Entering Kirigakure
One winter, heavy snow fell.
In front of a small wooden cabin, a boy squatted on the ground, playing with the water in a shallow puddle. After a while, an astonishing sight appeared: he controlled a ball of water, making it float above his hands as he changed its shape at will.
The boy stood up excitedly and showed off to his mother.
"Look, Mother! See? Pretty amazing, huh?"
He didn't notice that the cloth in his mother's hands had already slipped to the ground. She stared blankly at the ball of water above his hands.
Whoosh!
His mother grabbed his hands and made the ball of water fall to the ground.
"Why? Why! Even you, my child... How could this happen?"
Her voice was filled with despair.
"It hurts, Mother."
The boy cried out in pain as his mother clutched his hands tightly.
Slap!
However, his mother slapped him hard. She was too desperate. Overwhelming fear had struck her, causing her to act on instinct.
That ability was undoubtedly a Kekkei Genkai. And in this village, what happened to those who possessed a Kekkei Genkai?
Death!!
The mother was terrified, but she immediately came to her senses and hugged the boy.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, Bai..."
It wasn't the child's fault. It was hers. The mother couldn't stop herself from sobbing. Possessing a Kekkei Genkai meant that death could descend upon them at any moment. She had failed her child.
There was nothing she could do. She could only helplessly hold the boy and cry out in anguish. She could only hope to conceal the fact that he possessed a Kekkei Genkai, hiding it properly forever and ever.
However, they failed to notice that the boy's father had been watching everything from afar.
The boy's father was