I had no talent as a sensor. As soon as I closed my eyes and tried to sense B, I was just left with a vague sense of chakra signatures in the room, but I couldn't single them out, it was just an amorphous blob. I probably have a small talent for sensory since I can sense chakra, but its nowhere near enough to be useful for the actual field. Maybe in the future, it will become useful. I doubt it though.
"Alright everyone, point to where you thing Brown B is?" The Patriarch says and I can hear the humor in his tone. He found this whole thing funny. While it was annoying, I couldn't blame him. I'm sure seeing a bunch of toddlers focusing their hardest is pretty entertaining, especially with how cute we are, especially me.
I have no clue on where the man might be, so I just pointed in a random direction I thought he would go. I pointed behind me towards the door that we had entered in from. I heard the others shift to the directions they believed he was at, I doubted they were right either.
A few seconds passed in anticipation before A spoke up " Okay, good job. Now point to where he is."
Again, I tried to feel for the mans presence but came up with nothing and just pointed in a random direction. This time towards where I remembered my father being at. Though I'm not even sure if that was even correct. A few seconds passed and A told us to point again. This time i just chose to point straight up, I didn't even feel like trying to sense the man. All I could feel was a slight amorphous blob of chakra. It would maybe be helpful in war-times, doubtful, but maybe. But now it was basically useless.
A few seconds passed before he spoke up again "Alright everyone, you all did fairly well. Surprisingly, there are more of you that are sensors than we expected. Congratulations, Pink and Yellow, It seems you all have a very rare gift. Yellow, you scored two out of three correct, while Pink got all three correct." He looked approvingly at the two girls and a small round of applause resounded through the room. "From now on you will be training regularly with D, she is the best sensor that our clan has."
He motioned for the only woman on stage sitting next to my father, her partner and brother. Although D was my aunt, and I had known her my whole life, I never knew she was a sensor. But it did make sense the more I thought about it, there were plenty of times I've tried to sneak up on her and she would notice me before I even entered the room. I was bound to never succeed.
"Yes" the two kids say in unison.
"Good, now we will move on to the last part of our little ceremony. Kekkei Genkai. Brown B I will leave it to you." A says before leaning back in his seat and watching with anticipation.
I noticed that most of the elders had that same look in their eyes, I knew Kekkei Genkai are rare and as far as I know there are only one that is native to the area besides the ones the Chinoike Clan had, who have been expelled from the region- and that is the storm release. It was found in our clan, and some others, occasionally but as far as I knew no one has had it in our clan for a few generations.
I wasn't particularly shocked by how wanting they were for a kekkei genkai, especially after knowing how the world works in a different timeline, it's basically a necessity to have something like a kekkei genkai or an all powerful forbidden jutsu to have any type of chance of being a major player in the world. And while I'm sure that our current patriarch is a monster in his own right, considering that his B has Kage strength and he is in charge instead of B. I'm not too sure if he can compete with the true monsters of the world, like Hashirama and Madara. Kekkei genkai were game changers, the ones who had them (at least the powerful ones) were the movers and shakers of the world.
But none of that matters truly, since I was gonna give them what they wanted. Matter of fact I was going to give them more than they bargained for.
While I was in my thoughts Brown B had appeared from somewhere and started explaining the history of Kekkei Genkai and the importance of it to our clans, all things we had learned already yet was necessary to repeat for ceremony purposes and in case the five years olds forgot. I had missed most of it and only was catching the tail end by the time I focused up.
"Discovering if someone has a kekkei genkai is a fairly simple process. It is something innate to you, while some will need to use a specific seal to have fine control of theirs it shouldn't be necessary to harness it. In the future should any of you have one we will figure out how you best harness your power, for now I want you all to close your eyes." I closed my eyes and waited for the rest of the instructions. "Good, now try to focus on your heart. There you should feel the a concentration of your chakra, that is because it is because like your blood your heart is what pumps chakra through the body."
I used all my focus to feel the chakra in my heart and as I focused in on it I noticed some chakra that was slightly different, at first it seemed like a small amount however the more I focused on it and followed the thread I realized that while the thread wasn't as big as my regular chakra it was much more dense in comparison.
"Now, you should notice quickly that you have two different strings of chakra. If you notice this I want you to try and bring that chakra forward, instead of the normal chakra. Bring it forward and release it. Do not worry about controlling it, just release the energy, I will take care of the rest."
I followed the man's instructions and brought the chakra to the forefront, replacing it with my normal chakra and began circulating it until it was following my chakra pathways like the other. After a few seconds of rotating I allowed the chakra to release from me. I did not direct it, just let it escape from anywhere it could. It didn't take more than a second to feel the charka seep through every pour in my body, I even tasted it as it exited my mouth. And even felt the weird sensation of gas coming out of my bum too. Every part of my body from head to toe was spewing chakra.
I heard a round of gasps and then a sudden joyful laugh from the patriarch. I opened my eyes to see what all the fuss was about. I quickly noticed the thick white mist that surrounded me and obscured my view. I moved my hands through the mist and it was wet and thick, as if I was moving my hand through a cloud.
I ignored my surroundings and focused on the mist, I could feel it. Something internally was telling me I could control this mist to my will with ease. These clouds were mine and I was their lord. So without hesitating I waved my hands before forcing the clouds to coalesce in my hands. I stared in fascination and joy as I watched the clouds rapidly flow and coalesce into a small compact ball in my outstretched hand. I could feel the chakra being sapped from me, I naturally had large reserves as a child but they had been pushed to their extremes just from releasing the clouds forming the ball had taken more than I was comfortable with.
So with a reluctant face I decided to stop funneling chakra into the ball, surprisingly it did not dissipate like I expected. Maybe my understanding of how jutsu worked needed to be reevaluated. Though to be fair most of my knowledge is from what I heard from the women of the village. I had little to no usable knowledge about how to use chakra. Sure, I had stuff from the anime but, seeing and doing are different.
Regardless, the ball stayed and I continued to look at it in fascination for who knows how long before I was pulled out of my amazement by Yellow "Whoa White, you have a Kekkei Genkai!! That's so cool!"
With Yellow's shout it seemed everyone in the room regained their reasoning as quickly the room erupted in noise from everyone speaking. But this was quickly calmed down with the raise of a hand from the Patriarch. As the silence pervaded the room I looked up to the man and caught him looking at me with pure joy in his eyes.
"It seems that you decided to show out today young white. Congratulations on your awakening, though your ability doesn't seem to be one we have ever seen. From the little bit we have seen, I am sure it will be incredibly powerful. From now on every morning everyday, for as long as I am in the clans compound you will be training with me. Is that understood?" The man says, his voice suddenly going stern as he spoke.
I immediately dropped to one knee as is custom and replied "Yes, Patriarch"
"Good, is that acceptable for you C? I know you mentioned having a training regimen for all the children planned, especially White here." The patriarch looks toward my father for confirmation.
My father nodded "I will have to work around it, but it is acceptable. I am sure my son will gain plenty from your training."
"Well you heard your father boy, I will be seeing you in my personal training ground. Be there as soon as the sun rises."
"Yes" I say, I was still kneeling so I didn't have to get back down for the decree.
The patriarch nods and begins addressing everyone else "As for the rest of you, you have all done incredibly well today. And for those of you that didn't present a special ability don't be discouraged. A special giftt is not what makes a great shinobi, what makes a great shinobi is someone who will never give up and always strives to improve. And this clan will do everything in its ability to make sure that happen. That is why you all will begin your training starting tomorrow. From Sunrise to Noon you will be undergoing group training with C and D and from there, I am sure your parents have designed training dedicated for you." He looks down at us as he declares.
I wasn't too surprised about us being trained together, when it was time for us to go out on missions we were more than likely going to be assigned to the same teams, for better or worse, and then a stronger ninja who would protect us. So us training together only makes sense, I do hope I am able to participate at least half the time. It's likely, since the patriarch is out most of the time, but he might stay longer to train me, I'm not too sure.
A continued to speak after a brief pause "And this is not just for the children, even you shinobi who have long since gone through your awakening, you will never reach the end. There is no end to the path of a shinobi, there is always room for improvement. Remember this on the days you feel lazy and tired. An extra hour of training or preparation will be the difference between life or death." he pauses again to let those words sink in and from the oppressive atmosphere that develops over the room, I'm sure it did. "With that being said, I will conclude this year's awakening ceremony. Again congratulations children, I know that your futures are bright. Dismissed" He waved his hand and before I could blink the room was empty as all the shinobi body-flickered out, going to their post that they had temporarily abandoned due to the ceremony.
The only people left in the room where us stunned children, Gold A, Brown B and the four of the six leaders. The Patriarch and B had gone somewhere I will never know.
My father walked up to me, kneeled down and gave me a hug. I was caught off guard originally but I accepted it with ease and hugged him back. He looked at me with pride in his eyes "You have done well son, I am so proud of you. But you cannot grow complacent, you're talented, and are special. And that will make you a target. Train hard with the patriarch, it is a profound opportunity."
"I will father, I will make sure to become the strongest shinobi in the world." I boldly declare to him. It would be a tall task and maybe even impossible, but I was going to try my hardest to achieve it. I don't care if I don't have the blood of Hogoromo in me or that I am not one of his reincarnated sons. I will reach the peak through my own efforts!
"And I will do everything in my power to see that you do." he encouraged
My father said a few more words to me before he stood up and addressed the other children. I looked around to see D already talking to her children Black and Grey, while Pink and Yellow and Purple were talking animatedly to the smiling Gold A and Brown B. Their parents were either weak shinobi or not shinobi at all so they weren't allowed in for this ceremony. But they didn't seem to mind since the heirs of the clan had made it a point to talk to them.
When my father stood up the conversations ended and they focused on him.
"As the patriarch said, D and I will be over your training for the foreseeable future. I will not say much for now but be at Training ground 3 by sunrise and do not be late. Tardiness shall be punished." he says in a commanding tone, all his fatherly love gone from before. Now he was C, the hardass of the elders. "You all should head home now and get some rest, I am sure you are tired. You have had a big day."
And like clockwork I felt a wave of fatigue wash over me and I could see the same happening to the others maybe less so. Just opening your chakra pathways was a trying task and to add on using the cloud release, I was beat. I had been running off pure adrenaline but that had all vanished from my fathers words.
I swayed on my feet a little from the exhaustion hitting me, before I could hit the ground I found myself lifted in the air. I looked down to see a pair of rough hands holding me and when I looked up I saw my fathers placid face as he led me. I smiled a little before leaning into his chest and going to sleep. This is a really good life.