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Warning #1: Characters may sometimes be OOC. You have been warned.
Lost
Chapter 17
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The group of five, consisting of four men and one woman, found themselves weaving their way through the dense forest that Hi no Kuni was known for having. So far they had not encountered any of the usual dangers, most likely since Jiraiya was already married to Kyonshi's somewhat adopted daughter of sorts.
But the usual adventures still occurred to each of the male members of the group, only this time during the night, while they were all supposedly safe in their beds, soundly sleeping and oblivious to the world beyond the lands of sleep and dreams.
The time for Jiraiya to return to Konoha was slowly nearing, he only had two weeks left to find Naruto, but unfortunately he had found no leads as to where his cute blonde student was. Everywhere he had been he searched or sought out information on his student, anything that might lead him to the whereabouts of his most recent student, one who for some reason was lost to the world.
Jiraiya and company had also been unable to find any clues as to Mikio's real identity, aside from being known or going by Rosuto Mikio for some time, and as merely Mikio for even longer. Mikio had not found anything that could unlock his memories of long long ago, whenever long long ago was. His memory only went as far back as when he was given the name Mikio, since the person that found him didn't know his name, and through some divine intervention, gave Mikio the name Mikio.
The Voice hadn't made his presence known to Mikio since the group entered the borders of Hi no Kuni. Mikio couldn't find a way to contact the Voice which had been a constant companion throughout his amnesiatic life. There was something in the Land of Fire that blocked out the Voice, or at least that was what Mikio thought. The real reason as to why the Voice, also known as Hyakume, did not make his presence known was that all the answers to everything about Mikio's past could be found in one village, that looked more like a city, somewhere in the Land of Fire.
There were one or two people in the whole village that would never forget his unaging face. Mikio really hadn't aged a day since Kiyomi and Ikkaku first met the man. It was like Tsunade and her genjutsu, except it didn't shorten his lifespan or something like that. If he were to sit and think about it, he seemed kind of immortal, it was a good thing that Orochimaru never heard of him, the man who did not physically age, and had a voice in his head.
Haru had matured more after the usual adventures ended, his dreams revolved around him finding himself in the Shokon compound in Juushu Oujou, and spending some days with Megumi, eventually one dream had him finally get married to the head of the Shokon. During the wedding he was told that Rosuto no Kuni would soon join the rest of the world, but he was also told not to tell anyone that little piece of information. Many people had attended the wedding, since the bride was the clan head of one of the most prestigious clans in all of Rosuto no Kuni. Even the Daimyou was there, but his face was hidden under the hood of his battle cloak, which people were used to seeing him wearing. Attending the wedding were many of Rosuto no Kuni's heroes from the past and present, some of whom or most of whom hadn't really aged all that much. That is to say that they looked older than thirty, but no older than fifty. None of them used a youth technique or magic like a certain Kage with a jewel on her forehead.
Haru had been introduced to them all since he was given partial headship over the Shokon clan. The perl of being an outsider was that he was not required to be the full head, and had to share all his duties and responsibilities with the formerly single clan head.
But before Haru could marry Megumi, the Giman clan had him undergo a number of trials to prove his determination and love for the head of the Shokon clan. Many people in the country actually thought that it would be Kazuo who would finally tie the knot with Megumi, but due to the trials that Haru faced it was learned that that was an impossibility since Kazuo only saw Megumi as a little sister. The Shokon and Giman clans had been very close to one another, even closer than the other clans of the Court class. Some five hundred years into the promised thousand years of peace, the two clans had somewhat joined, resulting in the two clans exchanging third and fourth children in marriage. Due to all these marriages the two clans could be considered one clan, but due to there being a few gaps, and since the heirs of both clans never married it was never going to happen. Kazuo and Megumi being the closest the two clans ever got to that ever happening.
The trials that Haru had to face could be considered as close to the adventures that he had found himself in. They were just as dangerous and hard to complete. Not only did he have to come out alive, but he was also given tasks to accomplish.
One of these seemingly impossible tasks was that he, Haru, was told to wade in the filthiest swamp the Giman clan could find, find three black pearls the size of marbles, and bring them to the Giman clan elder Giman Ryuu, all the while wearing a pristinely white kimono and hakama, throughout the whole ordeal. Haru used his knowledge of chakra and his control of it to protect the clothes from all manner of dirt and the like. Throughout the whole exercise, he was covered from head to toe in a greenish glow, which was his chakra in medical form that had formed a thin barrier around him.
Another of these tasks was similar to one of the tasks that Hercules had to perform, Haru was instructed to kill a lion. The lion was no ordinary lion, this monster was five times larger than a full grown lion. It was found in one of the underground forests, that could be found around the country. Haru was not given any weapons. He was shoved into one of the holes that led directly to the underground forest. Getting in was no problem. Killing only one lion was another thing, and getting out alive with the carcass of the entire thing was another thing entirely. Haru wasn't like Hercules that he was allowed to use other things that were not a part of his body, he also did not possess inhuman strength. But the thing that helped him the most was his speed. Upon landing in a literal lion's den, the exit of the slide like tunnel being a lion's den, he shouted to awaken all the lions that lay within it, and ran out while being chased by those monstrous cats. The oldest one of the lot was apparently still the fastest one. Once Haru found an exit, after running for hours and hours on end, he killed the old timer and ran as fast as he could all he while dragging the carcass out of the underground forest. He used up all the tricks that he knew to multiply his strength and speed. After getting out and proving that he had completed the task, he collapsed in a dead faint. He had overexerted his body, by forcing it to go beyond its limits, it was something like Rock Lee and opening the gates and having his limbs crushed. Haru had to spend a month in bed due to the ordeal.
One more notable trial that Haru had to undergo was also reminiscent of one of the twelve trials or labors of Heracles, the Giman clan had Haru bring back to the capital, even just outside the gates, the dragon of Kuraku Yuji, but unlike Heracles when he fetched the watchdog of the underworld, Haru was not allowed to be caught by the Kuraku elder.
After days of traveling to Komugi, the nine provinces kept their names when they were still separate lands, Haru found the dragon. Instead of trying to attract its wrath and have it chase him to the capital, he patiently waited for a time when no one but him and the dragon were around. When that time came, he walked up to the dragon and spoke to it, telling it his problems as well as what he needed to do, along with a bunch of other stuff. The dragon either out of pity or out of boredom, decided to grab hold of Haru and fly to the capital. Upon arrival there, the dragon sought out a Giman clansman and dropped Haru in front of him. Thus making allowing Haru to pass the trial, with literally flying colors.
While Haru lived this life and spent his time in Rosuto no Kuni all within several hours on three consecutive nights, Mikio also had dreams of his own.
Mikio's dreams mainly revolved around him finding himself in various countries around the Elemental continent. Unlike Jiraiya and Haru, he didn't seem to have been affected by Ikkaku's story telling.
The first dream had sent Mikio to a land constantly plagued by thunder and lightning storms. While moving around the land, he saw several nomadic clans traveling around the place. As he explored the land he made sure that he made as little contact with the clans as possible. Since he couldn't find any thing better to do, Mikio would play with the lightning during storms, this action would freak out and amaze passing clans or clans that were in the vicinity of Mikio's playing. He would allow himself to be struck by lightning, leading to some of the clans calling him Raijin. What they didn't know was that Mikio had been using chakra to allow himself to survive being hit constantly by the lightning. One of his persnal jutsu allowed him to absorb the lightning and transform it into nutrients for his body, due to all the lightning that he absorbed, Mikio did not need to eat and drink as long as there was a lightning storm.
Whenever Mikio was around the storms overhead were even more violent and fierce than they usually were, but Mikio didn't know that. The clouds always converged wherever Mikio would be. There was never a clear sky when Mikio was around. Wherever he went he attracted and therefore brought the thunder and lightning to the skies above everywhere he went.
Soon travelers would begin to refer to the land as the land of lightning, and later a village of shinobi would name their village the Village Hidden in the Clouds.
When Kumogakure no Sato was founded, Mikio was there, the village was on top of a mountain, and was perpetually surrounded with clouds, thunder and lightning storms were prevalent in the area, but it was the mass of clouds that Mikio's presence brought about that convinced the village leaders to name the village such. Mikio being oblivious to such a thing.
After his stint in Rai no Kuni, Mikio's next dream sent him to a land covered in mists and surrounded by water. In this land Mikio spend his days topless continuously twisting his shirt to wring out the water that would get sucked into it. Without any lightning to fuel his body, Mikio resorted to catching fish for food, and drinking, well, water.
This was one land that had more nomadic and hiding clans with special abilities than clans that did not have any. The land was something like a cradle of life, or a primodial pool from which many kekkai genkai clans were born.
Most of the land's residents traveled the coastline to always be close to a source of food, the sea, while those that lived inland relied upon fruit trees and the occasional vegetables.
Mikio had found out early in his stay in the land that there were three demons that perpetually travelled the surrounding body of water of the land in which he was stuck in.
One was a giant shark that was always accompanied by the second monster, which was a giant stingray, the third monster was a giant tentacled shellfish. These three monsters mostly kept to themselves. They preyed on the sailors and other seafarers that stayed out at sea for too long.
Sometimes while watching fishermen in their boats casting their nets into the sea, Mikio would constantly flip a loaf of bread just to see how many boats he could capsize. When he wasn't doing that one other thing that he did was try and talk some sailors that he found to talk about their next scheduled trip. But when he wasn't doing that he spent his time in the existing ports and waited for when an albatros would appear, upon spotting one he would use a Suiton Jutsu to shoot it. Injuring or killing an albatros was considered bad luck, so Mikio decided to give in to his mischievous side while he stayed in the land of mists and water.
While Mikio was waiting for the fish to bite, he would also throw stones into the water in an attempt to have them skip on the surface of the water, the only problem being that the stones did not have any smoth surfaces. For some reason, on the otherside of the country, a storm with big waves would pop up whenever Mikio went fishing.
The dream that brought him to the archipelagic country lasted for what seemed to be close to two years. During that time Mikio was spotted by many of the people living in that area of Elemental. Most of them considered any place that he was in bad luck. Since he was usually present whenever something bad happened.
The people that relied on the waters for sustenance always experienced misfortune whenever Mikio was around. Not that he really cared. He was trying to figure out if all the superstitions pertaining to sailing, seafearing, and just plain water were true, and for some reason the beliefs of the people made them true.
One good thing that came about of his presence in the ancient land of water was that whenever he left a place, extremely good fortune would befall the people in that place, which would last until someone new would arrive.
As time wore on, Mikio started to use Kirigakure no Jutsu to somewhat hide his presence from on lookers. Due his use of the jutsu, some of the inhabitants of the archipelago, mostly those inland, would refer to him as Kiri no Kami, god of the mist. One that brought good and bad luck.
Some people had got it into their heads that maybe they could drive Mikio away to gain the good luck that he left after bringing misfortune by attacking him. None of the attacks ever succeeded, none of them ever even made contact with him. This sort of immortality of the physical body added to Mikio's mythological mystery or divinity. Eventually Mikio would and his Kiri no Kami alias would be one of the reasons for the naming of Kirigakure no Sato. Aside from the village being hidden in mists, the people would use the belief that they would be protected by Kiri no Kami. The description of Mikio would never die, and if he ever visited Mizu no Kuni, alone, old timers would think of him as the Kiri no Kami that brought bad luck, and left good luck. The people of Kiri would later believe that by being hidden within the mists, they would be as invulnerable and immortal as Mikio.
The next dream that Mikio went through was still in Mizu no Kuni, but the time was different, it wasn't all that ancient, it was closer to the present, it was the time before the first attack of one of the tailed beasts. But during this time, there were still no big hidden villages, just those small ones that were for one clan only.
As Mikio appared he quicky applied his jutsu, in order for him to get into the grove and become his Kiri no Kami persona. Afterwhich he decided to go explore and see what the world, or at least the country, was like this time.
A month passed by, with him doing his misfortune thing, when he chanced upon a fishing village, when he was just about to do his usual thing, he noticed that the water around the village didn't look all that healthy, it didn't sport a healthy green or blue, it had things bobbing in and out, and up and down in it. It was clearly being polluted. He noticed that the boats that were anchored near the village were larger than those in the other villages that he had passed by.
The people of this particular village showed no gratitude to the water, the giver of life, at all. They took from the sea, and gave trash in return. Some of the people noticed his approach, and grew somewhat weary, for all intents and purposes, their beliefs were not strong enough to keep them in tune with nature. They weren't aware that Mikio was not in a happy mood. He didn't like it when people did not show gratitude. This small village was not very eco-friendly.
By this time, Mikio had added to his personality, since to him he had become somewhat god-like, he gained the mindset that he somehow was. He may have had superstitions and jutsu at his beck and call, but these people didn't really fear the myths surrounding the mists and the diety that walked within them.
In the past nothing overly castastrophic ever happened whenever Mikio was around, life was just a tad bit harder, no big. But this time, Mikio was planning something bigger, he knew the mechanics of the kami and other such beings, due to all the encounters that he and his group had with the actual kamis. He thought himself a representative of the elements. Lightning in Rai no Kuni, which gave him the monicker Raijin, and water, in Mizu no Kuni, due to his mists being made out of the moisture in the air.
Insults and the like usually got a kami mad at someone in their group, Inari being one example. Mikio found it an insult to his beliefs as well as to the other water dieties and kami when he saw the primitive form of pollution that had accumulated in the waters around the fishing village.
He was a shinonbi, so he had no qualms about killing, but in this instance he wasn't going to just go up to the first villages and slit his throat, no he was going to do something more sinister, he was going to do an a la Madara bijuu attack.
The villages didn't really notice the shit that they put themselves in, until they noticed the large shadow overhead.
Mikio had used a bunch of clones to get the sabi, both the shark and the shellfish-turtle, to attack the village. The clones did this by saturating the air with their chakra and pissing off the two monsters. The air was also filled with as much rage and anger as he could muster. The two monsters were quickly drawn to the emotions that permeated the air. Something in the chakra compelled them to follow it all to the source, which was Mikio.
When the two behemoths arrived at the village, they tried to seek out Mikio, who was at the middle of the village. He made himself known to those around him by producing his mists, which instantly covered the whole of the village. As with every attack of any kind there would be survivors.
Mikio then expertly hid his chakra, having had to hide from a few omniscient beings made one an expert at hiding those kinds of things, although it seemed only possible when they were running and hiding. The bijuu, or what would later be refered to as the bijuu, were nothing compared to the a being like a kami. Add in the fact that the monster that would be captured, sealed, and would be recognized as the sanbi was kind of dumb as a doornail and relied mostly on instinct rather than brains, hiding was a cinch. The other one, should have been the one to get the title, it was far smarter, but there was one thing on its mind, and it wasn't Mikio, it was the smorgasbord that was prepared for the two.
The shark treated Mikio as some handler who offered or more or less gave it a treat, aka free food, so it didn;t pay much mind to Mikio.
One of the other reasons why Mikio was in no danger from the two monsters was that he had used the chakra in the air to form a slightly undetectable genjutsu to somehow control the two beasts. This would make them leave, to them, of their own volition after the destruction had been wrought.
After chaos and havok had made their presences known to the inhabitants of the village of sinners, the two monsters left, and went back to the deeper part of the waters in which they resided in.
Once those two hulking masses of solidified chakra had left, Mikio once again made his presence known. The mists surrounding his form, less dense than they usually were. He stood atop a pillar of earth which was hidden from view by the mists. Looking down on the survivors, he told them that those that siurvived were allowed to live so that others may know of the tale, the events that transpired, as well as the reason for such a disaster to have struck many of their fellows dead.
By adding chakra to his eyes, Mikio had been able to make them glow a vivid blue, which gave an additional effect of making him look more divine, as well as angry.
The people took the warning that such a disaster would happen again, should such things ever occur in the land of water and mists.
Which in the future, even without Mikio's prompting, would really occur, his genjutsu having a lasting effect on the two monsters, one that would give them powerful mental suggestions to attack villages or any place that people weren't taking care of, only in the land of water of course, as that was their terrotory.
But the turtle being the dumb one would in later years be ensnared by Shodaime Hokage, and would limit Mikio's influence, for a time.
Mikio's influence and power had grown after that. He was the most powerful and influencial divine figure in the Mizu pantheon. His powers ranged from mere superstitions to the ability to bring about disasters.
But his influence didn't end in just that era.
His next dream was one where he played a direct role in the actual history of the country. His dream had him witness the calamities brought about by the massive blood purge, or at least all the things that lots of people knew about. He was also shown the havok broguht about by the defection of the Kiri no Shinobigatana Nananin Shu.
After bearing witness to such tradgedies and atrocities, Mikio was thrust into the beginning of it all. He knew that even with his Kiri no Kami persona he would not be able to prevent all those things from happening. To the rest of the world, those things were very important events. But there was still something that he could do.
The mist can hide things, many thing, the mist can even hide a whole village. Mikio planned or doing something a la Naruto. Search and rescue was his new thing. He'd have to alter his Kiri no Kami persona a bit. The divine were not meant to directly interfere with the actions of mortals, so he would have to do things more subtly, by employing agents into this war torn world.
He would hide people in a mist so dense and thick that no one would be able to enter or leave without his say so. It would be a caged paradise. He would be able to do this due to his knowledge of seals, some of the things that he picked up during his travels before leaving on his journey with Jiraiya, he also gained some more insight and experience in the sealing arts by just being in close proximity with one of the world's seal masters.
While Mikio didn't have the capacity that Naruto possesed, he had enough to do the things that he needed to do. He knew how to perform Kage Bushin no Jutsu, and he would use those and Mizu Bushin to their full extent. He would also be making extensive use of Henge, which would build up his myth.
The power of a diety, kami, and or other higher being lay in their myth, and the belief of people. To think is to create, and that was oen of the ways that the higher powers worked. Of course the Being, Chaos, and Order didn't nescessarily work that way, since those three just were.
He traveled the land as he did in his previous adventure filled dreams, but this time with more of a purpose than anything else. His clones travelled a short distance behind him, conserving their energies for the tasks that lay ahead.
Mikio had memorized all the events that would occur, none of which had a detailed count of the lives that were lost in the battles and such. But there were records of prominent individuals that died or were just lost to the world. These people would be too visible on the radar, so Mikio and his clones would concentrate on those that wouldn't really be missed all that much.
There were stories of one of two of the defectors known to be the greatest swordsmen of the mist, one or two of these passed on into history with nary a word spoken about what had become of them. The visions that Mikio had seen did not show some of these men, Kisama, Zabuza and Raiga were shown, but the rest were not. Mikio would also be on the lookout for one or two of those other four.
After a few successful rescue missions, and the people that he had rescued had been safely placed in the enclosed and hidden area, Mikio's power and status grew, his Kiri no Kami persona reached Kami status, but only for short periods of time.
Mikio could remain a Kami for at most a whole week straight. Thus enabling him to have access to powers that he normally would not have access to. But using such powers shortened his time in god-mode. Each major power would lessen his time by a full hour, minor powers would use up a fourth of an hour.
The people he had rescued from the cold hands of death of a few frustrated shinigami, along with the few other people that had seen him come and go, had bolstered his myth and their belief had strengthened his powers.
He could compare himself to a demi-god, or a jinchuuiki. Whereas a jinchuuriki held a bijuu at bay, Mikio held within him a kami, or something like that.
Whereas Jiraiya had influenced Hi no Kuni, Mikio was an influential and mythological being in both Rai and Mizu no Kuni, more so in Mizu than in Rai. But he still had a few rounds to make.
After his last self sent mission, Mikio had accumulated enough people power to populate a small village, well more like a village the size of the Nami no Kuni village that Naruto and Team 7 went to on their first C-ranker.
When he knew his time was up, he walked into the mists surrounding his hidden village, slowly vanishing back to his dreamscape where he would be sent off to another place and time. His people, followers, and believers were unintentionally left in a space that could be accessed by Rosuto no Kuni, starting from five hundred years before Naruto was born. The people would interact and grow separate from the world just like Rosuto no Kuni, and would not be a part of the Land of the Lost, except in their existence.
Mikio was expecting to find himself closer to his real time still in Mizu no Kuni, but alas it was not meant to be. He found himself in the center of a massive hole in the ground, which was littered with rocks and boulders of all manner of shape and size. The hole in the ground did not look recent, it looked old, like something that had happened long before people existed in the country that he guessed he was in.
Sure enough he was right. Once he got out of the crater the sight that met him confirmed it, he was in Tsuchi no Kuni. From his vantage point, as he was on a moutain, he could see the place that would in the future be Iwagakure no Sato.
He had not received any vision of future's pasts and past's futures, he had no real knowledge as to what to expect and what he could do in this country, in this land of earth. So he supposed that he would have to find away to become like his Raijin and Kiri no Kami personas.
He walked the length and bredth of the country for three whole years before he knew how he would make a mythological name for himself. Through past experiences, he knew that due to his actions he had or should have changed the flow and course of time as he knew it, but it seemed that he had not. That meant that there was some higher power that enabled or made it so that anything that he did do, was somehow fit into the flow of time as he knew it. Things that were supposed to happen still happened, nothing that he had done had changed the future one bit, how he knew this he didn't know. But he did know that events and the like that he knew had occurred still occurred. He also knew that everyone's perception of the present and history was very different and unique, so although they lived in the same dimension, world, time, and place, their view of events were different, and their knowledge of the flow of time flawed.
This was the basis upon which Mikio and his friends could act. It was also how Rosuto no Kuni was able to exist. The only things that they all avoided were actively changing the past for their betterment. Like how Mikio didn't attempt to save everyone in the blood purge. Another thing was how Jiraiya did his thing, aka being the cause for the creation, birth, and or existence of some things.
After those three years, Mikio notice that the land didn't look like the Tsuchi no Kuni that he knew. He realized that he had been given he chance to play with a helluva lot more clay than he had ever dreamed of. So whenever there were a few people around, which was more like a tribe or clan of people or three, he would enter god-mode and stay in it for around three day, shaping the land to what he knew it to more or less look like, as well as some other different forms and shapes and sizes.
When he was in god-mode, Mikio wore a royal purple cheongsam, which was a long shirt with long sleeves, and long pants. His hair was a changed somewhat, it was light grey that had a certain touch of luminosity. All of his movements showed the gracefulness of a god of water, the precision and agility of a god of lightning, and the masculinity and strength of the earth.
His utilization of his god-powers, and his jutsu, allowed him to not only shape the landscape, but also add a touch of greenery to it. His arsenal of Raiton Jutsus allowed him to electrify and even energize portions of the land, allowing for a fast flow of chi. His Siuton Jutsus allowe some areas for produce more fruits of the earth after human hands had applied a helping hand. His ability was like Juushu but on a smaller scale.
AS he moved about and appeared in many places, he did not make his presence known alone. With him he had two companions, both of which h were just Bushin, the regular kind, but sporting Henges that made them look like his god-mode. The difference between the three Mikios was that the real one's skin had a golden brownish tint, while the bushin that respresented his Mizu aspect had a blue -green tint, and the bushin that represented his Rai aspect was just pale, but had sparks run up and down his skin, visible even at a distance.
After being spotted or seen all over the country, Mikio's three god-forms gained the title of Kaibyaku no Sankami, while his central character in the Tsuchi pantheon was dubbed as Yochigami.
Unlike Rai no Kuni that had lots of lightning flying all over the place, and Mizu no Kuni that had lots of bodies of water, Tsuchi no Kuni only had the fruits of the earth to sustain the people. Mikio had to depend on the plants for nutrients, for some reason he avoided eating meat.
What Mikio was unaware of was that he was not the only one that was time travelling here and there in Elemental. Juushu also did a bit of traveling himself. What else was he to do when he had to wait a thousand years before he could interact with the other people he considered his friends.
Outside of Rosuto no Kuni he performed feats of skill and other things, he was one of the movers and shakers of the continent, quite literally too. When Mikio wasn't around, Juushu would step in and make sure that Raijin, Kiri no Kami, and Yochigami's myths didn't die in their physical absence.
But one thing that he did that separated him from Mikio was that he was god-mode twenty four seven. He made himself known as the big brother of Mikio's three god-forms. Where Mikio was cautious and careful with his actions, Juushu found his time hopping and shopping as the perfect opportunities to cut loose. He knew the timeline of the outside world, and had even memorized it. Zombie-sensei informed him that he had free reign in what he could do to the elemental continent. And do as he pleased he did.
Unexplained natural and unatural disasters that befell the world or just one country or two, those events that were chaulked up to a mischievous kami, were almost all his doing. There were some enlightened or honored being that would pop up now and again to take credit for an event that was to occur, and Juushu obliged them. There was more than enough of the continent to share with a few others.
Tsunami no Kuni rose and fell with the tides, it had gotten its name from the time when Juushu sneezed and caused a tsunami to form which would have covered the land if it were not for some water god creating storms that dispersed the giant wave before it even reached land. That or those incidents were mostly accidents on Juushu's part, the tsunami was caused from the sneeze while Juushu was shifting from water to the wind.
Juushu's presence in Tsuchi no Kuni was the opposite of Mikio's. Whereas Mikio brought about positive change. Juushu brought about earthquakes and mudslides. He was the bane of all higher beings that roamed the Land of Earth. He left destruction in his wake. Regular luck returned to the land everytime he left.
At one point in time the Land of Earth suffered a great earthquake that toppled mountains. This event was the most insane one in the history of the land.
It was the only time that Mikio and Juushu were in the same land at the exact same time, with no other gods present, just watching.
It was a clash of the titans. The event happened just after the founding of Iwagakure no Sato. Atop the moutain that hid the village stood Mikio. On the mountain that served as the capital of Tsuchi no Kuni stood Juushu.
Their combined presences conflicted, their energies were unstable. One wishing to create, to mold, to heal, to make new, and one wishing to cause chaos, calamit, to destroy, to eradicate.
Mountains crumbled and reformed as the two opposing forces did battle. For three whole years after the founding of Iwagakure no Sato, the two "brothers" did battle, Juushu sustaining Mikio's god-form to prolong his entertainment. Mikio did not notice his prolonged stay in god-mode.
Many Doton Jutsu were born in the span of those three years. The Tsuchikage of that time sent out teams of shinobi to survey the battle and get ideas from the happenings all over the country.
Mikio and Juushu deployed Tsuchi Bushins of themselves to fight each other in a massive battle royale. These were the battles in which the Iwa-nin picked up many jutsu as well as ideas for jutsu.
Rokudou no Sennin was the father and founder of chakra, forever immortalized in the history books as such. But the information and use of chakra was fairly primitive, it was his use of nature chakra that made him truly great. His ninjutsu was limited as the world had just been reborn then. So his legacy was a bit limited. But little did he know that one day his teachings would be used by the kamis themselves.
Since the two battling "brothers" never left their places atop the mountains, some people were able to gleam a taijutsu style from their movements. This taijutsu style would later become known as Tsuchi no Kuni's two hardest to learn, master, and use styles.
Juushu's style was powerful and filled with rage, most of the strikes that he employed to move the earth to do his bidding were mostly punches, there were a few kicks in between. Juushu was the solidified earth, he was as a rock.
Mikio on the other hand was everything else. His style was the rock hard determination of the mountains that allowed such collosal structures of nature to stand firm through all the test of time. He was the reason why a mudslide was so overpowering. Although his strikes were not all that powerful, the sheer number that were let loose was more than enough to make up for the lack of physical strength. The only times that his movements showed their strength, was when he was protecting and defending.
In one part of the country a small city stood, it was in the middle of nine mountains. From these nine mountains nine earth dragons formed and flew towards the city, intent on its destruction. But a dome rose up from the earth around the city, from mud the earth turned to stone, then to diamond. The dragons stood no chance against such a defense. Once the dragons' powers were all used up, and their limp earthen bodies fell limply to the ground, the dome receeded back into the earth. The city was then dubbed the diamond mine capital of Tsuchi no Kuni.
The incident that ended the three year battle was when in his frustration at being unable to overpower the defending Mikio, Juushu unleased his burning will on the earth. Instead of forming just a mountain, he let loose his powers and formed a volcano. Upon completion, the volcano erupted in a shower of molten rock. The Lava did not flow out of the crater, it flew high in the air just as hot as it had been within the bowels of the earth.
As the lava fell down in a blindingly bright rain of molten rocks, Mikio did the only thing he could think of. He covered the whole of earth country in a dome of earth, all manner or rock and mineral and precious stone, formed a dome and protected the inhabitants of the land. The shadow of the earth protected its people.
Afte that final move, the battle had ended. The volcano instantly became extinct, and the dome receeded back into the earth. The Land of Earth was hidden from the world for an entire twenty four hours.
The volcano did not grow within the borders of Earth, but within the borders of Fire. One of the reason as to why Tsuchi and Hi no kuni have a strong dislike for one another is because of the end of that one titanic battle.
All over elemental other such incidents occurred, but none as bad as that one. After their battle in earth the two "brothers" never again did battle.
Another big thing that Juushu had a hand in was the reason as to why Shukaku was had the misfortune of getting stuck with a mad monk.
At the time Juushu was unaware of the consequences of his actions, but in the future it would lead to one of his bestfriends going some what genocidally insane.
Who knew that playing a massive prank on the Wind Temple would cause one of its monk to go mad enough to want to go stir crazy enough to seal his mind into the mind of a bijuu.
Shukaku was a lazy ass when he was not studying or being under the ever watchful and penetrating eyes of Kyonshi. Like the other bijuu especially Touken, Shukaku was also at one time the student of Kyonshi.
Lounging around in the sea of sand known as Kaze no Kuni, the tauki was unaware that a mad monk had designs of becoming immortal through merging or sealing his mind in an already happy go lucky tanuki.
The monk wanted revenge on the higher power that had caused chaos to occur in his belovedly peaceful nirvana like home. Juushu while enacting his massive prank, had disguised himself as a number of people, unknowingly one of which was someone that resembled the Yondaime Kazekage, and was part of the reason why Gaara had a strong dislike for his father.
While Mikio and Juushu were trading blows, Jiraiya was messing with the minds of the denizens of Hi no Kuni, and Haru was busy with his familial duties, Ikkaku also had his fair share of adventures. Most of which were tame in comparison with the other men in his group.
Being a happily married man to a more or less goddess did not change his outlook on life, his personality did not undrgo any real changes. That was why even his dreams did not allow his adventures to change.
One of the places that Ikkaku had found himself in was Kaze no Kuni. Present day Kaze no kuni to be exact, complete with Subaku no Gaara as Godaime Kazekage. Normally something like this would not be a problem, if it weren't for the fact that Ikkaku had accidentally asked the wrong person about the possible whereabouts of a certain blonde haired knuckleheaded ninja.
Tenmari was quite surprised to be asked if she had seen a blonde haired shinobi with whisker like birthmarks on his face by a guy who for some reason was wearing a black cloack with a pattern of clouds on it.
Akatsuki was something that all the Shinobi villages kenw about, specifically those that had jinchuuriki living in them. It was definitely understandable that Ikkaku would find himself hunte down by the entirety of the Suna Military forces in the span of a few minutes.
The sennin managed to outrun and outmanuever each and every one of his pursuers, all the while wondering if maybe Naruto was someone that the village hated or something like that. He failed to notice that he looked like one of the Akatsuki.
He had scores of puppets on his tail when he was flying through the air. When he was running on the ground and on the sands and dunes, he was followed by the shinobi of suna.
It was madness, shukriken, kunai, and all sorts of pointy and shiny things were thrown in his direction. Jutsu were also sent his way, lots and lots of Fuuton and Doton jutsu were used in an attempt to possibly capture or kill the "Akatsuki" member.
For the first four hours of the game of cat and mouse the pursuers were made up of only shinobi ranked below Kage.
It was during the fifth hour that Ikkaku ran into a quite sandy problem. The Kazekage had managed to free himself from the overprotective people that had somehow managed to detain him. But now he was out and about and ready for anything.
Which was why Ikkaku had to whip out his weapon of choice and cast a few defensive attacks of his own, none of which being jutsu.
The Elder and Puppet Master who weilded the Puppet collection of Chilamatsu Monzaemon realized that Ikkaku was not using any chakra, at all. As she stopped her assult, so did some of the other shinobi. Those that halted their assults wondered why the old kunoichi had stopped in her relentless attacks.
After a few minutes of avoiding the deadly and sandy gresp of the Ichibi jinchuuriki, Ikkaku got fed up with all the running and stuff, they were only normal people after all, not monsters from the black abyss or the blue lagoon or something more sinister. So with one spell he restrained them all. Being a sennin he was also able to paralyze the Kazekage and his sand.
Once that was done he walked over to the Kazekage and asked why an entire village had gone out of its way just to make him feel not at home. The last time that he was in the village, he was not treated the way he was treated this time. He wanted and needed to know the reason behind such open hostility.
After a few minutes of waiting for an answer and not getting one, he remembered that the person that he was speaking to had been frozen in time via a spell, so he removeed part of the spell to allow the Kage to speak.
After hearing a mocking explanation Ikkaku finally realized that he did in fact look like an Akatsuki member. He also noticed that there were seals placed all over the cloak, so he cancelled them all and cursed whom so ever was it that had made him run the gauntlet. He was rewarded by a big lump of hail smashing into him that came from seemingly out of nowhere. A note was attached to it, which he read after he got his bearings back.
'I heard that!' was what was written on the note, under the message was the mark of the dragon king.
After explaining to the paralyzed Kage that he was just looking for his friend's, Jiraiya's, student, who was missing.
When the Kazekage heard that his friend was missing he was able to break the spell placed on him and immediately wrapped the sage in sand, and threatened to squish him if he didn't fully explain what he meant by saying that Naruto was missing.
The sennin had him promise that he wouldn't tell the Hokage before he would tell him the whole story. The sennin did not fear for his life and actually started to resemble a lunatic. As when dealing with all crazy people caution was advised. Gaara was still considered an slightly insane person, but someone who did not use chakra was an unknown and that merrited some caution.
So he made the promise and listened to Ikkaku's tale. When he asked the sennin where his companions were, the sennin told the kage that they were most likely still in some other country or something like that.
It was a puzzling answer, not knowing where ons's travelling companions were. But the Kage was forced to believe the sennin, especially after said sennin informed the kage that he could leave whenever he wish, demonstrating it by phasing through the sand then phasing back in. It was a weird sign of trust.
In the end Gaara was forced to let the sennin go. Afterwhich the sennin went on his way, into the desert to seek out way to get to another time, a time that was not a part of the present.
After he was a few meters away from the entirety of the Suna Military might, he dispelled the spell that was holding all of them in place and vanished into a sandstorm that had come out of nowhere. It quickly disappeared after he entered showing that no one was there.
Gaara bound by his word did not inform the Nara when he came by suna, due to his ambassador status. But the other Suna-nin did inform the Konoha-nin of a cloacked figure asking seeking the whereabouts of Naruto.
The reason as to why the group of four men and one woman were heading for Konohagakure no Sato with two weeks worth of searching, seeking, and adventure time, was because Jiraiya had received word that he was to return to Konoha ASAP, with his student in tow.
The group couldn't help him in finding a way out of a direct order from his Kage and teammate. So the group made their slow death march to Konoha. Jiraiya counted the seconds til he found his doom. He just hoped that Kiyomi wouldn' kill him for being killed by another woman.
Of course the Gama Sennin was not prepared for a few surprising things that awaited him and his posse during the final leg of their journey.
The Voice also managed to send a final message to Mikio, telling him that should Jiraiya ever find himself in trouble via a busty and blonde woman, Mikio was to bodily defend his friend. Another voice entered the conversation, one of an old man, that informed Mikio that their adventures weren't up yet.
With that final message Hyakume, Dorotabo, Touken, and Kyonshi sat on a couch in front of a television, ate popcorn and watched the finale of the show which the four of them had helped produce.
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