Animal Magnetism
A Chouji Harem Fanfiction
Hey All! Tankou001 here with an all new chapter of Animal Magnetism! Last chapter you saw Chouji and the gang have a little adventure to find Jōnetsugakure No Sato. Well, now they have, more or less, found it! Now you'll see Chouji's times in Jōnetsu. This is one of the few times, actually, that the chapters won't have mini time skips in between them! Ya, crazy huh? XD Not even a week of difference. Last chapter ended and the next minute this chapter started Xp
Anyway, keep your eyes peeled for awesome because this chapter is a major turning point in the story stuffs Xp
Enjoy!
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Chapter Twenty-One: The Sacred Twenty-One
Chouji looked at the chocolate skinned people as everyone left their mounts. The Waka from the Banti Tribe left back for their home two islands over. Maya's manatees drifted off slowly. The leader of the "greeting party" bowed slowly to Maya and she bowed back. "Greetings to our peaceful island, miss. May we ask your reason for visiting?"
Maya nodded and explained their purpose for arrival. The ninja nodded. "I apologize. Do you have an invitation into the village? I am afraid we cannot let you in without an invitation."
Neji spoke up as Tanget translated. "Hani-san would know of me. She told me I always have a free invitation from her."
The Jōnetsu ninja gave Neji a quizzical look, not understanding him. Maya explained. The Jōnetsu man pulled out a booklet and flipped through it. "Hyuuga Neji is on this list. He would be housed with Hani Tazuya. Am I to assume you are all Hyuuga Neji's companions?" Maya confirmed this. The ninja looked everyone up and down. He seemed to have no problems at all with Maya or Chouji. Maya was one of them and Chouji had the size to warrant importance. Neji, of course, was expected so he was well accepted as well. Tanget seemed to fit so he didn't dare give her a dislikeable glance. He did, however, seem to have a problem with Hanabi. "She's too pale, too small and too quiet. I cannot trust her." Maya explained that Hanabi was Neji's cousin and, reluctantly, the Jōnetsu ninja passed Hanabi to gain entrance to Jōnetsugakure No Sato.
After about an hour of walking around the big island the group surfaced from the jungle into a veritable metropolis of wooden buildings and tiki torches. Hani Tazuya herself, from Neji's recognition, was waiting for them right at the gates of the village. She greeted everyone with kisses on the cheeks and shell necklaces. She was, as Neji put it, very attractive. Chouji would have gladly laid her down on a bed and had his way with her if Neji weren't so madly in love with the woman. There was no problem in liking that woman's figure. For goodness' sake, she wore her hitai ite as a shirt, that was all. It was only enough to cover her nipples. Chouji found that most of the women in the village didn't even wear top covering, neither did the men. Only the ninja women wore top coverings, it seemed, normally in the form of a hitai ite bikini top. Maya's hide bikini was well accepted here though Hanabi's Hyuuga robe didn't quite fit the scenario. Strangely enough, Tanget had, at some point, changed into her old hide outfitting, the normal appearance of what Chouji had seen training in the Kiri swamps with her. Chouji, in his leather shorts and nothing else, was also well integrated into the atmosphere of Jōnetsu. "Welcome to our wonderful village, all of you." Tazuya spoke with a voice smoother than the very finest silk. "I hope you all feel very much at home here. Remember to share and be friendly because everyone else will do the same for you."
Chouji didn't quite grasp the idea of "sharing" and "being friendly" until the full prospect was made blatantly obvious to the party as they walked toward Tazuya's home. Chouji had heard of "free love" but this took things to a whole new level. Jōnestu was beyond free. Everything was shared, from clothing to food to wives and husbands. Granted the term "marriage" seemed to exist but it was much looser an agreement than what Konoha would have considered. If anything it was closer, though still so very far, from Chouji's system. Any woman in Chouji's harem could leave or do things with another man. Chouji wasn't married to them and thus he was, more or less, alright with them taking time alone with other men, though they never semed to want to lower their standards for someone else. Jōnetsugakure No Sato, however, seemed like a place where nobody actually "owned" anything. As far as Chouji could tell, nobody kept anything to themselves. People were literally having sex out in the open streets and the only time anyone questioned any of it was when they asked to join, a question that seemed to only have one answer, "Yes."
Neji seemed increasingly uncomfortabnle with the atmosphere though Tanget and Maya were happier than clams. Hanabi seemed, as always, indifferent but Chouji was beginning to feel once again constricted from his discomfort. He was getting short of breath again. He desperately tried to calm himself. When they got in Tazuya's home it all became much easier to relax for everyone. The home was simple for what the group was used to but quite advanced for the local housing. Seventeen relatives of Tazuya paraded about, none of them her children, much to Neji's relief. Tazuya seemed able to speak the common ninja language, which was good. Neji was the first to speak. "Tazuya-san, I have come because--"
"I know why you have sought me out, Neji-kun." Tazuya whispered clearly into the air, her voice a whisper but the clarity extreme in everyone's ears. "And I accept your courting. However, you must learn of my people and my village if you are to try to win my heart." Neji turned completely red. Chouji swore he was going to burn a hole in his potential wive's floor with his blushing. "However, the best way for your friends to find out the workings of my village would be to experience it for themselves. Meanwhile you and I should learn one another and I will teach you what you must know."
Chouji stood immediately, excusing himself for a bit. "I will take my leave to see the leader of the village." Tanget liesurely stood as well, following Chouji. "I cannot understand this place." He muttered.
"They are very different from our culture, Chouji." Tanget responded. "Just because our culture has a strict taboo on nudity and open sexual relationships doesn't mean that the southern islanders do. On the contrary, this culture, despite it primitive nature, is one of the most successful cultures in the world. There is no war, no anger, no hatred. Everyone is so happy sharing freely and experiencing everyone else. There is no prejudice on the inside, only acceptance and happiness."
"But I don't understand it." Chouji spoke up. "It's all so alien to me."
"It would be, I would think." Tanget countered. "My first trip to the southern islands was similar. I can tell you it was quite a bit different than in Kirigakure No Sato. I was ill because I was so resistant to happiness. I was sure my enemy was here and I was angry and hateful and wary the whole time. It made me sick and I was rescued by a small tribe. They did everything they could to heal me but I was too unhappy. I'll tell you right now. Maya had, more or less, the right idea when she was stripping you on the first island. Sex is one of the best ways to cure sadness sickness." Chouji raised his eyebrow at Tanget's disease name. "That's what the natives call it; Sadness Sickness. Here there is no sadness or anger so it is known as a disease. The fact that here you actually do get sick from negative emotions compels the disease's name even further. I spent almost a year in the company of the islanders with my first pair of twins. I learned the language and the customs and I became very comfortable with their ways. If you approach this all with an open mind and the ability to know the language I am sure you will very quickly learn to love this culture. It only took me so long because I was set in my ways and couldn't understand what they were saying."
Chouji sighed and opened his mind. "You're not opening it wide enough." The voice from the first island echoed in his mind.
"What do you mean, not wide enough?" He asked Tanget, thinking her to be the speaker.
"I didn't say anything. What are you talking about?" Tanget asked, raising an eyebrow.
"Uh.." Chouji hesitated. "Nothing."
As the two entered into the leader's office the leader was a more familiar face than Chouji would have liked. Three months before he had seen her and it was because of her that Ty Dao had been so badly hurt, that Kiba was now so much more dog than before (not that Chouji disliked it). "Greetings, Akimichi Chouji. It's been a while. Three months since our last meeting." Tanget was on the woman like a dog to a fox. The table that the woman sat at exploded into wodden shrapnel as Tanget drew her falchion, one of the swords she had gotten as an Oinin of Kirigakure No Sato so many years ago. Tanget's face showed no anger or fear. It was wholly blank. The woman was in the corner now. "Already to the fighting, huh? You don't seem angry. You probably aren't, though. What reason would you have to hate me? I'm just a target to attack and take care of. I am a problem with a practical and simple solution."
Tanget stood as Chouji stepped forward. Tanget placed her sword in between the woman and him. "Don't attack, Chouji. You don't know how to attack without prejudice, I do. She's right, after all. I used to hate criminals as an Oinin until I came to the southern islands. The islanders are such respectful killers because they feel no anger or hatred to their targets."
"Nope." The leader admited. "We see a problem and eliminate it immediately. There is nothing to be angry about. It just needs to be timely disposed of and then life can again continue. Tanget learned this many years ago. I should know. I taught it to her. Though it wasn't me, per se, that she learned from."
Tanget stepped forward and swung again, her sword cleaving clean through the walls of the office. "My mistress was not you. She had pale skin and violet eyes. She was very kind and compassionate." Tanget's face was a slate of neutrality. She wasn't angry, Chouji could tell. Tanget just wanted to get her job done. "You will surrender and be brought back to Konohagakure No Sato with us or you will be rendered unconscious and forcibly returned through force. You will comply."
The leader just grinned. She looked at Chouji. "Chouji... I want my eyes back." Chouji gasped as the leader flew at him. Tanget tried to cut her off but she was far too quick. Chouji grimaced and went to attack but suddenly his whole body felt crippled. He couldn't breath or move. He couldn't think, his head pounded so hard. The village leader was over him, Tanget pausing behind her, unsure of what to do. "There is so much hatred in your attacks, so much malice. You hate me for what I made Ty Dao-chan do. You hate me for bringing an innocent Kami clan member into the line of battle and you hate me for cursing Kiba-chan with that body that she is now forever stuck with. I can tell all of this. You are fueled entirely by anger and hatred when you fight. You find a reason to dislike someone and use it to fuel your attacks. It's a foolish method. Stop thinking like Akimichi Chouji, the human ninja. Start thinking like what you are. Start thinking like Akimichi Chouji, the god of the ninja continent."
Tanget hesitated as the village leader looked back at her. "Tanget... look into my eyes and see my true self."
Tanget looked into the leader's eyes for perhaps a minute before dropping her sword. "H-How can that be? I saw you die?"
The village Leader shook her head simply. "I simply moved onto my next stage in life, Tanget. Come here. I will always be your caring master." The village leader embraced Tanget as the animal woman practically collapsed into her arms. Chouji was getting back up. She looked at him. "I told you, Chouji, that you had a pure soul, a perfect heart that would change the world. You don't remember me saying it because it wasn't me as I am now. I am, and always will be Kawaru Eldamorea, Jintai's great grandmother." Chouji gasped and fell to his knees. "I want those eyes back, Chouji, because you have something much more important to attend to which the Kanpekigan won't help you in."
"But who are you to Tanget?" Chouji asked as Tanget sat at Eldamorea's feet.
"I am everything to everyone, Chouji." Eldamorea answered. "I was there when you were born. I gave your father a good word about your healthy crying. I trained Tanget in her killing arts when she came here for the first time... Well... When she came to the southern continent. I also helped deliver her babies, though she won't remember it as me." Tanget gave Eldamorea a look of confusion. "I mentioned how they would grow to be fine young women and that, in time, they would set a new foundation in the village. Now they are the collective Hokage." Eldamorea went to the hole in the wall where Tanget had sliced through it." I was, of course, present at both Jin and Ayame's births. I midwived the birth of Kiba's mother. I was a wetnurse for Hazumi Ty Dao when she was an infant. I am a good friend of the Yamanaka family. I am Hyuuga Hinata and Hanabi's own mother. You may not believe me but it's all true. I could go on about how many people I am but the truth remains. I am a goddess that has taken human form and, through an infinite amount of lifetimes I will forever exist, carrying from one life to the next with all the ability and knowledge of the past life. I am no longr Kawaru Eldamorea as you knew her but I am still her. I have existed for over seven hundred years as an enlightened goddess who cannot move on. There are twenty of us and there is to be one more within the lifetime of this plane of existence. He just hasn't manifested yet." Eldamorea looked down at Tanget. "Tanget, leave us, please. I have a lot of training to do with Chouji." Tanget dutifully left, giving a longing glance back at Eldamorea before she left completely.
Chouji looked up at Elda from his sitting position. "How is it that something like you exists? You achieved enlightenment but you still exist on this plane. You are a buddha but you are here to be seen?"
"And so will you be once I am done training you, Chouji." Eldamorea replied. "But first... give me back my eyes."
Chouji hesitated but Eldamorea grabbed him by the shoulder, lifting him to his knees with no effort. She was at eye level with Chouji now and her eyes went from violet to emerald in color. Chouji felt his soul, his whole being sucked from his body. It wasn't painful as it was when the Kanpekigan had been placed into Chouji's body. It was actually good. It was bliss to have such power removed from Chouji's responsibility. He was before as a balloon filled too much. Now Chouji was again just Chouji. He had his Chaos Seal but that didn't hold the power of the Kanpekigan. He hit the ground hard as all that had been holding him up was removed from him. Now that the process was over Chouji felt so weak in comparison. "What... happened?" Chouji muttered
"You lost the Kanpekigan. Congratulations, you now have your old, normal eyes. You'll never know the power of the Kanpekigan again. You'll instead know something better, though more limited. The Kanpekigan was a favor I granted you. It was the power to defeat Uchiha Tobi... The power to actually defeat my daughter to Tobi. I once found a powewful man named Tobi and I was attracted to his mortal energy. He was attractive and crazy and wild. I liked that. I fathered a daughter to him and we named her Satsuki. You now know Satsuki as Ninshin. The story is similar with Hinata and Hanabi but I knew Hinata wouldn't be what the second child would become if I delivered her. I carried through the pregnancy with Hanabi two years after I gave birth to Hinata. I died after that and moved onto being Ty Dao's wetnurse. I chose to disappear after that and mother Satsuki."
Eldamorea sat down next to Chouji crosslegged. After all of that I appeared here and delivered Maya into the world. I bore witness to the death of her whole tribe. I died then as well. I have died too many times to count in three digits but the same is always true. I always come back." Eldamorea helped Chouji to his feet. "You're getting that power soon enough. I'll train you to accept the fact that you will become enlightened and then you'll do it yourself."
Chouji shook his head. "I don't want to become enlightened!" He said urgently. "If I die and remember so many things... what will happen when everyone dies that I loved?"
"You'll be enlightened, Chouji." Eldamorea said simply. "Right now you are mortal. The prospect of death scares you, especially of the ones you love. Mortality is a poison that you alone cannot handle without divinity. You are the kind of person that will fight to stay alive for everyone. Once you reach spiritual enlightenment and become the twenty-first living buddha you will finally understand what will come to pass. You will cease to fear such things as death because you will understand it all as yet another step in the stairway of eternity. It's something we all have to walk, Chouji. Everyone walks eternally up that stairway. After this, though, you'll be one of twenty-one humans who understand that it is eternal and you will be one of the only twenty-one individuals who remember every step they've ever taken. Ty Dao has been walking that stairway for a long time but she only remembers the last seventeen stairs just as you only remember the last twenty-two. Don't worry. I was once like you. I feared enlightenment because I couldn't fathom everyone else dying. The truth is that in death nobody ever leaves. They simply become yet another friend and part of your family. You will be put to peace on these facts."
"I don't understand."
"That's because, without enlightenment, you cannot. It isn't a mortal concept. It isn't something a mortal mind could ever fathom. You will have to trust me."
"I don't... Want to trust you. I don't want to do this."
"That's exactly why you must do it. It's because you don't want this that you were chosen to do it."
"I want out."
"You can't get out of this, Chouji."
Chouji turned away but somehow Eldamorea was already there in front of him. "I don't understand why I have to do this. I just want to live happily and have a family and eventually retire and tell stories to my grandchildren while I bounce them on my knee. You must know what I mean."
"I do." Eldamorea spoke up. "And you may do just those things. Enlightenment, at least as you are to attain it, limits nothing of your normal life. As long as you will it you may live as Akimichi Chouji as long as you like... or rather as long as your human body will last. When it eventually deteriorates you will die and be reborn a completely sentient being again, remembering everything from this life in your next. You may even choose to be born into an adult body. It won't be strange. You'll simply pop into existence as a fully formed person somewhat similar to who you are now. You'll be able to consciously experience death and rebirth. You'll be able to recognize everything you've never been able to understand but still have experienced. Have you ever spent nine months in the womb? It's the most relaxing experience one could ever hope for. Have you ever felt the warm embrace of death curl around your figure. It's like so many warm hands extending out into a hug and greeting you with a happy, loving smile. Have you ever had your very body shattered to awake in another one good as knew? Have you ever died early and come back in the next life to greet your former friends, to say hello and let them know just who you are. It's a wonderful experience to meet again those who you had loved and who thought you were dead. You couldn't now the joy of what I felt when I embraced Tanget just a bit ago unless you have attained enlightenment."
"That... doesn't sound so bad..." Chouji admited. Eldamorea's explainations were quite compelling. "But I don't know yet. It would come as quite the shock to everyone else."
"Who needs know?" Eldamorea asked. "You never need to tell them that you have attained spiritual enlightenment. Mortals have loose tongues. Enlightened beings such as myself can eternally hold a secret of someone else and never feel the need to tell. It pleases us alone just to know we have the knowledge to ourselves. Should I tell you some other amazing things? I have a list I could give." Chouji reluctantly nodded. It was starting to become to tempting to pass up. He wanted to know more, he couldn't help it. He almost felt like he was betraying his own humanity. "And that's just one feeling you will never need feel." Eldamorea said, as if reading Chouji's mind. "You need never worry about betraying hmanity. You realize so very clearly that to be enlightened is to assist humanity as an unspoken protector. You love your family and you will protect people forever if you are allowed. This will let that happen." Chouji blinked and sat back down on the floor. "Have you ever dreamed of living for a lifetime in a woman's body? I can tell you changing gender is very different. Have you ever thought of what it would be like to birth a child on your own into the world? To love as a woman does. You can do that in your next lifetime if you wish. It is something you must be born into but it is well worth the wait of a lifetime to experience all there is to know. Could you imagine fathering yourself. You could impregnate a woman and then die only to be born nine months later as the very child you fathered into the world? I've never done it myself but I imagine I will some day."
Chouji sighed. It was all very hard to grasp. "As it should be." Eldamorea said, reading his thoughts again. How was she doing that? "Because, as an enlightened being I am connected to everything. I am connected to you and your family. I am connected to Tanget and Ino and Jin and Hinata and you! When you make love I won't hesitate to say there are times I have felt the sensations of both parties at the same time. Can you imagine the ecstasy of feeling millions of couples having sex at the same time? You are both male and female, both lovers and millions of couples of lovers. You are in tune with every animal, every plant, every person. You'd think it would be agonizing with so many things to keep track of but it isn't. It's feels amazing. Do you know that this planet isn't the ony one with life on it? I have been born three times into another world. I have been born into the very sky itself, into stars far away from this one. When you reach enlightenment you cease to become a creature of this plane. You become a being of everywhere and notwhere at the very same time. Think of it, Chouji. You need not despair. You can directly control the destiny of everyone. You can protect humanity so directly that, three hundred years from now, you won't ever have to get involved. Everything will have been properly moved into place to work perfectly for the protection of your subjects and will be so forever. If you wish a woman pregnant she becomes so. Yu may enforce your divine will on anything and thus it will become correct."
"It sounds perverse." Chouji said
"It is." Eldamorea replied. "It is a perverse business that must be done. It is both orgasmic and agonizing, both hateful and joyous at the same time. You will grow to love and hate it all the same and you will grow to find out what really is happening. A mortal's lust for power is far too much for even your pure mind to reject, Chouji. You now know what i can give you and you won't deny it."
But she was wrong. "You clearly aren't as in sync with me as you say, Eldamorea-san... I will deny it. It's an amazing idea but I cannot do it. I would prefer to live as a blissfully ignorant mortal that a perverse god."
Eldamorea sighed. "I knew you would say that. That's why you have been chosen. As a mortal you are already unconsciously close to enlightenment, unable to appreciate it and unable to want it even after you start to understand the greatness of it. You are so simple a soul that you cannot fathom taking on such duty. You cannot imagine being anything but aloving, caring, pure mortal soul. For that I must force my divine will onto your mind and body. If you are so dead set in the ways of mortality then I must force upon you what you are missing now. Once you taste enlightenment you must reach out and accept the meal for what it is. If you truly believe yourself immune to this power you will accept it. If you shy away you will only be proving my point that you lust for the power of enlightenment."
Chouji would not shy away. There was no way he would fall to the power, not now that he needn't worry about the Kanpekigan. Not now that he could enjoy a more normal life with a wonderful family. As Eldamorea's finger touched the center of Chouji's forhead, however, he was in pure bliss. There was no word that could describe the feeling, not in any language that could ever be made. The feeling was so pure, so incredibly untainted that Chouji couldn't actually process it. His whole body convulsed for lack of the ability to react. He felt incredible sadness and incredible lust and extreme happiness all at once. He was complete. He was alpha and omega. He was infinity, omni, the ultimate being. He was a god incarnate.
And then it was gone. The feeling that he had been blessed with drained from Chouji's body as quickly as it had come over him. There was no happy medium. At first it wasn't there and then it was. Now it had been there and the next second simply had never been. Chouji wracked his brain to remember the feeling but his mind couldn't process even the smallest amounts of that feeling. He couldn't fathom what it had felt like but he knew it had been there. He knew there was nothing else like it. Akimichi Chouji now knew enlightenment in the most basic degree and the fact that it was now gone made him want to die. In fact that was exactly what he tried to do once he realized where he was. He grabbed a sharp piece of wood from the ground where sat and immediately tried to jab it into his throat. A strong hand halted his hand. "You see now the horror of it all? You have tasted enlightenment and the very thought that ist is gone makes you so empty that the first and only thing you can now think of is that you must take your own life for want of that feeling you cannot remember. For most death would be the only choice. You, however, have two choices. You may go on living as a mortal or you may accept that you are fated to attain spiritual enlightenment and experience that feeling again for eternity. I'll give you one day. For now, however, I will cull all suicidal emotion within you. I know that if I didn't you would kill yourself the very instant I let go of your hand." Suddenly Chouji dropped the wooden piece and ceased wanting to kill himself. He was unbelievably depressed, however. Suddenly he was standing in front of Tazuya's home. A note in his hand said "Think on it."
Chouji trudged into the home, sitting down on the small couch in the living room. No sooner was he sitting down did one of Tazuya's many relatives sit on his lap. She was a beautiful young woman of deep colored skin and a body that would rival Ty Dao's or Konan's. She was downright gorgeous. She said something but Chouji didn't understand it. He remembered now that he didn't have the Kanpekigan. He couldn't understand the people who spoke other languages. In the many sentences the young woman spoke he understood perhaps five words in whole. It didn't, however, matter. Chouji was too depressed to care. That feeling. He couldn't remember it and it was gone. Chouji struggled to remember that incredible feeling but he couldn't process the ecstasy. Tanget appeared and shooed off the young woman, sitting next to Chouji. "I heard everything, Chouji. I heard it from here."
"You removed your ear clips?" Chouji asked miserably
"Yes. Are you feeling okay? Are you ill from the depression?"
"No. I suspect Eldamorea-san disabled that jutsu on me, knowing I would be like this."
"I wouldn't doubt it. Is there anything I can do to help?"
"I'm not sure."
Hanabi waled into the home just then. Her hair was unkempt and she was only half dressed. She looked positively exhausted with pleasure, a tired smile played out across her lips. "I never knew..." She muttered before falling onto the floor, seemingly unconscious.
"Should we tell her?" Tanget asked.
Chouji thought. "If there is anyone who would be able to view the situation logically it would be Hanabi."
Slowly they woke Hanabi and brought her somewhere private. She had "recovered" from her adventures in Jōnetsu and was now quite level headed again. She told about everything, including something that was called RuriRari, which was apparenty the single most common practice in the village. It was ritualized sex. If ever anyone felt like they needed sex, for any reason, it ws given. You needed only ask your neighbor or friend or teacher or anyone around. RuriRari was for everyone, young and old. Hanabi had apparently experienced RuriRari over twenty times in her couple hours on the town. She had done it with over twenty people. According to her, each time had been some of the best sex in her life, with a few exceptions to when her and Chouji had made love. The whole village was amazing to her. Nobody was ever jealous or covetous. If you wanted something you needed only ask and nobody ever refused. Granted you would need to give something back when it was requested but you could share it again later. Hanabi was in love with the culture as a whole. Everything was so unrealistically utopian but it somehow worked so perfectly. However, feelings of jealousy and property were taboo. Nobody truly owned anything. Everything was someone else's as well as yours. Everybody shared whatever whenever. Tazuya's house was no more hers than anyone else in the village. The princess of the country, if the little chain could be called that, was no more high and mighty than the very lowest peasant. If she happened to be passing by a poor old man who just happened to need some love it was her duty to please him just as any servant was made to please her if she needed it.
Chouji, however, couldn't bring himself to care about any of this. So they told Hanabi of what Eldamorea had said. They told Hanabi everything. Hanabi absorbed it all with stride, completely unscathed by anything said. The very first thing she said, however, was, "I think you're all insane. There's no way an enlightened being can be alive on this earth. It goes against the very laws of divinity."
"That's what I thought before I felt it." Chouji said.
"And can you remember what it feels like?" Hanabi asked
"I can't." Chouji admitted. "It was so amazing, so pleasant. There's no word in any language ever made that could describe how good it felt. I can't explain it because the human mind isn't fit to fathom how good it is."
"I think you're being stupid, Chouji." Hanabi admitted. Chouji sighed. "However," Hanabi continued. "If I were faced with such a problem as you apparently seem to think you are... I would accept it." Chouji raised an eyebrow. "The very thought of experiencing living enlightenment baffles me, Chouji. As you said yourself, the mortal human mind isn't enough. It isn't able to process, no, even fathom the thought of what enlightenment would feel like. If you have tasted that power... If what you say is true you would become able to feel and bestow unto others the feeling that no human would every be able to feel by a fellow mortal being. The skill such an experience would impart would quite literally be mind blowing."
"That's not the point, though." Tanget pointed out.
"Are you saying you would understand and appreciate my decision?" Chouji asked Hanabi.
"Chouji." Hanabi started. "You told me that the very first thing you tried to do was kill yourself after you lost that feeling." Chouji nodded. "After all of that... if you didn't do it... would you still have sex with us?" Chouji nodded. "Would you still enjoy life?" Chouji thought for not even a second and nodded. "Would you be able to live with the fact that you passed up enlightenment?" Chouji thought for a good period of time before reluctantly nodding. Hanabi smiled a sweet smile and leaned forward, kissing Chouji softly on the lips. There was nothing sexual about the kiss but it was filled with undying love and nurturing. "Chouji..." Hanabi started, that sweet smile still on her face. "You are a wonderful man who cares nothing for himself. You are a truly pure soul who will live for many life times helping everyone. Your future lives will bring wondrous life into this world both directly and indirectly..." Hamnabi's expression suddenly went serious. "But you are a complete fool."
Chouji blinked, slightly confused. "What do you mean?" He asked.
Hanabi sat back, her face completely indifferent again. "Chouji... You can do everything as a mortal. Even if you passed up enlightenment when it was actually available, and I'm not sure I believe it is, I know that, after you do pass it up, there is only one thing waiting for you." Chouji raised an eyebrow. "Despair." Chouji's eyes went wide. What did that mean? "You have tasted everything in it's very purest form, Chouji. I can't please you anymore without you knowing that you could feel it better. I couldn't kiss you without knowing that you could be kissed more pleasantly by me. I couldn't deal with you knowing that you are missing out. When you went to unlock the eight bijuu we realized that you had to do it, even if we actively tried to stop you. We knew that we wouldn't be able to live with ourselves if you didn't do what you knew was right. We are all living for you, no longer ourselves. If you spent the rest of your life as a mortal, living a mortal life style with a mortal expectation of death we all know it wouldn't be the right choice. You can experience so much more if this is true..." Hanabi's eyes teared up, though her face remained the same blank slate as it always was. "If you refuse this... If I have to deal with the fact that it was because of me that you didn't experience it all... I wouldn't be able to keep from taking my life out of grief. It's because of you that I stopped being Konoha's Ice Princess. It's because of the fact that you had the chance to get it all and took that chance that instead of being Konoha's Ice Princess I'm Hyuuga Hanabi, your lover and a well appreciated woman of the most wonderful man in the world. It's because of your desire to do it all that you have children and that you have brought so very many people into our family. So many locations of the world converge on our house; Kiri, Kagerou, Konoha, The far east, The Southern Islands and the Southern Continent. There is a woman from every major country in the ninja continent in our house. There is a woman from every possible corner of the world. It is because I love you... so much... that I'm telling you that if you don't accept this training then I will take my life as soon as I make it known to the other girls why I am so saddened." Hanabi's eyes freely let tears roll down her cheeks but her face was as solid in blankness as well polished stone.
Chouji couldn't say no. "Alright... I'll do it."
"I'm glad you said that!" Eldamorea cried as she appeared in the area. "Now I'm taking you away!" In that moment Chouji was gone and somewhere else. He felt nauseous as they stopped in front of twenty other individuals. They were of all ages, from as young as four to as old as a hundred. Chouji noted two individuals that particularly stuck out. Doubutsu Tai Retria and Threnia were present as Chouji sat in the middle of a now twenty-one strong circle that stared in on him. "All of you bear witness to the twenty-first soul to become enlightened and to stay alive among us. I, Kawaru Eldamorea, as the thirteenth soul to be enlightened, state Akimichi Chouji's worth. He is well able to become the twenty-first."
"I agree." Retria and Threnia said in unison. "He has shown exemplary talent and responsibility. He has shown that he is correct for the task at hand. I, Doubutsu Tai Retria and Threnia, agree on behalf of Akimichi Chouji's enlightenment." Chouji stood up and looked around. There were already twenty-one people. They had counted wrong. "You are wrong, Akimichi Chouji." The twins spoke in unison, startling the Akimichi. "I am one soul split into two bodies. I am the only one of the sacred twenty-one that is this way and always will be. I count as one person. You are the twenty-first. Even though there will be twenty-two bodies there will only be twenty-one souls. This alone is all that matters."
Chouji looked at the twins. "But... how are you two enlightened?"
The twins smiled, speaking in unison again. "When you can hear the very thoughts of everyone in the world it isn't difficult to become an enlightened being. It was, however, only this lifetime that my single soul in dual bodies was gifted enough to be delivered unto such gifted bodies. I literally stumbled into enlightenment, independant of the will of the other nineteen. It was unfair to me that Iwas so unreasonably thrust into enlightenment but it is now that I understand the merit of it all. Now yu must convince the other eighteen remaining members that you are worthy of enlightenment. It must be majority."
Chouji looked at the others. He looked at the young girl who couldn't have been more than four years old and sighed. He was reminded of his own daughters and sons at home. He looked at a beautiful young woman who had a hitai ite with a question mark on it. She was so wonderful looking and Chouji found himself thinking on his harem, what Hanabi had said. He couldn't let the girls down. He looked at Retria and Threnia and thought on Tanget. Tanget had started all of this and Chouji was eternally grateful. Chouji wanted his family to live happily and he realized, after that taste, he couldn't truly be happy with them without realizing enlightenment. If he couldn't be happy with them then how could any of his beloved partners be happy with their lives? If neither partner was happy how could a child be happy? Chouji only wanted the best. He was breaking down because if he failed this est he wouldn't be able to foster a wonderful, happy family through the world. If he failed he might be happy otherwise but how could his family be happy, knowing that he failed so much? He couldn't let his family down. It wasn't fair to them, It wasn't right to bring them so high only to drop them again. But how could one sway gods? How could anyone sway the mind of a god without being a god himself? There were eighteen omnipotent beings looking down on his with disapproval whilst only two approved of his existence as an enlightened one. Chouji was not a diplomat. He was a fighter, a tough, brutish, amazing fighter.
Chouji's body heated as he fought his inner battle. He wasn't made to impress gods! Chouji was made to bring happiness to mortal beings and protect his family from disaster! Chouji was made to further his people and the other people! Chouji wanted only to please the people he loved, no matter how hard that would be! The chaos seal spread along Chouji's body. The eighteen remaining enlightened beings only stared on. Chouji looked up at them, anger filling him. At the same time he pitied them all so very much. They couldn't really know it anymore could they? They couldn't fathom how Chouji felt because they were so far beyond it by now. The chaos seal further spread over Chouji's body, covering him completely. The gods watched on, awaiting Chouji's answer as the unknown space around Chouji boiled into infinity. No! Chouji looked on the gods above and hated them for their arrogance. He pitied them for the fact that they couldn't lower themselves down to his base level and he feared them because the happiness of everyone he ever loved relied on the fact that he had to please them. Chaos filled Chouji's mind as the seal around him changed to the final stage. Chouji felt power like nothing before as he changed. His skin turned tan and his hair grew longer. Tribal tattoes covered his body as his clothes ceased to be. His body grew weathered and muscled and his teeth elongated. Chouji grew and changed and soon enough he was a beast man of chaos. From his breath flowed a frigid breeze and in his veins flowed magma, reading to burst. Chouji's eyes sparked with lightning while his feet ground against the unseen ground, stone grindingto dust beneath him. Atround Chouji a torrential rain formed, water pouring from all directions and landing only on his figure. Chouji was his own planet. Chouji didn't need spiritual enlightenment. He was his own god. If these gods decided that Chouji wasn't worth the title then he wouldn't need it. There was no need for such a wonderful feeling if Chouji was satisfied. If Chouji did the right thing his partners would be proud of him. It wasn't that Chouji didn't try. It was that he failed. There was nothing wrong with failing, however. The only crime anyone could commit in Chouji's family was never trying in the first place.
"Gods, all of you..." Chouji spoke out, his deep, powerful voice so very omnipresent that the enlightened ones, one and all, stared around themselves to try to find the origin of the voice in their heads. "I have come to see something. I feared you and hated you just now. But most of all I pity you. Can you not lower your minds to my level for but a single moment?"
"The very notion is ridiculous!" A particularly old man called out from the distance, rather insulted, or so it seemed.
"There would be no point to lower ourselves as such." The beautiful woman with the question mark hitai ite said. She certainly looked understanding but her face was laiden with pity. She knew Chouji couldn't understand the level of trouble he had asked for the gods to endure by sugesting they lower themselves to a mortal standpoint. She knew it was unfair to fault him for it. "But please, continue the speech."
Chouji nodded. "I suppose it would be rude of me to assume you would all trouble yourselves to bother with my viewpoint. I am a god among men... you are actual gods, though. They very notion of even speaking to you all is mind blowing. However, do you question my ability to fight you and win?"
"That's an idiotic question, Akimichi Chouji." A middle aged man who looked suspiciously like Asuma spoke out. Was it really Asuma? There was no way. The cigarette in the man's mouth smoked ominously as he spoke out. "The very weakest of us could think you away and you would cease to exist."
"You'll have to understand if I can't imagine such a thing." Chouji apologized
"Naturally not!" The four years old girl exclaimed. "The very reason we are dealing with your preposterous notions is because we understand that you, unlike us, are an inferior mortal. We understand that you have no idea the power that you are dealing with. We are aware that you are too stupid for your own good. That is why any of us have even considered allowing you the option of enlightenment. I, personally, am not convinced. However, you could, if given the chance, do so many better things than you are doing now as a mortal. You could do whatever you wanted, whatever you pleased."
Chouji looked around. "Pardon my stupidity then. I understand this question is completely off topic but do enlightened beings breed together?"
"Of course not." Retria and Threnia spoke together. "Granted, it was a very reasonable question, Akimichi Chouji. Off topic it may have been but here we have as much time as we need. Feel free to satisfy your curiosity."
"Is it because you can't or because you don't want to?" Chouji asked.
"Neither." Answered a tall man with what looked to be the rinnegan. Was that the Sage of the Six Paths? All of the figures were too shadowed to truly get details. The color and shape of his hair was a spiky orange, or so it looked. "We have never bred together neither because we cannot nor because we don't want to. We simply do not see a reason to. Why should we breed with each other when we may more successfully breed with mortals?"
"Is it because you are afraid that your offspring will be an enlightened one?"
"No." The rinnegan man answered. "Why do you believe this would cause us to be fearful?"
"My theory is that you have to follow a certain rule. There are twenty-one if I am brought into your ranks. What if you increased that sacred number by one by breeding together."
"It wouldn't happen." The Asuma looking man said. "You're reason for worry is logical but superfluous. Continue with your questions and querries. However, I expect something of a reasoning to why we should accept you."
"I'm not done yet." Chouji spoke out, his voice booming louder than ever before, though completely calm. "My theory is that you always feel what you see as the ultimate pleasure. I have felt that pleasure. It is truly amazing. Now that I am within your company and in this form I can recall it, though it is hazy. A mortal cannot instill any greater a pleasure into anything than that feeling. Is this correct?"
"Yes it is, Akimichi Chouji." The question mark hitai ite woman said. "May I ask your point?"
"You may, and I will answer it." Chouji replied. "What if one of you were to become ready for breeding together with another. What would happen? That feeling would be even beyond anything you have felt now, wouldn't it? Even beings with complete control are afraid to lose it... Even if they know they can't. Is this right?"
"Of course not!" An aged woman cried out
"You digust me!" The four year old said. "The very notion is disgusting to my ears. We are all powerful!"
"The thought of losing control is impossible!" Another individual said. This one was a young man who looked something like Itachi but just different enough to not be him. "We can never lose control for we have the power to never let it go."
"This has stewed on too long!" The old man yelled out. "I see no longer why you brought this one before us, Eldamorea!"
"Is it because his mortal spark attracted you?" A twelve years old girl asked
"Is it because he has courted many of your mortal daughters?" Asked a man so old Chouji was surprised his beard didn't need a cane of its own.
"No!" Eldamorea cried out. "It's because he's right." Chouji smirked. "I'm sure you all dislike the idea of losing power but Akimichi Chouji has spoken truths this day. It is not impossible. I would prove it to anyone."
"And how would you do this?" Asked the Asuma shaped man
"She wouldn't." Chouji said out loud, all attention turning to him. "I would prove it for her."
"You are mortal!" The twelve years old girl called out. "You can do nothing to us!"
"I may be mortal." Chouji started. "But Chaos is omnipresent, omnipotent and omniscient..." Chouji began to grow taller, larger. "I have found out what this mark can do. I can't choose it all specifically as I could with the Kanpekigan but it can still do it all when the time comes. I call forth any one of you to defeat me!"
The question mark hitai ite woman appeared before Chouji, as tall as he was and twice as intimidating. "If that is your trial I will take part. I apologize, Akimichi Chouji. You were certainly on your way to gaining my approval with your questions but I cannot allow such a remark to echo through the council. I may be a relatively new addition to the council of twenty-one but I am not the newest and I will not allow you to be if you come up with such remarks."
Chouji sighed and shrank with a slight smile, the hitai ite woman doing likewise. "I believe I have the right to know the name of my partner."
The woman bowed slightly. "My name is Gaman Aryu. I warn you, however, I am not your partner. I am your opponent."
"You are, whether you know it or not, my partner in ths fight." Chouji countered as he pressed his hands together. Nothing seemed to happen. Chouji concentrated. "Mile High Pheromone Cloud." The void filled with pink fog. Everyone as caught in it, everyone. The whole of the council was stuck in the power of the pheromone cloud and Chouji focused on his passive pheromones to power the jutsu even further. But Chouji wasn't done. He had more. As Aryu charged at him through the pink fog he spoke out. "Pheromone Arts: The Ultimate Seduction." The world ceased to move then. Aryu, in all of her divine splendor, was frozen in time and Chouji reached out to touch the very tip of her fingers, her whole body suddenly flashing pink before Chouji moved on. Twenty more hands he set his fingertips to. The pink fog was only getting thicker in this frozen time. The gods themselves weren't able to move but everything seemed to be working for Chouji. "I need only touch the tip of your finger and the seduction spreads to all levels." Chouji placed his hands together as he returned to his spot next to Aryu. "Chaos Style: The Perfect Fit."
The world twisted and broke. Everything, Chouji himself, broke into pieces and returned to their "proper" place. The old man was now a young woman. The Asuma man now looked like Kurenai and the man who has possessed the Rinnegan now still possessed the rinnegan but instead of looking as a man with spiky orange hair he was a voluptuous, orange haired woman with multiple piercings. Chouji mischievously remembered back to Pain's animal realm body so many years ago. That was the model for this picture. Everything was as Chouji wanted it. He had three other males present. The worst part was that they had all started as women. Retria, Threnia and Eldamorea all possessed male bodies now. The time again started and Chouji's mind reeled Aryu fell into Chouji and as she looked up at him she blushed heavily. "Wh-What have you done to me?"
"I am a god among men... you are an actual goddess. They very notion of even speaking to you is mind blowing. However, do you question my ability to fight you and win?" Chouji repeated from earlier with a slight smugness in his voice. Aryu gasped as Chouji pulled off part of her kimono, revealing her breasts underneath it. "It seems I need no enlightenment to defeat a goddess. Look around you now that the fog has cleared. I have defeated not only you... but every one of the council of twenty-one. I am no enlightened being but I have proven something. Gods can be defeated. I have also proven that an enlightened being may breed with another. I will prove it very well this day. I wonder... Is your will indominable?"
Aryu struggled, but only just. She put no resistance as Chouji stripped her. Rain still pounded against Chouji from all sides. Lightning cracked through the clouds around him where the rain fell from. Chouji's stone covered feet crumbled along his path and his very breath froze Aryu's nipples, causing her to gasp loudly when he breathed against her. She had already given up, this was very clear. "I am enlightened. You... a mortal... cannot reign supreme in a match... of wills against... me..."
"Then we'll test this, shall we?" Chouji said into Aryu's ear as he tore through his fur pants. Aryu's kimono simply shattered off of her as Chouji breathed down her figure. In the background the gods themselves were in the midst of a festival of pleasure together. The many gods turned goddess were now being chased around by Retria, Threnia and Eldamorea, not putting up any resistance at all when captured by the now male gods. They running away was just a pleasure trip. The gods had become coy young women ready to be taken, making a game out of who could capture and molest them first. Aryu stared horrorstruck at the scene, somehow unable to stop being turned on by the display.
Chouji set his manhood against Aryu's nether lips and she gasped, biting her lip. He thrust deep into her and there it was, the full breaking point of a goddess. Aryu shook in her throes of ecstasy, unable to keep from climax after the very first thrust. She reached up and grabbed Chouji's mouth with her own. Chouji's eyes opened and he witnessed... everything. Suddenly Chouji's mind was at complete peace. He knew all things and spoke all languages and, furthermore, was all powerful. There was no desire anymore to do what he was doing. The world was so incredibly clear to him and that same feeling that he had missed so very much had returned, never to be taken back. He had no primal desire to finish the job. However, he would gladly finish it anyway. He would prove that the gods did breed together. Gaman Aryu would be the first goddess to be impregnated by a god.
Aryu couldn't help but to collapse into Chouji's arms at the second thrust. Chouji felt he could go on forever even. He felt ridiculous pleasure and ultimate power. As he continued the two burned into what seemed one being. Chouji couldn't have processed this as a mortal man. The feeling was so powerful it would have killed him. No mortal was able to hold in such emotion without dying from it. The gods denied such feelings to humans for a very good reason. Aryu squeezed Chouji and pulled him in and burned him up inside of her. She was the ultimate woman. It was because she was a goddess that this was true. Chouji decided that, if there was a time to release this would be as good as any. And so he did. Chouji released deep into Aryu and it was then that he felt her will. It wasn't an empathic thing either. Chouji actually felt Aryu's force of will as a physical barrier. He merely thought of his preference, however, and the rock solid barrier that was Aryu's will shattered under the massive hammer that was Chouji's own will.
The action went on for what seemed years and suddenly Chouji awoke in Hani Tazuya's home. He was enlightened. He felt everything and heard everyone and everything was so very clear. There were also three women sleeping in Chouji's pallet on the floor, all nude as well as him. One was clearly recognized as Gaman Aryu, a dreamy expression about her face. Another woman looked like one of Tazuya's relatives. The last woman was someone entirely different. Chouji didn't know who she was but she had chocolate skin, like Tazuya's relative. She wasn't anyone of the village, so far as Chouji knew but she was very beautiful. It was then that Hanabi wandered in, threw the covers off of Chouji, stripped naked and mounted him. There was no amount of fun lost that morning.
{HR}
There ya have it all! Chouji has lost the Kanpekigan and attained spiritual enlightenment. No, this doesn't mean he is all pwerful. It just means there is a new flavor to him that we hadn't been able to see before...
Hmm... Not much of an ending author's note.
Yours,
Tankou001