Chapter 7: A Nigth to Remember
By: DragoonMen
'Human Thinking'
"Human Speaking"
Technique/Jutsu Use
'Bijū/Non-Human Thinking'
"Bijū/Non-Human Talking"
Published: 05/Aug/2020
Pre-Chakra Era Arc
19 Years Before the Chakra Event (BCE)
Day After the Ōtsutsuki Arrival to Earth
Chapter 7
—Land of the Ancestors—
Nichitsu Town
The Sunrise have taken place some hours ago by now, the sun rays invading every single spot they could find while darkness vanished from the world in the meantime.
A new day in the abandoned town of Nichitsu with birds chirping and exploring the new landscape created from what had transpired a few hours ago.
Some birds even making their own nests on the destroyed buildings and roofs.
A single man lay on the open ground surrounded by this scenery, piles of rubble and burnt wood circling him like a pack of wolves to their prey.
The man's soft breathing was the single sound that could be heard inside the crater. His belly rising and falling steadily until the sunlight hit his closed eyes, breaking the calm environment.
"Arghh." A groan escaped Jigen's lips. "My head hurts." He started rubbing his forehead, eyes still shut.
He could feel the Sun on his body, the heat being a dead giveaway.
He steadily began to open his eyes but the brightness stung his vision, moistening his eyes slightly. He raised a hand to block out the sun from his sensitive view.
"What the hell happened yesterday?" He asked himself rather loudly.
He stood up from the ground and immediately gawked at the wreckage that surrounded him.
There were no signs of Saburo nearby nor a trail or lead on his missing companion. Nothing at all.
'Was everything that happened yesterday real?'
The raven-haired wanted to say "No" but Nichitsu current state said otherwise. He remembered the loud explosions in the forest. The white sphere. The horned man. Everything.
He then turned to look at the forest direction and his mouth fell open a moment later.
Jigen watched the burnt trees littering the landscape. The green forest a former shadow of itself, the black smoke still dissipating on the air.
Jigen also remembered the wound on his abdomen but when he looked down on his body he did not see a scab, not even a scratch. His clothes were torn apart though.
He abruptly remembered what he was tasked to do before the events of the nigth. He had to go to Nanao but now that was canceled for now.
He had to tell Elder Daisuke of what happened here. Jigen hoped Saburo had run to safety or even possibly back at the Monastery they both had called home for some years now.
The ox he brought to carry the supplies was nowhere to be found too, he was all alone in this village.
'No point going to Nanao. The ox is gone and not like I would do so after what took place here. I have to go back, tell Daisuke and the others of what took place here' With these thoughts in mind, he dashed off back to where he came from.
Jigen might not have realized it with all things going over his head but he was practically leaving a trail of dust with how fast he was going at it, his mind unconsciously pumping Chakra into his legs, what in later centuries would be dubbed as "Chūnin Speed".
Jigen raced towards the town gates and beyond, leaving the town of Nichitsu in seconds.
OoOoOoO
So no Kuni Countryside
Jigen was darting through the forest road, everything around blurring.
The wind was slamming unrelentingly at his face but to Jigen it felt like he was running at a normal pace when in truth he was not. His speed enhanced thanks to Chakra begged him to differ.
He didn't know it too but his perception of the world has been heightened beyond belief. He could process everything around him faster than anyone. It was the reason he thought he was running at his normal speed.
He finally stopped when he felt his stamina ran out of energy. The newly created Chakra coils and pathways still getting accustomed to prolonged use.
Jigen took a moment and rested against a tree next to the dirt road, catching his breath steadily, he took notice of a river or more exactly; the Koetoi River.
'It is just me or the river was brought half a day away closer to me?'
Jigen started looking around, undoubtedly this river has to be a new one. One that he hadn't noticed before. There was no way he was able to cross such distances in just an hour but he did.
"Well, look who we have here, boys." A gruff voice made itself known. "The first one of the day." Four men hidden behind tree trunks on both sides of the road revealed themselves before Jigen.
All of them made their way to Jigen who straightened his posture when he glimpsed at the weapons on their hands. Jigen not daring to make a wrong move.
"You know the procedure..." The presumed leader of the bandits said. "Hand all your things and we might leave you unharmed." The rugged man said with a sick smile on his face.
The men started closing on the former Ka citizen. There was no way out, nowhere to run.
Raising his hands, Jigen spoke. "Look I don't have anything. I am a monk." He hoped they would buy it. It was the damm truth anyway.
"Monk or not, you aren't leaving until you hand something of value to us..." The man opened his palm. A gesture meaning 'Give me something, now'.
"... so, do it quickly." The man seemed to get impatient.
Fear started to creep up in Jigen's mind. "I already told you. I don't have anything." He signaled to his non-existent pockets. The bandit leader gritted his teeth, exhaling loudly through his nose.
"Do I look like a rich guy to... argh!" Jigen grasped his right hand, pain polluting his hand palm.
The Kāma Seal in his hand was glowing red, gradually increasing in size. The fear releasing a set of chemicals reactions in Jigen's brain, activating a self-protection mechanism on the Ōtsutsuki vessel.
The thugs looked at him like some kind of weirdo. The leader of the bandits seethed at the lack of deference from the monk on them.
"We wanted to do this the easy way... but you don't leave us another option." The rugged man raised his short blade. "Let this be a lesson to always carry something with you!" The leader of the bandits brought the weapon down.
Jigen extended his right-hand palm, as if an arm could hope to stand its ground against a steel blade when suddenly, the unthinkable happened.
Swoosh!
AHHHH!
The leader was launched by some kind of repulsive force that was Chakra energy brought to the physical plane. The outlaw landed on the river some thirty meters away from him.
Splash!
All of the bandits panicked at this sight. Their leader being flown out like a rock was not the outcome they were expecting. Jigen looked at his hand in wonderment.
A diamond-shaped mark he hadn't notice this morning was present in the center of his palm. The mark gleamed in red and expanded across his hand and arm in a sophisticated design.
The monk suddenly felt a power rush course through his body and veins, making him feel exhilarated.
Jigen looked back again at the thugs still reeling on the scene they just witnessed.
Jigen saw their shocked faces and smirked, he would enjoy this. The monk of Kinpu clenched his hand into a fist as Chakra enhanced every single one of his senses.
"Let's see what we can do now. Shall we?" Jigen swore he heard a voice said something, if it was one of the bandits or just him he didn't know.
A fat bandit that had roused from the stupor quickly proceeded to charge at him in that moment with a Warhammer on both his hands.
The overweight man hoisted the weapon over his head crudely, hell-bent on crushing Jigen's skull into a bloody paste.
Jigen's eyes suddenly changed, his black irises changed to a darker color all over the sclera. Jigen's eyes were now devoid of light, no single speck of white visible.
The bandit closed the distance and the Warhammer started to do his descend flight on his target.
Time slowed down to a crawl
Jigen could see the fat thug moving at incredibly slow speeds almost like a slug.
He even took the time to notice the little details about his attacker, like some beads of sweat running down his neck or the scar on his left shoulder. He also noticed the puff of hair under the outlaw's jaw.
Jigen chose to stop examining the bandit and act on the circumstance ahead of him. Jigen ducked under the Warhammer attack arc, bringing his fist to the belly of the bandit.
Time returned to normal
For the fat highway bandit, it seemed almost like the man who claimed to be a monk stood there one moment and the next one he was right in front of him, rearing his fist back and launching it forward against his person.
Crack!
The fat man felt all of his ribcage bones internally break at the strength behind the attack, the inhuman amount of force behind the attack launching him into a tree trunk, denting it.
A lone Warhammer clanked on the ground loudly, nearly falling on Jigen's toes.
Jigen turned to look at the two remaining thugs quivering in fear.
'I could get used to this' The evil thought brought giggles to him. To just think what he would do to them brought a sick smile in Jigen's face.
Sadism. The pleasure of inflicting pain on others. A known trait that belonged to a certain Ōtsutsuki.
"Demon!" One of the two bandits shouted and ran, Jigen smirked at the name. These lowlifes believed that he was an Oni (Demon).
The man ran followed by his companion, putting as much distance between them. Jigen looked at the Warhammer on the ground, extending his palm like if trying to reach it.
'Come to me...'
The Warhammer suddenly lifted itself from the ground and found itself on the hand of the Ōtsutsuki vessel. Jigen had unknowingly used Gravity Manipulation on the steel weapon.
Jigen looked back at the retreating bandits and reared the Warhammer back, ready to throw it at them or at least one of them.
'Peekaboo!' The Warhammer was flown out much like a frisbee in a horizontal angle. The steel weapon ready to meet the back of any of the two unsuspecting outlaws. A moment later a scream was heard.
Arghhh!
A thud followed the girly scream. A heavy thud.
Jigen walked at a leisure pace, feeling unstoppable. In just a few seconds he reached the position of the fallen bandit.
The thug on the ground turned on his back to face him, the terror marring his features, if Jigen knew better he would have thought that the bandit was ready to cry by this point.
"Wh... what are you?!" Said the scared bandit, his stuttering making him look more pathetic in the monk's eyes.
Jigen ignored him and turned to look at the tiny dot in the distance. The last bandit.
'Not so fast buddy. We are not done here yet'
Jigen concentrated and stared at the bandit in the distance and outstretched his hand in his direction.
'Return'
The running bandit was doing his best at escaping from the psycho he and his gang had just stumbled when all of a sudden he felt a pull on his back.
Ahhh!
He was lifted from his feet and brought back by some intangible force.
The outlaw landed on the ground next to his crime partner he had left for dead a minute ago.
Jigen decided now to answer the question of the wounded thug. "What am I, hm?" He questioned no one in particular.
"I think I am death in the flesh." He looked down at the two bandits. His voice changed at the last sentences into something else, something evil. The two thugs look ready to soil their breeches at that moment.
"Are you ready to meet your end?" Jigen asked them, a Cheshire grin adorning his pale face.
"Burn them..." Jigen heard someone whisper to him.
He unwittingly opened his hand palm, facing upward.
Thrush!
A Fireball formed instantly on his hand. The thugs looked awed, then their expressions turned into fear. Fear of him.
"Die." One word sealed the fate of a bandit when Jigen decided to threw the Fireball at the unharmed thug laying on the ground.
Nooooo!
The thug screamed before being incinerated beyond recognition from the upper body to his head, his clothes remained on fire.
The other bandit looked back and forth between his dead partner and him, the tears rolling on his face. "Please mercy..." He asked between sobs but Jigen looked at him in disdain until finally he relented.
"Run pitiful human, run like the trash you are!" The voice echoed, unlike anything the bandit heard the monk spoke minutes before. It sounded alien to him, like two different beings talking at the same time.
The wounded man didn't need to be told twice before starting to stagger and walk away as fast as he can, distancing himself from danger.
'Yes. Leave and never hope to cross paths with me again'
Jigen smirked once again, proud of what he had accomplished today.
The Kāma Seal started receding back from Jigen's arms and face. The marks slowly going back to their original position, fading from blood red to black.
Jigen brought his marked palm to his eye level. The last marks finally receding until all was left was the original diamond mark.
Looking at his palm and clenching it, Jigen had one idea on his mind.
'This changes everything'
OoOoOoO
Kinpu Monastery Inner Sanctum
"... and that is what happened." Jigen solemnly finished recounting the events that took place a day ago. He was in the Inner Chambers inside the Monastery next to the de-facto leader of the Kinpu Monks, Daisuke.
When Jigen arrived in the complex, Daisuke was appalled with the current state of Jigen. The young man's hood was gone and the shirt he used had been torn off in the abdomen section. Jigen's white pants were fine but there was something interesting on them. Blood.
The pants were bloody at the hem. The red color sharply contrasting the dirty white. Daisuke and the other monks quickly went to check to Jigen to see if he was fine, which he strangely was but it was confusing to Daisuke. If it wasn't Jigen's blood, then Daisuke did not know who else could it belong to then.
After that Jigen requested an audience with him alone and well here they are now.
Daisuke stared at Jigen, looking for any clue or gestures that he was lying because if what Jigen told him was true, it implicates a serious quantity of problems and an alleged crime —homicide case— among them.
Still, Daisuke was skeptical of all this and who could blame him though really.
Explosions in a forest, a white sphere, half a town leveled up and Saburo status as missing.
'Or dead...' The old man decided to not disclose that thought to Jigen yet.
He was sure there was more to it but Jigen didn't stray away from those events which made him suspicious. This sounded like something out from madman's tale but he pressed on, he needed to know what really happened down there.
"Are you sure that is all that happened?" Daisuke said with a serious face, hoping to convince Jigen to spill everything to him.
Jigen looked at his closed hand. He knew the old man would be deep-set in getting even the tiniest detail of his story.
The twenty-two years old man has refrained from telling the shadier parts of the story out of his vocal testimony like his newfound powers, the horned man, and the new mark on his hand. The old monk didn't need to know about what happened a few hours ago on the Koetoi River too.
'Should I tell him about that?'
"No, you don't..."
'What?!'
Daisuke looked at the stupefied face of Jigen. He looked surprised for a moment then in the other he returned to his normal facade.
Jigen looked to be contemplating something when suddenly he replied out of the blue. "Yes, that is all about it." He said with a stern expression.
Daisuke raised an eyebrow at this. He knew something big had went down on Nichitsu but Jigen wasn't telling him that.
The old monk believed that Jigen have probably had a figth with Saburo. He had noted of how the two of them interacted, often teasing each other quite hard.
'It was bound to happen sooner or later' Daisuke speculated on the matter.
Daisuke theorized that some heated words were probably exchanged between the two during the trip and from there a fight had ensured.
Jigen being more muscular and having more experience due to his former soldier status won the altercation but not without some scratches. His torn clothes and the blood at the hem of his white pants meant something.
'Please son, just tell me the truth...' The old man thought sadly.
"Like really sure?" Daisuke persisted. A pleading look on his eyes.
Jigen replied with a nod. "Really sure, Jiji-san." He finished playfully.
'As you wish young man...' The older male frowned.
The elder monk sighed and rubbed his temples tenderly. "That will be all Jigen. Get some rest, we will figure out what to do tomorrow." An old finger pointed at the door. "You are dismissed." The old man finished.
"By your leave, Daisuke." Jigen said respectfully and turned to the door, leaving the old monk with his thoughts.
'I hope you forgive me Jigen but we can't take any chances in a situation like this'
Once the sound of the closing of the main door reached his ears, another monk appeared from one of the adjacent doors in the chambers.
The monk sauntered until standing directly in front of Daisuke. "What shall we do about this, Daisuke-sama?" The newcomer asked for orders from his leader.
"Gather the other monks. Tell them all to meet here for an emergency meeting at midnight. Jigen is not telling me something, I just know it, Seigo." Daisuke looked at the door Jigen used a few moments ago, a longing gaze on his aged eyes.
"Is he a threat?" The monk named Seigo asked with a hint of venom in his voice.
"I don't know..." Daisuke palmed his forehead in exhaustion. "We will restrain him and force him into telling us what he is hiding." Daisuke assured Seigo.
'One way or another' Seigo thought with a grin.
"Are you sure you wanna do this, Master Daisuke?" Seigo asked again for clarification.
"There is no option. We can't have a potential killer living under our roof unsupervised..." Sadness was evident in the elder monk voice to Seigo but he didn't any further on it. He knew the reason of it was because Daisuke was close to Jigen.
"It will be done, Daisuke-sama." Seigo bowed and left the chambers. He immediately set out to carry Daisuke's orders.
'I hope you can look past this. I am just looking for your well-being, son...' Daisuke closed his eyes, a lone tear escaping his right eye until it fell on the dry ground.
OoOoOoO
Kinpu Monastery Dormitories
Jigen was asleep on his bunk. His shirtless body moving constantly and erratically on the mattress.
His facial expression was not a very peaceful one either. If someone were to look for Jigen and saw him in this state they would say that he was experiencing a nightmare or perhaps something worse if his unintelligible mumbles and moans were anything to go. They would be right about it too.
Jigen Mindscape
Jigen was floating in a black space. Stars and other heavenly bodies crowding the endless horizon surrounding him.
In front of him was a big round circle.
'Or probably a sphere' Jigen could not fathom the shape of the object ahead of him.
It was blue but it had a great deal of green on the surface. The pale adult was examining the shapes on the surface of the object. They were strange but he could have sworn he had already seen these traces on a map somewhere, continuing to look more closely to see if perhaps he was wrong.
"Pitiful, isn't it?" A voice next to him asked.
Bewilderment in Jigen's body could be easily detected even from a mile away when he noticed that right next to him was the Horned Man, talking to him.
"You!" Jigen pointed a finger at him. "You are the man who almost killed me." The human accused him.
The Ōtsutsuki just laughed. "Kill you? I would say upgrade you. Don't you remember what we did to those lowlifes on the river? That was progress." The alien praised himself.
"That was you?" Jigen was confused.
"No, it was us." The horned alien pointed between them.
"How is that possible?" Jigen voiced his thought loudly.
"Oh, human. You are so many eons away from ever understanding that." Isshiki paused to look at him. "But forgive me, my vessel. Let me formally present myself. I am Ōtsutsuki Isshiki. Your new owner." The Ōtsutsuki said outstretching his hand to his sides, like if welcoming him with a hug.
Jigen furrowed his brow. "Owner? What kind of trash are you spouting about?" He said furiously.
The alien just smirked. "Oh my, a bit touchy are we?" Isshiki smirked at the human angry glare directed at him, like a small puppy trying to intimidate a grown lion.
"For you to understand what is going on, I need to give you some insight." The spiritual form of the Ōtsutsuki changed the landscape around to help him explain himself. "And since there is nothing better to do in here I will tell you..." Isshiki relented to the human.
"What you saw in that forest was not an illusion." The landscape morphed to show the actual fight that took place near the forest of Nichitsu. Jigen looks at the transition of images in awe.
"What you saw that day was a fight between Celestial Beings." Isshiki projected the form of his clan members, several of them.
Jigen looked at all the strange aliens before him. "Celestial Beings? Is that what you are?" Jigen connected the information being feed to him by Isshiki.
"Yes, that's right. What you saw was a fight and also my demise." The Ōtsutsuki showed the human his latest moments on Earth. "You already know what happened after that." Isshiki similarly explained to him as a father would do to his son.
"Yes, I know. But if you said there were two of you. Where is the other one?" Jigen was curious about that. If there was another one, that meant trouble for everyone.
"That I don't know my vessel but she is out there probably." The Celestial Being said sincerely.
Jigen eyebrow twitched at that. "My vessel?" He didn't like anyone claiming him as property.
The Ōtsutsuki was unfazed at the subtly show of aggression. "Yes, you are my vessel. You are my will made flesh. Thanks to you I am still alive, here talking to you." The being told him.
"So, that is how I managed to take out those thugs?" The former soldier wanted to be sure if that was him.
'Who was the one who killed all those criminals then?'
The ancient alien grinned. "Of course it was me, do you really believe a monkey like you would be able to do those feats alone?" He left room for a counter-argument but there was no reply.
"No right, you needed my help and I lend it to you. You are of no use to me if you are dead like your friend." The Ōtsutsuki remembered the man hiding under a table and the fiery death he had endured under Kaguya's attack.
Jigen ears caught the last word. "My friend Saburo? Do you know what happened to him?" The man asked. He needed to know if Saburo was alive or dead.
"As a matter of fact I know, that bitch murdered him with a Chakra Powered Ball. You also witnessed that before ducking down like the weakling you are." Isshiki showed him the sphere engulfing his friend, the attack not leaving even the dust to say that Saburo ever existed in this world. Jigen looked saddened at the memory.
The Ōtsutsuki man looked at him in confusion. "But no need to remember that. You are here, he is not. That is how your world works." He showed his world, planet Earth.
Jigen looked up again and his jaw fell to the floor. The round sphere he saw earlier was projected once again.
"That is my world?" He would have exclaimed but the knowledge that his friend was dead still lingered on.
Isshiki's annoyed face at so many questions made itself known. "Yes yes, that is your planet. Take a good look before it is gone." The horned alien said dismissively.
"Gone? Tell me why did you say that?!" Jigen asked with anxiety in his voice.
The alien did not answer his question right off the bat. "You will know in due time but now you need to train that weak body of yours and be quick about it." He said it like an order.
"Why?" Jigen crossed his arms on his chest, challenging him.
"My murderer, Kaguya is out there. She killed me and if she senses me in your body, so are you." The form of Kaguya Ōtsutsuki formed next to Isshiki.
Jigen looked at the woman. She was beautiful, hard to believe she could do all those things he heard.
"What do you suggest we do about that?" Jigen asked the horned man for suggestions.
The Ōtsutsuki pointed at his right hand. "That is my Kāma Seal. That is your weapon against her." A diamond-shaped form appeared behind Isshiki. "It activates unconsciously with certain emotions like fear or anger when you aren't well versed in its use. Now that you have knowledge about it, you can activate it at will with your own Chakra." The being explained as if talking about the weather.
Jigen looked genuinely lost. "Chakra?" He could swear he had heard old Daisuke mention that word a few times.
A playful smirk greeted him. "Back to the basics, aren't we. Since you are my vessel it would be good for you to know about it." Another representation appeared of out thin air.
The horned male began his lesson. "Chakra is the energy that binds everything. Chakra usage however is exclusive to Celestial Beings like me." He said with a holier-than-thou attitude.
A blue flame-like sphere appeared. "Chakra is divided into two parts: Spiritual Energy and Physical Energy." The alien grabbed the blue sphere and magically separated it with both his hands. "With time I will teach you how to improve both aspects." Jigen looked at his Kāma Seal, such level of power at his disposal.
"Now since you are the only human currently alive able to use Chakra that means that you can do things most other people like you could only dream off." The Ōtsutsuki watched as Jigen grinned.
"My blood merged with your body meaning that your newly Chakra Coils and your Chakra Pathways are relatively similar to my own." Jigen skin below his neck turned transparent at that.
He could observe his insides and organs. However, there were some strange blue chords coursing through his body.
A quick snap of fingers brought him back to attention. "Just remember for now. To use my power so to speak, you just have to direct some of your Chakra into the Seal." The alien gathered Chakra on his hand like if it was no big deal.
"Use it however way you wish. I don't care as long as you don't die but you will have to improve if you really want to ever be at the level of my clanswoman. Your enemy." The being stared at him.
Jigen nodded. "Ok, I think I got this. When do we start?" He clasped his palms.
"Soon. But for now you j..." The alien stopped his tirade.
Confused human eyes watched him. "What are you looking at?" He saw the alien mood change drastically.
"We are surrounded. I will take care of it." He assured the human.
"Wh..." Jigen did not finish his question since he was interrupted again.
An evil grin welcomed him. "Let me do this. Trust me."
Outside World
Seigo and other monks were outside of the door that leads into the Monastery dorm.
Some monks were left out of the blue so to speak as to not arouse suspicion in Jigen.
Seigo and some of the monks with more experienced in martial arts were ready to restrain and submit Jigen if need be. They were armed with non-lethal weapons like a Bō and others, a rope among them.
Seigo muttered to his fellow monks "Are you ready?" All heads nodded in agreement. Seigo signaled for the door.
"Let's do this." They opened the door slowly. One by one filling the room and getting closer to Jigen's bunk.
Everyone watched their feet, stealthiness at its finest, they slowly circled Jigen sleeping form.
A young monk with a rope on his hand looked at Seigo, the monk in charge of the operation nodding at him from his location.
The rope wielding monk approached the sleeping form of the alleged felon that was Jigen and prepared to pounce. The rest of the group gripped the weapons tightly. They were ready.
The monk moved to restrain and he would have if not for a hand snapping out into action, grasping said monk's neck and proceeding to throw him into the stone ceiling.
Crack!
Small drops of blood began to leak out from the ceiling. The —now— deceased monk still connected to the ceiling like if he was glued to it.
"So, who is next?" Seigo had been living in this Monastery far too long. He still remembered when young Jigen first arrived in the back of an ox with an arrow on his shoulder. He knew the young lad's voice but whatever thing that voice belonged it was not Jigen for sure.
All around them the monks were paralyzed with such a brutal scene, some even dropping their weapons.
Jigen stood up from the bed as if it was another normal day with such calmness that it was terrifying.
His upper body and muscles were bare for anyone to see but there some strange marks moving through the right side of his body and torso. The moving tattoos sharply contrasting his pale skin.
Jigen's arms suddenly started crackling at that momment. Electricity arching and running from the tip of his fingers to his shoulder. The destructive element was clearly observable to anyone.
He pointed a single finger to a monk and to everyone surprise a lightning strike followed from his hand.
Thrush!
The unlucky monk was engulfed in lightning. His body convulsing for some seconds and then falling on the ground with smoke leaving his corpse.
At this most of the monks began to flee from the scene, they posing no match for Jigen and whatever power at his repertoire.
Still, some monks stood their ground and charge at him. Seigo was one of the latter.
Seigo raised his Bō and charged at Jigen. The man closed the distance and brought his weapon down until a hand suddenly gripped his Bō on the offending side.
Seigo looked up to meet Jigen's eyes and gasped. His eyes were white like those of blind people with the difference that there were pulsing veins protruding around them.
Seigo was brought back to the world from his inner thinking with an open palm hit on his chest courtesy of Jigen that sent him flying into a stone column. Cracks and dust appearing once the old monk impacted against the structure.
Seigo once on the ground started coughing blood and clutching the skin above his heart. He felt like a hundred needles pierced his red organ.
A Chakra imbedded hit. An archaic form of the Gentle Fist.
Seigo had a seizure soon after, his heart failing until it finally stopped.
Jigen looked at all the remaining monks in front of him and behind with his Byakugan. A smirk appearing across the possessed human face.
"I see, so you have chosen death..." Jigen entire body blazed with fire. The prototype Chakra Fire Armor burning anything unlucky to be close to him.
A brave monk moved into action, holding a wooden staff as his weapon. Jigen gave an evil laugh.
'This is gonna be a night to remember' Jigen/Isshiki thought with sadistic glee.
Jigen blocked the attack from the staff with his forearm, burning the side of the staff making contact with his skin before extending to the entire weapon in the process. The weaponless monk gawked at him. Jigen's blazing palm facing his direction with fire ready to blow.
Ahhhhh!
The monk body and clothes were washed in fire. The man on fire began running like a headless chicken until he tripped with a bunk, the bunk catching fire too. A chain of chaos unleashing on the dormitory wing.
The last monks formed a single line and charged at him, thinking than they could overwhelm him with their superior numbers.
'Bunch of idiots' Jigen/Isshiki thought while raising both his hands to meet the incoming line of attackers.
BOOOM!
The entire floor exploded.
OoOoOoO
Kinpu Monastery Courtyard
Daisuke did not know what was happening. He and some monks have been waiting for Seigo in the courtyard for seven minutes now. Seigo and others have left some minutes ago to bring Jigen to clear out all details of what happened in Nichitsu.
Ahhhhh!
Daisuke and his retinue turned to look at the tower where the dormitories could be found, to where the scream had come from.
'I hope they were not so rough on the boy' Daisuke knew this was necessary. In a small community like this, there was no tolerance for people who committed crimes.
Before they joined the order was understandable but once inside it was intolerable. No breaches of law inside the Monastery, that was the unspoken rule.
Daisuke turned his sight to the tall building again. They must be on the way.
Looking more closely at the edifice, he could see something licking at the window, something flashy.
Shortly after that, the window broke. A monk going right through it, falling from the third level of the tower-like building some meters away from Daisuke and his followers.
Splat!
The man stayed unmoving, lifeless. The monks below gasping at the scenery.
Elder Brother Daisuke watched moments later as a crowd of monks started running away in droves from the building and the Monastery altogether. The crowd running down the stairs that connected them to the outside world. Daisuke was going to approach and ask them what had transpired when a loud explosion stopped him from doing so.
BOOOM!
The third floor of the tower exploded in dramatic fashion. Tiles, wood, bricks, and others raining on the ground.
Daisuke watched as a figure emerged from the upper part of the aflame building.
A single man
The man was floating in the air from the looks of it and he was shirtless too. The man turned to look down upon Daisuke and his group like if they were ants. His expression was unreadable.
An outstretched hand faced the direction of the burning tower and made a gesture like if he was pulling at something.
Surprisingly, the fire from the tower traveled through the air and into the man's direction. To everyone's astonishment, the fire took the form of an angry bird.
A Phoenix
The flying man grinned at them. Ethereal white eyes staring at a dozen pair of mortal ones of various colors.
A single-digit then pointed at their location. The Fire Phoenix screeched and heeded its caster voiceless order, descending into Daisuke's current location and leaving a trail of fiery red behind.
Screech!
That was the last thing Elder Brother Daisuke heard before the Fire Phoenix crashed right into him. His world going up in flames.
End of Chapter
AN: Another chapter done. Jigen killed all the monks. Now he is all alone again. I still don't know how I will manage to write the incoming future battles with shinobi. If you know a page that records all jutsus let me know in a comment.
Anyway, the timeline will finally move again. Three chapters and no progress in the timeline will finally see its end.
Anyway, Fav, review and follow if you like what I am writing. If you know some facts I am forgetting. Let me know.
Hope you enjoy this chapter.
DragoonMen