In the car, my mother turned on the radio, and calmly drove home.
"So how was school?"(Mom).
"You were there, no?"(Jin).
"I am just talking to pass time, entertain me."(Mom).
"Ok, it was just the normal stuff. And I basically got out of my funk after Wei punched me."(Jin).
"He punched you. No Wei. Pun intended."(Mom).
"Seriously? and yeah he really punched me, it literally sent me on a trip. I punched him back of course."(Jin).
"*sigh* the punching people will become a thing, I am right?"(Mom).
"Tehehe."(Jin).
"Don't 'tehehe' me, we are home."(Mom).
"Already. Wow it was fast this time."(Jin).
"No, it was just that you keep observing the sky previously, so your time perception may be slightly screwed."(Mom).
"I guess you are right."(Jin).
Soon we entered home and were prepared to eat lunch, and after two months I was able to taste food again, that taste of cardboard and water is gone, and now it at least tastes as it should.
"I would like to say sorry first mom. Dad said for me to take care of you, but I was too weak for it. Sorry."(Jin).
"You do not need to say sorry son. I am the one who should be saying it, it could've reached you in your worst moments... Maybe you could've gone out of it sooner... But I was grieving too and I left something to pass through me. Sorry."(Mom).
"I ..."(Jin).
"*Sigh* Let's just agree that we were both wrong and nowhere near a clear state of mind. At least things are starting to look better now."(Mom).
"Yeah... And how about the school thing?"(Jin).
"Just try to not always go for the violent solution. Just try the dialog first."(Mom).
"Okay, mom."(Jin).
We talked a bit more, the mother trying to cheer me up and some other little things. It was nice having a semblance of normalcy again, I could sincerely get used to it. I guess I can be happy again.
"So mom. I was planning on going back to doing sports, and maybe even try some martial arts. Can you help me with it?"(Jin).
"Sure. Doing sports can be very good to your health, even the mental one, so I think it's something positive."(Mom).
"Ok, I will go back to my room for some time."(Jin).
"Just don't miss dinner like always, you are becoming to thin for comfort I was very worried about your health, if things continued like that I would need to search for some supplement pill or something on those lines, your health was in danger you know?"(Mom).
"Ok, I will... And sorry for worrying you too much... I..."(Jin).
"Don't. Let's forget it and concentrate on doing better tomorrow. Okay?"(Mom).
"Okay."(Jin).
But I couldn't forget. Someone simply doesn't forget the two worse months of his life, it impossible. But I need to carry on, moping did me no good, and being depressed didn't help either. While I was walking I slowly sat on my bed, the motions were automatic at this point. But when I looked at the clock to see what time it was I got a scare.
Two hours!? how? I guess I am not 100% yet... *sigh*. I need to find something to do, father used to say that an empty mind is the devil's workshop, so maybe its finally time to test my eye.
Yes, I am aware of the [Sharingan]. But I was too mentally unstable before, and we have seen what happen when someone mentally unstable uses the [Sharingan], 4th ninja war was there as proof, the villain cast was basically all composed of [Sharingan] possessors, so it's easy to deduce that [Sharingan] and emotional instability don't work well together. It's not much of a surprise that a Dojutsu that gets off on negative emotions would be bad for mentally unstable people? you don't need to be a genius to guess it, it's not for nothing that it is also known as the eye that reflects the heart.
And while I can't say I am the most stable person right now I can at least think logically... most of the time. Seeing as I have already wasted two hours doing absolutely nothing, It is better if I start now. I went to the bathroom because I know the timing most mothers have, and I would not be surprised if my mom entered my bedroom at the exact moment when I activate my [Sharingan].
Entering the bathroom and locking the door I take a deep breath and search for my most painful memory, principally focusing on the sensation I felt during that time, I search for it, and after 5 long and agonizing minutes I finally found it, I push it, and open my eyes.
Red, was the first color that greeted me when I looked at my reflection in the mirror, two red eyes with two tomoe inside of them. I observed, no admired the eyes for a moment, they were beautiful, magnificent. But a painfully hinge from my memories told me why no Uchiha celebrates their awakening... No, focus Jin. Stay focused. Another deep breath.
I move my head a little... Woah... My perception is alien for me right now, it's so precise and vast. And if I go by the anime Sasuke was able to see at a cellular level with his 3 tomoe [Sharingan], so while I am far from that stage, my [Sharingan] is still impressive.
Details... So many details, I never thought I could see the world so detailed, it's like I was seeing the world in 360p before and now I am using 4k, I never thought my bathroom could be so beautiful, and dirty. God this thing is dirty, I can literally see all the dirty I wasn't able to scrub from here.
Looking at the ceiling I can even see the painting that I always thought pristine is eroding a little, principally closer to the shower. And the shower... I can literally read everything in it perfectly from here, even the things that were on a disadvantageous angle. I was even able to notice that my mirror is slightly inclined to the left. And after seeing all of this I concluded, a perfectionist or someone with OCD would be drove crazy with a [Sharingan].
Another thing is my field of view, it amplified beyond superhuman levels, it's certainly strange having such a field of view and not feeling a headache, maybe the [Sharingan] came with the whole adapted brain package? could be it.
And when I close my eyes, I can perfectly remember everything, even the smallest drops of water going down the sink, to the strange patterns of the soap, to all the wrongly positioned strings of the toothbrush. Photographic memory, incredible...
Let's test things in movement, I put my hand in front of my face and keep waving it at different speeds, I can see it perfectly and if a pay really good attention and concentrate a bit I can somewhat guess where my hand is going, but it is somewhat dumb to test it with your own hand as obviously, I know when and where it is moving. So I took a coin and tossed it as strongly as I can, my objective is to maximize rotations. Wow, I can see the coin rotating very slowly, what a sight.
Let's try to move a bit now. I tried walking but I was extremely awkward with my new enhanced perception, this new perception is also somehow throwing off my timing, it's bothersome, but nothing that a bit of practice won't fix. I tried to fix my walking for a bit and with the help of the [Sharingan] intently observing how my leg works, how its muscle twitches and move I was able to adjust to it fairly quickly.
I can honestly say that if I study, observe and experiment enough I can make walking literally an art, if I keep observing and seeing how to move, improving and optimizing movement I can transform walking and maybe even running into an extremely efficient art, but It will take too much time, and now I am honestly giddy to explore my [Sharingan] capabilities. Wait I can test it some more observing how mom does things, I can help her with some home tasks while I do different tests. I don't know why but this sounds strange as fuck doesn't it?
First, I need to find my sunglasses, and while normal sunglasses would be seen through, principally with the [Sharingan] active as it literally shines in low light environments and darkness. I have special sunglasses that are mirrored, yep you can't see through their lenses looking from outside, but from inside they are totally fine. Besides they are even curved so no one can see it from the sides, they are honestly the perfect sunglasses for someone trying to hide their eyes.
Ah, finally found it. It was in its case as I've only used it once. Putting the sunglasses on, I can safely say that they don't change my vision much with my [Sharingan] active, it's like I am barely using anything, if it wasn't for my heightened perception even for colors I wouldn't be able to tell I was with sunglasses on, this is thanks to the [Sharingan] obviously.
Going down the stairs I started to feel a little bit tired? strange... I didn't do any physical activity today. Maybe it's my emotional tiredness picking up? It could be. On the first floor, I finally see my mother.
"Hey, mother. Can I help you with anything?"(Jin).
"Sure son. Why though?"
"I was with nothing much to do, and I thought it a good bonding time after so long was something good."(Jin).
Well, it's not necessarily a lie, I sincerely believe and held to my words, it's just that I happen to be able to test my [Sharingan] some more.
"Sure, it a good idea. Wait? are those sunglasses? just why?"(Mom).
"I thought about testing a new style. What you think?"(Jin).
"Whatever floats your boat son."(Mom).
Helping mother a little felt nice, after all these months where I was out of it, she must really have felt very sad. I can almost taste the happiness she is radiating.
Soon the tasks were finished and I concluded something. The [Sharingan] is terrifying.
Yeah, absolutely terrifying, with some of my tests I was able to completely copy a person's body language, their mannerisms, and weird habits, even their tone of voice and tempo of speech. If I want I can literally become another person, the only other thing I need to change is my appearance, the rest is perfectly copiable, even handwriting and signatures. Absolutely terrifying. For those that played the Hitman games, it's like I can become Agent 47 on steroids. I just need to observe a person for some time, knock them out, take their clothes, and act like then, if the body type matches I bet it would be extremely difficult to discover me.
But after this I started to become exhausted, my whole body is tired, but the worse is my eyes. They are hurting a bit. Thankfully I think this is just some problem with my stamina, as I have no chakra the [Sharingan] must function on stamina, thank god I didn't abuse it, and blacked out in the middle of my home, it would be awkward to explain it to my mom.
I ate my dinner normally and went to sleep, At least I had three days without school. Plenty of time to test my new eyes.
The next day I was nice and ready. Picking up my sunglasses the first thing I went for was the computer, and while I didn't have a personal one yet, I can use the one in the house office. Now it's time to test the more academic advantages of the [Sharingan]. Let's see if I can speed read.
Turning on the computer and putting in the password, I immediately use the browser to search for some texts on the eyes, yes I will vehemently study how the human eyes works, maybe I can find some new ways to abuse my [Sharingan].
I found some basic articles about how our brain processes the light we see, it was quite big, some 7 pages, it sure has a lot of content. I clicked with my mouse scroll and pushed my mouse downwards the text in my screed rapidly went down, what a normal person would consider a blur and unreadable pages, I was able to calmly and easily read it, soon the article was finished. I look at the time, little over one minute has passed, fuck... I was that fast? Wow.
Closing my eyes I can easily remember every word of the article, It honestly strange and exciting at the same time, being able to easily remember anything that I see thanks to the Photographic Memory of the [Sharingan]. Wait... can't I just look at a whole book page and it will be engraved in my mind forever? Worth a shot.
I pick another Article, this one about human cells, but this time I don't read it, I just look at the page and go to the next one, and the next one, and the next one. Soon I've already seen the 11 pages of the article. I technically didn't read anything so I have no info about the article. I close my eyes and try to visualize the article I looked at not too long ago, and boom, it was there, perfectly word for word. I start reading the article by my visual memory alone and soon I finished it. I read the article again on the PC screen to verify if I got everything correctly. And yes I did get everything correctly.
This opens so many options for me, I can just look at every reading material available to me on the internet with my [Sharingan] engrave everything in my mind, and then read it when I have some extra time. It also literally a cheat in any kind of written Test, and seeing as everything is faster inside my mind, my speed of reading even counting the [Sharingan] in the equation just skyrocketed too.
Now it's time to do another test that I am honestly anxious to do. If this test is successful I would honestly have a very unfair advantage, so I quickly accessed youtube and searched for videos about tailoring, principally the tutorial ones, I of course searched for the manual ones.
Soon I can see a middle-aged woman teaching how to tailor, With my [Sharingan] active I focus on her hand movements, her posture, mannerisms, habits, even the most simple twitch of a muscle, soon I had all the necessary to be a very good tailor. It fucking worked on videos and seeing that YouTube has literally a tutorial on anything I can become a professional in a bunch of manual professions.
From blacksmithing to Woodworking, even simple things as painting and cleaning, heck even the videos of people driving cars and motorcycles, bicycles I can learn a lot from, I can literally be a professional in anything.
Then there are sports, like swimming, running, jumping, throwing, archery, dance, choreography, and so much more. If there is a video I can probably learn it, videos of the Olympics are simply gold for me.
There is them the coolest part. Martial arts, there is sure to be a bunch of martial arts fights and videos on YouTube, I can literally see and study uncountable spars between black belts and learn/copy their arts, their techniques, and maybe one day I can fuse these bunch of martial arts and create one of my own, the [Sharingan] is Op like that.
But there is just a tiny bitsy problem with doing all these heavy physical things, Even if I have memorized literally every single detail and copied every single technique from the best masters I could find, I can't simply use them.
Yep, most of these people trained for years and years perfecting and improving their techniques to best their competition, their bodies are literally conditioned for these techniques. They have the right muscles, the right muscles memory, and their body is used to the strain these techniques and physical activities cause.
So even if I can copy them, I couldn't use then and I wouldn't have the same mastery of them, I would need to build my body and muscle memory over the years if I want to reach something close, because hunting a muscle, or damaging one may not be fatal but it hurts like a bitch.
There is another way to go about it, I can keep using the techniques I learned, damage my body the most I can, let it heal, and do it again. It will hurt a lot of course, but I could build the perfect muscles for the martial arts like that, sadly I will have to let my body grow up a bit more, when I am 12 or something should be a good age to start doing it. It's a good way to abuse my abnormal body.
You thought I didn't notice my body is abnormal? Of course, I did. I never got sick, in the entirety of my new life, I didn't get sick not even once. I have some very abnormal recuperation speed, if my life was a game I could say that I have a higher stat in Stamina Regen, And muscles. Yeah you heard it right, a shitty 9 years old have muscles, I for a fact know that I shouldn't have muscles even when I am thinner due to the depressed phase that I exited not to long ago, but for some reason or the other you can see some muscles blooming on my body, nothing absurd just some outlines, but its enough to say that my body is at least abnormal. I've always thought that I've won the genetic lottery or something but after seeing that I have the [Sharingan] a lot of questions started popping up.
And while I can't practice any kind of martial arts I am sure I can do the less physically strenuous activities, and maybe even some minor body conditioning exercises like running. It would surely build a good foundation for the future, it is also very good for my health.
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