Konoha's Darkness

Tanya as usual is on the training ground; practicing hand seals and chakra molding for the Earth Release Jutsu she recently acquired. The basis of the jutsu is simple. Breaking and compressing the ground beneath, and with chakra they are blasted to the front.

Her hands danced as she performed the hand seals; Dog → Rabbit → Snake.

Earth Release: Rock Scatter Blast!

Tanya molded chakra and slap her hand onto the ground; the chakra flow onto the earth and in an instant the small area in front of her cracks and trembled; with a bang it explodes into long shards of rocks blasting towards her front in a cone shape area. The rock pieces launched fast towards the trees in front of her; causing marks and splinters to come off the trunk. 

"Suge!", Naruto looks in awe as he's jumping around in excitement seeing the trees get trashed by the rocks blasted onto them. On a side note, when Naruto asks how she got the scroll; Naruto doesn't even know who the hell Shimura Danzo is.

Sasuke on the other hand doesn't have much excitement but more towards respect. To gain attention of Konoha's top brass directly and to master a nature transformation jutsu in a single day is another testament to Tsuyu's genius. Itachi also mastered the Uchiha signature Great Fireball technique in a day; it's not surprising a genius like Tsuyu can do the same.

But the area of her jutsu is huge for their age and it should have taken a lot of chakra, but she does not seem tired at all. As if it doesn't burn even a tenth of her chakra.

"Tsu-chan! I want to learn too!", Naruto looks at her with his puppy eyes, his entire body is thrumming with anticipation wanting to do the same. Tanya believes Danzo wouldn't actually care if he gave the scroll to Naruto. So Tanya just threw it over with an added note to not give it to anyone.

"Nii-san, you can try. But normally we need to know your affinity first; it could take too much effort if Earth nature transformation isn't your suit. Do not feel down if you can't do it. It's only normal. Even Sasuke won't be able to do it since his nature is lightning and fire".

Naruto instead of expecting failure doesn't care. He is too excited to want to do a cool jutsu as soon as possible and has a high hope of doing it.

'Hm! I will do it Tsu-chan! I will an even bigger rock blast! Believe it!', he scurried away to the side as he opened the scroll and practised the hand seals immediately. 

Tanya sighed; Naruto never seems to understand the concept of being realistic - and it only leads to his own feelings getting hurt over time when reality does not meet his expectations. Normally Tanya would have stopped Naruto and told him to do something else for now, but after knowing him she just lets Naruto do what wanted to not hurt him accidentally. Tanya is still trying to learn to navigate along Naruto's emotions trying to not hurt him even if she never intended to since why would she. It's just that she never really understood what's going on in his head at times. Perhaps it's her own self that are different and cannot comprehend certain things, Tanya mused to herself.

Sasuke doesn't want to pay much attention to Naruto since he knows just how bad he is at chakra manipulation. But still, he just felt like doing a favor looking at his dumb face as he practised without success; planning to give a chakra induction paper to him tomorrow because he's probably wasting his time trying a jutsu that he is not suited for. He had a few at home somewhere in the storeroom.

Tanya and Sasuke each practise chakra manipulation on their own. It doubles as physical resting. Tanya had a different training regimen and schedule after all. Only Lee is training taijutsu every single day. As for the others they aren't at the training field. Only Sasuke and Lee joined them consistently each day since they had no one at home to train them. As for Sakura, you don't expect a girl that joined only for a crush to train each day.

Tanya continued making hand signs one after another, using Rock Scatter Blast jutsu over and over again as if her chakra were endless. Her hand signs are getting faster and faster, and the blast gets stronger and wider each time she performs the jutsu.

Sasuke feels like Tsuyu is becoming more and more unfathomable for him. Because how could she not feel exhausted? How come her chakra reserves are seemingly endless? Are the Uzumaki clan that monstrous? He wished he could have that much chakra. He can't even use more than 2 Great Fireball techniques right now before collapsing - also means he cannot practice as much as Tsuyu did in ninjutsu for now. Sasuke clenched his fist as he returned his focus to his own training.

After performing the jutsu countless times; Tanya starts to feel fatigue all over her body. Chakra is squeezed from each of the body cells after all. But mentally; she doesn't feel strained at all.

She followed up with Leaf Concentration practice by placing different leaves at different tenketsu points all over her body and feeling while releasing chakra out of all of them.

She had this idea of using Chakra Blast; a core principle of Raging Fist to blast overloaded chakra from tenketsu points - this time using all of her tenketsu at the same time. It should create a wide chakra blast all around her. It could be useful as both defensive and offensive technique; to create distance or perhaps with the sheer amount of chakra she had, perhaps she would have unexpected result. 

Tanya is unaware she had stepped foot into the creation of Revolving Heaven in terms of principles; a secret technique of the Hyuga main family. The difference is that in Gentle Fist technique, each tenketsu releases a constant stream of chakra which are then aided by bodily spin and compression of chakra to form a spinning chakra barrier of absolute defense.

But due to the nature of Raging Fist that are more explosive, her version isn't a barrier but would turn into a single instance of outward chakra blast. Someone with certain red hair might think it's quite similar to his Almighty Push.

As Tanya continued her meditation to feel her tenketsu points and release chakra from them, her gaze turned to Sasuke who is now practicing shurikenjutsu with his sharingan. She has to admit Sasuke is far better than her in shurikens and it's very impressive. His sharingan is very advantageous, and without using chakra blast from tenketsu points to increase the speed of her motions she would definitely lose to Sasuke in taijutsu sparring.

She recalled the years prior; back when Naruto lost control of 9 tails and in the very same night - the Uchiha massacre happened - leaving only Sasuke alive.

And the fact that Itachi Uchiha is the culprit is baffling. She does not believe Itachi is capable of such heartless cruelty; without a proper reason. Tanya still remember the conversation she had with Itachi; when he asked her the question - 

'Tsuyu-kun. If you had to choose between the village, or your family, what would you do?'. 

Tanya is certain there is a conspiracy. Itachi most likely was pushed into a corner and had to do what he did - for the village. As for leaving only Sasuke behind; if she was in Itachi's shoes and had to massacre the whole village, Naruto would not even be in the list. She can understand Itachi to leave Sasuke behind. But Sasuke is unaware of the complexity behind the massacre, and only vowed revenge against his own brother.

It's quite sad in Tsuyu's opinion. But Itachi had made his choices and having Sasuke hating him should also be a part of his decision. She would not interfere by trying to explain to Sasuke there might be something else behind them for now. 

She had interrogated Naruto about what happened that night. And his answers led to Tanya knowing an Uchiha is responsible for it - the same guy who placed paper bombs when she's a baby and the one who staged the 9 tails rampage during her birth. She is more inclined to think he is still out there. As for whether he is an insider or outsider; she is not certain.

Tanya felt really hateful remembering it; his actions already led to the death of her parents; and he even had the audacity to kidnap Naruto and even use him as if he's nothing but a tool for their conspiracy. It's infuriating. She suppose the clan is wiped out due to suspicion. 

Connecting the dots - the fact that the Uchiha clan is one of the founders of Konoha; and yet their compound is placed at such a far end of the village. If you read history you would know the Uchiha compound is originally in the center of Konoha along with the Senju clan compound. 

Then there's the Police Force. It might seem like the Uchiha had power but in fact they are only given responsibility without an actual return - as if giving them the control over the Police Force is more for shifting their focus from the actual position of power that matters in the village decisions. Konoha already is trying to hold Uchiha from power over all these years; as if out of fear. Anyone intelligent enough can see it without having the specific information. Tanya understood the political complexity between the Uchiha and Konoha from her readings alone.

Perhaps the entire clan had supported that masked man. Or some of them did. Or it's possible most of the Uchiha clan in Konoha are entirely innocent and they simply take the blame for a fault of a single or few people. The fact remains that an Uchiha is actually the culprit. Danzo isn't wrong in this regard, but his target is wrong due to lack of information at the time. Danzo's cold decisiveness made him seem like a monster. But he did it thinking it's for the best and to be safe.

The conspiracies don't actually matter for Tanya. What's important is she wanted the masked man to be dead for touching her brother. Hopefully Itachi already killed that man during the massacre.

But if the masked man is still alive out there she will break his bones into pieces and feed them to Kiba's dog for sure.

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In a certain town, Tobi suddenly felt a chill crawling down his spine. He felt like someone or something was targeting him. He immediately looks around warrily, ready to use his intangibility in case he gets attacked. Deidara looks at Tobi who suddenly gets serious all of a sudden.

'Oi Tobi, what the hell are you doing?', Deidara scrutinises Tobi who is looking vigilantly at their back. Even he felt warry and already had his hand into his bag to mold the clays.

Tobi turned around… and with an unserious voice he replied.

"… I just feel like pooping!".

'Haa?!! You-!', Deidara grabbed Tobi's neck wanting to choke him.

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