4 Brothers

Chapter 2

One of my earliest memories is how our master helped us improving our skills. All of us where naturally and unusually quiet at a young age so he thought, ninja would be the perfect Training way for us.
So he decided that he would start teaching us.
"Haruki please Beginn" my master says while he thwarts my thoughts.
Haruki is standing up smiles towards our father while he's grabbing his sword, but in this moment his expression changes into something way deeper than his normally mature personality,
Because with the time, our master realised that, my oldest brother Haruki, had a preference in swords and other weapons.
My brother is tall and muscular, has thick black hair which reaches the tip of his earlobe. Sometimes he's doing a little bun to keep his hair together, but I don't think he likes it that much. He has freckles which let him look much younger than he actually is.
My oldest brother is kind and helping, almost to much, especially towards us. But when he is holding a weapon, mostly the sword, he is like different person.
My eyes widen, as I see how he is perfectly cutting through some wooden statues, with such a speed that our eyes almost can't follow.
He is expressionless as he is cutting trough all his "enemies".
When he is fighting and concentrating his personality changes to something exactly opposite than his normal behaviour.
After he is done our master asks Ryōtaro to show his skills next.
My second oldest brother is grinning wildly, as starts running up a wall. While doing a backflip, he cuts a wooden "enemy" in half with his foot. Normally he would have had long black hair as the rest of us but because of his way of fighting, where he is almost constantly in the air, he says it annoys him, so he cut it really short.
Ryō is the tallest out of all of us and a real jokester, it almost seems like nothing is bothering him.
When he's fighting, which is mostly martial arts, his happy and grinning personality just increases. It looks like he really loves what he is doing and he is training his body so he's capable of more. The only time I saw his personality shift was when a few guys where teasing Yuki.
His smile at the time vanished completely and he looked really angry.
I don't remember much just that I was shoved out of the way and him being scolded by our master in the end.
I also never asked.
After he punched, flipped and kicked all of the puppets out of the way, our master is asking Yuki to be the next.
He is actually the only one who really became a ninja like our father wanted, he is fast and quiet, extremely precise in his movements and almost assassin like in his attacks against the puppets. Yukio has the longest hair, it's always tied together in a braided ponytail. He's not as muscular as Ryō but still really strong, he is also good in fighting with weapons but not as good as Haru, my brother is almost like a mix from all of them.
But the creepiest part about my brother is his way of talking, he is excellent at manipulating people and gets his will almost all the time, I think it's just part of his personality.
Yuki was always introverted, if he's talking a lot he is either angry or trying to manipulate something or someone.
After he literally smashed all his opponents, it was my turn to show off.
The only problem is that everyone in this family is good at something and is trying to master all their individual skills.
I stand up and go to the middle of the place as I close my eyes I can still feel my brothers eyes on me.
They are probably nervous.
From the beginning on, I had no preference or, how you could call it, physical talent.
Don't get me wrong I am not bad or something but I'm not good either, I am basically nothing.
But at some point I realised I was good at something, it just didn't fit in my family's business.
I'm talking about magic.
I take a deep breath and start concentrating on the earth below me, at the same time I try to ignore my brothers presence.
It's not like I can't do basic magic, the controlling thing is the difficult part.
As I start focusing on the earth the sand below me is moving quite fast actually, that's good... next step....go deeper, I feel as the bottom below my feet starts to move and a rumble is to hear
I think the tree behind me starts to shake.
But suddenly I can see it again, it happens every time, I can see my brothers threw my inner eye and basically everything in front of me. I start to panic.
What if I lose control?
What if I crash the ground?
I should stop, it would be better if I don't risk to much, So I stop.
But a small part of myself wants to continue, to go deeper and try more and.
No, I have to ignore that voice.
And so I ignored it and everything went still and I see the eyes of my brothers in front of me, as I open my eyes again, they look sad, I also hear my master sighting.
Well it seems like I'm the only one who still hasn't improved at all.