6 The avatar making a deal with the Ōtsutsuki.

"It is certain that you can manipulate Chakra, something which all living beings have but cannot manipulate with the Ōtsutsuki -my clan- being the sole exception." She paused and stared into my eyes before continuing, "So, tell me how does a human have access to chakra. Although, admittedly, your chakra certainly feels different."

Shit! I was exposed just like that. And here I was, thinking of launching a surprise attack on her. I obviously couldn't tell her the truth. "It all started with an accident. I had no idea I had these powers," I started explaining while acting scared and unaware. "One day, while I was playing with my friends when one of them had climbed up a tree. He slipped... He was going to fall onto the ground and hit his head on a rock. As I stood there watching him fall, something took a hold of me. My body moved on it's own and I somehow created a gust of wind, strong enough to break his fall."

Kaguya's short eyebrows quirked upwards, "I see... And was the demonstration earlier also just based on instinct?"

"No, no it wasn't," I quickly replied, "I started practicing this power I had over the elements of nature. It all started with air, then water, after that fire, and finally earth."

Upon hearing my answer, Kaguya gave it some deep thought. After a while she spoke up, "I see... You are to come here, everyday from tomorrow onwards."

"Wait what?" I asked while suspecting myself of having hearing problems. "Can you repeat what you just said?"

"You will come here everyday and I will teach you how to properly control your chakra," Kaguya answered in her monotonous voice, her face still expressionless as ever.

"Why are you offering to train me? Plus, I can't visit the Emperor's concubine everyday without a good reason," I said, still unsure why exactly she was offering to train me.

"While you were knocked out, I analyzed your body. You are able to manipulate your chakra and - as you call it - command the elements and you do all of it almost unconsciously. In simple terms, you were born with the ability to find it easy to manipulate chakra in a certain way. But you don't seem to know how to manipulate chakra itself nor do you seem to understand how you are able to manipulate elements like fire, water, air, and earth," Kaguya replied before adding, "I am offering to train you to satiate my curiosity and don't worry about not being allowed to come here, I will take care of it."

The last sentence gave me a feeling of foreboding. "Okay, then. You analyzed my body without permission. That's great news..." I muttered sarcastically to myself in a low voice before noticing Kaguya looking expectantly at me, waiting for an answer. "Su- sure I will come here everyday." Did I even have a choice of refusing her? I just fought her giving it my all, except from using the avatar state, and she still kicked my ass. I really didn't see any other choice except from going along with it.

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<A few months later>

It had been a weird few months since Kaguya started training me. No one seemed to care about the amount of time I was spending with Kaguya despite of her being the emperor's concubine and I was pretty sure Kaguya had something to do with it. I had been on the edge around her in the beginning. However I slowly started to see that she didn't mean any harm and was genuinely teaching me all she could.

I had learned a few Ōtsutsuki clan techniques and even energy-bending. Although I couldn't take away or give bending through it, I could still use a few basic chakra techniques limited to Taijutsu and increasing my own strength. However, I now had way better control over elemental bending. I was around a level where I could use master-level elemental techniques.

The thing about Kaguya was that I still didn't trust her fully. At the very least, I was not going to allow her to eat the chakra fruit and gain her powers from the anime. I honestly didn't care whether I was affecting the canon or not. I just wasn't going to allow my friends and family to be taken away from me that easily.

Kaguya was already pregnant with Hagoromo and Hamura and ironically the events that led to the birth of the rabbit goddess were nearing. I returned home after a day of training and directly entered my bedroom. I didn't greet my father because he had started acting distant ever since Kaguya 'took care of things'. My friends acted weirdly too. Almost as if they had trouble remembering of my existence.

It was probably the mind-altering technique Kaguya had previously used. I patiently waited for the sun to set and sneaked out of my house under the cover of night. I dove into the forest in search for a prey. Using chakra to boost my physical abilities, I ran from branch to branch in search for a wild animal.

After a while, I noticed a small sounder of wild boars sleeping together in a tight huddle. As I stood on a branch overlooking the sounder, the clouds parted to reveal a full moon. I had sneaked away from home precisely due to the fact that it was the night of a full moon. I readied myself for practicing one of the most gruesome and deadly form of bending there ever was. I readied myself to practice and eventually master blood-bending.

I used earth-bending to create earthen walls and trap all of them. I proceeded to kill them all instantly by creating earth-spikes to impale them from below. I landed on the ground and lowered the earthen walls back to the ground. The squeals of a few boars who had survived filled the air along with the smell of blood.

I resisted the urge to puke my guts out. As a sheltered kid-both in this life and the last- this was the first time I had seen something die right in front of my eyes. I reminded myself that this was necessary and that blood-bending was probably the only way I could possibly kill Kaguya. The only way this was going to be effective was if the Ōtsutsuki had blood at all and as far as he knew they did.

I walked towards the nearest boar who was bleeding profusely from it's wound and kneeled beside it. Now that I could see it directly, I used water-bending by imagining the blood to be water and slashed the necks of the boars who were still alive by the use of blood blades.

I spent the rest of the night practicing blood bending from the blood I had obtained from the boars, controlling their already dead bodies, and also by practicing using water from plant life to for water-bending.

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A/n: Only a few chapters left and we will officially be completed with the first volume. On a side note, should the chapters be longer?

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