I feel the need to clarify something in this chapter, we may all know that the rinningan and the sharingan are related and not separate entity's. however, at the time this story takes place they were not aware of this and thought for one that the rinningan was a myth or legend and to be extinct and second, that there was no relation to the sharingan to begin with. sorry about the rant just thought I would make that clear for confused readers, oh and if you decide that this story is insufficient to catch your interest then please skip to chapter 6 all the chapters until then is just introducing everything, and can be skipped so please read chapter 6 before quieting the story
Chapter 1: Average Life
Rook Tazanaka walked calmly into the classroom not caring that he was several minutes late. Yatero sensei stared him down all the way to his seat. Rook knew Yatero was just putting on an act, he was more disappointed than angry but he couldn't let the students know his personal feelings. Still he did hate the way everyone expected more out of him, it wasn't like he was a Hyuuga or an Uchiha, he wasn't a genius like those of the nara clan (though he did admire their relaxed attitude) he wasn't lazy but he wasn't the most motivated person either he was just average, and for now that's all he wanted to be.
Everyone expected him to be great because of his physical abilities, yeah most considered him to be the perfect ninja when it came to his body's ability. He had chakra that was on par with the Bijuu, he had three chakra elements that where "nearly" equal in strength (primary: water, secondary: wind and fire) along with the fact that he could use all three shinobi battle techniques (tai-jutsu, nin-jutsu, and gen-jutsu) equally he didn't specialize, he was good at them all. But most of all he had a unique kekkei genkai (blood line trait) that gave him a never seen before ocular jutsu he had named hematagan.
Traditionally there were supposed to be three ocular jutsu in the ninja world the byakugan, sharingan, and the rinningan. The village had study'd it most of his life and they still had him stop by twice a week for check up's since they've never seen it before apparently it had the ability to show him weak spots in each human body at least at this level of control that he had.
Like all diamond cutters knew you could hit a diamond with a hammer all day long and do nothing but break a perfectly good hammer, however one small tap with finger nail could fracture it into several pieces. This was applied to the human body through the blood vessels he could see exactly where to place a heavy punch or a flick of his middle finger to incapacitate or kill someone. the research division suspected this was a trait from a clan on a different continent considering he had been found near the wreckage of a ship nowhere near the border and if it had been a ship from a neighboring country they would have found evidence. although the research division also believed that it may be more than just blood vessels, that it may in fact reach to inanimate objects as well as the ability to see through fracture points.
Physical attributes aside he still didn't want to be some big shot ninja or anything the only thing he actually enjoyed about being a ninja was the fighting, he could care less if he made jonnin, chunnin, or hell even gennin for that matter. graduation results were today and he couldn't care less, he could fight just as easily being a nobody as he could being a ninja the only difference was it was legal to fight and or kill as a ninja and no one would say two words about it . Although he knew he had passed already, maybe by the skin of his teeth but he passed.
things always turned out that way for him. Besides it wasn't like he had a family to brag about it too. The only people who cared were Yatero, Tobirama Senju (the First hokage's little brother and the one who had found him) and of course the First hokage himself now and then. Though recently things have been looking grim for the first. He had been feeling long term effects of his fight with Madara for a while now and Tobirama was already being nominated as the Second hokage, but that was still awhile away. "Ok class today I would like to congratulate everyone, you all pass the graduation test from yesterday, now I'll let you know who has been assigned to which team and who your team leader will be.
Remember out of the six teams only three will become gennin the rest will be sent back to the academy. Team one, Kenta Hyuuga, Sanntaru Uchiha, and Rook Tazanaka, with the team leader being Tobirama Senju. Everyone stopped and stared in amazement this was the perfect example of an all star team. two genius's and the guy with chakra on par with the village's nine tales, not to mention you had all three ocular jutsu on one team. "Screw This" thought rook as he starred at his team mates lining up ahead of him, "do you have any idea how much there going to expect out of me cause I'm on this team" he kept thinking to himself as he joined them. The only silver lining was he would have Tobirama as his sensei he could live with that, especially since he was water element too.
But these two over achieving bastards? The ones considered the most talented of their clan's since the great shinobi war, who were probably going to be consumed with proving which one was better. Well at least they didn't stick him with the inizuka kid with the God complex or that bug guy always trying to fit in, He was seriously considering backing out as a ninja just thinking about it, and if not for Tobirama I probably would. And they expected him to train with these people? "I'm no genius" rook thought "I just want to be average" but it didn't look like he wasn't going to get things his way this time.
Team Senju met at the training field early the next morning, with Rook being the last to arrive as usual. "Ok now that where all here we can introduce ourselves, our fighting styles, and our abilities" said tobirama senju as he leaned against the middle of the three goal post's in there designated training field . Kenta Hyuuga spoke up saying "aren't we supposed to discuss our like's, dislikes, dreams and stuff like that?
Tobirama sensei stared at him for a minute then said "I'm not your dad, and I'm not the hokage…yet, so until that time I don't give a shit about your dreams or what you like I want to know what you can offer this team and our village ok"? Yes sensei Kenta replied in a properly scolded tone. "moron" thought rook to himself "the only thing worth living for is a good fight anyway". Ok we'll start with you Sanntaru, "yes sensei" she said with an impish grin on her face, she had the distinctive black hair which she kept at waist length but it naturally spiked up on top and straight out in the back while her eye's were the same color, along with the good looks of the Uchiha clan which made her look more intimidating to most people especially since the sharingan didn't usually run that strong in the female side of the clan, Sanntaru was the exception.
She gracefully back flipped a couple yards and pulled a whip out, "my name is Sanntaru Uchiha the greatest kunochi to come from the Uchiha clan. My specialties are genjutsu and ninjutsu when it comes down to the physical stuff I rely on my spiked whip" and with that she spun and flicked her wrist the whip danced like a feather and before anyone knew it she'd sliced every leaf on the tree in half, when she turned around her eyes were red and there was two black dots in them, "ok next Kenta "he stood up and face Rook and Sanntaru, he had a strong distinctive face with the long brown hair with large opaque pearl eye's as trademarks of his clan. My name is Kenta Hyuuga and my specialties are gentle fist technique tai jutsu and several related nin-jutsu, and I carry the byakugan, with that the vains in and around his eye's became visible as they strained to get the 360' vision.
"And finally Rook", Rook stood up, his feature's were a slightly bulkier build with wider shoulders and a bit taller than Kenta, jet black hair that matched Sanntaru though far shorter at about shoulder length and slicked straight back with sharp facial bone structure but heavy lidded eye's always kept half closed. and in the most dry sarcastic voice ever said "I'm Rook Tazanaka, I'm not special at anything I have the potential for everything and I really don't care about the rest…oh and I have the hematagan". And with that a spider's web of blood vessels criss crossed across his eyes as he sat back down.
"Ok now that that's over I want to teach you each an advanced technique for you to practice in between missions, each jutsu I teach you will be handpicked by me to suit your style of combat and team formation". "Sanntaru since you're a gen-jutsu type I'm going to teach you the basics of feather illusion jutsu and haze since those have the same basis and are both difficult to learn". "Kenta I'm going to work with your father and teach you the more advanced form's of the gentle fist technique". "And finally you Rook… hmmm I think I have the perfect jutsu to put that chakra to use" tobirama sensei said with a cold smile crossing his face.
Tobirama stared at rook while he practiced the basics of the jutsu he had just been show, he knew if this kid did learn this jutsu and mastered all forms of chakra control he would become one of the most powerful ninja and it was something only he had the chakra and imagination to fully master every aspect of this jutsu though It didn't seem he was very enthusiastic about it. But he knew what buttons to push to get him motivated.
"Rook, let me give you some incentive, if you can master this technique I'll start teaching you my water style jutsu the day after that happens." Rooks head whiplashed it spun so fast "really" he said his eye's squinting in disbelief. "Yes, though if you can actually learn them is a different story, do we have a deal?" "I'll have it done by tomorrow" he said calmly and resumed practicing "well, at least I can tell he's trying now tobirama thought as he turned to supervise Sanntaru as she practiced her genjutsu.
Tobirama flew threw the trees, his students following right behind him as they headed to the east border of the land of fire. They had just been alerted to the possibility of spies from the village hidden in the mist. He hadn't got the chance to see how well they had studied the jutsu he had taught them yesterday but they all seemed confidant enough especially Rook, he wandered just how far he had gotten in his training.
Tobirama stopped in his tracks as he spotted the four man cell making there way through the underbrush. He signaled the rest to stop as they caught up, Sanntaru and Kenta came to an immediate stop, but much to his dismay Rook flew past him straight into the squad of ninja. They looked up as they heard him coming and attacked faster than Tobirama thought they would, he knew he couldn't make it in time but he leapt anyway, and stopped dead in his tracks. All three stood there in shock as the battle unfolded.
he had taken the jutsu tobirama had taught him and took it to whole new levels, as Rook dropped like a stone he made a cross with his fingers and yelled "shadow clone jutsu" and suddenly there were 50 full shadow clones.
A nearly unheard of number of shadow clones. But what came next was what really shocked everyone. Each shadow clone jumped and pulled a shuriken and threw it at one of the ninja and weaved the hand sign again this time saying "multiple shadow clone shuriken jutsu" and suddenly there was not 50 shuriken in the air there was 500, the ninja from the hidden mist didn't stand a chance. All but one died sliced to ribbons by the shear amount of shuriken thrown.
They bandaged him up and brought him back to the hidden leaf for interrogation. After the official business was complete Tobirama took his team to his office at ANBU black ops HQ to debrief them "Rook as impressive as that was you were completely out of line jumping into that situation without gathering intel on there streangth's and weakness's first, they could have easily been jonnin level, we were lucky they weren't.
And that is what is going to get not only get you killed one day, but those close to you". "what can I say I love to fight" Rook said with a grin and Tobirama shook his head in frustration knowing nothing he said would make a difference "fine you don't care if your team dies that's your decision but not while I am in charge got it"? "got it, now you said something about teaching me your advanced water style jutsu if I mastered that jutsu by today Tobirama sensei"? Tobirama shook his head in defeat "meet me at the training field in 2 hours" and with that he left the room for some peace and quiet.
They had been practicing for seven hours, it was almost midnight. Rook's progress had been amazing, unheard of even in such a short amount of time he'd mastered the water wall jutsu. granted it was one of the easier high class jutsu a B ranked but still for a new gennin to learn it in that amount of time "impossible" and yet he had done it "all that talent, and chunin level battle skills" Tobirama thought "and not a shred of enthusiasm for anything but the next fight, he shook his head in amazement as he headed home for the night "if he ever went rouge, there'd be hell to pay".
Rook stood in the training field by himself in the middle of the night sweating now that tobirama sensei was gone he could practice variations and improve on the jutsu he'd just learned he stared at the stars thinking of future battles, The glory of victory and the sting of defeat's yet to come and smiled as he thought "well there coming wether I'm prepared or not might as well get started training" and with that he turned and continued practicing.