Ziren only nodded as both his friend and sister told him that it was okay, and it is how it needs to be. Now putted the way Yukio had said, it might be safe to say to have Soku not present. Ziren really does want to protect his sister from harm more than anything in this Village.
As the tendrils reached out and the Chigokai felt a wave of emotions. He hasn't felt such a large presence of beings in one place, much less in one person that he had felt like his own emotions that mirrored the ones that washed over him were added to the chaos of emotions, before it all took a drastic turn. Ziren had noticed that Yukio had felt pain and some red goo shot fourth to both Soku and Ziren, he took a step back to make distance between him and the mystery red goop, but it was faster than him as it attached itself to the Chigokai for a brief moment, showing the emotions that it represents. He saw a red monster as it screamed as if there was a million voices in unison before it charged to Ziren. He clamped his hands over his ears before he was able to stand it and yelled back in defiance fists clenched.
But as soon as it came, it went. It was gone. He felt his body shaking. It wasn't like he was scared, no. It felt like he relived the very times in which he had those emotions running at their highest. A flashback ensued. He was in Kitsune park, the Fourth Hokage had beaten him, his wife, and Uchiha Asuka to a pulp and Ziren cut off his own left arm to save his wife's eyes from them being taken out. The feeling of betrayal of trust from someone he used to look up to, granted part of it was his fault, he had begged for the other two to not be punished alongside him. Fear... When he woke up from his coma and found out things that ultimately made him not want to stay as a Leaf Ninja, the times in which he was ashamed of the Village for what it came to. Not knowing if they thought of him as missing or dead, he lived his life in paranoia. Rage, fury, and obsession... His homicidal brother and the mercenary that he had ordered. The mercenary killed his parents and his brother was the cause of it. His brother had harrassed him once he knew that Ziren was alive. He hated them both. Even though he had gotten his revenge on them by killing them, he still can't let go of his anger.
A shaky right hand rested on the place where he had cut his own left arm off, remembering the pain well as if it had just happened. He took a deep breath as he listened to what Yukio had to say about the other three known beings that were sealed away. Shame and Disgust, Iyana. Envy and Grief, otherwise known as Akui and Kunō. He continued on as that they were used for thousands of years as tools and that is why that they treat their hosts. But otherwise there is more as two sides of a coin.
Soku had talked of how the mind is a dangerous thing and these things are proof of that. Ziren took that time to speak, a determined look in his eyes, despite how he was affected by the experience. "I've made it my goal to bring peace in this world, even if it isn't something big as diplomacy or being part of an all out war. I've changed the heart of a dead man and helped him atone for his wrongdoings. Yukio. Soku. You both have my promise. As long as I live, I will protect Akui and Kunō from any outside influences until I find a more permanent peaceful solution for them than their seals." As he talked, the shaking stopped altogether. "When I felt Chinatsu's emotions along with Ikari, I saw my own emotions from the past there as well. I don't know if that's a sign or not, but if I learn to hone my mind beyond just my own emotions, I think I can reach out to them."
As the tendrils reached out and the Chigokai felt a wave of emotions. He hasn't felt such a large presence of beings in one place, much less in one person that he had felt like his own emotions that mirrored the ones that washed over him were added to the chaos of emotions, before it all took a drastic turn. Ziren had noticed that Yukio had felt pain and some red goo shot fourth to both Soku and Ziren, he took a step back to make distance between him and the mystery red goop, but it was faster than him as it attached itself to the Chigokai for a brief moment, showing the emotions that it represents. He saw a red monster as it screamed as if there was a million voices in unison before it charged to Ziren. He clamped his hands over his ears before he was able to stand it and yelled back in defiance fists clenched.
But as soon as it came, it went. It was gone. He felt his body shaking. It wasn't like he was scared, no. It felt like he relived the very times in which he had those emotions running at their highest. A flashback ensued. He was in Kitsune park, the Fourth Hokage had beaten him, his wife, and Uchiha Asuka to a pulp and Ziren cut off his own left arm to save his wife's eyes from them being taken out. The feeling of betrayal of trust from someone he used to look up to, granted part of it was his fault, he had begged for the other two to not be punished alongside him. Fear... When he woke up from his coma and found out things that ultimately made him not want to stay as a Leaf Ninja, the times in which he was ashamed of the Village for what it came to. Not knowing if they thought of him as missing or dead, he lived his life in paranoia. Rage, fury, and obsession... His homicidal brother and the mercenary that he had ordered. The mercenary killed his parents and his brother was the cause of it. His brother had harrassed him once he knew that Ziren was alive. He hated them both. Even though he had gotten his revenge on them by killing them, he still can't let go of his anger.
A shaky right hand rested on the place where he had cut his own left arm off, remembering the pain well as if it had just happened. He took a deep breath as he listened to what Yukio had to say about the other three known beings that were sealed away. Shame and Disgust, Iyana. Envy and Grief, otherwise known as Akui and Kunō. He continued on as that they were used for thousands of years as tools and that is why that they treat their hosts. But otherwise there is more as two sides of a coin.
Soku had talked of how the mind is a dangerous thing and these things are proof of that. Ziren took that time to speak, a determined look in his eyes, despite how he was affected by the experience. "I've made it my goal to bring peace in this world, even if it isn't something big as diplomacy or being part of an all out war. I've changed the heart of a dead man and helped him atone for his wrongdoings. Yukio. Soku. You both have my promise. As long as I live, I will protect Akui and Kunō from any outside influences until I find a more permanent peaceful solution for them than their seals." As he talked, the shaking stopped altogether. "When I felt Chinatsu's emotions along with Ikari, I saw my own emotions from the past there as well. I don't know if that's a sign or not, but if I learn to hone my mind beyond just my own emotions, I think I can reach out to them."
