Degradation

Even if he was in a new place, Yami still couldn't escape from the bullying. It had been a month since he got here, and everything was falling back into place once again.

Being brought into a ninja-dominated place, especially in his clan, everyone who eventually knew of his condition began pitying and/or scorning him for something he couldn't even control.

At some point, he even began blaming his parents for giving him the wrong genes. But since he thinks that he was way better than the people here, he stopped blaming them for something they also couldn't control.

And also, sometimes it became hard for him to control himself from using his powers against his offenders, but still he managed, although difficult at first.

Because even with his newfound powers, his physical abilities were still that of a civilian.

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Bandaging himself in the living room of his house, Yami struggled to wrap the bandages around his bruised wrist.

"That fat akimichi kid, he can't even control his strength"

He cursed at the Akimichi kid who forcefully pulled him on his wrist to play with him, but eventually as the kid found out about his identity, the kid immediately knew that he was the Chakraless nara and started beating him up with his other friends.

"Tsk, why are they even keeping me here? If I was such a useless Chakraless kid, then why am I still here? I should just be at the civilian districts"

He complained in pain as he continues bandaging his wounds. But deep down he knew that he was in the safest place for him, despite the bullying. He knew that living within the civilian district wasn't the safest at all.

And as he finished saying that, he felt a presence entering his house. With his powers, as long as there are shadows nearby, he can connect to them and surveil his surroundings for anyone that touches the shadows surrounding his house.

"Yami-chan! are you here?"

A familiar voice called out for him from the front door in an excited tone.

"Yoshino-chan?"

Yami responded as the little lady entered his living room.

She was a petite girl with black hair and black eyes just like him. But unlike him, her skin wasn't deathly pale.

It turns out that not everyone here has been bad to him, there were some who kind of replaced his parents, like Yoshino here.

Although, Yoshino was the same age as him, she acted like his mother at times. Scolding him for being weak and not training his body to defend himself, cooking dinner with him, washing clothes with him, cleaning his house with him, while also playing with him like a normal child.

"Yami-chan? Did they bully you again?! Like I told you, why don't you come train with me so that you can protect yourself?! "

Yoshino said as she looked at Yami with wounds and bruises with some bandages.

"Hah, Yoshino-chan... "

Yami sighed in helplessness as he looked at the innocent girl.

He has been explaining his condition to the girl, but she didn't believe him. It wasnt that she thinks he was lying, it was that she thinks he was wrong.

She believes that no one in this world is born

without chakra, she explains that even civilians have them, although not that much and they can't control it. In her side, which is practically true anyways, she believes that some people have too minute chakra but will definitely eventually control it, but another drawback is that people like this often have a hard time feeling their chakra, and she thinks that Yami is this case.

At first, Yami actually had this newfound hope when he heard her saying this for the first time. This explanation cleared a lot of brain fog for him, since he wasn't that knowledgeable about this world anyways.

But after weeks of checking out, and they even went to Yoshino's kind parents, and they said that he really didn't have chakra at all.

Yoshino, hearing this, yelled at her parents for discouraging Yami to fulfill his dream of becoming a ninja.

Yami was taken aback by her sudden declaration, since he never said anything to her about wanting to become a ninja.

At that time he nearly cursed at the kind Yoshino in front of her parents, but managed to hold back, thinking-

This girl.... I never said anything like that to her, nor did I show anything about wanting to become one.... How could I even become one in the first place when even the adults think otherwise.

He looked at her parents shaking his head, showing his disagreement with her words but to no avail, a reaction has already formed on their faces.

It seems that after hearing her declaration, they began looking at Yami with pity, to which Yami felt annoyed to.

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"Yami-chan, I keep telling you-"

"I know, I know, I guess I'll do it now"

He responded to stop Yoshino's nagging.

Hearing this, Yoshino felt exhilarated, for her, she finally managed to convince one of her friends to become better.

"REALLY?! then come with me"

Yoshino began pulling Yami by his injured wrist, which made him grunt in pain.

"Agh, Yoshino-chan, could you please let go of me? I'll come with you anyways"

He pleaded.

Yoshino saw his pain and immediately let go in guilt.

"Oh sorry! Sorry I just got too excited, did I undo your bandages? Here I'll redo it"

"Oh no no, thats okay"

Yami reassured.

Yoshino then nodded and led Yami out of his house.

Eventually, they reached her house, but this time, they weren't going in the house, they were going to the backyard, where Yoshino's father, Kuroyama, is currently in.

"Yoshino! My sweet girl"

Kuroyama greeted Yoshino with a warm hug.

"Father! I finally convinced Yami to join us!"

She declared right after breaking out of their hug.

To which he glanced at the direction of Yami, the black and white child.

"Oh my, that is good... Although you aren't in the best condition Yami"

He was delighted with the news but soon commented about Yami's bruises and wounds.

"Oh, I am fine, this happens all the time, so I'm now used to this"

Yami reassured.

"Yeah... That is right, let me get you fixed up then, you can't start your first training with injuries my boy, you have to be in the best condition"

Kuroyama offered and went up to Yami.

Initially, he was confused about what was going to happen, but eventually he saw it, the cyan glow, the moment Kuroyama placed his palm above one of his injuries.

"Oh"

Yami exclaimed in surprise.

"This the mystical palm, an iryojutsu, it can heal any small and surface injuries, and even some underskin injuries with the right amount of control. The basis of this is to stimulate your chakra to hea-"

Kuroyama then stopped midway his explanation, in a daze.

"Kuroyama-san?"

"Papa?"

Both the children inquired in worry.

But soon Yami deduced why, looking at his unhealed injury.

"Uh- I'm sorry, Yami-chan i-"

"It's okay Kuroyama-san, I know-"

Yami wanted to reassure Kuroyama once again that he is okay despite not having chakra, but soon he also stopped when he felt something.

Although in Kuroyama's earliet action, the injury he focused on wasn't healed, now after he stopped, Yami felt a tingling sensation all over his body. And before he could even react, all his injuries have been healed.

"What?"

"What is this?"

Both Kuroyama and Yami was utterly surprised.

What the heck just happened? I was sure that his technique didn't work at all.

Yami was shocked, and wildly wondered inwardly.

He knew the basis of this technique, since he remembered watching a boring Naruto episode explaining the functionality of healing techniques.

But soon he figured out why this happened.

Only Yoshino wasn't aware of what's really happening.

"Whats what? Yami-chan! Father!"

They turned to look at Yoshino, and then both looked at each other.

"I was sure that my technique didn't do a single thing"

Kuroyama exclaimed.

This is the work of my powers isn't it?! How did it do that though?! No now is not the time for that! I can't have him finding out about this.

"Kuroyama-san, you sure are kind, you healed every one of my injuries, thank you"

Yami bowed down in "gratitude".

However, Kuroyama was still perplexed and shocked about this whole situation.

He knew that he had done nothing to heal every single injuries at once, heck as a former medic-nin, he wwe sure that no such technique even existed.

"What was tha-"

But before he could ask the bombing question, Yoshino suddenly hugged him.

"Thank you dad! Thanks for healing Yami-chan! I didnt know you were such a powerful medic-nin dad! You're looking so handsome now!"

Yoshino gratified and praises her dad all over the place in extreme gratitude.

Kuroyama, easily distracted by whatever his sweet little daughter does, easily gave in and immediately got off his train of thought.

"Awww, thank you my daughter"

He hugged her tightly.

Yami, seeing all of this could only smile, although he still barely felt anything, he was atleast happy about one thing, and that is him saving his butt off from being discovered.

The father and daughter saw this and felt bad for excluding him from the warmth. And so Yoshino pulled Yami into the hug.

"Woah"

Yami was surprised.

"Now, we are a family"

She declares.

Yami, hearing this, wasn't annoyed for the first time.

I guess this isnt bad at all.....