AN: This is the first story im posting on this site. I've had this story just sitting around in my docs for awhile now and I felt like i had to do something with it so i posted it. I hope you like it, and if you dont that's fine since i do plan on rewriting it, I did write this when i was 12 after all.
Anyway, enjoy!
Ch. 1
Shinju.
When the earlier civilizations of the elemental nations hear that name they think of a giant ass tree with forbidden fruit hanging from it.
However, the more religious people call shinju by other names, such as the god tree, the tree of power, or the lesser-known name, the tree of knowledge.
But these people don't know what shinju is and they never will. Only a few people in the far, very far future will know what HE, shinju, really is.
The shinju (yes he is sentient, you will find out why in a bit) can see everything going on in the world, yes EVERYTHING, and there is nothing he can't see. At first, he couldn't see or hear anything going on outside the tree (he didn't know he was the only thing on a desolate planet or that the planet he was on was the only planet in his galaxy with one moon, one sun, and millions of stars). At first, he didn't care but then he started to get bored.
So he thought 'why not try to break out' and try he did, with his first attempt his power shot out in a shockwave covering the whole planet, creating what is known as nature chakra when he felt that he was a bit startled so he stopped for a time.
What he didn't know was that on the outside of his tree something beautiful started happening, the once barren planet started to show signs of life as grass started growing, trees started sprouting, clouds started gathering, large grooves and craters started forming due to erosion, with water gathering in them forming lakes, oceans, rivers, and streams. Animals started popping up, with humans following soon after.
Shinju was aware of none of this happening until he felt a tugging in the back of his mind, COMING FROM OUTSIDE HIS TREE?! He immediately tried to break out again, sending out another shockwave of his power which formed a connection with everything and anything walking the planet(which is where the tugging came from), and was assaulted with knowledge of all kinds of things.
This assault of knowledge didn't hurt Shinju, it just shocked him a bit. He learned so much, like how to hunt, to the skin, to craft and sew, to speak, to manipulate, to battle, etc. He learned so much without feeling any strain on his mind whatsoever. He was happy he could finally 'see' and 'hear' what's going outside his tree! He was so excited he almost didn't feel his power expanding, he knew his power was dangerous and uncontrolled so he needed something to help control it. He began focusing his power and using his imagination to create the very first and the most powerful dojutsu ever.
The dojutsu takes the appearance of a black background with 3 red concentric circles with 3 red tomoes on each circle and is immensely powerful, capable of doing anything because of the amount of power used to create it.
To his amazement, his power, and knowledge, continued to grow exponentially. Utilizing the knowledge he gained from the world, he sought more ideas to his power to create more of these unique little abilities. He discovered, after a little studying of those human things, that he had similar physiology to humans. Armed with the knowledge of the human body, he began brainstorming new ideas for these abilities.
He came up with so many ideas for these abilities, things like using bones as weapons, your blood, weaponizing wood, creating steam and lava, etc. All the while gaining more power, knowledge, and experience from the earth and anyone and anything that has his power in it.
Now even though humans can't use that power they still have it in them, but with Virgil's new knowledge on manipulation and an eye technique that allows him to see into the future they will be able to use it, so all he has to do is wait.
(Time skip)
We currently find our main character meditating and patiently waiting for the right time to enact the plan he's spent 1,000 years perfecting himself and making sure all possible 'wrenches', as the humans say, have been accounted for. He has seen every possible twist, turn, wrong, right, path, bridge, etc. And has accounted for every mishap and prepared accordingly.
Our main character, The Shinju, has short white hair, sulphuric yellow eyes, the body of a swimmer or a runner, and always wears all black ANBU pants, a black long-sleeved shirt with a black armored vest over it and a shin-length tattered black cloak with a hood, he is also 6'4. He also goes by the name Virgil now.
Suddenly, he smirked; it's time.
He opened his eyes with a smirk on his lips. He stood and dispelled the throne he had previously been sitting on, just to sit on the ground in a meditative position and projected his soul out his body. It's time to enact his grand plan to finally escape this simulation with his 4 future charges.
While doing this, he couldn't help but think back to when he discovered the simulation and came up with his grand plan.
(Flashback)
"Hmm...I wonder what abilities my eyes grant me." Virgil mutters to himself quietly. He had been putting this off for a while because he didn't want another shockwave of power to blast out when he tried to leave his tree.
Yes, he discovered it was his power that formed everything, excluding his tree and the planet his tree is on, from the grass and healthy soil to the creatures that walk on it, and yes even those silly little humans that worship him.
Anyway, he's getting off track, instead of just using random abilities he decided to meditate and study these abilities.
(Around 6 hours later)
"MY EYES ARE FUCKING AWESOME!!" Virgil shouted out grinning like an idiot. He discovered his eyes can do many things like the creation and absolute control of his pocket dimensions, being able to control all elements easier (not that it wasn't easy before just now if he practices hard enough it may become second nature to him), and, what he likes to call, sub-elements.
He is also able to use illusions, copy and predict techniques and movement, control gravity, Summon animals, absorb souls, absorb energy, bring the dead back to life, he created three abilities named after three little kids who like to hang around his tree: Tsukuyomi, Amaterasu, and Susanoo. One grants the user the ability to use flames as dark as night, another an unbreakable illusion, and the last ability allows him to turn his energy, which he named 'chakra', into a giant humanoid being made of said energy. He also has the abilities to mechanize his body and has a complete 360ยบ field of vision, he even got rid of that silly little blind spot too, 'can't have a blind spot when being as strong as I am hehe' he thought to himself in amusement, but his favorite ability so far was to see every possible future and everything that could go wrong in said futures.
He discovered all these abilities in the first two hours, the last 4 he spent playing around with his ability to see into the future. He was grinning like a loon when he found a possible way out, but then lost that grin when he discovered he was just an experiment for the men in white, who he later learned are called scientists, to poke and prod at. Then the grin came back full force and he started cackling like a maniac.
He found a way to wake up from his 'pod', he shivered in disgust just thinking about that metal death trap...trees are way better! When he woke up he didn't immediately open his eyes or breathe or even twitch he stayed still sensing for anything, another ability he had given himself, and felt something weird, he was completely submerged in liquid, he felt strange because this was a first for him.
Anyway, when he didn't sense anyone nearby, he looked up at the device, camera, he thinks the name was and activated his eyes catching anyone looking at him in an illusion. After completing this he takes control of a sleeping guard nearby to drain the pod of the liquid. When that's done he absorbs the guard's soul and memories and goes about completing his goal. Freedom to leave his tree and find out the reason he's here. After walking for a little while, and finding something to wear to hide his glory, he finally made it to the main control room. Thinking this was going to be easier than he originally thought he made his way inside only to immediately fall to his knees clutching his neck in pain. He grits his teeth to keep himself from screaming.
"What do you think you're doing Virgil-kun...hmm?" He hears and immediately looks up, only to find himself looking at the grinning, pale, glasses-wearing face of a scientist, head scientist if his badge and the memories of the few souls he absorbed were anything to go by, Orochi minaka, the man who found him.
"To what do I owe this honor, Orochi-teme" Virgil gritted out cheekily only to wince when the pain spiked.
"Now, now Virgil-kun, your words, they wound me. Is this the gratitude I get when it was I who went through all the trouble of turning you into the perfect puppet?" Minaka said cruelly before letting out an insane giggle.
Virgil stilled.
Puppet?
"What's the matter, puppet? Did I make you mad? Are you going to cry? Well TOO BAD!! HAHAHA!!" He laughs cruelly.
Puppet?PUPPET!? HIM?! THE SHINJU, A FUCKING PUPPET?!! Preposterous!!
"I. Am. Nobodies. Puppet." He says through grit teeth. Minaka smirks, before taking a step further.
"Sorry, did you say something?" He mocks before laughing.
"I AM NOBODIES FUCKING PUPPET!" He roared at the top of his lungs. His power spiked to god-like levels and sent out a shockwave, leaving those in the simulation (and minaka) alive and killing and absorbing everybody and everything else. He stands up and slowly stalks to a cowering minaka and snarls "What's the matter master? Did I scare you? Are you going to cry? Well TOO BAD!!" And spits out the word master as if it were poison and roars, before brutally tearing out his soul and absorbing it giving him massive amounts of knowledge.
"At least you were good for something minaka." He chuckles darkly before making his way to Minakas office then to his laptop and begins reading every file on it.
When he was done he leaned back and sighed and began going over everything he learned both from the laptop and minaka himself. The reason he's able to hold all this power and knowledge without dying is that all of his cells are in a constant state of evolution and adaptation. No matter how much power he has he will always adapt and evolve to hold more. He even found out that the appearance he chose was his true appearance. Same thing with his name.
He also discovered, after investigating the fluctuating power he sensed, that the shockwave he let out about 30 minutes prior shattered the galaxy and used his power to create near-infinite more galaxies or realms, as he has taken to calling them, with the realm's inhabitants using his power in different ways and calling it different names like ki, geass, spirit pressure, magic, artifacts of Eden(assassin's creed), devil fruits, the force, etc. He doesn't care for any of that though, all he knows is that the adventures out of here will be super fun.
He stands up and teleports himself outside the floating space lab to assess the damage. He's not surprised at seeing all the damage his little outburst caused but seeing everything like this is an eyesore, so he began using his control over gravity and a new technique he came up with, the banbutsu Sozo or the creation of all things, to bring all the large chunks of debris and use it to create a new planet. One large planet with one large moon and a huge ass sun. He nodded, seemingly satisfied with his work, and floated down to his newly formed planet and walked to the very top of the planet, and planted a seed infused with some of his power into the ground which instantly grew to form a humongous tree. The tree itself had pale-ish white bark black veins that pulsed with pure shinju sage chakra and black leaves with white veins covering them on the branches.
He walks towards the front of the tree where a hollowed-out section awaits. He walks inside and marvels at his work, golden walls depicting future battles of 4 warriors who ride on horseback: one in a red cloak carrying a golden masterfully crafted Warhammer, one in a black cloak carrying a beautiful 6-foot long black-handled scythe with the blade itself being 5-feet long, red with a design in the center being 3 tomoe almost like his eyes but black, another rider in green carrying a 3-foot long dagger with the blade being 2-feet and the grip being a foot long, the last rider in golden brown though, interestingly enough, doesn't have a weapon but a pair of gauntlets. Towards the center of the room is a giant hole about 30-feet wide with a 5-foot gap leading to a 20-foot "island" directly in the middle with a hologram showing the different realms.
As he walked closer to the "island" tree roots grew and covered the gap permanently allowing access to the hologram. He stopped in front of the hologram and saw all of the realms jumbled together.
He makes his way out of the tree and sees many colors overlapping and intertwining, so he begins concentrating and focusing his power and lets out a more controlled shockwave. The shockwave served its purpose as it began separating the colors, which then began swirling, forming what looked to be galaxies. Once that was done he walked back into the tree to see the hologram looked more balanced, he smirked at this before swirling out of existence with his new Kamui technique.
He reappeared back inside the lab and began walking back to his pod with a smirk still plastered on his face, he had some planning to do.
(Flashback end)
He shook his head as he felt a tug from inside his sleeve prompting him to lift his sleeve to see his "son" Zetsu. Zetsu was a mass of black matter with glowing yellow eyes and a wide smile showing off his sharp teeth, he was currently staring at his father curiously.
"Are you alright father?" He says in a deep voice, his normally wide smile set into a frown of confusion.
He smiles at him and says, "yes zetsu I am just doing a little thinking." He feels Zetsu shift in his sleeve prompting him to say while still smiling, "speak zetsu, no need to be afraid." Zetsu nods.
"Are we ready to enact our plan father?" He asks, feeling a little giddy.
"Yes, I can feel our target going to the false tree as we speak," he says standing up.
"It's time to go zetsu." He says.
He begins swirling out of existence with his new technique, the Kamui, to go and manipulate his future "savior", time to fuck with history.
