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Glaring off at the illusion as she willed it to sound like her mother, Sakkaku took a deep breath and released the image before conjuring it back piece by piece. For the twelfth time in the past however many minutes, she had reassembled the same thing and it was starting to get on her nerves.

"A little frustrated there are we?" Her mother said with a cheerful grin. "It's easier to mimic an image than audio, isn't it?"

Switching her peeved look over to the red haired woman she heard the low pitched manly voice filter out of the projection's mouth and she groaned, throwing her face forward into her hands.

"I keep making you sound like a man!"

"And I made my father sound like a woman, your point?"

Sakkaku wiped her hands down her face and flicked a hand at the genjutsu, dispersing it into mist.

"Nothing." She murmured. "This is just stupid."

Her mother hummed lowly before coming over to take a seat next to her. "Make an illusion of an animal."

Sakkaku frowned minutely but did as her mother asked, pulling the thought of a cat out of her mind and into a visual form.

"Now make it meow."

The glance she gave her mother told her nothing so she looked back towards her conjured Persian breed and huffed. Focusing she closed her eyes and dug through her mind until she heard the sound she was looking for.

But sadly despite her honest attempt, the noise that was translated through her mirage cat came out strangled and high in pitch.

Covering her ears against the assault a single pulse of chakra from her mother cut through her illusion.

"I think I know what your problem is." Her mother said with a tiny grin when she caught sight of her hopeful expression. "But sadly, it's time for your physical training, we're finally going to start on your flexibility."

Caught between wanting to groan at the disappointment and cheer because finally, the non-stop sweating was going to end, Sakkaku nodded.

They had been working at strengthening her body for almost a year - it was insane how different her physique was from her previous one - and she was pleased to say she was one seriously fit four year old. Though she wouldn't be able to take anyone on at her current level, she was pleased with herself anyways.

"Come on, let's go." Kuronue beckoned, leading Sakkaku into one of the many rooms in her mother's part of the compound. "We'll start off with very simple stances."

Nodding Sakkaku went to stand in the middle of the room with her legs spread apart and her arms dangling by her side.

Running through low-level katas slowly so that her mother could correct her errors and explain the movements out, Sakkaku found that this was harder than she assumed it to be. But she still enjoyed it, back from before she had always enjoyed yoga and this exercise reminded her of her favorite pastime.

Grinning she shifted low and carried her weight until she was in a perfect horse stance and from there she fell back into a bridge and then into a handstand.

Smiling happily she leaned her legs forward until she could see the bottoms of her feet. Sakkaku was happy to say that she could do these contortions with zero stress done to her body and in these moments she could really see her progress.

She slid out of her position with a faint scowl. At least she was actually getting somewhere with this portion of her studies unlike with her stupid genjutsu.

Despite how easy it was for her to conjure illusions it was hard for her to keep from conjuring whatever she happened to be thinking about. She was ashamed to remember how many talks her mother had given her about PTSD whenever she would unconsciously conjure up some gruesome scene of her death.

It made introspective thinking and planning quite difficult, especially when her mother always happened to be in the same room as her nowadays. Even more so since they had received the missive that the head of the clan - her grandfather - was summoning her to be introduced to the entire family.

Her teeth ground lightly on the inside of her cheek as her eyes caught onto the invitation - could it really be called that when they didn't have the choice of turning it down? - sitting innocently on the table and she turned to face her mother.

"We leave in three hours to the main house." The woman told her noticing where her gaze had wandered off to, her voice indifferent but she could see those bright eyes calculating every action that might take place tonight.

"But there's really no need to worry darling." The red haired Kurama soothed with a warm smile that verged on vengeful. "You'll be perfectly safe, they all know better than to try again while I'm keeping watch."

Fingers wove into her hair and Sakkaku sagged into her mother's side. "They're just curious I'm sure, so we'll go and then we'll leave. It will be perfectly

"They're just curious I'm sure, so we'll go and then we'll leave. It will be perfectly fine."

Sakkaku gave a nod against Kuronue's stomach as she fully relaxed. Her mother would handle it, and even if they tried something she wasn't completely defenseless.

Black eyes darted down to her palm as a black rattlesnake slowly made its way out of her yukata sleeve and gave a menacing hiss, fangs sharp and gleaming.

After all, she had their precious kekkei genkai and she inherited it from one of their strongest users.

She was more than ready for someone to start trouble.

Edit: 4/29/17

I will be updating and working on the next chapter very soon. I'll probably have it done on the fourth since I have a very long car ride to suffer through and I'll have a lot of free time.

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