Kuro's clone returned with a small dossier about Dr. Toa. It didn't do to send the boy into the lion's den without even knowing it was a lion's den.
Daibatsu Toa
Age: 526
Wt: 200
Ht: 5 ft 10 in
Hair: Blood Red
Job: Toraono Clan Engineer/ Surgeon/Weaponsmith
Specialty: Ghola Technology, Prosthetics
Doctor Daibatsu Toa was a great many things during the Demon wars he had been a samurai of little renown and impressive skills. He had earned the title of battlesmith for the weapons he forged and his knowledge of how to use them. When he met Toraono Kaibudo, “Kai” as he was called then he found himself in awe of the man’s skill; he rarely used a weapon other than his own body except to teach. It was during the battles alongside Kai that Daibatsu Toa found his greatest of foes. An Uchiha named Susamajii he had vast power and wielded flames, lightning, and a sword like no other. While Kai held off the Oni army this dark warrior led Toa took him on in single combat. Simply put Toa was the only one fast enough with a blade to take him on as Susamajii had already bested Kai in three prior battles using illusions and explosive flames and thunderbolts to fling the famous taijutsu master all over the battlefield. Kai could never get close enough to lay a single blow and Uchiha Susamajii would never allow that either for he had seen how powerful Kaibudo’s strikes truly were. He underestimated Toa however as he believed him to be a simple swordsman.
The private battle that ensued between these sword masters had been the stuff of legends but no one had seen anything except the terribly burnt body of Toa and the captured head of Susamajii. Toa took the eyes from his foe and preserved them using a special mixture made from the sacred waters of Waterfall country harvested from the bowels of the Koubaku Kyousei ‘Great Tree’ and the blood of the fallen warrior. It was said that the warrior whom took the eyes of Susamajii would live a thousand years. Toa had believed he would be that immortal warrior but his body had been severely crippled from the black flames the Master Uchiha swordsman had unleashed upon him and as such had instead sealed them away in a vault beneath the coliseum that Kai called home. Forgotten and immersed in ancient powerful fluids the eyes remained eternally preserved and grew in power. It was not until almost three hundred years later after Toa’s mastery of armor, weapons, and later chakra allowed him to rebuild his body an expansive fusion of puppet technology and human flesh
Doctor Daibatsu Toa was born into a Samurai clan long ago where as time went on he discovered a great many things. He won more battles than he lost but when he did lose he lost limbs or the full function of vital organs. He quite literally stumbled into his own form of immortality while being treated by a witch after he literally fell unto one of her soul gems. The gem transferred a significant amount of his life force into it but instead of killing him it bonded to his body. Crippled by his battles he could no longer tread the battlefield despite his recovery so he took up the study of weaponry. He forged masterpiece weapons using his clan knowledge and techniques picked up throughout his travels.
He took apprenticeship under many masters learning all he could as they aged and passed on while he did not, until a puppet Master from Sunagakure decided to train him in hopes of learning Toa's secret to immortality. After a few years of study they both discovered that Toa was no longer truly alive his body was simply kept alive and unaging by his internal will and the residual energies of the soul gem that the witch had left bonded to his heart. Satisfied that she had solved the mystery of eternal youth in her eyes, they delved into prosthetics, and medical enhancements, as she grew older Lady Reiko realized she couldn't replicate the soul gem but she could place all of her vitals in a similar chakra crystal and become a living puppet. After performing various surgeries upon Toa and granting him the full use of his right arm and both legs in a feat of fusion between medicine and puppetry. Lady Reiko performed a full spirit and vital organs transplant into a puppet body that would have failed if Toa hadn't used his advanced knowledge of surgery and mysticism to make sure certain elements were applied and that the transference was seamless.
No one even noticed she was in a puppet body due to her false yet living skin. For one hundred and thirty years they worked together discovering all manner of medical, spiritual, and chakra applications for physical amplifications and weapons. They retraced old maps and while searching an ancient city found the remains of rebuilt human transplants or ghola. Living weapons after a fashion, while studying them one of the guardian gholems reactivated and severely damaged Reiko. Her immortality, like Toa's only prevented her from dying of disease or age not trauma. Toa fought frantically to save her even to the point of unleashing weapons he had experimentally installed in his puppet limb. He defeated the Golem but he had not been able to save her. Reiko smiled happily, she had found out so much in her extended life. Toa vowed to finish her work. Two hundred years later Doctor Toa is still researching ancient and current technologies and even has a child of his own named Reiko.
As Dr. Daibatsu entered the chamber he looked for the young man that Kuro’s clone had sent him a description of and his requests to learn strategy. Daibatsu smirked as he removed his red robe and the upper portion of his jacket then allowed it to hang down to his waist.
He smiled showing off his rebuilt body, all his prosthetics, carefully and painstakingly placed inside his regrown fully living flesh although he had no heartbeat, nor did he need to breathe. His flesh was maintained by a special nutrient feed system from his endoskeletal system. It was obvious to someone graces with high perception that half his body was unnatural because of the ninja wire and chakra lines that interlaced his right side. What gave it away the most was the massive scar down his back and the way he smelled like an old man but had the look of an adult in his prime. The final giveaway was the loose grip in which he held the hilt of his ancient steel blade which only could have been made in the old country. He carried himself like a samurai, but his eyes and permanently manicured features gave away the mark of something inhuman.
"Hello, I am Doctor Daibatsu Toa, Grand Master Puppeteer, Master Engineer, Assistant Surgeon, and construction specialist for the Toraono Clan. I was informed that you are here for lessons in strategy and swordsman. SO before we begin I have three questions. How many traps can you imagine? What jutsu do you most want to learn? Last but by far not least what is it you want to learn about the most? With the answers to those questions I can devise both a task and an acceptable mission for you to prove your worth.”
Kuro smiled at the request for corn, he had a very good stock of maize that was exceptionally sweet and easy to mix with any meal. Kuro motioned his right hand in a swift yet somewhat mystic motion and her coat was materialized within his grasp. He slowly laid it within her reach.
" I am sure your seals won't cause you to have any violent outbursts or autonomic responses. Those kinds of seals are only placed upon those whom are considered a problem to others and need to be taught humility. Your meal will be ready when your healing is complete. Before we leave the chamber I must warn you there will be some urges to eat more than what you might normally be accustomed to. You will also find that you are stronger and more resilient, last but not least you must resist the urge to overpower those weaker than you. It is a well known fact that dark chakra can cause you to live out your darkest urges if you don't notice the urges."
Kuro's healing palm stopped emitting a warming sensation and began to intermingle warm and cooling temperatures.
