Reflection of God (Pein Story)

Chapter 1.

Kyo got up quickly, the sun still not having risen in the sky, as she got ready for the day.

She didn’t need light to see, not only having the ability to sense where everything was but also knowing the room off by heart by now. As such she dodged past any obstacles in her way and headed straight into the bathroom, showering swiftly and continuing on with other daily tasks the moment she stepped back out onto the floor. Grabbing her clothes a second later, Kyo was ready and dressed in mere minutes, strapping her shuriken holster around her thigh as she looked out the window. The faint glow of the sun hadn’t even begun to show up on the horizon, giving Kyo plenty of time to head out of the room and along the corridors, knowing exactly where she was heading.  What her boss would do if he found out what she was doing right now, she didn’t know—but then, he’d never caught her in order to find out; and Kyo wanted to keep it that way.

Speeding around the corner, she darted through the shadows until she arrived at her destination; her boss’s office. Checking over the door to see what traps he’d placed over it today, Kyo soon got to work in disabling them easily, slipping through the door as if there had been nothing wrong in the first place. The traps placed on his desk, too, were shut down in seconds, and Kyo continued with what she was doing, barely even noticing what was around her. She had worked here for the majority of her life, after all; there was nothing her boss could do that she wouldn’t be prepared for—she knew him too well for that. So rummaging through the drawers of his desk, Kyo soon came across the document she was looking for:

The mission she was supposed to be doing this morning.

When it came down to it, that was the reason she was there. No malicious intent behind her actions, no plans to stab her boss in the back and reveal all the information she knew to another ninja group. Kyo didn’t believe in that. If you were going to join a group, it meant you were loyal to them. She had been taught about obedience enough to know that it was her main priority in her job and in her life. As such she wasn’t about to make any attempts to break away. The reason she was here was for something else entirely—but she still didn’t want anyone to find out. Scanning over the writing on the scroll, she memorized the contents and placed it back in its original place, setting up the traps once more as she retraced her steps through the room and back out into the hallway. Then, when Kyo was certain everything was as it should be, she turned and teleported outside, heading straight towards the exit of the house and overall estate she lived in.

The mission wasn’t anything hard, and she would be finished in an hour and a bit, maximum. She would be back in her room and eating breakfast by the time her boss came to check up on her, and he wouldn’t know any different. Of course, Kyo would have to lie a little and hide out for a while so he didn’t find out where she’d been, but she didn’t have a choice. Her boss was expecting her to complete her mission early morning; at around six or seven, and after that she would be allowed free time until he found something else for her to do. But she couldn’t just sit back and let things go on like that; with how easy the missions were. Not with what had happened a week or so ago. So she had started to do her missions a little earlier; by getting up early and finishing them by the time she was supposed to only have just gotten up, it meant she had more free time where no one was expecting her back. She could have the privacy to do what she needed.

To train.

Not that Kyo didn’t train normally; her boss often ‘suggested’ she go out and train when she had free time, in order to keep her abilities at their best and so she wouldn’t slack. But when she had been training one day, she had suddenly felt power rush through her and forcing her to the ground, and when her mind had cleared and she felt normal again, she knew there was something different…something that became visible once she awakened the power within her. At first she had been completely shocked—it had come as if from nowhere. Though she didn’t know much about her parents, having been orphaned when she was young, she had been pretty certain that nothing like that would turn up. Yet there she was; and she had to train them. If not, they would get out of control and end up destroying something, and there was no way she was letting that happen. Regardless of how they had come about and what she was going to do with them, Kyo had to make sure she knew how to use her abilities and that they were controlled.

Every day since then she had done her missions early, switching to training the moment her boss sent her off once more. Kyo had done what she could; finding out more and more about them to understand what she was to do, and then doing whatever was possible to learn the techniques it granted her. Often she snuck scrolls out of the library and studied from them at night, and had greatly improved her control and knowledge of her power as the time passed by. Progress wasn’t exactly as quick as Kyo would have liked it, but she could do nothing but force herself to relax and let things happen. If she tried to push herself any further, it would make things worse.

Her mind remained on her new abilities as Kyo finally returned from her mission and began to get something to eat. She watched as the sun rose, gazing over the forest below and what she would be training today. A part of her wanted to use the full extent of her abilities in the open; sometimes she couldn’t stop that feeling of defiance that rose within her—she shouldn’t have to hide her power from anyone! She lived in the place she worked, her only friends merely colleagues, either giving her orders as her boss or acting as backup and nodding as they passed each other. No matter how much time she spent in the estate and doing missions, this place couldn’t hide everything from Kyo, and she often pondered the idea of the outside world. Her world revolved around fighting and violence, but she couldn’t stop the longing for some form of peace in her life—though it didn’t seem as if it would be coming any time soon as her boss entered the room, and turning to face him, she bowed in greeting.

After listening to his debriefing, Kyo had nodded and agreed with his words, gathering her belongings and heading out through the gates just like before. She ran for a few minutes to make sure she was out of range of the estate before Kyo finally felt she could stop, and she walked to the place where she always trained: the banks of the nearby river with a clearing next to it. It was peaceful, out of the way and had a lot of space in which to use her abilities, and after stumbling across it while trying to find a place to get away, Kyo had continued to use it as her training grounds. Breathing in the fresh air deeply, she stepped forward, willing her chakra into life, before beginning her warm up.

She fell into the rhythm of her exercises, and her surroundings slipped from her mind as the techniques she had felt she would never be able to use abruptly unraveled themselves in her head. Suddenly she felt at one with this new power, and her thoughts drifted while she went on training. Just like before, Kyo forgot about everything as she lost herself in the movements, contemplating so much about her life—about where it was headed. She knew she was powerful, and more so than anyone she worked for or worked with. There were several places she would be able to work well in; but it wasn’t merely a case of picking one and wandering off. There was so much to consider, and Kyo often wondered where exactly she could fit in, in life. Parts of her personality just didn’t seem to match, and she hadn’t been given enough time to truly understand which part was really her. There was more to her than the life she had been given…but Kyo didn’t know what she could do to change it.

As a moment of silence appeared in Kyo's thoughts, she froze as she abruptly realised there were other people around; and that she was a little too late in her actions. Spinning round to face them, they stared at her in shock and wonder, and as her abilities were activated right now, Kyo knew they understood just what they were. She was too taken back at what was happening to react in time, and soon felt a stab of pain in her neck as a pressure point was hit, her vision going black a second later.

Maybe changing her life wouldn’t be such a struggle after all…