9 Chapter 9 : Legacy

Time passed quickly, it had been a month since Mihara had returned to the village, he rarely left the manor except to visit the Tamasaburo family two or three times a week.

He spent all his time reading the books at his disposal in the clan's library, surprising even Kawaguchi by his diligence in studying, this even made him suspicious about Mihara's identity who had never been in the library and who hated reading above all else in the past, but thinking of the butter he smiled thinking that almost dying must have made the master more mature and serious which made him smile with joy every day.

And after all this time Mihara's wounds healed at a prodigious rate, he could walk without crutches and the pain he constantly felt had almost completely disappeared.

Mihara then continued his learning for two weeks before stopping to go to the library.

He had been a teacher in his past life and he knew how important knowledge was, he had devoted himself to the study of geography, history, politics and science of this world improving his general knowledge considerably.

Now that he felt his health was improving he wanted to enjoy the time he had before returning to the battlefield.

That morning he woke up at 6:00 a.m. like every day and ate the breakfast that Kawaguchi had prepared for him but when he finished instead of going to the library as usual he made a request to Kawaguchi.

"Kawaguchi brought me the scrolls of the clan's techniques."

Kawaguchi heard this and frowned slightly.

"Master with your current mastery of kenjustsu, taijutsu and ninjutsu it is very unwise to practice clan techniques, I advise you to learn C rank ninjutsu for the time being, as I told you before the clan arts are extremely dangerous and all of them require an incredible mastery of chakra, one mistake could break your tenketsu and seriously injure you or even cripple you for life."

Miahara had asked Kawaguchi several times before to give him the scrolls of the secret techniques of their clan but he refused each time saying that he was too young and not yet at the right level to use such techniques.

The techniques of his clan required not only a great mastery of the basic sword but also a great mastery of the flow of chakra, since Mihara was three years old he had been training every day in the basics of kenjutsu and chakra control.

He was completely forbidden to learn any ninjutsu until he had completely mastered basic kenjutsu and Kawaguchi kept reminding him of this, telling him to concentrate on his mastery of the sword.

Because of this he only knew the three basic techniques of the ninja academy and no other ninjutsu despite his clan's collection.

Mihara hearing these words sighed loudly and said calmly.

"Kawaguchi may I ask you a question?"

"I'm listening master."

"Can a corpse lead the clan?"

Hearing this Kawaguchu's eyes changed, he wanted to say something but finally he stopped, Mihara's words had touched him deeply.

"I know you want to protect me as best as you can, but I am the 23rd head of the Kenkishi clan, Mihara Kenkishi, I refuse to die on the battlefield and let our clan die with me."

"If I don't get stronger in this war I will probably die, I almost died many times and if not for providence it would have been my corpse brought back to you so even if I have to die I will die as the master and patriarch of the clan using the arts of my clan like father and grandfather before me, so bring me the scrolls."

Hearing this tears flowed from Kawaguchi's eyes he slowly stood up and looked at Mihara's firm face for a few moments before sighing deeply.

"Master you are a worthy descendant of the Kenkishi clan, your ancestors in heaven must be laughing with joy at hearing you speak this way, I will do as you wish."

"Follow me master."

Mihara got up slowly and followed Kawaguchi through the hall and a few seconds later they arrived in the clan's training room.

Kawaguchi walked to a corner of the room and lifted up one of the tatami mats and revealed a small blacm metal plate.

"Master cut the skin of your finger and write with your blood your last name before infusing your chakra into the metal."

Mihara bit his finger and quickly wrote the characters Kenkisi on the metal before putting his palm against the cold metal plate.

*pouf*

White smoke suddenly erupted and more than a dozen carefully sealed srolls appeared on the metal plate.

Kawaguchi took a deep breath and said in a melancholic but proud voice

"This is your legacy, clan master Mihara, techniques perfected over twenty three generations passed down from parent to child."