Curse of the Uchiha Clan

Kisuke found himself in an isolated area of the Uchiha district. It was isolated because rarely did anyone ever come here and he knew that because he came here often, enjoying the isolation. He was the type of person who enjoyed spending most of his time alone and especially today, Kisuke needed some isolation.

The young Uchiha found himself seated in a tree not too high off of the ground, right off the main road that led to this tiny isolated forest. His hair messy and unkept, the white t-shirt under his black leather jacket dirty and stained with grime along with his black jeans. He sat there quite and motionless, peering into the tiny glass mirror he held in his right hand. Kisuke looked deep into the reflection of his yellow eyes, unmoving and unwavering as he attempted with all his power and might to change those yellow eyes into the red 3 tomoe sharingan. Anger flared across his face and sweat emerged from the pores of his forehead as he tried harder. But his eyes remained the same.

In a fit of anger Kisuke launched the mirror down to the ground. As it shattered into hundreds of tiny shards, the young Uchiha slowly began to weep a thin stream of tears. His sharingan was truly gone. At first he refused to believe the reality of it, as if it was a bad dream and eventually that dream would end and he would get his sharingan back. But at this very moment Kisuke realized he was not getting his sharingan back, and for the first time since his mothers passing he cried.

A flash back of the events that took place that unfortunate day suddenly popped back into his head, like a bolt of white lighting. Images of the maniacal white haired shinobi laughing, his gleaming glasses, the rod piercing through his shoulder, all of these thoughts seared through Kisuke's mind like a heated rod. Shuttering at the nightmarish thoughts that he could not relinquish from his mind, Kisuke hunched forward and crossed his arms across his chest, his left hand tightly gripped his right shoulder which was scarred from the events of that horrifying night. Huddled in a little bundle shivering, Kisuke sat up in his tree alone as he silently wept his little tears.

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The sun was shining brightly down on konoha, the wind moving the trees around about cheerfully, birds singing different songs from several places, children running about happily, couples having a romantic time together, a cat getting a rat in its claws but letting it go on seeing a fish that was dropped from a passerby,the cat ate it's fill, the rat escaped going back to its family of nine. .another day he had escaped death. In short everyone and everything be it the trees, birds, adults, children and animals were all cheerful today in konoha... Well all except kouse... Kouse uchiha. 

He sat on his bed in his room staring at his mirror, not blinking trying desperately to activate his sharingan... He knew it was futile, he knew it was hopeless but he tried anyway, he had deprived himself of countless hours of sleep, his mind working over time for nothing. 
It felt weird not having his old eyes, his new ones felt like foreign items implanted In his body, he almost felt like removing them and throwing them into the trash bin. 
His familiar Skipton tried to console him but he ignored her, even she couldn't help him sort out his troubles.. He just needed time to adjust, for his mind to accept the fact that his eyes from now on would only be useful for seeing. 
He walked out of his home, ignoring the greetings of his sisters, he didn't feel like having discussions with anyone right now, he wanted to be alone, he walked about without a destination.
He remembered how he had woken up in the hospital after Stein had taken his eyes and seen the smiling face of the nurse telling him he had no injuries or broken bones and that he was lucky... Lucky? He thought.. Break my arms and legs but don't take my eyes!. 
His frustration reached its peak and he had to punch something.. Anything. 
He punched a nearby tree with all his might not even noticing the blood on his knuckles nor the pain... That pain was nothing, nothing like what he had suffered in the forest that day. 
A gasp escaped his lips as his mind like it wanted to torture itself began replaying the events all over again, kouse had tried blocking them ever since but today it all came rushing in mixed with other things that had happened to him, making it worse, far worse. 
The voice as they laughed at him, saying he was too weak to save his family, the glasses as they stared at him watching him bleed out, the threads as they ruthlessly passed through him. 
Kouse couldn't take it anymore, slumping on the tree the memories kept on pouring in, mixed and tampered with by his mind. 
He slowly fell down on his knees with his shoulders slumped, his body shivering as he gave in to the effects all that had on his body.
Wanting to look at the skies, a futile attempt to try to get even an ounce of consolation he spotted a boy up in the tree, he noticed his body was shivering and he was crying. Kouse didn't care at first until he realised that it was the other ninja with him that day, and the one who had gone through that terrible experience with.
He hesitated for awhile, he didn't think it would be proper intruding, but if they were both experiencing the same thing, then it would be best if he spoke up, he didn't want to go insane after all. 
"hey there" he took a deep breath "it's been a horrible few days hasn't it?" 

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Still sobbing up in his tree with his arms huddled close together, Kisuke kept his eyes closed as he tried to repress the memories of that nightmare of a day. He was so focused on repressing them that he was completely unaware of all the activity going on around him. He was deaf to the rustling trees and the blowing wind around him, blind to the beautiful rays of sun shining down and illuminating his home village, and completely unaware of the fact that Kouse, his companion in this tragic turn out of events had arrived at the exact same location as him, probably for its isolation as well. It was not untill Kouse actually spoke that Kisuke became aware of his presence. Slowly, Kisuke would lift his head and slightly open his eye lids to look down at Kouse with pure rage and anger. A thin stream of tears trickled down from both sockets as Kisuke stared down at Kouse with pure rage.

But when Kisuke saw Kouse slouched and huddled over his knees in a fetal position, he remember that Kouse had gone through the same exact turn out of events and therefore did not deserve Kisuke's animosity. Rubbing the tears away from his eyes with his right forearm, Kisuke would mumble just loud enough for Kouse to hear "You bet your ass." Once the tears were gone, Kisuke reached into both of his jacket pockets and produced a box of cigarettes and his lucky square silver lighter. "I'll take a lucky guess and say your not handling this too well either." With still trembling hands, Kisuke would slide a white cigarette onto the edge of his lips and with cupped hands light the end of the cigarette.

The end of the cigarette would brightly burn red and orange as Kisuke took in a large inhale, burning away the tip of the cigarette. Concealing the lighter and cigarette box, Kisuke kept the cigarette dangling from his lips as he exhaled a large cloud of pale white smoke and asked "Want one? They help calm the nerves."

Pulling the cigarette out of his mouth with no longer trembling hands, he would remain silent for a few moments as he looked out over the village. Finally breaking the silence, he said "The Uchiha clan is cursed. Were born into a world where were hunted for our eyes and no one helps us. I didnt choose to be like this.... I didnt choose to be an Uchiha. This isnt fair... not fair. Fuck the Uchiha clan, man. I wish I was never born into this god forsaken clan." Sticking the cigarette back into his mouth, Kisuke would continue "What's the point of living if you always have to look over your shoulder or sleep with one eye open, always watching the shadows in fear of someone hunting you down for your eyes? What kind of life is that? And now look at us, our eyes were taken from us. What does that make us? Are we even still Uchihas?"

Kisuke letting it all out now as he hadent done it before because he had no one else to speak to and letting Kouse hear it was probably for the best since he may be feeling the same things and may understand. Kisuke kept quite for a moment as he inhaled from his cigarette, waiting to see what Kouse had to say. If nothing, he would continue letting off steam.

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Kouse waited to for kisukes reaction to his question but what happened wasn't what kouse had expected, kisuke looked down at him with a teary face filled with rage, rage he understood cause he felt the same way but at him? That was what confused kouse. 
But just moments later kouse noticed that expression quickly change. He watched as kisuke rubbed the tears out of his eyes. 
'you bet your ass' kouse slightly heard kisuke say, he smiled at this, he had being feeling the same thing, going through the same thing he had gone through For the past few days. 
Kouse felt relief at this, he had someone that he could speak with and someone who understood what he really felt, not those other people who when after they are told only feel pity for us. 
Kouse watched as kisuke took out a box of cigarettes and silver lighter. 
"well you guessed right kisuke" kouse would reply, as kisuke lighted his cigarette kouse would add "and wasn't it just a few months ago that we had first met? Both of us new genin, both of us aiming for our goals,both of us ambitious, both of us planning on being great ninjas someday, and both of us planning on helping each other out" kouse smiled sadly "now where are we, how closer are we to achieving all those things".
He watched as kisuke exhaled smoke. 
"yeah, sure.. I would really like one... Although this is the first time I'm going to take one.. This is a week of change for me" kouse would take the cigarette and lighter and quickly inhale deeply, coughing a little he would listen to kisuke speak his mind. 
At every word kisuke said, kouse felt himself getting more angry, he knew exactly what kisuke meant and felt, they were probably the only two people who could truly understand how they felt on this issue. 
"yeah our Clan is cursed, cursed and hunted down because of the power we are born with, as this are done to us time and time over again the whole world just turns their eyes away, like it was now a way of the world.. Like it wasn't any news no longer if an uchiha turns up dead with his eyes ripped out, it's so fucking painful. They all know we are targeted, but do we have special protection like we should? No we don't.. Anyone who simply wants a power up and is willing to kill for it can just stroll in here and do away with our heads and when the news goes out of that horrifying act what do you think the world would do? Go after said person and hunt them down? Try to keep uchiha's from that same fate too?.. No fucking way, they all turn their eyes away like nothing fucking happened and I can't say that I'm surprised because I'm pretty sure people with high ranks globally also desire the sharingan so why should they step in to stop the act?.. Hunting down an uchiha and acquiring the sharingan has become a kind of sport, a job, a requirement" kouse inhaled again on his cigarette breathing out a large amount of smoke "if this keeps up there Is nothing stopping the uchiha Clan going extinct, we were complete uchiha's, we made our families proud but now suddenly we are incomplete again and sadly we will definitely stay that way.. To the world we are just the latest uchiha's to get fucked"
Kouse would relax on the tree resting his back on it as he kept on smoking, deep in troubled thoughts. 

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Kisuke, as expected was right. Kouse too was not handling what had happened to him well, same as Kisuke. Kisuke's listened as he further explained how it was not too long ago that they met with full of ambition and goals. For a split second Kisuke though back to their first meeting, somewhere similar to this where Kisuke was up in a tree and Kouse was seated bellow. For that split second Kisuke was about to grin as it brought back a good memory, something Kisuke had not encountered for quite some time. But the realization of his situation instantly stomped down the doors and kicked back into his mind, plunging Kisuke back into his depressed state. When Kouse asked "now where are we?" Kisuke simply nodded. He too felt that he was now nothing, that he lost all of his ambitions, passion and drive to become a stronger, influential shinobi. It felt slightly good to know that someone else shared in his anguish, but that did not change the fact that Kisuke felt lost. Since the events of that dreadful day, Kisuke has not trained one bit. Not a single jutsu, genjutsu or even with his younger brother.

Kisuke was quite surprised to see Kouse accept his offer but none the less threw down the box of cigarettes and lighter. Kisuke did not ask for the lighter back however as he did not care about it anymore. He once considered it his lucky lighter, carrying it around with him every, always twirling it around his fingers and fumbling with it. Look at all the luck it had brought him. After his rant, Kisuke would continue smoking as he let Kouse vent, and listened to him in silence.

Kouse too agreed with Kisuke on the fact that their clan was cursed and also agreed on the fact the no one anywhere was doing anything to help save the Uchiha clan because they all wanted their eyes as well. As hard as it is to believe, Kouse's word were the truth. The sad reality of their situation was that they did not choose to be born Uchiha's but because they were born with this curse, everyone was out to take away their power. That thought however, got Kisuke thinking. Slipping the cigarette out of his mouth Kisuke would grunt "Your right Kouse. No one will help us because they all desperately want what we have. Some will stop at nothing to get it. But theres something thats been bothering me about what happened to us. That white haired man with the glasses, who attacked us, why did he replace our eyes with these ones after he stole our sharingans? Why didnt he just kill us afterwards or let us bleed out from our eyes wounds? Is this part of some sort of sick joke of his? To let us Uchiha's live without the one thing that makes us an Uchiha?" 

Kisuke remained silent for a few seconds as he put the cigarette back into his mouth and slowly took in a few puffs from it. "I've been asking myself that a lot since that day. To try to make sense of what happened to us. But I dont understand, it just doesnt make sense......"

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Kouse listened intently at what kisuke said.. He too had wondered why they were left alive and why didn't that white haired ninja just kill them off and take their eyes, was that him showing us mercy or like kisuke had just suggested, a sick game?. 
Kouse relaxed on the tree taking in some puffs on his cigarette, it was half finished now and he could feel the effects of it. 
"yeah, when you do think about it, it doesn't make sense doesn't it?, he had every chance to just kill us and rip out our eyes.. There was no need for him to replace our eyes with normal ones after taking the sharingan" kouse looked at his first ever cigarette "well it could mean anything, maybe he was showing us mercy or like you just said, it might just be a sick joke for him, wanting us to suffer shame in our respective families".
Kouse finished his cigarette and let it fall to the ground " it would be really difficult to figure out what goes on in a person like that's mind, he is half crazy if you ask me, but if it was mercy he showed us, well he can go and shove it somewhere, if he really wants to show mercy then don't take our eyes at all". 
Kouse looked up at kisuke on the tree, they have both been feeling the same way after their mutual experience and they were just lucky to have met when they did and they had succeeded in making each other feel better, even if that better was miniscule,but it was time to go. 
Kouse spoke up "well kisuke, it's been nice meeting you, yet again... I just hope we get through this, it's getting a little late and I have to be getting back home". 
Kouse would wait for kisukes reply and then if all was well he would slowly turn and walk towards his home turning back to wave at kisuke also not forgetting to take the lighter kisuke had refused to collect back. 
Kouse smiled as he walked on, he knew a life of smoking was awaiting him.. Just one cigarette and he was ready for a whole pack. 

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Flicking his middle finger across his thumb, Kisuke threw away the remanents of his cigarette as Kouse agreed on what he said about it not making sense that Stein had replaced their stolen eyes. Reaching back into his pockets, his right hand grabbed hold of his box of cigarettes but his left hand grabbed onto nothing. Kisuke was seconds away from freaking how when he realized that he had leant his lucky lighter to Kouse and hadent gotten it back. The Uchiha was about to ask for it back but stopped dead in his tracks. He slouched back onto the tree upon realising that he did not want the lighter any more. What he once considered to be his lucky lighter was now just a stupid metal box with lighter fluid to him. He would let Kouse keep the lighter, maybe it will bring him more luck in the future than it did Kisuke. Kisuke thought about it and realized how stupid he was for believing that a random object like that would ever have given him any sort of luck.

Now without a lighter and in need of another cigarette, Kisuke would pull out another cigarette but put it back in his pocket along with the cigarette box. Performing the half tiger seal, Kisuke released a thin stream of fire from his mouth as he activated Fire Stream. Taking the single cigarette out of his pocket, he would surgically place the end of it into the jutsus' path. Sucessfuly lighting the cigarette, Kisuke cancelled the jutsu and slipped the cigarette onto the edge of his lips. 

"What do we do now Kouse? Were Uchihas without sharingans." That was another question he had been asking himself a lot since that day and he was hoping that Kouse would be able to give his two cents as he had on everything to hopefully make Kisuke feel better. But it appeared Kouse had another plans. "I hope it gets better too, for the both of us. Alright man," Kisuke raised his right hand to just above his right eyebrow and with a flick of his wrist waved good bye "maybe I'll see you later."

Kisuke would watch as Kouse strolled down the street back to wherever he came from. Remaining slouched up in his tree, Kisuke did not depart as he wanted to continue enjoying his cigarette in isolation. The little talk he had with Kouse did make him feel slightly better as it gave him someone to talk to and also let him know that someone else out there was going through what he was going through. But he did not leave with Kouse as he wanted to continue enjoying his isolation. Taking several puffs from his cigarette, Kisuke would pull it out and examine in, as if he had never seen a cigarette before. Exhaling a large cloud of pale white smoke, Kisuke started saying to no one in particular "I need to get stronger. Much fucking stronger than I am now. I'm going to find the mother fucker who did this to us and when I do I'm going to make him pay." Slipping the cigarette back into his mouth Kisuke would continue "Im going to bring him to hell and back, make that son of a bitch wish he never stole our eyes. I'm going to make an example of him, show the world what happens when they steal sharingans. Once I'm strong enough, and I kill that fucker I'll have to liberate the Uchiha clan from this curse. No Uchiha deserves a life like this, no one." Kisuke gently placed his head backwards onto the trunk of the tree behind him and looked up at the passing clouds "I will free every Uchiha from this cursed life they've been born into."

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