Sees, Seen, Saw [p,nk]

A few hours after his meeting with the kage, Kozan prepared himself again, and signed himself in at the secretary to see the Raikage again. 

"He's expecting me." He told her, calmly. Within his pocket was the box with the two eyes. He already knew what he was going to do; most likely, he would save the other one, or give it to Ashur.... or maybe, he would donate it to the cause? To have the raikage give it to whomever he saw fit... yes, that would likely be the case. Since Ashur was literally the only other person there who was doing any work, he would likely be the candidate for the other eye anyway.

However, now that Kozan possessed this technique, the execution by kiss, he would also have to ask the raikage if he had any pleasant corpses of powerful ninja that he might happen to have around. He wondered if any of the ninja who he had seen at the Kumo fight would be there (dead, of course). To get the earth and water elements, and possibly any of the advanced elements that might exist in Kumo was a dream that might come true here. First, though, he had to actually get in.

[WC 207]

"Come in"

Was all the raikage uttered while he stood in the middle of his chambers, he'd had Akuoy teleport everything he would be using into his office. This also included the blue haired body of Psychosis albeit missing eyes and clothes. While he did this surgery he had also planned on making the alterations of turning the males body into a path for his own use.

Turning to face Kozan he'd welcome the boy in with a gesture, motioning to the table besides the dead body.

"So what will it be, both or just one? Don't mind the body, it has nothing to do with you."

While he waited for kozan's answer he prepped all the areas and began ejecting the rods he would need from his hand one by one slowly, laying them next to the body.

When Kozan stepped in, the first thing he noticed (other than the kage himself) was the presence of the blue haired body. Hey.... he'd seen it before somewhere...? Yes, this one had been at the Kumo invasion, had he not? He hadn't gotten a good look at any of the guy's powers. Still, the fact that he had been there and died meant that he was weaker than the raikage. This was good, then, the village was in good hands. What was more interesting, however, was the fact that there were those black rods on the table. Hey.... Kozan had one of those at home. He had taken it off of that scoundrel, Rikaro. That kid had probably been released from jail and had most likely hightailed it out of the village. What a shameful jerk.

So, the source of these black rods was the raikage, huh? That actually explained a lot. So, Rikaro hadn't actually made them himself.

"Just one, please, the right one." It seemed that the kage was more businesslike today. This was good, but... 

As he produced the box with the eyes, he couldn't help but glance at the body again. No eyes...? Where had they gone? This was too interesting for him.

"If you so please, Lord Kage, you may have the other." He didn't know that the raikage already had one... but whatever.

[TWC 436]

Mortarion had turned his attention from Kozan while the male talked and began using his appendages to De robe and prep the body for surgery. He took in the words the boy was saying while wiping the body down with rags and sterilizing all the entrance areas he would be using. The male still hadn't sat in the empty space he had pointed to earlier so he motioned to it again this time more openly as if saying I can't start till you sit.

"So just the right eye then, do you wish to keep your old eye for a spare just in case?"

While he was speaking he had already began taking his armored gloves off allowing his bone like hands to be shown from the mal nutrition he was going through from the bijuu eating his body and chakra away. A light green chakra began radiating from his hands just for a moment as he tried to figure out if he had the ability to still perform surgeries of this nature.

"While I appreciate the offer, I have no need of your other prize. You can choose to do with it what you please and give to whom ever you deem worthy. Speaking of worthy, do you plan to use this time while I'm preoccupied to attempt to assassinate me? It is the mission I gave you."

He spoke plainly and calmly never really looking at the male as he began shoving rods through precise points on the dead body with carnages appendages while he monitored casually from a two meter distance. He couldn't begin to do anything yet so the silence in the room would more than likely grow.

"Hmm, yes... I'll hold onto it, just in case." So, by placing these rods inside that body, what could he do? He hadn't heard of anything like this before, so it mystified him somewhat. He knew that those rods could respond to chakra, but he didn't know exactly what that did in the long run. Well, he'd find out soon, would he not? After all, it looked like the raikage was pretty busy.

"Without the power that the byakugan could give me, I'd be stupid to even try. Besides, I'm still playing around with a new technique that I just developed." Or more like stole off of his aunt's memories. Still, it was really useful. He decided to forge ahead. From what he had seen before, this kage liked direct, bold maneuvers on the part of his ninja (no homo), so he went on.

"On that topic, if you'll allow the intrustion," since the Raikage had instructed him NOT to pay attention to that body on the table, "that technique that I mentioned... well, what if I told you that I could take the techniques off the former Kumo leaders and repurpose them for the cause of the village? Because I can. I've tried it out once, already, and already possess the ability to change to a body capable of casting multiple fire and wind jutsu." Impressive? Kozan sure hoped so. 

[TWC 666
spooky WC]

Hmmm, it didn't seem that Kozan wanted this surgery to start at any reasonable time soon which slightly frustrated Mortarion as he had motioned to the chair twice now and the boy remained not in the chair. Switching to fully allowing the appendages from carnage on his back work the chakra rods through the body the Kages right hand raised towards Kozan. An enveloping force would be felt around the boys body lifting him off the ground and bringing him to the chair before releasing him rather abruptly dropping him in it next to Mortarion.

"Very well, Akuoy, bring me the holder"

From the darkest corner of his room the clone would step forward in his black armor holding vials and various other things needed. Placing them on a tray next to the chair the clone would silently back out back into the darkness.

"You wouldn't be stupid, to attack me now, it'd be very ambitious of you to take advantage while you've asked me to help you."

His words as always were cold and detached as he grabbed a utensil to hold open the young males eye lids giving full view of the eye. Apparently he was also attempting to learn a new technique before attempting the mission given to him. Mortarion wondered if the boy knew you cold never truly be ready for anything. As his right hand slowly pushed into kozan's eye the green energy would coat his hands again working as an anesthetic ensuring that all the boy felt was pressure till he couldn't see anything from his right eye anymore.

"If you told me you could repurpose techniques I would tell you that there are some things I wouldn't even tell my kage, secrets are secrets. However if you trust me as such I'd say it would be interesting and ask what was the catalyst for you to do this?"

Extending his left hand he would wait for the boy to hand him the case so he could replace it with the new eye. All the rods had been inserted into Psychosis's body as he had plucked the eye ball and the appendages had begun pumping the body with the plague princes chakra through transfer.

After handing the case to the kage, Kozan would note that this was an effective anesthetic.... also, he didn't want to argue with the kage. Besides, he knew that he could have Ashur's backup in this mission, which would be valuable. Yeah, he'd probably need the support of someone else, since the kage apparently had telekinesis. He would take this time, not to attack the kage, but to scout him out. He needed to get a good sense of exactly what he could do, even if he wasn't displaying his full power. Better the demon you know than the one you don't know, he thought to himself. 
Besides, he trusted Ashur more than anyone else in the village. So, he now knew his course of action. He would sit by for now, and watch. There were still too many things that he didn't know about his own kage. Then, he'd go back to Ashur, and they would practice. He'd most likely have to get used to the byakugan, but after that, he would train hard and prepare to attempt the jonin mission. No doubt, there would be some risk to it, but he was confident. After all, Corpse Collector was tough enough to handle most physical attacks. He just hoped that the kage wouldn't try anything REALLY nasty, like something that went through armor.... he had heard of weird things like that before, and it made him nervous. He felt safe in his armor, and didn't like it when that security was penetrated. 

"Hmph. It's not really a secret, you'd find out sooner or later. It's the same technique my aunt possessed. All I need to do is bite someone in order to take their jutsu. I've tried it once already, on that boy Ashur. Needless to say, it was a great success."

As the Kage poked around with his head, he noted the body on the table. If only he could take a good chomp at it... sure, if it had any new elements, he would have to sit there for a few minutes, but it would be well worth it in the end. He wondered what elements the guy had... if only he could take a lick at the body. He'd know immediately. Hopefully, he had something new... or at least, something to add to what he had already. Having more lightning jutsu was something he wanted pretty badly. He only had, what, two of them? 

They were pretty weak, too. Should he use them on the raikage, he would most likely be shrugged off. Tch, how annoying. Not only that, he had also been denied the use of the black lightning. What a bitch, right? Still, there was no use whining about it. He'd just have to wait until the time came for him to seize what he wanted most. 

"After the operation, I could show you the body.... though, it's not really anything special. I guess it's the jutsu that count, right?"

He wondered what kind of techniques the man had. No doubt, if he had been at the Kumo invasion, they weren't too bad.

[TWC 1185]

Nodding as he listened to what the boy was saying the body on the other table began moving slightly as the chakra transfusion from the rods and himself was finishing. Opening the boys gift basket and gently removing the milky eye with his left hand and infusing it with his own medical chakra to repair any damaged nerve endings or ruptured veins, there'd be no use putting a dead eye into this boys head. Once the kage was sure he'd be able to connect everything properly via ninja magic he placed the eye in the socket while his medical palms went to work healing and reattaching things like new.

"Ah yes, I did read a bit on that, didn't think it was something passed down. It would seem you have found some use of it...but the method at which you acquire these abilities if I'm not mistaken is rather....intimate."

Mortarion would wrap the boys eye with bandages so no light could damage the new tissue. After finishing with Kozan his attention now turned to the body that was now standing motionless besides the table it once was on. Akuoy was dressing the naked body in a cloth at the moment while the kage stood silently.

" you don't need to show me Kozan unless you honestly want to, I'm not interested in what you can do, it's how you use it for the glory of kumogakure that matters to me. Your new eye will need time to heal by the way before use so be mindful."

As he finished speaking, the new path he had created Had just finished having eyes from some poor villager on a stake out into it by Akouy and Mortarion placed his hands over the paths eyes pushing more chakra into them fixing the connections as the eyes swirled into the rinnegan as well.

"Two birds with one stone, Akouy, today has been rather productive I'd say. Take this one with the others please."

Without a word Akouy and the oath walked out from the kage chambers to points unknown.

"Is there anything else you wanted or needed?"

Claiming asura path made from psy's body

"Intimate? I think I've developed the jutsu to be a little less primitive. Since you have this convenient body here, I guess I'll have the audacity to show you." Saying this in front of the kage might have been a bit of stretch and a risk, but it was one that Kozan was willing to take. Now that the eye within his head was taking its damn time to heal, he may as well begin the process of execution by kiss on this random body that the raikage had. Who knew what kind of godlike techniques it had within it? 

"All I need is a bite, and this guy's jutsu will be used for the village rather than against it." Before the path awakened, Kozan would have already meandered over and bent down, taking a nip at the body's shoulder. Immediately, he knew what this taste was. It wasn't like anything he had gotten from Ashur or from the various bodies he had collected within his storage. No, this was something different entirely. It was like that salmon he had on top of the cedar plank that his mother used to make for him. This was..... all five elements! Not only that, there was a ... "wood" element here as well? ... Just who was this man, and how on earth had he died with so much talent within him? 

Impossible, he thought. My senses must be fooling me. However, there was no doubt about it... the jutsu didn't lie. In that case, what should he take? He didn't want to have to bite this more than once. First, to look to see what kind of lightning jutsu the man had. Surely, if he possessed the lightning element, he would have some kind of strong and powerful lightning jutsu in his repertoire. 

...

Wow, what the fuck was this? The lightning jutsu that this man had.... Kozan had no chance of comprehending them! What kind of chakra usage was this? Kozan would have gritted his teeth if they hadn't been lightly embedded into the body. Useless, so useless! To be  fair, the jutsu themselves looked pretty amazing. One of them was a self enhancement technique that didn't look too shabby, and the other was a related offensive method. Still, they relied on something that Kozan didn't have a chance of understanding... the mysteries of space and time! It looked like he needed to train much harder before even attempting to absorb these.

For a brief moment, Kozan considered taking the man's water and earth elements, since those were the two that he didn't have. It would be pretty good to have a complete body collection of all five main elements. He could then go around and take Hikashi's techniques as well, even though she didn't know that many. Any techniques were useful in Kumo, he thought. Even that rain one... he still didn't have a perfect scope on what it did, but he knew that water could get into places that some other elements couldn't. 

However, there was a thought in his mind. What was this wood element, and exactly what did it do? In an instant, Kozan had decided. He'd check out the power of this wood element. He'd never used an advanced element before, and the only one he'd seen was Ashur's, if that could even be counted as an element. Those feathers... they were more powerful than the wind or fire jutsu he had taken. However, Kozan had taken wind and fire, since the two seemed to be more versatile. In addition, he felt that Ashur's unique body had something to do with the feathers, thought he didn't know for sure. 

In the next instant, the inactive meridians within the man's body would light up with a blue tinge as Kozan initiated the process. Damn, he had forgotten... he couldn't move during the jutsu! If the raikage decided to kill him for his insolence, now would be the perfect time. The paralysis effect, he knew, didn't just apply to him. If the opponent was weak enough, it would work on them as well, but he didn't think that it would work on this body. If it did, though, he would be mighty surprised. That meant that his chakra was stronger than he had suspected. To be fair, now that he had reached a bottleneck in his physical development, his chakra had been growing stronger and stronger by the day, which wasn't a bad thing, to say the least. He had wanted to have stronger chakra for quite a while now, and even though he had had that little incident with the raikage's black rod (no homo) the other day, it had all turned out for the best, had it not?

What was even better, though, was the sudden influx of power that Kozan felt. This was so different compared to the fire and wind elements that he had taken off of Ashur. The wood element... using one's own chakra to create... life! This was unique, indeed. And, it seemed that it was pretty powerful. Hah, that was what Kozan cared about. The more power he had, the better he could defend himself and Kumo... and the better chance he would have in his mission. No doubt, the raikage was blastedly strong. He'd have to work very hard to beat him, but he knew that it shouldn't take too much effort to block a strong attack. The barrier capbilities of the color course change were the strongest he had ever witnessed, and his armor wasn't to be trifled with either. If anything, it was even stronger than that barrier.

After the first streams of soul energy began to enter his body, what followed was the first of a few jutsu. Wait, was this... the ability to grow a forest with his own chakra? He had thought that such large scale jutsu were stressful on the body, but then he remembered Ashur's feather explosions. That kid could level a whole village... but now, Kozan could make entire forests from his chakra alone! Something like that was truly amazing. He wondered how tough his own phage thingy was in comparison to this wood. Would it be able to slice through the trees with ease? Or would it have a tough time? If it wasn't strong enough, he'd have to train harder at it. He hadn't been paying enough attention to his phage symbiote lately, and had only been feeding it with his own nutrients. It had been a pretty good symbiote so far, but hadn't really been talking to him. Was it not as intelligent as Nightblood? Kozan had been hoping for a better conversation partner. Nightblood was whiny and sarcastic, for reasons that Kozan only partially understood. He knew it had to do something with the way Nightblood had been forged, but other than that, he didn't know much about the sword. How sad. 

He had hoped to form a close bond with all of his equipment, but he had been pretty busy as of late trying to get his hands on yet another sword. At some point, he thought to himself, he'd probably have to take a step back and revisit the basics. 

[TWC 3387
798 WC must be performed within my next post for wood element absorption]

The kage stood silently as he was cut off once more by his would be jounin, part of him wanted to rip the boy in two. The other half however was much more accepting of the child's energy and thirst for power. Deep down Mortarion could tell that it was all that drove the boy was power, anyway he could get it, it didn't matter. Which was also how he knew he could trust the boy, as long as he had power to offer the child would stay useful and compliant till such time he deemed he knew all he could. Akuoy walked to intercept the boy before quickly being halted in his steps with a quick glance at his original body.

Mortarion was interested to see this Justus in action and exactly how a man was going to not be intimate with another man. Any way he looked at it biting a males shoulder, even if it was a dead males body was still pretty awkward and he thanked God it was an ability he wasn't born with. While the young man did that, the slit in the Kages forehead opened as his own byakugan went active to view just what was happening inside the body. From what he could tell it was of course vampiric in nature as Kozan was funneling chakra out and into himself, it also left the boy open to attack as well as it didn't look like this had battle potential.

"How long will this take?"