[UCHIHA ISSEI]

With everything that transpired over the path month Issei needed some more time away from the village to clear his head. He might have escape from the negative consequences of his actions from the village, but that didn't mean he was free from all the problems leading up to it and after either. He still had not heard from Ayukawa and honestly he was worried that she might be extremely upset with him about how everything ended. From a logical standpoint he felt like she wouldn't, but he'd been an emotional mess since all of that.

One moment he was fine, the next he was having nightmares about her getting killed by Kuni. He was just wanted to see her, to hold her, and to know if she was truly going to be okay after everything that happened. Of course there were the thoughts of her hating him, never wanting to see him again, and that she wasn't going to be okay either. Then there were matters related to the clan to which that situation in Bonchi put a dent in, but for the most part he still had support from the bulk of the clan.

The support from the Hatake also played a huge factor in his political pull as well. Though, talks related to him taking over were always met with talks of Kazui whom most, including himself thought would be leading the clan but was still missing from the village. Many wished for her to still take the lead, but it was of his opinion that she had other matters to deal with and taking lead of the clan probably was not at the top of the list amongst the many of things she had to worry about which included Hotaru.

Long gone were the days of her being the quiet academy student many never would have believed would rise to quickly in the ranks. Gone were the days of people in the clan teasing her for her relationship with Kazuto and others who might slightly be looked down upon by the clan. Gone were the days of the internal rivalry he'd built up with her after she surpassed him just before the exams, and then beyond after the exams.

Gone was the first person in the clan he could truly call a friend. If there was anyone that would understand what he was going through it was her, but unfortunately he could not think on that. He had to remain mentally strong and it was up to him to enforce that strength on the rest of the clan as he wished for them to break from the shackles that had made them weak over the years between the previous Hokages and Satoru.

A lot of how Issei wished to run the clan would be through the eyes of someone he and many others in the clan doubted, but in Issei's opinion was a genius. Umetaro. He was probably the only one in the clan that had their head screwed on right before they sort of vanished themselves. Regardless, he wished to take on many of the lessons he learned so that he could apply that to his role as leader when the moment came.

He'd already spoken to Hiruko and rumor had it that she was on his side as well, and he hoped that to be the case. Especially since she was Kazuis adoptive mother after her grandmother had passed away. Right about now Issei was heading toward the boarder between the land of fire and Forrest country as he sought out to create more space between him and the village so he could clear his head.

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Don’t just weather the storm.
Dance in it.

❧

Rumor had it that a lot has happened since Kazui decided to leave the village. Seemingly everywhere she went the news of not only Shodaime leaving the village so easily to reside in Ame, but vague news of Issei would come up - even more so once she crossed over into the land of fire, patrols were heavy so she had to move accordingly. Curiosity brought the girl to such familiar lands, and though she wasn’t looking for anyone in particular - her eyes were peeled for any Uchiha or Hyuga who might’ve been near, and with Hotaru not being too far away, deciding to remain at their hideout, Kazui could handle her business without having to worry about finding him later.

There was plenty on the teen’s mind, but mostly her concerns were focused around Issei, and she needed to know if everything was alright. Vivid memories of their times spent together replayed in her mind over and over. She’d be lying if she said she didn’t miss him as well as the others, so much so to the point she’s considered facing her punishment and going back, but there was one thing stopping her from doing so, and that was Hotaru.

As she walked down these familiar trails, Kazui would come to a stop, taking in a deep breath as she focused exclusively on her sensory. Up ahead, a murder of crows flocked, circling around a vague area, perhaps they might’ve found someone familiar? Not hesitating to investigate, Kazui moved with purpose before realizing that it was Issei they had located.

Light footsteps carried the girl closer and closer, until she was close enough to speak to him in her casual soft-spoken tone. "The Issei I know doesn’t normally hang his head so low.” She said blandly as she continued forward, sweeping the hood from over her head so that she could be seen clearly.

"What’s the matter?” The girl asked.

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NAME: Kagura Shingan [Kagura Mind's Eye]
RANK: A
CHAKRA USAGE: Very Low
CLASSIFICATION: Ninjutsu // Hijutsu
ELEMENT: N/a
DESCRIPTION:
This ability allows the user to find, sense, and track individuals through their chakra over vast range that exceeds ten kilometers. This is done by focusing and opening the mind's eye, though due to the low chakra cost many users keep it active often. The ability also extends to telling when a person is lying from the fluctuations in a person's chakra made from dishonest emotions or detecting if someone, including the user, is under a genjutsu. Also by focusing on a particular chakra, the user can perceive its location and movement with great detail.

Little Know It All - Extreme Intelligence
It was no secret that Kazui was regarded as a scholar when she was in the academy. One of the smartest in her class, the Uchiha often found herself correcting and/or helping out people older than herself. Many considered her very intellectual then, but that was just only the surface of her potential. Now, the girl is regarded as a genius, her IQ is nothing to be taken lightly or to be taken for granted, even as a young chunin. The teen possesses amazing mental capacity, is able to concentrate flawlessly even in the heat of battle, can calculate things in her head with great speed, and is able to remember many things with perfect recollection, even if it’s just useless information that is meant to be disregarded. In addition to that, Kazui is very deductive, competent, and witted. Her mind is the most dangerous weapon she possesses for many reasons. The girl is highly alert, aware, and very analytical, and she is also very ingenious and is capable of thinking outside of the box as well. Not only is she capable of reading, analyzing, and breaking down a person’s fighting style, but she can also determine what kind of person they are just by the way they speak, the way they carry themselves, and their thoughts on certain things. While doing this, it’s incredibly difficult to deceive the girl, especially if one is not skilled in the art of deception. Furthermore, Kazui can formulate numerous plans to certain situations in mere seconds. She thinks 10 steps ahead, and always has a back up plan just incase.

Gone In The Wind - Blistering Speed
As a child, Kazui was born weaker than others. Her health conditions set the girl at a disadvantage physically since birth, however her constant effort and drive to become the best has pushed her far beyond many others the same rank as herself. Her speed is nothing to be taken lightly, she has pushed herself physically to be able to not only outpace her opponent, but outright force them into keeping up with her and pushing them to the brink with her speed as well. The girl is fast, quick, and agile, even rivaling those who dedicated their entire life to the art of taijutsu to the point where if they haven’t specifically honed their speed, then the girl could outright outclass them in that regard. Those with weak perception often have trouble perceiving the girl’s movements, and to a normal human’s eye perceiving her is nigh impossible. All of her movements are inhumanly quick and hard to keep track of, and when used in conjunction with her sharingan, it can make her a formidable opponent for even the strongest of shinobi.

The Minimalist - Chakra Control
There was a problem that Kazui noticed during her time in the academy and that was the fact that she often found herself tiring out and exhausting herself rather quickly, even when she had just started she could feel herself beginning to wilt. So to counter those measures, the girl studied and asked around, trying to find the reason behind it and if there was a way she could fix it. She wasn’t born with massive reserves so while she utilized her justus, she often did so wastefully. But now, the girl has managed to control the amount of chakra she uses in a technique that allows her to fight much longer than before. She uses the absolute bare minimum of the chakra that’s needed, and not a drop more.

Uchiha Bloodline: Two Tomoe Sharingan
Being born within the Uchiha clan, Kazui has been blessed and/or cursed with a power that only an Uchiha can possess and use to its complete and full potential when they have experienced extreme emotions that causes their chakra to pour into their optic nerves, gifting them with the Sharingan, also known as the eyes that reflect the heart. There are three stages to the sharingan, and it is tracked by the amount of tomoe that appears around an Uchiha’s pupil. One tomoe unlocks the eye of insight, it grants the user the ability to see chakra within an opponent or ally and it also gives an increase to the user’s perceptive abilities. Two tomoe grants the user the eye of hypnotism, while in turn increasing the previous abilities that the ‘Eye of Insight’ grants. The girl’s precognition and perception is heightened well beyond what’s achievable by even the most skilled and elite shinobi, allowing her more of a predictive insight on her opponent as well as the world around her. In terms of her being able to track extremely fast objects and people alike, the eye also allows a natural reactive ability that helps her respond more accurately than a single tomoe could ever allow. As for the ability to see chakra, with a second tomoe the smallest and most faint sources of chakra can easily be spotted by the eye without any issue at all. Assigning color and analyzing the flow of the chakra, Kazui can tell which nature is going to be used as well as where the chakra will be coming from.

The Eye of Hypnotism on the other hand is much different than the previous eye, it allows the girl the ability to cast and break genjutsu with no issue at all, in a way only the Uchiha are capable of. It also gives her access to a set of genjutsu only known to those who possess great visual prowess amongst the clan. These illusions are very powerful in nature and are some of the most dangerous known to the art, they are well beyond standard genjutsu, and in addition the illusions can be casted with just a single glare. Those who met her gaze will find themselves under her spell before they can even realize what happened.

Tiny Dancer - Elusiveness
Kazui is one quick girl, which isn’t hard to tell. Thanks to her training, the girl has amazing agility and reflexes that allow her to keep herself out of harms way. Even without her sharingan being active, Kazui possesses sharp perceptive abilities and reflexes that allows her to become an escape artist of some sort as well as a complete nuisance to those trying to fight her. The girl’s reaction speed is superb and not to be taken lightly as it is, however, when the dojutsu is active, taking into account the girl’s great speed and adding her keen reflexes into the mix, it’s capabilities are much more potent and useful to the Uchiha. With this, not only is Kazui capable of keeping track of even the most renowned speediest opponents and attacks, the girl is able to keep up with, and react to them as well with relative ease.

Wake Up To Reality - KME Genjutsu Prowess
As an Uchiha it is believed that Kazui and many of her clanmen were born with a natural affinity for the art of genjutsu, but of course none of it can ever come to fruition if there is no effort placed behind it. However, since she was constantly reminded by those around her about that fact, the girl began to focus on the art more than ever before.

Although her illusions do become much more elaborate, less flawed in a certain sense, and stronger, the true results come more in the form of defending herself against genjutsu. Her vast knowledge of the art as well as her training and extremely high sensory capabilities allow for the Uchiha’s escape efforts to be significantly stronger than it normally is, allowing her to free herself from genjutsu up to 1 rank above what she is typically capable of via the special ability granted to the Uchiha with The Sharingan’s genjutsu escape. It should be noted however that genjutsu reversal does not receive any additional boosts from this ability.

Sleight of Hand - Seals Master
As Kazui grew older and gained more experience and familiarity with the ninja arts, the girl’s chakra control had essentially been mastered along with her speed and accuracy with forming hand-seals. Countless of hours spent training, learning, and even creating new jutsu has made the girl grow familiar with every seal needed to perform any jutsu, every motion for every combination, her body absorbed and memorized - allowing her to flow through the motions with no given thought or effort. Her speed with forming these seals is insanely quick and precise, she’s even capable of stringing together the lengthiest combinations of hand seals and casting jutsu faster than most can even dream of keeping up with, making it appear as if she hadn’t even tried to use any hand-seals to begin with. Her vast knowledge and familiarity with sealing in addition to her refined chakra control has lead her to being able to utilize only a single hand to form a seal as well, though she only does this under certain circumstances.

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[UCHIHA ISSEI]

The best part about moving away from civilization was the quiet air around you. Well, depending on the hour of the day that is, but around this time there wasn't much sound traveling around other than his own breath and some of the rivers that traveled throughout the land. Like anything however, being in quiet space could also bring about negative consequences. It gave him time to reflect on a lot of things he needed to reflect, but it also gave room to some of the thoughts he wished to not linger in his mind.

Nevertheless, Issei continued to move along almost as if there wasn't much left to live for, zoning out in a sense until a flock of crows sort of shook him awake. "Sigh.. Those damn birds." Issei muttered after taking in a deep breath. He didn't mean what he said, but in the moment it definitely annoyed him. The clan was all too familiar with these species so their presence shouldn't have a came as a shock, but what came next certainly did.

A voice in the distance called out to him, but it wasn't the voice of a stranger, but he also wasn't completely certain about who it might be either. His first thought was Kazui, but the tone behind the sound felt more feminine and grown than he remembered. The Uchiha chuckled for a moment as he took the time to really think about how much time had passed since she left the village, plus, no one else talked to him that way.

Turning around he'd be met with the presence of hooded figure, but upon removing the hood revealed themselves to be none other than Kazui. "I.. I don't even know where to start." So many thoughts crossed Issei's mind like; how was she doing? Where she was living? And how in the hell was she able to find him in the middle of nowhere? Instead he opted to be respected and just answer the question she asked. If she had more time to talk then he'd speak his mind.

"Everything.."

The Uchiha started before finding a spot next to a nearby tree and leaning against it. "The village hasn't dealt with a lot of matters related to the village, which of course includes your innocence. The threat of Kiri still looms after what happened with my former teacher Yuuta, the clan is still divided, and I almost lost the love of my life to that crazy girl from Taki that was in our Chuunin exams. Kuni... That's the easiest way I can make a long story short."

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Don’t just weather the storm.
Dance in it.

❧

As cool as she appeared on the surface, deep down the girl’s heart raced as this was the first time she had seen Issei in well over a year. She wasn’t quite sure what to expect, with him still being close to those who could sway his outlook on the world and certain people, the girl was unsure if he would give chase or try to fight her on the spot. It was a gamble, but a gamble she was willing to take. The flock of crows for their resting spots along the treeline, watching closely as Kazui approached him closer.

His answer was unexpected, and she could tell whatever it may have been was definitely bothering him more than anything she’s ever seen from him before. She had questions, a lot of them, however Kazui would simply listen to him explain it all in its entirety, a blank expression painted on her features as she tried to make sense of it all. The village seemed to progress very little since she last called the place home, but that wasn’t much of a surprise to her.

Kirigakure as well seemed to be a persistent problem, even more so after the girl’s altercation with Asuka from their chunin exam class, however the mist wasn’t important enough to hold space in the Uchiha’s head - she could care less about any threats from them. What managed to irk her the most was the mention of that freak, Kunikunosaku. Tch. The girl’s distaste for the name was evident, but even more so as she gritted her teeth and folded her arms at the mention of that name. "What…do you mean? You almost lost the love of your life to .. that?” She questioned with a frown, confused as to exactly who he was referring to. "What happened?” Her tone growing softer as she asked.

Kazui wanted to see that girl’s head roll ever since the two first met, but unfortunately Issei decided to spare her, so she was still roaming the earth, defying the rules of life - which brought a strong sense of anger to the teen.

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Always Passively Active:
NAME: Kagura Shingan [Kagura Mind's Eye]
RANK: A
CHAKRA USAGE: Very Low
CLASSIFICATION: Ninjutsu // Hijutsu
ELEMENT: N/a
DESCRIPTION:
This ability allows the user to find, sense, and track individuals through their chakra over vast range that exceeds ten kilometers. This is done by focusing and opening the mind's eye, though due to the low chakra cost many users keep it active often. The ability also extends to telling when a person is lying from the fluctuations in a person's chakra made from dishonest emotions or detecting if someone, including the user, is under a genjutsu. Also by focusing on a particular chakra, the user can perceive its location and movement with great detail.

Little Know It All - Extreme Intelligence
It was no secret that Kazui was regarded as a scholar when she was in the academy. One of the smartest in her class, the Uchiha often found herself correcting and/or helping out people older than herself. Many considered her very intellectual then, but that was just only the surface of her potential. Now, the girl is regarded as a genius, her IQ is nothing to be taken lightly or to be taken for granted, even as a young chunin. The teen possesses amazing mental capacity, is able to concentrate flawlessly even in the heat of battle, can calculate things in her head with great speed, and is able to remember many things with perfect recollection, even if it’s just useless information that is meant to be disregarded. In addition to that, Kazui is very deductive, competent, and witted. Her mind is the most dangerous weapon she possesses for many reasons. The girl is highly alert, aware, and very analytical, and she is also very ingenious and is capable of thinking outside of the box as well. Not only is she capable of reading, analyzing, and breaking down a person’s fighting style, but she can also determine what kind of person they are just by the way they speak, the way they carry themselves, and their thoughts on certain things. While doing this, it’s incredibly difficult to deceive the girl, especially if one is not skilled in the art of deception. Furthermore, Kazui can formulate numerous plans to certain situations in mere seconds. She thinks 10 steps ahead, and always has a back up plan just incase.

Gone In The Wind - Blistering Speed
As a child, Kazui was born weaker than others. Her health conditions set the girl at a disadvantage physically since birth, however her constant effort and drive to become the best has pushed her far beyond many others the same rank as herself. Her speed is nothing to be taken lightly, she has pushed herself physically to be able to not only outpace her opponent, but outright force them into keeping up with her and pushing them to the brink with her speed as well. The girl is fast, quick, and agile, even rivaling those who dedicated their entire life to the art of taijutsu to the point where if they haven’t specifically honed their speed, then the girl could outright outclass them in that regard. Those with weak perception often have trouble perceiving the girl’s movements, and to a normal human’s eye perceiving her is nigh impossible. All of her movements are inhumanly quick and hard to keep track of, and when used in conjunction with her sharingan, it can make her a formidable opponent for even the strongest of shinobi.

The Minimalist - Chakra Control
There was a problem that Kazui noticed during her time in the academy and that was the fact that she often found herself tiring out and exhausting herself rather quickly, even when she had just started she could feel herself beginning to wilt. So to counter those measures, the girl studied and asked around, trying to find the reason behind it and if there was a way she could fix it. She wasn’t born with massive reserves so while she utilized her justus, she often did so wastefully. But now, the girl has managed to control the amount of chakra she uses in a technique that allows her to fight much longer than before. She uses the absolute bare minimum of the chakra that’s needed, and not a drop more.

Uchiha Bloodline: Two Tomoe Sharingan
Being born within the Uchiha clan, Kazui has been blessed and/or cursed with a power that only an Uchiha can possess and use to its complete and full potential when they have experienced extreme emotions that causes their chakra to pour into their optic nerves, gifting them with the Sharingan, also known as the eyes that reflect the heart. There are three stages to the sharingan, and it is tracked by the amount of tomoe that appears around an Uchiha’s pupil. One tomoe unlocks the eye of insight, it grants the user the ability to see chakra within an opponent or ally and it also gives an increase to the user’s perceptive abilities. Two tomoe grants the user the eye of hypnotism, while in turn increasing the previous abilities that the ‘Eye of Insight’ grants. The girl’s precognition and perception is heightened well beyond what’s achievable by even the most skilled and elite shinobi, allowing her more of a predictive insight on her opponent as well as the world around her. In terms of her being able to track extremely fast objects and people alike, the eye also allows a natural reactive ability that helps her respond more accurately than a single tomoe could ever allow. As for the ability to see chakra, with a second tomoe the smallest and most faint sources of chakra can easily be spotted by the eye without any issue at all. Assigning color and analyzing the flow of the chakra, Kazui can tell which nature is going to be used as well as where the chakra will be coming from.

The Eye of Hypnotism on the other hand is much different than the previous eye, it allows the girl the ability to cast and break genjutsu with no issue at all, in a way only the Uchiha are capable of. It also gives her access to a set of genjutsu only known to those who possess great visual prowess amongst the clan. These illusions are very powerful in nature and are some of the most dangerous known to the art, they are well beyond standard genjutsu, and in addition the illusions can be casted with just a single glare. Those who met her gaze will find themselves under her spell before they can even realize what happened.

Tiny Dancer - Elusiveness
Kazui is one quick girl, which isn’t hard to tell. Thanks to her training, the girl has amazing agility and reflexes that allow her to keep herself out of harms way. Even without her sharingan being active, Kazui possesses sharp perceptive abilities and reflexes that allows her to become an escape artist of some sort as well as a complete nuisance to those trying to fight her. The girl’s reaction speed is superb and not to be taken lightly as it is, however, when the dojutsu is active, taking into account the girl’s great speed and adding her keen reflexes into the mix, it’s capabilities are much more potent and useful to the Uchiha. With this, not only is Kazui capable of keeping track of even the most renowned speediest opponents and attacks, the girl is able to keep up with, and react to them as well with relative ease.

Wake Up To Reality - KME Genjutsu Prowess
As an Uchiha it is believed that Kazui and many of her clanmen were born with a natural affinity for the art of genjutsu, but of course none of it can ever come to fruition if there is no effort placed behind it. However, since she was constantly reminded by those around her about that fact, the girl began to focus on the art more than ever before.

Although her illusions do become much more elaborate, less flawed in a certain sense, and stronger, the true results come more in the form of defending herself against genjutsu. Her vast knowledge of the art as well as her training and extremely high sensory capabilities allow for the Uchiha’s escape efforts to be significantly stronger than it normally is, allowing her to free herself from genjutsu up to 1 rank above what she is typically capable of via the special ability granted to the Uchiha with The Sharingan’s genjutsu escape. It should be noted however that genjutsu reversal does not receive any additional boosts from this ability.

Sleight of Hand - Seals Master
As Kazui grew older and gained more experience and familiarity with the ninja arts, the girl’s chakra control had essentially been mastered along with her speed and accuracy with forming hand-seals. Countless of hours spent training, learning, and even creating new jutsu has made the girl grow familiar with every seal needed to perform any jutsu, every motion for every combination, her body absorbed and memorized - allowing her to flow through the motions with no given thought or effort. Her speed with forming these seals is insanely quick and precise, she’s even capable of stringing together the lengthiest combinations of hand seals and casting jutsu faster than most can even dream of keeping up with, making it appear as if she hadn’t even tried to use any hand-seals to begin with. Her vast knowledge and familiarity with sealing in addition to her refined chakra control has lead her to being able to utilize only a single hand to form a seal as well, though she only does this under certain circumstances.

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[UCHIHA ISSEI]

"She set me up... I was clueless to the fact that she was keeping tabs on me shortly after the exams ended.. Not long after we got home I was sent a threatening letter from some anonymous person threatening to kill the people I cared about if I did not confront them.. They assumed I might know who they were, but I didn't. I hadn't made the kind of enemy I believed would want me dead to that extent, but I was wrong."

A heavy sigh followed as he allowed his frame to slide down the tree until his bottom hit the thicket root of the tree. "For awhile it appeared as though it might have been fluff because I didn't get anything else from them for some times. I continued to train, go on mission, and build my relationship with Ayukawa en route to a promotion to Special Jounin.. My personal life was improving, but behind the scenes I was just seconds from losing all that I'd work for.. That is until a Senju appeared at my door step."

How fitting was it that a Senju was at the start of all this chaos. "They were all beat up from the looks of it from some altercation, and the person who gave it to em left a message for me which threw me off completely. When he gave me the backstory for what happened I was able to piece together that the person who sent the letter in fact, the same person who beat them up. Kunikuno something.. Their names just annoying as their presence.."

"Anyways, again, I was threaten to show myself or the people I loved would suffer. In my mind she wouldn't be able to get to any of the people I truly cared about. I wasn't convinced her skills would have allowed her to find you, let alone beat you so that was one thing off my list. My parents remained heavily in the village as one is retired and the other is a high ranking Police Officer, and then there's Ayukawa, but she lived in Suna so I never imagined none of my people would be in danger."

"Except they were.. Myself and Tetsumi Senju agreed that when the time came we would go down there together, and when we did there was someone else with the Taki girl... Ayukawa." Issei added before placing his hand tightly around his face. "I guess she was watching us the day before we left Byakuya and decided to reach out to her under the guise that I was trying to attack her, even though it was actually the other way around."

"Needless to say that moment was too much for me... I didn't account for anyone else being there besides the three of us, and I believed myself still to be superior to her, and I still do, but watching her tear the arm off... T-tear the.." The Uchiha with his free hand would slam it against the trunk of the tree in an effort to keep himself from getting emotional. "Nearly tear the arm from her body I froze mentally. I only did enough to comfort, but was too dumb to try to get her away from all of that."

"My emotions were all over the place... All I could think about was losing her, how I'd just finally found some happiness after everything that transpired leading to you leaving and my Teacher being briefly imprisoned.. Fortunately, I was bailed out from my weakness from Sunagakure's Jounin Hanchou who I guess was aware of the drama before Ayukawa left. Fortunately she was able to get us back safely, but Ayukawa's career is likely over because of me."

Since then he still hadn't gotten the chance to reach out to her, and honestly he was too afraid to confront her. "Of course, as always, there is a silver lining in all of this darkness, and I intend to use its power to make sure it never happens again." The latter of which included his soon to be initiation into Root and the birth of his second Tomoe.

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Don’t just weather the storm.
Dance in it.

❧

There was once a time where Kazui looked up to Issei, and to an extent she still does to this very day. He was her elder by over four years, her first true friend within the clan, and a former partner in crime so to say, since they were normally paired together whenever they took missions. Yet, now here she stood looking down at him as he lowered himself to a seated position, burying his face in the palm of his hands - completely unbecoming of who he truly was. This wasn’t like anything Kazui had ever seen from him before, which meant it more than likely cut deeper than anything he’s ever experienced up to this point.

No words could be offered from Kazui as she simply stood there, utterly speechless at what Issei had spoken to her. How could he let this happen? How did she get the best of him? These questions raced through the Uchiha’s mind for a brief second, though for the time being her concerns mostly went out to her friend, Ayukawa. She was the one who saved Kazui from Kunikunosaku’s bullshit when they first encountered one another in the chunin exams years ago, the girl even treated that freak with care.

Kazui’s emotions began to boil, and the more that she thought of her friend being maimed by that bitch, the angrier she became. So much for her cutting ties with Ayukawa, it was clear just how much she still cared for the girl. Looking down to her side, Kazui would find her hands balled into fists. She’d give herself a moment to pause and collect her composure, and with a sigh she would reach towards Issei, placing her hand gently on his head, comforting him - albeit awkwardly as she’s never had to do so before. She understood that she couldn’t direct her frustration towards him, the only thing she could do now was let him know that she was there for him just as he had been there for her.

Dark hues continued to watch Issei, and for a split second she wanted to tell him to stand up, that he was beyond his emotions, but doing so would be foolish of her, knowing that she had been so broken to the point where defection was the only thing that could right what had been wronged.

So instead, Kazui would grab a seat right beside him.

"I-I’m…sorry.” She spoke softly. It was the first time she’d ever apologized for something that wasn’t her fault, and like before it would feel a bit awkward escaping from her lips. "I’m sorry that this happened to you and … I’m sorry that I wasn’t there to help you when you needed it the most.”

Thoughts of returning to the village flashed through her mind, but she’d quickly dispel them. Now that she’s reunited with Hotaru, her happiness returned, but it seems she could never truly escape from the pain known as reality, no matter what she did.

"If I ever see her….she’s as good as dead.”

Those were her words, and she would stand by them. Nevertheless, she wouldn’t remain seated for long, pushing her back up to her feet, Kazui would offer a hand to help her comrade as well. "Here..” There was something she wanted him to see of course, though it’d take a bit of walking. "Walk with me.”

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Always Passively Active:
NAME: Kagura Shingan [Kagura Mind's Eye]
RANK: A
CHAKRA USAGE: Very Low
CLASSIFICATION: Ninjutsu // Hijutsu
ELEMENT: N/a
DESCRIPTION:
This ability allows the user to find, sense, and track individuals through their chakra over vast range that exceeds ten kilometers. This is done by focusing and opening the mind's eye, though due to the low chakra cost many users keep it active often. The ability also extends to telling when a person is lying from the fluctuations in a person's chakra made from dishonest emotions or detecting if someone, including the user, is under a genjutsu. Also by focusing on a particular chakra, the user can perceive its location and movement with great detail.

Little Know It All - Extreme Intelligence
It was no secret that Kazui was regarded as a scholar when she was in the academy. One of the smartest in her class, the Uchiha often found herself correcting and/or helping out people older than herself. Many considered her very intellectual then, but that was just only the surface of her potential. Now, the girl is regarded as a genius, her IQ is nothing to be taken lightly or to be taken for granted, even as a young chunin. The teen possesses amazing mental capacity, is able to concentrate flawlessly even in the heat of battle, can calculate things in her head with great speed, and is able to remember many things with perfect recollection, even if it’s just useless information that is meant to be disregarded. In addition to that, Kazui is very deductive, competent, and witted. Her mind is the most dangerous weapon she possesses for many reasons. The girl is highly alert, aware, and very analytical, and she is also very ingenious and is capable of thinking outside of the box as well. Not only is she capable of reading, analyzing, and breaking down a person’s fighting style, but she can also determine what kind of person they are just by the way they speak, the way they carry themselves, and their thoughts on certain things. While doing this, it’s incredibly difficult to deceive the girl, especially if one is not skilled in the art of deception. Furthermore, Kazui can formulate numerous plans to certain situations in mere seconds. She thinks 10 steps ahead, and always has a back up plan just incase.

Gone In The Wind - Blistering Speed
As a child, Kazui was born weaker than others. Her health conditions set the girl at a disadvantage physically since birth, however her constant effort and drive to become the best has pushed her far beyond many others the same rank as herself. Her speed is nothing to be taken lightly, she has pushed herself physically to be able to not only outpace her opponent, but outright force them into keeping up with her and pushing them to the brink with her speed as well. The girl is fast, quick, and agile, even rivaling those who dedicated their entire life to the art of taijutsu to the point where if they haven’t specifically honed their speed, then the girl could outright outclass them in that regard. Those with weak perception often have trouble perceiving the girl’s movements, and to a normal human’s eye perceiving her is nigh impossible. All of her movements are inhumanly quick and hard to keep track of, and when used in conjunction with her sharingan, it can make her a formidable opponent for even the strongest of shinobi.

The Minimalist - Chakra Control
There was a problem that Kazui noticed during her time in the academy and that was the fact that she often found herself tiring out and exhausting herself rather quickly, even when she had just started she could feel herself beginning to wilt. So to counter those measures, the girl studied and asked around, trying to find the reason behind it and if there was a way she could fix it. She wasn’t born with massive reserves so while she utilized her justus, she often did so wastefully. But now, the girl has managed to control the amount of chakra she uses in a technique that allows her to fight much longer than before. She uses the absolute bare minimum of the chakra that’s needed, and not a drop more.

Uchiha Bloodline: Two Tomoe Sharingan
Being born within the Uchiha clan, Kazui has been blessed and/or cursed with a power that only an Uchiha can possess and use to its complete and full potential when they have experienced extreme emotions that causes their chakra to pour into their optic nerves, gifting them with the Sharingan, also known as the eyes that reflect the heart. There are three stages to the sharingan, and it is tracked by the amount of tomoe that appears around an Uchiha’s pupil. One tomoe unlocks the eye of insight, it grants the user the ability to see chakra within an opponent or ally and it also gives an increase to the user’s perceptive abilities. Two tomoe grants the user the eye of hypnotism, while in turn increasing the previous abilities that the ‘Eye of Insight’ grants. The girl’s precognition and perception is heightened well beyond what’s achievable by even the most skilled and elite shinobi, allowing her more of a predictive insight on her opponent as well as the world around her. In terms of her being able to track extremely fast objects and people alike, the eye also allows a natural reactive ability that helps her respond more accurately than a single tomoe could ever allow. As for the ability to see chakra, with a second tomoe the smallest and most faint sources of chakra can easily be spotted by the eye without any issue at all. Assigning color and analyzing the flow of the chakra, Kazui can tell which nature is going to be used as well as where the chakra will be coming from.

The Eye of Hypnotism on the other hand is much different than the previous eye, it allows the girl the ability to cast and break genjutsu with no issue at all, in a way only the Uchiha are capable of. It also gives her access to a set of genjutsu only known to those who possess great visual prowess amongst the clan. These illusions are very powerful in nature and are some of the most dangerous known to the art, they are well beyond standard genjutsu, and in addition the illusions can be casted with just a single glare. Those who met her gaze will find themselves under her spell before they can even realize what happened.

Tiny Dancer - Elusiveness
Kazui is one quick girl, which isn’t hard to tell. Thanks to her training, the girl has amazing agility and reflexes that allow her to keep herself out of harms way. Even without her sharingan being active, Kazui possesses sharp perceptive abilities and reflexes that allows her to become an escape artist of some sort as well as a complete nuisance to those trying to fight her. The girl’s reaction speed is superb and not to be taken lightly as it is, however, when the dojutsu is active, taking into account the girl’s great speed and adding her keen reflexes into the mix, it’s capabilities are much more potent and useful to the Uchiha. With this, not only is Kazui capable of keeping track of even the most renowned speediest opponents and attacks, the girl is able to keep up with, and react to them as well with relative ease.

Wake Up To Reality - KME Genjutsu Prowess
As an Uchiha it is believed that Kazui and many of her clanmen were born with a natural affinity for the art of genjutsu, but of course none of it can ever come to fruition if there is no effort placed behind it. However, since she was constantly reminded by those around her about that fact, the girl began to focus on the art more than ever before.

Although her illusions do become much more elaborate, less flawed in a certain sense, and stronger, the true results come more in the form of defending herself against genjutsu. Her vast knowledge of the art as well as her training and extremely high sensory capabilities allow for the Uchiha’s escape efforts to be significantly stronger than it normally is, allowing her to free herself from genjutsu up to 1 rank above what she is typically capable of via the special ability granted to the Uchiha with The Sharingan’s genjutsu escape. It should be noted however that genjutsu reversal does not receive any additional boosts from this ability.

Sleight of Hand - Seals Master
As Kazui grew older and gained more experience and familiarity with the ninja arts, the girl’s chakra control had essentially been mastered along with her speed and accuracy with forming hand-seals. Countless of hours spent training, learning, and even creating new jutsu has made the girl grow familiar with every seal needed to perform any jutsu, every motion for every combination, her body absorbed and memorized - allowing her to flow through the motions with no given thought or effort. Her speed with forming these seals is insanely quick and precise, she’s even capable of stringing together the lengthiest combinations of hand seals and casting jutsu faster than most can even dream of keeping up with, making it appear as if she hadn’t even tried to use any hand-seals to begin with. Her vast knowledge and familiarity with sealing in addition to her refined chakra control has lead her to being able to utilize only a single hand to form a seal as well, though she only does this under certain circumstances.

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[UCHIHA ISSEI]

Issei was thankful that Kazui was even taking the time to actually listen to him. Between everything she had going on and of course the nature of who she was he knew this was kind of a big deal. Plus, there weren't many people he could even open up to about all of this because of his political implications within the clan. Despite his mistake and inability to protect Ayukawa it was imperative to preserve all of the right things he'd accomplish previously.

Instead, he used this situation as a beacon to further connect with those who'd also experience similar woes or worst in the clan which fortunately improved his claim to take over the clan altogether. Having Kazui tag along with him over Tetsumi would have been a world of a difference for Issei, especially since they were more in sync mentally and physically. She might have been able to get him out of the emotion freeze he was stuck in that nearly cost everyone their life.

It was humiliating to say the least, but only an Uchiha could possible understand they pain an Uchiha felt when they were about to lose anything of true significance. It was as if their lineage had a mind of its own entirely. "Thanks.." Issei softly let out when she mentioned the possibility of killing her if she ever saw her again. If there was anyone he was certain could take her down it was definitely the Uchiha prodigy herself.

Afterward there would be a brief moment of silence before she stood up and offered him a hand. Issei removed his other hand to look up at his former comrade and friend with watery eyes before slowly reaching for her hand. It appeared as though she wanted him to follow her somewhere. He didn't see this coming, but if it would help him get over himself then he'd do just about anything at this point.

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Don’t just weather the storm.
Dance in it.

❧

As Issei grabbed ahold of her hand, Kazui would give him a slight tug to help him back up to his feet. Tears welled behind his eyes, and though there was nothing wrong with him having his feelings on display, Kazui herself had never seen the guy so down and broken. He was somebody she genuinely looked up to despite them practically being equals. Issei was the first Uchiha that she befriended and trusted deeply enough to share her life story with, the only one who gave her a chance when she was practically a nobody, and an overall good role model for anyone to have. It broke her heart to see him in such a way, so she would make sure to be there for him just as he was there for her.

But there was something she did wish to show him for future reference, they just had to do a bit of walking.

"I would be lying if I said it doesn’t hurt me to see you at such a low point.” Kazui spoke with her typical soft spoken tone. "I should've been right there.” The young girl thought to herself.

She wouldn’t force conversation with him, instead Kazui would allow the peacefulness of the nature surrounding them to help wash away any heavy-heartedness that may have weighed on them. This was the perfect time for the two of them to try to clear their mind and let go, though Kazui would remain on edge as they moved down the path.

After about five minutes or so of walking in silence, Kazui would begin to drop a few hints on what it was that she wanted him to see. Sighing, the teen would run her fingers through her long dark hair to keep it out of her face. "As you know, I left Konoha in search of my brother.” She started. Taking a few steps ahead of Issei, Kazui turned to face her elder with a somewhat saddened expression.

"Well…I found him.” Hmph. "And I decided that I would be staying with him, but I don’t want to turn my back completely on the village, and especially not on you.”

She was torn, but it was a decision she had to make. Leading Issei off road, there would be a cave somewhat hidden by thick bushes. The cave itself had been abandoned for weeks now, but there was something important that she hoped that Issei would make use of. In one of the trees just off to the side sat a nest where her crows had once used as their home - they often frequented the area.

"If you ever need me…for ANYTHING. You can leave a note here and these guys will relay it to me.” Placing her arm out, one of the crows would soar down from the sky and onto her wrist. "Please don’t be a stranger. It’ll mean the world to me to just know that you guys are doing well.” She voiced. It was the only way they would be able to keep in contact without running the risk of their messages getting intercepted, and she definitely didn’t want to wait months or even years to bump into him again.

Tsuki no Karasu

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Always Passively Active:
NAME: Kagura Shingan [Kagura Mind's Eye]
RANK: A
CHAKRA USAGE: Very Low
CLASSIFICATION: Ninjutsu // Hijutsu
ELEMENT: N/a
DESCRIPTION:
This ability allows the user to find, sense, and track individuals through their chakra over vast range that exceeds ten kilometers. This is done by focusing and opening the mind's eye, though due to the low chakra cost many users keep it active often. The ability also extends to telling when a person is lying from the fluctuations in a person's chakra made from dishonest emotions or detecting if someone, including the user, is under a genjutsu. Also by focusing on a particular chakra, the user can perceive its location and movement with great detail.

Little Know It All - Extreme Intelligence
It was no secret that Kazui was regarded as a scholar when she was in the academy. One of the smartest in her class, the Uchiha often found herself correcting and/or helping out people older than herself. Many considered her very intellectual then, but that was just only the surface of her potential. Now, the girl is regarded as a genius, her IQ is nothing to be taken lightly or to be taken for granted, even as a young chunin. The teen possesses amazing mental capacity, is able to concentrate flawlessly even in the heat of battle, can calculate things in her head with great speed, and is able to remember many things with perfect recollection, even if it’s just useless information that is meant to be disregarded. In addition to that, Kazui is very deductive, competent, and witted. Her mind is the most dangerous weapon she possesses for many reasons. The girl is highly alert, aware, and very analytical, and she is also very ingenious and is capable of thinking outside of the box as well. Not only is she capable of reading, analyzing, and breaking down a person’s fighting style, but she can also determine what kind of person they are just by the way they speak, the way they carry themselves, and their thoughts on certain things. While doing this, it’s incredibly difficult to deceive the girl, especially if one is not skilled in the art of deception. Furthermore, Kazui can formulate numerous plans to certain situations in mere seconds. She thinks 10 steps ahead, and always has a back up plan just incase.

Gone In The Wind - Blistering Speed
As a child, Kazui was born weaker than others. Her health conditions set the girl at a disadvantage physically since birth, however her constant effort and drive to become the best has pushed her far beyond many others the same rank as herself. Her speed is nothing to be taken lightly, she has pushed herself physically to be able to not only outpace her opponent, but outright force them into keeping up with her and pushing them to the brink with her speed as well. The girl is fast, quick, and agile, even rivaling those who dedicated their entire life to the art of taijutsu to the point where if they haven’t specifically honed their speed, then the girl could outright outclass them in that regard. Those with weak perception often have trouble perceiving the girl’s movements, and to a normal human’s eye perceiving her is nigh impossible. All of her movements are inhumanly quick and hard to keep track of, and when used in conjunction with her sharingan, it can make her a formidable opponent for even the strongest of shinobi.

The Minimalist - Chakra Control
There was a problem that Kazui noticed during her time in the academy and that was the fact that she often found herself tiring out and exhausting herself rather quickly, even when she had just started she could feel herself beginning to wilt. So to counter those measures, the girl studied and asked around, trying to find the reason behind it and if there was a way she could fix it. She wasn’t born with massive reserves so while she utilized her justus, she often did so wastefully. But now, the girl has managed to control the amount of chakra she uses in a technique that allows her to fight much longer than before. She uses the absolute bare minimum of the chakra that’s needed, and not a drop more.

Uchiha Bloodline: Two Tomoe Sharingan
Being born within the Uchiha clan, Kazui has been blessed and/or cursed with a power that only an Uchiha can possess and use to its complete and full potential when they have experienced extreme emotions that causes their chakra to pour into their optic nerves, gifting them with the Sharingan, also known as the eyes that reflect the heart. There are three stages to the sharingan, and it is tracked by the amount of tomoe that appears around an Uchiha’s pupil. One tomoe unlocks the eye of insight, it grants the user the ability to see chakra within an opponent or ally and it also gives an increase to the user’s perceptive abilities. Two tomoe grants the user the eye of hypnotism, while in turn increasing the previous abilities that the ‘Eye of Insight’ grants. The girl’s precognition and perception is heightened well beyond what’s achievable by even the most skilled and elite shinobi, allowing her more of a predictive insight on her opponent as well as the world around her. In terms of her being able to track extremely fast objects and people alike, the eye also allows a natural reactive ability that helps her respond more accurately than a single tomoe could ever allow. As for the ability to see chakra, with a second tomoe the smallest and most faint sources of chakra can easily be spotted by the eye without any issue at all. Assigning color and analyzing the flow of the chakra, Kazui can tell which nature is going to be used as well as where the chakra will be coming from.

The Eye of Hypnotism on the other hand is much different than the previous eye, it allows the girl the ability to cast and break genjutsu with no issue at all, in a way only the Uchiha are capable of. It also gives her access to a set of genjutsu only known to those who possess great visual prowess amongst the clan. These illusions are very powerful in nature and are some of the most dangerous known to the art, they are well beyond standard genjutsu, and in addition the illusions can be casted with just a single glare. Those who met her gaze will find themselves under her spell before they can even realize what happened.

Tiny Dancer - Elusiveness
Kazui is one quick girl, which isn’t hard to tell. Thanks to her training, the girl has amazing agility and reflexes that allow her to keep herself out of harms way. Even without her sharingan being active, Kazui possesses sharp perceptive abilities and reflexes that allows her to become an escape artist of some sort as well as a complete nuisance to those trying to fight her. The girl’s reaction speed is superb and not to be taken lightly as it is, however, when the dojutsu is active, taking into account the girl’s great speed and adding her keen reflexes into the mix, it’s capabilities are much more potent and useful to the Uchiha. With this, not only is Kazui capable of keeping track of even the most renowned speediest opponents and attacks, the girl is able to keep up with, and react to them as well with relative ease.

Wake Up To Reality - KME Genjutsu Prowess
As an Uchiha it is believed that Kazui and many of her clanmen were born with a natural affinity for the art of genjutsu, but of course none of it can ever come to fruition if there is no effort placed behind it. However, since she was constantly reminded by those around her about that fact, the girl began to focus on the art more than ever before.

Although her illusions do become much more elaborate, less flawed in a certain sense, and stronger, the true results come more in the form of defending herself against genjutsu. Her vast knowledge of the art as well as her training and extremely high sensory capabilities allow for the Uchiha’s escape efforts to be significantly stronger than it normally is, allowing her to free herself from genjutsu up to 1 rank above what she is typically capable of via the special ability granted to the Uchiha with The Sharingan’s genjutsu escape. It should be noted however that genjutsu reversal does not receive any additional boosts from this ability.

Sleight of Hand - Seals Master
As Kazui grew older and gained more experience and familiarity with the ninja arts, the girl’s chakra control had essentially been mastered along with her speed and accuracy with forming hand-seals. Countless of hours spent training, learning, and even creating new jutsu has made the girl grow familiar with every seal needed to perform any jutsu, every motion for every combination, her body absorbed and memorized - allowing her to flow through the motions with no given thought or effort. Her speed with forming these seals is insanely quick and precise, she’s even capable of stringing together the lengthiest combinations of hand seals and casting jutsu faster than most can even dream of keeping up with, making it appear as if she hadn’t even tried to use any hand-seals to begin with. Her vast knowledge and familiarity with sealing in addition to her refined chakra control has lead her to being able to utilize only a single hand to form a seal as well, though she only does this under certain circumstances.

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[UCHIHA ISSEI]

Opening up definitely wasn't easy for the Uchiha, but at some point he was going to have to trust someone and right now she was one of the few people he trusted. Being in an emotional state like this was embarrassing, especially when he was at the forefront of why he almost lost his lover. Yet here Kazui was existing calmly within the lands of Hi no Kuni as if she hadn't left the village illegally. As always she still managed to stay just one step ahead of him.

He couldn't tell if it was just a capping point from him, or all those years of being ignorant finally catching up to him. Issei still had much mental navigating to do when he got back home, but for now he'd try to enjoy what little time he had with his friend. Issei had no idea as to where he was being taken, but he'd try to take in the environment around him as he calmed himself from thinking about the mistakes he made not too long before he ended up out here.

After some time pass from walking in silence Kazui begin talking about the reason why she left the village, which she confirmed again had to do with her brother. It appeared as though she had found him and likely decided that was where she was going to be going forward. Her presence away from the clan would be a major hit, but they all understood her pain and no one judged her for doing what she had done. Especially since she left in peace in favor of causing problems directly with the higher ups.

Issei wasn't surprised to hear that she had not turned her back on the village despite all the whispers going on about her from those who remained paranoid about whether or not she would be passing around secrets of the village. Nevertheless, the place they were headed appeared to be this cave that was hidden perfectly in the area. The kind of place you wouldn't know where to find unless you knew exactly where to go.

For a moment he wondered if this might have been the place she was hiding out, but it seemed like this place had an entirely different purpose. A weak smile stretched across the lips of the Uchiha as she added that this was a place he could leave messages to her in the event he needed her. Her crow companion would go him the favor of passing off said messages to her without the risk of her being found out. It was quite clever.

"Of course... There aren't many people in my life that I trust as much as you. Plus, it would be nice to know how you're holding up from time to time as well.. I'm not the one having to watch my back every minute of the day like yourself. My problems are miniscule compared to yours.... Also, If you don't mind would it be okay for me to tell the clan that I ran into you? They're very much so still loyal to you and would love to know how you're doing. Even if it means you're not coming home."

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Don’t just weather the storm.
Dance in it.

❧

Kazui noticed Issei’s smile and it warmed her heart, though there wasn’t much to show for it on her impassive features, but surely at this point in their friendship he understood when she was happy and when things weren’t going so good. The basis of their relationship revolves around trust and genuine care for one another, it was what brought them together in the first place and what carried them throughout the years.

She couldn’t stand to see him down, especially when she looked up to him so much. Messing with him was like messing with her, there was no tolerance for it in any capacity.

Hearing that he not only wanted the chance to communicate with her but also hear how she was doing from time to time was what truly solidified Issei as her closest friend and it stuck to the girl more than any other thing he said..to the point where she nearly missed his follow up question, requesting that he relay information to the clan about actually getting the chance to speak with her, something that no other Uchiha had gotten the chance to do - not even her adoptive mother, Hiruko.

Her eyes lowered down towards the earth for a moment as she processed her thoughts and feelings. Taking in a deep breath, the teen would sigh as her dark hues met Issei’s. "You shouldn’t ever downplay your problems, you have a lot on your shoulders, much like myself, just in a different way. It’s in our blood to embrace these obstacles head on or else it’ll eat us alive…which leads me to this...” Taking a moment to analyze the possible outcomes of the situation, Kazui would give her answer.

"If you wish to mention our meeting to the clan elders and others, then that is your call to make, I can not force you to do anything. However, if you decide to do so, do tell them that…I love them and that I miss them. Especially Lady Hiruko. And please do inform them that Hotaru is alive and well, I’m sure they miss him deeply.”

She offered her request to the older guy, hoping that it wasn’t too much for him to remember. She could never bring herself to tell them these things herself, so Issei would serve as the link between her and their clan. Nevertheless, Kazui would shoo her crow away, prompting him to soar into the sky, landing somewhere amongst the treetops.

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Always Passively Active:
NAME: Kagura Shingan [Kagura Mind's Eye]
RANK: A
CHAKRA USAGE: Very Low
CLASSIFICATION: Ninjutsu // Hijutsu
ELEMENT: N/a
DESCRIPTION:
This ability allows the user to find, sense, and track individuals through their chakra over vast range that exceeds ten kilometers. This is done by focusing and opening the mind's eye, though due to the low chakra cost many users keep it active often. The ability also extends to telling when a person is lying from the fluctuations in a person's chakra made from dishonest emotions or detecting if someone, including the user, is under a genjutsu. Also by focusing on a particular chakra, the user can perceive its location and movement with great detail.

Little Know It All - Extreme Intelligence
It was no secret that Kazui was regarded as a scholar when she was in the academy. One of the smartest in her class, the Uchiha often found herself correcting and/or helping out people older than herself. Many considered her very intellectual then, but that was just only the surface of her potential. Now, the girl is regarded as a genius, her IQ is nothing to be taken lightly or to be taken for granted, even as a young chunin. The teen possesses amazing mental capacity, is able to concentrate flawlessly even in the heat of battle, can calculate things in her head with great speed, and is able to remember many things with perfect recollection, even if it’s just useless information that is meant to be disregarded. In addition to that, Kazui is very deductive, competent, and witted. Her mind is the most dangerous weapon she possesses for many reasons. The girl is highly alert, aware, and very analytical, and she is also very ingenious and is capable of thinking outside of the box as well. Not only is she capable of reading, analyzing, and breaking down a person’s fighting style, but she can also determine what kind of person they are just by the way they speak, the way they carry themselves, and their thoughts on certain things. While doing this, it’s incredibly difficult to deceive the girl, especially if one is not skilled in the art of deception. Furthermore, Kazui can formulate numerous plans to certain situations in mere seconds. She thinks 10 steps ahead, and always has a back up plan just incase.

Gone In The Wind - Blistering Speed
As a child, Kazui was born weaker than others. Her health conditions set the girl at a disadvantage physically since birth, however her constant effort and drive to become the best has pushed her far beyond many others the same rank as herself. Her speed is nothing to be taken lightly, she has pushed herself physically to be able to not only outpace her opponent, but outright force them into keeping up with her and pushing them to the brink with her speed as well. The girl is fast, quick, and agile, even rivaling those who dedicated their entire life to the art of taijutsu to the point where if they haven’t specifically honed their speed, then the girl could outright outclass them in that regard. Those with weak perception often have trouble perceiving the girl’s movements, and to a normal human’s eye perceiving her is nigh impossible. All of her movements are inhumanly quick and hard to keep track of, and when used in conjunction with her sharingan, it can make her a formidable opponent for even the strongest of shinobi.

The Minimalist - Chakra Control
There was a problem that Kazui noticed during her time in the academy and that was the fact that she often found herself tiring out and exhausting herself rather quickly, even when she had just started she could feel herself beginning to wilt. So to counter those measures, the girl studied and asked around, trying to find the reason behind it and if there was a way she could fix it. She wasn’t born with massive reserves so while she utilized her justus, she often did so wastefully. But now, the girl has managed to control the amount of chakra she uses in a technique that allows her to fight much longer than before. She uses the absolute bare minimum of the chakra that’s needed, and not a drop more.

Uchiha Bloodline: Two Tomoe Sharingan
Being born within the Uchiha clan, Kazui has been blessed and/or cursed with a power that only an Uchiha can possess and use to its complete and full potential when they have experienced extreme emotions that causes their chakra to pour into their optic nerves, gifting them with the Sharingan, also known as the eyes that reflect the heart. There are three stages to the sharingan, and it is tracked by the amount of tomoe that appears around an Uchiha’s pupil. One tomoe unlocks the eye of insight, it grants the user the ability to see chakra within an opponent or ally and it also gives an increase to the user’s perceptive abilities. Two tomoe grants the user the eye of hypnotism, while in turn increasing the previous abilities that the ‘Eye of Insight’ grants. The girl’s precognition and perception is heightened well beyond what’s achievable by even the most skilled and elite shinobi, allowing her more of a predictive insight on her opponent as well as the world around her. In terms of her being able to track extremely fast objects and people alike, the eye also allows a natural reactive ability that helps her respond more accurately than a single tomoe could ever allow. As for the ability to see chakra, with a second tomoe the smallest and most faint sources of chakra can easily be spotted by the eye without any issue at all. Assigning color and analyzing the flow of the chakra, Kazui can tell which nature is going to be used as well as where the chakra will be coming from.

The Eye of Hypnotism on the other hand is much different than the previous eye, it allows the girl the ability to cast and break genjutsu with no issue at all, in a way only the Uchiha are capable of. It also gives her access to a set of genjutsu only known to those who possess great visual prowess amongst the clan. These illusions are very powerful in nature and are some of the most dangerous known to the art, they are well beyond standard genjutsu, and in addition the illusions can be casted with just a single glare. Those who met her gaze will find themselves under her spell before they can even realize what happened.

Tiny Dancer - Elusiveness
Kazui is one quick girl, which isn’t hard to tell. Thanks to her training, the girl has amazing agility and reflexes that allow her to keep herself out of harms way. Even without her sharingan being active, Kazui possesses sharp perceptive abilities and reflexes that allows her to become an escape artist of some sort as well as a complete nuisance to those trying to fight her. The girl’s reaction speed is superb and not to be taken lightly as it is, however, when the dojutsu is active, taking into account the girl’s great speed and adding her keen reflexes into the mix, it’s capabilities are much more potent and useful to the Uchiha. With this, not only is Kazui capable of keeping track of even the most renowned speediest opponents and attacks, the girl is able to keep up with, and react to them as well with relative ease.

Wake Up To Reality - KME Genjutsu Prowess
As an Uchiha it is believed that Kazui and many of her clanmen were born with a natural affinity for the art of genjutsu, but of course none of it can ever come to fruition if there is no effort placed behind it. However, since she was constantly reminded by those around her about that fact, the girl began to focus on the art more than ever before.

Although her illusions do become much more elaborate, less flawed in a certain sense, and stronger, the true results come more in the form of defending herself against genjutsu. Her vast knowledge of the art as well as her training and extremely high sensory capabilities allow for the Uchiha’s escape efforts to be significantly stronger than it normally is, allowing her to free herself from genjutsu up to 1 rank above what she is typically capable of via the special ability granted to the Uchiha with The Sharingan’s genjutsu escape. It should be noted however that genjutsu reversal does not receive any additional boosts from this ability.

Sleight of Hand - Seals Master
As Kazui grew older and gained more experience and familiarity with the ninja arts, the girl’s chakra control had essentially been mastered along with her speed and accuracy with forming hand-seals. Countless of hours spent training, learning, and even creating new jutsu has made the girl grow familiar with every seal needed to perform any jutsu, every motion for every combination, her body absorbed and memorized - allowing her to flow through the motions with no given thought or effort. Her speed with forming these seals is insanely quick and precise, she’s even capable of stringing together the lengthiest combinations of hand seals and casting jutsu faster than most can even dream of keeping up with, making it appear as if she hadn’t even tried to use any hand-seals to begin with. Her vast knowledge and familiarity with sealing in addition to her refined chakra control has lead her to being able to utilize only a single hand to form a seal as well, though she only does this under certain circumstances.

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[UCHIHA ISSEI]

Issei nodded his head as she addressed him personally about downplaying his emotions. She made a good point, but what else was he supposed to do? While he had come to terms to a degree about the clans famed "curse of hatred" he still feared what it could make him become in the event it might consume him. Hiding it just seemed like the easier choice, but that didn't mean Kazui was wrong either. He needed to continue to embrace it so that he could come out better than before rather than letting it eat at him.

Despite her situation Issei was glad that Kazui was still more than comfortable with allowing him to communicate with the clan about his conversation with her. They too cared deeply for her as well as her brother Hotaru whom many wished could have come home safely without all the problems they endured. Nevertheless, they were both okay and that was equally just as importance. Another head nod was given before he addressed her again.

"Noted.. Although, it would have been nice to still have you around. Many still believe you were the clans ideal candidate to take over before all of what transpired between your bother came to light. Including myself. Even so, in your place I intend to make my push to remove Satoru from power and to take over the clan in your place." As bold as his statement might have been it was still the truth nonetheless. Kazui was a prodigy and everyone on the village had eyes on her the moment she took off as a Genin.

No one within their generation embodied the ideals of the clan the way she did, and that's why her departure finally opened the door officially for their to be a new clan leader in wake of Satoru's lack of presence through all of what transpired. With the support of Hiruko and other clan leaders in addition to the growing number of people in the clan it was only a matter of time before his vision of taking over became a reality.

"I will especially see it through that Lady Hiruko receives your love."