Restraint [p]

Age : 32 Posts : 1912

"Restraint"

Day 1

Standing on the edge of his roof, Yoroi watched the birds that flew not too high above him, the forest beneath him and the waterfall that crashed into the basin at it's foot. The estate that had been built where the clan estate of the Abura once stood was a manifestation of Yoroi's pride, as well as the power he held within the village of Konohagakure. While it had been built as a place for him to live in, the entire terrain that had belonged to a now deceased clan had been turned from simple, plain field and pavement to a small scale forest inside of the village. Even though the goal of the forest had originally been to obscure the things the people of Konoha could see from the street and give him all the privacy he wanted, he had decided that it was best to give back to nature. When he was still a child, it had been the animals that had taken him, a tiger to be precise. Had it not been for the majestic creature, he would not have become the kind of person and shinobi he was today. In fact, chances were that he would not even have been a shinobi in the first place. If he was to believe what the monks had told him at the fire temple, Yoroi's parents knew that their end was coming and had made an arrangement with a monk known as Modoroki to come and pick him up and take him to the temple where he would be trained as a monk if he had the aptitude.

Needless to say, none of this came to pass and Yoroi became one of the strongest shinobi of his time, even now learning new methods to further increase the power he held inside of him. Continuously honing his skills in and out of battle was very important to the young shinobi, for there was no such thing as a limited potential. Where there was a will, there was a way, and in Yoroi's case, if there was no way, he would just make one for himself. It had been a two years since he had met Uriko Nagase, a shinobi that had first made an appearance as somewhat of an antagonist but turned out the be the kind of person he needed in order to further his own potential. This had come to pass thanks to her willingness to teach the young man about the arts of medical ninjutsu, a skill he first believed to be out of his reach. After all, Yoroi had one real skill, this being the ability to harm and eventually kill people with relative ease. It was because of that skill that he believed himself to be incapable of actually helping others by tending to their wounds. Through some harsh words mixed with a couple of encouraging statements, it seemed that there had been more to Uriko than the naked eye could see, showing him that if even someone who had killed others and was seen by the world as nothing more than another evil shinobi that should be hunted down and killed, that meant he could do it too.

Frowning a bit as he looked down upon the woodland beneath him, a small group of boar were going through the earth with their snouts to dig for tasty roots and underground vegetables. While a great deal of things he possessed had been passed down to him by Kimiko, Hani, Tora, Modoroki, the Hakuja Sennin and even Uriko, this place he lived in now was something that existed because of him, something he passed on to the earth. It was at times like these when he saw the wild boar and their piglets foraging for food in the woodlands he had commissioned to build around his estate that he felt good about himself. Yoroi had always known that there was nothing bad about having someone around to teach you how to do things, though there was a line that had to be drawn somewhere. He was Nineteen years old now and a Sennin in rank, though he still had people around to teach him. It made him wonder about the type of person he was, whether the was the kind of person that could thrive on his own or if he was the kind that needed people around to tell him how to do things and teach the young Kaguya how to to become a better person. Even though he had no problems when it came to figuring out how someone else ticked by watching them for a while, it had taken him his entire life to get to this point and even now he could not figure himself out.

For years he had thought of traveling the world, to see other places and learn about their ways, though it was as if there was always something that held him back even before he got himself a family of two. When the time finally came for him to travel and see places, he ended up in Kumogakure with a bunch of people who were not as welcoming as he had hoped them to be, finding them to be closed and distant, not wanting a wanderer to really roam close to their home. After taking a good amount of plants that he had never seen before with him to plant once he got back home, Yoroi had decided to leave the place behind him and not return unless he really had to do such a thing as part of a mission. The next time he left the place he knew for another place was when Kimiko had wounded him pretty badly and the young man made the choice to head down Yugakure in the land of hot springs, even though there had been missions attached to it that more or less forced him to kill a rather dangerous individual that planned to take and sell the medical information a local institute had been spending years on to the highest bidder. Aside from that, he had met a nice girl from Kirigakure as well, one he considered to be a friend to him and spent a good bit of time with. Had he known that she would ditch him after a failed meeting with the Hokage, only to find a note explaining she left town a few days later, he might not have wasted those days.

Age : 32 Posts : 1912

The tale of abandonment was the most fitting name when one spoke of Yoroi and his past, for it had not just been this one time. Many years before he had even met the girl from Kirigakure, he had spent every hour of the day with a large tiger, one that had grown up surrounded by people and had one day made it's escape into the woodlands of the fire country. It was this tiger that had found the young Kaguya, alone and abandoned by his parents, believing that he would surely die on his own. Taking the two year old child with him, he fed him berries and the kind of meat that could potentially be eaten raw. Feeding mostly on specific kinds of meat, berries and nuts, the boy had grown up without the means of becoming a normal human being that could function in a society inhabited by other human beings. In fact, he grew up with the means to survive in the wilds thanks to the tiger that taught him how to stalk his prey, how to hunt it down and where to hit it in order to kill it without having to fight it. Aside from learning how to hunt, he had also learned which fruits, berries and nuts were edible and which would best be left hanging where they were. He had also learned around that time that a cornered animal was the most dangerous when a stag stopped running and knocked him through the air with a powerful slam of it's antlers. It was for the first time Yoroi learned about his kekkei genkai when the stag came around for another round and found himself impaled on several bony spikes.

By the time he was old enough to hunt on his own, the people who had once owned the tiger that had taught Yoroi everything he knew had finally tracked it down and taken it back to where it "belonged" while the boy was out tracking prey to bring home as a surprise. This was the second time in Yoroi's life that he had been left behind on his own, the first obviously being his parents that left him in the woodlands for Modoroki to find him. A couple of years passed by as Yoroi learned to better apply his kekkei genkai for survival purposes and became strong enough to take down a small pack of wolves and even a mountain lion. While he could not speak or communicate with other human beings, he did have a very different skill, one that allowed him to communicate with animals, these being his only languages, if they could be called as such. When a shinobi from Konoha that went by the name of Hani Tusyo, he thought of her to be a strange person, him not being used to other people. While he had seen them before from the woods, he had always been urged not to get too close to them, for they might pose as a threat to them. While it had been an unspoken rule the tiger had for him, it was actually a very insightful thing for a mere animal to have come up with, for every human being seemed to have secrets of their own while it was rather easy to get away with murder in the current day and age. Though Yoroi had tried to get rid of Hani, he had been incapable of doing such a thing, even when he had resorted to using his kekkei genkai to hurt her.

As much as he tried, it was not because of his doing that Hani decided to leave him be, only to have him follow her around on his own. Whether it was the sadness and the fact that he was always on his own or just curiosity was something they both did not know at the time, though Hani took good care of him from that day on. Due to the knowledge imparted on her when she saw Yoroi's kekkei genkai, she had him see another member of the Kaguya clan, though he did not like seeing other people like him and quickly ran away from the place, back to the woodlands where Hani later found him again and took him back to Konohagakure. This was repeated several times when she tried to take him to the Academy, a place where kids were supposed to learn how to use their power by becoming fledgling shinobi. Finding that Yoroi was not the type of kid that could be trained like other kids after dishing out a good beating to some of the other kids in the classroom that picked on him, she taught him herself. Teaching him the fundamentals of the human language that was spoken around the world had been her priority, and luckily for her, picking up on languages had not been entirely hard when given his ability to understand and communicate with animals long before he could speak to his own kind. After he learned how to speak, learning the basics of school such as math came along rather easily. Strangely enough, he had little to no trouble at all when it came to the basics of ninjutsu either, already knowing how to use water ninjutsu before he could even mold his chakra well enough to walk across a vertical surface.

As he thought back to the time he had spent with Hani, a smile formed on his face when he remembered just how much he had learned from her. The time she had spent with him had never been a waste, knowing that the basics of ninjutsu had all come from Hani, just like how the basics of medical ninjutsu came from Uriko and the basics of his rather feral taijutsu came from the tiger that had looked after him for years. His smile soon faded when his memory took him back to the time when he had been abandoned for the third time in his life. Jumping down the ledge, Yoroi was sent into a free fall, tumbling through the air for several tens of meters. With his eyes closed, the pull of gravity became harder and harder as he started falling faster, deeper into the basin until the water coming down the mountain enveloped him, seconds before his body fell down into the deep waters below where many frightened fish dashed into every direction possible. Even though his body was fine, the moment his body struck the watery surface, the air was forced out of his lungs while his seemingly lifeless body sank deeper, falling away from the light. His memories had taken him back to the time when Yoroi entered Hani's room in the hotel they had been living in for a couple of weeks. When he did, his eyes saw packed bags, and it seemed that Hani had not expected him to come in just yet. Figuring that they were going to go travel again, Hani told him that she had to go alone to finish up a mission in Kumogakure but would be back within the next two weeks. After giving her a hug, Hani left Konohagakure while Yoroi remained in the village, waiting eagerly for her return.

Age : 32 Posts : 1912

As the days turned into weeks and weeks turned into months, Yoroi understood that something had either happened to Hani, or she simply never intended to return to the village and to him in the first place. This realization hit him hard, for he had allowed a person to come in and become someone he cared for, only to be left behind. What had made this so much different from when his parents abandoned him was simply because he was too young to remember them and had no bonds with them other than those of blood, a bond he cursed up to this very day. Thinking it to be silly to remain in Konohagakure any longer, the young man had chosen to pick his old life back up, returning to the forest with new knowledge of the world and new ways of keeping himself alive. Having returned when he was eleven, he spent the next few years in the forest, building himself a camp to protect himself against wild animals that might want to try to kill him or get his food while he was sleeping. Fashioning many defenses out of natural materials, he created a place where he lived for three years without interruption, many believing the graveyard mountains to be haunted by a spectre that fed on souls and left their remains scattered across the mountain, this being part of Yoroi's cover. The lack of attention the place got made it easy for him to live out his life in piece, being no more than a poacher with limited technology and only a few real techniques to help him survive against animals such as wolves, bears, mountain lions and other carnivores that called that region their home.

Without any real trouble, Yoroi made the best out of his new, or actually his old life. Thanks to his animal summon Yoroi and his peregrine falcon Kaien, the loneliness was pushed away from him, though he never really got over the fact that he always ended up losing the people who got close to him. Through fate, Yoroi met Kimiko Katsumi, a promising young Jounin when he was sparring in Konohagakure while also seeing if Hani had come back yet, knowing full well that this would never be the case. After a rather rough first meeting, Kimiko had offered him the chance to move in with her and spend some time among people again. While initially refusing the offer because of the previous people that had taken him in only to abandon him in time, their second meeting eventually made him say yes to her kind offer, making them not only room-mates, but siblings thanks to some of the strings pulled by the young woman. Over time, Yoroi had gotten really attached to her, learning even more about the world that was built by humanity, things such as etiquette, morals and the rules of a community as big as Konohagakure. Occasionally sparring with her, Yoroi climbed through the ranks of the village and quickly rose to become one of the most skilled fighters the place had seen in years. Of all the people he had met throughout his life, Kimiko was the one that had done the most for him, but through his actions, he knew now that this debt had been repaid.

With that thought in mind, Yoroi's eyes opened. With a dash, he rose from the water and emerged from the basin beneath the waterfall. After taking a deep breath, the young man applied chakra to his hands and soles and climbed onto the water's surface like it was a hard floor. Standing up straight, he shook his head to relieve his hair of the water that soaked it and made it stick to his head like a wet rag. Walking towards some solid ground, he dropped his wet clothing onto the floor, knowing that there would only be animals around that could see him in his birthday suit. Heading inside, he got himself dried and dressed while his mind was not even present, still lost in thought while his body moved like an automaton, performing simple actions while the Kaguya pondered on his relationship with his sister. When he looked at a corner of his room, he saw the shirt he had worn when he fought Toshiro, using his Kekkei Genkai to rip through his shirt and lacerate the Sennin. While he believed that his debt to Kimiko had been repaid, he knew that when he struck down Toshiro, be it a deserved one or not, he had made things worse than they had ever been before, and once she figured out her husband had been sent into the hospital, she would certainly get mad at him and take Toshiro's side, as always. Toshiro had made a great deal of the time he spent with Kimiko into a bad experience when he killed him things along the lines of a freak of nature or simply put, an abomination. Through the fight they had, Yoroi had been able to get rid of the demon that haunted him by striking him down swiftly and painfully, the last being something he regretted.

This was not because he felt sorry for the man, oh no, it was because he felt sorry for his sister, knowing her to be the kind of person who would just worry so much that she'd forget to eat or sleep until she believed her loved ones to be safe. He had seen her in this state once before, and he never wanted to see her like that again, deprived of food and sleep to the point where she appeared as no more than a walking corpse. Upon locking the door, he banged his head against it, causing some birds to get startled dash out of the trees. He realized that if he was to improve himself and make things better for his sister, he had to become someone else, someone that could restrain himself even when faced with those he hated most. That said, this was not something he could teach himself, meaning he had to go look for someone to train him yet again. This person would not just be any random person though, it had to be one specific person in a very specific location. The one he needed was Modoroki, the only remaining person who knew who his parents were, one of the head monks of the Fire Temple. If anyone could teach him how to learn restraint, it would be a monk, at least that was what he chose to believe. Leaving with only the clothes he was wearing, he wanted to go see Kimiko before heading towards the fire temple for some much needed training in terms of personality, no matter how long it would take him to complete it. Part of his Nindo was to keep improving himself, and if teaching himself how to restrain himself could make him into a stronger individual, it was worth the time he'd have to invest.

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