[Chapter Size: 2000 Words.]
Third Person POV
Cintra, northern kingdoms.
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For the first time in this life, Madara finally devoted himself to studies, Mousesack kept teaching them until the end of the morning, but nobody went out for lunch, with the servants bringing their meal with permission from the royal guard. Calanthe, as much as she liked to have lunch with her granddaughter, did not force her to come to the royal table, since she also wanted Cirilla to dedicate herself to her studies, so she sent a servant to bring the food.
While studying, Cirilla did not study the same things as Madara, after all, she did not need to learn the basics of the Northern language, so Mousesack made sure she learned other more important things, such as the politics of the Kingdom and other issues that were directed to her education as a princess.
Madara had Mousesack's assistance in literacy in the language while starting with basic words. Being a child, he knew he would quickly master the language, especially with the use of the Sharingan, 'I believe in one month I could master everything...' He thought. But he would not let himself be limited to just the Northern language, after all, he had a great opportunity to learn a lot about the knowledge of this world with the scholar, being an education that he would not find anywhere else.
Even with the afternoon coming, they remained studying, but Cirilla as always, occasionally stopped reading her texts with Mousesack writing something in his book, asking some things to Madara, curious, but nothing related to studies, but rather about the combat he had.
"Hey, where did you learn to fight that way? Did you have a master? Could he come here too?" she asked, excited.
Madara looked at her and sighed. "Hard to say..." He casually replied.
"Because... I will talk to my grandmother! She will surely let him train me! I can fight just like you, I would be even stronger than grandma!" She said.
Mousesack stopped writing to look at the girl insisting on her questions to the boy, while he tried to concentrate on his book.
"You have a big problem on your hands, boy," Mousesack smiled, while Cirilla seemed oblivious asking more questions.
"I have never seen anyone fighting like that... We will make a duo, I have decided!" She exclaimed with determination.
They continued like this, but studying until it got so late that Cirilla's servant knocked on the door, saying it was time for her to return to her room.
"I have to go, goodbye Madara, goodbye uncle Mousesack!," she said goodbye as she left the place, leaving Madara and Mousesack alone.
"Well, boy, we'll finish here for today. Tomorrow I will be with the queen, but keep the books to study on your own, I will inform a servant when we have our next class." Mousesack said, but had not yet finished. "What will you do tonight?" he asked, wanting to know the boy's plans after the meeting they had with the royal guards.
"I will start investigating. You want me to find out all the gang hideouts and I will do this by looking for some evidence." Madara spoke as he started to leave the place with the books.
He returned to his room, already knowing a bit of the path he had taken in the castle, and opened it while starting to search his room, since he would act tonight. After organizing and wearing clothes where he could carry an adequate amount of kunais, along with his sword, he left the place, trying to keep his presence hidden while running through the castle corridors upside down past numerous guards and servants.
As soon as Madara made his way out of the castle and did not go through the gate, he started jumping over the wall undetected. Meanwhile, in the city, the night had already covered the whole place. His goal was very clear tonight: to investigate the gang on the West side, while passing through the North, he would leave the Northern gang for later.
He started jumping across the city until he entered the area with the gang he did not know well, but they seemed to operate like Greg's old gang, a bunch of fools who thought they ruled this part of the city by bribing some guards, although that was not the case these days, due to the investigation of the missing children conducted by the crown.
Madara began searching for gang members by going into the alleys while encountering some avoiding the city patrols, he did not act against them, seeing them only bribing one here and there while gathering in groups asking for information, there were some posters of Madara in their hands, those that had been removed some time ago, since Madara had already spoken with the crown's mage and the gangs seemed cautious of that child-monster due to eliminating two other gangs from the city.
He just followed their movements as the night went on, he saw them entering their hidden bases. 'So let's mark these places...' Madara thought to himself as he began to mark on a map he got from Mousesack, crossing off all the reference points in the city. He investigated at least 15 of their bases tonight, observing entry and exit movements, when he saw that their movement became less, he decided to return to the castle, a bit before the sun started to rise in the east.
Returning to his room the same way he left, while running through the walls like a shadow and landing in front of his door, he went to his bed to rest a bit, that is until the door knocked and he woke up with a royal guard looking at him cautiously.
"The queen wants your presence in the throne room." He said and although surprised, he nodded and put on more common clothes.
As they walked, the royal guard could not help but comment as they passed servants and other guards. "I was in the courtyard yesterday, if my squire could do a tenth of what you did yesterday, I would be a proud knight." The man commented.
"Don't be so disappointed, I can do things that no one else can..." Madara responded with some arrogance.
"You are full of yourself, but I can't blame you, some of my colleagues think you are a vampire." He said, though he didn't know the difference between the vampires that the witchers know.
"No, I am an Uchiha." Madara responded.
"Uchiha? I don't know what that means, but if Lord Mousesack says you are trustworthy, I will believe it, however, if you try anything against the royal family, you will feel my blade." He spoke without looking at Madara.
Despite the threat, Madara did not respond or feel intimidated, he could even understand the man's caution with an unknown boy who has superhuman abilities so close to those he swore to protect, so he did not mind.
"Well, here we are..." The royal guard went to the entrance of the throne room with another 2 royal guards, as guards of the place, looking at Madara with curiosity.
The queen had not yet started the day's audiences, so the place was empty while a guard opened the door, Madara entered finding Queen Calanthe seated in the main chair with Mousesack standing by her side, the man who always accompanied her was not there this time.
"Queen Calanthe." He spoke, moving just his head as a greeting.
Despite the woman not liking that kind of etiquette, she did not say much. "Glad you came, Mousesack said you are adapting well to the castle..." She spoke before continuing. "Just that I think you have to be more careful, I know of your strange ability to run through walls, but I heard the news from some servants seeing a shadow moving through the walls, now they are saying that the castle has a ghost." She spoke in a stern tone.
"I will try to be more careful." Madara responded, after all, he acted in haste to leave the castle.
"Anyway..." She resumed with a voice even with a tone of pride. "A message arrived from the south, Lord Hugkil wrote to me that a certain boy with red eyes had saved him and his heir from certain death against that monster you killed. And I am quite surprised by this, after all, I did not know you had saved a noble in the south." She spoke.
"He also informed that you are a great friend of the family and that the doors of his estate will always be open to you. You did not seem to boast about this at any moment, which made me even more confused, just like my mage." She said, imagining that anyone else would be telling the whole world about their heroic deed.
"I'm not one to enjoy being the center of attention, my queen," Madara replied. "It happened by chance. I just found them while I was trying to hunt a monster, and saved what I could, besides, I was well rewarded for it." He concluded.
The queen heard this, raising an eyebrow but not failing to crack a small smile. "Humble... Maybe you were right about the boy...." She murmured looking at Mousesack, who also smiled. Then turning her attention back to the boy.
"Anyway, the crown should thank you, since you represented us on this mission and you gained support in the name of the powerful. So, I would like you to continue like this," she said, while Madara nodded, although he didn't like being summoned just for this, he had to understand that this was how things worked in this world.
"Now you may go, as I will begin my audiences with the nobles and subjects at this time." She said and Madara nodded, returning to the entrance and leaving the room.
He returned to his room while people gossiped about him and pointed as they saw him walking through the castle, since the actions of yesterday fighting against the Lord Commander had spread throughout the castle.
Picking up his book that Mousesack lent him, Madara began to study the language's letters with the Sharingan. That was until his door was knocked on late in the morning. Madara sighed and with his Sharingan, he could see who was there.
"What are you doing here?" Madara opened the door and found a hooded child dressed as a servant.
"Shhh!!" She asked him not to speak while entering his room uninvited. "Your room is so small..." She murmured looking around, until she saw his weapons. "Are these your weapons?! They look so cool!"
She exclaimed approaching a set of Kunais, but Madara stopped her. "You should not touch these, it's dangerous for you and you didn't answer my question." He said with a tone of dissatisfaction.
Pouting, she said, "I escaped from sewing lessons and came here to see what you are doing. I thought you would be training." She said looking around the room.
"My property is not just for fighting, now I am studying," he spoke with a tone of tiredness.
"But that's so boring," she complained, and he shrugged.
"Yes, now you should go back," he replied, making the girl cross her arms.
"No. Anyway, I'm going to stay here," she said sitting in his chair.
Madara looked at her. "Get up, this is not appropriate for a princess," he spoke seriously.
"Call me Ciri. And no, we're friends, aren't we? So I'm going to stay here," she stubbornly said.
Madara sighed. "I can't call you that, even if I wanted to," he spoke seriously and rationally. "But the issue of you being in a stranger's room, is out of the question. You must leave here before your grandmother kicks me out of the castle," Madara murmured.
"No, I'm not leaving here," she spoke stubbornly, like a spoiled child.
'Is this child so obsessed with me or something?' He murmured internally, "Fine, I'm leaving, if you'll be following me, let it be in a public place..." He said, grabbing his book and starting to leave with Cirilla following him.