Strolling through Arcadia, upon the ruins of what he used to call a home, Tao stumbled upon a piece of fabric. The fabric was torn and dirted, it held the iconic symbol of the Kagerenmei organization and all he could think to himself,
"What happened... This past 3 years... Where are everyone"
He crowched to pick up the fabric and clentched it in his fist. Getting up he looked around, the ruins seemed fairly new, it couldnt have occured too long ago, but what could cause it... He couldnt believe that such a great establishment was reduced to rubble so easily.
"... Its them... It must be. Those traitors that started infiltrating kagerenmei ranks 3 years ago..."
He released the fabric and continued exploring the rubble. It didnt seem like there was anything salvegable in the remains. Maybe he could find someone alive, maybe if he could find Satsu. He started digging through the debree and pushing rocks aside, maybe he could find something that could shed a bit more light on this scenario. It took him quite a while but he finally found something else. A body, one of the initiates from the order, well, not an initiate anymore from what he could tell, the uniform was different, a knight? Well, he moved up in the world, unfortunately his life also ended before Tao could see him one more time. He frowned.
"I doubt that this is the last one, theres bound to be more bodies around here. I better give them a proper berial."
Tao dragged out the body and left it by the edge of the property. He exhaled and went back to search for more of his deseased colegues. He worked tirelessly for 20 hours to dig up 50 additional bodies from that unmarked grave and dragged them into a single location, it will be easier to bury them now. He began forming handseals and started to slide the ground to create holes fit for a single human at a time. He prepared one for each body, fifty one in total. He placed each one in his own hole and covered it with dirt. And with another quick set of handseals he caused crystals to rise from the ground next to each hole and he pulled out a kunai, carved the name of the person on the crystal so that the graves could be marked properly and left them there as is.
"finally"
He exhaled again, sighing heavily at the sight he had to witness and clunched his chest, it felt warm for a change, it was strange... No, new. Something happened, he couldnt explain it but he somehow knew that his mother was getting weaker. And then he was ... Dripping? Black substance began to ooze from him, flowing cleanly through his clouthes, mouth, eyes and ears. He looked at his hands, covered by that black goo while they were shaking... Was he shaking? That was a new expirience for him, he coudlnt understand what was going on, what he could understand though was that he was afraid. He paniced and gripped his kunai and fiercely used it to impare his own hand.
"Ugh"
He carefully pulled out the kunai out of his shaky hand and found out that no light escaped from the newly formed hole, instead that black stuff began to pur out of it as well.
"What?"
He got up.
"What is going on?"
He dropped the kunai and ran towards the crystals, slidding to one of them as he did his best to break his sprint and leaned close to see his reflection. He couldnt see his face anymore, he didnt recognize what he saw. It had his silver hair and his gray eyes but that black stuff continued to ooze from his eyes, nose, mouth and ears, completely covering anything bellow him in black semi-reflective liquid goo.
"Is this blood...? No, blood is red, but this... Is black?"
He was shocked, he couldnt understand anything anymore. Was that a halusination? He began touching himself, checking if he can still feel his own skin and that black substance. It all feels real. Just to make sure, he formed several handseals
"KAI!"
He dispelled the genjutsu... Atleast he hoped he did, but it was no illusion, he was really happening.
"Huhuhu.... Hahaha.... WHAHAHAHAHHA"
He suddenly began hearing a laughter, a loud one at that, so loud it could only be done by someone who amplified his voice using some sort of sound jutsu. He looked around, he could not see anyone, no living soul was around the whole area, so where is it coming from.
"HAHAHAHHAHAHAHA"
"WHO IS IT? SHOW YOURSELF!"
He got onto his feet and looked around again while shouting.
"Hmhmhm, who is it? show yourself? Can you even hear yourself talking? You sound insane"
He looked again, he cant seem to find where the voice is coming from, noting about it indicated a spesific direction.
"I SAID SHOW YOURSELF!!!"
Tao roared as he clapped his hands together and his whole body illuminated shedding imense amount of light in all directions, well, as much as he could as the majority of his body is actually covered by this thick black substance. He still could not find anyone, even now.
"There there, is that.. Hmhmhm, how you greet an old friend?"
He keeps looking around, he still cannot spot anyone, but he is on alert, eyes open wide and tries to pick up on any slight sound he can manage to catch in his range. But what he couldnt see or tell, is that his whole body is shaking, his expression is best described of one who is in an extreme panic. The heat radiating from his chest is almost unbareable at this point. He looks down at his his feet again, he was standing in the center of a black puddle. Looking at the crystal again, he finally saw it. The thing that was calling him out. There seemed to be a black snake wrapped around his neck and shoulders, looking stright at him with its red eyes.
"Finally, I grew tired of waiting for you to notice me. Can you feel it? Someone important to you is almost dead. But dont worry, I can help you... If you want. I can grant you your wish, and keep her alive, and keep you alive..."
"W-what?"
"Look at your hands"
The moment that Tao lowered his head and looked at his own hands, he couldnt see the black goo anymore, it had transformed into a swarm of black snakes that were crawling his whole body, he could see just the edge of it since all he could see now was his hands and feet but soon enough he took a look at his lower body, he was competely covered with those snakes, they were constantly moving around him. And then, he began to safocate, the bigger snake began to tighten his grip around Tao's neck and the snakes began to cover his entier body. For a while now, he could not feel anything beside the slithering of the snakes and their hissing sounds along with his body being crushed by their grip, he could feel his skin cracking under the pressure and soon enough he couldnt hear or see a single thing. He blanked out.
"Hmhmhmhm... He is finally gone."
The husk of snakes chucked with a muffled sound. And soon enough it bursted out and the snakes evaporated quickly into thin air. From there a man emerged, his fitured resembled those of Tao but his hair was black and his eyes were yellow, he had two yellow dots on the right of his cheek and his clothes changed as well, he was wearing a set of black and white clothing composed out of a black shirt, black pants and black turtle neck with white arrows drawn on them that point down. He looks down at his own hands and grins, he finally managed to posses a body, after waiting so long for some fool with a weak enough mind and even a weaker body to take over, but something did feel off. He started touching his own hands, they felt real enough, then his own face, then he looked down at the reflection from the crystals, he looked human, so why did it feel wierd to be in that body. While pondering to himself what might have gone wrong he figured he would at least leave that at that and go on to the next phase, after all, his very existance in that body required him to fulfill that wish of the original owner, which is to keep it alive. Now, while he didnt exactly understand what it was, he figured that as long as he keeps that body alive it should be all the same to him.
"... Wait a second, I just got a new body, I think that means I'll need to give it a new name as well.... I know. Lets call it Kurohebi, just for the sake of irony."
And with a new established name and identity, Kurohebi decided it was time to blend into the public, and what better subject it'd be than a person who no longer has any ties to the village, just perfect. Creating everything anew is something he could mearly ask for. But first, he had to test this new body. He swinged his arms a couple of times to see how well he can move them, then stretched his legs, bent them a little while shifting his weight forward and broke into a sudden sprint. Zigzaging around to see how quickly he can turn while moving in high speed and then used a wall to stop him instantly by simply leaping onto it and landing with both feet on it to break the momentum, then he tested the chakra, he pushed some chakra to his feet to stay on the wall and found out that surprisingly enough he the original owner of the body has a pretty high reserve of chakra, the manipulation was fluid and simple, it wasnt difficult to control the flow either, seemed too good to be true, and it was all his. His grin widened as he looked up (or forward in this case) and jumped off the wall.
"Oh, this is just a treat. I love just this body! Now... Lets go and get into that shinobi organization."
He dusted himself off and began walking towards the exit of Arcadia.
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"What happened... This past 3 years... Where are everyone"
He crowched to pick up the fabric and clentched it in his fist. Getting up he looked around, the ruins seemed fairly new, it couldnt have occured too long ago, but what could cause it... He couldnt believe that such a great establishment was reduced to rubble so easily.
"... Its them... It must be. Those traitors that started infiltrating kagerenmei ranks 3 years ago..."
He released the fabric and continued exploring the rubble. It didnt seem like there was anything salvegable in the remains. Maybe he could find someone alive, maybe if he could find Satsu. He started digging through the debree and pushing rocks aside, maybe he could find something that could shed a bit more light on this scenario. It took him quite a while but he finally found something else. A body, one of the initiates from the order, well, not an initiate anymore from what he could tell, the uniform was different, a knight? Well, he moved up in the world, unfortunately his life also ended before Tao could see him one more time. He frowned.
"I doubt that this is the last one, theres bound to be more bodies around here. I better give them a proper berial."
Tao dragged out the body and left it by the edge of the property. He exhaled and went back to search for more of his deseased colegues. He worked tirelessly for 20 hours to dig up 50 additional bodies from that unmarked grave and dragged them into a single location, it will be easier to bury them now. He began forming handseals and started to slide the ground to create holes fit for a single human at a time. He prepared one for each body, fifty one in total. He placed each one in his own hole and covered it with dirt. And with another quick set of handseals he caused crystals to rise from the ground next to each hole and he pulled out a kunai, carved the name of the person on the crystal so that the graves could be marked properly and left them there as is.
"finally"
He exhaled again, sighing heavily at the sight he had to witness and clunched his chest, it felt warm for a change, it was strange... No, new. Something happened, he couldnt explain it but he somehow knew that his mother was getting weaker. And then he was ... Dripping? Black substance began to ooze from him, flowing cleanly through his clouthes, mouth, eyes and ears. He looked at his hands, covered by that black goo while they were shaking... Was he shaking? That was a new expirience for him, he coudlnt understand what was going on, what he could understand though was that he was afraid. He paniced and gripped his kunai and fiercely used it to impare his own hand.
"Ugh"
He carefully pulled out the kunai out of his shaky hand and found out that no light escaped from the newly formed hole, instead that black stuff began to pur out of it as well.
"What?"
He got up.
"What is going on?"
He dropped the kunai and ran towards the crystals, slidding to one of them as he did his best to break his sprint and leaned close to see his reflection. He couldnt see his face anymore, he didnt recognize what he saw. It had his silver hair and his gray eyes but that black stuff continued to ooze from his eyes, nose, mouth and ears, completely covering anything bellow him in black semi-reflective liquid goo.
"Is this blood...? No, blood is red, but this... Is black?"
He was shocked, he couldnt understand anything anymore. Was that a halusination? He began touching himself, checking if he can still feel his own skin and that black substance. It all feels real. Just to make sure, he formed several handseals
"KAI!"
He dispelled the genjutsu... Atleast he hoped he did, but it was no illusion, he was really happening.
"Huhuhu.... Hahaha.... WHAHAHAHAHHA"
He suddenly began hearing a laughter, a loud one at that, so loud it could only be done by someone who amplified his voice using some sort of sound jutsu. He looked around, he could not see anyone, no living soul was around the whole area, so where is it coming from.
"HAHAHAHHAHAHAHA"
"WHO IS IT? SHOW YOURSELF!"
He got onto his feet and looked around again while shouting.
"Hmhmhm, who is it? show yourself? Can you even hear yourself talking? You sound insane"
He looked again, he cant seem to find where the voice is coming from, noting about it indicated a spesific direction.
"I SAID SHOW YOURSELF!!!"
Tao roared as he clapped his hands together and his whole body illuminated shedding imense amount of light in all directions, well, as much as he could as the majority of his body is actually covered by this thick black substance. He still could not find anyone, even now.
"There there, is that.. Hmhmhm, how you greet an old friend?"
He keeps looking around, he still cannot spot anyone, but he is on alert, eyes open wide and tries to pick up on any slight sound he can manage to catch in his range. But what he couldnt see or tell, is that his whole body is shaking, his expression is best described of one who is in an extreme panic. The heat radiating from his chest is almost unbareable at this point. He looks down at his his feet again, he was standing in the center of a black puddle. Looking at the crystal again, he finally saw it. The thing that was calling him out. There seemed to be a black snake wrapped around his neck and shoulders, looking stright at him with its red eyes.
"Finally, I grew tired of waiting for you to notice me. Can you feel it? Someone important to you is almost dead. But dont worry, I can help you... If you want. I can grant you your wish, and keep her alive, and keep you alive..."
"W-what?"
"Look at your hands"
The moment that Tao lowered his head and looked at his own hands, he couldnt see the black goo anymore, it had transformed into a swarm of black snakes that were crawling his whole body, he could see just the edge of it since all he could see now was his hands and feet but soon enough he took a look at his lower body, he was competely covered with those snakes, they were constantly moving around him. And then, he began to safocate, the bigger snake began to tighten his grip around Tao's neck and the snakes began to cover his entier body. For a while now, he could not feel anything beside the slithering of the snakes and their hissing sounds along with his body being crushed by their grip, he could feel his skin cracking under the pressure and soon enough he couldnt hear or see a single thing. He blanked out."Hmhmhmhm... He is finally gone."
The husk of snakes chucked with a muffled sound. And soon enough it bursted out and the snakes evaporated quickly into thin air. From there a man emerged, his fitured resembled those of Tao but his hair was black and his eyes were yellow, he had two yellow dots on the right of his cheek and his clothes changed as well, he was wearing a set of black and white clothing composed out of a black shirt, black pants and black turtle neck with white arrows drawn on them that point down. He looks down at his own hands and grins, he finally managed to posses a body, after waiting so long for some fool with a weak enough mind and even a weaker body to take over, but something did feel off. He started touching his own hands, they felt real enough, then his own face, then he looked down at the reflection from the crystals, he looked human, so why did it feel wierd to be in that body. While pondering to himself what might have gone wrong he figured he would at least leave that at that and go on to the next phase, after all, his very existance in that body required him to fulfill that wish of the original owner, which is to keep it alive. Now, while he didnt exactly understand what it was, he figured that as long as he keeps that body alive it should be all the same to him.
"... Wait a second, I just got a new body, I think that means I'll need to give it a new name as well.... I know. Lets call it Kurohebi, just for the sake of irony."
And with a new established name and identity, Kurohebi decided it was time to blend into the public, and what better subject it'd be than a person who no longer has any ties to the village, just perfect. Creating everything anew is something he could mearly ask for. But first, he had to test this new body. He swinged his arms a couple of times to see how well he can move them, then stretched his legs, bent them a little while shifting his weight forward and broke into a sudden sprint. Zigzaging around to see how quickly he can turn while moving in high speed and then used a wall to stop him instantly by simply leaping onto it and landing with both feet on it to break the momentum, then he tested the chakra, he pushed some chakra to his feet to stay on the wall and found out that surprisingly enough he the original owner of the body has a pretty high reserve of chakra, the manipulation was fluid and simple, it wasnt difficult to control the flow either, seemed too good to be true, and it was all his. His grin widened as he looked up (or forward in this case) and jumped off the wall.
"Oh, this is just a treat. I love just this body! Now... Lets go and get into that shinobi organization."
He dusted himself off and began walking towards the exit of Arcadia.
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