Chapter 1
The Library
Thin black eyebrows scrunched down, the boy panting slightly at the heat and dull ache of his body as he shifted uncomfortably in the sand. 'Wait…Sand? Did that missing-nin use some sort of Ninjutsu or Kinjutsu to transport me to Kaze no Kuni?' Daiki reluctantly opened his dull brown eyes, his lips pulled downwards as harsh sunlight burned straight into his mind. Raising his right arm to shield his face as his head titled upwards, happily taking note of the slight breeze that soon disappeared.
Pulling himself up, Dai sat with his legs stretched out. 'Did I get robbed?' Tanned hands pulled off the pouch strapped to the right on his thigh, the one strapped to his left calf, and the chain & sickle hooked to his left hip on his sash belt. 'Nothing gone?' Dai thought to himself, a frown forming on his lips, his gaze flickering across the surrounding area and caution lighting in his eyes. Shaking his head, Dai double-checked whether or not if he had all of his shuriken and kunai before strapping his pouches and weapon back on.
The shinobi then pulled off the black duangua off he wore before checking his fishnet shirt. He then picked up his shirt from where he set it in the sand besides him and tugged it back on, rolling the over-sized sleeves to his elbows. Dai's fingers then brushed through his shoulder length snow colored hair, and brushing away the inky-black locks that covered the right-side of his face including his eye only for it to fall back into place.
Sighing, the 18 year-old climbed to his feet, blinking at the seemingly empty desert. 'Where the hell in Kaze no Kuni am I? Where is my team? I better not learn Kaede started acting like the Baka he is once he notices I'm not in 10 mile radius.'
Stretching out his limbs, Dai narrowed his eyes as he searched for any signs of chakra. He sigh a sigh worthy of the Nara Clan; he then decided to randomly walk in whatever direction he was facing. 'I best save chakra and energy for an ambush. I highly doubt shinobi from Sunagakure would appreciate a Konoha ninja in their borders without permission or even a note.' Snorting, Daiki absent-mindedly took notice of everything the desert had to offer - nothing but sand and a rare cactus maybe even a slight breeze from time to time.
Dai then removed the giant sea-green with aqua trim scroll from his back, his left hand gripping a knob, the other forming a hand sign. With a 'poof' and a white cloud, an inkwell appeared in his right hand. After setting the scroll on the sand, Dai dipped his left index into the inkwell before carefully painting the skin on his cheek under his left eye. He didn't bother moving the lock of inky black hair to apply the ink under his right eye. 'Now I don't have to worry about being blinded by the sun's glare reflecting off the sand.'
After walking for 30 minutes with nothing, no signs indicating another human been through the area, Dai stopped taking in his surroundings once more. Closing his eyes, he tilted his head, trying to locate the nearest source of chakra, but was only able to find charka signatures of small desert creatures. Sighing once more, he continued walking, another tiny breeze snagging the small white braid that framed the left side of his face.
After what seemed like an Uzumaki's lifetime, but in reality an hour [with a rest, small sips of water, and 3 small bites of a ration bar that was stored in his scroll], Dai began toying with the idea of speeding up his progress with chakra or summoning a toad to help him. 'Then again, is summoning Numa- a frog who hates being summoned to harsh sunlight places demanding a reward a good idea? I only have some ration bars left and I need to preserve my food and water…'
Bending his knees slightly, he felt the necessary chakra needed to make the leap pump into his legs before he jumped up. But rather than jumping maybe a foot or 2 off the ground, he reached 45 feet, getting a good look at the area.
Chocolate brown eyes scanned the desert dunes, searching rather desperately for a sign of civilization. 'There!' Smirking, Dai landed softly into the sand with a sand cloud; a smile grew on the shinobi's face as he raced across the sand towards his destination.
While gravity was dragging him down; Dai noticed with trained ninja eyes, the roof of a most likely brick wall before it disappeared entirely behind a large sand dune.
In 15 minutes the walls of a small village appeared in site, and Dai slowed down his pace to a brisk walk. Dull brown eyes flickered between men dressed as reject mummies, and Dai spotted missing canines when several spat. But what caught his attention was the large thing that stood a couple of meters away from the entrance.
The creature seemed like a sort of buffalo with six legs, dirty white fur, a sort of beaver tail, toes that reminded Dai of insect toes, and two bull horns. 'Hmmm…I better record this in the name of science. This must be the last of its species since there are no records of an animal like this in the Libraries.'
After confirming it wasn't some sort of jutsu with a hand seal and a murmur of 'release', he shrugged his shoulders. With a sigh, Dai slid the scroll down, chakra pushing into the scroll earning a small poof of smoke, which caught attention of some 'mummy-men.' A second later a book with a pencil had appeared in his waiting hands.
Sitting down from his crouched position, the ninja drew a drawing of the 6-legged creature, not daring to get close in case it was aggressive with strangers, [which is was when it shook its massive horned head with ill-intentions at a couple of mummy-men], as he jotted down notes about its legs, tail, horns, and what appeared to be tattoo-like markings of arrows.
Once he got back up, he stepped aside from a dark spot, noticing one of the toothless mummy-men had spit on his lip, and he could quickly tell what happened. Shrugging his shoulders, he entered the gates, Dai's attention was then ripped away to what seemed to be a giant block of ragged ice in a small sandstone fountain.
'How is it not showing signs of rapid melting? It should in this heat…Is it special ice produced by a Kekkei Genkai?' Once again he tried to dispel the seemingly non-existent genjutsu cast over him before fishing out a kunai. Then using the blade, he then carved off a small piece of it. Once that was off, he tugged off his scroll and quickly sealed it so he could find out later what kept it from melting, providing the sealing jutsu kept it from melting since something in the atmosphere around the small town could keep it from doing so.
After the large scroll was once more strapped to his back, between his shoulder blades, Dai made a bee-line to the nearest building that seemed to be opened, again avoiding the bandage-wearing men that littered the place.
Snorting, he walked past a group of people, side-stepping out of the way of a man only for the ice bowl of juice to get spilled on someone else. Turning around, he duly noted what seemed to be a monk, if the shaved head, yellow robes with a short orange cape that came to his elbows, an orange belt, brown boots where yellow pants tucked into, and dull bumble-bee yellow armguards/bands meant anything.
'Though what kind of monk has a blue tattoo on his head? It looks similar to the thing's tattoo markingsoutside though.' "Don't worry, I clean up easily." Chirped the monk, and from his height, and voice, Dai easily could tell it was a teenage boy, and he seemed to be around the age he was when he graduated the Academy.
Sitting down on a stool, a black eyebrow raised in surprise at the hand seal the boy [it reminded him of the Boar Seal] used to perform a wind release that somehow blew the wind off his clothes. 'It's probably a Kekkei Genkai of monks that live in Kaze No Kuni.'
Losing interest when the man that spilt the juice cried about living relics, his gaze traveled to the monk's traveling companions.
First was a boy, a bit younger than him and was tanner than him. He was dressed in all blue, with a light colored top he recognized as a tunic, sky-blue belt, the tunic tucked under the belt that came to his knees. He also had navy blue pants/tights that disappeared into his brown boots, bandages wrapped around his wrists, fingerless gloves with a ring on his middle finger, and a boomerang on his back. The sides of his head looked shaved, and the brown hair the guy did have was pulled into a sort of pony-tail.
He then watched the girl, who sported an odd hairstyle, her brown hair in loops connecting to what he guessed was a bun on the back of her neck, and she also seemed to have the rest of her hair braided. She wore a light blue dress, the ends of it lined with white fur material. There was a white belt design around her waist; she also seemed to wear dark navy blue pants/tights that tucked into ankle boots that were also lined with white fur material. She had sky-blue sleeves, wore dark navy blue armguards/bands and a necklace. On the necklace, there seem to be a sort of ornament that looked like crashing waves of water. 'Siblings, maybe cousins, are my best guest. But the clothing looks heavy; why wear it here in a desert? They're most likely travelers.'
He then took notice of the last female in the monk's group; a girl dressed in a green dress, with a lighter colored yellow-green cloth and a dark green belt. She wore gloves the same color as her belt, had no shoes only dark green cloth around her ankles. Her hair was held in a giant bun held together by a yellow and green band. He couldn't see her face since her head was titled down and was also hidden by the ice bowl of juice she was drinking.
Shrugging, his gaze switched to the man, who wore white beige robes, a backpack, another bag; several pouches, bandages wrapped around his wrists, brown sandal boots, cloth wrapped around his head and a large straw hat. Shrugging his shoulders he turned away, setting his chin upon the palm of one of his hands as Dai closed his brown eyes.
His lips tugged upwards in a rare smile, his eyes slightly opening at the mention of maps. Sliding off his stool, he walked towards the 5, tapping the shoulder of the man after blue-boy exclaimed there was no fire nation on the map he was examining.
'Does he mean Hi no Kuni? Or is he so uneducated he was taught that the name was Fire Nation? Or maybe he can't be bothered to say the proper name.' The man turned around, positively giggling once he noticed his appearance.
"What are you wearing? Where are you from? I would guess Water Tribe from your tanned skin, but you have brown eyes, which is uncommon for them… And what is the metal plate on the cloth around your neck with the symbol? And did you come into contact with a spirit? I never heard of a boy with black and white hair? And what kind of weapon are you carrying?"
Raising surprised eyebrows at the man's questions, Dai sighed before quickly answering them. "I'm wearing a duangua with over-sized sleeves; the blue hydrangea print on my right sleeve is there because I'm fond of the flowers. If I turned around, you could see the Senju Clan symbol on the hem of my duangua. The pale gold sash is a good belt and I can clip my chain and sickle, the sickle my weapon; to it easily. As you can see, I'm wearing spats over my boots whom stop below my knees. My trousers are navy and only reach my knees. The black marking is to lessen the glare of sunlight onto my eyes. I don't see why my outfit is irrelevant.
I'm from Hi no Kuni; I rather not talk about my home though. The navy cloth around my neck is a hitate-ate; the symbol is a leaf symbolizing I'm from the Konohagakure no Sato.
And no, I never came into contact with any sort of spirit, neither had my mother. It's not that uncommon for people in the Senju clan to have black, brown, white, or black that seems blue hair."
The questioner quickly whipped out his notebook and pencil, jotting down the questions and answers before finally asking the question Dai was waiting for. "So, what is it that you need?"
Sending a small prayer of thanks to which god that helped him, "A map; I overheard you talking about how you have one?" he replied. "Wow, you made a lot of trips into the desert…" The girl in blue noted, taking the chance to talk now that the interrogation of the boy was over.
"All in vain, I'm afraid. I've found lost civilizations all over the Earth Kingdom, but I haven't managed to find the crown jewel, Wang Shi-Tong's Library."
'Earth Kingdom, never heard of that one. And what's this about libraries and lost civilizations. Just how far away I am from the lands I know since this map certainly isn't of Wind Country. I've seen enough maps to know that.'
"You spent years walking through the desert to find some guy's library?" Questioned the girl in green, her feet twitching as she sipped her juice.
"This library is more valuable than gold, little lady. It is said to contain a vast collection of knowledge." At that, Dai's eyes glittered, a legendary library hidden in the desert that contains a vast collection of knowledge? 'If this is true…what kind of amazing things can I find?' "And knowledge is priceless." Slightly tilting his head at the last statement, the book worm had to agree with that one-slightly.
"Hmm…Sounds like good times." Commented the green girl.
"Oh it is, it was built by the great knowledge spirit Wang Shi-Tong with the help of his foxy knowledge seekers."
"Oh, so this spirit has attractive assistances, huh?" The boy in blue commented, who sounded rather pervy.
The girl in blue then raised a hand to shove the boy's face, "I think he meant that they are actually foxes, Sokka."
"You're both right; Wang Shi-Tong and his knowledge seekers collected books from all around the world and put them on display so man could better ourselves." The archeologist exclaimed, pulling out a drawing of a building.
"If he has books from all over the world, do you think he has info on the fire nation?" Asked the newly dubbed, Sokka.
'All the information in the world won't help if you think that Fire Country is Fire Nation.' Dai thought with a sigh, deciding whether he should ask if he could tag along for the trip, if it was worth it.
"A map maybe?" With that, Sokka's tan face and sparkling blue filled with joy at the thought of a map of the Fire Nation. 'Should I tell him I'm from the place? No, if he doesn't know about the Hi no Kuni, he won't learn about it from me.'
Tuning out slurping noises, Dai focused back on the conversation, "I wouldn't know. But if such a place exists, it would be there." He stared with a poker face as Sokka held his chin before exclaiming, "Aang I do believe it's my turn. I want to spend my vacation at the….LIBRARY!" The guy practically shouted; his hand pointing to the ceiling in an over-dramatic way.
Turning his head to stare as the green-dressed girl raised her hand, "Hey? What about me? When do I get to pick?"
His attention flew back to Sokka who crossed his arms, closing his eyes before replying, "You gotta work here a little while longer before you qualify for vacation time." With that reply, the girl slammed her drink down onto the table, took up a pouty face, and looked away, which made her seem extremely childish.
"Of course there is the matter of finding it. I have made several trips into the Se-Song desert and almost died each time, I'm afraid that desert is impossible to cross." Piped up the professor sadly, a look of frustration, sadness, and pity all mixed into one on his face.
'Se-Song desert… That confirms it. I am not in any area I know of, and this 'Fire Nation' Sokka is talking about is defiantly not my home. But it would still be rather beneficial to check out this library. But there's the point of whether or not it's real.'
'Why is Sokka making that face? I barely know him for a 2 minutes and I don't trust that look.' Dai thought to himself as said man raised an eyebrow, "Professor, how would you like to see our sky bison?" "A sky bison?! You actually have one?!" Shrugging off the feeling of being forgotten, Dai followed the 5 outside rather annoyed.
Outside, Dai noticed that they were walking towards the six-legged thing he documented, growling at the mummy-men before the Professor ran forwards.
"Sand benders! Shoo! Away from the Sky Bison!" With movements Dai took as hostility, Dai eyed the men as they hopped upon what seemed like boats before some started to wave their arms, seeming to cause sand to raise and propel them away.
"That's interesting Kekkei Genkai…" He mumbled under his breath, remembering text that some rare people from the Wind Country could control special sand or magnetism in the sand but only the 1-tailed bijuu's Jinchuuriki could actually control normal sand.
'Maybe it's their clan ability special only to this desert region?'
Noticing the group was preparing to leave, Dai rushed towards the monk, tapping his shoulders before bowing in a respectful matter of greeting since he didn't know his name.
"Mind if I travel with you? I am rather lost here, and I think this library might know how to take me back to my home."
The kid suddenly broke into a large, shit-eating grin, his grey eyes twinkling, "Sure! I'm Aang!"
"Senju, Daiki. Call me Senju please."
Nodding his head, Aang leapt up; a gust blowing underneath his feet; propelling him onto the Bison's head. Dai watched the boy; eyes twinkling with interest before leaping up onto the saddle's railing and hopping besides 'Green Girl'.
This collected wide-eyed stares from the people in blue. "How did you do that jump? Not even Aang, an airbender, can do that without airbending!" The girl squeaked in surprise.
'Is Air-Bender the name given to people who share Aang-sama's Kekkei Genkai?'
"Why are you here anyways?!" Cried Sokka afterwards, pointing an accusing finger at Dai.
"Aang said I could come along, and I used chakra." He stated in a monotone voice, the girl in green, which he noticed, laying quite close to him, nodding.
"I'm Toph, 11 years old by the way; the other girl is Katara, she's 12; and the boy's Sokka, age 14. Though I think you learnt his name when Katara got mad at him. The sky bison is Appa, and the flying lemur is Momo."
The boy noticed the girl's unfocused white eyes that had a hint of green to them, "Senju, Daiki. Call me Senju. I'm 18 years old."
Sitting on his knees, to say he was surprised and amused when the now dubbed Appa took off, though he didn't show it much, was an understatement.
Around, what he guessed was 2 hours later, he ignored Toph when she pointed at something, though to his amusement he chuckled slightly when Aang, Sokka, Katara, and the Professor realized it was nothing and remembered she was blind.
"Hey, Senju, why didn't you even look at Toph when she did that mean prank?" The other boy in the group asked, prompting him to shrug as he continued to scan the desert dunes, noticing a glint of gold in the distance.
"Because I noticed her eyes were white and unfocused, and just now I was proved correct; that she's blind. It was a rather amusing prank, Toph-sama."
"Toph-sama? Is that some kind of fancy honorific? Just call me Toph or Best Earth-Bender Out There!"
Raising an eyebrow at her statement, he shrugged it off, 'Earth-bending? Is that another unheard Kekkei Genkai? But they way she said it, she made it sound more popular…And from the name, I could guess it has something to do with controlling rocks since Aang-sama's air bending is just air manipulation.'
"There." He pointed out his hand, seeing a tower appearing out of the shadow of a dune, prompting Sokka to use his spying glass.
"Hey! You're right! But how did you spot it?" The bison started to spiral down, curving around the high tower before landing gracefully for a beast of its stature.
"Forget it. It's obviously not what we're looking for. The building in the painting looks enormous." Katara sighed, holding up the painting.
"I think it's just buried underneath sand. How else could a palace that huge hide in a barren desert like this? And that fox thinks this is the library too." Dai added, his hand pointing at a figure sliding down a dune, a scroll which glinted that caught the boy's eye earlier.
"What kind of animal is that?" Sokka took a step forwards as he asked, watching the beast run towards the tower and up the wall.
"It's a fox. It's actually related to cats more than dogs against popular belief." Dai commented a moment before the Professor, "I think that is one of the knowledge seekers."
The group, Professor included turned to stare at him once more.
"How did you know that, Dai? I never heard of foxes, much less that they're closely related to cats rather than dogs…" Aang commented, scratching his bald head as he walked towards the building. "I studied biology in my spare time at home." He replied in a monotone voice, shrugging.
"What's biology?" Sokka questioned before Dai shook his head, "Nevermind."
"If this is the library, this means it's completely buried." The Gaang stared up at the tower, recognizing it as the main one in the painting.
"The library is buried! My life's ambition is full of sand! Well, time to start excavating." Cried the professor, rushing forwards, dropping to his knees, digging out a tiny shovel, and he began to dig.
'Idiots...' With a sigh, he shook his head, "Just because it's buried doesn't mean it's full of sand-"
"Actually that won't be necessary since the inside seems to be completely intact. And it seems to be huge." Dai began, got cut off as Toph slammed her fist into the bricks of the tower, her eyes closed as she interrupted him.
"Sorry Senju, hehe." Toph began to giggle as she opened her eyes when she realized she cut off the older boy. 'Does this girl have a Kekkei Genkai that allows her to see other than with her eyes? Sonic? Scent? Noises? No, the stink of all of us plus the animals and our noise would drive her insane by now. Inuzuka-sensei proves that.' He thought, only breaking his thoughts to mumble a "No problem."
"The fox entered through a window, I say we climb in there and give it a look." Glancing up, Dai stared at the window; ignoring Toph's exclaims of staying behind, he stared at Sokka as he threw up a rope connected to his boomerang so they could climb up.
'They can't use chakra to climb up this tower? That would explain why they were surprised when I jumped onto the saddle. I need to pay more attention to Aang's air-bending jutsu…' He thought as the group climbed up,
"Hey, Senju! Not coming? Or scared you'll fall down?" Sokka taunted, stopping when he realized that the boy wasn't behind or in front of him.
Narrowing his eyes, said boy bent his knees, felt chakra pump into his legs before he leapt high into the air, his feet touching the wall before sticking. To the surprise of all there, [Toph seemed to be included], Dai walked up and past all of them as if he been wall-walking since he could normally walk.
He hopped onto the window ledge, and continued walking down the tower from the inside, drawing speechless questions and Professor was just vibrating from the idea of a person that could walk on walls.
"How do you do that? What else can you walk on that others can't? Can you walk on liquid? Or is that not solid enough?" Tuning out the voices, Dai judged the distance before leaping down, pushing chakra beneath his feet to soften the land.
He gazed around, taking in the Owl-style décor; still ignoring Professor who used rather long words instead of simple ones. Tilting his head at the sound of rustling, he then, instead of running behind pillars, leapt over the side.
Instead of plummeting, the boy's hand stretched out, snagging the last ledge of the bridge before darkness, dangling above it. Dai calmed down, his eyes narrowing so he can focus more intently on the sound before as a voice cut through the silence, "I know you're back there, and you too, the one hanging on the ledge. Get up here."
This prompted a gasp from someone behind the pillars. Daiki sighed, stretching his other hand up, grasping another ledge before pulling himself effortlessly up and back onto the bridge with the others.
He then turned around, brushing off imaginary dust before giving his full attention to a giant owl, the creature's feathers black as shadows. The spirit had a white, round face that reminded you of a heart, his dark brown beak almost black tiny against the whiteness, and its grey eyes twinkling with deadly knowledge.
'This is the knowledge spirit? I thought it was going to be the size of one of the summons, or maybe a Bijuu...But it's still smarter than Kaede.'
"Hello…" As Professor starting talking, he once again ignored the man's voice out, taking in the spirit's appearance as a hand sat on the hilt of his sickle.
As the owl mentioned stuff heads, the archeologist shut up, prompting Dai to pay attention once more to the conversation.
"Are you the spirit that brought this library to the physical world?" Sokka asked, "Indeed, I am Wang Si-Tong, he who knows 10,000 things."
Taking a pause, the bird eyed everyone in the group, his gaze lingering on Dai the most which cause him to grip the weapon.
"And you are obviously human, which by the way I do not permit in my study." "Man. The bird that knows 10,000 things is also a racist. Nice." Daiki mumbled underneath his breath.
"What do you have against humans?" A voice filled with innocence, obviously Aang, asked as he took a step forwards.
A Humph noise escaped Wang Shi-Tong before he answered the question, "Humans only bother learning to get the edge on other humans. Like that fire bender that came to this place a few years ago looking to destroy his enemy."
Another pause, the bird swung his face towards the nearest human's face, which was unfortunately Sokka's. "So…Who are you trying to destroy?"
"W-What, n-no, n-no, we're not trying to destroy-"The boy began his sentence only to be cut off by Daiki, "We're trying to destroy the emptiness in our minds by filling it with knowledge. That is what we wish to destroy. As such many other scholars do."
"Yeah! Knowledge for knowledge's sake." The spirit eyed Sokka as he started to sweat, slightly buckling under pressure from Wang's intense stare.
"Humph, the boy with the boomerang. If you're going to lie to an all knowing spirit being you should at least put some effort into it."
In reply, boomerang guy made noises, pointing a finger at Dai, "But I'm not lying! I'm here with the avatar," with that the boy grabbed Aang, "he's the bridge between our worlds. He'll vouch for me."
With that he bumped the monk in the back, prompting a sigh from the Senju member and an 'oww' from Aang-sama.
"Y…Yeah, I'll vouch. We'll not abuse the knowledge in your library good spirit." Taking a step back, Aang-sama bowed low which the others copied.
"Hmmm…Very well, I'll let you browse my vast collection, on one condition," Wang's deep voice echoed inside his head at the word condition.
'What's up with the stinking owl and his pauses? Not everyone has an Uzumaki's lifespan.' Dai thought irritably waiting for the spirit to begin talking, "To prove your worth as scholars you'll have to contribute worthwhile knowledge."
Taking a couple steps back, the ninja crouched down, pulled off his scroll, and unsealed it before rolling it open. He then pushed chakra into the kanji of Konoha Painting, and with a poof that attracted everyone's attention.
A painting appeared, and within it one could see a giant mountain with faces carved into it, and surrounding the mountain was a huge forest. A large town was nestled into the forest with the monuments overlooking the town.
Buildings of all shapes, sizes, and colors could be seen in the painting, with other mountains in the background. In the corner, there was the title of the painting, "Konohagakure no Sato- The Village Hidden by Leaves."
Picking it up, the ninja took a step forwards, presenting it to the black-feathered being.
"This is a painting of my home village, Konohagakure no Sato, otherwise known as The Village Hidden by Leaves. It's made by the Kurama Clan; a family of one of the best painters."
Nodding its head in approval "A marvelous use of colors; the details are amazing, the claim holds truth." Then, a wing swiped over the painting, taking it with it causing the Senju to step back to his scroll. Crouching down once more, he rolled it back up and redone the seal before sliding it back on. Out of the corner of his eye he could see the professor drooling and staring hungrily at the sea-colored colored scroll.
Watching with a blank face, Daiki eyed the tome that the professor donated, the water bending scroll from Katara, the wanted poster of Aang, and the knot of string from Sokka [the spirit had an incredible poker face].
As Wang Shi-Tong commented on the water tribe boy's level intelligent, his body trembled from hidden laughter. At the words, "Enjoy the library." He dashed forwards, weaving around Sokka hearing the word, "trick" before he made it to the shelves of books.
Smiling; Dai sat down as the knowledge seeker fox handed him the tomes he requested about the world's history, geography, bending, world culture, traditions, and flora.
He then started to flip through the history and geography, where Dai made a sickening discovery.
'If every large continent is found according to this map, the Elemental Nations are either hidden by powerful jutsu. Or that scroll transported me out of my own world…I sound like I need to be thrown in an insane asylum.'
Maintaining a calm face, he slid off his scroll, summoned a pencil, and wrote the kanji for History, Geography, Culture, Traditions, and Flora in a spare scroll.
He then sealed the tomes in the categories they belonged to before sealing the scroll and sealing it within his large scroll.
Once that was done, he ventured around, hearing the Gaang group. "I want to know what happened to the Fire Nation on their darkest day. This could be promising."
Shrugging, he headed the other way, 'I don't want to be there when the owl finds him trying to dig up info on the Fire Nation.' After walking around for a few minutes, he decided to ask a fox for a water, earth, air, and fire bending scrolls.
Once the seeker returned, he sat down and leaned comfortably against the bookshelf with his scroll besides him before sliding the water bending scroll open. 'It has good tastes. It's pretty illustrations, I wonder who painted them.' The ninja thought to himself as he eyed the body-movements the character performed to control the water.
'I wonder if I could do that with Suiton…Maybe someone else from the village could learn this if I can't…'
With that thought, he unsealed the scroll he used to seal the other tomes and his pencil, and jotted down Fire Bending, Water Bending, Air Bending, and Earth Bending before sealing the scrolls into the larger scroll.
With that task down, he sealed his scroll, laid it besides him once more before taking out a random tome.
After reading for at least 25 minutes, the building shook; sand raining from the ceiling. This had caused Dai to snap the tome shut, throw it aside, and slide on his scroll before leaping to his feet.
Narrowing his brown eyes, he jumped towards the bookshelf in front of him, his feet sticking to the wooden part of a bookshelf before he easily leapt on top of it all with the use of chakra and leg muscle.
Again the building shook, more sand falling down and the cries of a very angry spirit echoing across the library.
'Damn that Sokka.' Was his thought before he caught the sight of a black, feathered creature with a long neck chasing after 3 kids and a stumbling man dropping tomes and scrolls here and there.
With a small snort he kicked off and with a chakra filled boost he shot forwards, tilting his body, Dai's right leg stretching out.
A small crack could be heard, and time stopped for the Gaang when they witnessed Dai kick the raging spirit, sending it flying over the edge of the bridge before falling down the abyss.
"Back to the surface! I don't think that spirit will stay down long!" Aang-sama cried, helping the professor up off the ground before running forwards, Katara-sama behind him and Dai in front.
The 17-year old quickly stopped and backed up, noticing that there was one echo of running footsteps missing. 'Damn, why must it be that I end up with another Kaede?'
"Sokka lets go!" Cried the dobe's sister,
"But we don't know when the next eclipse is going to happen!" Sokka yelled,
"Don't be stupid we can find out later." Katara-sama shot back,
"No we won't! If we leave this place we'll never get the information. Aang, come with me I need cover," with that the avatar ran to the water tribe boy's side, "Senju, take Katara and Momo and get out of here!"
"Bu-"The sister was interrupted when a very pissed off spirit crashed through, its gaze snapping towards Dai who kicked it.
Nodding his head at Sokka, he grabbed Katara, lifted her into his arms Bridal Style with ease [Momo hanging onto the girl] before sprinting down the aisle without Professor since he dived into another aisle.
Behind him, he heard the clatter of talons and screeches which only drove him forwards, 'Should I use more chakra?'
"Look out!" The girl on Dai's arms cried, turning her head to see that Wang was airborne and was about to pick them up with his talons or crush them.
Dashing between the spaces of bookshelves, the spirit dove in the aisle seeing the striped tail that belonged to Momo. He weaved as gracefully as a ninja around the shelves, making his way steadily towards the water bender and lemur being carried by a shinobi.
Turning on his heel once more, Dai dashed across the bridge, Knowledge Spirit blurring past the bridge before it rounded back following Dai once more.
Dropping Katara he stretched his fingers as the bender shifted into position. "It won't do you much goo-"He was distracted as Dai's hands blurred into hand seals, a chant of names escaping his lips such as 'tiger' and 'snake.'
Wang, thinking it was being mocked by a mere mortal, reared up, stretching his wings apart in preparation for an attack.
Before this though, the Senju cried out, "Ki Eda no Jutsu [Tree Limb Technique]!"
To everyone's surprise, 5 large, thick, and green tree roots burst out of the ground, curling over each other like snakes before suddenly stretching out, impaling the Knowledge Spirit in both wings, and wrapping around its legs, waist, and finally neck.
Wang, screeched in fear and pure rage before it found itself being thrown over the bridge, spiraling down.
With a smug smirk, the Mokuton-user twisted around and grabbed Katara by her wrist before helping her up onto the rope. He then leapt onto it, eying Aang and Sokka before his attention shifted to the man surrounded by books and sand.
'The professor is going to die here because of books? He was mental after all.' Dai thought ruefully after he heard the archeologist's reply before climbing up after Katara.
Hearing a cry bellow, he swung the rope, leapt to the wall of the spiral tower, grabbed on. He held fast with the use of chakra, before pulling himself up and running the rest of the way to the window ledge. He twisted around to look down, quickly catching glimpse of a battered, feathery owl body that was pulling itself over a bridge.
Shooting a rare cheeky smile at Wang Shi-Tong, the ninja jumped out and grabbed hold of the boomerang as he did so.
Dai let chakra travel to his legs, cushioning the future impact of sand. As soon as he touched a grain of the material, he bent his legs before taking a step forwards.
Behind him, the tower disappeared in a blur, which caused dust to explode outwards. Snorting as he regained his poker face, he half-heartily threw the boomerang weapon back to its owner before raking his fingers through black locks that to his irritation, had sand in. His lips tugged downwards in annoyance when he noticed that Appa, the Sky Bison was gone, a downed Toph and a crying Aang.
Author's Note
Wow, that was longer than I expected. Anyways, I'm Tsukiko104598Daiki. I'm glad that you were able to find this story, and I would love if anyone would point out errors I made in the comments; though please don't be extremely rude about it. To sum it up, this is about my OC, Daiki Senju, a ninja from the Hidden Leaf and he's a wood-style user. I made it where, like in some books, you learn about the character as the story progresses. I'm not going to make any pairings with Dai, (though someone may or may not develop crushes [still thinking about it) since Dai is going to go back home. Don't ask for pairings, and please don't ask me to do this in another perspective. I'm still learning how to write properly and I feel like I'll just confuse myself otherwise. I do own Daiki Senju [the character]. Before signing off, I would like to thank my friend Nalu for encouraging me. And just so I don't get in trouble, I don't own Naruto or Avatar the Last Airbender.
EDIT
I'm so sorry for the large delay…I was hit with a writer's block so I decided to edit the chapters to the story. Hopefully they're better now than they were before. As you can notice, I've added a semi-large dictionary of words that might end up in the story. At the end is a bio of Daiki to help you better understand the story.
-Tsukiko104598Daiki
Sunagakure No Sato – Village Hidden By Sand
Konohagakure No Sato – Village Hidden By Tree Leaves
Kirigakure No Sato – Village Hidden By Mist (Known as Chigiri No Sato – Village of the Bloody Mist)
Kumogakure No Sato – Village Hidden By Clouds
Iwagakure No Sato – Village Hidden By Rocks
Kaze no Kuni – Land of Wind/Wind Country (Home of Sunagakure) Is to the Southwest
Kaminari no Kuni – Land of Lightning/Lightning Country (Home of Kumogakure) Is to the Northeast
Mizu no Kuni – Land of Water/Water Country (Home of Kirigakure) Is to the East
Tsuchi no Kuni – Land of Earth/Earth Country (Home of Iwagakure) Is to the Northwest
Hi no Kuni – Land of Fire/Fire Country (Home of Konohagakure)In the centre
Hitai-ate – The metal plates that have symbols ninja wear to represent their villages
Missing-nins – Ninjas that has abounded and turned traitor to their village and Kage. Examples: Sasuke Uchiha, the Akatsuki, Zabuza
Mokuton – Wood Style
Doton – Earth chakra
Suiton – Water chakra
Katon – Fire Chakra
Kekkei Genkai – Bloodline Limit – Genetic abilities passed down through families. These jutsu/abilities are impossible to copy unless it's in your genes.
Jutsu – Ninja techniques
Ninjutsu – Ninja magic basically
Bukijutsu – Weapon jutsu
Taijutsu – Hand-to-hand combat [Examples: Rock Lee]
Fuuinjutsu – Sealing [The Uzumaki were infamous for their Fuuinjutsu]
Chakra – Life energy; required to perform jutsu. If a person completely reaches 0% on their chakra, they die.
Clan – A group of people bonded together by blood, Kekkei Genkai, or marriages/legal bonding. Clans usually have a Kekkei Genkai that is passed down through genes. [Examples: Uchiha Clan, Senju Clan, Uzumaki Clan]
Kage – A leader of one of the five most powerful hidden villages and is generally acknowledged as the most powerful ninja in their respective villages. They are collectively known as the five Kage (Gokage). Kage translate to shadow.
Hokage – Fire Shadow, Kage of Hidden Leaf
Kazukage – Wind Shadow, Kage of Hidden Sand
Mizukage – Water Shadow, Kage of Hidden Mist
Raikage – Lightning Shadow, Kage of Hidden Cloud
Tsuchikage – Earth Shadow, Kage of Hidden Rock
Senju, Daiki-
Human
Nickname- Dai
Age- 17 years old
Gender- Male
Sexual Orientation – Straight
Blood Type – O
Birthday – Oct/24
Horoscope – Scorpio, Year of Rat
Clan – Senju
Jutsu – Mokuton, Doton, Suiton
Kekkei Genkai – Mokuton [Wood Release]
Chakra Nature(s): Doton [Earth] & Suiton [Water]
Weak to: Katon [Fire]
Extra: Incredible chakra pool thanks to Senju genes
Jutsu- He uses do 11
Rank D - 5
Moku Bunshin no Jutsu [Wood Clone Technique] – Mokuton – Creating a clone out of wood. This clone can survive up to 3 strong hits and burns easily. Using a pill, clones and the original can talk telepathically.
Shinjuu Zanshu no Jutsu [Inner Decapitation Skill] – Doton – The user will "swim" through earth and pull targets underground till only their heads are above ground.
Mizu Peretto [Water Bullet] – Suiton – A small ball of water is compressed inside one's mouth before shooting out. It's force depends on the chakra, size, and acceleration.
Abura Bushin no Jutsu [Oil Clone Technique] – Suiton – Clones made of vapor, they cannot be defeated by physical contact but can easily be destroyed by fire.
Rank C - 7
Ki Eda no Jutsu [Tree Limb Technique] – Mokuton – The user's hand will transform into a tree, the branches can be used to defend, impale, trap, drag, or swat.
Jukai Heki [Dense Woodland Wall] – Mokuton – The user summons 5 tree roots that can defend, impale, trap, drag, or swat but they don't stretch as far as Ki Eda no Jutsu.
Mizurappa [Wild Water Wave] – Suiton – Hand seals: Dragon – Tiger – Hare
Mizu no Yaiba [Water Sword] - Suiton
Fuuma Mizu Shuriken [Evil Windmill Water Shuriken] - Suiton
Rikujou Shougekiha no Jutsu [Ground Shockwave Technique] –Doton
Iwa Toge Chakushu no Jutsu [Rock Thorn Launch Technique] - Doton
Extra:
Mastered tree & water walking
Mastered Summoning Numa
Appearance/Body:
Hairstyle:
His hair is mainly white, but a large lock of black hair covers most of the right side of his face including his right eye. There is a shoulder-length braid of white hair framing the left side of his face. His hair reaches his shoulders.
Skin:
He has tanned skin and a mole beneath his left eye.
Face:
Dai has sharp features; almond-shaped eyes, a 'button' nose, and rounded ears. There is a scar on his check beneath his right eye.
Eyes:
Both of his eyes are a dark chocolate brown and often seem dull
Height:
6'0
Weight:
115 lbs.
Weapons:
Sealing scroll on back – a sea-green color with aqua colored trims. There is ration bars [3], a water bottle, bingo book, mission scroll[s], painting of Konoha, weapon-care kit, inkwell, paint brush, blank/empty scrolls [3], shuriken [25], kunai [25], bomb tags [5]
Shuriken pouch strapped right above his left knee/calf [50]
Kunai pouch strapped to his belt on his left [50]
Sickle & Chain strapped to his right hip on belt – A sickle, wooden handle wrapped in leather connected to a chain with a metal ball on the end
Accessories:
Hitai-ate: Metal plate with a leaf symbol etched on it. It's sewed onto a dark navy blue cloth wrapped around his neck
Clothes:
Shirt: A black duangua with golden piping and oversized sleeves.
Vest: None
Pants: Navy trousers; stops at knees
Shoes: Boots; stops bellow knees
Gloves: black finger-less gloves; metal plates sewed over the knuckles on the gloves
Belt: Light gold-beige sash/belt
Extra: Long white spats over boots. Fishnet shirt with long sleeves worn under duangua; sleeves stops at wrists.
Fighting Style[s]:
Ninjutsu – Mokuton, Suiton, Doton
Taijutsu – "Hard" Martial Style
Bukijutsu [Weapon jutsu] - Shurikenjutsu [needles, kunai, shuriken], and Kusarigamajutsu [scythe]
Summon: Giant Toads/Frogs –Mainly summons Numa
Numa (Swamp):
Appearance:
Height: Originally 4'5 [size can change with chakra used with every summon]; he's small for his age
Eyes: Honey-colored
Skin: A light sea-green color
Designs/Tattoos: Aqua and dawn/yellow-ish curls
Personality:
A quiet toad that will keep his opinions to himself and it can get confusing to recognize his emotions and body language. Numa personally doesn't like being summoned to deserts and expects some sort of reward for helping. Even though he's mostly calm and patient he will explode in rage if you make a comment on his height. He won't answer you about his age; just that he might be small for his age.
