One more for the road.(Kumo destruction topic V2)

Well it was over..sort of? Maybe? The Demon couldn't tell, this whole campaign was rather...underwhelming. People had come to fight..and then they had ran away in the quickest of fashions. Even the one that was charging his path directly had simply turned the other way and vanished in a blur. Tired, the Demon was tired he had worked this body to it's breaking points many times and this last run had pushed his control over the mental state of Youka to it's limits. He had done enough however to rest quietly knowing that Youka was alienated from his group and would have to fend for his own. It would be easy enough for him now however to take the reigns, everything was set in motion for him to rebuild this unworthy village and turn it into what it should have been all the while making strong ninja not afraid to leave the confines of their own village. Then they would march on Maku and the ones he had went with betraying the Demon all in one gesture. They would pay, each one of them would be left to rot eternally. However for now he would rest and relinquish control to the original.

Blissfully floating through the air being pelted with small rocks and the broken limbs of civilians is where Youka came back in control of his body for the first time in a very long time.

"Right..yeah, thanks you douche."

He honestly didn't know what he was going to do to get back down to the earth. His clone was prepping handseals to transfer them again while his paths were wrapped in his appendages allowing all of them to stay together. Being crushed by the ball of energy was something that he knew he would be able to survive easily but his other bodies were slightly a different story. Time seemed to slow as he floated towards the ball of doom, he wondered why he hadn't used that technique, it would have beat walking around the village destroying it and coming back, meh thoughts for another time. Just as both of his hands turned semi robotic as he pointed them towards the ground, more precisely some re-bar buried under rubble that seemed to not be moving he saw someone surfing on tress? Yep, he had seen it all now, watching the roots tear through the ground and rise up wrapping around all of his bodies.

"Guess I won't be needing these then..."

Allowing his hands to switch back to their normal design a slight frown appeared on his face as the symbiote retracted back into his skin allowing his face to be shown. He was slightly flustered as he had still yet to use the rocket arms, they were nifty and cool in design allowing him to shoot cords out of his body. How did they get there? No one knew, but they were there. What was this guys name anyway, it wasn't a face that he had personally seen face to face but a name kept ringing in the back of his head as someone his other side knew, Naoki. Well that was good it meant the male could be trusted to some extent and wasn't going to bring him down for some awkward tree porn interrogation. Not turning to watch the explosion of the orb of rubble and chakra that had been disrupted by comrade Naoki he touched the ground thanks to the tree jutsu just in time to watch them bloom.

Turning to face the male he would give him the pleasure of finally seeing his face for the first time. The Demon made it a law to never allow anyone to see who you were as it would open up the realm of attacking people close to you or something stupid like that. Youka didn't care, he was back in control and he would do things his way dammit. If Naoki would look upon Youka's face he would notice that his features resembled that of a withering husk almost, his eyes were sunken in while the face was much more shrunken and the skin pulled slightly back. This due to all of the experiments the Demon did on himself while perfecting various poisons and healing techs he planned to bring to fruition at a later date. Flashing the young lad a smile that would show slight holes where his cheek should be allowing one to look in and see his teeth he would answer the million dollar question.

"Hmm, what's next indeed, I came here to destroy..check...everyone is dead or ran...check.Guess all that's left is to rebuild this awful place into something grand, but first I'll be doing a little scavenging. While my other body was away from me it picked up on some other signatures appearing before they dropped off the map. Their away from the blast zone quite a ways back towards the gates. Follow me please,Kappa, and no I don't know what a Kappa is, just seemed to fit."

Walking and walking and some more walking would lead them all to what seemed a orgy gone wrong maybe? Unless you were a homo and six guys all at once was your dream. kneeling beside them he would of course poke the bodies with sticks in a comedic fashion as he somehow moved around to varying angles as if he was teleporting.

"As I suspected, they're....dead."

Actually being serious now he would look over the bodies pulling clothing and things back before slowing his pace drastically as he noted that most of the bodies besides the blue haired dudes had the same rods that Youka used in his own paths....interesting. There was of course some other dude a distance away standing still like a mad man charging something the looked dangerous. Hell, it was the same guy from the last time when Echo had tried to defend Kumo by himself, the fuck ws he doing all the way over here. The guy must have an affinity for using long range attack that would never hit anything. Using the chakra rods he already had on him he just stuck them in the dudes body effortlessly and let him stand there frozen in time.

"Well what do you think about this? I'm going to take my time and dissect the minds of these people..well at least the two that don't have poles and rods all throughout their bodies. I'm sure they have information I would need. One of them is dead though...which sucks, cause as they say dead men tell no tales...but I can revive him sooo yeah I'll do that."


CLapping his hands for no particular the king of hell would appear behind him for a moment in a purplish flame which was slightly gay but it was the king of hell not much he could say to the guy. Opening it's mouth it would spew forth all the lost souls of Kumo allowing them to fly in rubble and dead babies bringing them back to life. Even the blue haired guy squirmed as it took a breath of fresh air. Walking over to him he stabbed the bloke in the back with more chakra rods just to be sure he wasn't going anywhere of course. The male was still knocked out which would make this a lot easier as he placed his hand on the back of the males head he began the process of reading all of the males thoughts to gain the knowledge this body once held. There were a lot most of it useless except for some file and the like of past events. Nothing that really interested him, the things that did stick out were the various experiments he was performing on people through a technique Youka didn't have a name for, however it did seem potent. Still cycling through the memories allowed him to pinpoint various items as well as things buried inside the man, this Psychosis must have been one interesting doctor. Youka would have to visit the maes lab now that he knew exactly where it was and how to reach it. Still going deeper and deeper into the males mind he noted the things that transpired between him and the other known as Yaju that had ran from the first fight in Kumo, it was good to finally put a name to the cowards face. They were apparently close with this man doing a good amount of surgeries on his body and sharing some intimate moments. What was peculiar was that the male apparently had an ability to store things in a pocket dimension almost like Maku's own abilities but on a permanent level.

All this happened in mere seconds to the real world, just so Noaki wouldn't think that he was weird for touching a dead guys,well now alive but passed out guys head. Standing up once more he would release the connection he had sighing as his mind tried to store and allocate space to each new memory that he had made his own while remembering the location of various other things that the male had.

"Well on to the next I suppose."

If Naoki was anywhere within ear shot he would turn to the male.

"You finding anything interesting inside all this rubble, well besides the now living people I would say, you can kill them again if you want. Leave some alive for my intestine barrier though please."

The Uchiha would finally get to see Youka's true face now and he was not sure if he liked the one that veiled it previously better. Simply put, he looked like he could die any moment, like he was decaying, yet all of the vitality he had displayed in the fight clearly said otherwise. Naoki would guess that the man did not get to where he was now without making sacrifices. When he was told to follow, he would nod at Wookie, instructing his clone to carry the one he had defeated and the headless corpse of the other.

Walking about a mile they would find a bunch of people, five actually, most of them dead. The last living one appeared to be preparing some sort of jutsu, but Youka would soon stab him with strange rods that came out of his body. It would seem to immobilize the guy, a result of Youka's chakra surging into his body through the rods, or so Naoki gathered by watching it through his sharingan. Naoki would not say anything to Youka's rhetorical question, but would blink at him so casually saying he could revive a clearly dead guy. But then before his very eyes a giant head would rise and from its mouth let go myriad of lights. These would  settle onto the village, seeping into the ruins and soon the dreaded silence of the destroyed village would be replaced by screams of terror, cries of happiness and shouts of confusion. One of these lights would land onto the blue haired corpse, seeping into it and giving it life. This did not appear to be a trick, the guy really had just returned everyone in the village back to life. Well, almost everyone. Only the blue haired one would be affected, the three around him remained dead and the one without the head would not receive a light either for reasons unknown to Naoki at the time. It was only now that Naoki noticed the same pattern that was in his opponents eyes at the end of their fight was also in Youka's and the corpses on the ground. It appeared to be a doujutsu, otherwise why would his opponent have it instead of his mangekyou sharingan, but at the time Naoki would not question it. Maybe in the future.

After Youka stuck the recently revived man with more rods and momentarily placed a palm on his head, Naoki would command Wookie to leave the corpse he was carrying here. Finally, the Uchiha would respond "I take it you'll need time, I'll leave you to it then and the body of the boy you defeated in the square. I wish to have a talk with the other one, but I will come back soon, if that is okay with you. I still need to find something here and it's probably now in the ruins somewhere, hopefully one of these two will know."

With that and once the headless corpse was on the ground, Naoki would make a seal of confrontation, enveloping and teleporting the three along with their captive to the village gates, from there they would head into the mountains. Naoki knew the seal he put to knock the guy out was only going to hold him cold for so long and he was eager to speak to the guy. There were questions he had and even a possibility to turn him to his side, after all he had already decided to forsake his village, both of them had really. Worst case scenario - Naoki kills an Uchiha, not bad at all. Best case... he wouldn't even dare to speculate, but there were so many different ways to get value from this.

4809 w.
[Exit, with Hika
1200 ryo for Naoki, 12 stats for Vigil
500 w. learning Sharingan Minor Genjuts for Naoki
1206 w. towards finishing learning Three Wheel Embodiments for Naoki
699 w. towards mastering Three Wheel Embodiments for Naoki
2000 w. being taught Five Element Seal for Vigil
344 w. towards finishing Hidden Mist mastery for Vigil
60 w. towards learning Medical spec for Vigil
Claiming S rank for Vigil]

approving Yousei

Nodding while halfway looking at the male as he said something, Youka was halfway paying attention and halfway attempting to ignore him while he cataloged all of the information he had just took. It was a bit much to take a persons whole life and memorize it for later but he had done it rather easily if he did say so himself. He now knew what each weapon the male had did and what his items were for that he carried. This was turning into a lucrative venture all around and he knew that the information he took from the next mind would be even more interesting.

Allowing the symbiote to flow back onto his face for no particular reason other than to look cool doing it he delved into the mind of the other gleaming the males whole life story. The male had started out a vibrant and worth of praise fighter seeking challenges and putting himself in the line of danger. Whatever had happened to turn him coward Youka couldn't say. The first thing of note among the mess of memories was a particular memory the male had of his previous kage meeting with a face that Youka had only seen once.

"Viper...Uchiha..."

The name slipped past his lips with a tinge of malice as he looked into the mind of the male. It was this arrogant person who had first given them the "warm welcome" of entering Konoha if it could be called that. Looking from the outside in at this man from a different perspective Youka could tell that there was only peace that he strove for but it had to be gained through harsh means. Viper and this 'fire nation' had become the necessary evil in order to change this thing they all called a life. Smiling under his suit Youka could slightly see that they shared the same ambition except he would rather see it brought through the agony and suffering of everyone. The world could only change through pain, and with pain the world would move for peace. If only there was a like minded individual in the world like that. Maku had left him and to who knows where he went, the one person he thought he could trust hadn't even tried once to contact him or find him since their departure in Kumo the last time. It stung slightly to be betrayed, but he quickly settled his feelings and formed a silent vow to ensure that loose end was wrapped up when the time came.

Going ever deeper attempting to see the story through to the end Youka almost felt akin to this Viper with their only detouring points being how much blood should be spilled freely. While Viper felt a democracy was the best solution to the world Youka felt a dictatorship would cause the world to fall in line much more quickly. This Zachariah seemed to think the same way Youka did but had fallen short of reaching his goals. As the timeline progressed they moved on to speaking of more critical things, what had Youka's full attention however was the world that they all seemed to be warped to in not even a second. This was something he had never seen, nor dreamed to be possible on such a scale. Viper seemed to be able to manifest whatever he wanted while in this realm with powers that would seem to rival if not were better than god himself. How someone was able to achieve such power was beyond him, but he knew if they were ever to meet combat would have to be well thought out and planned accordingly. One thing was for sure however, he couldn't ever be sucked into the world.....ever.

As the visions continued more talk went on and Youka watched as the male offered his eyes to his leader. Thatw as a very interesting development and Youka knew he would have to understand how they worked more as he went through the males memories. More and more things passed and Youka stopped with the male obtaining another living being inside of his body. This was where his smile grew even deeper as he recognized the various things the male was doing as the same things Echo had used previously. His mind was starting to become highly taxed at this point his mind splitting at all the information he was collecting. He had the new information about Viper and his ideals, the abilities of the eyes the male had, to even the bijuu inside his body. There was also information from all the files that had very sensitive information from varying things including Kumo's and Konoha's relationship. There was info on what truly happened to Kiri...which was...interesting to say the least, he would have to handle that information carefully as he knew how valuable it was to various people. He also found where apparently all of the villages money had been moved which was the thing he needed to know the most in order to restart the village properly.

"I need to rest, I'm taking in too much, minds are too much to take in at the amount and rate I'm going."

Letting go of the males head finally and stumbling to his feet from exhaustion. Gathering everything around him including all the bodies and items Youka set off to find the location of the money and do a little surgery of his own.

Exit
8140 wc
8k to reality phase learning it
5k from staff pay to Herald
Claiming both bodies alive and all items on them
Claiming Kumo ryo

Approved.

TWC=1804

Claiming S rank MN for Destruction of Kumo.
Asking for 1804+100 Left over from V5 Update to be put towards a third Spec Choosing Genjutsu for a total of 1904 words

Also claiming Stat transferred into Ryo...not sure how much that is xD

Derped on claims, please reapprove.

re- approved

The Left Over WC from V5 was from the update it is listed on my stat page but I can do with out the extra 100 words. Second opinion on the rank is fine and I shall wait a ruling on it.