39. Frustration and posibility

A week has gone by since Tomoka started going to the academy. The sheer boredom frustration from attending the academy was slowly driving the girl insane. She had learnt far more inside the library than in the academy. She told her mother she could do what the clan kids did and skip school until the last three years which are the ones that matter in her opinion. However, that didn’t go all too well. 

Himiko would not budge no matter what. She insisted that Tomoka needed to go so she could make more friends and be a social person. At that Tomoka had a lapse of judgment and said: “Fuck being social”. This was the first time Tomoka cursed out loud in front of her mother. The result was horrendous. 

All of that brings us to what is happening right now. Tomoka is currently banging her head against a tree in frustration. She had tried to enjoy her time at the academy but it was impossible for her. All of her classmates were dumber than dumb, she couldn’t blame them, they were kids after all but still. 

Worst of all is that the dumbass kids would not stop messing with her! ONE EVEN SPRAYED FUCKING GLUE ON HER HAIR! Remembering that brought a new surge of anger and frustration. The next impact of her head against the tree broke the bark apart as some blood started leaking from her forehead. 

[You should stop doing this, it’s become a habit, an unhealthy one mind you]

That’s right, this wasn’t the first time Tomoka banged her head against random trees in frustration. Throughout the last week at least eight trees have suffered her wrath. It wasn’t as if Tomoka didn’t try to find a solution. The problem was that the most viable one stubbornly refused to work.  

‘If I could use the shadow clone jutsu I wouldn’t have to go through all of this bullshit’ Angered again this time she punched the tree with all of her strength. The poor thing cracked in protest under the powerful strike. 

Of course Tomoka had tried everything she could to make the stupid jutsu work, but no matter what it refused to give in. Annoyed to hell and back Tomoka began spamming the shadow clone jutsu while adding whatever random modification she thought. This of course was a very poor choice of action. 

“Mother fucker!” Tomoka screamed at the top of her lungs as once again the jutsu failed catastrophically due to her random modifications. The end result, as had been so many times before, was an explosion. If not for her abnormally tough body Tomoka would be quite hurt by now. 

“You know what!? Fuck it! Who needs yang chakra in their jutsus! NOT ME!” This time in a fit of impulse with a bit of madness Tomoka waved hands while removing all components involving yang chakra and replacing them with her own moves involving yin chakra. 

As she moved her hands her mind worked on advance calculations while molding the chakra needed. The end result was approaching fast as Tomoka’s anger, frustration and focus reached their peak. 

“Yin release: Phantom clone technic” In a moment of enlightenment the name came to her as she spoke it. Moments later a black cloud covered Tomoka’s surroundings for a moment as the jutsu came into effect. 

An instant later the black smog disappeared revealing Tomoka standing besides a perfect copy of herself. However, the copy eerie and cold. Its eyes’ sclera was completely black while its hair shone in an icy blue color, the complete opposite of Tomoka. 

“Looks like we made it” The copy said in a monotone lacking any emotion. In a way it felt lifeless and creepy, yet Tomoka felt absolutely delighted. It works! Who cares if it looks different, as long as it works similarly to the shadow clone it can use henge jutsu and fix that little problem. 

“So what can you do? Can you use jutsus?” Tomoka was excited as she closely inspected her creation. The reverse Tomoka on the other hand stood still while thinking.  

“Let me try” With that said the clone waved hand signs as it used the henge jutsu. The next moment a bizarre thing happened. The clone seemed to blur for a moment before it became normal again. However, now it looks identical to Tomoka.

“That wasn’t the normal henge was it” Tomoka inspected the clone closely. Even though it now looked like a perfect copy of herself, the creepy and cold aura remained.  

“No, though I did try. I feel like it works the same but is different” The clone answered once again in its monotone voice. 

“Interesting, okay let's run some tests and see what I created” Tomoka said with an evil grin on her face.

“This is going to be very fun”