Childhood and Clan's problem's 1...

After my birthday, time flew by and I am four months old now and could converse fluently but as I was baby I never uttered a word. Even though this is ninja world where babies does everything early due to the nourishment they get from chakra. Speaking at just fourth month was still too much unbelievable.

During my time in the cradle I also learnt a lot about my family members . And speaking of family members , I have a big family, big as in damn huge. Grandpa have had 2 brothers which had their own family and now they all live together in the clan. Although I don't know the total number of family members I have but the estate in which our clan lives is like a village which in itself is self sustainable.

Grandfather Kurai had three sons and a daughter.

Ren shiba the eldest son of the family was a thin man with dark complex who always have a scowling expression on any matter. He married a branched clan member named Emi Shiba and had two children Eiko Shiba who is now 8 years old and Hana shiba now 7 months old.

Disuke shiba the second child though not a user of light release maintains our clan's treasury and business, He has a hunched back and is of small stature. He always has a deceitful and cunning looks in his eyes. He married a woman from the Tsugikage's clan and has 1 child named Yamato Shiba.

Aki Shiba daughter and third child of Kurai married to a man of Kiri who fell in love with my aunt when aunt Aki went for a mission. They have three children ,Niko and Koji Shiba which are twins now 6 years old and Yuki Shiba same as my age.

And the youngest child my father Haru Shiba .He has a handsome appearance and kind to everybody and so he could be said to be the village heartthrob but after marrying my mom he became henpecked .My father is also called a genius as the number of jutsus and application of light release he invented can't be counted in one hand.

The SHIBA clan is a kekkei Tota bloodline limit clan. when I came to know about my bloodline limit I was feeling euphoric , it brought me great relieve as I thought I could capitalize on this power and become powerful.

Due to exposure of various web novels and fanfics I always thought Light/Dark element are superior elements which the main character has. I mean we all know how powerful light magics are, the user can move and attack at super speed, it becomes very hard to dodge from light user's attack, the user can also use light bending to cause illusion, can makes constructs and weapon of light and it can also be used for healing. There are lots of lots of uses of light can I can't even name.

Due to power our clan posses not many wishes to be against us ,as even though we didn't fight in second ninja war, Tsugikage was not able to do anything to us other than some slandering and blaming. Due to this many people in Iwa believe that they lost the war the due to us not helping the war and blamed us for being irresponsible and unresponsive toward the death of many fellow villagers, which I think is not true.

How can they point fingers just due to some rumors we might have not fought for the village due to some problems .Though I did not know what the problem was, I came to understand it is most likely a something big as my father has not even said anything to my mother upon asking.

Before Second ninja war...

IWAGAKURE, Shiba Ancestral Home,

The ancestral home of Shiba clan was a meeting place where most of the important decisions about the clan were taken.

Inside the hall one could see many people talking a in a grave manner.

"Do you know why the clan leader have gathered us" one of the man asked.

"No, But I think it is something important as this meeting is being held in ancestral hall. Maybe it's about the war."

"Hai.. War war I think the war will break out within 1 year , can't the villages remain in peace, I am really tired of this fighting " said a man sighing

"Keep quiet clan leader has came" ordered a sentry by the door.

Everyone became quiet as Clan leader Kurai entered the Hall and sat down in the main seat "Welcome everyone ,I know you are all busy but the matter of today's discussion is of grave importance. But before I begin I will have to ask all non Light user to wait outside the Hall."

Although some were displeased about the order, all the non light user exited the hall leaving only about 40% of the total present members.

In presence of the the clan's light users my grandfather dejectedly stated "Yesterday when I went to meet the previous clan leader he told me about a problem he was facing, I think we all know the clan leader is sick and is now about 80 years old, one week ago he had the vitality for surviving 5 more years but his life force is decreasing at a very fast rate and he will not survive for more than 2 months."

Upon hearing the news the people present became mournful, few of them couldn't help but shed a few tears as many of the present people grew under previous clan tutelage .

Visibly confused by my grandfather's statement my father questioned" That should not have been possible unless granduncle was poisoned, but how could someone poison granduncle when he been living in his home since his return from the world's tour. Don't tell me granduncle was poisoned in his tour?" By the end of his questions he himself became confused.

"Well.. Hai... I think you all know our ancestors enjoyed a very long life of at least 200 years .But slowly our ancestors saw our newer generation's life expectancy was decreasing. So though they tried various methods and did many experiments they were unable to come up with any results. But they came to a conclusion that this problem might be related to our boon to wield light . Although everyone says Light to be peaceful element but it is one of the most destructive element ever seen. So to wield it we had to have to a strong vessel for the passage of light, which is our body.

Though our ancestor's were unable to make anything permanent ,they were able to make their bodies temporarily strong using sage mode ,by doing so they negated at least 40% of the backlash.

But the number of people in our clan that can use sage mode is just currently 8, from where 2 is non light user.

Do you know what that means!!" shouted my grandfather

"My father died at age 100 but my eldest brother or our previous clan leader will not live past 80 years. So it means every new generation our clan's life expectancy will decrease by at least 10 to 20 years, and by 3 to 4 generation The mighty Shiba clan will be gone." after saying he slumped on his seat and from his look one could tell as if he aged 10 years in few seconds.

After hearing these words the people sitting felt as if they have been drowned in a ice cold water, their breathing grew uneven and their bodies slumped.

Seeing everyone losing hope my grandfather encouraged them "Don't lose hope our clan have survived through more dangerous times. We will survive if we can make our bodies strong for the usage of light element. But do not spread this news outside this room, I think their is a traitor in our clan. And If this news was released then our clan will not survive the onslaught of other clans."

Then my grandfather ordered the other clan members to the enter the room.

He then addressed everyone "Their will no meeting today but you were called here to be made known that we will not be participating in the second ninja war, A lot of our clan members have been dying in missions outside the village, so to bring our clan back to it's glory you will all be permitted to learn sage mode . And although I don't know who is responsible for this I have my fair share of suspicion , so everyone be careful our other clan members.

" That's all, meeting adjourned" ..