1. Inception

A Silhouette of a child could be seen walking through the hallway to the library. He looked to be around an impressive height of 5'2". Looking at his features you could see the boy sported a proper yet wild look, dense black hair kept in a ponytail with curious magenta eyes that held an ethereal calm in them. He was sporting a black Haori typical to a traditional Japanese family. One could see that the young man was used to frequenting the place by the indication of his seemingly excited pace.

'Maybe I should skip on training for today, wouldn't want to be weary tonight. Let's continue making some more notes on Shikigami summoning.'

As he continued down his path, he passed by the training grounds and could distinctly make out the training session currently undergoing for the Ryoken squad, the largest strike force of the clan by quantity. 

'Quite the lively bunch as always I see...'

He was about to continue on his path when a sudden voice halted him in his tracks.

"Hey freak, where do you think you're going ignoring us like that!"

A burly man with his upper tunic down showing his bare chest and a bokken in his hand made his way towards the boy. He was a middle aged man with relatively average looks with a hairbun and large brows. In the moment however, he wore an ugly scowl on his face while approaching the boy.

'*sigh* Not this guy again '

"Hello instructor Takahashi, quite a lovely day isn't it?"

"First off, it's Captain for you boy and how long will it be when you start to actually make yourself useful instead of hiding behind the cloak of the Clan Head dawdling away your time god knows where."

"I'm sorry Sir, but as I've told you before already I've left the squad and hence am not liable to any training sessions with the squad."

"Cut the crap brat, we both know you are going to come crawling back to us since you've got no option in any other squad. They wouldn't even bat an eye at you with your low CE output, especially after your demotion former clan heir."

'Was that an attempt to get a reaction out of me? Or was that just pettiness due to not being able to bully me before like the rest of his boytoys?'

"Don't think you're any special than your half-brothers just because your mother was the wife of the Head and not a whore like all of the others."

*sssshh*

The boy simply exhaled and visibly clenched his fists at that remark but held his urge to not smack the egoistic piece of shit.

"Excuse me Sir, but don't you think that's a bit disrespectful to the lady of Matsumoto-sama?"

"Ha, do you really think you should be the one to say that to me brat. Especially since it's because of you that not even your own father cares about her anymore. Had you been born with Blood Manipulation instead of Noritoshi, she wouldn't have suffered the humiliation.

Now get off that high horse of yours 'Yuu-sama', and start to actually contribute something to the clan instead of just wallowing in self pity and wasting away your time exercising like a monkey and start using your CE, even if it is but a fraction of what is optimal. Honestly, I'm surprised you can see curses at all."

The boy, now named Yuu calmed himself trying not to reveal any emotions. He simply looked at the man and spoke,

"You say that, but is that really why you are so adamant about this?"

"What do you me-"

"You just want to impress my father don't you? Show him how you single-handedly managed to discipline his most uncontrolled child that has been giving him a headache?"

The burly man's brows started getting closer to each other and his lips formed a straight line as he put the bokken on his shoulder tightening it in his grip.

"The fact that you can talk back like that is enough proof I need. It doesn't change the fact that you are the most useless person here by far and if you've got any hope to ever achieve something in the clan then the only option you have is to rejoin the Ryoken Squad again. I guess 5 years is more than enough to get over your misery."

The boy in response simply started to walk away not acknowledging the man's words at all.

"Listen carefully brat, don't think for a second you can just waste away because you think anyone actually gives a fuck about you anymore." Tightening his fists at the lack of response, the man continued, "You are worth nothing you here me. One day you will come crawling back to me and then you'll know why you should have listened to me today."

The boy stopped and spoke without giving him face,

"Well, then I offer my gratitude in advance for thinking about me, Former Captain."

Yuu said simply and left swiftly as soon he finished his sentence not expecting an answer maintaining his pace throughout the exit.

"Bloody Smartass...."

The man just huffed at his response and went back to train his boyt-, squad members.

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In the evening, the boy is seen leaving the library with a few books in hand contemplating the recent confrontation? he had in the afternoon.

'Man, I can't wait get rid of these greedy opportunistic ass-lickers. No matter, it won't be long before I can, considering today's the day it's finally going to happen.'

As he was thinking about it, he couldn't help but reminisce about all the restrictions he had to endure to get to this stage.

'It's finally going to be over now, no, it's better to say it's finally going to start for me', thought the boy.

He went to the kitchen and got himself some early dinner before heading to the forest in the compound.

'Perfect'

Yuu started doing some light exercises to stretch his body while waiting.

Just as he was about to meditate, the feeling of something unlocking itself welled within him and he started to feel a sudden urge to let go. He welcomed the familiar feeling with a smile.

'Ah, so this is what it feels like at its full potential. Good to be back I guess.'

An enormous amount of cursed energy cloaked Yuu as he tested the limits of his CE output. He quickly got over his nirvana and started taking control of his state.

'Well, I don't want to let them know just yet, better scram.'

With that, he started decreasing his output to that of a normal human being and went back to his room, making sure no amount of residual cursed energy was left to trace back to him. He did all this in less than 5 seconds.

**tremble**

In the midst of his awakening, a shudder had went through the senses of each and every person in the House as a beacon of Cursed Energy suddenly appeared within the Clan's perimeters. However, it disappeared as soon as it came, leaving everyone confused and fearful.