It was a day like any other, a certain honored individual of the Konoha Vilge woke early in the m as per usual a about their routine.

  Despite living in a rather expansive residence, servants rarely stepped ihey had done away with them. Only their family visited semi-regurly.

  But this particur day was marked by a new discovery for this tired and worn individual. A chakra signature that previously went by unnoticed got caught in their passive chakra sensing.

  It sparked curiosity and i, enough so that this individual employed their powerful sensory abilities fully for the first time in a long while, just so they could observe this signature iail, as if standing right o them.

  In truth, this was a direct result of Shiki’s Trikaya Trait.

  Not only did it bestow him with an unique chakra signature, it even gave it and him a hint of transdental power.

  This sort of aura would of course unknowingly attract others, sensory specialists, particurly the extremely strong ones would only feel this even more intehan normal people.

  So for such a powerful sensor, perhaps one of the best in the world, Shiki’s aura felt extremely pleasant. It had no hint of her evil nood, as if it was above such cepts, a rather intriguing and novel feeling.

  While previously, they had been worn down by unpleasant auras, this new one almost sed their tired spirit.

  Precisely because of this, when this new signature began flickering strangely, his body seemingly colpsed in the middle of the forest mid training, panid worry set in.

  It was like a precious treasure was on the verge of crag, directly provoking a thought of helping.

  And so, the noble personage called upon a trusted person to go find the boy and bring them into their residen order to try and help him.

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  As for what had happeo Shiki, it was his overflowing ability bined with his ck of teical uanding of jutsu resulting in a rather peculiar situation.

  While creating a teique solely based on the physical realm was straightforward enough even with nothing but a superficial knowledge of how things involving chakra worked and no actual info on the meisms behind them, trying the same in the spiritual realm was a bit hasty.

  Basically, Shiki tried developing a teique based on his ability to achieve meditative state, like an active meditation that increased focus aao genjutsu, at least that was the final goal.

  For the moment, achieving active meditation would be suffit for him. If successful, it could even bee a foundation for a way to absorb nature energy while moving for example. That was far beyond the horizon for the time being however.

  The e of his uneducated attempts was most curious, a rarely see, Shiki mao trap himself in a genjutsu of his owion.

  It was truly impressive, normally, affeg oneself with one’s owsu is difficult because it requires overriding one’s natural instincts.

  Normally, one would either break the genjutsu subsciously or simply instinctually stop it when it started affeg them.

  Shiki’s ability to enter deep meditation bined with his advanced chakra trol created a state of intense inner focus that he became pletely shut off from the outside world, crumpling to the ground like a puppet that had its strings suddenly cut.

  He himself didn't even realize his state and as such, could not set himself free. Perhaps even if he realized, he was too deep to break this sort of self cast genjutsu.

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  It was this state the esteemed personage sensed, a disturbance of chakra akin to being put under genjutsu despite the fact that no one even came close to Shiki worried them and so, a trusted servant was sent to retrieve him.

  Arriving at the site indicated to him, a middle aged shinobi with a gruff look, greying dark brown hair and surprisingly, no indication of any affiliation to Konoha, saw the sight of a young boy that appeared to sleep peacefully with tless leaves spread around him and on him.

  Approag closer, the man dropped to one knee and sed the boy with his trained senses, quickly disc a few anomalies.

  ‘The leaves on his body are stuck . . . The leaf stig exercise? But to make them stick even while unscious, quite a feat of instinctive trol, a reflex resulting from tinuous habitual training in the exercise.’

  The man drew his clusion nearly instantly, a sign of his extensive experieh shinobi life.

  Shaking Shiki slightly, probing for a respohe feedback was utterly ent.

  ‘The state he is in seems deep enough that regur pain probably won’t wake him. The situation is also peculiar enough that tried to break his state as if breaking a genjutsu might not be the best idea. I should bring him back like this.’ The man quickly decided.

  He could sehe state Shiki was in to be simir to genjutsu but his intuition from fag tless strasu over the course of his life warned him that trying to break it the usual way might not be a good idea.

  ing to this decision, the man picked Shiki’s small body up and carried him to the personage’s personal pound, his speed across Konoha’s rooftops making him unnoticeable to even most shinobi, not to mention the civilian popution.

  Rapidly arriving at the pound, there were no guards right outside, at least none visible and the middle aged shinobi, known as a servant of the noble personage would not be stopped either way so he casually entered, proceeding into the main building, slowing down and showing more deference as he approached.

  It was a rather majestic building, binier aer features, its most prevalent one being a tral building with a spiral staircase that allowed oo reach a terrace with a clear view of the Hokage Mountaihe faces of the current and past Hokages were carved.

  Reag a room his tral tower, the man respectfully announced his arrival and the pletion of his task.

  “Mito-sama, I’ve brought the boy as you requested, he seems to be trapped isu but the situation is someeculiar.” The maed from outside the room.

  A mature yet strong feminine voice sounded from the room's interior in response.

  “Bring the child in Tadao, then you may excuse yourself, you have done well in not rashly attempting to wake him.”

  “As you and Mito-sama.” The man, Tadao, responded, showing ion in his voice or expression though his mistress khe pride he took in his service to her, hehe praise she gave him, letting Tadao know his as were correct.

  He opehe door and carried Shiki in, it was a rather simple bedroom with little decoration beyond a spiral e like earpied a rge frame holding a green piece of tapestry depig a whirlpool symbol.

  The mark of Uzushio, oldest of Konoha’s allies and the vilge Uzumaki Mito, the owner of the residence, was born, in a time before the vilge where she now stood was even formed.

  Mito herself sat on a rge padded wooden chair by her rge bed, motioning Tadao to y Shiki on it.

  He did as she bade a as previously anded, leaving Mito aloh the boy, her iions wholly unimportant to him.

  “What a beautiful child.” Mito ented in passing as she focused her sensory ability, the Mind’s Eye of The Kagura, a signature jutsu only a few Uzumaki could master, onto the boy in her bed to iigate his dition further.

  The results however, came as quite a surprise.

  With her extensive sensory abilities, Mito could tell alot about a person when fog on them, especially at such a cle.

  Thus, she could detect a multitude of peculiarities within Shiki, besides his current dition.

  ‘How intriguing . . .’ Mito thought to herself.

  ‘But first things first.’ The most important thing was to help the boy, unveiling his mysteries could be left for ter.

  She quite looked forward to it and it had been quite a while since she had looked forward to something to such a degree.

  There was a certain quality to the boy Mito could not quite expin, not clearly anyway. It art of what drew her curiosity when she happeo sense him during Shiki’s training.

  Now she examined him from close up, the iy of this quality was increased and it seemed more obvious but prehension of it only seemed to drift further and further away the deeper she tried to look.

  Uanding Shiki was being Uzumaki Mito’s first real challenge in a long while that she was motivated to clear.

  Such matters however, were for after the issue at hand was first resolved.

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