Summoner Kuro waited outside of the main entrance to a series of caverns having hunted and catalogued carnasaurs here before he did not want to lose a trusted family member to a task so he waited concealed from sent and sight in a pillar of sandstone to speak with Kyuji before he ventured off to take on a carnasaur. As Kyuji approached his mangekyou sharingan easily picked up the usage of Kuro's odd chakra. Seeing it now he understood how he could easily have underestimated Kuro previously. WIth his eyes as they were now he would not miss much.
“Kyuji-ni-sama, before you face the carnasaurs you may have to make a terrible choice much like your son did. When Yanjirou took up the sacred white blade of Byakko and broke Onimaru’s curse of being a living weapon Yanjirou in turn became a celestial weapon. Wherever he goes the spirits can feel his presence and he can focus his special abilities to see them as well. You on the other hand are different you have three paths you can take. The easiest path is for you can become like your son in a way. You need only draw forth your own soul through your reinforced arm to enchant yourself as a celestial weapon. White tiger’s paw as it were for your son has already become White tiger’s claws. As a full master you would be able to call upon your own divine soul to transform into a scion of the white tiger through your arm. That would be something to see and although I would love to see it I understand the pride it takes to stay as you are.”
Summoner Kuro would use his telekinesis and mirror jutsu to make a clone of Kyuji that emulated Yanjirou’s spiritual abilities. It quickly dissipated as it was only a construct of Kuro’s imagination.
“You have a second path you can take as well. This path is by far the hardest and it would make you too much like myself and N’taku, as such I don’t advise it as Immortality causes you to distance yourself from the world sometimes or at least that is what it did to my father. Not only can you draw forth your own soul through your reinforced arm to enchant yourself but as a celestial avenger you can take the power of another being’s soul as well. White Tiger’s Vengeance was the title of such a being long ago. What would happen is that through the blessed metal and bone in your reinforced limb with runic terran scripts controlled by your mind and soul you would literally rip the hearts and souls of Byakko’s enemies from their bodies and take their power for your own. The last scion of vengeance was slain effectively five times in one battle by an army of mystic blade wielding mercenaries from what was once known as Heavenly Sword House a clan from Iron country. They had been hired by a now forgotten aristocrat to take vengeance upon the Byakko Family for failing to heal a sick princess. Had this mad man called upon our medics before he tried false magics and fake medicines for a year she would have lived but the fool waited till she was at death’s door. By the time Master Byakko Tensho arrived she was already dead but the idiot noble refused to believe that and needing someone to blame he declared Kanly upon the Byakko family and by extension the entire Toraono Clan. Master Tensho was attacked by thirty men and his arms severed. Unfortunately for the Heavenly Sword House Master Tensho had been blessed by Byakko as a child and as he bled out he called upon Byakko whom invoked the celestial power within him. Needless to say his limbs returned to his body and his bleeding stopped. He then slayed all thirty swordsmen and took the heart and soul of their leader as retribution. The noble called upon every remaining swordsman in his household and some sellswords to kill Master Tensho. Three hundred blades rushed into the desert to take Tensho’s life during the battle he was beheaded but the celestial power brought him back and so he claimed another leader’s heart and soul, along with five other’s. Each time he fell or suffered a mortal wound he would rise anew. After three days of terrible fighting the Heavenly Sword House was empty of all male heirs and no one would accept the noble’s money to hunt down the immortal Master Tensho. When Tensho returned to the dojo he wrote a full thesis and dissertation on the incident and the experience and every glimpse of the pure realm beyond our own. I have read both books and the theories surrounding that power and as you are now you fulfill every requirement to call upon that power in a far more controlled manner. That too would be something to see and although you would become a medical miracle. I again must empathize that I understand the pride it takes to stay as your are.”
Kuro did not make an image of this state as he had never seen it and though Master Tensho had exiled himself from the clan fifty years ago he had returned from time to time to expand upon his discoveries.
“You have a third path you can take which I believe for many would be the hardest path of all. That path is to remain exactly as you are and resist the celestial power within you. You need only call out to it through your reinforced arm to invoke its wrath. It is alluring, it is dangerous, and above all it is too easy to do so. Yet and still I would like to say I have learned what kind of man you are and in that I am certain no matter what you do, you will SURPRISE me… Be safe on your hunt Kyuji-ni, You are still needed so you must return alive.”
Having said his piece Summoner Kuro would step aside and allow Kyuji to continue on his hunt Kuro too was certain it would be done quickly.
Without it being said Kyuji knew Kuro would be waiting for him just within reach should things get bad. He knew Kuro would be at his back ready to pull him out of the fire as it were.
WC: 1030
MFT
“Kyuji-ni-sama, before you face the carnasaurs you may have to make a terrible choice much like your son did. When Yanjirou took up the sacred white blade of Byakko and broke Onimaru’s curse of being a living weapon Yanjirou in turn became a celestial weapon. Wherever he goes the spirits can feel his presence and he can focus his special abilities to see them as well. You on the other hand are different you have three paths you can take. The easiest path is for you can become like your son in a way. You need only draw forth your own soul through your reinforced arm to enchant yourself as a celestial weapon. White tiger’s paw as it were for your son has already become White tiger’s claws. As a full master you would be able to call upon your own divine soul to transform into a scion of the white tiger through your arm. That would be something to see and although I would love to see it I understand the pride it takes to stay as you are.”
Summoner Kuro would use his telekinesis and mirror jutsu to make a clone of Kyuji that emulated Yanjirou’s spiritual abilities. It quickly dissipated as it was only a construct of Kuro’s imagination.
“You have a second path you can take as well. This path is by far the hardest and it would make you too much like myself and N’taku, as such I don’t advise it as Immortality causes you to distance yourself from the world sometimes or at least that is what it did to my father. Not only can you draw forth your own soul through your reinforced arm to enchant yourself but as a celestial avenger you can take the power of another being’s soul as well. White Tiger’s Vengeance was the title of such a being long ago. What would happen is that through the blessed metal and bone in your reinforced limb with runic terran scripts controlled by your mind and soul you would literally rip the hearts and souls of Byakko’s enemies from their bodies and take their power for your own. The last scion of vengeance was slain effectively five times in one battle by an army of mystic blade wielding mercenaries from what was once known as Heavenly Sword House a clan from Iron country. They had been hired by a now forgotten aristocrat to take vengeance upon the Byakko Family for failing to heal a sick princess. Had this mad man called upon our medics before he tried false magics and fake medicines for a year she would have lived but the fool waited till she was at death’s door. By the time Master Byakko Tensho arrived she was already dead but the idiot noble refused to believe that and needing someone to blame he declared Kanly upon the Byakko family and by extension the entire Toraono Clan. Master Tensho was attacked by thirty men and his arms severed. Unfortunately for the Heavenly Sword House Master Tensho had been blessed by Byakko as a child and as he bled out he called upon Byakko whom invoked the celestial power within him. Needless to say his limbs returned to his body and his bleeding stopped. He then slayed all thirty swordsmen and took the heart and soul of their leader as retribution. The noble called upon every remaining swordsman in his household and some sellswords to kill Master Tensho. Three hundred blades rushed into the desert to take Tensho’s life during the battle he was beheaded but the celestial power brought him back and so he claimed another leader’s heart and soul, along with five other’s. Each time he fell or suffered a mortal wound he would rise anew. After three days of terrible fighting the Heavenly Sword House was empty of all male heirs and no one would accept the noble’s money to hunt down the immortal Master Tensho. When Tensho returned to the dojo he wrote a full thesis and dissertation on the incident and the experience and every glimpse of the pure realm beyond our own. I have read both books and the theories surrounding that power and as you are now you fulfill every requirement to call upon that power in a far more controlled manner. That too would be something to see and although you would become a medical miracle. I again must empathize that I understand the pride it takes to stay as your are.”
Kuro did not make an image of this state as he had never seen it and though Master Tensho had exiled himself from the clan fifty years ago he had returned from time to time to expand upon his discoveries.
“You have a third path you can take which I believe for many would be the hardest path of all. That path is to remain exactly as you are and resist the celestial power within you. You need only call out to it through your reinforced arm to invoke its wrath. It is alluring, it is dangerous, and above all it is too easy to do so. Yet and still I would like to say I have learned what kind of man you are and in that I am certain no matter what you do, you will SURPRISE me… Be safe on your hunt Kyuji-ni, You are still needed so you must return alive.”
Having said his piece Summoner Kuro would step aside and allow Kyuji to continue on his hunt Kuro too was certain it would be done quickly.
Without it being said Kyuji knew Kuro would be waiting for him just within reach should things get bad. He knew Kuro would be at his back ready to pull him out of the fire as it were.
WC: 1030
MFT
