So this is the Mizukage's Chambers? [Xyxer]

The drowned man stood within the abyss. He had heeded the words of his brother, now came the time to act on them. The faces stretched for eternity it seemed. The masks of his predecessors, the ones that would be taken his successors, ones that may never leave this room for hundreds of years. Past, present and future, all of which were laid out before him. Now it came down to Takeo to take one, to rescue it from the depths and have it become apart of his new self.

Takeo had never been good at making choices. The amount of good choices he had made could be counted on one hand. His eyes scanned the masks shifted in the corner of his vision. The faces of those he had known. Was a genjutsu at play here? Yet another tactic in order to try and make him falter. It wouldn't happen now, he had gone through the worst of this already. For several minutes his eyes scanned back and forth. The endless designs and shapes seemingly just melted into one giant blur before him. Nothing. Surely he thought, surely there had to be something?

Then something caught his eye. His vision focused in on the mask that had grabbed his attention. The markings around the eyes were hauntingly familiar. Takeo blinked as it to check it were not just a trick of the light. Takeo approached the mask on the wall. It seemed old, fitting in a way.

So he took the mask from the wall. Takeo gave it the quick once over and put it on. The vision provided was surprisingly decent he noted. Not that it mattered, his Byakugan would allow him to wear practically anything without restricting his combat ability.

"Now then brother," Takeo spoke turning to face the man who stood in the room. "What next?" It was a purposely broad question, the man simply awaited the answer.

Following the actions of his brother, Xyxer remained quiet in the eerily silent tomb, the only sound outside of Takeo's footsteps being the gentle drops of water  from his frame, yet even then the sounds were inconsequential in this world. The sheer quantity of masks seemed to be overwhelming to the newly inducted ANBU, that was at least until something notably caught his eye and for a split second he resembled a meerkat before approaching one particular mask.

When he pried the mask from the wall and wore it as his new face, it was weird. It was oddly fitting, yet Xyxer couldn't understand why.. something beyond him seemed amused by the selection of features, so much so that he almost didn't hear his brother when he spoke out to him. What next.. a good question to ask when you've just been inducted into the secret corp of the bloodiest village in existence. A notorious assassination? A heinous kidnapping? Perhaps even a merciless maiming of another village's shinobi? No.. Xyxer had bigger plans than that for now.

"Prepare yourself to leave the village alongside myself and another within the next two weeks. I plan to invoke a Gokage Summit." Xyxer claimed, swallowing bitter memories of his failure to attend the summit on behalf of that treacherous Tenkage, if they had killed that snake when he was unprotected it would have solved many issues for Xyxer, yet alas the world sought to mock him, "The Summit should be straight forward, but if anyone dares to speak while I am talking at the meeting then kill one of their bodyguards.. or them, your discretion really." Xyxer finished, retrieving the torches.

Their time in this darkness was over and it was time for the new duo to climb up from the murky depths back into the spotlight of the heavens, yet neither would be content with just that.. Xyxer the least, as he desired to claim the greatest role in the known world. He'd have to be ruthless to do so, and would require days of meditation leading up to this meeting to steel himself for what may come. Granted that Takeo had now left the cavern Xyxer would follow suit, securely closing the entrance and making his way towards the rooftop.

[Exit]

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Takeo blinked. Of all the responses he had expected from his brother this did not list among them. A summit? There hadn't been one in years. Why now? What was the man who stood opposite him up to Takeo wondered. Then again, Takeo had some ideas about what his plans were. However now was not the time or place to go over them.

That would come later. Takeo had two weeks to prepare himself. Easily doable for someone like himself.

He gave a slight nod in response to his brother, and with that departed from the depths and once more to the surface.

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1500 toward training one tail for V1 cloak which masters it.
3000 toward one tail for V2 cloak which masters it.

Claiming Sand Element.
Claiming Sand Control.
Claiming Bijuu Bomb.

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