The Shadow Man Hunter:

Suika sighed as she walked into the bedroom, the children finally asleep; and Guren off dealing with Kazekage business — she found herself an opportunity to relax. As she slipped out of her clothing and into the tub filled with hot soapy water, she would lean her head back letting out another longer sigh as she did so.

Her body was more sore running after the twins then it ever felt in training or battle. The warmth of the scolding hot water relaxed her muscles and bones. Little did she know as she laid there, someone would slip into and out of the Spire undetected; leaving a small envelope on the silk sheets of the bed.

The woman would remain in the warmth for an hour before slipping back out and dressing herself in a black camisole; heading back into the bedroom as she brushed her long white locs. Her eyes scanning the bed; as she came to notice the plain white envelope addressed to “His Little Snow Bird”.

Her crystal blue eyes staring at it, if her blood didn’t already run cold, it would certainly do such right now. She knew that nickname, only one man would ever address her as such; she could feel her heart drop within her chest as she moved closer to it. Picking it up slowly, the writing was foreign to the woman as she starred at it in the moon light; her eyes scanning the room carefully as she could feel her hands begin to shake lightly.

Her children, without a second thought she would rush to the room that contained the twins, opening the door silently as she confirmed the two sleeping bodies. A sigh of relief as she quietly closed their door. Resting her back against it, returning her gaze to the envelope.

Running her slender fingers against the lettering on the top… “His Little Snow Bird”…

She had a run in, or had at least thought he did months ago; and this only confirmed it. He had sent for her finally; her body felt weak as she turned over the envelope; using her index finger to slowly open the thin paper, pulling the letter out carefully.

“Dearest Little Snow Bird,

I have watched from afar since you departed us; I came for you once and you managed to escape my grasp. But my little snow bird, you will not escape again. You’ve grown, dearest Suika… Your now an adult, far more aged than I thought you’d ever. I’ve sent the Shadow Man to bring you home. Meet him within your strange bloodwork’s, at exactly midnight; or else your precious children will not make it through the night.

I look forward to your return, my dearest little snow bird.

I’ll always keep my eyes on you,

Shoji.”

She could feel herself trembling; she couldn’t ever allow them near her children… Never. Her emotions were wild and uncontrollable when it came to Shoji. She turned heel and returned to her bedroom to gear up; in the event that something went wrong and she was unable to return home she would leave a letter addressed to Guren, then one to each of the twins. Expressing her love for them, her wishes for them, along with anything she had neglected to teach them before.  She couldn’t leave without telling them how much each of them meant to her.

After her letters, and gearing up; she would flip out of the Spire quietly and undetected; during the eve of the night; towards the bloodwork’s.

Suika would enter the central arena, a perfectly circular 200m in length and width, surrounded by a 25m high wall with earthen floor which was covered with a decent amount of sand, and overall is complete flatland — she had never entered the arena before; as she came through the north entrance.

Her eyes would scan, looking for the Shadow Man; her crystal blue eyes shining in the moonlight as she gripped her nails into her own palms. She wasn’t going with him, this would end with a fight to the death. They wouldn’t have her or her children.


688 WC

Suika’s stance didn’t change when the man appeared before her, she refused to look at him, her fear of the creature that stood before her was all to grave, she had heard the stories of what this man was capable of; just like herself becoming strong and powerful in a political matter, this was Shoji’s strongest, his right hand, she knew that if he was being sent, that it was only a matter of time before Shoji would return himself to retrieve her, as she wanted to send a message; a long and hard message. She wasn’t allowing the Shadow Man to return to Shoji’s side, but she was going to send a message that she could kill him with ease; and in return when Shoji came, he would meet the same fate. But the moment that the Shadow Man spoke; she could feel those fears rising up; her eyes widening as she remained fixated on the mans feet; her chest heavy; weighing what felt like hundreds of pounds crushing down all at once.

Suika couldn’t help the fear, when it came to this man, she knew that he never travelled far from his master, which only meant to her that Shoji was in a close enough distance to the village and her children… Her children, something lit with inside of her, her twins, Guren, the village… As the rage began to flood with inside the Pureblood Yuki; ice would quickly begin forming up her body; racing quickly as it aimed to envelop most of her exposed skin. Just as quickly as the ice would form across her body; the weather would begin to shift and change, creating a 10 meter radius around the pair; the freezing rain and hail would begin to quickly drop down from the clouds within the night sky; these clouds would seem to follow the woman as she moved, if she chose to move from her current position; but she wasn’t done, no not yet. As the woman fully activated a technique known as ‘Absolute Zero Calamity’ – within mere moments, setting the stage for the battle to wage forward.

As the storm would begin to form in the sky, the woman would simultaneously begin to weave her hand seals, ‘Bird, Dog, Snake, Hare, Bird, Dog’ – the ease of the seals as if this was a technique, she used often enough seem to blur through the raging storm; her movements being at full speed; she would feel her chakra building up within her, the energy coming out in a ‘burst’ of blue chakra, or ‘perma frost’ as others could notably call it, the blast covering a 25 meter radius around the woman, and as the man before her was within 3 meters; with a speed of 25, the likely hood of being able to get out of her blast radius was next to impossible; the burst shooting out in all directions at the speed of the technique, (speed is vigor xx vigor is currently 240).

Should the technique connect with the Shadow Man, he would be quickly enveloped with small chains of ice, crawling along his skin and should he have any equipment on his person, the chains and effects of the jutsu would also connect and begin damaging them.

As the woman stood there; she would smirk, raising her eyes towards the man, focusing her energy as she continued to weave signs carefully, Dog, Rat, Bird, Snake and finally Dog once more; her eyes focused on the area just behind the shadow man; using her new found ability of ‘Absolute Zero Calamity’ to begin the forming of five spears of ice, using the technique known as “Certain Kill Ice Spears”, she would keep them remained in the sky,  using the storm as her source for the spears at 3.1 meters from the Shadow Man, although the man wouldn’t know they had formed unless he turned his back on her, she wanted to be prepared of anything, should the man escape her chains of ice, she would release the powerful spears to rain down upon him.

Without a final thought, she would once more continue to weave her hands, Tiger, Horse, Ram and then the Clone seal; two identical versions of herself would appear just behind the woman, without a secondary command, they would leap back to be approximately 3 meters from behind her; positioning themselves to begin to mediate and collect Nature Chakra.

Suika would finally turn her attention to the Shadow Man, remaining unable to truly look at him in the eyes, in fear of what was behind his mask of shadows… She knew nothing of the mans abilities, or capabilities besides the fact that Shoji trusted him with his entire being. “Do… Not… Call me that.”

The first words she would speak, full of emotion, rage, the desire to murder… She found herself unable to keep control of her emotions, as she normally would be able to; she wanted to take a kunai and slowly dig it across the mans skin. She wanted him to feel the pain that Shoji had brought upon her everyday for years… How he turned her into a pet, a toy thing… Something innocent that he broke and bended to his own will… It disgusted her, having her own children now made her realize how horrible a fate she had to run into these… Demons.

She could feel her heart beating heavily as she stood before him, “Why! Why is it he feels the need to hunt me! I’m finally happy! Actually HAPPY!” She would scream towards the man, knowing that there was no one around the Bloodwork’s during this time of night, most of Sunagakure’s Shinobi being away on missions or sleeping soundly within their homes, located quite a distance from the arena. She moved her hand towards the sky, focusing her energy once again towards the Ice Spears, “He won’t have me. He’ll never have me. Nor will you people get my children. I promise you that. I’m not his weak bird anymore, I’ve been reborn! A phoenix now! Reborn in the ashes of the disaster you people left me in!” Her crystal blue eyes seemed to have a glow against the storm raining down on them, her body having already taken slight damage from enchaining her own abilities with ‘Absolute Zero Calamity’. She was going to make sure this man wouldn’t leave the arena, let alone Sunagakure alive. She wanted to rip his limbs from his body, dissect him until there was nothing left but a husk.

The rage for blood seemed only heightened within the woman as she finally faced her past.

Depending on how the man would answer, inquiring as to why after all these years they tracked her down, and wanted her back; should the man give her a straight answer, she would hold off on releasing the spears, should the answer only piss her off more than she already was, she would release all five spears down onto the man, creating five more in their place as they rained down onto him.
Inside of her own head, the sense of panic from the Shadow Man even being within Sunagakure, let along having stepped foot within the Spire – she could hear the sound of Shoji’s laughter within her head, the screams from her past echoing inside of her head as she could feel her hand shaking as she waited in anticipation of what the next moves would be on this chess board.

At this point Suika was ready for anything; she wasn’t letting anyone take her.

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1255 WC // 1943 Total WC

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New Stats, Jutsu Information:

Suika smirked, she had the Shadow Man in her grasp; the simultaneous actions of her enhancement to the hand seals for the Consecutive Chains of Ice bursting from her; causing the man to still; the woman could feel the rage building within her as she balled her fist up; the ‘Certain Kill Ice Spears’ rushing in growth from the ground as it went to impale his chest, going through his heart; the next spear in the same motion would impale through his throat, disconnecting his head from his shoulders with one foul swoop. ‘Thudding’ to the ground and rolling off to the side.

Her crystal blue eyes watched as the head would roll from the body, the spear through the man’s chest would keep the body within the sky as she moved closer to it, her eyes inspecting carefully as she confirmed her kill… Quick, easy… Perhaps she was stronger than Shoji ever gave her? She had been a weak child, barely in the know of how the world worked when he first took her in. She couldn’t help but miss the child she once was; she missed the innocence that she had before all of this, before Suna, before Shoji, before the death of her parents… She thought of her home, where she was born, where her parents had planned on raising her… She missed them; she missed her home… But she knew that the dangers that laid ahead for her if she ever returned… Were far to great now that she had children.

Suika sighed, her body stiff from battle, her blood lust only partly quenched from this battle… She wanted more, she needed to finish this… But it would take time. The good thing is that time is all she had. With a laugh, she would deactivate all of her active jutsu, watching as the storm receded, the spears would melt away, the ice against her skin would dissipate, along with the chains along the now dead Shadow Man would also disappear. With the battle over and having won; she felt a sense of relief, she knew that she was strong now, stronger than she had ever thought possible. And with that; she would pick up the man’s body, along with his head, as she carried it tucked under her arm as she walked back towards the Spire. She knew that Guren held scrolls and other things that might make it possible to do something with the body; or if he even had any use for it at all.

As she walked out of the bloodworks, her eyes would scan the area one last time, taking a deep breath; “One last time.” She whispered to herself as she walked out to return home.
Exiting, Claiming Kill and rewards as per the hunter bounty.

• Bounty:  8000 Ryo
• The Body of the Shadow Man
• 2500 WC.
• 20,000 Ryo from the hunter mission itself, so 20,000 + 8000 = 28000 total. Making my Ryo 339,500

Upon approval, I will post my claims for the WC.

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456 WC // 2399 Total WC

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OOC Stuff // Hit Claims // AP, JUTSU ETC:

As the images flashed before her eyes, she could feel everything; locked down inside of her the fear of Shoji, the pain that he once caused her boiling back up… Her body felt as if it was on fire; watching as he entered the Spire—the Shadow Man interaction with her children, a cold chill would climb up her spine as the horrifying images flashed through her mind; until the moment the Spears would tear through the Shadow Man. Suika stood only for a few moments the bombs going off around her; or perhaps they were still within these images she had been showed. But there was no time for guessing, only actions.

As she scooped up the body and head of the Shadow; rushing to make her way home without a second thought of the BloodWorks for now; she needed to see her children, she needed to see Guren…

She had no idea how to tell what was real or not, but the body she held within her arms was proof enough of her battle and victory, however small it might be… if his images were true, Shoji had entered her home… She had to make sure everyone was safe…

Exiting, Claiming Kill and rewards as per the hunter bounty.

• The Body of the Shadow Man
• 20,000 Ryo from the hunter mission itself, so 20,000 = 20000 total. Making my Ryo 331,500
• Claiming A Rank from victory.

Total of 2500 WC to use for claims

• Token of Remembrance C Rank | 1000 WC
• Flash Freeze Mastering Handseal to double mastery to make it sealless 1500/5000

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201 WC // 2500 Total WC