what will become of this place? o.o

The Hyena was walking back to his house and after a while realized he was subconsciously making himself walk past all of the places where guards were typically stationed. Weird. He could not help but notice he had ended up significantly out of his way, and just as weird, there were fewer guards than normal. He did not remember any village massacres, perhaps some of them were ill, or some of them were away on missions, possibly missing in action. Other possibilities sprang to mind as well, there could be a massive defection, there was the possibility of a secret war being fought, in the sewers, they might be asleep, or they had left to follow the Hokage wherever he had disappeared too. It was strange that the Hokage was not there still when he had looked the previous day.

What to do…? He sat himself down on a park bench and began working on training a jutsu while he had a bit of a wait for his subconscious to come up with any ideas. He had earlier been training the power and distance aspects of his new hair related jutsu. This time he would try for the control aspect, to make sure he could do the finer motions he might need sometimes…. At this point, growing a long lock of hair that he could see, was essentially as close to child’s play or what ever the term or slang was now a days, as you could get, for him, it was really quite easy, to put it simply. When he had grown about 2 feet of extra hair in several strands, he began trying to feel them out, without looking, with his normal OR the Byakugan enhanced vision. Gaining a sense of their positioning, he began manipulating the hair, weaving a complex tapestry using the hair, forming a large net of sorts. When he put his hand out to test it it felt reasonably sturdy. Gazing upon it revealed a finely woven mesh that could stop kunai in their tracks, provided they were not thrown. Cool. He grew the net out further, to a safe distance, and had to duck when the rock he threw at the net bounced back at him, narrowly avoiding getting grazed. He carefully undid what was quite literally a hair net, avoiding letting any of his hairs touch each other, and then had an epiphany of sorts.

Satisfied with his progress on the jutsu, his thoughts began turning back towards the thoughts that had preoccupied his mind previously. The village seemed to be low on military power at the moment, and it was quite frankly rare for the Hyena to see any of the ninjas around now. Few seemed to do much for any long period of time. If the village was ever attacked, they would be in trouble, as there did not appear to be any strong ninjas remaining in the village anymore who were not retired or the equivalent. The dank rotten core had not only infested the Hyuuga clan but also the rest of the village too it seemed, for the most part. His worries kept on piling up. If the Hokage was missing, and the Anbu appeared to be literally non-existent, instead of the hidden force that merely PRETENDED to be non existent, then there was nobody running the administration either! What could he do?!? He wished he could do more to help the village but he was by himself and he could hardly count himself as a one man army considering he did not even have usable clones yet.

Wait, that was it! Civilians could do administration with some level of competency, but, defense of the village could only be left to an army. If the village had not enough troops, then the village had to be defended by others. He hated the idea of having to trust others but, frankly, he did not feel there was a lot of choice. He would have to find a lot of troops and fast, before trouble started, and if he was lucky, they would be there for nothing, he doubted a capable leader was likely to rise up from within the village itself.

Clones… it seemed the ninja world revolved around them, illusionary ones being as wide spread in usage as the solid ones, he had even heard tell of clones that were made of solid flesh and blood, which did not disappear even when killed. Interesting. Perhaps he could get his own later. Frankly, if tactical geniuses like the fabled Hatake Kakashi, one of the old Hokages, and NAruto Uzumaki, the following Hokage and a well known knuckle head, could BOTH find good uses for clones, then he should be able to as well. Speaking of which… He did not think he had ever really learned the Shadow Clone jutsu properly. He stood, and began weaving hand seals. The jutsu appeared to be an alteration of the normal Clone jutsu, just with additional chakra. Not sure why the hand seals had to be different though.

The Hyena resumed his walk, he had no time to go back home yet. He had a plan now, involving mercenaries, and he would be damned if anyone stopped him without good reason. If he returned and the Hokage or at least a lot of Anbu had too then he would take responsibility for any damage, the cost, and so on. He hated to say it, but as he walked down the road again, he realized the village had started to grow on him and he now was beginning to fervently wish to protect his friends, and their psyches. He needed clones for administrative work though. He managed to form a bunch of clones, of varying solidness, but unfortunately none of them possessed the capability to perform jutsu that the real thing was supposed to be able to do. He was improving, at least they were solid not unlike when he had been trying to make them while training with Kaito.

(ttl wc: 1006
claiming +5 stats
377 words towards learning the Raging Lion's Mane
629 towards learning the Shadow Clones

also a rather drastic change of ic thinking again)