Prologue

"Family that's the key to life for some…not me, my name is Taiketsu but everyone calls me "Tai" for short… I guess I should give you a little backstory first."

The sky was clear and blue in the city of Osaka the children laughed and played while the adults went about their personal work as they would any other day, but not all the children were happy and laughing for there was one that stayed alone and had what seemed to be a permeant melancholy look on his face. This lonely teen was the hero of our story Tai.

"Why am I so… alone? So… abandoned?" Tai asked himself as he stared at the ground as to avoid eye contact with anyone. "Excuse me are you "tai"?" asked the post man. "Yeah that's me. Why?" exclaimed Tai. "I have a special letter for you from a "Ishin Matoi"." Replied the post man. "I don't know any one with that name." Tai replied as he took the letter from the post man. "Well he knows you." Replied the post man as he walked off to the next house. "Well this is weird." Tai said to himself as he opened the letter and began to read it in his head. "Dear Tai my name is ishin matoi I know you have many questions about yourself I am sending you this letter to tell you one thing… I have the answers' you so desperately want. When your ready come to the city of honnouji and find me to get them until then I will be waiting.". Tai's eyes widened as a result of the last few lines of the letter. "If this guy really has the answers I'm lookin' for then I have to go see him right now." Tai said to himself. "I've been alone ever since I lost my folks but… not anymore." Tai thought to himself. "Hey mister how long will it take for me to get to honnouji?!" shouted Tai. "Not long about an hour maybe two." Replied the man. "Thanks?!" replied Tai. "welcome." The man answered. "Next stop honnouji." Tai said.

Thirty minutes later Tai arrived at the train station he then purchased a ticket to honnouji and arrived there within the hour.

"So this is honnouji look's kinda ratty to me." Tai said to himself. "Hey I'm lookin for some one can you tell me where a guy named ishin matoi lives?" Tai asked. The man he asked had short green hair had a bamboo sword on his back and wore a white trench coat with matching pants. "Yeah he lives up in the mountains." The man answered. "Thanks." Replied Tai. "Your welcome… by the way what's your name?" the man asked. "It's Tai." Tai replied. "nice meeting' ya my names' Uzu Sanageyama." Replied Sanageyama. "You too." Replied Tai.

Tai then made his way towards the mountains and found ishins house. "So… this is where the guy lives, not bad." Tai commented as he made his way to the front door. "Guess I'd better knock." Tai surmised. Tai then knocked on the door to the house. It was a few minutes before the door was answered. "Yes?" answered an elderly looking man who was hunched over and had an eye patch and a cane in one hand with a mouse on his shoulder. "Sorry to bug you but are you ishin matoi?" asked Tai. "Yes you must be Tai." The man named ishin replied. "Yes I am. I got your letter." Replied Tai. "Good come with me and I'll give you your answers." Ishin exclaimed as he motioned for Tai to follow him.

The two then made their way down into the basement of the house where Tai expected to see the usual things you'd see in a basement like a dryer and a washing machine but was instead greeted with the sight of a massive laboratory. "What do you do for a job anyway?" Tai asked. "I'm a scientist." Replied ishin. "Makes some sense." Tai replied. "So mind telling me what I want to know?" asked Tai. "Of course first the family you knew isn't your real family." Ishin exclaimed "What do you mean?" asked Tai. "Your true family is a woman named ragyo kiriyuin and a man named Soichiro kiryuin I am the man named Soichiro." Ishin explained. "Now hold on a minute I thought your name was "Ishin Matoi"?" Tai asked. "I'm in hiding your mother ragyo has lost her mind and I had to take two of our three children one is currently at a privet school in the kanto region another is with ragyo… I couldn't save her, and last one is standing right in front of me." Ishin finished. Needless to say Tai was speechless at Ishins' story. "So… what's my "mom" gonna do that's so terrible?" asked Tai. "She plans to use a substance from the outer reaches space called "Life Fibers." These special fibers give a normal human almost super human abilities." Ishin explained

"Well then… guess I'm gonna have to stop her aren't I?" asked Tai. "You can't I'm not going to lose any of my children over this." Ishin exclaimed with a very serious tone of voice. "Well if what you said is true then she NEED'S to be stopped and I'm gonna stop her whether you want me to or not." Tai argued. Ishin thought about it for a minute and realized he was right. "Well… if you plan on fighting her and possibly dyeing then you're gonna need this." Ishin said as he walked over to a silver tube by the wall. He pushed a few buttons on it and it opened up to reveal a green and black trench coat with a red, yellow, and black eye shaped patch on the right side of the coat, a black shirt, and a pair of pants that matched the coat along with a green glove on the right side. "No offense but I fail to see how this is gonna help me." Tai said. "This is a kamui it means "god robe" it's made of 100% of life fibers which means it's very powerful." ishin explained. "So it can help me end all this?" asked Tai. "Yes but these will help too." Ishin said as he opened a hidden compartment on the tube revealing a black shield with a green trim around it and a sword. "Okay now those are REALLY gonna help me out. " Tai replied. "The shield and sword are made of hardened life fibers, the shield weakens life fiber based weapons when they hit it while the sword kills them with a single strike." Ishin exclaimed as Tai got a feel for the two weapons. "The sword's a little heavy but has a good reach and I can work with the weight." Tai replied as he spun the sword around a little. "If you're really gonna go through with this try and keep a low profile." Ishin advised. "I'll try but I make no promises, how do I get in contact with you?" Tai asked. "You don't… you're on your own from here on out." Ishin explained. "Got it… but if anything happens call me." Tai said. "I make no promises." Ishin replied. Tai changed into the outfit from inside the tube and came out five minutes later. "So how does this work?" Tai asked. "The gloves' rim it expands and rotates drawing out the needles hidden in it, just press the button there and it will activate the transformation sequence." Ishin explained.

"Okay I'm gonna try it a few times to get the hang of it." Tai explained. Tai found the button on the glove and pressed it just like ishin said the rim expanded, Tai then turned the rim and needles shot out of the underside and pressed the button again which clasped the rim down on his wrist sucking in blood and activated the rest of the sequence surrounding him in a blinding green light while most of the uniform separated into multiple spheres of light while the rest of it became a black under suit. After words the rest of the outfit became pieces of armor and attached themselves to his person while the excess energy formed a long black cape attached to his back finally the last piece of the outfit formed a helmet with a black visor and a silver piece of armor with large rectangular slits in it and a detachable mouth piece. The helmet then separated and attached itself to Tais' head after the armor was complete the light died off. "Whoa, wow this feels good." Tai stated. "Yes it is and now that we're one you have a limitless supply of power." Said a new voice. "Who's there?" asked Tai. "Sorry guess ishin didn't tell you I was alive… I'm the armor your wearing." Replied Tais' armor. "Well would you mind if I gave you a name?" asked Tai "Yeah sure go ahead." Replied the armor. "Let's see how about…Gaia." Tai suggested. "Hm… I like it." Replied Gaia. "Cool okay let's transform one more time." Tai suggested. "I don't mind just don't overdo it." Gaia warned. "Got ya thanks for the tip." Replied Tai. Tai changed back to his basic appearance and did as he did before except this time at the very end of the transformation Tai added his own little flair to the mix. "LIFE FIBER ENERGIZE KAMUI GAIA!" shouted Tai. "Nice little add on." Complimented Gaia. "Thanks I have a slight taste for the dramatic." Replied Tai. The two then returned to their "civilian" form and went to make their leave. "Thanks dad… for everything." Said Tai as he left your welcome.

1 year later

"So… ragyo got to dad." Tai said in a somber tone. "What do we do now?" asked Gaia. "Now… we go back and finish this fight." Replied Tai. "Sounds like a plan." replied Gaia. "Yeah and if there's one thing I love… it's when a plan comes together." replied Tai