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Rise of the Azure God-

Normal Talk: "Why are you on Fire?"

Bijū or Celestial Talk: "Why do you ask?"

Normal Thoughts; Well I thought being on fire would be a tad uncomfortable!"

Bijū or Celestial Thoughts; No it's actually quite nice, the burn is marvelous."

Jutsu Incantations: "Kage-Rasengan"

Chapter Ten: Onmitsukidō

Deep in the forests of central Tokyo, a fierce battle was being fought. Man and animal alike fled the forest in droves as two forces, invisible to the mortal eye, battled. Only those humans and animals gifted with strong spiritual presence could perceive the forces that raged against each other.

Through the haze of shattered trees and pulverized rock a great white monster roared a bone chilling scream. The creature was what was known as a Hollow, it was easily 19 feet in height, its exoskeleton made of a pure white bone like substance. The Hollows head and massive jaws were hidden beneath a thick skull mask resembling a Bear's skull. The hulking Hollow was roughly apelike in shape with a thick tail instead of legs with a large spiked ball at its tip. Its savage attacks easily splintered trees and shattered boulders as it tried to eat the thing it was fighting.

The other being was Naruto Uzumaki Namikaze, the Demigod of Azura and currently genderless. 'It' was dressed in a white ensemble with a white mask that neatly aligned with the contortions of its face. It moved nimbly and fluidly, easily weaving out of the way of every one of the Hollows wild attacks with an ease and skill that denoting a vast level of raw experience. Its body literally glowed with suppressed energy forming a shell of energetic but dull light.

Naruto jumped over another wild swing from the Hollow and used the things arm as a platform to hurtle himself violently into the Hollows chest with a vicious double drop kick that actually managed to stagger the beast, even as a distinctive crack was heard as its ribs shattered under the impact. Not even pausing in its now relentless assault Naruto used the Tree Climbing exercise to give him purchase to flipped foreword and landed a devastating double handed hammer blow to the Hollows mask which very nearly shattered it. At the same instant Naruto used both knee's to land a devastating blow to the bottom of its jaw easily shattering it, the two hits managed to finish off the Hollow easily as it feel to the ground dead. Naruto landed lightly on its chest as the debris knocked into the air feel around him even as the Hollow disintegrated into Reishi (Spirit Particles).

Naruto shook his head in befuddled exasperation, counting that Hollow it was the fifteenth Hollow he had killed in the last two days since he got here. He didn't really mind since their continuing interference gave him something to put what he learned to practice but he would have thought the creatures would have learned by now. With a shrug he once again walked back to the small lake he had been practicing on, the single two foot high reed at its center served as an excellent balance poll. Once he got there he found that although there was a little debris scattered along the once pristine surface of the water that the single reed still stood. With a casual hop and precise positioning he landed on the reeds tip with the ball of his foot which made only the smallest ripple in the water. Naruto frowned slightly behind his mask, he was trying to land completely silently and even a single ripple was unacceptable, still it was something to mediate on later after his practice.

Three days had passed since his anticlimactic entry into this new world and he had done almost nothing to complete the three objectives mandated by his goddess. The reason for this was that he first had to accustom himself with his body and learn the limits and habits of both himself and those that he had to study. After all it wouldn't reflect very well on his goddess if he wound up getting eaten by a pitiful Hollow, he really didn't want to know what his goddess would do to him for a failure of that magnitude. Still in those three days he had regained a proficient mastery in chakra control that was borderline Jōnin a day ago and had moved on trying at least getting a basic grasp of the celestial youki in his blood.

He had actually asked Azura if he could rename the energy to something more fitting and hoped that it wouldn't offend her. She had gazed at him with an intensity that chilled his blood before finally stating she didn't care one way or the other. However the hidden message of 'you better know what you're getting into' was received loud and clear. He had decided to call it Seiki (Sacred Aura) to pay homage to her and hopefully spare himself her cruelty. Azura had apparently been pleased with that since she decided to tell him about one of the innate properties his Seiki (Sacred Aura), despite the fact that she had originally wanted him to figure it out himself. Still she made it clear that it would be the only time she gave him information again until he earned the knowledge or learned of it himself.

So Azura ordered him to find a secluded place to meditate and enter the Sealscape that she had created specifically for occasions such as this. Once he had successfully entered meditation Azura had channeled a small portion of a specific part of power into Naruto to create an area effect around her host's body. This was a six by six foot sphere of space that acted like a Gillian's Negación fields used to rescue other hollows. Everything within the sphere was phased into a different dimension of existence that nothing of this dimension could interact with.

XXX-Three days Ago-XXX

Once Azura and Naruto were comfortably in her section of the Sealscape, with Azura herself floating several inches off the water and Naruto sitting directly on the water; Azura began speaking once she was sure that she had her vessels rapt attention. "The most basic innate property your celestial chakra or Seiki (Sacred Aura) as you seem to want to call it, grants you the ability to channel the Seiki (Sacred Aura) of the elemental spirits into yourself or into objects. Normally the Seiki of every individual being is unique unto itself. The only acceptation is when a God or Goddess chooses a champion, who then becomes a Demigod when they achieve mental, physical, and spiritual enlightenment. However even then the process of fully coming into their status of a Demigod drastically alters the Seiki granted to them by their progenitor."

At this Naruto frowned and catching Azura's attention raised his hand to ask a question witch Azura acknowledged with a slight tilt of her head. With curiosity plain in his voice he asked with an unsure tone. "If that is the case then how can you know of the properties of my Seiki (Sacred Aura)? If what you say is true then you should be as clueless as to my Seiki (Sacred Aura) as I am, or is there some method to divine the properties of someone's Seiki (Sacred Aura)? Not that I would ever doubt your word, I am simply trying to understand!"

Azura felt the stirrings of irritation and outright outrage at her vessel even insinuating in even the vaguest manner that she would speak anything but the truth. However his earnest curiosity and sincerity coupled with his last statement tempered her ire somewhat. So Azura settled for glaring at him slightly with narrowed eyes to express that while she wasn't pleased with his question she would allow it for the sake of learning. "The knowledge I possess of your Seiki (Sacred Aura) comes from a combination of observation, a constancy of base level attributes in all Seiki (Sacred Aura); and the understanding that you're Seiki was created from my own. Consider it an educated conjecture based off experience and extensive study on all forms of this form of energy and everything related to it."

Naruto nodded quickly but the curiosity burning in his eyes made her slightly sympathetic and so she chose to elaborate further on the subject. "Since you seem interested I suppose I can tell of some of my observations and how I have come to my conclusion. The first thing you need to remember is when a God or Goddess chooses to take on a champion they give their champion the power to channel a small amount of their own Seiki (Sacred Aura). When the champion first channels the power of their god their bodies become irradiated with their gods Seiki (Sacred Aura). Eventually the champion's body becomes irradiated with so much of their gods Seiki (Sacred Aura) that their bodies own internal energies become saturated with it. This fusion of internal energy and Seiki (Sacred Aura) produce a Seiki (Sacred Aura) unique to the champion and eventually their bodies learn to produce it. This process usually takes decades as the champion slowly transcends the bonds of mortality the farther he/she gets on the path of Divinity. When the champion finally achieves the rank of a Demigod their own Seiki (Sacred Aura) has matured completely."

Naruto nodded completely fascinated. During the time he had spent in his confinement his only company aside from medical checkups and the rare visit from the Sandaime had been learning. At that point he had come to be captivated by the theory of science and philosophy, both practical and theoretical. This was mainly because they were some of the few things that were unconstrained by time. He had poured over tomes, scrolls, and manuscripts that he had been allowed to read. Accumulating knowledge that that the 'Source' didn't already possess, such as the vast fields of Metallurgy, Medicine, and Carpentry. The things that interested him the most though were poison both chakra and chemical based.

Naruto's attention was brought back to the present when Azura continued with a slightly annoyed look aimed at him. He realized that it wasn't a very good idea to get lost in thought when Azura was speaking, it could be hazardous to his health.

"That is how you would normally develop your Seiki (Sacred Aura), however since I forced your body and mind to transcend their mortal bounds something different happened. Since I used most of the chakra of the Kyūbi from your original dimension as well as a fair amount of my own unbound Seiki (Sacred Aura); the development of your own Seiki (Sacred Aura) was unnaturally accelerated and bastardized. Your physical body couldn't withstand the sheer amount of raw energy being channeled into your body. So the energy itself broke down your physical body and your very life energies and combined them with the torrent of exotic Seiki (Sacred Aura). Then the energy itself condensed itself into atoms and they condensed to create all the molecules and elements that make up your body.

"Because your own Seiki (Sacred Aura) is essentially my own adapted to your body there will inevitably be a few small divergences. When you channel the elemental energies into a medium such as yourself it is simply known as Channeling. This is relatively the easiest aspect of your Seiki (Sacred Aura) to tap into, that is to say it is only extremely difficult instead of flat out impossible. The second level of channeling is channeling the Seiki (Sacred Aura) of the elements into an object. This process is known as Enchanting and is the second level of Channeling. Enchanting and everything above it are completely beyond in your current state."

"The first time we met and you agreed to become mine I channeled my very essence into your atomic structure. The very of bindings of your existence sang with my Seiki (Sacred Aura) and in that single instant, when my awesome unchained power was being channeled into your body. That is the essence of channeling. Of course at that time you possessed the power and ability to obliterate all things which exist in this universe and every other. Even then you would have scarcely scratched the most infinitesimal part of my power; such is the might of a true God. That is the true reason that the Bright Kami and Yomi exist, they act as the embodiment of restraint of a God or Goddess power. Even without being restrained, no God or Goddesses can access their true capacity as long as the Bright Kami and Yomi still claim the two thrones of the Bright Halls. This was the mandate the Bright Kami and Yomi demanded of those who wish to walk the path of the Deva."

"Recall the last time I channeled my chained power into you to take you from your cell. Do you happen to recall the state of your steel bed at the time I took control of your body? Did you not find it strange that the metal was cherry hot and did not cool off even when the air in the room was freezing? That was a form of Enchanting; I had been channeling the spirit of flame into your body to imbue the very essence of flame into your being and complete the Dōjutsu I granted you. However some of the pure essence bleed off into the steel table and enchanted it with ever burning flame. If those pathetic shinobi every figure it out they could use the steel table as an anvil to form their weapons which would be granted a weaker enchantment of flame."

Naruto nodded in astounded awe, if anything to know that a entity of that magnitude was residing inside him and wished him to become its disciple was humbling like nothing else. It never even crossed his mind that with that unchained power he could have easily destroyed Azura and saved himself the trouble. If he had thought about it he would have known that his loyalty and devotion to his goddess was so fanatical that his mind simply wasn't able to process such a heretical thought. However Azura could think about it and had actually mentioned that specifically just to see what his thoughts on it would be. The fact that Naruto was seemingly incapable of forming a rebellious thought against actually made her pause and forced her revise her opinion of him. Normally someone subjugated like he was would at least have some form of rebellious thought even in fantasy but to see that Naruto was actually incapable of forming one through her off. For one with a heart as twisted and cruel as her own the thought of someone with that sort of devotion actually made her uncomfortable. Only one other had ever had such devotion to her before and even then not to that extent, the Sage of Six Paths.

Azura shook broke herself out of her reminiscence with a force of will and refocused on Naruto, not even a second had passed yet. Perhaps if she treated him differently then she could perhaps chance to open her heart a crack to her vessel…she ruthlessly cut off such blasphemous thoughts, that was how the blasted Sage had broken her heart and she would not suffer the indignity and hurt of it again.

XXX-Current Time-XXX

Naruto was broken from journey down memory lane when he sensed several entities much weaker than the Hollow he just faced surround him in a Manji formation several dozen yards out. Although they were cleverly hidden and were surpassing their Reishi his sight was all encompassing and they were well within his range. Their Reishi felt startling familiar to his own Yin chakra and he came to the correct conclusion that they were Shinigami. They apparently were content to simply observe them so he figured that turnabout was fair play. He suddenly glanced in the direction of Shinigami that had the poorest stealth technique of the lot, not that any of them were actually bad at stealth. The Shinigami froze all movement and even quit breathing while the Shinigami nearest the one he had 'found' removed a bunny from somewhere on her person and let it hot into view. Naruto grinned at the Shinigami's pure cheek and decided to let them be since they weren't attacking him while he observed them as well.

XXX-72 feet away-XXX

The supposedly 'hidden' squad of Onmitsukidō (Stealth Force) and their current commander froze as the entity they were carefully from several different locations from breaks in the foliage seemed to spot one of their squad mates.

The Seireitei (Court of Pure Souls) had detected the monstrous entities entry into the Gense (Living World) the moment it arrived. At first they thought it was a Gillian class Adjuchas and had a Captain on hand to dispatch it. They had to be extremely careful since a battle on that scale could easily destroy the nearby city or cause it to call for a battalion of Menos Grande. However, just before they were given the order to subdue and destroy the dangerous entity a missive from the Reiō (Spirit King) himself arrived. It stated that under no circumstances were they to engage the entity unless it entered the Hueco Mundo (Hollow Sphere) or entered the Seireitei. Until that time they were to monitor its activity in the Gense (Living World) and only interfere in the most extreme of circumstances when there was no other choice.

Since the orders came directly from the Reiō (Spirit King) the Seireitei (Court of Pure Souls) had no choice but to obey. The Captain was pulled back while the Onmitsukidōwere reinforced with a few more squads who specialized in surveillance. Among those who were chosen was a young relatively short woman who was born Shaolin Fēng into the Fēng house, one of the lower noble houses affiliated with the Shihōin noble house. She was the 9th Generation of her family and as the youngest of six siblings she joined the Executive Militia of the Onmitsukidō (Stealth Force) as was tradition in her family. Upon joining the militia, she dropped her given name, Shaolin Fēng, and inherited the code name that her great-grandmother used Suì-Fēng or sometimes Romanized Soifon.

Sui-Fēng was dressed in the black attire of the Onmitsukidō, with neck length black hair and sharp grey eyes. She was the last of her family; her last elder sister had died in her last mission when her position was compromised by a careless 11 division lieutenant. Her hatred of the 11 division squad, which already ran high because of their tendency to demean both the Onmitsukidō and the Fourth division squads, had risen to heights uncharted after that. That particular lieutenant just happened to die a slow and extremely painful death at the jaws of a small hollow after he had been 'incapacitated'. No one had been able or motivated enough to realize that it was anything more than an accident. After all, to the rest of the Divisions of the Seireitei (Court of Pure Souls) the Onmitsukidō (Stealth Force) were a faceless and expendable force that would never think to turn their blades against them.

Sui-Fēng forced herself to banish such thoughts as she forced her mind to focus on the present. The spy camera in her hands trained on the white clad figure while her sharp sky-grey eyes focused intently on the wraith with a focus and clarity that chilled the very blood in her comrade's veins. The other strange entity which had been summoned from the same golden aura that granted the hollow like creature its current clothing had also yet to show itself again. Directly in front of her the strange Gillian class Adjuchas seemed amused at the rabbit and paid it no more attention. However for some reason she couldn't shake the feeling that this entity wasn't a Hollow at all. The characteristic white mask while present had only appeared when the entity had looked into the pool and a golden glow had surrounded it. On top of that since the entity had been butt naked when it arrived they could all see that though it was genderless like a Hollow and had the grey skin tone, it lacked the characteristic hole on its chest.

Sui-Fēng was sure that her comrades had come to the same conclusion and wondered if that was the reason why the captain was detained and they were sent was because of that fact. Still the…creature…didn't seem inclined to do anything but squat on the reed in the center of the lake with a single foot and stay perfectly still. Other than the trashed clearing and residual Hollow residue still in the air signifying the creature killed a Hollow it wasn't really doing much. Still she took her job seriously and was determined to catch every second of its behavior in case there were any telling signs that would give it away…wait did it just wink at her?

AN: Wow, I haven't updated this story in nine months…I don't really know if I should consider that an accomplishment or not. I really wanted to work on this story but the seeds of my second story just refused to be denied until I had worked out all the kinks and got the base down as well as the basic storyline. If you haven't noticed I have what could be called a mild compulsive obsessive disorder and it just so happened to rear its ugly head. Still sorry about that, I know this chapter isn't as exciting as the others but it moves the story along so I can get to those exiting parts.

Now I would like to thank one of my reviewers who gave me the idea of naming celestial chakra Seiki which if you haven't figured out by now it means Sacred Aura. I don't know if that particular review would want to mention his pen name or not so for now I will respectfully refrain from mentioning him or her until I have conformation that it is ok.

Another reviewer asked about Inago's use of an Hōgyoku and in particular inquired how it was made in mass like I implied. That is actually another plot device for the fourth arch of the story, yes I actually planned it ahead that far. However because you reviewed I will state that it does use a similar process to create but not nearly on the level of the original Hōgyoku. Like the other reviewer I will gladly state his pen name if I have permission but until then I prefer to stay silent.

Well if that