The night was dark and cool the full moon lit the sleeping village of kumogakure like a single candle lightning a room the clouds no where to be seen in the sky the cool crisp wisp of the wind softly blew through the quiet dark city it was in this soft darkness that yoshiro slept uncomfortably rolling trapped in a nightmare filled with his hatred and the eternal battle he fought with his dark passenger his new pet komo who he had quickly bonded with lay along his side enjoying the warmth of the sleeping silver haired boy, As the wind softly blew the window left open by yoshiro the previous night let the gentle chilling wind playful flirted with his curtain romantically dancing causing the curtain to sway and flutter in the wind the moons glow propelling a ever changing shadow on the wall the smallest whispering of the curtains fabric and movement of her beloved master awoke Komomi.

The fox lovingly looked upon her distressed master as the boy rolled around his forehead covered in sweat his face showing discomfort and extreme pain his mumbles showing some insight into his dreams "No, I don't hate dad for what he did" he said in a some what messy half spoken mumble , Komo short for (Komomi as yoshiro often called her) intelligence was only matched by her cunning and love she showed for her master sensing and watching his distress she got up from the warmth of her masters side and approached her master her face a few feet from yoshiros "NO! im a good person you will never win" he go cried out echoing through the floor of his apartment building startling his concerned pet she back of from the noise from the silver haired boy troubled by the evil inside him komo hesitates for a second the places her snout against the boys frighten face and faintly licks him to wake him from his slumber.



*Hhhuuuhhhh* The boy springs upwards to a sitting position in his bed with a large gasp of air the demons of his nightmares still apparent in his head as the shadows on the wall snap the frightened boy into a defensive frame , with his left arm pointing towards the dancing shadows on the wall his sword kazumi appears with out a sheathe the long blade points towards the wall his swords blade bouncing the rooms light off it like a mirror "Who's there?" Yoshiro says in a somewhat panicked toned his grip firm around kazumi beads of sweat dripping from his forehead his eyes awakening and narrowing to the wall, moments pass with the boy facing his sword at nothing until his eyes adjusts.

Realizing they were just shadow "Oh its nothing" he says with a sigh of relief before he falls on his back letting his sword go,  kazumi disappearing before it hits the ground the boy looks at his roof he struggles to remember what had him so worried the dream fading with each passing second , while he was daydreaming komo shyly sneaked back to her masters side finding a spot to rest between his right arm and ribs placing her head against his pounding chest "Komo, sorry to worry you" the silver haired boy says to his best friend as he gives her a reassuring pat on the forehead in between the eyes, "Well im not gunna be able to sleep now girl what's say we go for a walk hey?" he says to his pet still brushing her hair in between his fingers.her eyes looking into his as the words were spoken the bond they spoke transcended language its almost as if he knew she spoke back "Anything you need".

After putting on a thick fur coat and walking out of the apartment yoshiro walked down the cold empty street his partner komo following directly behind him as he wondered the streets heading towards one of the many mountains in kumogakure he begins losing him self to his thoughts his dad suddenly popped into his head and the abuse he received as his father slowly descended into madness "No that won't happen to me" he tells him self  questioning his own sanity as a part of his dark side had recently surfaced in a bar fight pushing the darkness from his head he decided to clear his head with a jog running into the poor lit darkness ahead unsure where his feet would take him.

He ran for a few hours the time roughly 4.00am komo followed him closely with each step they eventually wound up atop one of the many mountain in kumogakure roughly 20-40km's north east of his house the mountain was empty and white the peak covered in snow and a cold with an uninviting dead forrest tracking to the top as both the silver haired boy and his fox tracked through the mountain top komo's ears poked up with that she rushed into the forest making a yapping howl her actions had not been seen before by the silver haired boy and decided to rush after her through the forest, as he chased after her through the dead forest the dim lit surrounding suddenly become darker  as the dead forest closed in on him the clawing of the sticks against his skin panicked the boy with flash backs of clawing out of a darkness from his earlier dreams, scared and alone his running became more panicked stumbling over his poorly placed steps towards the sounds of komomi.

Stumbling through the forest towards the yapping of his fox the sound getting louder and louder as the light began to return his surrounding the dense dead forest thinning he could see his pet beside a large flat boulder almost out of place in the middle of an opening of the dead forest ,unheard to yoshiro's ears komo being a fox having much better hearing is able to hear a strange wallowing whistle from underneath the bolder as the young boy approached his fox circled around the large flat boulder yapping at it "What's that girl" he said tracking through the snow getting closer to his pet as he looks over the large stone he noticed an opening in the center of the boulder "Curious" he thought noticing 4 sword shaped engrave figures around the hole.

While looking the over the stone he feels a strange presence like a small pulse of chakra, "Like this spot girl" he said with a smile looking at komo as she lay in front of the stone watching it like it was suddenly going to move the young genin looked over his pets puzzled face "Your a funny girl" He says with a grin before leaning back on the boulder to sit, the contact of yoshiro chakra on connection of the stone seamed to have activate some sort of trigger mechanism because on contact the stone slate begun to move sliding across the ground pushing the snow aside like a plow beginning to reveal stairs it must be some sort of passage he thought as the disturbing glow begins to shine from the ground the movement of the boulder cause the young boy to jump up and turn around "What's this" he thought looking over the glowing stair case suddenly his normally tame pet sprints down the stairs "KOMO!" he yelled wanting the pet to return while running down the stairs after her.

Training Fuuton C>A:

The closer yoshiro got to the light nearing the end of the staircase chasing his ginger furry friend the howling sound of wind hit yoshiro's ears entering the main haul "What is this place" the young boy thought to himself as he takes his first step into the room the first thing he notices is that even in the darkness of night the room was well lit being able to see most of the room parts still hidden in shadow as he steps into the room he notices massive smooth hand made stone tiles cold to the touch each tile roughly 6x4 Feet covering the floor the walls also made from stone but it appeared to be the actual mountain side stone.

The next thing he noticed was the sheer size of the place the wall directly in front of him over 70m away with a beam of light highlighting a door standing over 5 meters high and 4 meters wide looking out to the room their are large stone pillars stood upright some broken in half the others cracked and still standing scattered around the large ancient room some parts of the room more open than others with weird out of place beams of light shinning down on them as he scanned around the room looking for his pet the yapping bark she was making echoed through the haul.

As he spotted her he saw her standing in front large sheeted object barking at it the sheet was a purple velvet fabric the the sheeted object roughly same size as the door from across the room as he walked towards his fox still eye wondering around wondering what he stumbled on he felt an evil presence the closer he got to the sheeted object.

Shaking the presence of evil he walked towards his pet feeling comfort in her company "What's that girl" He says to komo approaching  her and the tall sheeted object his words stop her barking as she looks at the sheet, Yoshiro knows that komo wants to see what lies underneath "Okay lets take a look" he says dragging at the large heavy sheet as it falls it reveals a large old mirror, the mirror was large and oval shaped with a wooden carved framed it gave a pure vibe of evil.

As the silver hair boy looked into the mirror he could see his body reacted slightly different then what he did "Hello Yoshi" a dark voice says surrounding the room "Who said that!" the boy shouted his sword kazumi appears in his hand out of sheer reaction his head moving as his eyes scan around the room "Hey Dip Shit in here" The dark voice says again this time the voice comes directly from the mirror, As the boy looked into the mirror the reflection copied his every action before acting like their own person pointing directly at yoshiro "You know who i am don't you Yoshi" the dark voiced reflection said to the puzzled slightly panicked boy.

"Alright the mirrors talking to me i must be in some sort of genjutsu" The boy thought not saying anything looking into the reflection of him self the only thing different about his reflection in the mirror were the eyes the boys reflections were empty and soulless the eyes of a murderer on that thought yoshiros hands meet one another and form a seal in order to use the genjutsu dissipation technique taught in the ninja academy, looking back into the mirror After the technique it seamed his reflection returned to normal "Still here yoshi, I'm not going anywhere!".

Looking over his reflection the mirror person's hand suddenly jabs out of the mirror grabbing yoshiro by the neck throwing him to the ground as he steps from the large mirror, as komomi watches she go's to attack the reflection version of yoshiro (Dark) stares her down and with a dark evil tone yelling at her "SIT! KOMO" the fox sitting down cowering at Darks words as yoshiro lies on the floor surprised and startled at the sneak attack the reflection of him self starts attacking the dazed boy kicking him repeatedly with each stomp yelling the words "Who am I?" beating the boy on the ground before stopping to say "Think who calls you yoshi?" as the silver haired boy lies rolling in pain "Dad?" he replies in a questioning tone "Wrong! You can't tell me you don't know who I am I've been with you since dead ol daddy started lossing his mind"  Dark says looking over the boy before returning to his stomping him again.

After stomping the silver haired boy to the point he couldn't move the copy of yoshiro (dark) looked down on the boy rolling in pain he leans down over the boy "Im really insulted yoshi, You've had me with you this whole time and you don't know the name of your darkness" He says in a mad chuckle the insanity and anger heard in his tone as the silver hair boy lied on the ground scanning his thoughts, the words of his clone above him stirred panic deep inside him "The Darkness? No this can't be possible" yoshiro thought as he looked back into his reflection "What are you talking about" he said back to dark spitting blood on the floor this enraged dark he stood up and stomped yoshiro in the face "don't fuck with me, Who am I yoshi I swear to fucking god if you don't tell me ill kill the fox you know im capable of it" he said storming over to komo picking her up by the scruff she yelps as dark looks at the fox with evil intentions "Stop! KURO!" (Kuro translates to Black/Dark) the silver hair boy yelled in a suffering tone.

When the boy yells to save his pet his reflection kuro lets go of Komomi she scampers back over to the entrance of the old hidden room kuro then walks over to yoshiro everything about kuro apart from his appearance was different from yoshiro's his walk, his speech, his voice and mainly his eyes, as kuro looked over yoshiro on the floor "I knew you couldn't forget the person who protected you from that prick" he said with a smug demonic grin "Don't talk about dad that way" the silver haired boy replied trying to get himself up from the ground *THUD* "Stay down and ill talk about that Cunt anyway i want" kuro shouted with a kick sending the boy flying back to the ground shortly after in the same evil tone he had to begin with "I'm in control now!" the shouting echoed throughout the empty room.

(Occ : Yoshi is what his father use to call him before he got sick)

As the echo's of the made boy carried through the room he paces around yoshiro almost like a mad man mumbling under his breath his body movement's erratic in his confused madness yoshiro notice kazumi lying a few feet away from him as kuro paced around the injured genin he decided to fight back against his darkness and slowly started inching his way towards his sword as kuro still walking around talking to himself walking suddenly stop's his mumbling and pacing as his eyes lay upon kazumi the second yoshiro's hand grips around kazumi's handle "What the fuck do you think your doing Yoshi?" Kuro yells in a dark voice storming over to the battered and bruised silver haired boy stomping his foot into the hand holding the sword almost breaking his hand "How dare you touch my sword" kuro says shortly after his foot still grinding the boys hand into the ground looking over kazumi with lust.

It is now that the beating yoshiro had taken so far had caught up with him the room had begun to swirl and darken he could feel his body becoming feint and powerless, As the young silver hair boy lied on the ground he watched his sword he wonders if this is how his dark passenger will consume him as the rooms light slowly started to dwindle left alone with his thought's as his consciousness had left him his dark passenger kuro who appeared from the mirror was obviously had beat him enough to make the poor boy pass out.

"Where am I?" The young silver haired genin shouts into the cold empty shadows surrounding him walking one foot in front of the other looking for the light to return him home, It was funny yoshiro couldn't  remember how or why he was in this cold empty dark space but all he knew is he shouldn't have been there walking in a straight line through the shadows of his inner self "how did I get here?" he thought to himself trying to see anything to give him an idea of where he was the shadows pitch black without any light to aid his site he just kept walking hoping to find a sign of light. "Funny this place seams familiar" He thought to  himself the pitch black darkness surrounding him like a blanket bringing back the same feeling of being alone the he had when his father had lost his mind the memory's of his father piled into his brain like a movie the loving helping father he had becoming more abusive and mentally unsound as he aged he constantly threatened his sons life forcing him to fend his father of from savage attacks he couldn't quiet remember the fights when he try's to think over the fights all he could remember was the same smothering darkness that he found himself walking in.

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The young boy lay unconscious on the floor in the large empty space his mind had taken him deep into his subconscious the boy still stood wondering the blanketing darkness hoping to find a scrap of light to direct him back home as he walks through the darkness he begins questioning himself why he ended up here it felt like years had passed before he was able to remember how he winded up here "Kuro" he thought to himself "Is this where he's been living is this were I have kept him trapped because I can't deal with my own hatred no wonder why he hates me. Traveling through the darkness the loneliness and feeling of being alone in the smothering shadows as the boy slowly begun to understand how his hatred must feel he suddenly felt something unsettling with in himself anger and hatred for how his father turned on him like a rabid dog.

"Yes yoshi you finally have started to understand" Kuro's voice echo's through the empty darkness for the first time in what felt like years, the anger and hatred begun to stir the boys mentality he has never felt such emotions as kuro was made to deal with these feelings so he could be the loving happy boy that he was through his childhood, the more he began to accept and understand how kuro felt a beam of light in the distance had appeared each step he took to accepting kuro the closer he seamed to get to the light "Welcome yoshi" Kuro says in placid tone as yoshiro enters the light the blinding cause him to lose his vision till his eyes adjust.

Yoshiro had finally found the light within himself the basking warmth and brightness a unsettling feeling after being trapped in the cold shadows for so long his eyes then adjust to the light as he looks around the bright warm room he suddenly realizes he knows this place "This is my room" Yoshiro thought to himself looking around the room , he notices kuro sitting in the chair of his old desk the smooth pine floors the white concrete walls his bed rolled out on the floor and posters of various bands and ninjas plastered over the wall kuro swivels around on the desk chair sarcastically clapping "Yoshi you made it im suppressed I never thought you could accept me" the reflection of yoshiros evil speaks to him as the young boy takes in his old room.

Kuro seamed different from what he was like in the real world, his appearance was still the same but in this world his anger and hatred seamed to be suppressed his domineer had changed from evil to somewhat caring as he begun to talk yoshiro interjected "Kuro I understand the darkness now you don't have to be alone anymore" the boy leans back in the chair he was sitting in "What you think im scared of being alone?" he says before releasing a mad laugh "Kuro don't lie to me " the silver haired boy replies his words breaking the conversation the reflection jumping out of his chair with his black kazumi appearing in his hand "You think you know me, I BROUGHT YOU HERE TO TAKE OVER!" he yells as he swings his sword down on yoshiro.

The sword swung horizontally over head was quick and powerful as yoshiro watched the sword his right hand flicked and quickly moved to intercept the swing his sword kazumi meeting the black version of itself the power of kuros swing barely able to be blocked with his own "Well seams you have Your! Sword again" Kuro says on the interception before erupting in a flurry of attacks each being made with precision and power meet with a slower defensive swing from yoshiro "Im better than you yoshi, and soon the body will be mine" he says with an smug grin continuing with his relentless attack overwhelming the silver haired genin.

The fight felt like it lasted hours matching each others strength swinging their large swords in yoshiro's childhood room a small space indeed as the fight progressed yoshiro could feel the pain sorrow and hatred in kuro and almost felt sorry for the evil reflection of himself he had created this evil it was him that put his anger and hatred in the dark and this is what became of it it occurred during the fighting that kuro was his darkness and he had created him so for him to win he would have to accept that there was no kuro it was a lie he told himself so he could feel normal "Kuro I get it now" the silver haired boy says as he drops his sword the mirrored version of himself taking advantage with a might swing.

As the swing was in movement the young boy closed his eyes and in that moment hundreds of things went through the boys head his whole life flashed before his eye and suddenly remembered all the fights he had with his father all the evil and terrible thing he has done all flood into him as kuros kazumi impacted on the boys chest shattering on impact and returning to its original colours , his eyes open to see kuro standing in front of him speechless looking over yoshiro before dropping to his knees puzzled at what happened "Why you should be dead, your to weak to beat me you could never accept your darkness" Kuro says in a scared emotional tone as tears form around his eyes, yoshiro crouches in front of his madness his hatred "Thank you for being with me kuro but I don't need you anymore I can accept the my hatred now" the young boy replies in a gentle loving tone before grasping his reelections hands on contact the boy kuro shatters into a thousand pieces like a dropped glass.

While the boy lays unconscious on the floor his pet lovingly approaches as kuro disappeared shortly after yoshiro was knocked out as komomi reaches her master she begins to lick his cheek the injury he substantiated from the beating he received never happened as what komomi saw was her master talking to himself before he assaulted her, but still she lovingly licked at her master wanting him to awake as the boy opened his eyes her tail begun to wag as she could tell this was the kind hearted boy that she loved "Sorry Komo i must have scared you" the boy says awaking unaware of what komo saw before taking his pet in his arms cuddling her.

The genin and the fox lay on the floor cuddling each other as yoshiros eyes scanned the room "I guess that really did happen, good bye kuro" he thinks to himself as his eyes meet the mirror gazing upon himself, he stops cuddling his fox before rising looking directly into the mirror as he watches himself he notices his eyes look slightly different a little darker than they use to be before covering the mirror before leaving the bizzare structure he decides that he will call this place the "Howling hideaway" leaving feeling like a weight had been lifted of his shoulders the darkness that smothered his mind had been destroyed.

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