Chapter 2: RINNEGAN
"Ta-da, welcome to my base!~" Nagato stared at the abandoned place before him. Silence. Silent.
"Hey don't underestimate this place. It's still better that I want to bring you here, Nagato. Otherwise you would have slept in the same place earlier. Besides, the roof is durable so it won't leak." Nagato hated to admit it, but what Ryosuke said was true. If Nagato didn't get a place to stay, he would have slept in the trash.
"Thank me for accommodating you." Nagato felt as if he could see Ryosuke's nose getting longer.
"Thank you." He wrote briefly on Ryosuke's palm.
"You're welcome, there's no need to be too grateful. Fellow fates should be able to help each other even if it's small. Let's go in, I'll tell you about these local regulations inside." Ryosuke entered the abandoned empty house followed by Nagato behind him.
"Just find a place you feel comfortable." Ryosuke entered a room leaving Nagato who surveyed the place he thought was abandoned.
"Well, bad news. The water reservoir is dry. Let's hope it rains tonight, so you can take a shower tomorrow morning." Ryosuke returned with a blanket and a cardboard box.
"
Use this as a base. This place is cold if it rains. But don't worry, like I said the roof won't leak." Ryosuke handed the two objects to Nagato.
"Um, " Nagato nodded then rolled out the cardboard as his sleeping mat in the corner of the room. Across from him Ryosuke also did the same.
"About the rules I was talking about, it's actually an unwritten rule that was tacitly agreed upon by us fringe people. So there's no such thing as rules." Ryosuke grinned.
"The gist of it is don't be flashy. Keep a low profile And don't cause trouble. It's better to avoid than to attract attention. That's simple, right?" Ryosuke explained. Nagato nodded in understanding.
Sitting on their respective pedestals the two men were lost in their own thoughts. Nagato thought about how to use the rinegan on his left eye. While Ryosuke thought of something only the gods knew.
The wish for rain was granted. Water began to fall from the sky. The air began to cool down followed by the distinctive smell of rain. The atmosphere was still silent and only the sound of rain could be heard.
Ryosuke plucked the strings of his guitar. While occasionally humming. Not long after he couldn't stand the silent atmosphere anymore Ryosuke started talking.
"Hey, Nagato I want to tell you something." Nagato glanced at Ryosuke, but his mind was still drifting on his left eye.
"Back then this place didn't belong to me alone. It belonged to the street musicians' union. Well, there were a lot of us. Enough to fill this room." Nagato's thoughts were interrupted as soon as he heard Ryosuke tell the story.
"Some people turned to pickpocketing, some were even desperate to join gangs to rob. For a long time, this place became deserted without many people." Nagato nodded his head to continue the story.
"Until there were four of us left, including me. One day one of my friends got into trouble with a local gang. And he was beaten to a pulp. Knowing that, one of my friends wanted revenge. He told us his plan. I argued that if it was too impossible, just imagine the four of us against a gang that could have more than twenty members." Ryosuke laughed crisply and plucked his guitar strings again. As if accompanying his story with a song.
"I refused to go and chose to stay here. We argued, he mentioned about solidarity and that as fellow fates we should help each other. In the end, the three of them left me alone." Once again Ryosuke strummed his guitar softly. The soft notes flowed with the sound of the rain.
"I waited, waited, and kept waiting. But the three of them didn't come back until late at night. At that time I wanted to follow them, but because of the heavy rain, I hesitated. In the end I fell asleep restlessly." Ryosuke looked down at his shabby guitar.
"The next day I decided to look for them. Do you know what I faced next? I saw,... two of my friends,... became members of that gang. That's when I knew that they betrayed my friends. After that, I kept looking for my missing friend. But I never found him. I only found this guitar, in the drain. It was his, the only thing he had left." Ryosuke let out a deep sigh. Nagato could hear his breathing out of sync, like he was holding back emotions.
"Well that's a sad story in my opinion. I do regret not being able to help her. But now it's useless to regret. At least now I'm useful for keeping his relics. Right, Nagato? Eh?, Nagato? Where are you going?"
Nagato sat down next to Ryosuke and immediately grabbed his guitar. "What are you doing Nagato?"
Nagato tuned the notes one by one. Well, it was true that what he heard earlier was the wrong tone on this guitar. He then fixed it, after which he played a song as a test.
"Wow, Nagato. The tone sounds better. Did you fix it? I thought you couldn't remember anything." It wasn't wrong if Ryosuke pointed at Nagato here. But not with himself. Not that he was a musician. But he was a music and fine arts major so don't ask how he could fix it.
"Nagato it turns out you're full of surprises!. I can't even play guitar this well!. Nagato you really are a master musical genius. Come busking with me tomorrow. I'm sure with your musical skills and the beauty of my voice we can make a lot of money!" Ryosuke started bragging about how great they would be. And how much money they would make.
Nagato just listened to Ryosuke brag to his satisfaction. He really wanted to write his own song later in his world. Song composers do get paid quite a lot. Well, but he had to finish school first. That is, if he can return to his home world.
After Ryosuke finished, Nagato took Ryosuke's hand. "In the end you admitted that you're a busker Ryosuke?" Nagato wrote while smiling triumphantly.
"B-how is that possible!. I'm a musician!, a street musician!. I just don't have an agency that will work with me!. And how can you say my name so lightly?. You're supposed to call me nii-san, nii-san!, Nagato!, Do you even hear me?. Stop ignoring others when spoken to!, It's a bad habit!." Ryosuke continued to rant. While Nagato just slapped the wind and ignored Ryosuke's babble. Suit yourself. Nagato thought to himself.
He started playing the guitar again. Trying another song that was popular in his world back then.
....
In the morning Nagato took a shower from last night's rain. "Put these clothes on. It might be a little oversized considering how thin you are. But it's better than your smelly trashy clothes from yesterday."
Nagato received a long-sleeved shirt and pants. Then changed his clothes. "We'll find some money first then we can buy clothes for you."
After changing their clothes, the two of them left Ryosuke's 'base'. On the way to Ryosuke's usual 'hangout', this guy never stopped talking. He could always find a new topic to talk about. Nagato now realized that this person was a chat box type. Nagato didn't listen to Ryosuke's words and just took them for granted. But this guy never realized that Nagato ignored him and kept talking.
Nagato tried experimenting along the way by looking with his left eye only. Without ruffling his hair, Nagato looked at the things around him. And the results were not surprising. His vision becomes very clear and far up to a radius of two km if it is not blocked by something. He can even see small things in detail. Nagato could even see an ant on a tree walking on its six legs.
Seeing the world with this kind of vision is really. Wow.
"Nagato your hair!" Nagato turned to Ryosuke who was looking at him strangely. Nagato's hair began to darken from root to tip.
My hair?. Nagato touched his head.
"Your hair, blackened..."
What?
Ryosuke
pulled him in front of the shop window. And sure enough, her hair... turned black. Was this a side effect of using his Quirk? Nagato remembered just using rinegan just now.
"I guess this isn't bad news is it? Wait a minute, like it's not completely black. It's still red, just a very dark red that looks like black." Ryosuke commented while rubbing his chin.
"Do you feel something else in your body, Nagato?" Nagato shook his head. His body was still the same as yesterday, it didn't feel different.
"Is it because of your eyes? Side effects maybe?" Nagato touched his left eye then shook his head, he didn't know either.
"Even so can you restore your eye to its original state?. Like your right eye." Ryosuke crouched down to equalize his height with Nagato.
Nagato tried to feel the rinegan in his eyes. Suddenly a wave of energy blew the dust around from Nagato's body as the center, startling Ryosuke and Nagato himself. People passing by looked at Nagato and Ryosuke because of the incident.
Ah, this is... It was
one of Nagato's
rinegan abilities in the Naruto world that could blow away everything around him. It can even destroy the Konoha village out of shape. Although what he produced just now was small, but if at full power he could level this town to the ground.
Feeling many pairs of eyes watching them Ryosuke immediately pulled Nagato away. "Let's find a quieter place to try your quirk."
The incident made Nagato sure that his rinegan was the same as the one in Naruto's world. That means all rinegan abilities he can use, including making six pain. Nagato thought.
They walked to the suburban park. "Tell me what it is." Ryosuke looked straight into Nagato's eyes, trying to ignore his attention-grabbing left eye.
Nagato picked up a twig and crouched down. He wrote, "It's called shinra tensei. It's like a wave of repulsion on two poles of the same magnet."
"What exactly is your quirk?" Ryosuke was completely astonished. Obviously he couldn't connect that power with Nagato's eyes. Ryosuke also squatted beside Nagato.
"My quirk is this eye, called rinegan. This eye has six abilities. Shinra tensei and another one called Bansho tenin are only one of the six abilities." Given that the powers Yahiko used after he became the pain leader were these two. For the other five pain they had their own abilities.
"You said only, you mean there's more!" Ryosuke gaped.
Nagato nodded. "Six to be exact. And I can also make 'dolls', from the bodies of living things. But I've never tried it." Nagato explained. He recalled the six pain that could destroy an entire village without even Nagato himself intervening. Just those six 'people' alone, were already equal to a large army of power.
"Doll, do you mean the body of a living being? You mean a corpse?!" Ryosuke said loudly. Suddenly Nagato immediately smothered his mouth while glaring at Ryosuke, telling him to shut up.
Ryosuke nodded repeatedly. After Nagato removed his hand Ryosuke spoke up again. "Gosh what a creature I've brought home." He kept muttering. And Nagato just let him.
Ryosuke glanced at Nagato silently. The power Nagato's eyes contained was too great. Maybe that's what made Nagato so thin. It's certain that his body can't withstand that much power. Ryosuke thought.
He remembered Nagato's left eye. No wonder when he saw that eye he seemed to be attracted. Like a moth attracted to the light of a fire. He could get burned if he got too close.
'I have to be careful with Nagato's quirk, lest he lose his control.' Ryosuke thought.
"Ok, forget about your six abilities for now. Now can you give me back your real eyes? I'm a little uncomfortable looking at those eyes after hearing your explanation." Ryosuke rubbed the back of his neck.
Nagato shook his head, he had tried it earlier but instead of returning it brought out shinra tensei which surprised the two men.
"Then just close your left eye and don't open it. I don't know if this will work. But I think your eye will give off its ability if it's open, so just close your eye." Ryosuke suggested.
Nagato nodded and closed one eye. It was better to close that eye first because he couldn't control it yet. He also doesn't know how much power this eye has, is it the same as the rinegan in Naruto's world?
If
that's the case, there's no question about Nagato'
s skinny body here. That's because his body is unable to bear the huge burden of Rinegan's eyes. Poor Nagato, curse Uchiha Madara who implanted rinegan in Nagato!.
"Well, that's better. Now come on, we still have to work for money." The two of them headed to the edge of a city park that had quite a few visitors and started busking.
Nagato strummed the guitar while Ryosuke did the vocals. Perfect notes came out from Nagato's fingers plucking the guitar strings. Plus Ryosuke's calm and smooth voice accompanied him.
Nagato stared in awe at Ryosuke. Ryosuke's character changed one hundred and eighty degrees as soon as he sang. He became calm and mature, as if he had experienced all kinds of life tests. Unlike the childish Ryosuke he knew yesterday.
Ryosuke used his quirk to spread the song so that many park visitors would hear and pay attention. He was like using a loudspeaker. But the sound is not broken and shaky, but intact and comfortable to hear.
At first glance, Ryosuke's quirk is similar to Present Mic's quirk. One of the teachers who teaches at UA. Where the main characters of this world go to school. But unfortunately Ryosuke's cannot be used to attack so it is different from Present Mic's.
Many visitors began to approach us. Some even started giving money. Immediately Ryosuke accepted the money while continuing to sing.
Nagato looked at the row of audience in front of him. Many people were looking at him but it didn't affect Nagato's guitar playing. He kept playing calmly without a hint of nervousness. Sometimes he even exchanged glances with some of the audience.
As Nagato exchanged glances for the umpteenth time, his eyes widened. Among the crowd was a thin, dry yellow-haired figure. He was All Might!. Wow, he had just seen the previous generation's one for all owner. The teacher and mentor of this world's main character!. Nagato nodded in greeting then averted his gaze once All Might saw him.
Would All Might realize his greeting?
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