Truth Well Hidden

Kiba's Secrets

Kiba went into the town to purchase many different notebooks and proceeded to study the history of the elemental nations, the history of the Inuzuka clan, jutsu and any other thing he managed to find. However, Kiba did not manage to build up the confidence to actually try out the jutsu he studied. He only worked out battle strategies and noted down the execution of the jutsu and how they can be used in battle. He also accounted for all the weaknesses and how they could be covered up or how they would influence the fighting style. Instead of using his instinct, as most Inuzuka did, he chose to learn how to fight by using his head.

At some point, Kiba came across several books about chakra control. He read about how chakra control is essential to every shinobi and what feats it could allow a shinobi to accomplish. He was amazed. People can walk up walls, walk on water, stand on sharp objects without being pierced and even move objects with just chakra alone!

Kiba decided to try out the exercises starting with the most basic of them, the leaf exercise. It involves using chakra to attach a leaf to the forehead without letting it fall off. Kiba tried it many times to no avail. He always either used too much chakra -- causing it to fly off or too little -- which would cause it to fall off. He worked at it all day but was unsuccessful in doing it despite exhausting his chakra.

Kiba went up the hidden stairway and out into an empty square room. He did not bother to look at where he was going, so used to the route he took that he did not need to think about where he needed to go. He placed his hand on a seemingly normal part of the wall of one of the sides of the room, causing a door to slide open for him to pass through. Once on the other side, the door slid shut while leaving no trace that it had ever existed. He continued to walk until he found himself at what seemed to be another dead-end, not even looking up as he pulled a candle holder attached to the wall down. This was a lever that caused a semicircular portion of the floor to rotate such that Kiba was left in yet another long corridor.

This one branched in two directions and had an unseen wind blowing away all traces of the scents of people who have passed the passageway through vents near the ceiling. Kiba turned right and continued walking until he was in front of another "dead-end". He touched what was approximately the centre of the circular pattern and pulsed chakra through it. The circle glowed and another door opened up to his left. Kiba entered and was not shocked when the door also closed soundlessly behind him, climbing up another flight of stairs and stopping at where it seemed to end.

Kiba pushed the "wall" outward before dragging it to the right using the handhold in the middle of the door (it looked like a crack) and pushed aside a perpetually dusty tapestry, revealing rows upon rows of dusty bookshelves. Kiba was in a forgotten section of the Inuzuka clan library, known to him as the entrance to his study room. Kiba walked through the dank hall, undeterred by the tall shelves that seemed as though they might collapse on him at any moment and pushed aside another tapestry at the other end of the library after taking a book from the bookshelf beside the tapestry. It revealed a dimly lit part of the newer Inuzuka clan library.

From what Kiba knew, the forgotten library contained the darker secrets of his clan as well as numerous kinjutsu. That was why it was hidden, no one knowing that it existed. Kiba had found it by chance when he was going through books in the library, suddenly seeing a book that seemed to call to him and removing it from its shelf. Needless to say, Kiba was shocked when a part in the wall broke from the rest and opened up to a dusty library that looked sadly forgotten. He had entered, only to find more of these strange entrances that eventually brought him to his current study room. Kiba knew that it had been sealed off for a reason, however, the way it called to him made the boy unable to resist the urge to explore the place. He had, at first, been reluctant to enter the ancient library. However, he soon found out that even though the shelves looked like they would collapse at any moment, they were much sturdier than even the newest bookshelves in the clan library.