Ashura & Indra Part 1

Shuichi saw a tall and pale-skinned middle-aged man, who had deep wrinkles and a strong jawline. 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 tapered down to his waist.

Just like Hamura, he had a pair of horn-like protrusions extending from either side of his forehead and wore a white, full-length kimono with a pattern of six black magatamas around a high collar, beneath which, he wore a necklace which was also made up of six black magatamas.

On the back of his kimono was a larger, black Rinnegan marking with a pattern of nine magatamas arranged in three rows of three beneath it and lastly he had rinnegan in his two eyes and the third eye like marking on his forehead.

Before he introduced himself, Shuichi bowed "I'm honored to meet Hagoromo-sama". He smiled "well since you already know who I am and heard the story of our mother from Hamura, let me answer your question about the Rinnegan because the story of rinnegan is linked with many things.

Before telling you about it, we should start with the story of ninshu and my sons Indra and Ashura. The scene around them changed again. Hagoromo stood before a toad "thankyou for your help gamamaru. Without the sage power that you taught me, we couldn't have defeated Mother".

Gamamaru asked, "you insist on leaving?". Hagoromo nodded "yes. There's something that I must do. The first thing is to find a dwelling place for each tailed beast".

later the scenery changed to the barren land. They stood on top of the hill while he said "the second purpose is to restore this ravaged land. We caused terrible damage to this land in the battle against our Mother. I must atone for this crime".

Then he began to travel to many places, meeting various people, and spreading chakra around while training many apprentices. During his travels, they restored the many places that were destroyed during the war.

Then, Hagorormo said to Shuichi "we built shrines for all tailed beasts across the world for the purpose of guarding them. later, many of my pupils scattered all over different regions to repair the land in my place. eventually, ninshu was spread all over the world and it returned to peace.

After fulfilling my goals, I returned to my village and made it the headquarters of ninshu. later, I married and fathered two sons. They were named Indra and Ashura.

Their mother had a difficult recovery after giving birth to Ashura and shortly died. But, the two children grew up healthy and strong. In their childhood, they were almost inseparable. The older one was especially caring and the younger one was always chasing after his brother. But at that time, I didn't realize a dark force is already at work trying to manipulate my sons".

The scene around them once again changed. Indra was reading many books and scrolls that Hagoromo wrote while Ashura is complaining "why does father write so much". Hagoromo then spoke to Shuichi while the scene changed to Indra performing Hand seals to breathe fire.

"Healthy bodies to sustain wholesome spirits...I didn't feel any need for any martial arts that went beyond that. But due to Indra's innovations, the course of ninshu drastically changed.

I inherited powers from my mother Kaguya. So, I don't need any signs to invoke jutsu but for my apprentices and others, it's different. At the age of mere 10, Indra started to invent new jutsu even I couldn't do it. he was worthy to be called the genius of ninshu.

The invention of using signs for jutsu changed the foundation of people's lives. It became such that anyone who trained hard would be able to use jutsu. At first, I thought it was a good thing and didn't think much about is while failing to recognize that dark force already started to prepare his plans for my sons".

The scene once again changed to Ashura and Indra becoming almost at his age. Indra looking at Ashura with his sharingan "you don't have sharingan. so, you won't understand. Power is what rules the world. Power maintains order. In time, I will take over Ninshu and fulfill my dream".

later, Ashura's friend was captured for cutting down the trees which he replied because his mother was sick and don't believe in ninshu. Indra didn't listen to him and threw him into prison saying "whether you believe it or not, a law is a law".

When Ashura broke him out of the prison, Indra beat him up and said "Ashura, why do we have laws? what is the purpose of Ninshu's power? If you can't answer these questions by yourself, then you should obey me".

The scene again changed to Ashura standing before his pet dog Shiro and said to hagoromo who stood behind him "if it wasn't because of Shiro and my brother, I would have lost my life back then". they talked for a while about Indra and hagoromo went away from there.

Hagoromo then said to Shuichi "At that moment, I felt I understood, why heavens had blessed me with two sons.

The scene changed to two of them reached adulthood, Hagoromo spoke: "Now, I'm going to pick my successor to the Ninshu". Both of them were given scrolls. Ashura asked, "Father, what is it?". Hagoromo replied "During the battle where we sealed our Mother, parts of the Ten-tails were scattered all over the world. We repaired almost all the lands during our journey. Only recently I found out there are still two regions that need to be fixed.

Indra, Ashura. I am giving the two of you each a region to take care of. You can find their locations in the scroll, I have just given you. After I see the results, I will decide to whom I will entrust Ninshu.

Both of them parted in midways and started a journey towards their locations. Gamamaru looked at both of them and said "it seems the younger one matured into a kind and gentle soul but the older one inherited the power of sharingan, huh... But out of consideration for his brother, the younger one might not even return home".

Hagoromo replied, "I'll deal with that when the time comes".