Shin-to

Prelude

Clear, barren land void of everything for as far as they could sense or simply knew.

Five power lights, the presence these bright spheres have they can only be called power sources. A black sparkle, bright silver sphere, a prismatic crystal, white ethereal ball and a small void (imagine: black hole) begin to glow with power, a few minutes later when the light dimmed there stood two humanoid beings. A male-female pair.

"Izanami" "Izanagi"...

The siblings both donned grey kimono that covered their whole form. They had silver eyes and black hair.

"They are taking physical form; this will give this planet a chance."

Nodding to each other they moved away from the clearing to watch the spectacle of their parents.

"Kotoamatsukami (the collective five are that), so this how they will save the planet"

"This will work;they chose this.. it is now the shin-to(The way of the gods)"

The five brighten up the horizon again which stayed a lot longer than before to leave a small tree sapling.

"A tree, shin-ju tree huh...it fits"

"We should go, we have our own work now that there are not controlling things"

Few years later they sired their own children to maintain the earth just like their own progenitors did

Izanami - "you represent sun and the yang of all thing amatrasu just like tsukuyomi is the essence of moon and yin."

Izanagi – "you shinigami will welcome the souls of dead and last, you are the force of nature,susano-0."

All four nodded in acceptance. "As your first task you have to bring forth the guardians of the elements."

With that they all left.

This is how Divine tree came to be, the origins of which are forever a mystery to the mankind.

Millenniums later a princess consumed the chakra fruit of the shin-ju tree to end the conflict and came to be known as 'the rabbit goddess', Later she gave birth to two sons who possessed the powers of the chakra just like their mother when power corrupted the rabbit goddess both sons fought to and ended up sealing her and the vengeful form of the shin-ju tree.

Twelve shin-to gods watched these events with great interests from their own domains.

Izanami- "the sustenance has stopped, Izanagi."

The male sibling looked serious for few moments

Izanagi- "(sigh) and they will be able to use the powers of the five."

Suijin- "what should we do?" A giant panda with brown deep eyes like earth soil asked as he chewed on a bamboo root,he looks very it has something to do with him being in a bamboo forest.

Amatrasu- a beautiful blonde woman with bright golden-orange eyes shook her head"We cannot interfere. "

Tsukiyomi -"but they just did the unthinkable; this planet won't fare so well if we don't fix this." He had shiny black hair and ebony white skin and white eyes much like two full white moons.

Shinigami- "they will all die." Death god's unforgiving gaze surprisingly turned sad as spoke these words.

A short lull fell between them for a few moments.

Fuujin- "not directly,only the five could influence the living directly and those two humans have the same powers no matter how small in fraction."

Suddenly they all brightened up. There was some hope.

Izanami-smiling "We GOTO the one with the samarasa eyes, since only he can see us and make him watch over the events thhen transfer his powers when the time is right."

Shinigami- he thoughtfully added"hopefully someone will be wise enough to fix this. "

Ryujiin-a majestic white and red coral patterned sea dragon said in a feminine "long shot but our only option."

Raijin-"If we can do indirect than maybe we should do more, I'm getting bored"

Izanagi and Izanami –"Like what?"Both asked with a soft smirk.

All expect for Amatrasu, Tsukiyomi and susano-0 chirped "we'll think of something! " expect for shinigami who just nodded.

Three sibling turned to their parents "we'd like to go with you father"

The couple just smiled"very well."