4 Vol 1 Ch 2
"Lord Shimura". Loki as Jin greeted. Finding himself in a kids body again.
He saw himself infornt of a funeral pyre.
"I couldn't save him, I was a coward." Jin admits to him.
"Jin, you are samurai." His uncle tells him.
"He died because of me." Jin remembered his father begging to save him. His failure to act had cost him his father's life.
"Your father died in battle a warriors death, protecting his only son. His reward is a warrior's death." Lord Shimura tells him. Taking out the sword that his father had left for him. "Your father's spirit resides within this blade. He will always be with you."
Jin gave a light bow before his uncle who then lovingly touched his shoulder.
And so Loki had lived the entire life of Jin Sakai. One of his previous Incarnations. His fight against the mongols towards even the end of his life. His actions had forced him to fight against his own uncle, in the end he had choosen to give him a warrior's death. On that day, Jin had died. He had truly become the ghost.
He then lived Obito's life. Him being ignored by his entire tribe and his Grandmother alone raising him up.
His failure to save Rin and how he lost himself on the path of life. He had been manipulated from the beginning by a man who himself had been manipulated. Loki chuckled with some irony. Both life's where he had become a ghost. Two life experiences, he had gained. He began to feel some changes in his body, he could excess chakra now. His strength increasing to the time he was in his prime. His eyes hurting until he could see more clearer then he ever could before. He had gotten out of the lake. Staring in his reflection, he found the Mangekyo Sharingan. He felt as if it could evolve even further. As if there was some hidden requirement to unlock its full potential. He felt amused, he expected to feel pain without the white zetsu fused with him. As the white zetsu healed his eyese when he used them.
He still wondered how he obtained the Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan. It was unknown to him. Maybe it was the cost of his connection to Asgard and his magic. There was also the possibility that when he had possessed Kakashi against Kaguya, some hidden requirement had been passed. The action of lending his eyes in spirit form to Kakashi may have been enough to evolve his Mangekyou Sharingan to the Enternal Mangekyou Sharingan. It did not matter at the moment, he could only access this power after he reaches Kage level in chakra control and level.
Loki felt that his chakra control was shot. He would need to train alot more if he wanted to bring it back to a utilizable level. Chakra was the combination of spiritual energy and physical energy. He would need to train his body more and start to gain a level of power.
'Not within this place', he realized.' Here I would go through the katas for his training with the sword and all the forms he had learned along with knife training.'
For the first time in a long time, Loki had felt happy.
"I swear that I will not be manipulated or be weak enough to lose the person I love or myself." He promised to his incarnation as Obito.
"I swear that I will fight to protect what I love and never lose my honor. Each death will be a quick one." He had promised to his incarnation as Jin.
"I will be free and live my life freely." Loki swore to himself.
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Loki had woken up the next day, he had gone to training. He had stopped looking at his brother or his friends. He ignored everyone and had started swinging a long sword, The feeling in his hand had felt wrong. No matter, he would visit the blacksmith. He had also started his kunai practice. Throwing them at targets. Seeing how widely he missed. He decided to increase his own training.
When he was free, he would take a leaf and put it on his forhead and began to train his chakra control. A closed eye and a few hours of concentration and he was right as rain. This was the most basic exercise available to him that he could do discreetly. Loki had no worries, afterall he had all the time in the world. His own lifespan will be very long. He had an idea why he was shorter then everyone else. He was a jotun, his growth spurt may hit him later but at this point he did not care. His body had changed at a fundamental level. He was now a uchiha once more.
Changing his eyes to the three tomoe's form. He began to memorize a few pages from a book.
And so life continued for him,
"Loki wanna go on an adventure." He had been approached by Thor one day.
"No brother" Loki had said, thinking up an excuse. "There is some information that I want from the library."
"You need to get out more and fight like a real warrior. Our friends are waiting. Otherwise, the warriors of Asgard will never respect you."
At that point, Loki had laughed. After a moment, he said. "Thor, they were your friends, never mine." After a slight pause, Loki had looked Thor in his eyes and had said, "I don't want or need their respect. I am who and what I am" The last part he said after putting some force into his voice.
"I will not die for a land that does not love me." Loki had glared at Thor. "Given a choice between your brother and them. You will always choose them. Leave Thor, I have no want or care for that."
Thor had watched his brother turn around and leave. He had turned thoughtful. He felt if this may be more of Loki's honeyed words. But a seed of doubt was planted and he intended to check if Loki spoke the truth.
Thor had gone to meet his friends. "Loki decided not to come. He needs to prepare himself" Thor had told them.
"A coward, a woman's path he chooses." Farandal had replied.
For the first time Thor had questioned them. "Loki is our friend, why do you insult him so?"
At this his friends had entered a contemplative mood. "Thor, truth be told. Loki walks a different path then us. He is not our friend. We tolerate him because of you."
That had disturbed Thor to a great extent. For the moment, he had decided to ignore that and had decided to leave for the moment. He had decided to involve Loki even more with his friends. There was no way his brother cannot become his friend's friend. He had decided.
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Loki had decided that time for him to leave was quickly coming. He had commissioned a Katana for himself at the Blacksmith in the castle. He had to wear a disguise and he had decided to pay in full from the money he had once gotten for providing his healing services. He wanted to owe nothing to Asgard and leave with peace of mind. He looked at his diary at his desk. He had never updated it after he went to the lake of Mimir.
It was not time yet. His prank senses were tingling. He could not leave at this moment. He would be caught. No matter, putting most of the stuff he had into the seals he was carrying with himself. He had prepared an entire kit for himself. Clothes, food, Training seals, his katana. A few kunai and shuriken. He had reached his previous level in them. He could throw them with impunity at any angle and they would curve and hit their targets still. He could also make shadow clones and he had gotten most of his less chakra intensive jutsus down.
It was amazing how liberating could it be when you stop caring about a lot of things.
Dinner was approaching. He would wait till tonight.
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The bifrost opened up and Thor, the warrior three and Sif had stepped out.
All of them looked to be in a bad state. They all were singed in various places with Thor still having smoking hair. Sif had a bleeding gash on her arm. Their last adventure had not gone as expected. It was fortunate that all of them had asgardian vitality or else they would not have been able to hunt a pack of chimeras.
Usually, Loki would take care of their wounds and shield them from the effects of magic.
Heimdall observed the group. There was someone missing. He realized who, the prince who was could hide from his sight.
Looking critically at The prince and his companions. "Where is loki?". He had asked them.
Thor replied in bewilderment ,"What do you mean? Is Loki not in Asgard?" Worry started to grip Thor for a moment. Realizing that Loki was still on Asgard, he used his sight and saw him preparing for the feast that was being held today.
"Prince, you and your friends will be late for the feast." Heimdall reminded Thor. Seeing Thor and his friends leave. He sighed and said once more."To the healing quarters first Thor."
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Odin was truly relaxing himself after a very long time. There was one crisis after another happening. Dimensional invasion, the dead besieging the living and all of this not including the headaches caused by the rival kingdoms and pantheons eyeing the realms under his protection. He had been truly on auto pilot for the last few centuries.
He began to look at Loki, today he seemed relaxed as if he had found his peace. Loki had not been responsible for any pranks in the last year and he was thankful for that. A feast had been called in Hela's honor after she had destroyed another demonic incursion. She would return soon and take her place as the ruler of Hel where the most demonic incursions occur.
For now there was much he wanted to tell Loki.
Looking at Loki, he was maintaining his distance from everyone. Usually, he would thrive in such an environment. Diplomacy and knowledge are the two realms Loki thrives in naturally. Putting out fires and resolving matters peacefully was something that Loki excelled in even at such a young age. Due to his Jotun heritage, Loki was aging much slower compared to his peer. Yet he was proving to be more intelligent and patient. Now, he would not argue or be goaded from his peers within the training fields and had proceeded to do his own exercises, running around the ground push ups and the like while using training weights. Such practices were not done by the Asgardian warriors due to their natural strength.
Thor was here as well. And so the feast had begun.
