Stepping down

Entering the dining room rei saw both his parents and brother sitting there chatting, as usual, his father had the main seat, his mother on his right, on the left his brother was seated on the second seat the first seat was empty obviously reserved for him.

in front of them on the large dining table were all different types of food and delicacies.

Seeing him walk in all of them turned and smiled at him.

Walking to the first seat on the left he sat down and began to speak "I am glad all of you could make it today" he said.

"of course dear, you never call for us so we figured it might be something really important, and plus it is nice to get together once in a while," said his mother lovingly.

"yeah, we rarely have family gatherings like this lately," said his father.

"true," said his brother on the side nodding his head.

"so why have you gathered his here rei," asked his father after a moment of silence looking curiously at him as did the other three.

"I will tell you in due time, for now, let's have dinner first," said rei.

Half an hour later after they finished dinner the servants came and started cleaning the table and taking the dishes away, after they were finished rei looked at his family one by one sighted and said: "sigh, the first reason why I brought you here is to tell you I am stepping down from My position as the clan patriarch".

"WHAT" his father got up slamming his hands on the table clearly distressed.

"WHY WOULD YOU EVEN THINK OF DOING THAT, AMD SPECIFICALLY AT THIS POINT IN TIME WHEN WE HAVE JUST ALLIED WITH THE SENJU AND UCHIHA CLANS," said his father still screaming, even the servants in the hall outside the dining room heard him and started leaving.

"calm down honey, let him explain first," said his mother looking at him worriedly.

" mom is right dad, rei wouldn't just do something like this without a good reason," his brother said from beside him.

"sigh" sighted rei.

'system seal this entire area from the outside world'.

[Ding]

[affirmative]

[area sealed]

"mom, dad, Yagami, the reason I am stepping down from is that soon I will be leaving and it will be a long while before I come back," said rei, without showing many expressions on his face.

"where are you going," asked his father as he sat down, now speaking calmly.

"I personally am going nowhere, at least my physical body isn't, the same can't be said for my soul," said rei.

"wait, isn't that a forbidden escape art from our cultivation technique??, why the hell would you even think of using that, you will never be able to come to this body of your ever again if you did that," said rei's father who was strangely very calm.

This escape technique that rei's father is speaking of is a way to suck all the Vitaliy, life force, energy and everything that makes your body what it is from it, essentially turning it into ash and sending all of that to the soul.

using all that accumulated energy in soul form one can escape which would be nearly impossible to stop them and after that find a new body to occupy, or one can use that accumulated energy to fight.

"no it's not dad, my way of doing it is a little different, so I can come back to my body anytime I wish to," said rei.

His father didn't say anything else but his mother asked, "And where do you plan to go dear?".

"Sorry, mom I can't say," he said, he definitely isn't going to tell them that he is leaving this universe altogether.

Looking at him for a minute she said: "I understand dear, just promise me to be safe".

she really wanted to stop him from going and she was going to but she quickly realized that he wasn't a young boy anymore and he is mature enough to make his own decisions, and she could tell from the look on his eyes that no matter what they said they wouldn't be able to change his mind.

"I promise you, mom," he said.

"sigh, your Goin to give me a heart attack one of these days boy," his father said sighting.

"well, technically that is impossible to happen for a shinobi dad, let alone a shioya we can survive without our heart so even if..." Yagami began speaking but stopped halfway through seeing the look in his father's eyes.

After a moment of silence, his mother smiled and asked, "so you plan to appoint Yagami as your successor??" asked his mother.

"that would have been the plan but considering we have just joined an alliance and formed a village I am afraid some people who were against the alliance will try to use that against us, with the excuse of putting an inexperienced person as the head of the clan to break up the alliance," said rei looking at the three of them.

"sigh, so what is your plan," asked his father, but on the inside, he was already crying as he knew exactly what rei is going to say.

"well there is only one option left, and that is for you to step back up dad, for a while at least, until things calm down," said rei.

His father felt as if an entire mountain has been dropped on him from the highest point possible while he was still a human, he looked at him and didn't know what to say.

Rei was literally looking on everywhere and moving his head in all directions inside the dining hall except his father's direction and trying to avoid meeting his father in the eyes.

" hahaha," his mother and brother suddenly started laughing.

"what the hell are you two laughing at," said his father annoyed, he was clearly looking for a reason to vent his anger on someone.

"hehe, you two just look cute like that," said his mother with a genuinely happy smile on her face.

"sigh, and here I thought I was done with all that headache of being the clan's patriarch, so when do you plan to step down," his father asked.

"I just need to sort somethings out first and make sure everything is in place so you can step back up with no problem and run things smoothly before announcing it," said rei.

"that's good, at least you tough of lessening the problems your old man has to deal with," said his father, his mother smiling on the side happily.

"That reminds me you said that this is only the first reason you called us here big bro, so what is the second?" asked Yagami with a curious look on his face.

That got both Ryushi and Miyako's attention as they both looked at rei waiting for him to answer.

" oh yeah, that reminds me, the second reason I brought you here is..."