"Speach"
Thoughts/speaking to self
"Someone else talking in head"
Chaper 1
I was scared, scared of what was happening because i had never experienced anything like this before. I was alone, the ever expanding space all around me. I could feel nothing, not the grass beneath my feet, not the soft breeze that was kissing my face, nor the ever present weariness i had felt sense i was a kid that accompanied me like an old friend.
I know what happened, i had died. Live fast and die hard as i loved to say and even now i stand by my words. Don't dwell on the past, live for now, live for the moment, live for what is about to happen because you never know when it will all end. But that does not shake the fear i felt because my judgment is now and i knew i wasn't innocent. I had done things i was not proud of but i did them so other didn't have too.
I mulled over my thoughts, my entire life going through my head, some memories bringing tears to my eyes, other making me boil with uncontrollable rage. But it all came down to this moment, the moment where my fear was washed away by the knowledge that i accept everything i did. It was at that moment that someone else appeared.
"You accepted rather quickly you know." They stated in a beautifully angelic voice.
If someone's voice could turn me on it would be hers...
"Based on the fact i died and you are making a comment about my inner thoughts and feelings i'm going to assume you know all about my past so could you cut to the chase please. I would like to know which corner of hell i'm going to reside in for the rest of eternity." I stated simply with a resigned undertone.
She simply giggled and let me stew in my thoughts for another few moments.
It's really awkward when you get turned on by the person who is going to be condemning you to hell.
"I ,in fact, do not know all about your past and inner thoughts. I am simply a messenger and have been waiting for you to be ready so i could come."
Well now i feel like an asshole even more than usual.
"Well then what message do you bring to me, if i may inquire?" i asked.
She looked me over, as if she was sizing me up.
"I'm here to grant you a wish." She stated simply, looking at, gauging my reaction.
I tilted my head to the side and raised a single eyebrow.
"So uh, why are you really here?" i asked immediately, not believing for a second that's why she came here.
"I am here to grant you a wish." She said with a slightly annoyed undertone.
"Cool, i get it's a joke so can we move past that please?" I replied.
"Do i need to beat it into your head that i'm here to grant you a wish for your good deeds while you were alive." She asked sarcastically.
"Yes." Was my simple reply.
Suddenly something hit my head, sending me face first into the dirt. There was no pain but it was uncomfortable to have a face full of grass and dirt. I got up and brushed myself off. I glanced at the woman who now was holding a baseball bat in her hand and had an annoyed yet smug look on her face.
"You believe me now or do you need another hit?" She question.
"I think i believe you now." I said slowly.
"Good, now what's your wish?" She asked.
"What's the catch? What are the rules? What can't i do?" I questioned, wanting to know the limits of this wish.
"Well, the first rule is you can't wish for more wishes, the second is you can't wish to be a god or some all powerful being of any sort, and lastly you can't wish for someone else's death. Besides that most things are ok." She replied happily.
I looked her over real quick, my thoughts deep in the gutter. She had to be the most beautiful woman i had ever seen and just so happened to be wearing some very revealing robes.
It didn't take her even a second to respond to my unasked question. "No."
I just shrugged," Fair enough, though you didn't specify and im betting more than just me has had the same thought."
"Few good men ever get this opportunity. Those that do tend to have other things in mind or loved ones they wished to be with." she stated flatly.
"Well then can i ask what most who get the opportunity do after their wish?" I wondered.
"Depends on their wish, but most end up spending their afterlife with their lost loved ones or waiting for them in the afterlife. Other choose to be reborn so they can have a chance to do good things once again." She said.
"So i can make a wish and choose to be reborn?" I asked very interested.
Getting a wish and having the ability to be reborn. I already know what i want to do in that case.
"Indeed you can." She replied.
"Well then i wish to have a natural talent for fighting and manipulating energies that stays with me after i am reborn and each time im reborn after that if im reborn again after the first time." I said.
She nodded her head then seemed to focus for a moment before the emotions on her face shifted. They ranged from slight surprise to frustration, as if she was talking to someone and they gave her information she wished she had before. Her face ended with a slight frown, before she spoke. "Your wish is redundant, pick something else."
"Can i wish to be more talented and gifted?" i asked hopefully.
"No." She stated flatly.
"Damn." I stated back.
I have no idea what to wish for now. I don't want to ask for anything too strong or ridiculous because it would make my next life boring.
Suddenly i had an idea. She clearly noticed too as she seemed to perk up slightly.
"I know what i want." I said happily.
"I wish my dick was larger." I said enthusiastically.
Her deadpan stare accompanied by silence told me all i needed to know but she still said her answer.
"No."
"Ahhhhh.Your not making this easy on me." I groaned out in frustration.
"Can you just like read my mind, look through my past and surprise me with something? That way you know it will be useful or something i want but can't think of because it's really obscure and i forgot about it long time ago.
She seemed to contemplate what to do before she nodded her head.
"I can do that. But i need to have physical contact with you for it to work." She said.
"I mean if you wanted to get with me you should have just asked." I said cheekily.
I suddenly found myself face first in the ground with her had on the back of my head. Then this weird feeling of someone touching my brain washed over me. It was so weird and different that i didn't know how to react until it was done.
I slowly got up trying to comprehend the feeling. I opened my mouth to speak when i noticed she was now completely naked.
Damn if i haven't died and gone to heaven.
She smirked, clearly liking my speechless reaction.
"So uh, what brought this about?" I asked.
"Think of it as a bonus." She said simply. I didn't question it.
She led me over to a bed that appeared out of nowhere and what followed was the single best moment in my life.
The experience of being born again was interesting, to say the least. I was only "conscouse" for a few moments at a time and the rest was just me sleeping basically while a different consciousness took over. I got snippets of what was going on around me but that was it. It wasn't until my fourth birthday that i became fully conscious. It was early in the morning, the sun had yet to rise and i was panting, as if i had run a marathon and i felt sore and battered all over, an ache deep in my bones that didn't want to go away.
"You always wanted a challenge, a way to prove yourself that you are the best, so here is your chance." A very familiar angelic voice said inside my head.
So then where am i?
"Look out the window." She replied simply.
I looked around the room i was in and found the window opposite of where my bed was. I quickly noticed my room was extremely small. The sun was just barely starting to rise and in the distance i could see a cliff that had four very distinct face carved into it.
Well god damn, ain't that a hell of a sight to see.
"I suppose you could see it that way." She said.
There was a comfortable silence that filled the air as i got my bearings and calmed down. I did some stretching and movements to loosen up my muscles and get used to being four again. I already knew i was going to be running into a lot of things and tripping over myself.
"Now before you tackle the world i have two things to say to you. First is s gift, this is what i'm giving you as your gift.
As i sat back down on my bed a tanto appeared in my lap. It had a simple black sheath and was about a foot and a half long. I drew it silently, admiring its craftsmanship.
"This blade will always come back to you when you summon it and can be split into two identical blades. It will let you easily chanel chakra through the blades and it will never betray you. You are able to make it go into a pocket dimension at will so you don't have to carry it all the time and it can be in your hand ready to use at a moments notice.
I took a few practice swings, loving the feel and balance of the blade. Then, deciding to test out it's summon ability, i set it across the room from me and then summoned it from my bed. I let out a startled yelp as the blade instantaneously appeared in my hand.
That's so badass.
A shit eating grin was on my face as i thought about it disappearing and reappearing in my hand. The instantaneous disappearance and reappearance of the blade made me fall in love with it already.
"Now for the second thing. The moment you unlock your chakra you will be given a gift and disease. Your chakra will never stop regenerating making your chakra coils constantly get bigger and your chakra recovery faster. But you will have a limited time to find a cure for the disease that comes with the chakra regeneration. It will affect your overall health and your condition will deteriorate over time until your dead. Good luck.
With those parting words i felt her presence in my mind leave. It was weird though as it wasn't something i could feel until after she left. Her words were left imprinted on my brain but that just added to the challenge of living in a world where people called themselves god and had power near no one could match.
Looks like this shit show is just getting started.
I got up out of bed, letting my blade return to it's pocket dimension. My room was very spartan, walls were brown wood, unpainted, and there was only a dresser next to my bed. I could cross it in about three steps. I walked over to the door and opened it to find a long hallway with many other doors lining it. I could hear some people talking down the hall so i ventured out to find the source. I found myself in a large family room where a three adults were talking.
Saya
The name of one of the adults pops into my head and i quickly identified her as the orphanage patron. She is the one who noticed me and beckoned me over.
"Today is your luck day Arakan! These kind people want to adopt you!" She said excitedly, a bright smile on her face.
I look at the two mentioned people.
"Hi Arakan, my name is Meiko and this is my husband Kenta." She said smiling. They were as average as you could get, brown hair, brown eyes, average build, slightly tanned skin. They were the kind of people who blended into the crowd without trying and something about it made me feel uncomfortable. Almost as if they were too average.
In response I just smile and gave them a small wave.
"He isn't much of a talker but he is really good at following directions. He has never acted out before and is always well behaved. " Saya informed my to be parents.
After that bit I just tuned out. I went through the motions of getting the few belongings that I had and then left with my new parents. They sat me on their cart and told me to sit quite. On the way out of the village they said we were going to their new home in the land of lightning. Sense I knew the trip was gonna take a while I just quietly sat there and meditated, trying to unlock my chakra.
It was three days into our journey that it happened. I was focusing in on myself half asleep, half bored out of my fucking mind when I found the energie locked away inside of me. I mentally reached out and grasped it, guiding it through my body. The feeling was extremely foreign but that is something that would change with time. Out of the corner of my eye I noticed my parents subtly glancing at me as I used my chakra. This immediately set off warning bells in my mind but I had no idea what to do. If they could sense me using chakra then they were clearly shinobi but there was nothing i could do about it.
It's really fishy that I was picked out of all the kids in the orphanage. When I first met them they didn't seems to have anyone in mind but when they saw me they instantly made their decision. Who am I really and what made them come for me?
My thought were broken when I felt a sharp stinging pain in my head before unconsciousness took me.
I woke to someone kicking me in my side. I let out a groan as I took in my surroundings. The first things to note was the cold dark room I was in and the angry looking man standing above me. Next thing I noticed was this deep ache in my bones that was damn near mind numbing.
"Get up kid, it's time for breakfast." He stated gruffly.
I got myself off the floor slowly, stretching out my sore muscles and trying to get the kinks out of my body from being on the ground. I rubbed my arms together and started to shiver as it was really cold. Before i could even open my mouth to ask for a coat a piece of clothing was thrown at my face.
"Put that on, I don't need you freezing to death before you show if your worth anything." He said.
I quickly put on the coat he gave me. It was made of old worn leather and it was staved off most the chill but I was still cold. I followed the man out of the room and down a few holloways while I worked on circulating chakra through my system to warm me up. It was a long walk and by the end of it I figured out that if I didn't want to have chakra exhaustion all the time I would have to only flash my chakra through my system. And if I wanted it to be effective I needed much better chakra control and for best results learn how to change it to fire nature. The ache went away as I used my chakra giving me an almost euphoric releaf.
So my chakra regeneration gift is already in effect then. Having my chakra coils too full really sucks so I have to make sure I either learn to use chakra while I sleep, figure out a seal of some sort, or just use enough chakra before I sleep so I don't get over full reserves by morning.
"Be careful about using your chakra kid, your gonna need it later." The man stated, interrupting my thoughts.
A few more moments of silent walking later we came to a room full of a lot of people. The age ranged from about my age to full adults.
"This is the mess hall where you will eat your meals. On the far side is the serving line. Get your food, eat fast, and follow all instruction that follow if you want to survive long." He left after saying his part.
I quickly made my way over to the back of the line, ignoring everyone around me. I wasn't in the line long before I felt someone shove me, sending me to the floor.
"Look at this boys, we got a newbie here. Let's give him a warm welcome!" A young snide voice said. I got up and turned to see a bunch of boys just a few years older than me blocking any way out. Their leader was in front of the rest almost in my face at this point ready to cave in my skull if i'm reading him right.
Before he could react my fist was flying to his throat and I made my tanto appear in my hand upon contact. His expression changed to one of shock as blood flowed from his neck, drenching me in a warm sticky coating. I frowned as he fell to the floor.
It doesn't feel good to kill but I don't fuck around.
The other boys around me stood there in shocked silence, unable to move. I ignored them and moved up in line, grabbing a bowl full of slop then finding a seat by myself. I heard the sound of some people bickering about having to get rid of the boys body. I did my best to ignore the commotion, it wasn't my problem anymore.
The first bite of slop almost made me vomit and so did the rest of the bowl but I knew I needed food so I shoved it down my throat. Vomit like food is better than no food. I was almost finished with my food when someone sat down beside me.
"If you keep flashing your chakra like that your not gonna last long. Chakra exhaustion will kill you faster than you think." They stated.
I looked to my left to see a man wearing a similar leather coat to mine. He appeared to be about twenty years of age and had blood red hair and distinct violet eyes.
"Good to know. Got any tips for staying warm then because it's rather cold here." I replied.
"A few…"
I waited a few moments to see if he would elaborate, finishing my food in the process.
"Care to elaborate?" I asked.
"You don't talk nor act like your four years old." he said simply.
"Im four years old?" I wondered out loud.
"You don't know your own age?" He asked. I shrugged.
"Nope, no idea who i am. Just woke up a few days ago in an orphanage. Not a god damn clue about anything." I stated simply.
Truth without any details. Gotta love being vague yet informative without straight up lying.
"Well that's interesting. And to answer one of your questions, you appear to be about four years old." he replied.
"That's good to know. So may i ask why you bothered to come sit by me?" I asked.
"Not every day you see a four year old slit another kids throat with a knife that appears and disappears instantaneously at a moments notice. To put it simply you peaked my interest." He said.
"So then are you still interested?" I asked.
"More than you can imagine." He replied.
"I've got a really good imagination." i said back.
"Oh really? Can you imagine what would happen to you if say the kid you killed happened to have a mentor that is very angry that his protege was killed by some newbie." He asked.
"Unfortunately so." I muttered thinking about it.
"Well then why don't you find me later, that is if you live." He said as he got up and left.
Well fuck...
I wasn't left alone for long as I suddenly found myself flying across the room and impacting back first against a stone wall. The impact jarred me, sending the air out of my lungs, and pain clouded my mind, making me unable to properly brace myself as I hit the floor. I was hit in the ribs, knocking the little air my oxygen starved kungs had right back out. All I knew was pain and one more hit to my head and unconsciousness took me.
I slowly woke to the a warm feeling that was numbing the pain that I felt. It was moving through my body, starting from a center point on my chest. I reached out with my chakra and felt it.
Medical jutsu.
I grasped onto the feeling of it, memorizing how the foreign chakra seemed to move, react, and behave. After another few minutes of it the chakra feed stopped so I opened my eyes to see where I was.
A quick look told me I was in a rather plain medical room, many beds lined the walls but I was currently the only one in the room. There was a woman standing over me, looking at me expectantly.
"Well how do you feel?" She finally asked.
"Like someone threw me into a wall, kicked me in the ribs, sent me flying into another wall, and then curb stomped my head." I replied. She raised an eyebrow at my answer.
"Oddly specific." She said before helping me sit up and wrapping some bandages around my chest. It hurt but not as much as I thought it would. Medical jutsu was amazing.
"How long have I been out?" I asked.
"Only a few hours." She replied.
She didn't seem particularly talkative so I didn't ask any more questions. She finished wrapping my chest before giving me some instructions.
"Walk out the room, take a left and follow the hallway down till you reach the courtyard. That's where you will be training for the foreseeable future." She said then got up and left the room.
I slowly stood up, getting a feel for how fucked up I was. I had to hold onto the bed as the world started to spin slightly and I felt lightheaded. Once it passed I slowly made my way towards the door, only making it there after stumbling my way through the room and running into various objects.
I left the room and took a left as instructed and soon found myself facing a large courtyard like area that had a lot of people training in different ways. It took me about ten minutes to find the man that I had spoken to earlier. He was doing handstands on top of a thin wooden pole.
"You ever fall?" I asked as I walked up to him.
"Not anymore." He said simply as he let himself down, a light sheen of sweat coated his body. He wasn't wearing his coat anymore which made me realise i don't have mine. I involuntarily shivered as a cold breeze made itself known.
"I got your coat kid but you won't be want it for a bit. We got some training to do." He answered my unasked question.
"I have a concussion and at least a few bruised ribs, I doubt any training is going to do me any good right now." I stated flatly.
"Sure it will. It will start building your pain tolerance and strengthen your willpower." He replied cheerily.
"Well fuck me then, where do i start!" I said sarcastically.
"That's the spirit. Now run to that tree and back as fast as you can until you can't run anymore." He said. The tree he mentioned was about 50 yards away.
I took off at a light jog and got faster and faster, grunting through the dulled pain of my ribs and head. I stumble and fell more than once but I just got back up and continued on running. The pain grew worse the longer I ran and it wasn't long until I really wanted to just lay down and die.
Every time I stopped without falling I was pelted with a pebble, making me keep on running until finally my oxygen deprived brain decided it was nap time mid stride.
I woke up aching and hurting worse than before but at least I was now covered by my coat.
"Not bad kid, you got a lot too improve on but for only being four years old you did good." He said.
"How long did I run for?" I asked.
"About fifteen minutes." He answered.
"You sure? It seemed like so much longer than that." I replied in disbelief.
"Yes i'm sure, now get up and let's get started on some chakra exercises. First off i'm gonna have you walk up this tree without using your hands. All you have to do is chanel chakra to your feet as you walk." He informed me, pointing at the tree next to him showing me the tree he wanted me to use. It was a great big tree, standing some hundred feet tall at least.
I didn't move and quickly found myself flying face first towards the tree. Luckily I was able to brace myself before I hit, making the impact much less jarring but it did end up scraping my hands. I picked myself up off the ground where i landed as quickly as I could so I wouldn't get tossed again and got right to work.
It took me a few hours to be able to get the chakra amount right to just be able to stick my foot on the tree without slipping or blasting off. During that time I noticed many people being taken away by guards with some returning looking a bit ragged and others not returning at all.
"Can you explain what this place is?" I asked finally after many hours of mind numbingly boring chakra exercises.
"I suppose so…" he left it off there. I patiently waited until he was ready to speak. I sat down to take a break and watched him finish his exercise he was doing.
"I guess I will start with me name. My name is Uzumaki Ashina." He started off as he sat down next to me. "This place we are at doesn't have a specific name, but the prisoners have come to call it the arena. This has been an underground fighting arena for decades now. There are multiple secs in the arena with ours being one of the largest. Each sec is owned by someone or a group of people. They obtain people by kidnaping them, taking in criminals and missing nin. Nowadays they prefer to kidnap younger kids who have potential which are found by their scouts. When the kids arrive they are generally picked up by a veteran and trained to compete in the death matches. Now despite its name not all matches are to the death though the risk is just as high. If you win your match you are rewarded, if you lose you are punished, simple as that. The veterans are rewarded if they pick up a student and that student does well. Here in the sanctuary is where we train. We spend almost all day here and the wardens don't bother us unless we cause unnecessary commotion or it's time for your fight. You are given a full days notice before every fight." I went through all the information in my head once he finished. There was a lot to process but it basically came down to one thing. I was now apart of an illegal underground fight club where I had to win to survive.
God damn this is fucked. Not even a few hours into this life and i'm taken by some people who want to train me to fight for other people's entertainment. The shit show is in full swing now and i already basically got one foot in the grave.
The rest of the day went by rather blandly, with me training till i dropped and Ashina carrying me to the mess hall and then to our slightly nicer than average cell that we would now share. Apparently a perk of having an apprentice and or being really good in the arena is a slightly nicer cell that you don't have to share. Ours had basic matts that were better than the floor and kept in our body heat slightly better than not having anything.
The next year went by surprisingly fast. Everyday was the same. Wake up, meditate with Ashina, learn more about chakra theory or whatever else he thought I needed to know, eat, physically train, eat, train with chakra, more physical training combined with using chakra, eat dinner, sleep. Oh and don't forget the many many breaks in between workouts because i can only do so much training being so young.
I was stretching this morning, thinking about my latest lesson in chakra theory when suddenly i thought about senjutsu.
"Hey Ashina-sensei." I said his name to get his attention.
"Yes Arakan?" He asked.
"I was thinking about chakra and remembered you mentioning natural energy. I was wondering what it was and how it's connected to chakra." I asked.
"Well, to start natural energy is basically like natures chakra and is located everywhere in the world. It is more potent in some areas than others. Natural energy can be drawn in and combined with your own chakra to enhance yourself and your attacks. It also gives the user other boosta like faster healing, increased durability, and near unmatched sensory abilities. It is an incredibly difficult task to use natural energy and become a sage. So difficult in fact that i have never seen more than a single living sage at any given time in the world." He informed me.
So most of my knowledge about chakra and natural energy was basic yet solid info and all this theory i've learned so far has made me understand chakra even more.
"Are there any long term effects of natural energy? Like if you continuously had some running through your chakra coils would it have any effects?" I wondered.
"Well it is possible that it could have some long term effects. It's said that the great toad sage is thousands of years old because he mastered the art of senjutsu better than anyone else." He stated.
I mused over my thoughts for a few minutes.
The great toad sage is the one who taught hagoromo about senjutsu and he is still alive today thousands of years later. Hagoromo had so much chakra and was so skilled his chakra gave naruto and sasuke incredible boosts because even though he was just a chakra construct really. So clearly there is a way to master senjutsu better than what anyone else has done before if the sage of six paths can live in through his spirit.
"Could you make a seal that runs off my excess chakra that would constantly draw in natural chakra and have an extremely small amount constantly flowing through chakra coils? This would mean I wouldn't ever have to worry about having to much chakra, I could get potential boosts from the natural energy, and slowly become a sage due to my constant exposure to natural energy. I could have a better mastery over senjutsu than anyone else before with even more potential benefits in the long run." I said hopefully.
"I supposed that could be possible." Ashina said more to himself, already lost in thought about the possibility and potential of such a seal.
Over the next six months I trained as normal while Ashina worked hard at making this seal, going as far to use shadow clones each day to get more done. It was on another morning that Ashina seemed to have some results.
"This seal here will be work off your chakra and will turn off automatically if you ever run really low on chakra so you don't die of chakra exhaustion. It draws in natural energy and will trickle a miniscule amount if natural energy through your coils. This should let you get a feel for senjutsu and possibly give you some long term benefits." He stated showing me a seal on a page. It was incredibly large and complex. I couldn't even hope to comprehend what i was seeing.
"This is just the main seal, there are many additions that I will draw out when I place the seal on you. Now are you ready for this, i'll have to tattoo it into your skin which will be painful. But when I activate it, it will sear itself deep into your skin and attach itself to your chakra network. It will be incredibly painful." He said.
"What's a little pain for the long term benefits?" I asked rhetorically. I rethought my statement as I screamed my throat raw from pain before O passed out.
I woke slowly, sleep clung to me as I tried to open my eyes to the brightly lit room of the med bay.
"Glad your awake, how do you feel?" A familiar voice asked.
I opened my mouth to respond but my throat felt as if i had swallowed a bunch of sand and hurt like nothing else. She quickly noticed my predicament and handed me a cup filled with some liquid. I took a few sips, realising it was some tea of sorts. It took me a few minutes to down the cuo but when i did i felt infinitely better than before.
"Can you teach me how to make that tea?" I asked.
"Sure, it's rather simple. Now how do you feel?" She asked.
"Sore, my throat aches a lot, and i have this weird feeling through my whole body but besides that i feel alright." I replied.
"Good, Ashina told me that was to be expected. Now come over here and i'll teach you how to make the tea." She stated.
I got up and walked over to where she was. The tea was a simple blend of a few key ingredients and when mixed in a certain amount they create a calming tea that tastes good, soothes a person, and gets them to relax more.
I made another batch of tea for practice before she sent me back to my room. I had no idea what time it was but i was tired so i had no complaints. When i got there Ashina was there, meditating on his bed.
"Welcome back, how are you feeling?" He asked me.
"Sore, tired, and a bit achy." I replied.
"To be expected. Sleep for now and in the morning we shall start some new chakra exercises." He said.
I nodded my head in response and flopped down onto my bed. I was asleep the moment my head hit my pillow.
A/N: Thank you for reading my story. updates will be sporadic as i work 12 hours a day 5-6 days a week. If you have any comments or suggestions feel free to leave a comment or pm me. im open to new ideas. There are probably many mistakes so sorry about that, I try to clean it up as I go.Extra info:Sage seal - draws in small amounts of nature chakra that is stored in the seal and then distributed through the person's chakra coils. A small amount of it is absorbed into the person's body with the rest being released back into the environment. This gives long terms benefits of being exposed to natural energy such as increased durability, faster chakra regeneration, larger chakra coils, better durability, and increased sensory abilities. End goal is to be able to be a perfect sage and be able to draw in natural energy while moving.If you wanted to get a good idea of what Arakan looks like.Arakan has raven black hair with crimson streaks. It shines crimson in the sun but looks pitch black at night. His eyes are golden and he has lightly tanned skin. When fully grown he will be 6ft 3" broad shouldered and built more on the lean side, the perfect balance between power and speed. He has many scars all over his body from heavy training and his many fights.