[Lady Kazui]

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

❧

Upon returning to the group of men who she had left behind, Kazui could sense their appreciation towards her. It wasn’t her obligation to keep them alive, however she couldn’t allow them to perish - not on her watch. Alongside their gratitude, the ravenette senses fear and worry lingering amongst the group. Perhaps not towards her, or maybe so, she wasn’t too sure but considering that they weren’t running from her, the girl came to the conclusion that they may have feared yet another threat making an attempt on their lives.

Regardless, she turned her attention to Tsuki who managed to keep an upbeat and chipper outlook on it all despite the fact that he very well could have died on this day. From Tsuki, Kazui’s eyes quickly shifted to the crowd as they all surrounded a single individual. "Yeah, it’s nothing really…” Her words faded off towards the end as her interest had been piqued. She hadn’t even looked Tsuki in the eye as she spoke, her focus remained on the crowd. "There’s .. nothing to worry about. But um..” She took a moment. "What’s going on?” The ravenette asked, gently brushing past Tsuki on her way towards the group.

Looking closely, she witnessed a white haired boy with features that were undoubtedly prominent. Looking over her shoulder before returning her gaze to the handsome boy, the girl offered her hand. "Here.” She wasn’t sure if the boy's relation to "old sourface” as Tsuki referred to him as. However, if she had to take a guess she’d assume this was the son of Goro, the nobleman.

"I would like us to move, now. We must catch up with the others. A dive team will be sent to retrieve all of your belongings from the water, but for now we must make do with what we have.” She voiced to the entire group, before returning her attention back towards the boy. "You stay close to me.” She voiced blandly, before turning on her heels and leading the way back towards the village.

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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 Kai]

Kai stared at the man, eye level, the clanking plates of his vest coming together as he squinted at the mans sudden change in appearance. He didn't need to use his Sharingan to tell that something was going wrong, something was... Off. And that the mans words were in fact, sincere. Placing a palm to his eyes, he'd look back down the road he'd just traveled down, a grimace over his expression.

Damnit. Sometimes, he really hated himself. This was certainly one of those times. He placed a heavy hand on the man's shoulder, looked back... And started walking back towards the disaster point.

"Fine. We'll go back. I don't know what has you so up in arms, but we'll go check. If you get us both killed though..." He glared back at the man.

"I'll be coming for your neck in hell, old man." He growled. It wasn't much of a threat, more of a condition to himself to recognize he was actually going through with this, despite his orders. I mean, it was obvious enough- If they were both dead, there wasn't a whole hell of a lot he could do here, right?

Still, he pulled his glaive up over his shoulder and began the walk back towards the rest of the group, hoping he could catch up to them.

[Exousia]

Tsuki shrugged his shoulders when Kazui asked her question, the tiniest niggle of nervousness entering into his emotions as the Uchiha girl looked towards the young man- and correctly deduced exactly who he was with a single glance. The villain guards all grew intensely flushed, their embarrassment shining through the young Jounin’s Mind’s Eye, perhaps putting a new spin on their previous hostility and reluctance.

"Think he snuck in with the guards or something.” The driver said as he stood up, stretching himself for the walk ahead, tightening his belt- which, if the Uchiha was looking, seemed to hold a small knife of some kind, about four inches long and half-an inch wide. The boy in question smiled, though he remained oddly quiet and, internally, was bubbling with the kind of joy only a small child could summon at a bad joke.

"Think I’ll stick close to you as well, miss. If’n you don’t mind.” Tsuki said, his smile softening somewhat as he walked beside Kazui, eyes watching the road as if nothing in the world had happened at all.

As for Kai and Goro… well, with the young Uchiha man giving into his demand, the white-haired nobleman relaxed a great deal, his face slackening visibly as the Genin led the way, the worry and obvious fear eating at him as they walked. A good twenty minutes went by as the two groups traversed the road and the forest, each lookin for the other… until, suddenly, Kai and his charge emerged from the trees directly in front of Kazui’s group, safe and sound.

Everyone, it seemed, had made it out just fine.

Lady Kazui Uchiha Kai