[Dasu Juu]
[The Spirit Saint]
[One can only try to be a good person and live a good life.]
General Information Age: 38 (Appears 16)
Gender: Male
Height: 6'
Weight: 170 lbs.
Physical Features:
- Face/head: Flowing down from the top of the man's head is short, spikey lengths of snow white hair that reach around three to four inches in length. The bright hair framing his lovely set of bright, piercing, sky blue eyes that look out from beneath a few stray strands of hair that will normally drifts in front of Zao's face. Other than his distinctive eyes the rest of the man’s face is some what ordinary, being neither good or bad looking but instead having rather common features that wouldn't cause him stand out in a crowd. Someone you might see or pass on a daily basis but never really commit to memory.
- Body: Zao's body is one of athletic appearance, appearing toned overall but not with any large amount of bulk. But upon closer observation of the man's body one can see his seemingly pristine skin that could almost be confused with that of a woman's with its softness and well kept appearance. Seeming to just be coming into a maturing body with the young Dasu's body he has taken over.
- Notable Features: [His snow white hair and mesmerizing bright blue eyes are the only noticeable features about the man unless one were to include his woman-like skin.
Lastly, a set of small red and white prayer beads that are kept wrapped around his left forearm and extends up around the palm. Remnants of his past love, a reminder of his late wife Wei.
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Personality:
- General: The man has found himself in somewhat of a daze after somehow having his soul end up in the body of a young Dasu chuunin, when it should have moved on to the afterlife with his late wife and other friends. His mind a mix of his old memories and those of the Dasu boy, Juu. Back within his home village in what feels almost like a surreal time as he has memories of so many people and places but none of them real whom he is. Nor would they probably believe him even if he was to tell the.who he really was, but neither would he want them to know after the crimes he committed against not only his home village but against their alliance of Konoha.
So he tries to keep a distance when it comes to talking about himself, as he tries to figure out his place in this new life...
- Hopes/Dreams: The man wishes to understand why his soul was returned back into the world of the living, into his homeland no less.
- Fears: That his past will eventually be revealed once more.
- Combat Mentality: Zao's combat skills in the past revolve around utilizing his ability in Tenkujutsu to summon his spirits and spirit pets, along with the handful of spirit puppets that he's created in order to fight for him at mid to closer range while he utilizes long range offensive and supporting techniques.
To not make it evident whom he is the man refrains from exposing his summons or puppets by posing as a medic shinobi that was the past of his current body who also has a lobe for studying about the spirits. Something both of them have in common.
Battle Information Village: Sunagakure no Sato
Rank: Chuunin (S-Rank)
Stats: 200/250
- Chakra Pool: 40
- Endurance: 30
- Control: 50
- Strength: 30
- Speed: 40
- Willpower: 10
- Swarm Sync: 50
- Left Hip Pouch – Contains thirteen kunai with [Fuuinjutsu • Flash Step Tag] inscriptions
- Left and Right Bicep - Secured to the left bicep is a True Link Kunai who's original is stored within Zao's personal realm and on the right is a True Link Kunai with an original within the Suna village in the man's new home.
- Lower Back Pouch – Contains five ‘True Link’ original Kunai and their recycled copy kunai, each separated by a divider inside the pouch for each set of kunai.
- Right Hip Pouch – Contains ten kunai, each having a single 2x2 inch [Fuuinjutsu • Flash Step Tag] attached to the loop with a short piece of wire.
- Large Stone x5 - A twenty five meter stone slab ranging from one to two meters in thickness. Engraved on the large stone's surface is Zao's [*Augment Fuuinjutsu • Strengthen and Enhance] that takes up over 90% of the stone's surface. This stones are stored within the man's personal realm until needed. Marked with [Fuuinjutsu: Marked in Space] seal.
- Giant Explosion Stone x13 - A twelve (12) meter square stone ranging from one to two meters in thickness. Engraved on one side of the large stone's surface is Zao's [Force Fuuinjutsu • Directional Explosive Release] that takes a 10 meter by 10 meter area with the fuuin inscription on one side of the stone. This stones are stored within the man's personal realm until needed. Marked with a [Fuuinjutsu: Marked in Space] seal.
Ability #1 - Lava Construct - Sending their chakra into the fuuin on the weapon, the user is able to manifest a lava construct that is sixty meters tall with [Control] speed and [Control] strength. This lava construct wields a gnarled staff in it hands for a weapon and is capable of fighting for [Control/5] posts.
Ability #2 - The user gain's access to the lava technique *Youton • Apocalyptica.
Effect #1 - Phoenix Rebirth - After imbuing chakra into the fan, golden flames cover the surface of the fan, then the flames will leap from the fan forming into a grand phoenix construct with a one hundred and sixty meters wing span and one hundred meter long body including its long tail feathers, having [Control] speed and [Control] strength. The legendary flaming bird is able to exist for the next [Control/5] Posts.
Description: The current puppet resembles that of a three headed Oni, having a large three meter wooden framed body with no legs but instead eight thick human like arms, four on each side running down the body like inside or spider legs with an additional three meter long, segmented tail protruding from the bottom of the puppet. At the top of the body a large demon-like skull shaped head with functioning mouth with two rows of yellow hue iron teeth inside, also the head features cylinder like horns protruding from each temple of the wood carved skull that is painted in a dark red with a black strip down the middle and yellow eyes serves as the man head being about two feet in size. Off each side is a smaller head about one foot in size and of similar shape and color except with a handful of the cylinder shaped nubs protruding about two-to-three inches off the top and sides of each skull head, each having the same paint style of functioning mouth full of yellow iron teeth.
Covering the body of the puppet is a ragged looking baggy piece of black fabric that acts like a cloak held onto the puppet by thick dark ropes and being draped over the puppet's frame in such a way that is gives the large puppet a rather bulky appearance as it can hide its entire body, spare its three heads, beneath this covering. The stomach region of the puppet is a hollowed out area large enough to store a normal sized person and is designed for the slates on the bottom belly of the demon puppet to open up allowing for it to capture a target inside. Along the stomach region of the puppet are eight smaller slats that can open up to reveal small blade width holes that allows for the puppet to impale itself stabbing any captured target inside its stomach with its melee weaponry. Juuki's limbs are designed to be detachable at a moment's notice to increase the combat effectiveness of the user as need.
Puppet Stats
- Strength: 50
- Speed: 50
Weapon Stats
- Strength: 10
Weapon Stats
- Strength: 50
- 10x Senbon Pod (10 Senbon Each)
- Storage Fuuinjutsu • Depth Seal - Placed upon the chest region of the puppet and stores the eight Odachi swords of the Reaping Blade Set when not in use.
- Flash Step - Located on the back of the puppet's body.
- [Fuuinjutsu: Marked in Space - Located on the back of the puppet's head.
General Info
Description: A puppet frame crafted by the master craftsman Zao. The metal forged puppet frame frame standing three meters in height, the majority of its body made up of its potbelly torso region as it has two short arms and a small head with a large spike tooth filled mouth with beady blood red eyes. The pot belly torso is hollow inside and is able to split down the middle to open up in order to store objects inside or even trap opponents. There is eight small slits on either side of the puppet body's belly that can open to allow blades to be plunged into the gullet of the puppet to impale targets captured inside. Engraved upon the stomach is a demonic scene that appear to be demons rising up from the bottom towards a crimson backdrop in the center as it has what appears to be flames engraved on the top part of the belly. The short legs appear to be chained together with a set of shackles while the long, thick arms are concealed from sight by a oversized robe where the sleeves drop down past the length of the arms but the robe is left open in the front revealing the potbelly of the puppet body. The dark is secured around the neck as a black wolf fur has been sewn into around the collar giving it a slightly rugged look. Lastly, atop the bald metal cranium of the puppet can be found a red and black oriental style hat from which a demon sealing charm is hung directly from the brow of the hat and flows down in front of the massive maw of the puppet as if there to seal the demonic puppet away.
Puppet Stats:
- Strength: 50
- Speed: 50
Weapon Stats
- Strength: 10
- Flash Step - Located on the back of the puppet's body.
- [Fuuinjutsu: Marked in Space - Located on the back of the puppet's head.
Goddess of the Sun
Description: A puppet body crafted in the holy image of the Sun Goddess from the main religion of those from the Sand village. Standing around forty meters tall, the with a shiny golden body that radiates light when exposed to the sun light. The body stands on a single pair of legs but sports ten pair of multi-sectioned puppet arms that each are fifty meters in length and have two meter wide and five-meter-long palms. Wrapped around the upper and lower torso are a single robe like garb that flows down covering the feet of the puppet frame and up to the slender neck of the puppet. The puppet's head is a beautifully carved version of the Sun Goddess's face with a halo like helm that wraps around from the back of the puppet's head up to her forehead. Large hoop style earrings can be found in each of the puppet's slightly large ear lobes and long golden hair appears to grow from the puppet's head flowing down halfway down its back.
*Note 1: Because of the puppet's size, it is counted as controlling three puppets against the total number the user is able to control at one time.
*Note 2: Zao has placed his [Fuuinjutsu: Marked in Space] fuuin jutsu on the puppet as the puppet is too large to store normally within a scroll and is in turn stored within his personal realm.
Puppet Stats
- Strength: 50
- Speed: 50
Effect: C rank Hiton Armor
4x6 = 24
Spd = 20 x1/2 = 10
Strength = 50 x1 = 50
Total = 84/2 (Crafting Discount) = 42 Ryo
Hiton:Hiton, also known as Light Release, is an elemental fusion that combines Raiton and Katon to create and manipulate hard light to accomplish various feats. Hiton starts as relatively weak jutsu that create light and distractions, but at high levels creates super-heated lasers and grids of compressed light. Hiton jutsu are known for their blinding quality that exists unless otherwise stated. This quality, combined with the burning power of raw light creates a powerful offensive style that has a game-changing supplemental ability. The brightness of Hiton jutsu, and the burning power they have is based on the strength of the technique.The Blinding passive of Hiton reaches slightly farther than the max range of a jutsu.
- 1-14 Strength: Uncomfortable heat, spotting in vision
- 15-24 Strength: First Degree Burns, momentary blindness with residual blurriness, spotting, lack of focus
- 25-34 Strength Second Degree Burns, temporary Blindness 1 - 2 posts
- 35+ Strength Third degree burns, blindness 3 posts
- Blinding Passives default reach: 0-10 meters
- Blinding Passives max reach: 11-20 meters (Passive deranked 1x)
- No effect after 20 meters
Companion Slot: 13/14
Affinity: Raiton
Abilities and Concentrations
Abilities | |
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First Ability | Souma no Kou: |
Second Ability |
Death Guard Swarm: |
Third Ability |
Takeover: |
Concentrations | |
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Ninjutsu | [Advanced Channeling, Charge and Augment Fuuinjutsu, Storage & Force Fuuinjutsu, Sensory, Jikukan, Iijutsu, Kugutsu] |
Taijutsu | [Deft Hands, Medicine, Sword, Perception, Stealth, Weapons Crafting] |
Genjutsu | [Sight, Sound] |
Other | [Tenku] |
History
In a lavish looking family complex on the northern side of the village the cries of a newly born son to Saisuko Hitachi was born, given the name of Zao. This was his fourth child with him and his second wife and tallied up to six in total between both wives. The Saisuko was a successful family with ties mainly in trade operations of the village. Only a few members of the family ever ventured into the shinobi world and were instead focused more on the economic side of the world where money was everything. Even a few of the distant members of the family had managed to climb to the proud rank of jounin of the village. But Hitachi wished to begin to establish his family's name in the village as one that also was able to produce quality shinobi, as well.
The man utilized his connections and money to secure the aid of an elder shinobi whom would become his youngest son's tutor. From the day that the boy turned five he was placed fully under the tutelage oh the senior shinobi, learning the basics of being a shinobi and being taught the pride of being a Sunagakure ninja and being a part of the village itself. Being from a somewhat privileged family the boy was afforded not only lectures and training from the older man whom began by strengthening the boy's mind, but also tutors for educational purposes as well. Studying ninjutsu and reading about the past is shinobi's who had made their mark in the village's history. But there was something that from an early age that had drawn the boy into these books were spirits and beasts, something you truly didn't find out in the desert.
These were the type of things that truly intrigued the soon to be ninja, but he didn't want just one...they were all so interesting, how could someone choose just a single one! During this time the boy grew a bit distant from his family as his focus was entirely upon training to become a shinobi and acquire the strength to search out and study spirits and demons. His tutor being a strong Fuuinjutsu and Tenkujutsu user would also help guide the boy towards his goal after discovering that the child seemed to have an almost natural affinity toward the Ether arts.
At the age of eight, just before entering the ninja academy the master of the young boy would impart upon the young Zao a number of low ranking Fuuin techniques for him to begin learning to develop a baseline from which he would be to grow. When he joined the academy soon after he was extremely focused on a singular goal. That no matter what he would push to achieve the strength to leave these walls and search the outside world for its rare spirits and beasts that he had only been able to read about in books or had been told about through stories from older shinobi.
From a mental aspect the standard paper test were exceptionally easy for the boy who had a bit of a leg up from being mentored and maybe even more so from being a big book worm, too. Yet, his tutor had spent so much time on the arts of fuuin and Tenkujutsu that it was easy for anyone to see that he was lacking in physical attributes and/or ability. But at the age of eleven the boy would still manage to overcome his short falls and graduate the academy and join the rank of its shinobi, the first step toward achieving his own personal goals. Though he was still struggling to slowly attempt to bring his Taijutsu up to the level that it needed to be, partially because he wishes to spend time on other things which he felt held more importance.
This would force himself into the mid to long range support role for the genin team that he was placed into after graduation. As the genin begin to mature and bring his pair of skills up to a rather respectable level for the boy's age, he also began to learn more of the world around him and had his eyes opened by the tales of his tutor and the jounin and chuunin that were placed in charge of supervising the training and mentoring his team, team 31. At fourteen he would begin another three year enlistment as a Suna shinobi and attempt the chuunin exams for the first time but failed to pass this time
After becoming a chuunin at the age of fifteen though on his second attempt, the boy was able to soon after witnessing his first encounter with an actual spirit beast in the wild while on a c-ranked mission with two other chuunin. The sheer power of the beast was enough to leave the junior shinobi in awe as he knew that one day he would subdue such a creature as this enormous earthen based spirit beast, but sadly he lacked the necessary skills or strength to deal with such a creature as the kids that they were at the time were forced to flee in fear at that time. This would become one of the driving forces that Zao had been lacking through out his ninja career up to this point...after all without something to drive a person they are only destined to be mediocre.
Afterwards the young man began to truly create his own style of fighting, utilizing his every expanding knowledge during of the art of Fuuinjutsu. Plus his Fuuinjutsu skills were often called upon by others who needed different fuuin arrays created, it felt food to be needed. It was around the age of seventeen that the up and coming chuunin began to also study the other side of Ochiiru, spirits possession alongside the sealing portion, feeling that both would be able to improve his strength as a long range type of ninja.
It was at the age of seventeen that he was witness the sealing of a spirit into a weapon, helping his Tenkujutsu mentor/master, though sadly it wasn't a spirit he had personally captured. Yet, being able to see the battle capabilities that the weapon inherited from the spirit sealed within it when chakra was applied to the seal by the fellow Suna nin's while he had helped to seal the spirit for them was amazing. He would also be witness to the birth of a Jinchuuriki as well, being part of three group ergo sealed the spirit, spirits were like symbols of power amongst the shinobi community. Having just a single spirit seemed amazing but wouldn't having more than one be even better? The young man wondered if there was even such a method to be able to obtaining such a lofty goal? There had to be...once more the young Suna nin swore another three years to his beloved village as he continued to grow as a shinobi.
Over the next three years the man continued to hone his Fuuinjutsu and Tenkujutsu while mediating and continuing to study on the vast amount of knowledge found within Sunagakure about spirits and ways to capture and utilize them in combat. At the age of twenty the young man now finally made the break through into the prestigious rank of jounin, though a bit behind his peers, yet even so his father held a family celebration and feast to celebrate the occasion. But being a jounin was not enough for the young man, he still wanted to help lift his families name up in the shinobi world. But for him this was honestly a third or fourth priority in his life, thought this was something he would never speak aloud to his father. Spirits puppetry and perfecting his fuuin arrays...while side beginning his studies into Iijutsu while also putting his high control of chakra into doing some study of the art of sensory techniques which helped strengthen his Tenkujutsu as well.
At the age of twenty one he decided not to enlist once more as a Suna nin's in order to allow for himself to focus completely on his goals without outside distractions. Reading all the time and experimenting with spirit related sealing techniques, often day dreaming looking up at the desert sky searching for inspiration when pondering ideas. Planning soon to depart on his travels to go out into the world to adventure and temper himself while searching for powerful spirits, spirit beasts, and unique beasts in general that he could tame while increasing his personal Skills.
For the next four years the young man traveled many countries, allowing for him to experience my different cultures...though not through the eyes or perspective of a shinobi but as a simple wanderer or perhaps more so an adventurer. During this time the man also progressed in his art of Tenku and Space-Time, finding certain similarities between the two were the two schools could overlap with one another. At the end of those short feeling four years the man returned and was soon reinstated to the previous rank of jounin as things kicked off for the newly returned shinobi.
Shortly after returning he was tasked out with a young special jounin by the name of Nori, the pair accompanied a group of Tenku users to deal with a sudden corruption of a neighboring mountain village within Wind country were the pair were exposed to the truly malicious nature of a demon spirit who had plagued the town. Under the combined efforts of all the shinobi present the mission was a success as they were able to seal away the powerful Grand Level spirit. Through out the mission Zao had learned enough about the special jounin that he felt they could become good friends and that he could be a trusted ally. After returning to the village the two men met with the Naegi clan leader as Zao spoke to Nori about the connections between himself and the Naegi clan.
They had been quietly working on creating a spirit plant capable of increasing the battle capacity of the clan members in hopes of elevating the clan to high level of power within the village. The experiment was successful, but the strength of the spirit fused with the golden thorn plant was unexpected allowing for the unprepared group being unable to prevent its escape. Shortly afterwards it was rounded up by Nori and Zao as the white haired shinobi was forced to use his own enslavement style sealing technique to bind the creature.
The pair's series of adventures was only just beginning as through researching through the vast libraries of the Scribes of the Sand he was able to uncover the location to a hidden temple that supposedly contained information from the time when the spirits were still ruling over the land as Gods. The pair and a handful of chuunin set off on a mission to explore the ancient ruins that were concealed atop a treacherous mountain filled with its own natural dangers. After a great effort the group managed to discover the entrance to the place which felt more like a tomb than a temple. It was here that the group encountered a strange teleporter that was triggered accidently sending them into the spirit worlds.
Their first stop was the land of the Minotaur which was a world locked in conflict with various tribes conducting large scale sorties with one another to claim dominance, the group was captured upon arriving by one of the tribes and dragged along with them across the lands as the army marched to a holy place. This place was a sacred mountain that two other armies had already encamped as all were attempting to claim this place as their own. A fierce battle ensued and not every shinobi who entered the realm managed to escape as their medic nin was killed during the conflict. The fighting so intense that the group was unable to even retrieve the body of their fallen comrade before entering the mountain. Inside the group found a strangely similar teleportation array like the one which had sent them to this war-torn world. Hoping to be sent back to their own world the group managed to activate the relic and were sent through the fabric of space-time once more.
Sadly, they were not sent back to the human world but instead to the realm of Primates, luckily for the group however the realm was a rather peaceful one as the various species got along and the group traveled to a massive temple that they had spotted in the distance. After traveling for several days the group had managed to encounter a guide who led them up to the temple. They were treated as special guest and the elder monkey spirit spoke of a human like figure who had also once traveled to the realm, his powers were truly oppressively as none of the spirits were his match here, in the end he borrowed their help in constructing an array to leave the world. Placing their hope in being able to use this array to return home the group was escorted by a red furred ape to the array, only to be caught off guard as the ape attacked them seeming to hold extreme resentment from his defeat at the hand of the previous human, planning to exact his revenge on them. Luckily the group was strong enough to fight back and in the end managed to suppress the beast with Zao's sealing skills as the young man claimed another spirit under his charge.
This time the array cast the group out into a dark, swampy realm which they would discover to be the realm of the serpents. A dangerous place were every creature lived in isolation, only the strong survived and the weak perished here...that appeared to be the only rules governing the realm as the group attempted to find their way through the dark realm. Sadly two of the party members who had managed to make it this far were poisoned after being attacked by two powerful silver snakes. Without their medic to help with the poison Nori and Zao could only watch as the pair continuous grew worse and worse until they finally succumbed to the poison within and died. At least the man was able to seal away their bodies so that they would not become the meal for the hungry predators that called this wretched world their home. After weeks of traveling the pair were pale and ragged looking, but they had discovered another array but this one seemed to be guarded by a massive cobra like snake by the name of Apep.
They would discover that the same man had easily defeated this serpent many years in the past and as a punishment for the serpent princess she was bound to the array to protect it from all intruders who seek to use it, be that spirit or humans. This spirit unleashed all of its pent up rage upon the two Suna-nin in an attempt to find release from her imprisonment but in the end the pair prevailed and Zao sealed the beast away and broke her binds from the array. But too the two men's disarray the platform would not activate. While Zao felt that in time he would be able to use his own Space-Time skills to escape this place it would require them to spend an extended amount of time in this dangerous place. Just as their hopes had been splashed with cold water a strange portal tore the fabric of space revealing a bright light. With no other choice the pair chose to take the risk and used the portal.
On the other side the pair found themselves in what seemed to be some sort of endless library in its own space, Zao recognized it as a type of personal domain much like his own but it was so massive with seemingly no visible end...how was such a thing real? The massive book shelves floated from place to place as the pair found themselves on a floating pathway that lead them towards a bright light. The light itself was illuminating a man to the point where one could only make out his shape but no distinct features, as though he was some form of angle or god. He spoke to them revealing that everything had been a trial for those who might stumble upon old world, yet he was a bit disappointed in their current strength and with a wave of his hand sent them away, speaking as though he would call to them in the future when they were stronger and could be of some use to him. Had they just been some fucked up form of entertainment for him as they had barely managed to escape with their own lives not to mention the comrades that they had lost in the process.
Their adventure had taken three to four years worth of time in the spirit world but in an instantly they were thrown back into the human world and managed to find that only a few weeks had passed there, how was that possible?!?!? Opening a portal to the village Zao sent his friend home while he traveled back to his own personal realm in the stars to deal with the events, only being able to reflect on his inability to protect everyone. When he finally returned to the village the man through himself into researching the strange, powerful figure only to find clues that he might be related to the former owners of the country of Juu no Kuni. The place cut off from the world by its nigh unpassable walls and strange chakra beast that were claimed to live within those wall. He also found some help in studying the art of medical ninjutsu at the hospital in order to become less useless, or at least that's how he felt and what was driving him.
It was around this time that the spirit outbreak that affected the countries of both Wind and Fire occurred as the man was forced to battle them as the Tenku user's from both villages were brought to the forefront to help deal with the threat, Zao himself bouncing around the battlefield to aid were he could. It was during this time that he was able to encounter the Hokage for the first time in person, witnessing his strength for himself. Takeo was truly a powerful shinobi worthy of the title of the leader of the Leaf village. He also encountered a handful of other shinobi whom he would meet again in the future.
After the dust settled from the man returned to the village and his studies were he met a friend from his past, Xiao Li, the pair had graduated from the academy together and were friends as genin but had drifted apart due to their paths as shinobi but the two found themselves united in something: the exploration of the mysterious country of Juu. But before the pair could arrive at their destination they were notified that a prison break had occurred!!!! Immediately Zao tore through space with his friend as the pair arrived not long after the event had occurred to find the village itself in chaos. It took all day to settle things within the village but numerous prisoner's had escaped, and many had died in the exchange between the prisoners and the shinobi to include the man's father who was a merchant and not even a shinobi.
After things had begun to settle that night, a man he knew well from his time as a genin approached Zao, the older man was the father of a girl he had been very close to during his younger years of being a shinobi. Wei, his friend and the man's daughter, was missing as her body couldn't be found. Remembering his feelings that had been pushed aside for so long the man put aside his personal matters and personally gathered a few tracker shinobi and set out. Later that evening, through the help of a tracking team the man managed to locate the young girl in the custody of a handful of men who had captured her as a hostage to help in their escape and at the moment they felt they had safely evaded the hunter's of the village and were debating what to do with the little flower before them. Just as they were about to decide they heard a pair of soft footsteps walk into their small cave they were using as shelter from the desert's cold night winds. Unleashing his spirit companions the man covered the walls of the cavern with blood splatter leaving none of the villainous men to live past that night. Zao had rediscovered his feelings for the young woman that night, it was a personal vendetta that he released upon them for his father and for the young woman he had come to save.
The pair of men once more prepared themselves a few weeks later and set off to discover a way past the guarding walls that had kept so many other explorers and adventures from breaching the border and discovering what secrets lay within. After searching along the walls for a few weeks the pair discovered a pair of strange relics that spawned a powerful guardian spirit, after dealing with the spirit with their combined strength they were able to activate the arrays and create a pitch black portal.
The pair had come this far and wouldn't be dissuaded as they both entered the port to find themselves in a labyrinth like maze full of traps and spirits that guarded each area within, they weren't completely sure but one could only assume that they had managed to access the interior of the chakra resistant border walls of the country. But who would have thought something like this was hiding within them? The pair, added by their Tenku skills, and Zao's amassed spirit companions began to hack their way through, their first major battle being after traveling several days worth of time and effort as the pair found themselves in a type of battle arena that was both water and land with two spirits. It was in this battle that the pair managed to barely survive, but Li was morally wounded and on the verge of death.
Putting every ounce of his strength and knowledge into saving his friend, Zao was forced to convert his friend into a partial puppet just to stave him from death, a sin within the village and its strict rules but the man had no problem or second thoughts about breaking those iron rules to save the man. He would personally take any punishment when they returned, if they managed to return. After some recovery time, and the mental trauma that Li faced losing his limbs in his fight with the water spirit, the pair pulled themselves together for one last push up the 'Stairs of Death', escaping them by a littler hair's width to arrive upon the final stage. Here the two men and their spirit companions were greeted by the leader of this death trap, a spirit who appeared in the shape of a young man but who's chakra was similar to that of a Genma.
He sat upon a throne that was much to large for him and at his feet a crimson furred beast that looked like a canine with golden bone like protrusion from its body, the powerful spirit simply told the pair that his master left one challenge, for those that managed to luckily survive to this point they had to prove their strength by claiming the beast before him. A powerful battle ensued as it took both the combined might of the two jounin and their spirits to subdue the beast, Zao borrowing power from his comrade in order to break the intricate fuuin seal upon the beast before claiming it as his own. Just as the two exhausted men were about to question this spirit further they were cast aside with a simple wave of his hand, the spirit's control over space-time exceeded even his own and seemed to only fall below the mysterious man that Nori and himself had encountered.
The pair were through space into the country of Juu, but due to everything that had led up to this point the pair decided to allow Zao to place a marker fuuin in a safe place away from the strange beasts that could be seen roaming the area in the distance and return home to recover. Tearing his own portal in the fabric of space the pair teleported directly the hospital where Zao collapsed from chakra exhaustion. Waking up in his room he couldn't help but wonder just what would happen next for the man, as Li was rolled into the room in a wheelchair were the pair discussed their journey and pondered together what lay ahead for them. After his release the man took time to himself for a bit in order to recover and study more history about the time before when the spirits still ruled the land. It was also during this time that he proposed to Wei, which she said yes, as the two looked forward to planning their marriage for the coming spring.
That was still a year away and during that time the man began to travel more and more frequently to the various spirit realms with the new techniques he had developed after all his experience and after studying the array that had teleported him and Nori discovered on the first trip to the spirit worlds. Slowly the man was increasing his knowledge and power, along with acquiring a few more spirit companions to his side in the process. The strength it brought to him would lead the man to being promoted to the prestigious rank of Bannin in the process. With some of the village's restrictions lifted with his new Title, the new Bannin began to fully devote his time, alongside his newly married wife Wei, to exploring the human and spirit realms searching for clues to the blurry past of human's and spirits.
This would lead to the man and woman to a strange tomb that was located in the depths of the cursed lands of Juu no Kuni, this seemingly far advanced culture of people who completely disappeared without a trace leaving only the ruins of this former great country and city behind as clues. Within the depths of the vast excavated caverns and past numerous traps and roving spirits Zao thought they he'd found what he had been ultimately looking for within this crazy land. But as he worked for several days to disarm traps and unlock the fuuin covering the tombs entrance he had no idea the chaos that was about to envelop him in the near future. Finally after just over a weeks worth of effort that man and woman were able to unlock the stone gates and enter to discover a type of alter or shrine with mention old symbolic text that was hard to decipher even with Zao's thorough knowledge of different ancient languages. It made references to a Demon Realm, the Death God, and lastly the Demon Hegemon who was one of the many spawn of the all powerful Death God.
While attempting to investigate the ruins further the young woman triggered something and it activated the altar which they would discover was a method that the people there had been creating in order open a portal to the demon realm. Their intentions had been to subjugate demon spirits to increase the strength of their spirit armies but they had found at that true demons were far too hard to control and some were to strong leading to them to seal away this creation of theirs. With no warning the powerful Demon Hegemon who had been waiting for such an opportunity escaped from his homeworld and into the human world were he used his natural ability of taking over the body of another to possess Zao. It happened so quickly that not even the great bannin with his powerful skills in the Spirit arts could defend against leading to his soul being sealed away and the rebirth of the Demon Hegemon in his own body.
The Demon Hegemon's dark chakra has the ability to corrupt the body and mind of those infected with it, turning them into demonic versions of their former selves that served as the demon's personal slaves as he sought to bring chaos to the world around him after escaping from his own. Afterwards he would proceed to turn all of Zao's companions into his slaves, even his innocent wife who was caught up in the tragedy. This would continue for nearly two years that the bannin was sealed away and his body and former companions rampaged various parts of the world as the Hegemon sought out rare materials and objects to increase his strength and build strange altars within the continent of shrimp. His actions known to many but with the war of the great nations raging on at that time the other counties had to much on their plate to chase after the demon at that point in time allowing him to carry out a number of devious actions against several countries, even some of the great five as he killed human's to perform dark rituals. One of his grandest acts being the slaying of one of Kumo's Bannin, Arashiyama Toushi, who became a powerful tool at his disposal. This combined with being able to bring forth one of his four kings into this world, the old yellow King, it seemed that he was about to unleash his demonic army onto the world.
But the creature's ego was to grand as he attempted to enslave his own father, the very God of Death, as he sacrificed hundreds of innocent that he had gathered from around the Shrimp continent using their blood and souls as fuel to summon forth the God into a trap. Planning on sealing a part of his father's absolute power to become equal to him and use that power to connect the two worlds and unleash untold destruction and chaos into the human world. Yet, the God's power was to great for even the Demon Hegemon with his dark arts to subdue leading to the Death God's rage as he ripped the Demon's soul from the Bannin's body tossing him back far into the depths of the Demon Realm which allowed for Zao to retake control of his body. At the rage of the God the personal army of the Hegemon broke down and the old king also managed to escape as all the memories of the past two years flooded into the awakened mind of the spirit saint, filling him with anger, rage, grief.
Barely able to control his own body let along his emotions the man managed to tear open a hole in spacetime and retreat to his personal realm to recover, at least physically as he attempted to understand what had happened during his two years of being locked away within the darkness of a cage within his own body and what was currently happening within the world that was at war. Three months later, after the man had managed to digest everything that had happened and to let his emotions come back under control, at least to a manageable level, Zao moved through several countries as he captured his former companions that had been out causing chaos in various parts of the world after they had fled during the altercation with the Death God. Sealing each of them away within tenku barriers within his personal realm as he attempts to find a method to deal with the vile chakra that had transformed them into nothing more than simple minded slaves that only wished to serve the Demon Hegemon and saw him only as an enemy.
They only way that he found to be able to save the soul's of his spirit companions was to literally strip them of their physical body and have them possess a chakra tempered item, more or less turning them into Joruri. Better to at least have back the souls of his spirit companions than to have them lost to the madness of the Demon Hegemon's devouring chakra. Though it would bring quite a blow to the man's own strength that he held through his strong companions, but it was an acceptable loss to return what was one his friends back to him. Yet, this type of solution was something that would only work on spirit's as the human soul was vastly different and something that would require much more research and possibly the help of the Soul Genma from his home village to pull off. But for now he did not wish to expose any of this to the world as he kept both Wei and Toushi placed in special barriers within his personal realm that combined the aspects of Tenku and Spacetime to create.
Zao worked his way and planned how he would be save his love, but he knew that sacrifices on his part and those of whom he called friends or even other allies would be required of him. And so, the great spirit saint was put into a time of hesitation and indecisiveness at what he should and shouldn't do...the lines of morality becoming blurred as he fell into what some might call dark madness. Coming to the conclusion that no matter how devilish he needed to become, he needed to try and save Wei from her fate. With his plan in motion he began his hunt on a Genma from Konoha.
A vulnerable target as she was pursuing a secret relationship with a bannin of Suna and friend of Zao himself. He needed the nigh limitless power of the spirit's chakra to power his space-time fuuin engravings. But would that even be enough? If not he'd hunt another and another to reach his end goal. After months of planning and tracking, he would ambush them and kill the Suna-nin and take the woman with her Genma back to his realm. There he extracted the gems and would there u use it in his insane quest only to completely exhaust the spirit's powers and get only temporarily bring a reprieve to Wei's suffering.
But it was in the brief window she held her lover's face and kissed him, telling him that this wasn't something she wanted for either of them, but she was glad to hold and kiss him one last time, to tell him how much she loved him. Using a secret forbidden technique she then ended her own life to prevent Zao from doing this again and again, to become the true monster that both of them had seen in the demon realm. This was truly the cutting of the last thread the bannin had been holding on to as he fell further and further into a dark abyss.
No matter what he wanted to do he could not bring himself to go against the last wishes of Wei, her body was placed inside a specially designed glass coffin and placed within s menorah within his personal realm. Then the man left his realm, leaving behind all his tools and spirits spare his closest ones and returned to the hostile desert of wind country. Spending day and night drinking in an attempt to forget, but how could he. Sometime later he was visited by afriend from his past, one of the only shinobi he knew that had Abilities faster than his own, the son to be new Hokage of the Hidden Lead. Zao didn't resist, sending his spirits back to his realm and allowing himself to be subdue without fighting back. Seeing the pain the man was suffering from, Fanho gave the man merciful death deserving of a warrior.
His conscience facing to nothing but darkness, but then the darkness seemed to begin to have specks of light twinkling in the distance, the sight was familiar to the man. He felt and of sensation, as if he was wrestling with thoughts, memories, and emotions that didn't belong to him... Zao found himself blinking his eyes as the world seemed to come into focus. The man was laying down on his back and could see a sky full of beautiful stars above him in the clear night sky, it was so familiar, the sight, Sound, even this angel in the air.
His left hand raised up but as he went to touch his face to rub his eyes he stopped, where there was once an artifical puppet arm was now a flesh and blood one. But it was smaller than his, slowly he came to the realization that this wasn't his original body, but the body of a Dasu clan member named Juu. What kind of fate or curse or divine intervention has caused this phenomenon? Who could really say, he'd never heard or read about anything like it before. As he wrestled with this new reality the boy's memories flooded in and mixed with his own, a chuunin medic with a stormy pain for spirits much like himself at that age. For the time being he would try to keep his true identity hidden and steel to decode why he was given a second chance in this life as he slowly regained his original strength...
Username: Zao
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