2 Chapter 2: Awakening, Training and A Meeting

## Previously ##

His eyes had changed to blood-red with 3 tomoe. Senshi had awakened the Uchiha Clan's most famous kekkei genkai, the Sharingan, with 3 tomoe no less.

## Now ##

His mom said, "Sochi (son), your eyes..." Senshi asked, "Tou-san (father), kaa-san (mother), what happened to my eyes?" His father said, "I'll tell you more when we get home. Now give your little brother back to your mom so we can all head home, okay?" Senshi nodded, as his Sharingan deactivated. They arrived home, and Senshi's mom went to another room to take care of Kenji. His father brought Senshi outside, and began talking. He said, "The Sharingan is a powerful tool. It has multiple powers that are extremely useful." Then he handed a book about the Sharingan and its capabilities to Senshi, who began to read it. He thought, "These are so many powers! Using these powers, I could get way stronger!" He then asked, "Tou-san, can you please train me to use the Sharingan?" His father immediately said, "Okay, but on a few conditions. First, we have to train your body so you can actually react in time when using your eyes. And also, only use this power to protect your friends, okay?" Senshi nodded, and then his dad said, "Good. Let's start with some basic exercises." Senshi began doing weightlifting, as well as speed-enhancing exercises. He also trained his Goken (Strong Fist) and defense prowess on a spinning post with multiple metal bars on it. He ate dinner, this time with his younger bro, Kenji. His mom asked him how the training was, and he said it went well. And it had, as he had grown strong enough to split logs with a karate chop, and faster than the eye could track, in one day. He said good night to his parents and thanked his father for the training and then flopped asleep on his bed inside his room.

## Senshi's Mindscape ##

He was pulled into his mindscape, which he had discovered beforehand while meditating in order to concentrate his chakra. There, he saw an old man sitting in a lotus position. He was a tall and pale-skinned man, who had deep wrinkles and a strong jawline with a pair of horn-like protrusions extending from either side of his forehead, and purple eyes with a ripple pattern, as well as a third red eye on his forehead, which had a ripple pattern as well, along with 3 tomoe each on the first 2 ripple circles from the inside in a Sharingan pattern. He had spiky, shoulder-length, pale brown hair, with a chin-length, braided lock hanging in front of his left ear. He also sported a goatee, which tapered down to his waist, and wore a white, full-length kimono with a pattern of six black magatama around a high collar, beneath which, he wore a necklace which was also made up of six black magatama, and on the back of his kimono was a larger, black Rinnegan marking with a pattern of nine magatama arranged in three rows of three beneath it.

Senshi immediately asked the man, "Who are you!? What are you doing in my mindscape!?" The man didn't even respond, but instead pointed his hand at Senshi. All of a sudden, Senshi was bombarded with a series of memory visions.

## First Memory ##

A woman was watching over two infants, who were pale-skinned and had horns coming out from their foreheads. The woman, meanwhile, had very delicate facial features. She had long, sweeping white hair that touched the ground. Most noticeable were two horns which stuck out from her forehead, a trait shared with her sons. Her eyebrows were cut very short, an outward symbol of royalty, and she wore a dark shade of lipstick on her lips and a dark shade of nail polish on her long fingernails. She wore the transitional high-collared hime-kimono which was adored with intricate lines and tomoe running down the center and edges of the gown. As one of the infants, the one with darker hair, began crying, she carried and softly rocked it, saying, "No need to cry, Hagoromo-kun." The baby calmed down, then the woman put him back beside his brother.

## Second Memory ##

Hagoromo and Hamura, now young adults, stood in front of their mother, Kaguya Otsutsuki, mother of all chakra. They rushed at her, their arms outstretched and palms forward. On Hamura's, there was a white circle, symbolizing the sun, while Hagoromo's palm had a black crescent on it, symbolizing the moon. As they rushed forward, Hamura said, "Now, Elder Brother!" Both palms landed on Kaguya, and they simultaneously said, "Rikudo: Chibaku Tensei (Six Paths: Planetary Devastation)!" As this happened, Hagoromo absorbed a big portion of his mother's chakra. With Kaguya now sealed away, the beast the 2 brothers had been fighting earlier on, the Shinju also known as the Juubi or Ten-Tails, had lost its will to fight, so Hagoromo sealed its power in himself, gaining the Rinne Sharingan, just like his now sealed mother, and freed all the civilians from the Divine Deep Forest Emergence and Infinite Tsukuyomi. With the power and vitality of the Juubi taken away from its body, it became the Gedo Statue, which Hagoromo sealed inside the new form the two brothers made, the Moon. Hagoromo and Hamura were glad the battle, which had taken a massive toll on the land, had finally ended.

## Third and Final Memory ##

An elderly Hagoromo stood in the middle of a circle with 6 tomoe around it. He raised his hand, and 9 green tomoe were released, which then released the Tailed Beasts. He told them, "I will not live much longer. Shukaku, Matatabi, Isobu, Son Goku, Kokuo, Saiken, Chomei, Gyuki and Kurama. Even if you are far apart, you will always be together. And one day, you will all become one... with different names... in different forms than you exist now. And unlike when you were within me as the Juubi... you will be led down the right path. When the time comes... you will know... what true power is." He released his last breath as Kurama let out a lone tear.

## End of Memories ##

Senshi, who was shockingly still standing, stumbled backward and shouted in surprise from the sudden rush of memories in his brain, righted himself and gasped while pointing toward the old man, "You're... Ha-hagoromo O-otsutsuki?" Hagoromo then replied, "Indeed I am, Uchiha Senshi."