[Graded]Just Visiting [Open]

[Izanagi]

Takeo nodded slowly, considering his adventures. He had traveled to at least ten countries in total, sometimes spending weeks or even months on a handful of occasions in foreign land, adapting to the conditions and admiring the natural beauty of the land. “If you’re going to embark on a journey, might as well do it properly eh? Yes, I suppose you’re right. Any reward is more satisfying the more one has worked to achieve it.” And so Takeo would continue to put the work into his village and one day perhaps he would have something to show for all of it.

The more time the Hokage spent around this Suna shinobi the more he began to respect him and see him as an intelligent and caring young man, the kind of person who possessed genuine intellect and curiosity, not in a selfish or malevolent way such as the feeling Kenji gave off but rather the type of person who would use knowledge to help others if he could rather than solely for his own power. While he couldn’t say for certain if this was the case, Takeo was a man who had good instincts more often than not and he trusted his gut feelings strongly, often opting to give others a chance based on these feelings even if it meant putting himself in harms way. Such was the case now. If he were ever to betrayed by someone he saw as an ally or friend he would always hope that he would be the first tbearffer so that he could bare that danger on himself and keep those he cared about safe. If someone were to attack him in some sort of assassination attempt he could make peace with that but if they targeted someone under his protection he would go to every length possible to make sure they lived to regret not killing him first.

The muscular leader of Konoha watched Zao’s reaction cautiously. He was actually a little concerned that he might have upset the man somehow but as he recovered and explained his position Takeo smiled widely. “Excellent, it would be a great benefit to me to become familiar with such a technique” he explained. Of course he didn’t mean so in the sense of learning it himself but rather understanding the limitations and weakness of Space-Time for precisely the reason that Zao had speculated. With no sense of trepidation at all, Takeo reached out to take Zao’s hand when it was extended. "Off we go then” he stated. He was curious if this time constraint would be more taxing on the user or the person brought along, whose chakra was foreign to the environment. Would he feel a resistance trying to force him out, did the realm act differently depending on whether he was invited in or was able to breach the realm forcibly? These were all questions that buzzed around in his mind and he wanted to determine for himself as much as he could and trust in Zao to truthfully fill in the blanks. For years he had assumed that this type of realm was Kenji’s greatest advantage, somewhere he could remain indefinitely and escape to at a moments notice. But if Takeo could find a way to exploit such a plane of existence, cause it to sap away at Kenji’s chakra and force him out through some means, perhaps forcing a stowaway of some sort or hitching a ride himself. There would be new options to consider should he truly have to bring the man down permanently.

[Zao]

"Indeed, let us be off, Hokage-sama." The young man's hand now grasped somewhat firmly around the slightly larger hand of Takeo's now, Zao's own hand would feel rather soft and almost unmanly as it held onto the other man's hand now. A gentle blue outline of chakra could visibly be seen around the scholar's form now as that outline actually seemed to spread to the outline of the Hokage himself now, as well. It was in that moment afterwards that space seemed to distort and then twist around the two first starting with Zao and then moving to Takeo now as the pair appeared to be swirling inwards to an invisible hole in space and time. A moment later and the pair would have completely disappeared from the street as a single kunai was left in their place as a marker that had been dropped by the retired Suna-nin in the moment right before they had vanished as it remained stuck point first in the ground softly remaining standing upright for the time being.

The older man would feel like his body was being twisted and his vision would turn into a mass of varying blue and purple colors as they passed through to a different realm, Zao's personal realm before finally arriving. This type of travel often could be compared to suddenly feeling motion sickness, though that was for normal people as one who had honed and tempered his body to such a degree as the Hokage would most likely feel minimal at most from the sudden transfer in position. When the blues and purples suddenly disappeared the man would find himself floating in the middle of what seemed to be an empty space, in every direction he could see was a myriad of stars and to his left was a giant planet that was a pristine blue with numerous rings around it that was off in the distance but still appeared rather close due to its colossal size. Shifting his gaze to the right he would see a smaller planetary orb that was a crimson hue with a single set of rings that seemed to split the planet in half vertically. As the Leaf-nin would turn around he would see that he needed to simply circulate a bit of chakra to guide himself in what ever direction that he wished to move, behind him was a large floating island about thirty or forty meters across upon which could be found a small table with two chairs and a rather ancient but simple looking bamboo structure that covered about half the island's surface area. The under side of the island seemed to be simple rock that came down to a point while atop the surface of the land mass was a coating of find blueish green blades of grass that grew to about one's ankle in height.

But what would most likely catch the powerful shionbi's gaze as he glanced around would be a series of eight giant obelisks that were positioned in each corner of the faintly visible cube shaped barrier seemed to be the only thing separating them from the fatal extremes of space. Being the first to arrive by only a moment's time Zao took this opportunity to form a series of hand seals before each of the eight obelisks would suddenly shine brightly as their jade white surfaces began to glow now activating the fuuin inscriptions upon each of them. Though its effects would go unnoticed time had actually slowed down to more then five times its normal speed and this would help to counter act the massive stamina drain that would be present upon both shinobi for willingly bringing the older man here into his own person abode. Finishing this task he nodded at the arrival of Takeo now and spoke first, "Welcome to my abode, Hokage-sama. Because I've brought you here willingly then together we would share a drain on our chakra due to one's personal realm being created for only a single person. The only exception to this rule that I've found is that spirits seemed to be able to reside here without creating any addition strain on the realm for one reason or another. Though I'd slowed time down here within my realm to counter act this for some time, if you had tried to force yourself into my realm or another then you would be facing this powerful draining effect alone."

Zao was very frank and honest with the renowned shinobi, as he understood to a point that one of the many reasons for being so interested in the personal realm of a space-time user most likely boiled down to a single, monstrous man whom both of them personally knew. Though he shook the thought away now allowing for his hands to relax and both arms to return back to their natural places as he turned halfway taking in the majestic view that his personal realm offered as it moved through this remote part of space at an unknown distance or place to where the pair had come from. His bright blue gaze fell upon his home away from home, which in the most recent years had been the place were most of his time was spent researching and training away from the prying eyes and ears of others. But it was this peace and quiet along with the relaxing environment of the star scape that had allowed for him to deduce a number of things and solve several problems along the road to life and adventure. Finally with a gentle gesture of his well manicured left hand towards the table behind and below them upon the single floating island he spoke again. "Please join me for some tea." With his offer given out he moved with greater speed now then he was able to normally arriving at the table after only a moment of time had passed where a small pot of tea and serving cups soon appeared on the delicately hand crafted stone table with its wooden chairs.

Jutsu UsedShow

Open Space: Homeward Bound
B-ranked Jikukan Ninjutsu
After channeling Jikukan throughout his body, the user will essentially phases their body through space and time to their personal realm instead of creating a full portal. This teleportation is slower than if the user had created a portal and stepped through it, but is a more efficient way of moving to the person all. This phasing happens at a speed of 20 and with direct contact the user can also perform this jutsu along with other people, so long as they are willing.

Expand Time: Realm Control
A-rank Jikukan Ninjutsu
Prerequisites: Augment Fuuinjutsu
Though the user of the Expanding time and open space space-time techniques Zao has brought series of eight snow white columns that appear to be made of a jade-like substance which stand over thirty feet tall into his personal realm. On these stones the man had inscribed them with fuuin and infused them with his Jikukan chakra, mainly that dealing with Time. This technique once activated created a formation across the entire realm that slows down time within the personal realm and this in turn slows down the rate at which the realm consumed chakra when someone is within the realm with its creator. Dropping the stamina drain down to one [1] stamina per post per person. This last for a number of posts equal to the user's [Stamina] /5.