Chapter 3: Shishiki's Cry
"Please sis, just give me a hint, anything! For the love of everything in the world that is sweet, tell me how to get my Salha." Shitani was blushing heavily but she had no other choice, everything she tried came out with zero results. So here she was, on her hands and knees begging her younger sister to help her.
Mimi stood there, and uncomfortable look on her face as she stared down at her older sister "Well there's not much I can tell you sis, but I know it has to do with emotions." She drew the twin hook swords from her back. "You remember when Kenny was really sick and we had to take him to Hana-nee. I was so scared he was going to die, when he came back, that's when I was able to form Sogyofu."
Mimi gave her elder sister a pat on the shoulder. "I'm sure you'll get it in no time." before leaving to continue her training with their mother. Shitani could only scoff. "Emotions, what am I, an Uchiha? Stupid, Kekkei Genkai." Leaving her home Shitani headed to her usual training spot. "Its too easy to move, I need to up my weights." She muttered to herself before sitting down in a Lotus pose.
'Ok, you can do this, In, out, in, out.' Shitani began the process of forming the Salha for the 100th or so time this year. 'Physical in the left hand, Spiritual in the right,' Her hands began glowing a dull silver and dark blue. 'Shape the energies into ribbons, do not mix but weave them together.'
Shitani began to sweat heavily as she wove the two energies together, She only had one step to go, 'Find its name.' the young girl had never gotten past this point in any of her trials. Reaching deep inside her she heard the pang of her weapon calling out to her, but no matter how hard she called back, it never reached. Letting out a heavy sigh she stood up as she watched the energies dissipate into the air.
Slamming her fist into the nearby tree her fangs began to elongate as she got madder and madder "no matter how many times I fucking try, I can never get It. Fuck!" Pulling her bandaged hand from the tree she began to unwind the long white cloth that covered her arms and legs. Changing some of the written seals on her bandages she spent her time meticulously re-wrapping the bandages.
"Yeah 80 should be good for now." She said testing out the new weight she applied. She knew that Lee had used training weights while training under Gai so she wanted in on that action early. Turns out weight seals are expensive, so what does a girl with decent Fuinjutsu skills do when she has no money and needs weight seals. Make her own of course. Doing some quick stretches SHitani prepares for her morning warmup.
Its 10 AM by the time Shitani finishes, having bought some meat skewers after her run she prepares for her next experiment. She may not have been a Naruto superfan like her sister was, but if there was something she adored it would be Avatar. For the past few weeks she's been trying to use her immense chakra control to recreate bending, having "Borrowed" some chakra paper from her mother, Shitani found her Natures. Equal water and earth, she was disappointed she didn't get something cooler like fire or lightning but it's not like she can't learn them later.
Calming her mind she gets in place by the riverbank, sending her chakra into the river she slowly pulls out an orb. Carefully and steadily she moves the orb in a figure 8 pattern, her arms and body flowing, gradually she stretches the water more and more until finally she creates a full figure 8 of flowing water in the air.
A smile stretches across her face, shaking her head she focuses on remembering the feeling of the water and chakra combined. The cool steady feeling. Placing her hands in a rat seal She focuses her chakra in her stomach, trying to shape it to replicate the feeling.
It takes a moment but she finally gets the feeling right, turning to the target she has set up she inhales deeply, "Suiton: Suidan no Jutsu!" She shouts before exhaling. Feeling the water being forced out her throat and mouth at high pressure she tries her best to aim. As the stream dies down she sees that she blasted a hole through the side of it.
"YES FINALLY! I DID IT, ELEMENTAL JUTSU!" The biggest smile is plastered over her face as she jumps around in joy. "One element down, 4 more to go." feeling two chakra signatures appear behind her, she turns around to see a smiling Shisui and Itachi's usual neutral face. "Such big goals for a little girl." Shisui says with a smirk.
In all honesty Shitani Is too excited to hit him back, as the three spend a majority of the rest of the day training, Shitani's thoughts are brought back to her old home. 'I miss the rain.' Towards the end of the day, Itachi and Shisui had a battle with Shisui coming out on top.
The two were sitting by the edge of the cliff discussing something while Shitani was nearby working on her Pseudo-bending by punching a boulder trying to move it. "C'mon move you stupid rock." She said through gritted teeth, Shisui giving her an uneasy thumbs up.
"Nii-San!" Shitani heard from behind her. Looking over her shoulder she saw a boy around the same age as her sister running up to the three of them. The boy stopped in front of Itachi, 'Oh my god he's so cute.' Shitani was staring at the non loner, revenge fueled edgy boy Sasuke and she was in love.
She was brought out of it by the boy staring at her with a frown "Who're you, are you one of my brother's fangirls? Well back off then!" the boy said with a pout. 'Oh my god he's only like a year younger than me but he's so adorable.' I guess I'll explain myself.
"No, I'm not one of your brother's fangirls." She said, twitching her eye at Shisui's Muffled laugh, "My name's Kazama Shitani, I'm friend's with you brother and cousin here." Sasuke raised an eyebrow "Kazama? Are you related to Mimi? I heard she had a sister but I didn't expect you to be so… old."
Shisui was hunched over, his cheeks red from holding in his laughter. A darkness shadowed Shitani's face as she stepped towards the little brat before slugging him on the back of the head. "I'm not old you shit, I'm only 8! I'm just a little tall." Shitani's height had always been a slight issue. Most Adults in Konoha were barely 6 feet, and here she was at 8 years old being almost 5 feet tall, Shitani was almost terrified how tall she'll be as an adult.
Sasuke hid behind his brother after that. Deciding to leave the Uchihas, Shitani headed into the nearby forest to try her hand at summoning her Salha once more. It wasn't long till the 8 year old fell fast asleep in the quiet woods.
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Uchiha Shisui was tired. He had gone to the Konoha Council to pitch his idea of using the Kotoamatsukami on Fugaku, and with approval from the Sandaime, he went to go through with his plan. Only for one of the councilmen Danzo Shimura to butt in. His root shinobi had attacked him while in the Uchiha woods, Danzo had ripped out one of his eyes during the scuffle, and during his escape he was poisoned and forced to use his Susano'o as a last resort.
And now he finds himself being carried on the shoulder of one of his best friends. Sensing more chakra signatures approaching their location he asks Itachi to take him to their training cliff.
The sun has already set by the time Shitani wakes up. Letting out a sigh she gets up, dusting off her pants "Still no results. Dammit… I must have worked myself to exhaustion again." she spat out. Shoving her hands into her pockets she kicks a rock and begins heading home. Passing by her "Secret Place" she senses something strange. Shisui and Itachi's Chakra signatures in the direction of the cliff they train at. "What are they doing out so late." She muses out loud.
Bounding through the trees towards the cliff she stops just before the treeline. She spots Shisui and Itachi both looking worse for wear near the edge of the cliff. She watches as Shisui hands his cousin something, the two are talking but she can't hear, but there is something that worries her, the overwhelming scent of blood coming from Shisui.
Moving to step out from the treeline Shitani is frozen in shock as she watches Shisui slowly lean back slowly falling down the ravine towards the shallow riverbed. Both her and Itachi are frozen watching as their friend hits the water, as the water is dyed a glistening crimson Shisui's body is washed down the river.
As tears stream down both their faces they both perform the body flicker, one away, and one towards the scene. Shitani just stands there watching as the blood fades from the water of the Naka river, unnoticed by her, chakra begins to storm around her forearms. Hearing the quiet sound of the ground being disturbed she turns around, and through her bleary vision she sees 10 people wearing hooded coats, different masks adorning their faces. Tilting her head to the side, something snaps within Shitani as the white of her left eye Bruises black. "You did this." As her vision began to fade a warm feeling came from her chest that she hadn't felt in years.
00
"I'm scared mom." The hesitant voice of a 12 year old Sam calls out. "Shut up. You're a Heissern. The kid may be fast, but there's no way he can beat you." The powerful voice of her mother echoes throughout her head. "If you can't win this, you're more useless than that sloth you call your sister."
Her gloves squeaked as her fists clenched in anger. Sam didn't hate her older sister but she definitely held a grudge for forcing her into this life. Accepting her fate she steps into the ring
"ALL RIGHT FIGHTER FANS, TODAY WE HAVE A TREAT FOR YOU. IN THE BLUE CORNER WE HAVE THE RUNNER UP OF THE JUNIOR LEAGUE. CHRIS, THE SWEDISH SPEEDSTER! WITH HIS INNOCENT SMILE HE LULLS YOU INTO A SENSE OF FALSE SECURITY BEFORE DISHING OUT A RUTHLESS BEATDOWN!"
A brown haired boy wearing a simple blue shirt with black shorts and boots stands non chalauntly in the other corner of the ring. Chris takes notice of Sam's entry giving her a wave.
"AND IN THE RED CORNER WE HAVE SOMETHING SPECIAL FOLKS. COMING FROM A LONG LINE OF FEROCIOUS BOXERS, THE DAUGHTER OF THE FAMOUS RED COMET, A NEWCOMER TO THE SCENE, SAMANTHA SELOTTE!"
The nervous teenager meekly waves to the crowd, dressed in a simple black tank top with boxer's shoes and gray shorts, she unconsciously tightens the straps on her fighters gloves.
"ALL RIGHT FIGHTERS, GET READY BECAUSE, ITS
TIME!
TO!
RUMBLE!"
As a bell goes off Samantha gets in her family's signature boxing stance. In a blur of almost superhuman speed Chris vanishes from Sam's field of vision, feeling a tingle on the back of her neck she turns on her heel putting her arms to block Chris's axe kick. Quickly stepping back Sam kept up her defence of Chris's unrelenting storm of palm strikes, punches and kicks.
Finally seeing an opening, Samantha let out a barrage of punches, the speed of her punches were almost as fast as Chris himself. With each blow landed a sickening crack echoed throughout the stadium. A strange warm feeling began filling Sam as she continued her assault, a large feral grin coming over her face.
From the sidelines Elrilie Selotte, formerly Heissern watches in glee as her daughter succumbs to the thrill of the fight. 'Its not something you can fight Sam, our people were meant to fight, just accept who you are and let the Heissern spirit run wild.'
15 year old Samantha Selotte is being cornered in an alley by older students from her School. "What do you blokes want?" She said scratching the back of her head, The largest boy steps forward. "We've 'eard you think yer tough Selotte" He said, cracking his knuckles " And the six of us though you could use a little lesson from yer seniors.'' The other five boys were letting out sinister chuckles as they kept approaching the younger girl.
*Sigh* Sliding her school bag off her shoulder, her eyes kept darting between the six boys. "Allright, lets see what you Bri'ish boys got." Lunging at the closest boy she swiftly takes him down, a pleased look plastered on her face. "Get 'er!" one of them shouted.
Quickly and easily taking out the rest of the boys, she sits atop the largest boy, a bored look on her face as she pilfers bills from their wallets. "Man, thugs back in America put up more of a fight than you. You guys couldnt satisfy me. *Sigh* what's a girl gotta do to spill some blood."
00
Slowly coming back to the world of the living Shitani wonders just why she had that dream/memory. Blinking her eyes rapidly she is shocked by the sight before her, the anbu who had stood strong before her previously were all lying dead before her. Stepping back in panic she freezes when she notices herself, her clothes are all torn and ragged, her arms are bare of her bandages, strange metal boxes seemed to have fused with her forearms, but most shocking of all.
Was the tanto sticking straight out of her heart.