A Lovely Kunoichi

FMC Izumi. Age – 2 years+ Itachi age.

My mother never told me my surname – saying it's a clan gone for good.

I did not know who my father was, and was brought up by a single mother.

My mother though, lived in Konoha and became a Konoha chunin under The Third Hokage, was originally from a faraway land, not even in The Land of Fire.

At the age of 5, I manifested a dojutsu, a dojutsu unique to me only – The Ryuugan, named by my mother, because it looked like the same phoenix flame that saved her that day and introduced her to Konoha.

My Ryuugan – a dojutsu previously never been seen before, did not possess any inherent ocular abilities like the Sharingan, but provided even greater visual prowess than a Byakugan.

I could see the flow of chakra on a fundamental level. Even more so, than that a Byakugan could.

It didn't need to be visual, I could identify people by their chakra signatures and things like identifying if it was a clone, or Substitution Jutsu or a hidden technique, was like second hand to me.

This elevated my and my mother's status in the village from being seen as spies, outsiders, mere folk to someone who were recognized.

Under Lord Third, I was allowed into the Ninja Academy early, as a result.

There I had briefly met Shisui Uchiha who graduated soon after.

At the age of 6, I participated in the Third Great Shinobi World War. Alongside my mother.

My mother never returned from the blood soaked battlefield.

Since I had nowhere to return to, apart from the broken dusty shaft we called home, the neighbours were to hand me over to the orphanage.

"Please, I didn't want to go there", I could be screaming inside.

I would have spent my days in those quarters, had it not been for Lord Fourth, who took me in as his own daughter.

Was it because of my Ryuugan? Was it because other villagers had already been targeting me since the War because of my eye? Was it because he pitied me? Or was it just because he was just that kind of a person?

It doesn't take one a dojutsu to see the gleam in his eyes and the sparkling smile of his and Kushina-san when they offered to have me in.

I continued in the academy under the guise of Lord Fourth's adopted girl.

That drew quite an attention.

On the first day,

I noticed the Sensei saying something about chakra manipulation.

Performing hand signs lets one manipulate the flow of chakra in their body and that forming of chakra created jutsu.

So, with different combinatorics of flow, different kinds and magnitudes of jutsu could be used.

He proceeded to give a quick list of basic hand signs and how they molded chakra.

I looked at the same with my Ryuugan.

I saw the chakra present inside the body being flown through what looked like a circuit system and being molded into various shapes as the Sensei said.

I looked at my own body and my fingers with my Ryuugan. I could see the same lines.

We were taken outside to the field and told to do a few easy jutsu.

I did them the best – in fact, almost as good as the Sensei.

One day…..

Iruka sensei – Alright, today we'll be having a mock sparring taijutsu battle between you all. Taijutsu requires your physique to be in perfect condition, which is one of the basic preliminary conditions for a shinobi to have. I hope you'll take that into account.

When I started, I was already too good for my peer kunoichi. I had them defeated, so I was allowed to fight the boys.

I happened to defeat most of them fairly smoothly.

There was a Hyuga amongst them – Tokuma Hyuga who achieved the same feat in a few more minutes.

Actually, I had been observing him for now. His fight style was really commendable.

Iruka-sensei later allowed me to choose which boy I'd like to fight.

Obviously, I chose Tokuma because of his skill.

At this, he laughed and said, "I wouldn't want to hurt such a pretty face."

This riveted a bit in me.

I said to him, "I'd like to see you try."

He stared at me, "The Hyuga are the best at taijutsu. I will go easy on you."

With a hand sign, Iruka sensei started the match.

Apparently, the Hyuga is a lot better than me at taijutsu. I will agree to that much. Even a newbie could see that much.

He had already hit me a few times with his fingers whereas I have barely grazed him.

After about 3 minutes of our match, he paused abruptly and finally blurted out, "Why… Why haven't you fallen down yet?"

"What do you mean? I am not tired enough, I guess."

"You shouldn't even be able to move a muscle by now!"

I give him a quizzical look.

He explains, "My Gentle Fist Technique should have blocked off your tenketsu preventing you from even moving a limb"

"Oh that! Yea, I loved your taijutsu. But just as soon as you close it, I open the tenketsu."

There was an aghast look on his face.

I looked around to find the Sensei too in bewilderment.

Was I… not supposed to do this.. or something?

"What did you say?"

"I saw you cut off chakra flow by hitting the Tenketsu with your Taijutsu, that's really nice. But I just opened them as easily as you closed them."

I flashed my Ryuugan.

He seemed to understand it.

Iruka-sensei – "That's… really impressive chakra control…"

Well, he didn't take too nicely to it.

"Hmph, you show some real guts disregarding the Gentle Fist technique. The Hyuga clan doesn't bow down to anyone, not in Taijutsu. You'll see."

I take the same defensive stance as before and continued to parry about a couple of his hits when this happens.

When his fingertips connected with my elbow… chakra exited out of them and pushed me back, throwing me away.

I was sent flying in the air and fell with my face on the ground.

"Ow, what in the world was that?"

I wiped my face and saw through my Ryuugan, He used chakra as force, through one of his tenketsu.

"Sensei he used chakra in a taijutsu fight. Isn't that cheating?"

"No, not in his case. Gentle Fist technique of the Hyuga clan is a refined Taijutsu technique of the highest caliber, a kinjutsu. Using chakra in martial arts is therefore allowed by them."

Just being from a special clan allows you to do that? That should be unfair.

This didn't sit well with me a bit.

I got up and took my stance as usual with a little annoyed look on my face.

He took to his attacking and I placed my forearms ahead in order to defend.

"Haha, you see the might of the Gentle Fist. Unlike other shinobi who can only use hand signs, we Hyuga can emit chakra from any of the 361 tenketsu present—"

"Why I can do that", I said as one of his fists connected to my forearm, and I expulsed a large amount of chakra through it, cancelling his own and effectively sending him out of the ring."

My right hand went sore for the rest of the day.