31 31: Number Fifteen

The last thing you want in your new reincarnated life is some jackass with zero self awareness...

[-Global Chat-]

[-Reincarnator #15: "You extras really have no fucking clue whose world you're living in, do you? Ignorant morons."-]

...But as it turns out, that might be what you get.

Seija sighed as she read that chat message. Reincarnator #15 had been causing issues in the Group Chat for the past two years or so and apparently the others were starting to get pretty sick of him. Seija hadn't really bothered to check the Chat in a while; she was busy training and the other reincarnators weren't really a threat for now, and wouldn't become one until they aged a little more or the war died down a bit to allow them to travel. So she didn't really see the point in keeping up with their lives at all times.

But something was different with this particular idiot compared to the others. Reincarnator number #2, for instance, had mellowed out over the years and had honestly started to become much more well-mannered when communicating with others. This may have been caused by Seija's own mother being his sensei for the past couple of years, but she had seen it earlier too, like when he warned everyone about the war and asked them to stay safe.

Number #15 on the other hand was only slipping further and further into degeneracy. He seemed to be fully convinced that he was the 'Main Character' and that everyone else was interfering with his perfect isekai life.

Why would anyone care about this idiot's opinion? Because while he was the first reincarnator to be born in Sunagakure, the next one, number #17, was now being mercilessly bullied by him.

Reincarnator #5, the creator of the second Global Chat, blacklisted number #15 from that Chat so that the rest of them could discuss him without his knowledge.

[-Global Chat 2.0-]

[-Reincarnator #6: "Renji, please. You have to find some way to get away from him if he's treating you like this. Him calling you his 'comic relief' just makes it even worse."-]

[-Reincarnator #17: "And go where? I live in the middle of a desert... and Suna is at war with Konoha! The only other countries are to the east of where I live, and Konoha's army is blocking all of them..."-]

[-Reincarnator #2: "This is fucked... Mishima's treating you like property, man! I really wish I could get you out of there somehow, since I'm in Konoha and could, in theory, pull some strings to get you out... but I'm still just a Genin. I don't have any authority..."-]

[-Reincarnator #7: "You're sure there's no way you can just kill that piece of shit? You use puppets, right? Couldn't you just poison him in his sleep?"-]

[-Reincarnator #17: "No... I can't kill him. Not just because I don't want to kill someone, but because of his wishes that he reincarnated with. He brags about the fact that he's 'untouchable' all the time. I've seen him in training, it's like he can sense whenever danger is coming for him and he can dodge it, which has put him at the top of our class. Worse yet, if I tried to fight him head on, he'll just burn me to death with his Scorch Release. I can't do anything to him..."-]

[-Reincarnator #7: "Damn it. Honestly, that sounds like a real banger of a wish he's made. Makes me feel fucking stupid for just picking... well, the things that I picked. I won't give my abilities away that easily for free, but yeah, I wish I had that kind of power."-]

[-Reincarnator #6: "Study his threat detection, Renji. Does it only activate when he's directly attacked, or does it give him a sense for danger before it even arrives? Try to lay some discreet traps for him during a sparring match and see if he detects them. If he does, then that's bad since it means that you can't catch him off guard with a prepared attack. If he doesn't, then you can take him out before he can cast any Scorch Release Jutsu."-]

[-Reincarnator #17: "Guys, really, it's fine. I don't need to kill him, I'll graduate in a few months anyway since I'm pretty high up in my grades and then we'll be put on different Genin teams. I'll just have to hold out until then."-]

Seija shook her head at that final message.

'Poor kid. He's totally got a case of Stockholm syndrome from this. He's kidding himself if he thinks that Mishima guy is going to let him go. Renji's already become part of his made-up 'cast' at this point as the token comic relief character, there's no way he'll get away from that psycho until something drastic happens.'

Pinching the bridge of her nose, she decided to blow off some steam. She was already standing in an empty canyon roughly three miles north of the cabin, which she had chosen as her personal training spot for her more flashy Kekkei Genkai.

No enemies would find her here, and even if they did they would never be able to link her to the orphans from so far away.

Her hands formed a Bird sign.

"[Typhoon Release: High Wind Destruction!]"

The wind swirled around her into a reasonably large tornado that caused the ground beneath her to shudder slightly. She was quickly discovering Typhoon Release's biggest weaknesses: Namely, the typhoon chakra flatly refused to remain close to her body, nor be directed into any specific direction without destabilising. It would only swirl in a circular pattern around her, and anything else would make it harmlessly burst apart, canceling the Jutsu and wasting the chakra.

It's no wonder that only a single Jutsu was ever developed for this particular bloodline. It was so incredibly inflexible that it was also no wonder why there was only ever one user of it in the entire series as well. She supposed that once you've seen one guy make a huge tornado around himself, you've seen them all...

Of course, this wouldn't stop her. She would absolutely find a way to change this Kekkei Genkai into something truly magnificent, she knew she could.

'After all... if Kushala could create those vortexes at a distance, so can I!'

'...'

'...Although... it was probably using Senjutsu to do that, huh? Hells... now that I think about it, this is almost exactly the same issue Naruto had with his Rasenshuriken. He couldn't get it to leave his hand without exploding if he didn't support it with Nature Energy, and I can't get this whirlwind to change shape or direction at all without producing a similar, if less dangerous result.'

Cutting off both that chain of thought and the Jutsu she was maintaining, she decided to start as simply as possible. Testing the upper and lower limits of the Jutsu.

A dozen shadow clones appeared around her and she sent them off into a line about a hundred meters apart from each other.

'Alright, now from the left...' She commanded the shadow clones to create tornadoes of their own. From the left to right, they attempted to create whirlwinds of different sizes with the left being the smallest, and the right being the largest.

*Fwoom*

She had to stick her feet down with chakra to prevent herself from being pulled into the wall of swirling pillars that appeared before her. The one on the left seemed to be having significant difficulty keeping the Jutsu small, as it was still swirling around them at a radius of about eight meters. The one on the furthest to the right, however, ran into a very different problem, as it promptly vanished after the tornado grew to about sixty meters in radius.

'The one on the right ran out of chakra, which means that it can go even bigger if it simply had more of it. I should figure out how to change the amount the clones spawn with at some point. Having them all be identical is useful at times, but not for this.'

Canceling everything, she wondered about any ways to draw the chakra in closer to herself, as the left one was struggling to do. A close yet dense whirlwind would make an incredible shield, as its Kekkei Genkai nature caused it to remove much of normal Wind Style's weakness to Fire Style, as well as Lightning Style's weakness to Wind Style. If she could just get it spherical...

'Hey, maybe that could work... Ugh, I'll need to find a discreet way to perform it, though. Hyuga Taijutsu stances are extremely distinctive...'

Thinking that, she spread her arms, with one tilted forwards and downwards, with the other tilted backwards and upwards.

"[Eight Trigrams: Rotation]"

Chakra burst forth from all of her tenketsu points and swirled around her as she spun, creating a revolving dome of chakra around herself. She stopped after a few seconds before taking a breath, and attempting it again. This time with a little something extra sprinkled in.

"[Eight Trigrams: Typhoon Rota-"

*Tear*

'OW OW OW, CANCEL IT CANCEL IT!!!!' She shut her eyes in agony and immediately ceased all chakra release from her body.

The swirl vanished, revealing a rather grisly sight of her standing within a bloody red ring that had splattered onto the ground around her.

It had indeed worked; the Typhoon Release had followed the path and rotation of her Taijutsu... but it seemed that summoning that kind of wind so close to her body could cause some serious injuries. She had always been incredibly resistant to pain, ever since the nightmare of her awakening and the growing durability and self-healing capabilities of her body, so a Jutsu that could cause her that much pain must've done a lot of damage to her.

Activating her Byaku-Sharingan and examining her body with her eyelids still shut, she was honestly a little shocked at just how much she had managed to brutalise herself in only a couple of seconds.

Most of her clothes had been totally shredded besides her mask, and any patch of her skin that hadn't been covered... had been flayed right off her body.

The muscle was visible underneath. Thankfully, it was already beginning to slowly grow back, and the parts that had been under her clothes were mostly undamaged.

'Oh... shit. So that's what happens when you get hit by a Typhoon Release Jutsu? Fuck... it's like I walked through a fucking blender, and that was only a couple seconds of exposure for my own extra-durable body. A normal person would be shredded down to bones in that time...'

*Shiver*

What was even more morbid was the fact that Typhoon Release created a powerful suction force during normal use. Weak enemies and civilians would get sucked right into the storm, while only the stronger foes would be able to stick themselves down with chakra or actively resist the pull.

'It's no wonder, now, that a single high-level Jonin with this Kekkei Genkai was able to pressure Sasuke's Perfect Susano'o. Sure, the guy couldn't move while casting, and he was left wide open both above and below himself, which Sasuke easily exploited to defeat him... But still. That kind of sheer power is the real draw of this Kekkei Genkai. I need to be much, MUCH more careful while using it.'

Stretching her sore body that was now looking much more pink with the rain having washed away the dark red blood from the surface of her newly regrowing flesh, she decided she may as well get some Medical Ninjutsu practice while she was still missing most of her skin.

Not like she was lacking the chakra, and getting some more practice in the technique on the way back to the cabin wouldn't be so bad.

- - -

"Seija, put some clothes on before Jiraiya and the boys get back. How did you even do that to yourself while training? And why didn't you take your scroll with you if this was going to happen?" Konan admonished her.

"Hey now, I didn't know that training Typhoon Release would do that much damage to myself ok? It's a good thing I wasn't wearing my scroll or it would've been shredded too!" She retorted.

"If you had your scroll nearby at least, then you could've changed clothes before walking back nude."

"I'm not nude. That would be perverted, and I'm not a pervert."

"Seija, I can see your underwear under those ripped trousers, and your shirt is completely gone. You're basically nude."

Firewall agreed, "[You are, indeed, mostly nude.]"

'Shut up, Firewall.'

Seija was forced to admit that she was at least mostly nude.

"Well it isn't a problem anyways." Seija explained, "Thanks to Jiraiya-sensei's advice, my sensing range and accuracy have improved. I knew that none of them were near. Just you and me."

Konan rolled her eyes at that. "How very un-politically correct of you, Seija. I know there are girls out there that like other girls. What if I was one of them? Then it'd be just like showing your nude self to a boy."

Seija rolled her eyes right back at her, "Konan... You say a lot of very interesting things about Yahiko in your sleep. I'm quite positive that you don't care much for anyone else at all, let alone a girl like me."

'Sorry, number #7. It is what it is.' She mentally apologised to the known-lesbian reincarnator.

"U-Uh... W-What kind of things d-do I say?" And just like that Konan was caught right off guard. Seija smirked at her, and the blue-haired girl could hear the barely-restrained laughter in Seija's voice.

"Oh you know... Stuff. Stuff like 'I wish this pillow between my legs was Yah-'"

"Shut up shut up shut up shut uuuuupppp!!!" Konan screamed at her in a panic. "Ok ok! you win, Seija, you win! Now please put some clothes on..."

"Hahaha! Why of course I shall! I'm not a pervert after all." She winked at the girl whose face had turned redder than Nagato's hair.

"Ugh... You're the worst."

"Nah if that was true then you'd sleep on the floor instead of in my bed. With your favourite pillow, of course."

She winked again. Konan just turned away and pouted, not willing to entertain Seija's mockery any longer.

'Ah, I missed this feeling. Teasing friends will always be the most fun. It's been so long since my past life now that I'm not entirely certain when the last time I had friends like this was.'

She could only hope that number #17 could find friends like that to protect him some day.