With good intentions [private]

[Sousha Kage]

The man tried to give Kage three jabs that were aimed to Kage's face and chest, Kage could never avoid them but suddenly a transparent shield formed around him and blocked the hits, in the corner of his eye Kage could see Tao moving, so he figured it was his deed. Kage was impressed by Tao's ability.
just when Kage started to feel safe, Tao took off the shield. Kage wasn't fast enough to react to Nao's kick.

Tao's attempt to push Kage out of the way of Nao failed and The kick smashed Kage into the ground, raising a big dust cloud into the air. Kage was hurt, his lip and forehead were bleeding, his right sleeve was turn down and the hand that was under that sleeve was scratched and bleeding.

But at that moment Kage realized something. He realized that the man in front of him just wants to play. this man was not just fighting to kill or to get rid of them. he seemed actually pretty amused. There was no way that a man with this level of strength would just get punched in the face by someone like Kage, or run at his speed. Kage felt that this man is holding back much greater power. No man, even this madman, would not enter a fight so eagerly without knowing that he has the ability to win. Kage understood what this man wanted.

"Well, if you want a show i will give you a show..." whispered Kage, wiping the blood of his lip.

Kage had a plan, and he hoped that it will work.

he suddenly ran towards the exit of the cave, he ran to the ceremony hall, then turned around and used his chakra to run as fast as he can on the ceiling. Then just before entering back to the place where he fought with Nao he shouted as hard as possible: "Tao, activate the shield, NOW!!!!" and detached from the ceiling at full speed, roled into a canon ball shape and flew right towards his foe's chest, hoping that Tao will react fast enough.

 

[Tao]

It seemed like Tao's little water trick was not enough to keep the boy out of harm, he got a pretty rough kick from the blond boy, but it seemed like it was not over yet, the youngster began to run up the way and onto the ceiling, seems like he's adapting to the enviourment quite well, him coping the blond seemed fairly decent as well considering his choice of actions. But then the boy started running on the ceiling and then leaped from it towards the blond man while pressing his knees to his chest and lowering his head, sort of imitating the shape of a ball, he then shouted to Tao to activate the barrier.

"Barrier...? No! What is he thinking! It will only stop his motion and harm himself even further"

He thought as a response to the boy's request, he didn't have a lot of time to form a solid plan, so he figured he'd follow his instinct instead. He began pressing large quantities of his energy outwards in every direction, literally suffocating the cave with his energy, feeling it's every corner which would make anyone in it feel heavier and harder to breath. He hoped that would be enough to slow the blond man's movement, but it wont be enough to make the kid hit him, it was far too easy to dodge that sort of attack, so all that's left is to make it harder to dodge which could be achieved in numerous ways, but the way Tao chose was by far the most reckless one of them all. He brushed his left leg sideways to be slightly behind his right leg and bent his knees in a preparation to jump. It was almost as if time itself slowed down around him, the kid was already half way through his motion, he didn't have a lot of time to work with. He pushed himself off of the ground and while being in midair, his hands blured out for a moment from the intensively fast hand motion while preforming his seals and when he was done, he took a deep breath and the moment he was right behind the kid, he opened his mouth and an intensive blast of water was released, if there was more time, the water blast would turn into a wave strong enough to crust down walls upon collision, but in this sort of set up, it'd give the kid a much greater speed boost instead, but now not only is the kid heading towards the blond but also a large quantity of water that would blast all around him as well. He feared however that the kid would suffer a large amount of damage from this move as well since he was the first thing it hit, so he figured that he'd have to patch him up and quickly. He used the shock from the blast that pushed him backwards to touch the surface of the ceiling to push himself back towards the ground and he began to send chakra to the kid from afar that would help him recover quite quickly as well as creating a barrier around him that would block out any elemental and illusionary damage while it still wont help the kid against hand-to-hand combat.

[OOC: Jutsus used:
A Rank Tai Buff: Devastating Aura [Mastered]
B Rank Water: Hydro Tidal Shockwave [Rank 1]
A Rank Medical: Pristine Aura [Mastered]]

 

[Rounin Nao]

His kick sent the young boy flying to the ground, wounded and beat up. Nao landed on his knees and stood fast, he kept the stance he was using planing to use its true intent soon. The boy seemed to mumble something, and then he was off running to the hall outside and returning, but this time on the ceiling.

'is he mimicking me....?'

thought the man ans the boy hurled onwards. Then the boy detached and curled into a ball shape heading towards 46. The boy was so slow in compare to Subject, it made him smile a bit. The boy shouted to his companion to activate the shield, it seems he dos not have much training in barriers, them being static and all. Then something happened something Nao did not expect, the air became heavy and stiff. Nao looked for the source, but before he realized it the pale man jumped into the air and behind the black haired boy, releasing a flood of water that propelled the boy in an enormous speed towards Nao.

'shit...'

He thought to himself, and then the human bolder smashed into his chest, followed by a crash of water that sent him smashing into the wall behind him with force. Subject 46 was just sitting there for a moment in the smoky dust created by the now small crater in the wall, his head hanging down and his dusty blond hair hanging over his face. It seemed for a moment as if he was beaten, that was false.

'.....fun.....'

Said that other voice in his head, the one he used when he was wearing that mask. He then lifted up his gaze as the dust has shaken off, to see the young boy in a barrier slowly healing, and behind him his vigil protector. The man got up slowly and took out another cigarette to calm his mind.... he didn't want to go overboard with this next trick.
As the end of the tobacco stick glowed softly he looked at his two targets.

'first, the protector...'

He then snapped his fingers and vanished completely, as if the air itself swallowed him whole. Then he walked a bit to to the right in the off chance that they would try to blindly strike at his last location. And then he pulled off some fast hand seals to attempt and make sure that the pale man wont see him for a while longer. Once done with that he turned his gaze to the young boy, he couldn't help but laugh a bit manically his laugh echoing in the cave.

"you are good young one.... I see great things in the future for you...."

He said while walking around like a ghost unseen by anyone, his voice bouncing from the walls back and forth.

"Its time to have some real fun.... and that barrier can not help you BOY!!!!!"

He said and flashed some hand seals, if the very likely effect would happen, the boy will find himself in an empty street. Everything around the boy will go black and white, everything but the sky, the sky would have a red storm brewing, and a rain of blood will fall. If the boy found himself in that street he would see Nao standing in front of him smoking his cigaret and smiling. While looking at the boy Subject 46 would then speak in a voice that would shatter the sound like thunder.

"welcome to my world boy..."



Jutsus and ability's used by order:
first on both of you:
Cloak Dance - Independent Special Move
Restriction- Requires Invisibility
Not only content with being occasionally resistant to attacks, Ghost Walkers also possess the ability to flit at the edges of awareness, putting themselves entirely out of the reach of foes. Those experienced with the technique appear to simply vanish from their foe's sights.
Effect: The user may become transparent for one round which means they are treated as if in Stealth mode and cannot be detected, with a +2 Dodge bonus. During this time, the user cannot use physical or ninjutsu attacks or the transparency effect ends; their attack is a Sneak Attack, but they suffer a -2 dodge penalty if they miss.

Then on Tao:
Invisibility [Mastered]A Rank
Master Rank: Cast at +2 DC dealing 1485 Damage. The user is considered in Stealth to the target.
(Tao will only recive the "damage" when he will try to exit the Genjutsu, just a flavor)

Then on Kage:
Mental combat [Mastered]A Rank
An absurdly unique and powerful Genjutsu. Trapping the opponent's mental representation of themselves in a replicated world and making them think they are fighting for real.

Master Rank: Casts at normal DC. The user places the target in an illusionary world where the target believes that they are fighting the real user. When the genjutsu is broken, 40% of the damage done is taken from the target's HP, and 20% of the CP used is taken from the target's CP once the genjutsu is over. Damage is considered Illusionary.

 

[Sousha Kage]

Kages trick worked, and though Tao didn't do what Kage expected him to do the result was still the result Kage hoped for. Nao crashed into the wall, leaving a big hole in it.
Kage started feeling better, he felt how his wounds rapidly heal and a barrier appeared in front of him, he was glad he had Tao on his side.

for a moment Kage felt that maybe, just maybe he won, he looked at the man who seemed passed out for a moment. but Kages hopes collapsed like the wall that His opponent just crashed into.
The man stood up, looked at them with a smile and then snapped his fingers.

"where the hell did he go?" Kage tryed to find the man who seconds ago seemed beaten, but with no success.

the mans voice was suddenly very loud, echoing throughout the cave:
"you are good young one.... I see great things in the future for you...."

Kage was wondering what the man meant by that and zoned out for a second, wondering about the words he have just heard, it sounded like this man intended to be part of that future and wasn't just saying those words.

then He heard the man shouting ""Its time to have some real fun.... and that barrier can not help you BOY!!!!!"

and suddenly everything around Kage disappeared...


"Welcome to my world boy...."
He remembered that phrase and couldn't get it out of his head, it stuck to his mind like hot resin to a soldiers skin.
that is the moment when sanity was lost, when the angel disappeared and left Kage in hell. deep down Kage never truly forgave Tao for this, for failing to protect him.

One moment he was in the cave fighting and suddenly he appeared there. the street was black and white and the only thing that had colour was the sky. the sky was red and a rain of blood was pouring from it, getting heavier and heavier and there the caveman was, standing there, smoking his god damn cigarette, smiling and waiting for Kage to do something.
There was no one except for them in that town.

"why did he bring me here? there must be a reason..."

Kage was thinking what should he do next, he had no backup and had no chance of winning. the blood rain just became heavier and thicker, it started to flow from Kages hair to his face. He smelled it, He tasted it..... he liked that feeling, he felt alive, he felt like finally there is a point to life, beyond sitting in class and listening to empty words teachers say, beyond hollow conversations he had with his classmates.

"Ok Kage just relax, relax and think...."

He pulled himself together and decided that fighting this man was empty and hollow as hollow as the conversations with his classmates, this man wanted something and Kage was tired of being this man's beating bag. He looked at the man and said:
"you want something, I am standing here confused. Why do you fight me? I don't know how this fight will end but i understand that it depends on your decision and not on mine. so i have only one question, what do you want OLD MAN?!"

 

[Rounin Nao]

[OOC: start with this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqj1hf-KQ2c ]


The boy stood in front of him, Nao thought he would charge in for the swing but he didn't. Instead the young boy just inquired about the reason to which he is there, in that black and white street, getting drenched with blood. The young black haired boy also made a snappy remark about Nao's age, he decided to ignore it.

'this boy... he has potential... he is not as hot headed as other Shinoby in training...'

Thought 46 to himself while starting to slowly walk towards the young one.

"young one... you came here to find answers about a man who did not want to be disturbed in his peaceful cave, well until the moment he found out that his own brother is still looking for him, until the moment that he found that the only person he still cares about was still alive and wanted him to come back...."

He stopped about ten centimeters from the boy, pausing for a short moment just looking at the kid.

"I am Loky!... I am Rounin Nao and I am Subject 46..."

He said unflinching and static, the rain started to die down and the black and white now became more like a greyish tone. It was as if the very name he said made order in the chaos around.

"and you my young friend are still standing it the same cave we were before, but your mind is... well, lets just say that this place is not as real as it seems, but never the less, if you want me to come with you, first you need to hear my story, so follow me."

He said and then started walking towards one of the houses, when they both went through it the would be standing in a colorful garden, trees and flowers all scattered around, and a huge house not to far from them, the door behind them had vanished.

"15 years ago, there lived a happy wealthy family just outside the village hidden in the stone..."

He began speaking as they walked towards the house, suddenly to their right ran two children. The man and the boy were walking around as if invisible to the two children running around playing as it would seem a game of 'catch' in the well cut grass of the large estate. One boy seemed considerably older then the other, one was around the age of 9, while the other looked more like a 4-5 years of age. But both of the children were smiling, both were laughing and giggling with much joy.

"two brothers were living there, and they loved each other very much..."

The two had reached the front door of the large house and Nao twisted the doorknob and opened it, leading the two into a candle lit room at night. Next to the window an adult man looking outside at the bright glow of the moon, in the bed the older child from before was sleeping soundly, and next to it was a man in an ANBU mask looking down at the child.

"At some point the two boys father started noticing that there was something wrong with his elder son, something amiss. He called for doctors and healers from all over the land, but non could cure the darkness within the boy, until one night came a man in a mask who said that he could take the boy to a facility where he could learn how to control his...gifts... and the father through desperation agreed to the terms, and the man in the mask took the boy..."

Nao now led them back to the door behind, now putting them in a white long hallway, like the ones in a medical facility. As they started walking windows appeared one after the other with scenarios in them, yet those moments were frozen, like a three dimensional exhibition in a museum, only much more real.

In the first window the young boy was eating a nice breakfast in a very nice room filled with colorful paintings, in the next one he was sitting in a comfy looking chair drawing a picture, while behind him stood a man in a mask and lab coat, and in the third window the boy was hugging his father in a common room full of treats and toys.

"in the first few months in the facility everything was absolutely perfect, the boy was fed and nurtured, he received many activities to learn and have fun, and his father came to visit all the time... but then everything changed..."

In the next window the boy was sitting inside something similar to a jail-cell with his face buried in his arms and his sleeves moist under his small eyes, in the next window the boy was in a class room with another person in a lab coat pointing at a blackboard that had some writings on it, and in the third window the boy was strapped to a chair while a couple of masked lab coated men cut into him, and his eyes were wide open in pain and terror.

[OOC enter this now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vI0FETSHAv4 ]

"...the father suddenly stopped coming, they moved him to another room... one without paintings or warm meals. They started teaching him strange things, and they started pushing both his mind and body to a very thin limit..."

The next few windows showed the boy growing up with each one, and in each one of them he was ether being tortured, or he was being taught something in a class, or he was killing some people in an arena. But the older he seemed in the frozen image the more powerful and resilient he seemed.

"they made him stronger, better, they took his childhood away and replaced it with pure rage. The boy grew older not seeing the light of day, not once. And they just kept experimenting on him, at any hour of any day, and sometimes even for weeks without stop...And the stronger he grew the harder it became, he knew that one day he will take his revenge on them... until the day he was no longer a boy..."

The next windows showed a bit younger version of the man leading the tour in the hallway, blond and beat up with no smile and dead eyes. In the image he was being given a mask and black garbs, after that the images only showed the masked man, killing people in the outside world, most of the times he would just stand there while a person would grab his own throat, as if he was choking himself, or stabbing himself, or jumping off of cliffs, but the masked man just stood there in every image.

"...The one day gave him a new face, a new name, and started using him to do whatever they wanted him to do, and he did everything they wanted, to gain their trust, to fool them into believing him to be docile and under their full control....they were gravely mistaken"

The windows stopped and the came to a halt in front of a large grey metal door.

"the man grew strong enough one day, to finally take his revenge, and so he did... and he left not one soul to tell the story, just rumors and ghost stories in the candle light..."

Nao then opened the door, in front of them a grand hall of white, filled with scattered frozen people and moments of final terror, and most of these people were wearing the same lab coats from the images before, some were running for their lives, some hung themselves, some cut their own throats, some just sat curled up in a ball in a corner of a cubical. And on the other end of the hall in front of an open door shining with light stood the masked man Loky, not even looking back at what he did.

"he finally broke free, and from a boy just like you he became a man capable of many great things....much like you indeed boy"

Nao said nothing more after that, he just looked at his alter ego Loky with his mask and black robes, and smiled a genuine smile. To himself he was not a monster, he was a free man, and he could do whatever he wanted to do without anyone telling him what to do.

 

[Tao]

The attack seemed to work quite well, the man crushed into a wall and seemed to have broken down to an extent where he could no longer move, so Tao took advantage of that and quickly began healing Kage, but it seemed that Tao's hope was short lived as Nao began to get up as if he was completely unharmed. Then something completely unexpected happened, Nao, the blond man... Disappeared into thin air. Tao couldn't believe his own eyes, he was there just a moment ago, how could he have vanished without a trace, but then he began feeling a disturbance in his energy flow, the mass of energy gathered inside his body began to shift and turn and that's when Tao realized, he was hit with a Genjutsu, apparently the man in front of him either turned himself invisible or twisted the enviourment to make it seem that way. Nao then began to speak, he was commenting on Kage's potential but then he said that Tao's barriers wont defend Kage anymore. In that instant, Kage stopped moving, his expression and posture froze and he began staring into a single dot on the way or at least so it seemed from Tao's prospective, still within the bubble of a barrier Tao encased him in, still having his physical body repaired little by little.

"This is tough... Okay, first I need to find the blond"

He thought to himself while analyzing the situation, then he realized the reason why Kage stopped moving at all, he either was paralyzed by poison of maybe electricity or he was stick inside a Genjutsu within his own mind, or maybe a mind of someone else. If it happened to be the later, it'd complicate things even further, because Tao cannot protect him from that, he hoped that he wont even have to deal with that at all, but seems like its no use. He decided to follow his initial instinct and find the blond man first, if the boy cant move then he cant fight, in that case the deal would be off and Tao would step in to guard the boy in a more offensive manner.

He formed some handseals and spread his arms to his sides with the palms facing outwards and began to channel his energy everywhere, but unlike last time when he was randomly releasing it, now it was in a form of waves of light constantly changing it's color and reflecting off of anything it hits, any person who would be hit by this would be affected differently though, the wave ignored the shell around Kage and continued passed him, Tao's jutsu couldn't reach him due to his own barrier, and then it caught something else, suddenly a human-shaped space began to glow and sparkle in the dark, while it the space seemed hollow the outline seemed to form a human.

"Found you!"

Tao thought to himself, he now knew the man's position. From the thin layer of light that surrounded Nao, he could see him holding a seal, it was settled then, it was either a bind or a Genjutsu, both of them would require the user to stay like that while the jutsu is active, he knew that much by now, that would also explain why the man took the trouble of hiding himself from Tao as well. He wasted no time and clapped his hands together, his eyes and hair began to glow white and small spheres of light began to form around Tao, in an instant them expanded in twice their original size, then without a warning them beamed out in a flash of light toward the humanoid lump of light that just stood there while Kage was still paralyzed.

[MFT]
[OOC: Jutsus used:
Rainbow Flash [A Rank Photon Ninjutsu - Mastered]
Illuminate [Spiritualist Core Ability Jutsu - Rank 2/Mastered]]

 

[Rounin Nao]

Whatever the boys response was Nao didn't manage to give a reply to it, he was so focused on the boy that he had completely forgotten about his little pail friend. Without any warning a beam of light flashed at him from the pale man, he couldn't dodge it and the Genjutsu was gone and both him and the boy were thrown back into reality, only Nao was was screaming in pain from the attack that hit him.

"GYAaAAaaAAAAaaA!!"

The blond man screamed in agony, his chest burned from the sheer force of the attack, his shirt torn apart completely. He was breathing heavily, his sight blurred and he could taste blood in his mouth. Now the secret seal on his chest in the shape of a heptagram within a circle glowed gold, he was feeling that same rage he knew so well bubbling hot within him, boiling him from the inside. His eyes started glowing as well, he did not appreciate the pale mans interruption and he wanted to make him pay for it.

"you do not know what you are dealing with, the dead are on my side PALE MAN!"

He shouted out in complete anger, and he lost control of himself. The seal on his chest started to send runs to all parts of his body, his skin started to blacken until it was as black as charred ground, his hair a black smoke, the runs and seal glow and so did his eyes. His voice sounded more manic and raged then before.

"I wIlL TeAcH YoU hUmIlLiTy PaLe MaN!!!"

He shouted in rage and slammed both his hands onto the ground beneath him, it began to rumble like a hungry beast and from the ground around them all hands erupted out wards and after them came full bodies grey and shriveled. The corpses started slowly rising all with frighting sounds and expressions.

"NoW tRy AnD eScApE!!!"

 

[Sousha Kage]

Kage walked with Nao, absolutely calm, he wasn't terrified anymore.
from the moment that Nao told him that the place they were in wasn't real, it suddenly all made sense, and when things are making sense, the is no reason to be worried.

Kage walked with the blond man, listening to his tragic story, it seemed like Kage should of had a lot of questions but the only question that was running through his head the whole time was: why is this man is telling him all of this? there had to be a purpose, it couldn't just be because the man wanted to talk about this....

There was a moment that was the powerful from Kage's perspective. The whole part of the childhood and the torture were very sad and moving but the moment that had the biggest impact on Kage's mind was when he saw how subject 46 made all the doctors mad, how he made them all kill themselves. Kage wasn't scared or shocked. He was impressed, maybe that was the moment when Kage decided to become the apprentice of this man, he suddenly understood that that man could feed all the hunger Kage ever had for knowledge. The hunger to become so powerful that you can be free.

Suddenly Kage snapped back into reality.

one moment he was walking with the man from the cave, hearing his life story and suddenly, a big light pulled him out of the dream, it felt like waking up to sudden light from the window.
Then he saw it, the first time he saw Nao in his real, powerful form. Nao tirned into darkness itself, with madness in his eyes, his skin and hair turned black and hexagram on his chest statrted to shine. thist only made Kage more sure that whatever they did to that man in those labs made him no longer a man, but a demon, a devil walking on earth seeking for revenge.

He saw Tao shining with bright light and Nao turning into a dark mass, waking the dead, making them rise from the ground, it was all about to go down to hell, it was about to turn into a great mess....

"NoW tRy AnD eScApE!!!" he heard Nao shouting with a terrifying voice.

Kage understood that this had to stop, this fight couldn't end in a good way, so he decided to do the only thing that came to his mind.

he jumped in between them and shouted:
No!!! don't hurt him!!!!!

Kage was not sure at all at that point about who of them he was talking, but he hoped that maybe he will stop this madness before it will turn into a big mess.

 

[Tao]

Tao watched as the blond man being hit by Tao's concentrated rays of light, a jutsu that not too long ago burned holes in wood, and yet the man absorbed it like it was nothing all though it did burn through his cloths, or so it seemed at first, but the man began screaming moments later in agony, seems like the attack wasn't as ineffective as he thought. Tao wondered to himself what was this man made of to be able to fend off such an attack this easily especially when he was so concentrated towards his Genjutsu to the extent he went through the trouble of hiding his presence from Tao, it seemed like the blond man had some internal bleeding however, seems like the hit was indeed rough and did little external damage, but maybe it was much more serious than what it seemed to the plain sight? Some carvings began to appear on the man's body and they began glowing gold, growing and pulsing from his seven point star within a circle on the center of his chest, runes began to spread through his body as his skin began to darken into jet black, his hair became into some form of black smoke and his eyes glowed as well.

Then all of the sudden Kage jumped out in between them shouting and pleading both of them to stop while tears were sliding from his eyes, was it a sign of naivety or maybe he knew more than he could show for it? Tao wondered what exactly was going on in that Genjutsu... Maybe he was still affected and is being controlled by the now dark man with golden rune curving.

"Is he insane? He will die like that!"

The thought of the boy throwing himself in the middle of the danger worried Tao, he had to make sure that the kid would be safe. He had no choice, he had to make sure the kid wont expose himself until this was over. Tao waved a set of seals and quickly materialized extremely concentrated beams of light that began to spin around the young boy with extreme intensity, they were dangerous from with jutsu like they were dangerous from outside, if he would attempt to break out of the tempest of light, he'd just end up hurting himself, although it wasn't impossible, it was just difficult. Now assured that as long as he maintains that jutsu the kid would be kept out of harms way, he began to notice arms sticking out of the ground, trying to climb out of the ground with darkened and rotten flesh. Seems like the legends were just that, legends, because if the bodies were to be burned down, they wouldn't be in this shape, but just ashes scattered by the wind and painted the ceiling black.

Tao's body began to glow slightly as well as he began to concentrate his energy, seems like he had to worry about more than just this man, he now remembered that not too long ago, he mentioned that the dead were on his side, that began to worry him even more, could it be that he actually brought them back to life and forced them to dig their way back to the surface? He could never even begin to guess that humans could do these sorts of things, just another reason why Tao had to become a shinobi and make this world safe from these... Shinobi. He figured that if the black man would go down, so would these bodies, he had to act fast, to move past them before they crawl all the way out and seal this man away. He moved to the right to avoid having the kid in the middle of the battle and clapped his hands once more and light began to escape from the gaps between his palms, when he began to slowly open his palms the gap widened and with it he sent an extremely powerful ray of light that would continue to expand the more Tao would open his palms towards the outside, this light unlike before was extremely potent against creatures of the dark, they would not be able to defend against it as easily as any other attack and it would damage them far more than normal attacks would as well. This attack should have at least opened a gap wide enough for Tao to move in straight towards his primary target, even if it wouldn't have hit Nao himself, it would still serve it's purpose quite well. Tao would then dash towards the black man and form another set of seals, when he would be done, he would release a barrage of white beams of light of changing lengths and densities that would spray towards Nao and some around him in case he would attempt to dodge the attack. If the attack would be successful, Tao will attempt to use his Laser Prison jutsu to imprisoned Nao within a crossfire of beams of light which would leave him in a very similar situation like the kid but unlike the kid Nao wont be able to move without harming himself quite a lot more severely than the boy would, in the event that THIS would be successful, Tao will stick the seal Satsu gave him on Nao's forehead.

[jutsus used: Shielding Tempest, Barrage of Storms, Laser Prison]
[MFT]

 

[Rounin Nao]

[OOC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTtexOw5jtI&list=FLXmJGbolqZYMnV8aFRPCl-w&index=1 ]

In the fray of battle there was often more time then it seemed, as if the world stands by to observe the chaos created by men like Nao.
He did not mean to loose control like he did, never the less all he saw was a white flash of rage, the bodies slowly rising out of the cold cave ground.
Suddenly the young boy jumped in-between him and the pale skinned man.

"No!!! don't hurt him!!!!!"

Even in his state Nao could still register what just happened, the boy for some reason placed himself in harms way and in extreme peril to make the fighting stop. Nao did not understand what the boy hoped to achieve with his actions and yet it helped him gain a bit more control and focus, he smiled and knew that this battle was nearing its conclusion. But not without his own distorted flair.

The pale skinned man sensed the young boy was in danger, and without hesitation he swiftly crafted hand seals quickly materializing more rays of light around the boy, so concentrated that the boy vanished within them. Nao knew that the man will now aim at him to finish this.

'lets end this!'

The pale skinned man rushed to the other side with great speed, he was clearly very skilled, more hand seals came shortly after and a ray of light escaped the man's palms, smiting most of the risen half way out, but four of them remained. Three of the risen took their stand in front of Nao and one at his back to protect him, the pale man started running towards him, he had no intention to stand in place, Nao and the four risen rushed towards the glowing man in wedge formation, his next attack took out the risen in the head of the formation, the two on the sides filled the space between them. Then came another Jutsu, it came from all around but he had and idea, he was finally in full control and there was time for one last stunt.

"Now!!!"

Nao yelled out as a cage of light started closing in on them, the two in front grabbed each one of Nao's arms while he pushed his legs from the ground and the one in the back used his body to push Nao's feet forwards and the two in front pulled his arms and threw him out of the the cage with great speed, he was now almost flying straight towards the man of light. Nao saw that the man was holding some sort of seal in his hand, and it was fine the battle was over.

In the fray of battle there was often more time then it seemed, as if the world stands by to observe the chaos created by men like Nao.

As the world stood still for that moment, the runs on Nao's body subsided and his skin lightened, he was lingering in the air just meters away from the man of light meeting his eyes. A smile formed on Nao's face as if to accept the seal the other held with grace. He did not mind going to sleep but just before the seal hit his forehead he whispered, he was always one for tricks and riddles, it was part of his condition. The whisper was loud enough for the other to hear for sure.

"...what will happen when wonderful light and complete darkness would clash?..."

[OOC: I'm back buddy!]

 

[Tao]

One strike after another, Tao tried to make sure he'd waste away the remaining forces of the now black creature whom he entered into combat with, the dead bodies were a nuisance, they kept jumping into his attacks one after another to shield their master while clearly Tao's intention was to finish the fight quickly. It was exhausting, he have used a lot of chakra in this fight even before he himself has engaged his opponent by providing support for his young friend and even at this time, he had to make sure Kage would be as far away from harm as possible by shielding him within a vortex of light which from the prospective of an outside viewer has eradicated his very existence. Dashing, jumping and throwing waves and beams of light, he bashed the undead with great force, leaving little room for the man of shadows to think or move, but he in no way was dumb, no, he was actually quite bright, even at times where it'd seem that he have lost control, either that or he unconsciously managed to device a good enough plan to escape all of Tao's attacks. It was obvious that the gap in power between the two was astronomical, in both terms of speed and strength at least it was quite apparent. Tao drew the seal given to him by Satsu and slammed it on the dark creature's forehead, but moments before it made contact, the man of shadows spoke, his voice was calm unlike before and not at all distorted.

"...what will happen when wonderful light and complete darkness would clash?..."

Tao didn't let him continue afterwards, the seal has already been placed and to make sure it wont fall off later on, he made to sure to press the edges against Nao's skin in a rash yet nit fashion and in conclusion, the man has fallen asleep, his skin brightened up and the runes began to disappear on their own, the bodies that crept up from the ground were no longer anywhere in sight, it seemed that his jutsus have ended as well.

"Nothing would remain..."

Tao thought instinctively, he was also curious to see what would happen in such an event, but the answer he thought up was already in his head even before he even began considering the possibilities, he knew that it'll create only destruction when such pure powers collide with each other, he should never let such a thing happen, he will have to make sure it would never happen, no matter what. He canceled his jutsu that kept the kid safe, he was no longer bound to the spot he stood at and could move freely again. Tao didn't want to leave the kid alone, so he had to bring him back to the academy before leaving off to the estate. He lifted the now asleep foe of his and tossed him over his shoulder while pumping chakra towards his arms, torso and legs to make sure he could make this trip without collapsing under the weight of another man whom Tao is now carrying. He would make sure to have the path outside light from the natural light he is able to produce from his body and lead the boy out in safety, or so he thought at least, he never actually checked if the boy was following him, he was actually ignoring everything around him so that he could focus on maintaining his chakra for as long as needed. He blindly walked out of Arcadia and went to the academy grounds.

"Go home, kid, have some rest, I'll take care of things from here"

Tao demanded while not looking at Kage even once, he didn't even know if he was talking to the kid at all, he could have as well talked to nobody if the kid didn't follow him all the way back to the academy. At that point, Tao left to the Rounin Estate, with Nao on his right shoulder, attempting to cause as little suspicion as he could on the way, he couldn't be bothered with communications with other people right now, he was exhausted. The moment, he would reach the Rounin Estate grounds, he would walk past the people who would or would not greet him, completely ignoring everyone on his way and made his way to Satsu's office, he lowered down the injured man on Satsu's sofa and excused himself to his room, he was far too tired to interact with anyone, he just needed a little rest.

[Topic left with Nao and Kage]