Yamanaka Inoichi placed his hands together and formed a handsign, it was a unique one much different from the regular ones that were used in normal jutsu.
His hands somewhat formed a triangle that pointed directly towards Kazuo, before he lifted his hands and pointed the triangle directly towards Kazuo's head and then closed his eyes.
Kazuo felt nothing for a mere moment before it happened.
*Thump*
It was like something had suddenly invaded him, the inside of his mind in an instant and had torn the mental barrier in an instant.
Inside his own mind, Kazuo found himself in his mindscape, a place where all his memories were held and guarded.
A slow insidious smile appeared on his face as he noticed Yamanaka Inoichi further away from him walking towards a cluster of light balls.
'Those are likely my memories that he's heading towards. This place is my mindscape. I shouldn't be here most likely considering that he doesn't seem to have noticed or expected me. So it could be because of my master of Yin release and mind jutsu of my own like mind exhaustion and mind break. But this works perfectly. His mind is here, If i can defeat him inside here and break his mind, It'll make me suspicious and most likely detained however I could simply say that I didn't know what happened or that my body might have an innate resistance to such attacks… its still much better than him finding out im already a rogue ninja.' Kazuo thought quickly before closing his eyes.
He had received the memories of his shadow clone whilst he had been in a coma and he was quite surprised to find out about the capabilities of the dojutsu. Whilst it didn't look like much, It was infact broken if used correctly.
Opening his eyes, they were now a shining dark orange with a clock symbol replacing the pupils.
Using all his strength to run forward at his maximum speed, Kazuo ran towards Yamanaka Inojin, he didn't use any chakra as that would most likely alarm the people on the outside. The dojutsu didn't have high chakra requirements to activate so it wouldn't be noticeable and people would just chalk it up to Inoichi simply doing his job atleast Kazuo hoped so.
Steps were heard on the water tiles. At the sound, Yamanaka Inoichi froze before quickly turning around, his hand already lifting to perform a jutsu.
Looking at Kazuo who was running towards him with shining orange eyes, Inoichi instantly felt sweat start to build up above his brow, this hadn't been what he was expecting.
"What are you doing Kazuo!" Inoichi quickly asked as he prepared to stall for a bit of time before launching a Jutsu or simply heading out of the mindscape.
Kazuo didn't speak, nor did he stop, he simply continued running towards the man at faster and faster speeds, his body becoming a blur. Arriving close to him, Kazuo finally lifted his hand and started making hand seals.
'Yin Release: Mind Break'
At the moment yin chakra started to gather near his hand that was already outstretched towards Inoichi, the man started to turn away, ready to use a jutsu like the body flicker.
That would have been fine if he had been on time.
When running at high speeds, someone can traverse the remaining distance between the two of them in a split second. And Kazuo had the means to control that split second.
Kazuo opened his eyes fully, the clock being completely revealed, the ticking hand representing the second stopped, just for a mere fraction of the second, the fraction of a second that it stopped, a mere 0.1 seconds, were enough for Kazuos hand to reach Inoichis head.
Pushing as much chakra as his currently depleted body could, Kazuo performed the Yin Release Jutsu.
For a split moment, nothing seemed to happened.
That moment turned into a second, two, three and on the fourth second.
A scream of pure unadulterated ravaging pain erupted from Yamanaka Inoichis mouth as his body started convusling both inside Kazuo's mindscape and on the outside world.
Minato instantly shot up to his feet, at the last second he had clearly sensed the chakra fluctuations inside of Kazuo's body.
"Obito." Minato said quickly as he motioned with his hand towards Kazuo.
Obito nodded before opening his sharingan and looking at Kazuo, his eyes widening at what he saw.
The sharingan had lower chakra seeing capabilities than the Byakugan however even they could clearly see when someone was using a dojutsu.
"His eyes." Obito spoke outloud, his voice faintly shaking.
Not wasting a moment, Minato instantly crouched down before Kazuo's half unconscious body and opened his eyelids with one finger and there it was.
The orange clock pupils.
"What… what are those eyes?" Kakashi and Rin asked at the same time, completely confused as they stared at their team mate.
"No idea, I've never seen anything like them before, at this point however I can only come up with two hypothesis. First one is that Kazuo has kept this hidden from us for a long time now and is actually already someone who has betrayed the village. The second one is that he only recently awakened this and he didn't know that it would have a mind protection effect that would result in Inoichi becoming like this." Minato spoke as he gritted his teeth, the situation had become much more complicated than before, now he had a very much plausible traitor on his hands that was also his student and at the same time he had a convulsing Yamanaka patriarch in the middel of his living room.
"Rin, check up on Inoichi." Minato said as his hand flashed and he knocked Kazuo out with quick palm to his neck.
'This should make it so that the Jutsu is dispersed and Inoichi is fully returned to his body. Let's just hope the damage to his mind isn't too big or this is another scandal.' Minato thought as he ran a hand through his hair.
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