My Wonderful Cousin (P,Nike)

It was a while Nike had last been to the Uchiha clan compound. Considering he had finally learned of his heritage, he had also learned that he also had a cousin. Sitting at home Nike had received a message from his cousin Celeste, summoning him to the compound and from what the message stated she onlu wanted to talk. You see despite being an Uchiha, Nike did not live in the compound, rather he spent his time with his mother in their small home in Konoha's Okinaga District. 

Grabbing his jacket, and putting on his shoes, Nike headed out of the door, however not before letting his mother know where he was going, as the last time he had come home from the compoud he was bloodied and bruised from a training session. His over protective mother was reluctant to let him go back to the compound, but he merely had to remind her that family was something that they both treasured, even if at times you severely disliked them. Nike had no qualms with Celeste and rather he was quite interested to see that someone had reached out to him from their clan. 

Walking to the Uchiha compound was a long walk, and Nike often kicked rocks along the way to try and pass time, but for some reason today, it was not long, in fact it the quickest stroll in the past few days. Reaching to the compound, Nike head straight for Celeste's home, knocking on the door once he got there.

A few moments had passed from when Nike had begun knocking on the door of Celeste's house, however he soon became more uncomfortable and nervous as he noticed the passer by's begin to look at him. Getting paranoid over this, he began to believe that the poeple around were talking about him. A few more monents had passed causing Nike to frantically knock on the door in a hope that someone did open up, and much to his pleasure someone did. His cousin Celeste, the girl who had reached out to him opened up the door to the house allowing him to come inside.

Upon greeting him, Celeste had asked many a questions, that would only pertain to see whether Nike's journey to her home was a pleasant one, as it seemed to be common knowledge that Uchiha district and Okinaga district were quite some distance away. "Eh, the walk was alright, just the waiting out with people giving strange looks was a bit weird, but other than that.."  The grin that the boy ended with enough to tell that he was fine. A few seconds of silence filled the air as Nike got a grasp of his surroundings.

"So.. Celeste, whats up?" One doesnt normally summon a person through through a messenger crow, however Celeste did. To nike, being summoned meant that something important was usually happen. However Nike did not want to press into something that did not really require his nose to be sniffing around in. Instead he would wait until Celeste, felt it was necessary to explain why she had called him here.

She And it would begin....

For what felt like days. Celeste would only stare at her cousin as she thought of the ninja Ita who had been training her for quite a while. A Jounin with a extraordinary amount of power and abilities that could definitely cast fear into anyone who he actually deemed a threat. If it were not for the missing Kazekage and Fourth Hokage, she would have said that he was the most powerful Uchiha alive. Seeing as he had awakened a power by the name of the Mangekyo Sharingan. A power that was surely above all. It felt like yesterday when they had went on a mission and encountered the evil doers. It was where Celeste had semi perfected her own Sharingan. Getting it to the point of a Three Tomoe Sharingan. Something that was rarely seen in a Uchiha child her age. Well some would say it makes sense. Seeing as she has the appearance of a eighteen through twenty years old. Something that had happened due to the effects of some pills that she had been given by accident. She didn’t believe it was accident though. Fate was the only thing that had gifted her the pills. Allowing her to grow far more larger and stronger in such a short amount of time.

Her abilities now were limitless. She just needed to train in order to perfect them. With the awakening of her Three Tomoe Sharingan. She had casted a powerful Genjutsu upon an observer of her eyes and had instantly put him unconscious. She had never heard of the Genjutsu before. She only knew that it was a powerful ability that came with her bloodline. So she had leaned towards calling it the Sharingan Genjutsu. Her mind would linger. She wanted to talk with her cousin, but she also wanted to speak with her father and figure out the true power behind the Sharingan itself as so far she had only been given glimpses of it. Such as the black flames spewing from the eyes of Ita and instantly turned a man to dust. Her heart pounded with excitement. She wasn’t one to rush to power, but her Uchiha Physiology was slowly coming to overtake her the further she increased her Sharingan. The Uchiha Clan’s bloodline was a curse after all and she was one of the unlucky few who had to deal with it. 

Now looking over Nike. Her obsidian black eyes would slowly trace his body as she would speak and say “I actually wanted to tell you something, but that can wait until later. Sorry for calling you all of the way out here. Feel free to chill around in my house, but as for now......I have to go and talk to my father and that means I will be gone for some time.” Said Celeste as she looked into the eyes of Nike. Peering pass him and viewing the autumn air outside. She would come to find herself pushing pass him to go to the Elder Facility. The place where the Uchiha Clan Elders held most of their meetings. There were five of them in all with the sixth being the Clan head. The spot was quite empty now since the First Family has disappeared from the world itself. Something that had still been in her mind every since it happened. Walking slowly towards the meeting hall. She would look back and see Nike still in the doorway. She wondered if he would go back home or continue into her own home. Whichever choice she wouldn’t care much.

Then she would wonder...Truth be told, she didn’t really know if her father knew very much about Genjutsu seeing as he usually walked around in his brown shaded armor and his sword. He was a noblemen who believed very much in straightforward fighting and not tricks such as Genjutsu, but Celeste didn’t care. Fighting was fighting and any ability would be deemed useful in a fight that was with a life or death situation. Her mind would become clouded as she thought. If her father couldn’t help her then who can? Would it be Ita? A Jounin who could care less about her well being as he already put her into daring life threatening situations. She didn’t really trust anyone else and she didn’t know if she could really trust Ita as of yet he did reveal to her the ultimate secrets of the Sharingan, but was that enough for her to gain his trust?

She could always teach herself, but she was good at Ninjutsu. It came easy to her when she weaved hand signs. She didn’t know how to flow the chakra into her eyes in order to cast illusions on people. Genjutsu was a hard speciality for a Genin to use seeing as it was just so complicated. Maybe it would be best to go read up a book about it before she consulted with her father on how to use the Sharingan’s potential. You see, the Uchiha District was quite huge even hosting its own library that was full of Uchiha History and books on types of jutsu, Genjutsu being one of them. Making a sharp left on the dirt roads. She would appear at the doorsteps of the library as she made her way through the double doors and into the library itself. Walking into the library she would do her best in order to locate the boos about Genjutsu. Searching up and down every row going down every hall as she looked for an inch of the word. She was a fast learned and sure in hell was a fast reader, so she knew she could do a lot before she went and met with her father later on. He was probably in a meeting at this time of day so it was indeed best that she waited. Finally, she would find a book labeled “Genjutsu”. It seemed pretty straightforward so she would pick up the book and come to take a seat at the desk. And upon reading the first sentence of the book she knew that it would be the one she needed. Reading the book, the sentences would come to flow off of the book. 

“A genjutsu is created when a ninja controls the chakra flow of a target's cerebral nervous system, thereby affecting their five senses. This is frequently used to create false images and/or trick the body into believing its has experienced physical pain. Genjutsu can also be used to manipulate others - similar to brainwashing - by feeding the victim illusive suggestions. Most genjutsu is performed visually, requiring the target make eye contact with the caster. Audible genjutsu is deemed the most dangerous because the user can trap victims from long distances.” 

Reading that one paragraph would seem to fill her with much knowledge as she didn’t know something as such as sound Genjutsu existed. Sometimes she wondered if the world was just overpowered. Being able to put someone into a Genjutsu with purely sound alone was a powerful ability. Continuing to read on the next paragraph she would frown.

Despite its usefulness, genjutsu is rarely employed, most shinobi preferring the real, tangible effects of ninjutsu and taijutsu over the imagined effects of genjutsu. The difficulty of performing genjutsu in the first place presents an additional barrier to its use: genjutsu require precise chakra control in order to manipulate the target's senses and advanced intelligence to make the illusion convincing, prerequisites that even someone as skilled as Kage lack.  Some, however, are able to specialise in genjutsu, with members of the Uchiha clan being particularly feared because of their Sharingan's generic genjutsu. Those under the influence of genjutsu will either appear to be unconscious or continue to move around under the pretence of the genjutsu. The latter is very effective in battle as a genjutsu user can make themselves appear to be somewhere else and attack the victim from behind or change the environment to make the victim see a flat plain where there is a steep cliff.

That paragraph seemed to hit her the most as she knew that she couldn’t stray away from her intelligence if she went down the path of Genjutsu. She could do something as wild as summoning a meteor as she knew that her opponent would realize that he or she were under the effects of a Genjutsu. She had to use realism. Closing the book, she would leave it on the desk as she would make her way out of the library. It was a rather quick trip as she had found out everything that she needed to know. Genjutsu was quite simple. Intelligence was the key part in actually using it. She couldn’t allow her childish mind to overcome her when she put someone under the effects. Making her way towards the meeting hall, she would see that multiple people were rushing towards it. She knew was happening as it had been happening throughout the Uchiha District for months. Another Agni Kai has commenced. It wasn’t a matter of when, but a matter of who. She prayed that it wasn’t her father who had been challenged as the elders were the ones who were being challenged nowadays due to there high positions in the Uchiha Clan. For the most part, Agni Kais always ended in death, but there was always the chance of the victor showing mercy. Sighing, she would come to pass the slow moving crowd as she would make her way into the meeting hall. She would see a flash a brown in silver as the hall would scream in horror. Her father stood in front of a pool of blood with his sword unsheathed and slanted. “Is there anyone else?” Asked her father as his voice was full with both anger and sadness as he slowly wondered away from the dead Uchiha member.

Shocked wasn’t the word for Celeste as her eyes darted from her farted to the pool of blood and the dead body on the ground. Mixed emotions were flowing through her mind as she didn’t know whether to be mad at her father or happy because he didn’t get himself killed. Without a second thought, she would go rushing behind him just as he had sheathed his sword. Without even saying anything to her. He would rest his hand on top of her head and say “Hey Muffin, sorry you had to see that, but you know how much disorder the Clan is right now.” Said Harmon Uchiha. Celeste would nod as she gripped him with a single arm. Her father was the closest loved one she had. Of course there was Nike but they didn’t have as a strong as a bond right now. “So what brings you to the meeting area. You rarely come here.” Said Harmon as he loo d at Celeste with a very puzzled look. Looking up at her father she would say “I fully awakened my sharingan and with it came a Genjutsu that allowed me to instantly knock a person unconscious, but I can’t seem to reawaken the power. Would you show me how to do it?” His face would morph into that or both excitement and horror as he had realized what all she had gone through to awaken the last Tomoe of her Sharingan, but he knew that Celeste wouldn’t ask him about a jutsu unless she really wanted to learn it. Nodding at his daughter he would say “I know of the Genjutsu Sharingan and have cast it from time to time. Follow me to the Training Grounds so that I can teach you how to do it. It should be very easy considering how fast your Sharingan has matured.” Said Harmon as he would motion for Celeste to follow him and the two would make their way out of the meeting area and into the Uchiha Trainitn District. Another thing that was also in the Uchiha District.

As they walked her father would say “By establishing eye contact with a target, the Sharingan can trap someone within a genjutsu which can be exploited for one of various purposes, such as: causing instantaneous — but temporary — loss of consciousness or paralysis in the target, forceful extraction of information, relaying memories, removing genjutsu placed on the target by others, and controlling a target's actions. I for one rarely use Genjutsu as it is very dishonorable as you know. I only use it on my covert missions when I am out to extract information from my targets.” Said Harmon as the two made their way to the training grounds. Celeste would nod, it seemed like the Sharingan needed to be activated to cast the Genjutsu which meant that she had to get someone to look into her eyes. Nearly everyone in the world knew of the massive Genjutsu abilities that came with the Sharingan and that meant anyone would avoid her eyes if they saw the Doujutsu activated. “I’m gonna let you attempt to cast the Genjutsu on me. It isn’t going to hurt me seeing as I’m immune to the effects.” Said her father as his voice would begin to trail when he said he was immune to it. She wondered how he had game to be immune to it because it would definitely be a good trait for her to have in the future. Looking up at her father she would say “So how exactly do I cast a Genjutsu from my eyes. I’m so use to only performing the Handseals and it somewhat automatically happening.” Said Celeste. Harmon would nod as if saying yes to her as he would say “Basically if you can control your yin chakra into your eyes alone. You are able to suck in the opponent to your illusion. Think of it as a black hole and the closer you get to the center the harder it is for you to get out.” Her father explanation made sense, but at the same time it didn’t. Which would cause her to laugh. It was quite outrageous seeing as only minutes before a man had just been killed.

Death was becoming so common in the Uchiha District that even little children didn’t care if their love ones died. Soon though, the Curse of Hatred would make its round and make the Uchiha Clan back as it was over a hundred years ago.......extinct. Finally arriving to the the training grounds. Her father would come to sit on the ground as she stood three meters away from him. His eyes staring up at her own as he would say “active it.” Celeste already knew what “it” was causing her eyes to flash red as Three Tomoe sped around her pupil as if they were racing each other. Looking at her father, he would nod. Giving her the ok to start her testing on him. Something that she really didn’t want to do but knew that it would be the only way for her to awaken the ability. Well not really awaken it, but become more accustomed to using it. Nodding back at her father. She would do her best to try and spin her chakra through her eyes as if it was a whirlpool. The glow of her Sharingan could be seen as a reflection bouncing off of her skin and sending a colorful picture back to her eyes. Looking into the eyes of her father. She would wait to get some kind of sign that he had beeen subcombed to the effects of the Genjutsu.

But he would only sit there with a smirk on his face as he said “Like I said, I have near immunity to that jutsu. If you really want to use it on me then you’re gonna have to try as hard as you can. A mere Genin won’t be able to put me under a Genjutsu.” Said Harmon as he mocked his daughter. Making her quite mad in the process causing her arrogance to move to extreme levels. The words would seem to bounce in her mind. What exactly did he mean by calling her a mere Genin? His mocking was extreme. Her eyes would seem to be filled with so much chakra that the Tomoe sped so fast that it seemed as if a infinite amount of them were around his Eyes. Staring at her father, a deep pain would happen behind her eyes as the world would change from bright and sunny to dark and gloomy. Her father stood next to her as everything went down between Ita Uchiha and herself. Even showing her father Ita’s predicted awakening of the Mangekyo Sharingan. In real time this would happen in a instance, but the Genjutsu would feel like an eternity and when it had ended Harmon would say I didn’t know as his eyes would flash with their own styled Tomoe and he would fall to the ground with immense sadness on her face. Rushing to her father’s side she would realize that he was a user of the Mangekyo Sharingan and had failed to show or tell her the effects of his power. Then she would think about it. Did the death of her mother release his full potential?

She was shaking her father rapidly causing him to come back to his senses. “I doubted you would have been able to put me under the Genjutsu. Hell...I didn’t even think that you would be able to knock me unconscious afterwards. Over these pass few months you have done and encountered things that someone your age shouldn’t have experienced. I guess those aging pills really have did wonders that you seem to be ready for. Tomorrow meet me in the meeting place so that I can show you something.” Said her father as he would disappear from view with a flash of brown. Probably extremely surprised at what Celeste was able to do. Her Sharingan would come to deactivate as she would only stare down at the spot where he was lying on the ground. She had figured out how to use the Genjutsu, but how and when would she use it. Many bad omens were beginning to surface and she didn’t know what they meant. She only knew that sooner or later she would need to fight in something that would be beyond evil.

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