Ayame- Iris- Fem Harry Potter

Shiriusu- Sirius – to-san/father

Ryu – Dragon – Draco- itoko/cousin

Miya – Beauty – Narcissa – oba/aunt

Asebi – Andromeda- oba/aunt

Takeo – Ted – oji/uncle

Maiko - Nymphadora– itoko/cousin

黒い村 Kuroi mura- Kuroimura- Black Village

Chapter 65

Inoichi spent the next week and a half working with Ayame on rebuilding her defenses and reorganising her less emotionally charged memories. Memories of training days which lead to memories of the people she trained with. Memories of family and happy times, early lessons that she remembered.

It was nearing the end of Ayame's medical leave when Inoichi finally made a break through, a seemingly inconspicuous memory of Ryu promising to protect his younger cousin as she followed her own quest. This caused Inoichi to ask about her quest, expecting an childhood story of an adventure. Instead, for the first time Ayame talked, well ranted, in fustrated anger at Inoichi;

"I made an oath not long after we had arrived here that I would fight to help Mother. I'd built my whole life around that goal, around protecting this world, helping the people who lived here, I would be a warrior in Mother's name but She started to change. Soaking up the natural chakra strengthened Mother and as time went on Her magic was used and replaced with more chakra changing her further until finally there's no magic left and Mother Magic is no more. Not dead but reborn in to a being of chakra, The Being of Chakra, but with no more magic there was nothing to keep our connection alive, so it broke. The one thing I had built my whole life around was gone.

Alone, that was enough to deal with but I found that one of my Family's has a strong connection with a different Being, who had been watching me since before I was born to test my worth and that Being had decided now was the time to test me face to face, as it were. Not only did I pass these tests but I have been gifted with abilities I know nothing about, that I neither asked for nor want and an impossible task as payment for the Being's generousity."

He waited for the waters that had started to thrash with hime's anger to calm again before Inoichi spoke, "You're going to have to give me some background here Hime. I have no frame of reference for most of what you said then."

Having calmed and become embarrassed at her own outburst Ayame was unsure where to begin explaining things to Inoichi. She'd never had to explain what she knew instinctively before, or really had to explain anything about herself before. Everybody around her had known enough or just accepted her without question. With a deep sigh Ayame called one of her memories down to her. Inoichi quickly noticed that this cocoon didn't glow like the others instead it pulsed a poisonous green and as it opened the butterfly that emerged was sickly looking. Like all the others before it the butterfly pulsed once and the scene around them changed.

"My earliest memory," the emerald eyed child whispered in the stillness of the memory's beginning. Inoichi watched as the murder of Ayame's mother happened, he watched silently as the murderer turned his weapon upon the tiny memory version of the Hime stood stoically next to him. He felt as the energies within the room strengthened, mixed, twisted, changed and spilt. He closed his eyes against the bright flash of magic and upon opening them seconds later saw the destruction of the murderer. The memory faded from view and Inoichi pushed aside his own emotional reaction to the memories events to focus on the child he was helping.

Her voice nothing more than a whisper in the stillness, Ayame spoke while looking out over the sea of her energies. "His name was Voldemort, consider him a Hokage level missing nin who leads an group of other missing nins and spies, he was attacking the rest of the 'village' to take control, killing any who opposed him. My mother and James took me into hiding with them as Voldemort was known to be targeting them. We were betrayed and Voldemort was lead straight to us. He gave mother 3 chances to stand aside, 3 times she begged him to take her instead of harming me. 3 is a number of power and Voldemort's agreement on the third repetition called the attention of a higher being, a Kami; Mother Magic. She blessed the agreement making it a binding oath and when Voldemort took my mother's life the oath was complete.

"When Voldemort turned his wand upon me Mother Magic was furious that he had broken his oath. She protected me and turned his own spell against him. It should have killed Voldemort but he was more depraved then anyone had thought and he had attempted to make himself immortal. In punishment Mother Magic attempted to take away his gift from her, but She had been weakening for centuries and wasn't powerful enough. She took what She could, cleansed it and gifted it to me as an apology for allowing me to be injured." Ayame reached up and stroked the lightning bolt scar that had appeared when the memory started.

"Mother Magic healed it, so I have no scar remaining but my mind remembers it. We formed a connection, Mother Magic and I; She was my protection and comfort, and I was a source of strength for Her. I had a neutral core, through me Mother could pull upon clean magic, magic that hasn't been corrupted or weakened. I wasn't even two years old when the connection was created, and my mind formed around it. When our connection broke, so did my mind."

Ayame continued to explain about her recent visits from Death and what He was expecting from the emerald-eyed preteen. The apparent gifts that Ayame had been given that she had no idea what they could be or how they could work. The vague outline of the mission Death had given her, the ''nightmares of the shinobi world" that she was expected to face.

Inoichi watched as Ayame spoke and around her memories flashed, giving him glimpses of the events she spoke of. He felt as her mind shifted as she was coming to terms with her loss and burden and how her mindscape changed as she no longer avoided memories and thoughts.

As Ayame continued to speak she didn't even notice when her mind pushed Inoichi out and continue to talk to him outside of her mind, settled around a table. Inoichi continued the discussion focusing on Ayame's emotional health and not his own curiosity, after all it was likely that he would be at the explanation with the Hokage that the young Hime had promised.