>>5793035Shigure’s home was a well-appointed, old style apartment in a small complex. He sits you down on one of his sofas and even prepares some tea for you before he lights a pipe and begins speaking in his gravelly voice. “Sorry if it’s a bit cramped. Moved out of the family house to make room for my son’s kids. Did you find the place easily enough?”
“It’s not a problem Shigure-Sensei. I did find the place easily enough, with some directions. Pardon me for saying so, but the Uchiha distract seems a bit… tense.”
Shigure’s eyes darken at the mention of that. “More than you know, boy. More than you know. But hopefully none of that will ever be relevant to the younger generation and such… thins will simply ease with time. And please, Shigure or Shigure-San is better outside the academy setting. Before we begin, enjoy some tea and tell me a bit about yourself. You’re not in my cohort and I don’t know you well outside of Juro’s descriptions. You’re descended from Kiri-nin?”
“Yes Shigure-Sen-... Shigure-San. My mother is a defector from Kiri. I’ve had far from a warm experience growing up in the village because of it. She’s not much of a help either, sometimes I wonder if she even considers me her son or if I’m just some kind of wart she’s stuck trying to ignore.”
You punctuate what you’re saying by taking a sip of tea. Oh! That’s pretty good! Shigure smiles and blows some smoke out of his nose. “I can relate. But that’s why I became a teacher, to pass down the will of fire along the generations in the hopes that such wounds will heal or be forgotten, rather than being ‘warts’ we’re stuck with. Anyway… Let me get a look at your chakra so we can see what we’re working with.”
He activates his sharingan, eyes turning a bright crimson with three tomoe surrounding his pupils, and begins staring at you intently, seeming to be looking at something in and around you rather than your actual physical form. The longer he looks, the more stern his face becomes, as if he’s seeing something he doesn’t necessarily like. “... Your mother. Who is she again?”
“Harumi Mizutani.”
“Does she… Have a kekkei genkai or anything similar that you’re aware of?”
“... Not that I’m aware of, sir. Is there a problem?”
“No, no, not a problem. It’s just that, for lack of a better term, your chakra is blue.”
“Well, my chakra nature is water and I’ve always visualized it as blue. Isn’t it supposed to be blue?”
He stops looking so stern and smiles again, evidently finding something you said mildly funny. “The color you visualize is irrelevant, most of the time chakra has no color whatsoever. For those of us who learn to see it, it would be… Well, it’s like describing color to a blind man. Except for yours. Yours is definitely… blue.”
“Okay, well, what does ‘blue’ mean for me, Shigure-Sensei?”
