War. War never changes.
It transforms everything around it to its very core, yet its essence remains immutable.
Humans have always been, and continue to be, a confrontational species, driven by hunger for power, greed, anger, or fear.
Power corrupts...
After the speech the clan head gave to the populace, he got home to see his son.
Just as he stepped in the house, he sensed his son in the backyard.
Wondering what Izaku is doing in the backyard at 9PM, he walked to the backyard, he saw him on the ground watching the sky, so he got up to him and sat beside him.
As he observed his surroundings, he saw the destruction his backyard suffered, surly from Earth style Jutsu's.
He glanced at Izaku, he saw him hugging his leg while watching the the sky, he was bruised, and surly chakra depleted.
They sat there, just enjoying the company of each other for a moment, each of them being tired from the day, one from training and another from clan issues.
Takahisa then spoke, "How... are you feeling right now?"
In response, he got a glance from Izaku, then looked again to the sky, he responded, "I am... fine." he said, he looked about to say another thing, then decided to shut down anything that his mouth was about to utter and silenced himself.
Takahisa, seeing his conflicted facial expression, sighed, "I know it's hard Izaku, but you need to prevail, you need to be strong."
"Yeah, but... I really do miss her." Muttered Izaku.
Takahisa gone silent, he hung his face low while his hand supporting him, he then decided to wrap Izaku in a hug, a tight hug, "I do as well Izaku, I really do."
"Don't blame yourself too much Otou-san, it's not your fault." said Izaku.
Takahisa in return, smiled a bit at his son, "Yeah, easy to say but not so easy when you actually try doing it." He sighed, then muttered, "Well, at least I got something that can help me defeat the enemy fast."
At that, Izaku perked up, eying his father, holding a questioning look.
Takahisa smiled, then activated his Sharingan, after the 3 tomoe spun to it's full glory, they spun again.
And this time, it was a whole another pattern, a bent to the inside triangle, one eye having it's triangle pointing up, and another down.
Izaku, opened his mouth and had wide eyes in shock, he muttered, "The... Mangekyuu."
Just as he said that, Takahisa closed his eyes, then opened them again, returning to it's normal state.
"I awakened them when them when I... Heard about Akiko." He muttered grimly.
Izaku, now knows how deep the guilt and sadness must've been for his father to awaken the Mangekyuu.
Too shocked, he didn't know what to say, he must've looked funny if not for the situation as he had big wide eyes and a gaping mouth.
As he hung his head down slowly, he wondered.
Will his father ever be the same after that?
He knew all too well what happened to those with the Mangekyuu in the original series, the only one spared from this curs were Shisui and Itachi.
"Don't worry about it too much, I am fine, I never imagined things to go south this fast but... at least I got you two, that's all I want now." Said Takahisa as he patted his son.
He then got up, "let's go, we have to sleep."
Izaku nodded, then slowly stood up, "Are you going to the front tomorrow?" he asked.
His father nodded grimly, he said "Yes I will, somehow they got reinforcement, from where, I don't know, but one thing is sure, we have a 3rd party involved on the side of the Uzumaki. They attacked the 6th Forward post, a rather... weird move to say the least, not only it is not the weakest Forward post, but also because if we give it to the enemy we could encircle them later, a disastrous display of strategy."
"Then why are they doing it? and I guess Tier 2's will be drown into battle as they outnumber us." At that, Izaku got a ferocious stare from his father.
"No. I will never allow kids to join the battlefield, we have our own reinforcement on their way from the noodles Daimyo's. They are in Debt to us as we saved them from bandits raids, pirate raids, done their assassination's mission to keep the country from going into a civil war, and we could also blackmail them with sensitive information." responded Takahisa, as they got into the house he took his shoe's off as well as Izaku, then continued.
"However, it's not here the issue, the issue is that there is a mole in our clan, someone giving information to the enemy."
Instead of an horrified look, he got a confused one from his son, "Why would one betray the clan? what would they gain from it?"
"I... actually don't know, there is no one who seem to want to betray the clan, so maybe they have something to to hear our conversation while we plan. Who knows." Just as he finished that, Takahisa said again.
"Try to not think about it too much, you are still too young for this, even in your circumstances, I want at least what looks like a child to mess with." Smirked Takahisa.
Izaku instead snorted, "Yeah I will old men, one day or another you will stop seeing me as a kid," that smirk, turned into a soft smile, "but I am still your son after all, I love as much as I do for mother, take care of yourself, me and Izuku need you the most and you know that."
Takahisa relaxed, bearing a soft feature on his face, he said "Thank you Izaku, I too love you two, good night."
"Yeah, good nigh."
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Anyway, I am trying to force myself here to finish the arc as it is hard to imagine a plausible scene without it being too much, or too lame.
Also I will try to post regularly 800 words a chapter as it it easier to partition it with different chapter name and scene.
Thank you all!
Takahisa's mongekyu
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