Leaving the Academy I took my sweet time going home. Not like anyone is waiting for me. Sakumo only ever comes back for a night before disappearing before sunrise. Kakashi has graduated. He's already on a mission outside the village and even if he wasn't I doubt he'd come home.
My relationship with Kakashi has regressed. He's closed himself off returning to ignoring me. Nothing I do gets a reaction out of him anymore.
Where did everything go wrong?
What am I saying I know exactly where everything went wrong.
The following weeks after Sakumos return an event that should be a good thing but no nothing can ever just be good some bullshit always has to always follow.
It started as nothing more than a small rumor, baseless accusations. I immediately disregarded it and tried to get Kakashi to do the same. It worked at first but I could see how the possibility of it being true clawed its way into his mind refusing to be ignored.
Not knowing was consuming Kakashi he was afraid of asking, fear of it being true keeped him from confronting Sakumo as it did me. Unfortunately, unlike me Kakashi couldn't ignore the village he grew up in. I don't blame him if I had been born and raised here I would probably have the same loyalty he does. So eventually Kakashi said three simple words.
"Is it true?"
Three words that caused me to tense up as they were uttered.
I didn't move, unable to speak as I looked at Sakumo waiting for his answer.
Sakumo stood motionless facing away from us.
"Yes."
he didn't even wait for a response, going straight to his room and closing the door.
I just stood there unmoving as I processed his answer.
Kakashi left soon after his chakra rapidly building up before he vanished.
I really gotta learn how to do that.
What did I do? Well I simply stood there unmoving.
I didn't know how to react. Sakumo confirmed it was his fault the third Shinobi war had started. I didn't want to believe it. I could have lived happily never knowing if it was true. I wanted to press for more information and an explanation. Surely there was more to the story. Why did he do it? Was it an accident Sakumo had said he had a team for the mission? Are they equally all at fault or was it just him? I want to ask question after question looking for any reason for Kakashi to not be angry. Anything to go back how things used to be.
But I didn't.
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Arriving I slid open the door kicking off my sandals before making some tea. I had a lot of studying to do.
I had made a discovery about the reason behind why none of the seals I've been trying to make have been working properly. I've been using the wrong language. Sure it was possible to use Kanji for Fuinjutsu but good luck trying to make anything more advanced than a self rolling cup.
I had assumed Kanji were used for seals because explosive tags have explosion written on them but it turns out that was just a label.
Why use Kanji when seal script was already figured out for the most part. Sure it means i have to learn a new writing system but when the alternative is trying to brute force my selas with Kanji i'll take it. No need for trial and error. All I need is to read one big book.
I discovered my error when I was trying to figure out what one of Hatake Nõka seals did but I didn't know the Kanji. So I copied the Kanji the best I could then went to the library. Book after book on Kanji with nothing to show for it. I nearly gave up but fortunately then librarian noticed my frustration and all the books I had scattered around me. She took one look at it and informed me of my stupidity. After putting the books away I was on my way with one big ass book on seal script.
So Fuinjutsu was once again on hold as I familiarized myself with seal script. It shouldn't take me too long. All I had to do was learn a seal script then what said script did in relation to Fuinjutsu. Actually now that I thick about it I don't have to stop Funjuitsu completely i could learn some seal script then try and make a seal with what I've learned.
Creating your own original seals is considered advanced stuff. Sure I wasn't trying to create an original seal but I was pretty much doing just that.
So seal script was figured out a long time ago so when write Language evolved and changed over time Fuinjutsu practitioners still used seal script or their own original seals.
Did Fuinjutsu used to be more common?
Seems no one whats to put in the time to figure out the ins and outs of Kanji for Fuinjutsu. I completely understand nothing I did worked every tweak broke something else. The more complicated the seal the more chances for something to mess up.
No even if everyone was still using seal script there more to seals them just the medium used to write them. Original seals are all the proof needed. If you could make up your own seal language which to anyone else was essentially nonsense then what couldn't you do with seals? I could pre load Ninjutsu ready to activate with just one hand sign to activate the seals.
But of course if it was that easy everyone would do it.
All right, that's enough rambling study time.
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first things first I would like to apologize for not updating in almost two weeks. anyways the reason I didn't write at all for the past 12 days was because I found a really good story and I ending up reading the entire thing three times. once I finally caught up I was sad they hadn't updated in like two months then the guilt kicked in as I remember I had my own story I had been neglecting. and unlike the writer of that story my writing didn't justify needing weeks to write.