=Ashira POV=
I laid on the cold dirt ground as my laughter subsided. My throat aches from the screaming and laughing. My muscles remained sore from the improvised parkour course. And my sweat dried up from my clothes leaving me shivering slightly in the early morning spring wind of March. Yet despite it all, despite my young body failing me, despite the shivering wind, i felt full. I felt complete, like a jigsaw puzzle with its last piece found. As i calmed down slowly from the excitement, i looked inward at my chakra coil and felt the changes. It was at roughly 75 percent before the countdown reached 0, Yet if i was to compared my chakra now to the one before my awakening, i would be roughly at 150% of my old chakra capacity, and i still feel it slowly replenishing. I was pulled out of my musing by a wet tongue licking my cheek. Opening my eyes, i saw Katsuko stood with her head bend down right beside my face.
"Thank you girl, i'm ok now. At least i hope i am."
I said as Katsuko leveled an exasperated glare. A chuckle escape my lips, i gave my deer the best reassuring smile i could manage. Grabbing her body, Katsuko helped me move toward a tall tree for me to lay my back against. Sitting down, and waving her away i said.
"Now!!! Let's test out my curse technique DEER girl, or i guess it's my kekkei genkai. You might want to move back a bit Katsuko."
I grin at my impeccable humor and took a deep breath. Channeling my focus inward, I grabbed at the two separate yet oddly intertwined presences i have been feeling since my awakening. Forming the hand sign for my divine dogs, i pulled. Twin shapes rose from my shadow as i felt my slowly replenishing chakra vanish until only one third of my chakra are left. Out came two fearsome large wolves, one white as snow, the other dark as night, both half a size taller than Katsuko who is a chakra beast, yet twice as wide with red upside down triangles on their forehead. A threatening growl came out of my best friend before she calm down from my reassuring head pat. I grinned as i asked the wolves
"Can both of you understand me, nod if you do"
They both nodded, and my grin grew wider.
"Hmm very good!! black and white for your fur color for now, Black you go East till you can't go any longer or when you think either you or i are about to start losing chakra then stop, and return to where i am, White you do the same in the opposite direction."
They both took off in a flash, producing mild breezes in their assigned directions. Letting out a whistle, I waited and went over what is known about my kekkei genkai.
-Number 1, Each shikigami required a hand sign to produce a shadow in their shape to be used as a focus to summon them. Whether this shadow can be reproduced directly from the Nara's clan Yin Release: shadow control is still uncertain.
-Number 2, I still can sense the locations of summoned shikigami relative to my position, although i still haven't figured out how to communicate telepathically with them.
I snapped out of my musing when I felt both Black and white stopped at the 100 meters mark from me in less than 5 seconds before sprinting back. I felt like i could still push them further, but might lose my chakra in return. Giving up on testing the range of my shikigami for the day. I resumed my musing. From what information is available through my awakening, and what i have gathered, i thought about
-Number 3, for the taming rituals. Each untamed shikigami need to be beaten by either me or my own tamed shikigami. And only one ritual can be done at a time. No outside interferences are allowed, or so my knowledge pack said. What actually counted as outside interferences is currently unknown and will require further testing.
-Number 4, I can feel my shadow, and shadows around me in the radius of around 10 meters. Regardless, i can't really test the parameters of both shadow teleport nor shadow storage with my low chakra.
-Lastly for number 5. After losing the initial I don't need chakra to maintain a summoned shikigami even in combat, barring when my shikigami use their own technique. Said techniques are currently unknown beside the shadowfication of the Divine Dogs.
Regretting not bringing a notebook, I try committing all this information I've learned so far into my memories, before carrying out my final test of the day. Looking at the twin wolves that just returned, I pointed at a giant boulder and commanded them to strike as hard as they could. Both wolves blurred as they used their claws, carving out 3 inches thick clawmark at the boulder.
Shivering slightly, and imagining the gnarly stuffs those things can do to a regular human, I dismissed the wolves verbally before walking back with the help of my trusty Katsuko to the Nara's headquarters situated on the front of the forest, and from there back to my home. As i walked, I considered the options available to me. At the end of the day, Yasuka, and Hashira are my parents. They've loved me unconditionally, and what kind of scum will i be if I can't even trust my family. I'm tired of living for myself, tired of being paranoid at my own shadow, 23 years in that godforsaken city was enough.
But as much as i hate it, the thought of revealing the existence of Mahoraga scares me. I have watched jjk, i have seen what the final shadow can do. The thought of having a mobile eldritch horror capable of leveling cities scares me even though i'm the only one capable of summoning it.
Letting out a sigh, I reached a compromise. I will only disclose the existence of 8 other shadows beside Mahoraga, and not their abilities since even i do not know a shikigami technique without taming them, and any information from the series maybe obsolete since the 10 Shadows have been adapted to using chakra instead of CE. This should help garner not only their support, but of the entire clan, since the creation of a brand new kekkei genkai is a big deal even in a major village. Hopefully it would also increase the value of myself and my parents, increasing our family's chance of survival for the second Shinobi War on the horizon, and buying me more time to grow strong enough to protect them. The trek back home felt just a bit lighter both from having a plan to keep them safe, and at the thought of having less secrets from those i love.