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History
When the Universe was young
It's believed that the universe was once vast nothingness. The Tadashii believe that this is not true, they hold onto the belief that before the universe was there was a strong power flowing through the nothingness. Then, the power became so great that it caved in on itself and imploded. The power created the universe, as well as everything in it. It also created the gods, Ai and Itami. They call this power the "Creation". The Creation allowed Ai and Itami to be created, and in turn they created the other gods and goddesses, their brothers and sisters. They possessed physical forms that reigned over the world, but they grew bored of their existence. They wanted other living beings that they could rule over, so they decided to create humans on earth.
In doing so, they created all life as we know it. They created humans and animals as well as plants. They used a large amount of power to make earth inhabitable, and were forced into a dark void that kept them from holding physical bodies in that world. This disability was created by the Creation once the power realized that their own power was too great. It was locked away and sent to earth where it was locked away in a cave under Suna where the Tadashii temple was built. Only the power of Ai and Itami in one physical form could open the cave, but not even the gods could fathom how this could be possible. The Tadashii believed that one day someone would lead them into war, to spread peace across the land. They called this person the Warmachine, the person whom most of the Council believed to be one Faita Tasogare.
Yamazaki and Faita
However, my story goes back shortly before Suna was even a thought. Back before the Tadashii had knowledge of synching with the gods. A man by the name Faita Chi, greedy with power, destroyed the original temple altar that held the power of the gods. Their chakra shot out into the sky in various colors, the last one being the strongest of them all. It was a bright crimson red, and with it came the power of Itami. Itami has always been known as the most powerful of the Tadashii gods. Chi's greed got the best of him and he jumped into the beam of chakra to absorb its power, but his power didn't make him stronger. It made him sick and he died years later after his wife gave birth to their first child. This started generations of sealing the Faita children with special cursed marks to restrain Itami's power until they were old enough to handle it.
Many centuries later the Faita clan met the Yamazaki clan for the first time with the friendship of Faita Jiyū and Yamazaki Ō. Jiyū was a great fighter in his time, but when his ideals for war weren't fully appreciated he left the village of Sunagakure. In his travels he came across Yamazaki Ō and together they formed a great team. Shortly after Jiyū returned to his old religious practices which made Ō upset. When Jiyū died, shortly after releasing the Faita Seal to gain access to Itami's power, Ō traveled to Sunagakure to meet up with his wife. There he stumbled upon the Tadashii temple in the desert that used to hold the power of the gods. There he accidentally stumbled upon the power of the Goddess known as Ai, infecting the Yamazaki clan with her power. Though her power was not as dangerous as Itami's, this kept them from having to seal it.
WARMACHINE
The Warmachine is said to bring upon the final war, opening the Cave of the gods and giving them back their physical forms. Then the gods would lead the Tadashii into peace, at least their own twisted version of it. The Warmachine needs the power of both Itami and Ai in one, physical form to unlock the door. The Creation made it this way because it wanted the door to stay locked. It took centuries for the two clans to meet up again, with the meeting of Yamazaki Zoi and Faita Tasogare. That meeting brought upon a child who possessed both powers. That child was named Nenogami, that child was me. Child of Faita Tasogare and Yamazaki Zokuppoi.
Early Years
I was raised by wolves. Well, to be fair it was only one and he was my father. His name is Faita Tasogare, and he wasn't always a wolf. I was born of the Faita and Yamazaki bloodlines, making me prime potential for being the Warmachine. The joining of Faita Tasogare and Yamazaki Zokuppoi made the high council leader, known only as Shadow, particularly certain that it was I who would have the mixed powers of Itami and Ai. They both showed early signs of the gods' powers in them, and not long after my birth I did, too. I've always had two different colors of eyes. My left eye being green, like that of the Yamazaki, and my right eye being red, the normal eye color for most Faita, led to Shadow kidnapping me at an early age.
In the desert there was a fight between the Shadow and my father, this much I know. What I do not know are any of the specifics. During the fight my father was somehow transformed into a wolf that has the same exact appearance of Itami's creature form, the form that gods and goddesses can take that isn't remotely human in nature. The family believes this is somehow related to the fact that he had Itami sealed inside his body. Regardless of how it happened I'm just happy he was alive to watch me grow up, but not as happy that he got to see what I became in life.
"Are you going to be a Medical-nin when you grow up, Nenogami?" I remembered my uncle asking me when I was four. "Your father was a medic." I never knew much about my father before his transformation, except the little things that came up in conversation. My uncle Jin was Tasogare’s older brother, and he was noticeably proud of his brother despite his shortcomings. My mother was even more of a mystery. She fled the village soon after I was born and left me to be raised by my father, who was soon turned into a wolf, and the rest of the Faita clan. This did not debilitate me, however; in fact it made me stronger.
Academy
The Faita clan is full of warriors, the very name 'Faita' means 'fighter'. They taught me how to fight and trained me at the same time as I trained in the academy. I took to my skills quickly, but never advanced beyond anyone. I was a quick leaner, but never a prodigy. I tried not to stick out; I didn't want to be known. I was always alone and didn't have many friends outside of the family. In fact you could say I had… None.
Nothing of significant importance happened in the academy. It was a normal life, save for having a wolf as a father. My genin exam was quite important however, as it was during the exam that I woke something dreadful inside me for the first time. When I was born I had a seal placed on me that was similar to that of the Faita seal, but instead they called it the Yokusei seal. It was different from the Faita seal in that it was much more powerful. However, like the Faita Seal the Yokusei seal had its dangerous side-effects.
The ink used to create the Faita seal is laced with a poison that is supposed to suppress the chakra in the body to keep the essence of the god Itami from leaking out and enveloping the undeveloped family member. The Yokusei uses a stronger version of this which was made to suppress the essence of two godly entities, which would be that of Itami and Ai. The ink used in these two seals very often messes with the mind of the bearer, created a split personality of sorts. This split personality is always dark and mentally unstable…
The exam was simple enough, a test of all the skills we had learned during our time at the academy. Our exam instructor was a mad woman by the name of Sunaku Ame, an old friend of the Faita family (which consists of mostly Sunaku). She was a master of Genjutsu, and she used that Genjutsu prowess on us to put us in a large maze of sand. I was never good at Genjutsu so I didn't realize that we were even in one at first, I thought for sure that she had created it all out of sand. Though when I finally caught onto the act, it made her power in Ninjutsu seem so much less than what I thought it was. I couldn't even imagine created a maze like this with Ninjutsu.
The object of the maze was to use our skills to get to the middle of the maze, dodging various obstacles in our paths. Some obstacles teleported us to random locations, some of them involved walls shifting around us. Some of the difficulties were creatures made of sand emerging from the wall. I was having difficulty finding the middle of the maze, and it was the first excessive amount of frustration I had felt my whole life. I didn't realized how sheltered I really was until that point, having a rich family clan giving me whatever I want. I also never had any particular problems doing any homework or learning new techniques.
When put into a situation where I had to think on my feet, I realized that I wasn't as prepared as I thought I was. I dropped to my knees as I realized how pathetic I was. Then it happened; my breathing became labored, my body began to shake, and I felt my body burning on the inside. The darkness came out for the first time. I stood up and my eyes glowed their separate colors. I raised my hand, acting almost on impulsive without any thought going into my actions. I felt energy coming into my body, like I was draining chakra from the surrounding area.
Everything in the maze was an illusion, created by Ame's chakra. This distorted the illusion as I drained Ame's chakra, the walls began to crumble until there was a path straight to the middle. I walked it slowly and watched the other students who had made it there already. They were confused because they believed I hadn't woken any inner abilities, and so did I. When I hit the center Ame broke the illusion and we were all standing in a class room. Ame took me away and into another room. She was angry, or scared.
"What happened, kid?" she asked me in a stern voice. I was scared for sure; I didn't know what happened or how to answer her.
"I-I don’t know. I'm scared, Sensei…" I was only six-years-old, they let me into the academy because my ancestry made me look like I was twelve. No one knew my true age, so it probably seemed strange that I started bawling like a six-year-old.
"Nenogami, you acted strange, like someone that I grew up with… A man named Faita Tasogare." She said my father's name and my crying slowed down. It didn't seem like she suspected anything, just that she was making an observation. As she pondered about this I bolted out the door, she yelled after me but didn't give chase. I later found out that she passed me, but I didn't feel like I passed. It wasn't me that got to the center, it was something else. A secret power I knew nothing about.
Between then and now
My life as a genin was boring. I was put on a cell with people I didn't like and who didn't like me. I was okay with that. I didn't need any friends anyway, I had my family. I spent most of my time going on missions with my cell, little things that made no difference. My Uncle Jin raised me for the most part, but he never did anything Tasogare didn't want. If he did my father would growl, or even bite him in the butt with his sharp teeth. I'm sure if father could communicate he would have been able to raise me officially, but he was always there for me and helped me train as a sparring partner (even though he couldn't use jutsu).
After my Chuunin exam I got more involved with the Tadashii. Being the WarMachine meant they wanted me to take over leadership of the whole religious order. I spent a lot of my time in the underground temple, being trained to take over when I became a Jounin. They knew it would be some time before I could open the door, but they were preparing me (as well as themselves) for that day. Until then I was brought up by my Uncle Jin to be the new leader. My father was the previous leader, but after being turned into a wolf his brother took over to fill the spot until my father's next of kin (me) became a Jounin and was able to take the spot.
It was also during this time that one of the most important pats of my life happened. I lost control in the meeting room at the center of the temple during a session; Jin reacted quickly and tried to suppress the darkness by activating the Yokusei seal on the small of my back. The seal didn't work, though, it just made it worse. It was the poison that was used to make the seal's ink, without anyone knowing, the seal was pumping the poison into my body—More and more every time someone activated it. My eyes turned completely black and I began to go on a rampage, unknowingly sapping the chakra of everyone in the room.
I acted like a mad woman but I wasn't thinking. I my mind was blank and I was acting on impulse. They realized that the seal wasn't enough to control the impulses and had to resort to more drastic sealing methods. It was a technique that allowed the mind to be shut off to certain things by placing a key inside their head that can only be turned by the bearer of the key. They used the technique to seal off the part of my brain that held the darkness, the split personality that was created by the poison. They key wasn't enough, they had to attach a secondary control mechanism just in case my emotions caused the darkness to be able to turn the key itself.
They attached a large key to my back. They said the key was connected to me via my own chakra and could feel what I felt, and I would be able to feel what it felt. It was able to access my mind and shut the darkness off if it every unlocked itself. If unlocked by me the key would be able to lock the darkness away before I went too far and did something I wouldn't want to be done (such as killing an innocent). It was a big change for me, and it made people look at me differently. Strange things were normal in the shinobi world, but this was a bit different I suppose. I couldn't understand it; I was just a little girl, even if I looked older.
Jounin
I became a Jounin one year, three months, and twenty-two days after my chuunin exam. After ranking up I attended my ceremony to become the leader of the Tadashii and with my leadership finalized there was more for me to do. I decided to try and become less anti-social, and attempt to be more use in the village. It was only a matter of time before everything would come crashing down on me, and I didn't know how I would handle it if I was s alone. My family can only help me so much.
It's believed that the universe was once vast nothingness. The Tadashii believe that this is not true, they hold onto the belief that before the universe was there was a strong power flowing through the nothingness. Then, the power became so great that it caved in on itself and imploded. The power created the universe, as well as everything in it. It also created the gods, Ai and Itami. They call this power the "Creation". The Creation allowed Ai and Itami to be created, and in turn they created the other gods and goddesses, their brothers and sisters. They possessed physical forms that reigned over the world, but they grew bored of their existence. They wanted other living beings that they could rule over, so they decided to create humans on earth.
In doing so, they created all life as we know it. They created humans and animals as well as plants. They used a large amount of power to make earth inhabitable, and were forced into a dark void that kept them from holding physical bodies in that world. This disability was created by the Creation once the power realized that their own power was too great. It was locked away and sent to earth where it was locked away in a cave under Suna where the Tadashii temple was built. Only the power of Ai and Itami in one physical form could open the cave, but not even the gods could fathom how this could be possible. The Tadashii believed that one day someone would lead them into war, to spread peace across the land. They called this person the Warmachine, the person whom most of the Council believed to be one Faita Tasogare.
Yamazaki and Faita
However, my story goes back shortly before Suna was even a thought. Back before the Tadashii had knowledge of synching with the gods. A man by the name Faita Chi, greedy with power, destroyed the original temple altar that held the power of the gods. Their chakra shot out into the sky in various colors, the last one being the strongest of them all. It was a bright crimson red, and with it came the power of Itami. Itami has always been known as the most powerful of the Tadashii gods. Chi's greed got the best of him and he jumped into the beam of chakra to absorb its power, but his power didn't make him stronger. It made him sick and he died years later after his wife gave birth to their first child. This started generations of sealing the Faita children with special cursed marks to restrain Itami's power until they were old enough to handle it.
Many centuries later the Faita clan met the Yamazaki clan for the first time with the friendship of Faita Jiyū and Yamazaki Ō. Jiyū was a great fighter in his time, but when his ideals for war weren't fully appreciated he left the village of Sunagakure. In his travels he came across Yamazaki Ō and together they formed a great team. Shortly after Jiyū returned to his old religious practices which made Ō upset. When Jiyū died, shortly after releasing the Faita Seal to gain access to Itami's power, Ō traveled to Sunagakure to meet up with his wife. There he stumbled upon the Tadashii temple in the desert that used to hold the power of the gods. There he accidentally stumbled upon the power of the Goddess known as Ai, infecting the Yamazaki clan with her power. Though her power was not as dangerous as Itami's, this kept them from having to seal it.
WARMACHINE
The Warmachine is said to bring upon the final war, opening the Cave of the gods and giving them back their physical forms. Then the gods would lead the Tadashii into peace, at least their own twisted version of it. The Warmachine needs the power of both Itami and Ai in one, physical form to unlock the door. The Creation made it this way because it wanted the door to stay locked. It took centuries for the two clans to meet up again, with the meeting of Yamazaki Zoi and Faita Tasogare. That meeting brought upon a child who possessed both powers. That child was named Nenogami, that child was me. Child of Faita Tasogare and Yamazaki Zokuppoi.
Early Years
I was raised by wolves. Well, to be fair it was only one and he was my father. His name is Faita Tasogare, and he wasn't always a wolf. I was born of the Faita and Yamazaki bloodlines, making me prime potential for being the Warmachine. The joining of Faita Tasogare and Yamazaki Zokuppoi made the high council leader, known only as Shadow, particularly certain that it was I who would have the mixed powers of Itami and Ai. They both showed early signs of the gods' powers in them, and not long after my birth I did, too. I've always had two different colors of eyes. My left eye being green, like that of the Yamazaki, and my right eye being red, the normal eye color for most Faita, led to Shadow kidnapping me at an early age.
In the desert there was a fight between the Shadow and my father, this much I know. What I do not know are any of the specifics. During the fight my father was somehow transformed into a wolf that has the same exact appearance of Itami's creature form, the form that gods and goddesses can take that isn't remotely human in nature. The family believes this is somehow related to the fact that he had Itami sealed inside his body. Regardless of how it happened I'm just happy he was alive to watch me grow up, but not as happy that he got to see what I became in life.
"Are you going to be a Medical-nin when you grow up, Nenogami?" I remembered my uncle asking me when I was four. "Your father was a medic." I never knew much about my father before his transformation, except the little things that came up in conversation. My uncle Jin was Tasogare’s older brother, and he was noticeably proud of his brother despite his shortcomings. My mother was even more of a mystery. She fled the village soon after I was born and left me to be raised by my father, who was soon turned into a wolf, and the rest of the Faita clan. This did not debilitate me, however; in fact it made me stronger.
Academy
The Faita clan is full of warriors, the very name 'Faita' means 'fighter'. They taught me how to fight and trained me at the same time as I trained in the academy. I took to my skills quickly, but never advanced beyond anyone. I was a quick leaner, but never a prodigy. I tried not to stick out; I didn't want to be known. I was always alone and didn't have many friends outside of the family. In fact you could say I had… None.
Nothing of significant importance happened in the academy. It was a normal life, save for having a wolf as a father. My genin exam was quite important however, as it was during the exam that I woke something dreadful inside me for the first time. When I was born I had a seal placed on me that was similar to that of the Faita seal, but instead they called it the Yokusei seal. It was different from the Faita seal in that it was much more powerful. However, like the Faita Seal the Yokusei seal had its dangerous side-effects.
The ink used to create the Faita seal is laced with a poison that is supposed to suppress the chakra in the body to keep the essence of the god Itami from leaking out and enveloping the undeveloped family member. The Yokusei uses a stronger version of this which was made to suppress the essence of two godly entities, which would be that of Itami and Ai. The ink used in these two seals very often messes with the mind of the bearer, created a split personality of sorts. This split personality is always dark and mentally unstable…
The exam was simple enough, a test of all the skills we had learned during our time at the academy. Our exam instructor was a mad woman by the name of Sunaku Ame, an old friend of the Faita family (which consists of mostly Sunaku). She was a master of Genjutsu, and she used that Genjutsu prowess on us to put us in a large maze of sand. I was never good at Genjutsu so I didn't realize that we were even in one at first, I thought for sure that she had created it all out of sand. Though when I finally caught onto the act, it made her power in Ninjutsu seem so much less than what I thought it was. I couldn't even imagine created a maze like this with Ninjutsu.
The object of the maze was to use our skills to get to the middle of the maze, dodging various obstacles in our paths. Some obstacles teleported us to random locations, some of them involved walls shifting around us. Some of the difficulties were creatures made of sand emerging from the wall. I was having difficulty finding the middle of the maze, and it was the first excessive amount of frustration I had felt my whole life. I didn't realized how sheltered I really was until that point, having a rich family clan giving me whatever I want. I also never had any particular problems doing any homework or learning new techniques.
When put into a situation where I had to think on my feet, I realized that I wasn't as prepared as I thought I was. I dropped to my knees as I realized how pathetic I was. Then it happened; my breathing became labored, my body began to shake, and I felt my body burning on the inside. The darkness came out for the first time. I stood up and my eyes glowed their separate colors. I raised my hand, acting almost on impulsive without any thought going into my actions. I felt energy coming into my body, like I was draining chakra from the surrounding area.
Everything in the maze was an illusion, created by Ame's chakra. This distorted the illusion as I drained Ame's chakra, the walls began to crumble until there was a path straight to the middle. I walked it slowly and watched the other students who had made it there already. They were confused because they believed I hadn't woken any inner abilities, and so did I. When I hit the center Ame broke the illusion and we were all standing in a class room. Ame took me away and into another room. She was angry, or scared.
"What happened, kid?" she asked me in a stern voice. I was scared for sure; I didn't know what happened or how to answer her.
"I-I don’t know. I'm scared, Sensei…" I was only six-years-old, they let me into the academy because my ancestry made me look like I was twelve. No one knew my true age, so it probably seemed strange that I started bawling like a six-year-old.
"Nenogami, you acted strange, like someone that I grew up with… A man named Faita Tasogare." She said my father's name and my crying slowed down. It didn't seem like she suspected anything, just that she was making an observation. As she pondered about this I bolted out the door, she yelled after me but didn't give chase. I later found out that she passed me, but I didn't feel like I passed. It wasn't me that got to the center, it was something else. A secret power I knew nothing about.
Between then and now
My life as a genin was boring. I was put on a cell with people I didn't like and who didn't like me. I was okay with that. I didn't need any friends anyway, I had my family. I spent most of my time going on missions with my cell, little things that made no difference. My Uncle Jin raised me for the most part, but he never did anything Tasogare didn't want. If he did my father would growl, or even bite him in the butt with his sharp teeth. I'm sure if father could communicate he would have been able to raise me officially, but he was always there for me and helped me train as a sparring partner (even though he couldn't use jutsu).
After my Chuunin exam I got more involved with the Tadashii. Being the WarMachine meant they wanted me to take over leadership of the whole religious order. I spent a lot of my time in the underground temple, being trained to take over when I became a Jounin. They knew it would be some time before I could open the door, but they were preparing me (as well as themselves) for that day. Until then I was brought up by my Uncle Jin to be the new leader. My father was the previous leader, but after being turned into a wolf his brother took over to fill the spot until my father's next of kin (me) became a Jounin and was able to take the spot.
It was also during this time that one of the most important pats of my life happened. I lost control in the meeting room at the center of the temple during a session; Jin reacted quickly and tried to suppress the darkness by activating the Yokusei seal on the small of my back. The seal didn't work, though, it just made it worse. It was the poison that was used to make the seal's ink, without anyone knowing, the seal was pumping the poison into my body—More and more every time someone activated it. My eyes turned completely black and I began to go on a rampage, unknowingly sapping the chakra of everyone in the room.
I acted like a mad woman but I wasn't thinking. I my mind was blank and I was acting on impulse. They realized that the seal wasn't enough to control the impulses and had to resort to more drastic sealing methods. It was a technique that allowed the mind to be shut off to certain things by placing a key inside their head that can only be turned by the bearer of the key. They used the technique to seal off the part of my brain that held the darkness, the split personality that was created by the poison. They key wasn't enough, they had to attach a secondary control mechanism just in case my emotions caused the darkness to be able to turn the key itself.
They attached a large key to my back. They said the key was connected to me via my own chakra and could feel what I felt, and I would be able to feel what it felt. It was able to access my mind and shut the darkness off if it every unlocked itself. If unlocked by me the key would be able to lock the darkness away before I went too far and did something I wouldn't want to be done (such as killing an innocent). It was a big change for me, and it made people look at me differently. Strange things were normal in the shinobi world, but this was a bit different I suppose. I couldn't understand it; I was just a little girl, even if I looked older.
Jounin
I became a Jounin one year, three months, and twenty-two days after my chuunin exam. After ranking up I attended my ceremony to become the leader of the Tadashii and with my leadership finalized there was more for me to do. I decided to try and become less anti-social, and attempt to be more use in the village. It was only a matter of time before everything would come crashing down on me, and I didn't know how I would handle it if I was s alone. My family can only help me so much.
