Izanami

Izanami POV

Izanami, Papa said this was the name of the mother of Gods from the Japanese myth. I don't really know what that is but from the keywords 'Mother' and 'Gods' i could surmise she was the strongest of them all only equal to Izanagi, the father of Gods.

I asked father if Gods really exist and he said, "Gods huh? I don't know for sure but I can say one thing and that is there are the strong, the stronger, and the strongest. When a strong man sees a man countless times stronger than he is, to protect his dignity, he could refer to that person as a deity."

"Bow you ask if Gods are real? Yes they are but even amongst Gods there are the weak amongst them, so don't bother about whether they exist or not, just strive to be the strongest there is and maybe one day you'd be a goddess"

He said this and ruffled my hair. I love when papa does that.

Papa is the most handsome, smartest, strongest, kindest, and loving person I know, followed by mama and then big brother.

I also love grandpa Hagoromo, grandpa Hamura, grandma, uncles, and my cousins but I love my papa, mama, and big brother the most.

Papa can be annoying sometimes but he somehow has a good reason for everything he does.

For as long as I can remember, father hasn't lost any argument he wants to win. Against mama, he'd lose though, when I asked why he does that, papa said, "sometimes as a man, you have to know when to step back for things to move forward"

I didn't understand the concept of going back for things to go front back then so I thought papa was a dummy but I later understood the more time I spent with him.

Papa is also very lazy, whenever we see him, he is always sitting down doing nothing or lying down doing nothing but mama says papa doesn't need to do anything, she doesn't explain much after saying that and always says, "when you grow you'd understand"

Unlike my big brother, I wasn't always calm and collected so I always want to know what it is that made papa not need to do anything but mama doesn't budge.

And although I love my big brother, I hate when he accepts everything papa and mama say without question.

When I asked him once, he said, "little sister, father, and mother have lived far longer than us, so they must have seen and experienced things that may burden us, or we simply don't need to know."

Arghh... Sometimes I wish big brother can be a little bit more rebellious.

I've always known that my brother was mature, even more than me but I also know I was as smart if not smarter than him.

Papa and mama are very gullible if you know which buttons to push but he simply takes everything at face value. Hmph. Stupid big brother.

Papa can be a tough nut to crack sometimes. It was during moments like this that I learned why he'd always take a step back. I finally understood but times like this also challenged my mental faculties.

In the end, is find one way or another to outsmart papa. I later found out though, that he'd always let me have my way because I impressed him. Hateful. Hmph.

That aside though, life was nice. Back when we were little, I was aware of when grandpa asked papa to seal away our spiritual energy as It would affect us growing up. I didn't know what that was but I felt it was important.

I didn't have a say though as papa sealed it away, I felt like my mind became heavy after that incident. Subsequently, Papa placed another seal on my big brother and me, at that moment, I also felt my body become heavy, but after a moment of crying due to discomfort, I became used to it.

Big brother didn't cry though, but I would assume he also got used to the heaviness soon after.

Later on, Papa placed a seal on us to seal off our chakra. I did know what that was but when I later found out, I was pissed.

Big brother may be accepting of everything papa and mama do but I wasn't that accepting.

When papa placed the first seal, I could tell he meant well, same for the second seal, but when I found out we couldn't use chakra due to another seal, I became really angry that I confronted papa about it.

This was one of the rare moments I hate papa more than anything, he refused to budge one bit. I ran to mama to complain not because I hoped she'd help but because I needed someone to complain to.

As expected, she gave me a sound enough reason as to why the seal was placed on us.

In the end, papa gave us the ultimatum that we could release all our seals ourselves, we only needed to study. At that moment, I realized I had played into papa's hands but I also felt it was advantageous to us so I agreed.

As we studied while also practicing alongside the village kids, we reached the age to begin hand-to-hand combat training. Initially, I didn't have many hopes or anything, after all, I was a girl and all girls around here behave 'weirdly' as papa calls them. You'd hardly see a girl actively seek something, they were always reserved so hated relating with them.

The only girls I hung around with were aunt Kanna and aunt Ria. They were fun to be around, especially aunt Ria.

Anyways, due to the popular belief that girls were reserved, one sportynosed brat decided to come up to me and insult my eyes.

One had to know that my eyes were papa's and mama's eyes mixed. Although I was pissed, I felt the kid was my lesser in a way as he didn't have anything special about him so I ignored him.

The brat, feeling insulted or something thought It was wise to hit a girl as maybe that would make him gain a little bit of self-esteem.

As I saw him approach me, he felt like a child crawling toward me in a very slow-paced manner. I didn't know what this feeling was but it wa a first for me. My first thought was, "Is this one of papa's eye abilities?"

The reason thought this was because mama's eye only could see the chakra and could see everything around her. Papa had told me his eye ability could do everything mama's could and more so I assumed this was the 'more he talked about.

While I was still deep in thought, the brat reached me and attempted to throw a punch. The key word there is attempt. Although I wasn't versed in fighting, I had seen some older kids fight, and what this brat was trying to do was anything like a punch.

As I watched him come, I felt I could incapacitate him by merely poking at any of the spots that I could see soni did just that and the kid was retching on the floor.

Well, long story short, Papa forbade us from fighting but grandpa advised him otherwise and he accepted, though he said he'd personally take care of us in the fighting department.

Now unlike my brother who I felt looked down on papa due to his lazy attitude, I could feel that should papa try, he could destroy a whole mountain, so I was excited to see what papa would teach us.

Since then, Papa sparred with us on daily basis and I could feel that should I fight an older kid, I would trump him in seconds.

Papa was amazing, sometimes he'd spar with mama and it was an amazing sight. It was beautiful. This made me realize why papa likes to call it dance sometimes.

When he fights with uncle Ashura and Indra, he'd always refers to it as dances, and whenever they finish fighting he'd says that they ran out of dance moves.

It was funny In a way but that made me see that papa was just too strong that he took serious fights as nothing but dances.

Although the concept of dance was weird in itself as there was no music, papa always sings and danced for us and in truth, papa's dance moves if studied properly could be used as fight moves.

Anyways, today was a special day as papa would finally release the seals on us.

It was shameful to say but even after close to 7 years of uninterrupted studies on seals, we still couldn't unravel papa's seals. Mama said we should just learn and go with it as catching up to papa in terms of seals was near impossible and I finally realized it.

This made me remember what big brother always says about listening to papa and mama as they lived and experienced more things than us so we should just go with their arrangements.

Anyways, the people in attendance were our family and after some words of encouragement from papa, he released the seal.

As I felt, the seal on my body, mind, and stomach loosen, I felt free for a second before it all came crashing down.

I felt the heaviness in my mind loosen and a wave of energy came pouring down, at the same time, the heaviness in my body loosed making me feel lighter which contradicted the feeling my brain was transmitting to me. The last straw was the feeling of all this energy meeting in my stomach area and something similar to an explosion went off before I promptly lost consciousness.

Before I lost consciousness, I heard papa say, "Oh shit, Domain Expansion" and then I blacked out.

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So this is Izanami's character description. I wanna make her the carefree, cheerful, and go-lucky girl to her friends and family, a calculating, smart, and arrogant girl to those she deems inferior for whatever reason.

She's gonna have a more manipulative side to her.