Without even being aware of his situation, Hotaru continues to wandering the sight he sees.

He might see the world in 3rd point of view, looking at the situation like a person sat on theater… however, each and every pain the ‘Hotaru’ feel…

Each and every skill ‘Hotaru’ learn that day, without the sight he lost, being transferred to himself, as I and ‘he’ were being connected.

Hotaru sees himself losing sight to his surrounding due to hatred, seeing how pained Teuchi look when viewing the ‘son’ he took care to always hid blood thirst whenever he sees either his missing hand or Ayame’s face…

Hiura dies after three months of fighting for his life after Orochimaru stole his eyes…

Erika still missing even after three years, and others like Naruto and Sasuke train with their prospective teacher…

Hayate dies in the assault, leaving him alone with Flynn that goes missing along with the orphans and Yugao…

Two years has spent since the day, Konoha wage war against the sound and sand village, leaving more and more ninja to head their death in the battlefield…

Out of his team, only he’s left in the group, leaving him to become an addition in every mission…

Now, Hotaru’s already a Jonin, with the war that happens, his contribution to the village is massive… he already creates many Jutsu that depend more on control with less chakra consumed…

This contribution of his, not only make him stronger, as he’s the best in chakra control out of all ninja in Konoha, not even Itachi can beat him in Chakra control…

However, that’s the only thing he can be proud off…

The enemy village has already marked him in their book, and the most disadvantage he had…

His low chakra which even lower than Might guy, make him quickly to be defeated by the pack of Ninja in the battlefield.

Each and every day he spent, more and more death counted.

In the 1st year, he took a step on the battlefield, many mocked him because of his low chakra output, that even a Genin can defeat him in…

However, in his 2nd year, he’d frighten even Orochimaru in his Jutsu development, his day in the battlefield being spent on the enemy to train his own chakra control.

He uses Trap, even the fuinjutsu and weapon mastery he learned from Tenten and her father.

Even being driven in the thought of revenge, he always looks to the front…

Also though he became less caring to his surrounding, his ability continues to improve.

Two years that he spent in the battlefield make his name known by many others village in the ninja world, and knowing the burst of Konoha’s power, others like the Cloud, Rock, Even Mist village became warier of Konoha…

It’s a blessing that 3rd and Danzo didn’t die in the assault that day. However, they’re severely injured so much, that Tsunade needed to be called in order to treat them.

That day, Naruto left with Jiraiya and came back after several months and bringing Tsunade back.

But…

He’s still too late, as Hiura already dead, by the time Tsunade come back.

Not only Hiura, but most of the Uchiha that being ‘plucked’ on the assault also had die…

Tsunade can only grief at the situation, and blame herself for being an idiot, making more death than necessary…

A month later, Sakura along Ino train with Tsunade in medic ninjutsu, while Sasuke and Itachi along with Shisui go with Danzo to search for Akatsuki.

Naruto already left to train with Jiraiya around the world, while the 3rd taking care of the base and make an undercover infiltration with Hotaru as its member and many more Anbu and Root Ninja to search for the whereabouts of Orochimaru…

The more day he spent, the deeper he dives to the world of vengeance…

Not long after, Naruto comes back with more power than he had before…

He has the sage power, along with an increase in ability. Unfortunately, his berserk state became more frequent, thus having Yamato, a wood ninja from the late Orochimaru research to control him…

While Hotaru being distracted by vengeance, by no means he got weaker. Instead, his ability increases by leap and bound…

However, at a particular time in the story…

Akatsuki, once again attacking the Konoha village…

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It’s been years since I see the ‘me’ that act unlike me…

The sadness Father and sister feel every time they see me and the scar they received…

I am, able to heal the injury…

Whether it’s father’s arm, that can be attached with a prosthetic, and the scar Ayame-nee, can be cured with an ability ‘I’ learned from some research at Orochimaru Laboratory they found along with Danzo in a mission long ago…

I mean, albeit we share the same experience and the same feeling, I am a different entity from the ‘me’ that move in front of me…

While I can understand what ‘I’ understand, the opposite can’t…

It feels like, what he learned is something I can do, but what I learn isn’t something he can’t do, but something he needs to study again.

His experience is mine but, mine isn’t his…

I guess I’ve felt this kind of thing too that day, the day I get a dream where Hayate fail us in the exam before our team gets together…

In that dream, after I’d become a ramen chef, following father’s step, and increase my ability in cooking…

In the dream, I’ve become a better cook than Father, but it’s not as compact as this one… however, the increase in my ability overnight is the fact I can’t refute…

Is there’s a connection with the person named Izana, Flynn-san called which awakened Hiura and Erika’s doujutsu?

Is this my ability?

Then, that dream, about war and rank in a regular nation army is…

I wonder…

All along, the dream I had, is something I get from a kind of premonition. Not something different like that one…

Is that one dream triggered my ability?

Knowing that even Hiura and Erika’s doujutsu awakened, despite their impurity in the bloodline….

But, there are not many precedences where impurity will make you unable to awaken the doujutsu…

The same could also be said to me…

From the dream I receive in the other world, I can feel Izana’s gaze towards me is hostile…

While he sees Hiura and Erika with nonchalance…

While ‘I’ being lost, years passed, and in the pinnacle of the war, Akatsuki suddenly launches their attack…

As such, many lives were lost, including me…

I spent many days in the darkness…

Usually, I’d be back to my body after my death…

And counting the date, it’s the same day as the day ‘me’ which is a ramen cook time stopped…

Let’s call this form of mine ‘soul form.’

In this soul form, I follow the ‘me’ at the same time lapse…

That’s why, while ‘I’ do some different thing, I can do many things myself…

Well, the chakra is lower than I have, but the ability ‘I’ learn after some months allow the regenerating chakra to increase 3 times than before,

What’s that mean?

It means I can use my thread jutsu continuously without thinking much about it…

Also, this is something I found strange while watching ‘me’, and doing my research…

I sometimes can half the need of chakra I used while using a jutsu…

Well, since this darkness means ‘I’ can do nothing, I still able to do anything…

You can take the darkness ‘I’ in, is a part of miscellaneous thing…

Truthfully speaking, we’re already 19 years old these days…

The time spent, however, feels like forever. The time he spent learning many things, gathering intelligence about many persons, even the fact that Haku and Zabuza that bear nothing in particular in the war, unknowingly became a power holder their self…

The witch of Ice…

That’s something else, even though he’s a guy, his androgynous appearance taking a breath from either gender. In the battlefield, he can dance while taking others life…

It’s sad, but, knowing the path Ninja tread, there’s no way we can stop killing each other. But, the fact I’m already in this darkness bear a prove that…

Something will soon, come…

And, after several weeks passed…

Light, come back to life…

In the dimly lit cave, there stood a person with a snake scale and white hair…