Forming one single water clone, Aethir smiled to it as it tilted his head to him. "I...know this might be a bit weird..." Aethir's clone nodded with a perplexed look on his face, "But I need you to come at me as if I were the enemy." The clone nodded, sprinting towards the boy, Aethir panicking before he was punched in the face. "N-NOT YET!! AH!! ...I-I wasn't ready!!" The clone blinked rapidly, bowing to apologize multiple times. Aethir smiled, saying that they should take a break, bot simply treating the sucker punch received from the clone...

As Aethir was now back on his feet, he nodded to the clone with a serious look on his face. The clone nodded back with the same look, charging forward towards the boy. 'Okay...Don't think about what you'll do...' the boy nodded again as he saw the clone hope into the air, 'Just try to see what's coming...Instead of knowing...' As the clone readied his fist to be launched towards Aethir, the boy prepared to block the punch. However, the clone quickly transitioned to a kick, catching the boy off guard as he was sent back a few meters. The clone checked if the boy was okay, Aethir nodding and telling it to don't worry about him. "I...I promise, if it becomes too much to handle, I'll tell you." The clone then complained about how he was looking for a simple exercise earlier. "Y-Yeah, I know! ...But," Aethir stood up, smiling to himself, "But I might as well try to keep my skills polished too, right~?" The clone stared at Aethir with a worried look, soon asking once more if he should keep up with this 'attack as if I were the enemy' plan. "Of course...!" Aethir sighed, then took a deep breath, standing tall, "The enemy won't show mercy." The other Aethir nodded to the prime Aethir, stating he'll go all out this time. "Thank you...O-Oh! Just don't kill me though!!" the cloned blinked, then smiled, darting towards the boy.

Aethir narrowed his eyes, watching as the first came rocketing towards him. He raised a hand to slap the fist away as he threw his own punch to the clone, the clone flying back a few meters to the land behind him. "S-Sorry, I-" the clone cut Aethir off, repeating what he said about the enemy not showing mercy, "R-Right...You're right. Again!" The clone darted off to the boy again as Aethir readied a physical attack. However, the clone hopped up, dodging the attack, only to use the water trumpet technique. This caught Aethir off guard as the boy was pushed back towards the nearby river. "W-Whoa! Hold on!!" Aethir said, trying to balance his chakra in the feet area so he could maintain afloat. The clone didn't listen, charging to the boy with punches and kicks. Aethir grunted and groaned as the waves under his feet changed, his chakra having to be constantly focused in this and that manner, eventually the boy losing his footing and being kneed in the face.

"Ngh...!" Aethir groaned as his nose began to bleed, the clone roundhouse kicked the boy back to land.  Lying on land, Aethir coughed while slowly rising from where he was. 'O-Okay...I was looking for a little work out, b-but...This is...' The boy gasped as he saw a pair of feet stop in front of him, looking up to a concerned looking clone. It asked if Aethir was alright, the boy nodding as he rolled to his back. "I-I'm okay..." the clone suggested that they took a break before dissolving into water. As the water slowly pooled close and around Aethir's body, the boy stared up to the forest trees, thinking he heard voices around him. "No...! You're blocking is terrible...!!" Aethir groaned, shaking his head, listening to the voices become increasingly louder.


"Damn it, Aethir, block like a man!!" a small boy, Aethir, had his bloody arms up, sobbing as another boy continued to punch multiple times at the bruised limbs. "How else can I get stronger if you're just being a push over punching bag?! YOU'RE PISSING ME OFF!!" With one great hit, Aethir went flying back, landing on the ground. Aethir panted, tears rolling down his face as his eyes were closed. He was then gripped by the shirt collar fiercely, the boy who was punching at his arms glaring at him. Aethir was making odd vocal sounds, the boy staring at the heavily breathing boy. "I...I can't do this anymore...!" he cried, the boy narrowed his eyes as he tightened his grip, "I can't...feel my arms...!!"  "Tch...You keep up that weak attitude, you'll die in a second!!" The boy grunted, being thrown by the other boy. Aethir sobbed on the ground, soon being kicked and punched by the boy, who stopped only to laugh. "Yeah...Yeah! This'll work! Just keep cowering like that and let me hit on ya'!!"

Aethir breathed heavily as the hitting finally stopped. He opened his eyes to see a tall boy with his eyes closed, staring at the two. "And might I ask what you're doing beating up on him?" Aethir knew this voice, slowly opening his eyes to see his blind brother. "Yeah. Okay. I'm beating up on him because I can. What the hell's a blind boy gonna do, huh?" As the boy was walking away from Aethir, he threw a punch at the blind boy, who easily stepped out of the way. "What...?!" the blind boy smiled, delivering one swift hit to the boy, causing him to fall to the ground.

With the boy knocked out on the ground, Aethir stared as he was approached by the blind kid. "Aethir," he knelt down, the boy looking up at him, "How about...I teach you a thing or two about Taijutsu...?" Aethir stared for a moment before tilting his head. "Tai...jutsu...?" The older blind boy smiled to the smaller Aethir, who wiped his tears away while staring at his brother.

Aethir sighed while lying on the ground, noticing the small bits of light peering through the trees above began to make themselves scarce. "Enough joking around," Aethir sighed, rubbing his eyes due to feeling tired, "I've got to find a way out of here before the sun falls... No clue what kind of wild animals roam around Konoha at night..." It was here that Aethir's stomach began to roar, the boy groaned while sitting up. His stomach was empty from all of this sparring, Aethir taking a deep breath while looking around.

Eventually, the boy looked up, seeing bananas with red splotches. "Whoa!!" the boy sat up, smiling wide at the odd looking fruit. Quickly running up the tree while focusing his chakra into his feet, Aethir eventually hung onto the tree branch, picking two bananas. He peeled them both, eating away at them with a carefree attitude, soon dropping those bananas. 'W- ...H-Hold on...Something's...' Aethir panted, his heart beating and thumping hard in his chest. 'W-What's...haffini...talvan...nehado...?' Even when speaking mentally to himself, Aethir couldn't form a single sentence. Eventually, his arms went limp, the boy falling to the ground. To him, it felt like hours of him falling when it has only been a few seconds. When the boy made contact with the ground, the ground itself felt like jello, the ground rippling to his touch. As this was going on, what was really happening was the boy had been lying on the ground the whole time, bleeding slightly from the impact of the fall. He was knocked out, the effects of the fruit taking it's course.


Darkness was around the boy as he rose from the ground. He opened his eyes wide, blinking rapidly as he saw nothing but his arms and hands pressing against the black ground. "Where...?" the boy groaned, shaking his head slowly, "Where the hell...?" The boy slowly stretched, his bones cracking as he did. Soon, he noticed another person from within the darkness, a tall boy with his eyes shut while facing him. "N-No way..."  "Aethir...How goes it?"

Blinking once, Aethir saw that he was in some odd place...No, it wasn't odd...In fact, he's been here before! It was the place where he was just fighting his clone a moment ago! "Aethir," the boy turned to see his blind brother, looking as young as ever, "Does it bother you?" Aethir blinked, a little confused by his question. "Does it bother you that I can do something you can't...?"  "A little-" Aethir spoke, but then turned suddenly, thinking he heard the voice of a child speak the same words he did.

"What's...What's going on-" Aethir froze, seeing his brother assume his usual combat position. "Well in that case, I'll let you taste victory." Aethir blinked, slowly shaking his head. "Victory which you achieve on your own. By yourself." Aethir backed away from his brother as a smile crept onto his face. "It tastes like strawberries..." Aethir turned again, hearing that same child voice for sure. "Prepare yourself." the boy turned forward, readying himself for combat.

"I don't want to fight-" the blind boy sprinted forward, delivering a swift jab, catching Aethir off guard. "If you're thinking of desertion, I'll be gladly to change your mind."  "D-Desert- What?!" The brother ran towards Aethir, the boy quickly flipping forward, only to skip away from the boy's kick. Aethir continued to try and convince his brother from attacking, but he appeared to not have been listening. Dodging each attack without thinking much into it, Aethir finally delivered a counterattack, the blind boy easily weaving out of the way. "Stay quick, Aethir," the boy slowly turned to his left, a fist quickly approaching his face. As the punch caused him to fall to the ground, the brother continued to smile. "Why...?" Aethir asked, putting a hand to his face, staring at his brother. This caused him to frown while shaking his head. "Didn't I say I'd teach you a think or two about Taijutsu...?" As Aethir began to stand up, the blind boy skipped away from him.

"Again. Or are you giving up again?" the blind boy teased Aethir as the boy stared at him. When the blind boy sprinted forward to Aethir, the boy smiled, putting his hands to his mouth as if playing a trumpet. "What's this...?!" Aethir smiled to the perplexed look of his brother as he shouted the water trumpet technique's name. Out came a blast of water, forcing the boy back. The blind brother was now lying on the ground, drenched in water. He grunted, soon standing with a smile. "Can't say I was expecting that..." Aethir laughed at his brother, soon gasping as he saw him sprint away. "H-Hey! Wait!!" Aethir said, running after his blind brother. He always wondered how he was able to see, so he had to ask here and now... "How do you know where you're going?!" The boy cried out to his brother, the brother stopping to turn to Aethir with a smile. "Haven't I told you...?" Aethir heard his brother speak, soon pointing at his closed eyes, "I can see with my other eyes..."

As the boy saw his brother sprint away, he cried out to him, he soon began to give chase. However, something caused him to lose his footing, the boy looking down to see the ground...very far away. "I haven't gone anywhere, actually," Aethir gasped, slowly turning around, focusing chakra into his feat so he doesn't fall off the tall swaying tree, "But in all actuality, it is you who has gone off somewhere. Where have you gone...?"  "W-What do you mean? I'm right in front of you!!" The blind brother looked to his side, soon taking off, hopping from tree limb to tree limb. Aethir soon gave chase, calling out to him to stop so they could finally talk. Eventually, he hopped down from the limb, running down the bass of the tree, towards the ground. "Ah, hold on...!!" Aethir groaned, following his brother blindly. "Wait...!! Stop!!" Aethir gasped, slowing down as he heard that child like voice again.

Eyes wide opened, Aethir saw a large spider on the tree, leaping towards him. "Ah!! W-What?!" The boy hopped off the tree, flipping towards the ground. He panted, turning and looking around for his brother, eventually turning back to see the large spider creep towards him. "Where'd he go...?" Aethir checked around himself one more time before focusing on the spider. The spider screeched as it leaped towards Aethir again, the boy jumping high into the high while clenching his right fist. As the spider slowly began to look up to the boy, Aethir soon began to spiral downwards, smashing his fist into the spider's skull. Screeching once before retreating to the tree again, the spider slowly blended in, awaiting other enemy prey to walk on it's tree.
The boy stared at the spider for a moment, soon losing track of it's body on the tree bark. He looked up to see golden rays from the sun, causing the boy to sigh. Slowly looking around himself once again, Aethir couldn't see a trace of his blind brother, the boy simply sighing. "I don't get it..." the boy shook his head, beginning to walk through the nearly pitch black forest. As he did, his shoe sunk into the grassy ground, causing him to gasp. "What is this...?!" he gasped, closing his eyes as he tried to pull his leg out the ground. As he did, he stared wide eyed at...the brighter ground he was standing on. "What the-" Aethir was cut off by something slamming into his back, causing him to roll forward a bit before stopping finally. He looked with wide eyes to see a roaring gorilla before him, pounding it's chest. "Y-You again...?!" the boy shook his head, standing up as the gorilla charged at him. Pointing his fingers, Aethir began to fire rounds of his shock bullets at the gorilla, the animal swatting at the bullets as it did earlier. He then began to charge his palms to zap the gorilla, but then had an idea. "The new jutsu...!" Aethir nodded, forming hand signs to summon three lightning rods. Two on each side of him, and one above. The gorilla roared and stared, soon roaring louder as Aethir pointed at the gorilla with his right finger to shoot the bolt on his fight. The bold made contact with the gorilla's flesh, causing the ape to roar and shake violently as the volts traveled into it's body. "I...I'm sorry!" Aethir nodded, firing the second bolt to the gorilla. As the gorilla roared and charged towards Aethir, the boy let lose the third rod towards the ape's stomach, the ape soon falling over, knocked out due to electricity. As the gorilla laid there, Aethir panted, sitting on the ground near the gorilla. He saw the animal breathing which made him relax a bit, soon gasping and pointing his finger up at...his blind brother!

"Well Aethir, I'd never imagine you'd take out a large gorilla..." he spoke, smiling down to the tired looking Aethir. Soon, the boy pointed, trying to form a sentence. "Your chakra levels are low, aren't they?" The boy sighed, nodding to his brother, who soon handed him a bundle of what looked like grapes with blue splotches. "Eat these. They'll fill you right up!" Aethir sighed again, taking the fruit his brother offered, soon chewing one grape at a time. He had to admit, it did taste pretty sweet and delicious... Aethir smiled, already feeling great about...well...everything! Even being lost in this forest!! The boy smiled to his brother as he began to walk away, his monkey like tail dangling from under his shirt. "...H-Huh?" Aethir's eyes widened as he saw that monkey tail swing around, his brother turning to speak. His lips were moving, but...no words were coming out. "What- ...Alpha.....Derpa....team...darp...."

Aethir gasped, eyes opening wide as he saw a monkey before him, staring at him with a look of curiosity. "Huh...? H-Hey... Aethir spoke to the monkey, it not registering to him that he's talking to an animal, "Did you...give me these?" the boy asked the monkey as it stared at him, soon running off. Aethir watched as the monkey stopped to turn to look at him, as if waiting for him to follow. "E-Er...One second...I'll...I'm right...behind you." The boy was exhausted, having had exhausted all of his chakra and his illness spiking from all of this physical activity. The illness he was born with appears to sap his strength from him if physical activity is prolonged... "Hold..." Aethir sighed, falling to the ground to simply lay on it, "H-Hold...on...." As he laid there, Aethir felt the forest spin around him as nightfall came.  He could have sworn a pair of arms began to pull at him, the boy once again hearing that childish voice in his head. "Get up...! Get up! Try to get up...!!!"  "I can't...do it..." Aethir replied to the child voice as he could feel his body being, what he thought at the time, thrown off a cliff.

Aethir exhaled for a long time, feeling his body's temperature rise extremely high. He felt like he was on fire as he was slowly falling in this abyss of darkness. 'But you can't give up...!! You just can't!!' Aethir groaned, shaking his head lightly. "Who's voice..." he was too exhausted to finish his sentence as he breathed heavily again, his heart pounding hard again. It was at this point, Aethir thought that this was how death was. Perhaps that odd banana he ate was extremely deadly...? He didn't know... He just continued to drift there in darkness, waiting to hit something solid. Waiting to finally stop falling. Waiting to...

"Ow!!"a small boy cried, looking at his bleeding finger. "What's wrong?"  "Something...bit me..." the boy sighed as his blind brother took a look at the bleeding finger. He smiled, causing the smaller boy to blink curiously. "Nothing bit you, Aethir. You were shocked." Aethir slowly tilted his head to his brother curiously. "Shocked?"  "Yes. Haven't you seen lightning in the sky before?" Aethir nodded to his brother's question. "Well, there are smaller lightning on metal sometimes, causing us to become shocked. Not entirely as deadly as the lightning in the sky, but still painful."  Aethir nodded to his brother's explanation. "Now, I'll be right back. I'm going to get you a band-aid."  "A-Alright!" the small boy smiled, looking back at his finger then back at the piece of metal he touched. "Shocked..." Aethir sighed, looking back at the bleeding finger.


"Shocked..." Aethir sighed, slowly opening his eyes to see a monkey chewing on his finger. "O-Ow! Hey!!" As Aethir sat up, he noticed most of the sleeping monkeys had gone off somewhere. "Huh..." He checked everything he had, his headband and clothes, eventually leaping off the tree feeling refreshed. As he landed, he was stared at by the surrounding monkeys, eventually Aethir waving to them all as he stood. Then, he felt something nudge him in a direction, Aethir gasping as he saw a monkey push into him, forcing him into a direction. "W-What? Hold on, wait a sec- ...I'm talking to a monkey...?"

As Aethir was shoved one final time in the direction, he fell off a ledge which had a pool of water at the bottom. Of course, he screamed as he fell, eventually landing on the body of water. He shifted his chakra in different positions from within his feet to maintain his balance. "Phew...Eh?" Aethir looked off to the side as he saw more monkeys either eating on bugs or bathing in the water he was standing on. "Huh...Er...S-Sorry..." the boy bowed to the animals, soon walking onto the shore opposite to them. He sighed, checking around himself, eventually walking off from the monkey camp.

"Okay, avoiding every fruit I see from now on, I've got to find a way out of here..." Aethir sighed, now in the right mind. "Okay, now let's see...if I started off walking from-" the pointed pointed his finger in a direction, checking around himself. He had no clue where it was he found those blasted bananas. "Oh boy... U-Um...Let's see. Okay, don't panic..." Aethir sighed, scratching his head, soon feeling something poke at his back. "Eh?" he turned to see a monkey looking up at him curiously. "O-Oh hey! What's-" the boy knelt down to pick up the blue splotched grapes from earlier. If he remembered correctly, these were safe to eat and were very filling! "Thank a lot!" he smiled, then blinked as the monkey soon ran off in a direction. "Eh...? Where are you go-" Aethir turned behind him as he saw a large shadow on the ground, seeing a large centipede quickly falling right above him. "Whoa!!" Aethir gasped, leaping out the way, running in the direction of the monkey. He was faster than the animal, deciding to pick up the chimp and leap high into the air, only to land on the back of the centipede, traveling fast through the forest. The monkey bounced as it stared forward, Aethir nodding as he was seeing low tree branches approaching them. "I know! I know!!"

The boy put the monkey down, summon the three lightning javelins to attempt to knock down as many branches as he could before he would have to take the hits. However, Aethir was absentmindedly gripped a javelin, causing him to look at the gripped lightning rod curious. "Huh...?" he stared as the other rods began to merge with the rod in his hand, creating a large javelin. "W-Whoa!!" Aethir nearly lost his balance from the large lightning javelin in his hand. The monkey was going ape as it was watching this, Aethir smiling to it. "H-Hey, this is new to me too!!" the boy nodded, soon tossing the large rod forward. The rod zipped forward, crashing into the many branches in front of him, the branches now unable to hit Aethir or the monkey.

Suddenly, the centipede crawled up a tree, Aethir nearly falling off as he focused chakra into his feet. "H-Hang on!!" Aethir said, grabbing the monkey with both hands. Eventually, the centipede stopped, it's legs dancing on the tree's bark. "Alright...Now on the count of three. One-" From the branches a large viper jolted towards the centipede, Aethir gasping with surprise. "THREE!!" the boy shouted, ceasing chakra focus in his feet to fall back down to the ground with the monkey in his arms.

As the boy and his monkey landed on the ground, the large insect and the viper began to do combat, the viper's massive jaws obviously overpowering the centipede's shell. As Aethir soon sprinted off with the monkey, he noticed a large gorilla shouting at them. "I hope he's a friend of yours...!!" Aethir spoke, turning to the gorilla to simply drop the monkey off. As the two animals stared at Aethir, the boy smiled and waved to the two as he continued running, still afraid of any surprised lurking in Konoha's forest... He looked forward, the smile fading... His face now had an odd look, almost a sad expression on his face...


"There," a younger Aethir smiled as his brother put the band-aid over his finger, "All good?"  "A-All good..." Aethir smiled to his brother as he stood up from his knelt down position. He then frowned as Aethir's shirt began to move. "Aethir, what's-"  "D-Don't tell anyone! Please!" As Aethir lifted his shirt, a small squirrel looked around itself, looking up to the blind boy curiously. "Is that a squirrel?"  "...I'm worried how you can tell if you can't see..." The older boy chuckled, kneeling down to the squirrel as it slightly retreated back to Aethir, a bit leery of this stranger before it. "It's okay. I promise." Aethir spoke as the squirrel slowly inched towards the blind boy, eventually climbing up on his hand and traveling up his arm. Eventually, the squirrel was on his shoulder, looking around curiously. "There, see? T-They aren't that bad, I swear!" Aethir smiled up to his blind brother who was smiling to the squirrel. Eventually, he sighed, a frown appearing as he looked at Aethir. The small boy's smile soon turned into a frown as he was looking at his brother. "If this were my home, I'd say we keep him..." Aethir looked down, knowing what was coming next. He sighed while looking to the nearby wall. "But Lamdem is not a fan of 'rodents' as he would call them. We can't keep it." Aethir nodded, hearing his brother's words, soon reaching for the squirrel as it eagerly jumped into his hands. "I'm sorry..." he said to the squirrel as it continued to look around the home curiously. As Aethir began to walk out of the house, depressed, he heard a pair of footsteps stop near him, the boy turning curiously to their source.

Aethir stopped, panting as he looked up at the bright blue sky between the gaps of the trees above. "Come on... I've been-" Aethir panted more, shaking his head, "I've been running for a while now...!! There has to be...at least a hint of civilization!!" Aethir soon began to walk forward, checking to his left and right, feeling a bit thirsty instead of hungry. He remembered the berries, and smiled as he ate them. "Refreshing along with filling!!" he smiled, smacking his lips as the juices filled his mouth.

As he continued, he'd pop a few more berries into his mouth, taking in the nature around him. "Hmm...Maybe it isn't too bad..." Aethir smiled, looking up into the trees, seeing the different wild life fly and leap from branches. He looked to his left, noticing different four-legged animals go about their business, some staring at him as if waiting for him to attack them. As he saw the cautious looks of the animals, he had to wonder... 'Why do animals fear us...? Us humans...? It can't be because we're different...' Aethir noticed the four-legged animal interact with an ape as he mentally spoke to himself, 'No...it can't be because we're different... Maybe it's because they can see something...Something more that we can't see...' Aethir broke eye contact with the animal, he continued walking, thinking back to what it is animals could see. Something that makes them cautious of them...

"S-Stop!!" Aethir cried as he was being held down by two other kids. "What? Stop what? My experiment?" a boy smiled to Aethir as he struggled to free himself. A boy had a large rock in one hand high up in the air, slowly slipping out of his hand. With his other hand, he had the squirrel pinned. "I just want to see if gravity hates this squirrel as much as I do!" the kids laughed as Aethir struggled again. "N-No!! Don't!! Don't..." Aethir stopped struggling as he saw the rock slowly leave from the boy's hands. Aethir's wide eyes soon narrowed as he practically bolted towards the rock to stop it from falling. As he did, the kids holding onto his arms fell as he gripped the rock. "What...?!" the boy looked up at a heavy breathing Aethir.

Time passed as Aethir was sobbing where he was, his blind brother leaving the house. "Hmm...?" he stared, noticing three bleeding kids on the ground. "Might I ask what's-" the boy went silent as he saw Aethir smiling as he cried, the squirrel hopping over to him as he climbed up his pants leg. "Aethir...?" the brother asked as Aethir wiped his eyes. "I...I got upset... I-I know eldest brother said never get upset, b-but...!!"  "No, Aethir... Sometimes we need to get upset... It's healthy to let out that feeling." the younger Aethir continued to cry, yet he was happy as the squirrel, who was still alive, landed on his head as it's tail flopped. He smiled more as tears rolled down his face, his brother patting his back lightly as the three kids slowly began to sit up.

"W-What the hell kind of- ...You aren't suppose to hit me ever!!" the boy shouted at Aethir as he ran into the house. "That boy... I'm not sure why Lamdem took him in if he's just causing everyone trouble..." Aethir's brother spoke as the two random kids scurried off into the small village down the hill. "Come, let's go inside. And..." Aethir looked up at his brother as the squirrel did so as well, "I suppose if you hide it well enough, you can keep it." Aethir gasped as his brother waked away, the boy feeling extreme happiness as he sat where he was.

Aethir took a deep breath, looking up at the golden sun in the sky. The sun was once again setting, and he was running low on the odd berries he was carrying. "I better save some for the night..." Aethir nodded, checking around himself. Eventually, he spotted that he was being followed by that same monkey! "W-What the...? N-No, don't follow me! I don't know my way-" Aethir blinked as the monkey presented more berries before him, "Around..." Aethir finished his thought while looking around himself. He eventually knelt down to pocket the different berries, smiling to the monkey. The monkey then began to hop away, soon looking back at him curiously. 'The last time the monkey did this, I think it wanted me to follow it...' the boy nodded, following the monkey as well.

As the two traveled through the dark forest, the monkey sudden screeched, traveling faster than the boy. "H-Huh? What's up...?" the boy naively asked as he ran after the monkey. As the two approached a collective cry of apes, Aethir took note of a large viper hissing at the smaller apes. "Oh no...! It's that snake again...!!" he spoke before pointing his finger to the rapidly moving snake. 'Tch... I can't get a decent shot...' he mentally told himself as he readjusted his strategy. He searched through the small library of jutsus he knew, figuring 'Wave of Inspiration' and 'Lightning Javelin' won't work, due to the snake's odd movements. "Water trumpet might work..." he stared at the snake, following it's slender body to the body thrashing on the ground. 'If I can douse the body, then just aim Wave of Inspiration to the puddle...'

The cries of an ape being crushed snapped Aethir out of his mind, quickly performing water trumpet to douse the snake. He then groaned, taking note of the small amount of water compared to the large viper. "No, it won't be enough...!! Unless I..." Aethir smiled, forming two clones from the puddle of water he created from the earlier jutsu, two other Aethirs using the water trumpet technique to create a bigger puddle. 'Bah, not good, my water clones don't have enough chakra to do water trumpet twice...!' Aethir's eyes then went wide. 'Water clones...!!' As Aethir pointed his finger to his clones, they both turned with a look of shock. He simply nodded to them with a serious look on his face, the two clones blinking then nodding back to him as they remained still. Firing a few shock bullets at them, the water clones reverted back into the original amount of water used for cloning. 'Great...! Now!!' As Aethir was about to focus his chakra into his palms, he thought back to the large javelin he found out about earlier.

"Lightning Javelin..." Aethir smiled, forming hand signs as three lightning rods were formed around him. "Alright...Now how did I do it last time...?" Aethir eyed the rod hovering over his right hand, the boy gripping at it as the spears began to unite with the gripped rod, forming a large javelin. "If it hits the snake, great! If not, then there's always the puddle!" the boy smiled, reeling his arm back. As the light from the javelin attracted the eyes of the monkeys and the viper, the smaller animals appeared to have started moving towards Aethir, away from the puddle. 'Good! Now!!' Aethir launched the large lightning javelin as it landed into the puddle, zapping the doused viper. As the viper was shocked, it straightened it's body, as if trying to point upwards. "And now...!!" the boy spoke, focusing his chakra into his palms, soon firing 'Wave of Inspiration' towards the viper, adding volts to the indirect shocking.

As the shocking soon ceased, the viper hissed lightly before collapsing onto the ground, eyes vacant of any life. As Aethir saw this, the boy's eyes went wide. He wasn't trying to aim to kill the snake! Just...Just knock it out for a bit... Aethir began to shake before he remembered the words of his brother.

Aethir sobbed as his brother stood over the dead squirrel, the animal bleeding from the mouth. "W-Why?! Why did you..." he sobbed, kneeling to the ground as he buried his face into his hands. His brother had killed the squirrel, a look of depression on the blind boy's face. "Aethir-"  "Why?! ...Why did you do it?! You told me!! You told me I could keep it!!" Aethir began to pound of his older brother's stomach, unable to put any strength behind the hits. They were practically soft frail taps than anything. "You said I could!! You said!! You said!!! You lied!!"  "If you hid it well enough!! That's...That's what I said..." It was rare for the blind brother to shout, especially at Aethir. Aethir took a moment to look at his brother's troubled facial expression. It would seem that he was feeling more sorrow than he was.

"B-But...then why-"  "It was eating our food..." Aethir stared, slowly looking at where his brother was pointing. On the table were bits and pieces of food being nibbled on. "There isn't a single bit of food where there aren't bite marks in it. Lamdem...definitely found out...and told me to-" Aethir backed away from his brother as he knelt down to the boy to try and comfort him. "Do...Do you always do what he tells you?!" he shouted, the blind boy appearing a bit shocked to hear this from Aethir, who's usually too shy to speak his mind. "Don't you ever think for yourself?! Don't you just... No... I can tell you knew this was wrong! Why didn't you just let it go free?!" "Aethir, I-"  "What's wrong with you?! You don't have a mind of your own, do you?! You're just his stupid puppet!!"

A smack was heard as the surrounding kids of the Lamdem household gasped. It was rare for the blind brother to shout...It was even more rare for Aethir to raise his voice...But it was the most rarest for the blind brother to lay a hand on another out of anger. The blind brother's angry look on his face soon changed to a look of shock as he glanced at his hand then back to Aethir. He tried to form a sentence, Aethir on the ground while rubbing his face. "A-Aethir, I didn't mean-" the boy suddenly stood up and ran away from the blind boy who called out to the kid. The blind brother sighed, looking over to the dead squirrel, wondering if he could have taken another approach to this...


'Maybe that thing we  can't see... That thing animals can see within us...' Aethir stood there as the apes soon returned back to their normal routines, 'Is the darkness inside us. Maybe they can see our intent...?' The boy slowly looked around him as he saw the monkeys stare at him with a look of suspicion, as if Aethir had just killed one of their kind. 'Maybe they can see the person we try to hide. Maybe humans are just...meant to-' As Aethir mentally spoke to himself, he felt a light tug on his pants. He looked down to see a different monkey offer him the same berry grapes the other monkey did. "Er-" As he took the grapes, he noticed the other apes were no longer staring at him... 'No... I think they can see our intent. And just our intent. That some of us mean well. That's all.' Aethir smiled, walking closer to the tree he was in, deciding to just nap here for another day.

Aethir yawned as he continued wandering the Konoha forest, looking left and right. He looked completely untidy as he spent nearly three days in the wilderness. It's not like anyone in the village misses him, seeing as how he's not a resident there or anything. He yawned again, glancing at his mist ninja band, thinking back to his travels so far. "Man, won't someone get a load of my travel journal...If I kept one..." Aethir sighed, scratching his head, a small beetle flying from the hair. "H-Huh?! ...Oh boy...My hair's a nest..." Aethir sighed with a smile as he continued to walk.

Off in the distance, Aethir heard a light sound, the boy turning slowly thinking it was the monkey again... Instead of the small fuzzy creature, it was a large centipede insect, crawling fast towards him. "A-Ah! It's that cent-" Aethir blinked as the bug crawled past him, Aethir turning behind him to stare at it wit an odd look on his face. "Okay...Well...G-Great!" Aethir smiled, about to continue his walk before he heard a soft ...slow...pair of steps off into the distance. He turned, hearing but not seeing anything. "Eh...?" He looked around himself, soon looking up to notice a large black feline with golden eyes glaring down at him. It was a large panther, licking it's lips as it had it's eyes on the boy. "W-Whoa...! Nice...k-kitty!" Aethir gasped as the panther leaped from the branch, growling at him. As he skipped back just in time to miss the claw swipe of the panther, Aethir hiccuped as it began to hit him. He hasn't really had anything to eat other than filling juicy fruits. No protein, carbs, etc.! He hiccuped again, eyes watering as he was about to vomit, but soon rolled out of the way of the leaping panther's attack. "I feel...so sick..." Aethir groaned, putting a hand to his stomach. He soon tried to form chakra to create the water mist, but soon ...vomited. It wasn't vomit per say, it was more of a ...spew of bubbles? Aethir stared wide eyed as the bubbles attached themselves to the panther, the poor feline having a hard time gripping and having any traction with the ground.

'Was that...a new jutsu- Oh god...Augh...' the boy spewed more bubbles as the panther was coated with more suds. "Ugh...W-What the heck's going on...?!" Aethir cried, simply running away for a bit before staring at the slowly approaching (And somewhat slipping) panther. "Okay...How did I do that...? Think for a second..." Aethir thought for a moment about how one would vomit. To vomit would be to reject something from the body...But Aethir doesn't recall ingesting bubbles. To vomit would mean to cause some sort of suction pull to spew out whatever is being rejected... "So...if I substitute food for chakra...And...maybe vomit my chakra...?" Aethir nodded, giving it a shot. He wasn't making perfect sense due to running on empty, but just enough sense for him to understand himself. Low and behold, bubbles spewed from the boys mouth, this time on purpose. His aim was terrible at first, but noted to adjust accordingly on his next shot.

The panther roared as it slipped and slide, soon touching even more of the bubble Aethir spewed out. "Okay, this is good...N-Now should I try to-" the boy thought back to the night of the viper, and the day his brother killed his squirrel. "N-No...I...How do I know how much is too much...?" The boy had now feared his raiton release jutsus, not wanting to kill any animals. "E-Er..." he backed away, spewing more bubbles, soon vomiting real vomit. "U-UGH...Oh god....Ah, I need real food..." Aethir sighed, wiping his mouth as he backed away.

Aethir panted, not having the energy for this as he continued to dodge the slipping and sliding panther. "Huh...?" Aethir noticed the bubbles dancing behind the panther 'That's it...!' he smiled, vomiting bubbles once more, but this time, the bubbles rise high, creating a thick wall of bubbles that blocked both Aethir and the panther's vision. 'A smokescreen effect...?' Aethir stared, soon focusing on the bubbles behind the Panther with a smile. As the panther swiped at the bubbles trying to hit the bit, A few Aethirs tackled the feline, causing it to roar and cut some of the clone's wrists.

Some of the clones used water trumpet while the other clones attempted the new jutsu, creating bubbles. 'So they can do it too...!' Aethir smiled, but groaned as his stomach twisted into a knot. "Ngh...This is painful though...OH BOY, I need real food...!" Aethir turned to his left suddenly, seeing the panther leap towards him, swiping it's claws wildly. The boy, luckily leaped away in time, staring at the panther. As the boy was about to spew more bubbles, he thought for another moment. 'Wait...What if I use the seals of the lightning javelin...?' Aethir smiled, about to form the three hand seals, the first being tiger. This alone was enough to make Aethir's stomach twist, the boy's mouth opening wide to fire a large water cannonball like object. "A-AUGH....WHAT WAS THA-" The boy vomited another large ball, firing at the panther this time, the feline hit directly by the cannon ball.

The boy panted and choked, closing his eyes tightly as he felt slight paint from his mouth stretching. "H-Huh...What...?! I-I thought I had to make the seals-" The panther suddenly roared, Aethir burping up more water bubbles to slow down the panther. "A-Alright, let's try this again..." Aethir sniffled, forming the tiger hand seal and focused as if he were to vomit bubbles. He did this, a large water ball slamming into the tree to the left of the panther. 'Dang...A little to the right then...' Aethir nodded, firing the ball towards the panther as it was hit again. This time, the feline stared for a moment before backing off, Aethir staring the cat down as he panted.

As the panther was gone, Aethir relaxed, thinking back to what he had just done. Two different jutsus he's never done before! He stared at his hands for a moment before noticing his clones were still available. "H-Hey," Aethir called out, the Aethirs staring curiously, "Do you guys have any chakra left?" one of the clones raised their hands, Aethir pointing. "Try to vomit while using the tiger seal!" Aethir smiled, the clones looking at the only clone with it's chakra left. It shrugged, doing as it was told, a ball rocketing out of it's mouth right onto Aethir's chest, sending him sliding back. "NGH- ...Ah...That stings..." Aethir panted, eyes widening as he saw a second ball rush towards his face. He jumped suddenly as the ball crashed into the root of the tree, causing all the Aethirs to turn and look at the now falling tree. It's bottom roots were damages, causing the tree to tip over, the clones scattering in all directions except one Aethir, who was crushed under the tree. "AETHIR, NOOOOO!!!" Aethir pointed while reaching his arm out, water slowly pooling under the tree. The boy face palmed lightly as a clone patted Aethir's back, the prime Aethir nodding to his clone. "He was so YOUNG!!" the boy burring his face into his clone's chest. He soon regained his composure, taking in just what it was he was doing. "Wow...I...I really need to leave this forest..." he blinked, walking away from his clones.

As the clones eventually reverted into puddles of water, Aethir sighed, walking through the forest with an exhausted look on his face. Eventually, he came to a river... In fact, this is the exact spot Aethir began to trip out! He looked up, noticing those same blasted bananas, hanging up in the tree. "I'll take care of them..." he groaned, running up to the tree, and just tossing the whole bunch of bananas into the river. "There...!" As Aethir landed on the ground, he smiled.



"That should take care of it." Aethir blinked, turning as he saw the boy who had bullied him in the past. The boy who attempted to kill his squirrel, the boy who attacked him... He stood before him with a huge grin on his face. "H-Huh? ...I didn't- ..." He looked down, noticing the ground was slightly rippling. It would seem just physical contact with the fruit is enough to start hallucinating.

"You aren't real." Aethir shook his head as the boy laughed while staring at him. "Not real...? Well then..." Aethir gasped as the boy threw a heavy sudden punch, blocking it with both arms. His life quickly flashed before him, the kid version of himself taking the same hit in the same position. "My arms...they hurt...!" Aethir growled, hearing his own child voice due to those bananas. Upset, the boy shoved the attacking boy back, delivering one solid punch to his face. The boy rolled away from Aethir into the bushes, Aethir eyeing the bush suspiciously.

Eventually, a small monkey came waddling out from the bushes, holding something up. It was Aethir's mist ninja headband! "H-Huh? ...Oh! Thank you!" Aethir smiled, soon popping the grapes into his mouth to cancel the effects of the banana. As Aethir thought of the bananas, he turned to look down the river, wondering where it went. "Well, only one way to know..." Aethir sighed, walking the opposite way the river was flowing, the monkey standing there watching as he did so.
Aethir sobbed as he heard the different kids running out of the house screaming his name. "Where has he gone...?" Aethir went quiet, hearing his brother speak of him. "Oh, how I wonder where you are..." the blind boy sighed, walking off as Aethir continued his sobbing, high up in the tree that hung over the house hold. He knew no one would try to get him if he was up here... No one was brave enough. Not even his brother...

"Hello." Aethir gasped as he saw a little girl smile to him. "A-Angel...? What- Why are you up here?!" he shouted, but it sounded more like a loud whimper. "Aethy, the whole house is looking for you! Except Lamdem. He's still in his room."  "I bet he could care less if I was dead, huh...?" Angel shook her head, smiling to the boy, her lips moving to tell him something. The boy's eyes widened as tears began to form more, the boy burring his face to cry.

As the boy soon walked back towards the house, he entered it to be greeted with a furious Lamdem along with sad looking children. "I apologize for my absence." the boy bowed, acting nothing like the carefree boy he was earlier. With just that being said, Lamdem had a surprised look on his face as Aethir walked to his room, residing there for the rest of the night.
'I guess since then, I've been this serious formal guy, huh...?' the boy sighed. As Aethir walked, he came to a tall waterfall, the boy simply scratching his head, deciding to turn around. Before he did though, he saw the different apes gather to...stare awkwardly at him. "Eh...?" Aethir blinked, slowly looking up towards the waterfall. "Wait...isn't this...?"Aethir thought back to the apes who were bathing, remembering that this was their spot! "A-All this time, I've been just up stream...?!" Aethir asked, turning back, breaking into a run. Shifting the chakra flow in his feet, Aethir stared wide eyed as he passed the chimp that simply stared casually to him. "T-Take care!" He waved to the monkey as it ...didn't react much at all to the farewell.