he knocked into someone by accident. He spent the day drifting from one place to another, occasionally hunted a bird or a rabbit to eat. Using jutsu to his advantage. While he was cooking his latest catch a rich looking elderly guy approached. This immediately put Fukushi on guard. However, with slow and deliberate movements the man sat across the fire and spoke to him.
"I was watching you hunt and I'm impressed! Your mastery of jutsu so young." He smiled while Fukushi just gave a blank look. "Oh, you don't understand me? A wild child?" He thought for a moment before producing some bread out of a pouch and handing it to Fukushi. He swiped it out of the man's hand and muttered thanks in a foreign language before hungrily devouring the bread in mere minutes. He got up and signaled to Fukushi to follow him.
"Come with me, I'll help you learn to speak." Fukushi then hesitated but got up after the man after he shown him more food. Sasuke left the scene, He understood what she meant by betrayal now and didn't want to or need to look any further. The fact of the matter was that man did something to push Fukushi into the position he was in, Likely also the man to take his eye out as well.
"Thank you for helping me spirit." Sasuke said while lost in thought about what he was shown. He was cut short by the blue haired spirit's inaudible static for a voice.
"I knew he regretted everyone he has killed." Sasuke spoke "One other question, does he know Monica?" The spirit shifted uncomfortably before speaking again.
"Repaying a debt? Hmm, I understand." Sasuke spoke thoughtfully, he knew she should have just explained herself and the whole situation could have been avoided. But it was too late for her, the evidence was just mounting up against the leaf genin. Sasuke was satisfied of what he had learned about Fukushi and decided to leave and give his report, he could always return to his mindscape. He glanced one last time around Fukushi's mindscape. The likeness to the Uchiha massacre was uncanny for Sasuke to the point being inside Fukushi's mind actually unnerved the shinobi although he would never admit to it. Reality flooded back to Sasuke as he released Fukushi from the genjutsu. He was still unconscious but running down the left cheek was a line of blood where he must have been crying whilst under the influence of Sasuke. He sighed and thought about his own redemption, He knew Fukushi's path well but also perhaps he could turn him into a powerful ally. The sheer diversity of jutsu he used against his opponents was clearly jonin level or maybe higher if he had more training. His mind was made, he would follow Naruto's example and turn him into an ally.