67 The siblings *
" --*-- " is used for the Pov change for Hinata.
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In the presence of the full white moon, the dark blue hair of the Byakugan princess shone under the ethereal light.
*splash*
The crystal-clear water rippled in a circular waveform under her feet as she moved. With each step she took, another waveform was created and merged with the previous one.
*drop*
As her hands raised and moved, the droplets of water heaved upward from the pond beneath her to follow her movements. The water droplets circled around her body as she spun on her toes.
With her eyes closed and a slight smile on her lips, she looked so elegant and perfect, as if she was dancing.
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*splash*
All the water that was circling her dropped into the pond with a splash. Her movements stopped completely, and with a deep breath, she opened her eyes, which glowed slightly white before turning completely white.
"Huff… huff…." Huffing heavily, she walked toward the shore while wiping the sweat from her forehead.
Her hands spread wide in the famous 'A' pose as if wanting to absorb all the moonlight.
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Her shadow spread on the water's surface, wiggling as the water moved.
Now standing tall at the height of 164 cm (5 feet 3 inches) at the age of 12, her face, without any baby fat, looked more refined and mature. Her eyes looked more beautiful and dangerous, as if they held the power to destroy the world.
She was the epitome of perfection with a perfect body structure, the best genetics, and her high EQ and IQ.
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In the last 12 years, she had trained herself to the point of fainting every day. Chakra control, pushing her body to the point of breaking, exploring new ways of ninjutsu, sealings, and mainly the shinjutsu and her Byakugan.
Raising her hand in front of her, she looked at it with nostalgia in her eyes,the hands used to be baby-like, "Time sure flies fast, huh...".
She raised her palm towards a stone, and many silk-like chakra threads extruded out and wrapped around the stone. In the next moment, the stone was in her palm.
Her actions were so fast that if someone looked from a distance, it would feel like a mix of telekinesis and teleportation.
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Her sole visible eye gazed at the stone, and with a surge of chakra in her eye, the invisible shockwaves turned the stone into dust particles.
From the outside, it looked like she just looked menacing and the stone decided to explode so as not to upset her.
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Her understanding and control over shinjutsu were so great that she didn't feel any depletion in her chakra.
With a breeze, the remaining particles of dust flew away just like ashes.
She clenched her empty palm, her lips started to stretch in a maniacal grin, a dangerous glint in her eyes. "All I know now is that my strength surpasses my own understanding. It's ascended higher than either man or god has yet explored."
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"Hahahahehe, and it's just the beginning," she declared with a burst of full-blown laughter while placing her palm on her right hidden eye. Her laughter felt so eerie that it caused the sleeping birds to fly far away.
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"Huh…" She raised her eyebrow when tens of eyes were directly focused on her. Slightly tilting her head, she looked at the patrolling guards, and all of them looked away with cold sweat on their foreheads.
After that, they didn't even bother to look back. In the past few years, as she and her power grew, the members of the clan who considered her a genius with monstrous potential started to see the true extent of her capabilities. With her immense power came a sense of pride, safety, and, in the back of their heads, fear.
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After eating the gigantic meal for dinner, she trained her Gentle Fist continuously for 8 hours straight from 7 pm to 3 am.
*yawn*
*thud*
With a yawn, she let her body hit the ground with a soft thud, looking at the colorful flowers around her, sniffing the sweet scent of flowers, she closed her eyes.
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*chirp* *chirp*
"Look, big brother, there she is…" Hanabi excitedly pulled Neji towards the pond.
"Hehe, let's wake up big sister," Arya pulled Neji with the same excitement, but there was a water balloon in her hand.
Both little sisters were grabbing Neji with both hands. Without any resistance, he followed them.
Neji looked at Arya, she was a carbon copy of Hinata, same hair color and the same eyes, but she didn't bully him like Hinata.
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He looked at the balloon in her hand and sighed.
"Hehehe, Arya, do it silently," Hanabi whispered with an encouraging look in her eyes.
*swish*
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'Oh… the morning,' it sure came fast. I opened my eyes and looked at the water balloon in my hand.
Then I moved my gaze to the shocked faces of the little brats.
'Did they really expect that they could hit me?' I then looked at my brother's poker face.
"So whose idea was it?" Squinting my eyes, I looked at Hanabi and Arya, dead in the eyes.
Both of their fingers moved towards Neji. With an innocent face, they answered, "it was big brother," as they sold him out.
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"WHAT!..." Neji, with a shocked expression, looked at his sisters. They were smiling at him.
But their smiles faded instantly when a water balloon hit their faces, and now Neji was smiling at them.
"See, I told you it wouldn't work," patting their heads, he mocked them.
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Hanabi and Arya turned their heads toward me, a look of betrayal on their faces, small tears in their eyes. 'Oh god damn it, I love their faces, they look so cute and lovely, I just want to bully them.'
"Why did you hit us?" both of them asked me, while Neji wiped their wet faces with a towel.
"Oh, come on, don't be like this, baby. You tried to hit me first, I just returned your balloon, hehe," I simply told them.
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Now not complaining anymore, Hanabi asked, "How did you know that it was us, not Big Brother?"
I just looked at my naive and foolish sisters. "Because I raised you," I replied.
Both of them were now 6 years old, brimming with immense energy and vitality. They were both trained by me, Neji, my father, and sometimes with Haku and Kimimaro.
I practically imparted all of my knowledge about Chakra and Ninjutsu to them. The way I use elements without hand signs after understanding their properties is actually Ninshu, and it cannot be performed by everyone. It demands talent and potential, which is actually equal to mine or even greater than mine in them (Hanabi and Arya).
According to me and my experiments with chakra, ninjutsu is the corrupted use of ninshu by humans. And Ninshu is the corrupted use of Shinjutsu by demi-gods.
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With me teaching them, they are bound to be strong, and they are far stronger than Neji at that age. As for Neji, he was born a genius, and that is an undeniable fact. He absorbed my teachings like a thirsty man faster than anyone else.
'I am not stingy in regards to teachings; after all, they are my family, and in family, sharing is caring.'
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"How long are you going to lay on the ground?" Neji asked while approaching me.
"Until you pick me up," I smirked at him.
"Fine," he extended his hand and picked me up. Sitting on the grass, I looked into his eyes.
"Are you not going on the mission today?" He shook his head with a disappointed look.
"There is no mission for this week, and I would rather spar with you than go on worthless missions."
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Neji graduated from the academy a few months ago, with top grades every year.
"So, what was your first real mission?" I curiously asked. Both Hanabi and Arya looked at Neji with a spark in their eyes.
"Hmm... it was to exterminate a group of bandits who were terrorizing the merchants," he said.
"Wow, brother, you killed them? How did you kill them?" Hanabi asked excitedly as if her blood was boiling with excitement.
Continuing Hanabi's excitement, Arya spoke, "Did you kill them with one strike using the Gentle Fist, or did you slit their throats using a chakra scalpel, or... or... did you trap them in a net of strings and cut them into pieces?" Both of them talked so naturally as if it was their daily chore, and it wasn't far from the truth.
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Neji didn't say anything to them and just nodded his head, then he looked at me.
"What?" I asked.
"It's all your fault," he plainly said.
"Hehe, at least they knew how to treat someone outside the family," I responded.
"Looking down on everyone who isn't related to us," he corrected the sentence.
"I don't see the problem here, and don't forget you are just like them," I stated, leaving no room for future negotiations.
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"Wow, big brother is so cool!" both of them shouted in excitement, not even bothered by the death of someone.
'I am so proud of them, I have taught them well. They are not some naive little cowards who want to preach about peace and justice. They are not weak-minded. I have taught them my own principles: that strength is the only thing that matters in this world. Everything else is just a delusion. There is only one certainty in life: that a strong man stands above and conquers all.'
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"Of course, Big Brother is cool," Neji said proudly.
"Yes, big brother is so cool," I chimed in with a smile on my face. And no, I am not kidding; he really is cool and one of the most handsome men in the world.
"You don't have to say that," he turned away his face when he felt my genuine praise that came from the bottom of my heart.
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Thinking about handsome, a thought suddenly came to my mind. "I heard there is a girl in your team."
"Oh, a girl," Hanabi and Arya giggled with me.
"Tell us about her," both of them tugged his hands and asked cutely. The four of us now sat in a circle.
He poured a bucket of cold water on their expectations. "She is even weaker than you," he said and looked at Hanabi, then continued, "No chakra control, no knowledge of ninjutsu, no coating of elements or chakra on weapons."
Both Hanabi and Arya looked sadly at their brother's misfortune for having such a weak teammate.
Both of them spoke cruelly at the same time, "So she is pathetic."
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"Kinda," Neji replied with a nod. The three of us nodded to him, but I wasn't done yet. "So, brother, what type of girl do you like?" I asked with a teasing smile.
Neji looked at my teasing smirk, but I wasn't going to let him off that easily. "Umm… I don't know," he tried to avert his gaze.
"Or… are you waiting for me to find one for you?" I leaned closer to him, our faces mere centimeters away.
He looked into my eyes, his face starting to turn red with embarrassment. I knew I was the only one who could make him look like this. Teasing him more, I asked, "Don't tell me you actually rely on me?"
"Ummm… I–.I… forget it," he turned his head away.
"Hehehe," he actually made me giggle.
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In the meantime, Hanabi was sitting in my lap, and Arya was in Neji's.
"But if you want me to find a girl for you, you have to tell me their personality traits," I asked. I already had plans for him, but teasing him was just another kind of fun.
"Well… are you sure? You won't judge me after this, right?" he skeptically asked.
"Of course not, brother. There are no secrets between us, and I like you just the way you are," I genuinely wanted to know what he had to say.
Neji always shared everything with me – his thoughts, his likes, dislikes, what he wanted to do – because first, we were together from birth, and second, I was his only friend.
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"Come on, brother, tell me. There's only us here," I encouraged him while tickling Hanabi's belly, making her giggle from time to time.
Neji took a deep breath, throwing his embarrassment out of his mind. "Well… I like haughty, fierce, high-tempered, and bratty girls, and on the other side, I also like to have a love-struck and submissive type of girl," he confessed.
As he spoke, my eyes started to widen. "Hehe, nice," a knowing smile crept onto my face. "My, my, brother, you like haughty and fierce girls because you want to put them where they belong, beneath you. You want to challenge yourself to break their attitude, tame them, and mold them to your liking. You want to dominate them, and the second one is a submissive type. I didn't know you were such a sadistic bad boy."
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I could feel my heart beating faster just by imagining Neji in such scenarios. This excitement, I wanted to feel it more.
"Ohhh, big brother wants to dominate girls, as expected from big brother," both Hanabi and Arya repeated some of my words, although they didn't know what it meant.
"Y-you don't have to twist your words so much," he pointed his finger in accusation, his face red with embarrassment.
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"I just amplified your thoughts and feelings," I said, knowing I was not wrong.
"So you want two girls, huh?" I said with excitement, already having both girls in mind.
"Is this right? To have more than one?" he asked, uncertain.
And as a good little sister, I enlightened my brother. "I have told you already many times, but let me rephrase my words. If you have strength, you can do anything, and you don't have to be bound by the morals of lower beings. Only the strong have the right to judge, and you, my brother, are strong. Stronger than anyone else. So now you understand, if you want, you can have one, two, three, or even ten," with my words, I solidified his resolve.
Neji nodded in agreement with my words. "What about the clan? Outside marriages are forbidden."
With a smile, I patted his shoulder and looked into his eyes, then at his forehead before speaking, "You don't have to worry about it, because I am the clan, and things will happen as I say."
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"Okay," he simply nodded.
"Hehe, I will find the girls for you, but you have to let me see," I giggled.
"See what?" he asked.
"Oh, brother, don't act so innocent. You know what I want to see," I whispered in his ear.
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End of the chapter, how do you like it?
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