p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"emThrowback. Age: 10./em/p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"Three years were enough for Orochimaru to conclude that the Moth's heiress was ready for real experiments. Hard years of honing combat skills, intensive training in chakra control - both Otsotsuki's and Chomei's. Hardening the spirit and body through murderous sparring, isolation and introducing the girl to the secrets of ninshu. For her age, Izumi has matured rather quickly, losing her childhood prematurely while undergoing a deepening personality crisis. Not having many peers to play and interact with, she had to make the most of the company of adults. Her first months were filled with shock and bewilderment when discovering how strange the men turned out to be, especially the degenerates and exiles around Orochimaru. Strange, unpleasant and often sinister types, although she developed a sibling-like bond with Kabuto, who protected and mentored her./p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"Orochimaru's experiments mostly ended in failure, but that night, the drug given by Kabuto hit differently. The Moth did not rebel and did not try to throw out at all costs the toxins that the girl had forced into herself at the excuse of the experimenters. This time it was different, less brutal... at least that's what she thought at first./p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"Psychedelic visions started slowly making their way into her consciousness. Izumi walked through the swamps, in the deepest jungle. The night was dark. She started sweating excessively, her knees were shaking while stronger hallucinations were taking control. The Moth's and Chomei's chakras were weaving storms inside her./p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"'Go, push, feel, live, breathe fully' Izumi took a breath, following Orochimaru's directions, so deep that it seemed to her that her lungs were bottomless. His voice guided her. It rang out when she lost ground and made her grab it like a lifeline while drowning in this psychedelic storm./p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"She felt everything. Pushing panic and instinctive fear aside, stimulating her curiosity, she began to become aware of the strength and new energy slowly growing inside her. Huranaishi's and Chomei's chakras swirled mercilessly inside her, making her feel sick, but with each breath, Izumi had the impression that by focusing she was calming the senses and at the same time the energy of her demons./p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"The ground crumbled violently, and the trees fell with a crash, revealing the huge furry body of the Seven-Tails. The jungle was no longer a jungle, the space around the girl was again covered with thick fog, and the sounds of tribal music began to mix with the noise of the waves and the movements of the giant demon./p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"A roar pierced the thick night. At that moment, the ground beneath Izumi dissipated and she began to fall, again into the dark abyss. Not for the first time, she had learned to float by surrendering to the Abyss, knowing that nothing would ever happen to her, yet it was always so damn surprising and unpleasant./p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"'Welcome to womanhood, Little Moth' above her, out of nowhere, Huranaishi appeared, extending her hand to her. Izumi, still trembling, grabbed her instantly and stood on her feet regaining clarity of mind. The drug was still circulating in her body with full intensity, but it was no longer overwhelming her. Izumi was starting to feel terrific./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"Huranaishi looked beautiful. Her long, graceful hands and arms were wrapped with numerous straps, stones and ornaments. She wore a long flowy and heavy-looking skirt, also covered with numerous accessories and long sashes. Her black hair flowed in cascades down her back, here waving mystically with each movement as if she were moving on the bottom of the ocean. Thick locks wrapped in ornaments and tied with straps covered her breasts, and Izumi realized that the woman was not wearing any upper clothing. She didn't need any. Her skin glowed with its own glow, covered with numerous tribal tattoos. Her long fingers were claw-like and completely black, darkness flowing up on them towards her wrists, as if the woman had dipped them in ink. She kept moving them, finger by finger, full of excitement at regaining her healthy shape. Her neck was also decorated with numerous accessories to pair with the others and amulets whose meaning Izumi couldn't fathom. Huranaishi walked gracefully on the ground with her bare feet and jumped around the little girl like a wild hare full of newly regained energy and wild strength. Izumi was surprised by her behaviour, as she had always seen her as a terrifying monster, the stories she heard as a child also painted Huranaishi often as a dignified seer. However, the Otsutsuki heiress had many faces, and Izumi felt honoured to be treated to this new one today. Izumi was doubly excited when she realized that for the first time, she had seen Huranaishi's true face. The face that was her mirror image./p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"The Moth rejoiced with screams of satisfaction. She began to speak to Izumi in full sentences, finally feeling she's coming back to life. Howling wildly, thanking Orochimaru for finally bringing Izumi to her. The old Sennin laughed in the background seeing events unfolding. The experiment was a success, at least it seemed like it was for now./p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"They suddenly ran out to a place where the treetops had thinned out, giving light to the cloudless sky. Izumi raised her head and stood frozen, unable to take her eyes off the bottomless sea of stars stretching above her head. The ominousness of the dark night dissipated in the thin air replaced by astonishment of that moment./p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"At this point, Izumi took her eyes off the night sky, returning them to her guide. The multitude of emotions, experiences, feeling everything... there was so much of it, so intense. Izumi understood more and felt that she wanted to know more, go further, discover the secrets, piece by piece, devour understanding, truth. Go reach the source, drink water from the spring. She panted hard, feeling the clean air flood every atom of her lungs./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"'Eyes upon you, through the years…' Huranaishi began singing 'All of your troubles, all of your fear'/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"They both lowered their heads at the same time and their eyes met. At that moment, the eyes of the Nanusake and Otsutsuki merged in eternal understanding, a connection of souls, bodies, minds. Unity. The seeress was intimidatingly beautiful. However, this beauty did not come only from her facial features but from the inner strength of a wild woman that radiated from her with a strong light. Izumi was delighted./p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"Three years were enough for Orochimaru to conclude that the Moth's heiress was ready for real experiments. Hard years of honing combat skills, intensive training in chakra control - both Otsotsuki's and Chomei's. Hardening the spirit and body through murderous sparring, isolation and introducing the girl to the secrets of ninshu. For her age, Izumi has matured rather quickly, losing her childhood prematurely while undergoing a deepening personality crisis. Not having many peers to play and interact with, she had to make the most of the company of adults. Her first months were filled with shock and bewilderment when discovering how strange the men turned out to be, especially the degenerates and exiles around Orochimaru. Strange, unpleasant and often sinister types, although she developed a sibling-like bond with Kabuto, who protected and mentored her./p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"She felt everything. Pushing panic and instinctive fear aside, stimulating her curiosity, she began to become aware of the strength and new energy slowly growing inside her. Huranaishi's and Chomei's chakras swirled mercilessly inside her, making her feel sick, but with each breath, Izumi had the impression that by focusing she was calming the senses and at the same time the energy of her demons./p
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