Ena stood up slowly stretching his arm's out wincing slightly he was going to save wave but of an idea, he checked his currently active quest he should still have enough time. The genin winced once again as he made his way to sit down on the couch he inhaled and then exhaled deeply the tension leaving his body slightly leaning back he placed his hands on his face and slowly pulled the back down as he began to think over the events of the past few days. First he fight the quote 'demon of the bloody mist' got killed by him then came back to life, the he infiltrates one of the richest men on the plants mansion, finds a fancy looking pistol awakens a persona by shooting himself in the head, got shot six times and nearly died and makes the dumbass move to immediately attack one of Gato's allies meets not one but two S-rank missing-nin, nearly dies again along with Sasuke convinces said highly dangerous ninja to temporarily work with his teams stopped an execution and ends up getting his ass kicked by his sensei and is now essentially grounded. The sound of creaking floorboards gained his attention looking back Ena saw Tifa standing there leaning against the doorframe looking at him "Hey Tifa." "Hey." They stayed they're in silence for a moment. "Are you all, right?" Tifa asked and Ena was surprised by the amount of concern in her voice he took a moment before nodding.
They went back to a comfortable silence. Ena sat still for a moment then summoned three gacha coins between his fingers and held them up staring at them for a moment then with a smirk Ena flipped the coins into the air they spun two times then disappeared into motes of golden light.
Weapon added: Yubashiri
Companion Gem added to inventory: Jinx
A katan replaced where one of the coins once was and dropped into the genin's open palm. The first thing Ena noticed was just how light the katana was it weighed almost nothing but he could still tell it was incredibly sharp. Ena gripped the black handle tightly his hand resting just beneath the cross shaped guard and pulled the blade from the black lacquered sheath. Unexpectedly the blade was broken, it looked like the blade had been snapped and had been chipped and was visibly rusted in places.
Name: yubashiri
Type: Bladed
Grade: Skilful
Condition: Broken
Description: One of fifty skilful grade swords this weapon was bought by a green haired swordsman with the dream of becoming the greatest swordsman on the high seas, the blade was later shattered by the wielder of the rust-rust fruit. The Yubashiri currently does 500 slashing DMG and 550 piercing DMG. The blade can be repaired at any skilful or better blacksmith.
Ena sighed to himself he should have expected to get something crap at some point still at least it could be repaired but the only blacksmith in Konoha he knew that could absolutely repair was the mother of someone who utterly hates him that was going to be… fun. The sound of creaking floorboards made him glance to the left seeing Tifa standing there with a glass of water in hand, smiling Ena took it and drank it all down.
+5 hydration (55/100)
They once again sat in silence for a moment "so… I'm assuming you heard all that?" Ena asked with Tifa nodding in reply "yeah me and him aren't on the best of terms right now."
"Why?"
Ena sheepishly rubbed the back of "Well I kinda, sorta threatened to leave the village."
"Is that bad?"
Ena raised a brow "Of course it's bad I'm a Jinchuriki."
"what's a jinchuriki." Tifa asked
Ena looks confused form a moment then gained a look of realisation. "Oh, shit I never explained what I am did I."
"No, you didn't. is it common knowledge?"
"Eh Kinda, people know the term and the shinobi of each village know who their respective jinchuriki are but to the civilians and other countries no one knows who we are but I have technically already committed treason by threatening to desert the village so, fuck it why not." Ena stood up and made his way to the kitchen sink and made himself a glass of slightly brown water and began his explanation"
"So, I've already told you about the basics the nation's, the villages and chakra. Now I'm going to tell you about the Biju. Around five hundred years ago creatures started popping up all over the place nine of them in total each with their own number of tails the one-tail's being the weakest and nine-tails being the strongest. No one knows what they are people think they are demons' others think they're the unruly spirits of the damned but that's just superstition, anyway for generation's they raged across the world destroying any human made settlement they came across, people called them Nature's wrath, it was destruction in its purest form. Then a hundred years ago two men decided to bring a stop to the destruction Madara and Hashirama."
Tifa remembered those names. "They founded the hidden leaf village, right."
Ena nodded "Yeah those guy's also the strongest shinobi in history." He took a sip of water and grimaced. "Ugh by the sage this waters." with another grimace he turned around dumping the water back in the sink and began to clean the glass.
"So were was I… oh yeah Madara and Hashirama, so as I was saying these two, they had a plan they knew that the tailed beasts were the cause of most first war they had worked so hard to end so logically they should also bring some semblance of peace not as wandering disaster's but as weapons. So, they find and capture the Biju from the one tail to the eight nobody knows how but it has been rumoured that the wood style has some kind of calming effect on the tailed beasts but considering that the first Hokage is the only know wielder of wood style no one knows and we probably never will. Anyway, after that they started to give each of them to different villages. The four and seven tails went to Iwa, the second and eighth went to Kumo, the fifth, sixth, third went to Kiri and the one tails went to Suna."
Tifa had gotten very invested in Ena's latest tale about his world but had noticed he left one of the tailed beasts out.
"Oh yeah the Nine-Tails... see that's were things become complicated. Finding the tailed beasts wasn't easy most of them it took months to find the seven-tails took almost two years and the battles weren't easy it took a day to take down the one tails and almost a week to take down the two tails, by the time they fought the eight-tails it took a full month. Anyway, back to the nine-tails see out of the blue Madara starts trying to convince everyone that Konoha had failed, that the peace would inevitably shatter he wanted to dissolve Konoha and tried to get Hashirama to agree with him. He failed obviously and then he vanished gone into the shadows and nobody saw him for a year." Ena placed the cup back on the countertop and stood in silent for a moment a far-off look in his eyes.
"Then what?" Tifa asked after a few moments.
Ena snapped back to attention and shook his head clearing his thoughts before continuing. "Then well no one knows one day Hashirama left the village and a week later he came back missing his left eye, his right arm and his left leg and proclaimed village to all of Konoha "I Have captured the Nine-tails and slayed the mad man Madara." No one really knows what went down that day hell the only evidence it a battle went down is the valley of the end a massive trench near the border between the land of fire and the land of sound, a scar on the world. That and the fact I exists the third jinchuriki of the nine tails the power of Human Sacrifice. I am Konoha's weapon their last resort if theirs ever a war… that is my purpose."
Tifa saw the look of sadness on his face and couldn't help but ask the burning question on her mind.
"Why you?"
Ena looked back at Tifa took a deep breath walked back to the couch and sat down with a heavy exhale. "I have no idea gramps told me my parent's died during the attack and the fourth Hokage needed a vessel I was the closest person that was young enough to survive the process which is how I got this." Reaching into his jacket he pulled out his pocket/stop watch and stared at it for a moment the golden watch had the Kanji for four carved tonto the lid while the back had the kanji for fire and shadow side by side. Holding it out to Tifa the brawler took it and looked it over "Who gave it to you?"
"Well, it belonged to the fourth Hokage originally, every time a new Hokage leads a village they have something made for them the first and second Hokage's items have been lost the third Hokage, my gramps had a pipe made and the fourth got that. It's a hybrid of a pocket watch and stopwatch." Placing the watch back in his pocket he stretched and leaned back "Hey Tifa why do you want to help." The young woman looked at the young man sat before her and hummed in confusion. "When we first met yesterday why did you decided to help, you barley even thought about it and I didn't get a chance to explain. For all you knew I could have been lying and trying to kill you or something hell I did technically kidnap you… so why?"
Tifa thought over her answer for a moment "It was because of your eyes."
"My… eyes?"
"Yeah, they seemed, honest I guess, you just don't seem the type of person to lie." Tifa said with a smile and Ena smiled back "Ya know Tifa you really aren't getting anything from helping us so after all this is over you wanna come to my village set up your own bar?"
"My own bar? I-I don't have that kind of money, why would they even let me set up a bar." Ena smiled in reply "don't worry about it I'll take care of it." Tifa smiled back.
+20 Rep with Tifa [30/100] (For being kind)
Ena stood up with a grunt "Welp I'm gonna go take a nap I haven't slept in like two days even if it feels like months. Well, g'night Tifa!"
(?)
Ena was standing.
No standing wasn't the right word but we wasn't floating either he also wasn't lying down. Ena didn't know what he was doing he just knew he wasn't lying in bed. The jinchuriki tried to open his eyes only they were and yet he could still see nothing but black. He couldn't feel the air entering his lung, couldn't here the sound of wind blowing through the house. To put it simply there was no light, no dark, no sound, no sight. Ena didn't even know what was up what's was down or left or right absolute nothingness. The VOID. Ena didn't know how long he was they're in the nothing, it could have been seconds, minutes, hours or days or months or years hell maybe even centuries or a millennium or even an eternity.
All he knew was that he was alone and, in an instant, HE was their nothing to announce his appearance. No flash of light, no sound, not even a slightest bit of wind HE was just… there. HE was shockingly plain a fair skin tone, short brown hair and HE was wearing a brown jacket, blue-grey pants and black boots. HE looked almost normal, almost being the keyword. Everything looked normal except they eyes they were as black as the void that surrounded the two.
Ena recognised the BEING Infront of him although he hadn't seen HIM in 5 years the jinchuriki could almost taste the name on the tip of his tongue… no not HIS name HIS title.
TITLE: THE OUTSIDER
SECONDARY TITLE: LEVIATHIN OF THE VOID
ALIGNMENT: TRUE NEUTRAL
"Hello Ena it has been an age has it not."
Then the void changed. Ena could feel the ground beneath his feet and the cold wind on his skin spiky structures made of some kind of stone formed around the two filling the originally empty space. The Outsider vanished from view for a moment when that chillingly cam and dull voice spoke from behind the young boy.
"You used my mark Ena to face in a rather mundane way in my opinion but you used it nonetheless."
"How long have you been watching me outsider." Something pulsed through the void when Ena spoke his title and Ena thought he heard the sound of a whale but ignored it to focus back on the outsider who had once again vanished reappearing beside Ena sitting on a rock staring at the youth.
"You should be carful with what you say Ena you don't know who or what is listening. to answer your question, I am always watching from the beginning of the multiverse to its destruction I watch anyone and everyone of interested seeing what they do and how they would react all except you."
"What? Why not me?"
"I know many things Ena every story ever told every secret ever whispered from the brightest of worlds to the darkest of corners I see all. But I can't see you something or someone is blocking my sight your mere existence rejects fates and destiny Gato for example was never supposed to bear the mark he now has the immortals were never supposed to be in the village you are trying so hard to save and neither was the girl." Ena glared into the beings' empty eyes grinding his teeth "I never meant to use this mark it was an accident."
"And that's one of the many things that make's you so interesting others that have bared my mark have done great and terrible things sometimes both and yet you refuse to use it at all and I can't help but wonder. Why" Ena didn't have a chance to answer when The Outsider vanished once more and the platform beneath Ena's feet began to crack and tremble and a whale passed by slowly and he heard the outsider's voice all around
"But none of that matters right now what does is that it's time to wake up Ena, wake up and smell the scent of flowers and death." And then Ena saw blinding light.
(In the forests near Tsunami's house)
Ena could feel something tapping against his shoulder, in seconds he was awake and could here a soft voice near his ear "you'll die of the cold if you keep sleeping on the ground." Ena opened his eyes and saw one of the most beautiful people he had ever seen in his life. The person had a very feminine appearance with pale skin, long dark hair, large dark-brown eyes and a slender frame, they were wearing a pink sleeveless kimono with pale red edges and small swirls. Around their waist they had a white obi tied with a bow, light brown sandals and a choker around their neck. Ena had only one thing to say "You're a boy aren't you." The now revealed young man froze for a moment then smiled "How could you tell?" Ena sat up resting his Across across his knee and smirked "I grew up in the red-light district, you meet all sorts of people there. Who are you by the way?"
"My name's Haku and I'm gathering herbs for someone dear to me to help them."
"Need a hand?" Ena asked with Haku nodding in reply
(A few minutes later)
"Hey Haku, is this enough?" Ena asked the androgynous boy holding a bundle of green herbs in his hand's Haku nodded happy to see his new acquittance being so ready to help.
"Ya know Haku I gotta ask what the fuck did this person do for you to come into the middle of some random forest to find a plant most people don't know about that can only be found in this specific part of the nations?"
Haku pondered the question for a moment trying to find the best way to answer such a complicated question "The man I'm doing this for is very precious to me, he found me when I was at my lowest and raised me, cared about me when no one else would. He's like a father to me."
"Really, sounds like a swell guy." Ena said. £Have you got enough of these?" Haku nodded and Ena smiled and Haku returned the gesture gathering up the herbs the two had gathered and placing them in a basket by his side and stood up preparing to leave. "It was nice meeting you Ena, if we meet again, I hope we can be friends."
"Who says we aren't?"
+35 Rep with Haku Yuki (35/100) [you treated him like a normal person.]
The young man turned and began to walk away a smile on his face when.
"Gato is going to kill Zabuza."
Haku froze eyes widening slightly then narrowing small senbon made of ice forming between his fingers. Ena raised his hands in surrender
"I'm not threatening you I'm warning you. I heard it straight from Gato's mouth if Zabuza kills us or when he fails to Gato intends to kill him either because he failed or because he succeeded and Gato doesn't want to pay him." Haku stood completely still thinking over the genin's words, Ena wasn't necessarily wrong and Gato had done things like that before but they needed the money.
Ena started speaking once more "We need to work together on this if we don't Gato will destroy wave and kill us all. If you agree with me, send a message with a time or place to meet and I'll be there you know where to find me. I know we just met but you need to trust me." Haku said nothing but he didn't attack either instead the young man continued on his way he had a lot to think about.
(later)
Ena was standing underneath a tree branch chakra moving through his feet sticking to the branch he did this sometimes it was a good but slow way to level up his chakra control. With a sigh he dropped down to the ground landing on his feet he wasn't used to staying still doing nothing like this. He'd rather be out there helping but Kakashi would never let him and his sensei's trust in him was on thin ice the jinchuriki didn't want to shatter it. Ena glanced down at his left hand where the Outsider's mark lay covered by his glove Ena scoffed, he hadn't talked to that thing in years why now and what did he mean when he said he couldn't see Ena and that Ena's existent was resisting fate. That didn't matter right now what did was what the hell he was doing with Zabuza and Haku, if Ena did get a message with a time and place there was no guarantee he could actually get they're without Kakashi noticing but he had to try if they wanted to beat Gato they would need all the help they could get.
The genin didn't have anymore time to dwell on the thought when he felt a presence behind him, turning around the jinchuriki saw, a child?
He couldn't be any older than eight with spiky black hair covered by a blue and white striped hat with dark-coloured eyes and was wearing a green jumpsuit with a yellow shirt and simple brown sandals. They both stood they're in silence for a moment staring at each other. "Uh h-hello, who are you?" the boy kept staring at Ena so he decided to change the question "Where are your parents' kid?"
"Mommy doesn't see me anymore." Ena felt himself freeze at the words "What do you mean." Ena had his suspicions but didn't voice them.
"I can see her but she can't see me and don't know why." Tears were forming in the young boys' eyes. Ena felt his eyes widen in shock and he immediately crouched down. "What do you mean she doesn't see you, what happened?" he asked softly
"a while ago me, mommy and grandpa where eating dinner then the bad men came and started shouting at grandpa telling him to stop building the bridge. Grandpa said no th-then they took out their swords and said they'd hurt mommy. Grandpa said no again a-and then one of them tried to hurt mom I-I remember trying to help but my chest started hurting th-then everything went dark and-and I woke up here." The boy was crying now and Ena didn't know what to do so he went by instinct and pulled the child into a hug trying to calm him down.
"Ena where are you!" he heard Sakura calling his name he turned his head back for but a second but by the time he looked back to the child he had vanished. Ena stood up confused unsure of what the fuck just happened but it didn't matter right now. He would figure it out later.
(Tsunami's house)
Ena was standing on the porch of near Tsunami's backyard when he noticed something a gravestone of all things sticking out of the ground the jinchuriki decided to investigate. Walking forward he saw a small picture resting at the base of the gravestone and the image shocked him, it was tsunami, Tazuna, a man he didn't recognise but what stood out was the boy it was the same child he saw in the forest and everything made sense the child Inari was Tsunami's son. He had died trying to help his mother, he was murdered to send a message. White hot anger went through Ena's body but he quickly calmed down there was no use getting angry now and no point in getting angry now Gato would pay either way Ena would make sure of it.
He was about to go inside when a single piece of paper fell Infront of his face catching it in the palm f his hand he opened it up and saw a time and location.
"Looks like I got my answer" Ena had 5 hours to prepare and then he would either have an alliance or a fight.