Double Hostjob

[FluffyGinja]

"Gekko, Indra... Hizashi, Ashura. I want to thank you both for appearing here today. I'm certain you are both curious why you are here and I will come out with it right away. You two have been selected to be hosts to our two sacred spirits. The Toukougenma and the Shigenma. I will lead you to the sealing chambers shortly, but I wished to ask you how you both your feelings on the matter, seeing as you will be performing a great service to the village." Sueatsu was looking to both young men who had escorted here. Frankly... neither boy had been his first choice but... these two weren't a terrible choice.

They were both talented to a fault, at least in terms of their skills. Genin were typically specialists in their fields and yet... they were strong, they made friends easily. They might even both push each other further with their attitudes.

[Niro]

Ashura had been getting ready for the day in his domicile within the Hizashi compound when loud, thundering knocks rained down upon the front door. Glad he was already dressed, Ashura peeked through the small viewhole on the door and didn't see anyone. In confusion, he opened it and stepped out to look around. The moment he did so, he felt a blow to his neck and his vision faded to black.

The young Hizashi came back to within a room he was unfamiliar with with people he didn't know. His head whipped out wildly as he tried to figure out of what was going on and then the man in front of him began to speak about how they were to become hosts and what their opinions on it was. Ashura went through his memories of the academy, specifically history, as he tried to think back on what a host was. Something about powerful spirits? Putting the context clues together, Ashura gulped as he realized what was going on.

He and the boy next to him were to be the next Genma hosts. Ah, hell.

"I just hope it doesn't hurt too bad." Ashura blurted out as he brought his left hand to his neck and rubbed at the still aching spot where he had been hit. "Unlike those guards that brought me here! What a jerk..." He mumbled under his breath as he folded his arms together and kicked at the floor.

[Ace Trainer]

Through the winding halls of the Kazekage tower, Indra had kept his eyes wide. There was a fair bit of gold in here, large objects with ornate designs on them, and things that looked just....old. His mom worked somewhere in this tower too, he knew that much. But it was not often she had allowed him to come along with her to work when it was inside the village, so he could count on his right hand the number of times he'd been this deep into the building before. The words of the Kazekage had caught him off guard, and left him with a tinge of disappointment. He'd been planning on nabbing a few things on his way out...but being a genma host? Well, there would certainly be a lot of eyes on him, and he had a feeling he wouldn't be leaving the way he came.

"Well...alright. Thats pretty cool then.", he'd say in response. "Hey don't worry about it hurting, you'll have a creature of incredible power inside your brain, it'll definitely heal ya up afterwards.", Indra ribbed at Ashura. He looked at the Kazekage afterwards, a sly smirk on his face. The disappointment wearing off, he realized being a genma host would be pretty cool. It would open up all sorts of opportunities for trickery for him. Especially the Heaven Genma, that would be a treat. He wouldn't need to nab anything if he could make whatever he wanted. It would be too easy.

Wait, unless.

"Oi, ehhh, Kazekage-sama, big dog. Uh, who is getting what genma?", he asked, a mix of curiousity and concern on his face.

[FluffyGinja]

There was a smile on his face as he listened to them both. Informal, young, spry. This could have a great deal of potential. More than he had first thought about. "That... is a very good question. Indra, you will become the host for the Shigenma. I can't stress enough... Shigenma has been a trickster before. You've got spunk and a fiery attitude. Ashura, you'll be the host for the Toukougenma. Now... before we get into anything further, a few things of import. One... While your parents may know of this arrangement as a formality, the village does not. It is best to keep it that way... While it may be hard to hide, do your best to not let people see what you are before you two become Chuunin. Secondly, I may have been grandiose before but I was serious. You two are important to the village more than before. Shinobi may be our life blood, but you two... will be the heavens above and the soul of this very village. I trust you two to take this matter... as seriously as one can." He paused as he took a moment to think on the matter before going to gesture for them to follow him along.

"I know you two are quite young, but I'm impressed... You both graduated before I did when I was younger. I expect great things from you both, you've both got a great deal of potential." He stated firmly as he was walking along with even and steady steps. "Anything else you'd two like to ask of me?"

[Niro]

Ashura gulped, the action thick in his throat at the revelation the Phantom Beast of all Creation would be shoved inside of him. That was...a lot of power. More than he could really comprehend at this point and just trying to visualize it was enough to make his head swim. Oh, good. His parents would at least have some idea where he was and what was going on. It gave him a small shred of comfort but the dawning of what was about to happen had stolen the majority of his words. Ashura was still trying to really wrap his head around it all.

Even though his head was swimming, Ashura's feet followed Sueatsu and Indra as they moved along to what he could only imagine was the sealing ritual chamber. His mouth had gone dry over the last few minutes and he could feel his already abnormally hot body swell with just a tad more heat. Ashura could only nod at keeping this secret; he really had no want to shout it from the roof tops right now. This was...one hell of a start to his shinobi career.

"Nothing comes to mind."

[Ace Trainer]

The Kazekage gave them their assignments, and Indra released a heavy sigh, making it clear he was not too thrilled with what he was being told. The soul genma? Great, perhaps something good would be able to come of it. But he couldn't use it like he could have with the creation genma. He gave Ashura a momentary side-eye, would this kid understand what he was getting access to? Ashura didn't seem very confident regarding it, he even looked nervous. What a let down, if he had been given creation...boy what he would have been able to accomplish. He had heard stories about the Soul genma, about the chain of failed hosts, the horrors it had enacted on humans, how dangerous it was. Why was he being left with such a burden?

"No, I guess no questions.", he said throwing his hands behind his head and stretching his back out, "Just know I'm not gonna be a played a chump by this beastie. I'm serious alright, seriously not worried." he chuckled at the comment, this was too easy.

He would follow Sueatsu, where-ever he would be led to. He'd do the sealing and deal with whatever came next. He was the best after all.

[Niro]

The trios foot steps clicked along the brick floor as the well lit halls eventually gave way to a large circular room with an equally high ceiling. Ashura's jaw dropped open in awe at the sheer size of the area and his eyes wandered, momentarily forgetting the reason he had been taken...no, guided here. This was something he WANTED to do. Not something forced upon him. He shook his head free of the thoughts that intruded and focused on the two large pots decorated with seals in the center of the room. The pots were engraved with ancient fuuinjutsu and then inked over with even more seals to contain the powerful Phantom Beasts within them which ran off onto the floor and then to the edges of the room where they were connected to masked shinobi. Any who tried to open the pots while the seals were maintained would find them impossible to open without the aid of Tenkujutsu. A small seed of doubt was planted within the white-haired boy's mind as he saw just how serious the situation truly was.

Sueatsu directed two of the masked shinobi to join each of the boys and ordered the two boys to the pots; Ashura to the left and Indra to the right. Once the boys would take their positions, the Kazekage would begin the ceremony. First would be Indra who was to be given the Beast of the Soul. The Monk moved to the right pot and directed the shinobi on the edge of the room to release the seals tightly locking down the Shigenma. Chakra pulsed throughout the seals and the lid to the pot turned ever so slightly. Purple flaming chakra surrounded Sueatsu's hands as he unscrewed the lid and plunged his other hand deep into the container.

As he did so, what seemed to be the screams of the dead escaped from the pot and waves of transparent yet heavy chakra poured from it. Beads of sweat began to form and cover the Kage's brow as he pulled a screaming, writing mass of chakra from the container while two shinobi on the edges of the room keeled over from chakra exhaustion. Only those who had a form of Spirit Vision could truly see the Beast as he pulled it from the pot due to the nature of its chakra and shoved it into Indra's stomach. As the beast and Sueatsu made contact with the genin, the masked shinobi beside Indra immediately flew into a flurry of hand seals and placed his hands over boys stomach. A seal spread out from the point of contact as the boy and Genma's chakra systems would begin to clash; the seal would not only seal the beast within the boy but aid in facilitating his domination over the beast.

Ashura could only stare and shake as the Kazekage pulled nothing from the pot yet something was clearly filling space in his hand. The chakra rolling free of the container was enough to make him feel like he was suffocating until it was placed within its new container; Indra. He bent over on his knees as the chakra weighed down on the room and stood tall after it was gone. He sucked in breath as if he had been suffocating and stared at the pot in front of him. Something like that was going into him? What did he sign up for...

[Ace Trainer]

Indra, like Ashura, followed behind the Kazekage and did as was guided. Unlike Ashura, who seemed to be in a nebulous space between self determination and survival, Indra quietly hummed under his breath, appearing unconcerned about the happenings around him. Or at least, he was trying his best to be appearing as if that was the case. As they were lead deep into the kazekage's tower however, his humming would come to a sudden an unceremonious halt as he laid his eyes on the giant containers. The energy radiating from them was heavy, like humidity (had Indra ever felt it) and he could almost feel himself suffocating in it. Sueatsu directed them, and it appeared Indra would be first - not that he was given much choice.

Taking a audible swallow, he'd give an affirmative nod and slowly move forward as directed.

What happened next seemed to happen instantenously, though part of Indra would be cognizant that wasn't the case. He honestly wasn't sure what was going on, for a moment there was a lot of energy, a cool chill, and the sounds of screaming, and then suddenly there was nothing. Indra was surrounded by darkness. He couldn't even see his own hands in front of his face, though he was sure he was waving it back and forth. He remained in the darkness for an eternity it felt like, all alone except for what sounded like whispering in the distance, coming from every direction.

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Indra's body laid limp on the ground next to where he'd been directed, at some point he'd collapsed, and with the sealing complete, the shinobi that were responsible for his beast began tending to everything around him, with one kneeling directly next to him and apparently ensuring the boy was alright.

At this point, Sueatsu would turn to Ashura and give him a gentle smile as he approached, "His beast is a bit more...temperamental than yours will be.", he said in a soothing reassuring tone that deviated from the more formal tone that had been used previously. Perhaps he had a sense that anyone would be deterred by what they had just seen. Not waiting for Ashura's response, Sueatsu once again began channeling as tenkujutsu chakra would radiate from his hands and launch forward at the jar.

Unlike the soul genma, as Sueatsu's chakra injected itself into the jar there was no scream, no heavy energy, instead, the room suddenly began to light up. In the air around them, crystals began to form, raining down from the ceiling. For a moment, it was a look of beauty, until they began getting larger and large. Sueatsu released a combination of a humored and annoyed laugh under his breath as several shinobi from around the room jumped to action, sealing to form sand coverage for both the Kazekage and the boy receiving the beast. Suddenly, black chakra was lash out and fill the room like a void. Through the small breaks in the sand dome now above them, Ashura would be able to see nothing but a black void and the shine of crystals, seeming like the sky at the deepest point of the night with no clouds to block the view.

And as quickly as the darkness came, it would leave as it seized forward into Ashura's stomach. Similar to Indra, another monk would come to his size, moving quickly to place his hands on the boys stomach and release a fuuinjutsu that would spread across his body for a moment before restricting itself.

As quickly as they had began, the sealing was over.