Safe haven in the Sand?

[Kage]

Kage sighed as she finally relaxed when she landed on the ground in the alley of the Sand out of sight of the Ten horned demon. ".... Sekiryou... your a genius and I love you but if you ever create something like that again... I will kill you." She said in a no nonsense voice as she looked at the man in her arms before putting him down and kneeling beside him ignoring the pain that is in her shoulder. "Now be still so we wont have to carry you." Kage pointed out as she began to heal the man. His wounds slowly became lighter and calmer the brighter her hands glowed.

As she finished healing him, she pulled away. "Now what were you saying about learning? I've always been one of the brightest students when it comes to learning something I want... and... even if the ren'nigan has bad memories with me I still wish to possess it... I like to break down elements of eyes and learn how ever little thing about them works."

Standing she brushed off her knees and offered her hand to the still man to help him up. "You should know that by now honestly."

[Shinku no Yami]

Sekiryō: *He smirked as they landed in the dusty roads of Suna, dropping to his feet while dusting himself off.* "Terrifying, isn't it? Just wait until you see the entire beast! It's a true masterpiece." *His smirk wavered a bit in thought as Kage resumed the medical Jutsu.* "Well, when it's control isn't being ripped from me by my undead mother..." *He looked on in amazement as the stars appeared to rapidly shift in the night sky, passing them by rapidly. Then Mars and... Jupiter?* "Hmpf, that showoff." *He looked down at Kage as his wounds became non substantial.*

"You know..." *Chuckles slightly.* "... you don't have to mother me completely, and worry like one." *He speaks lightheartedly.* "My body naturally heals extremely fast, though it still would have taken a long time without you. Harahkti packs a punch..." *He grabs his right shoulder in his left hand and rolls his arm around as if to test it.* "Thanks. You're like a real angel of darkness now." *He finishes while flashing a grin.*

Maneru: *Touches down on the ground as well. Even as a bat, he still comes to over halfway past Kage's waist. He hunches over and straightens himself out, assuming the shape of a human once again.* "Well... that was fun. So... what was this plan of yours again?"

Sekiryō: *Slams his fist into his open palm in an "AHA!" way.* "Oh! That's right." *He turns to Kage again.* "We can talk later about the Rin'negan. Soon! It's just..." *Looks up again into the sky, seeing the horror it reflects upon the world.* "Here's not the safest place to do so. This will already be tough on you psychologically and emotionally, and I want the environment to be as calm and safe as can be, and Suna will most likely be overrun by darkness soon enough."

*He turns toward the opening in the walkway going through Suna, placing his hands together.* "Yose no Neko." (Gathering of Cats)

*From the dark corners of the village, though seemingly nowhere, a vast multitude of shadows dart and dash across the ground at high speeds to gather in the center of the village, where Sekiryō is. The glowing eyes of the shadows are unmistakable, and give away to the fact that they're actually a mass of cats. As the last cat gathers into the pile, they all sit in attention for Sekiryō's next words.*

Sekiryō: "Ok, you've all been gathered here because you have a job to do. A very important mission of the highest rank. You're already equipped with what you need to pull it off." *Smirks slightly at their enthusiasm for a mission, that he can see anyway.* "I'm issuing order Kakusan! Make sure to stay quiet, stay low, and don't be seen!" *The cats make a collective meow-like sound of riled up excitement.*

"Now... MOVE OUT!" *He extends his arm sharply in signal, all the cats instantly darting away at speeds that whip up a wind around the area, blowing Sekiryō's hair and clothes in the aftermath of their departure.*

Maneru: *As Sekiryō stands there in a leader-like way, Maneru's head pops up from behind his shoulder, forming an amusing expression.* "Not gonna start coughing up hairballs are you?"

Sekiryō: "..."



"SURE. YOU START MAKING JOKES NOW THAT YOUR ASS IS SAFE!"



(I always wanted my characters to have quirks. Sekiryō's is that he's usually serious, or at least calm and cool and collected, but then has random moments like this. Kinda reminds me of FMA's Ed lol)

[Kage]

Kage shook her head somewhat as she watched the normally calm man blow up some what and after a moment she put a hand on his arm in a calming gesture speaking between chuckles. "Come on love... we need to get moving." She purred out in an accidental seductive voice a smile upon her face.

[Shinku no Yami]

Maneru: *Puts a hand over his mouth. A lone coughing noise can be heard.*

Sekiryō: *A tinge of pink cascades his cheeks from her touch and following tone, clearly becoming a bit flustered as he speaks.* "R-right. We-ell actually about that...." *He begins scratching the back of his head nervously.* "I went ahead of you guys and already got moving. A main reason I actually wanted to come here is because the man I wanted Maneru to find for me is here now, and I already found him and went off to confront him." *He laughs somewhat nervously as his hair begins to transform into a whitish color, loosening itself from its ponytail, and his headband falls to cover his eyes.* "I went on ahead and created a clone to remain with you guys so that you wouldn't try to stop me. I must have met him to be using this state." *He holds his arms out in reference to his new appearance.*



"I won't lead Akumu or Harahkti to the village. I promise." *He turns to Kage, and trying to mimic the same tone she had just used, he touches her cheek and looks her in the eyes.* "You'd better behave and stay safe now." *His face forms a smile before the clone poofs *

Silence is all that is heard for what seems like a few minutes without end, until Maneru's head pops up from behind Kage's shoulder, with the same amusing expression as before.

Maneru: "So, the hate charade is over then, 'love'?"

[Kage]

Kage's cheek tinge pink before she turned her face away with a blush "Shut up Maneru... I can't help but still love the idiot..." She muttered somewhat as she looked at the man. "He's always been 'love' to me ...." She grumbled scratching her nose.

[Shinku no Yami]

Maneru: *He sighs and puts a hand on his forehead.* "You're hopeless, you realize that? He's never been very good at that kind of thing, well showing it anyway. Ironic that he'd be the icon of something he's still a Genin in experience with. I wonder what this emotion feels like myself. A soulless being like me doesn't really feel the warmth and sting of emotions." *He then chuckles and smirks slightly.* "By the tone you used, it sounded like you wanted to-"

*He's cut off as the sight of a large diamond ball hurtling towards the dragon's face in the sky is caught out of the corner of Maneru's eyes, followed by a loud roar. He sees the ball disappear into the clouds, then promptly eject back out, back the way it came. Before it can disappear from sight, a large gorilla-sized shadow creature leaps up and slashes at the ball. Its arm phases through the ball and merges with it, before turning the diamond into Darkness and absorbing it into its being, before dropping from the sky and landing out of sight.*



*Maneru's eyes widen slightly.* "That's Tsume (爪, "Claw"). What's Sekiryō thinking by using his Darkside? Akumu could sense it and come knocking." *He sighs and curses slightly, turning back towards Kage with a stern look on his face.* "We should prepare a defense for those dark creatures. At any rate, they'll be here... eventually." *He pulls his right glove tighter on his hand.* "I can forge a powerful seal around this place that should ward them off for a bit."

[Kage]

Kage nodded as she looked at the man before her. After a moment she winced somewhat feeling the darkness pull at her her breathing getting a little ragid as she stood. "Shit... what the hell is happening..." She grabbed her head somewhat as she shook her head a few time her visage changing somewhat as she stood there in pain moving away from Maneru. Moving her left hand to her chest, she clutched the fabric there over her breasts and whined a little bit her body blinking in and out of focus for a moment.

She growled lightly as she pops her back completely as she let out an inhumane roar as her body let off a pure green flash.



The demon form of kage finally looked up at Maneru life stream mist coming from her mouth and the glowing yellow eyes observing him. Before him no longer stood the Kage he was used to... now was only Chaos, her inner demon her true self and the true demon of darkness. The beast growled as it looked up at the sky tilting its head somewhat up at the sky and where Tsume is. She growled lowly like a demon who had been hunting for its prey and snorted out the mist again. Her demon was called forth by Akumu's will to find her son and now the pure darkness was reacting.

[Shinku no Yami]

Maneru: "What is this??" *He stared on in complete shock at what was happening before him, unable to do anything about it. No, more like, having no clue what to do about it, until Kage completely changes her form.* "I know this feeling too well. I've been around it for centuries..." *He steps out in front of Kage, one hand on his hilt and the other outstretched in front of Kage with his hand in a 'STOP' manner." I realize you're not Kage, but she's in there somewhere. Don't even think about what you're about to do."

*He looks past the demon's eyes, trying to find Kage's inside.* "If you can hear me, you know you don't want to do this." 'Shit, this level of Darkness is sure to draw Akumu's attention...'



"He may get angry, but I will send you to Hell if it takes that to stop you."

[Kage]

The demon bared it's razor like teeth in a cocky gesture before flapping its wings a few times and flexing it's clawed hands. The demon had Kage locked deep inside of him where nothing slight a 'god' could pull her out or make her take control of it. Roaring loudly, the demon exerted it's gravitational pressure out of its body sending a pulse of darkness from her body pushing the vampire away. Crouching down slightly the demon waited for the Vampire t make a move as darkness seeped out of it's very pores.

[Shinku no Yami]

Maneru: 'This is bad...!' *In an instant, he reaches into his sheath and pulls out his blade, Celestos, holding it in front of him, with the tit in his other hand, to block the attack. Despite his enormous strength, it still manages to cause him to slide back about 5 meters, before he swings his sword out, against the dark wave to finally cancel it. He looks on at this new creature with gritted teeth.* 'This is bad. Well, I've merely got to hold her off, but...' "... how long can I actually do this?"

*He looks up in surprise as a massive cloud of smoke covers the entire area where they're standing, having heard the words "Daitaju Kage Bunshin no Jutsu" (Great Multiple Shadow Clone Technique) being uttered. As the smoke clears, what he can make out is the sight of about 10,000 clones of Sekiryō standing on the buildings around them, all looking off into the distance, though he knows full well this is just a fraction of what's really there. Before he can say or do anything though...*

600,000 Sekiryō: "HIRAISHIN NO JUTSU!" (Flying Thunder God Technique)

*In an instant, all of the Sekiryō that had been covering almost the entire village vanish without a trace, aside from 1 off in the far distance, leaving the village empty as it was once again, though a heavy wind whips through the buildings and alleys as the air rushes to occupy the now unoccupied space, the large unoccupied space.*

Maneru: *Mouth hangs open slightly, mouthing a "what the...?" silently, before shaking his head and returning his attention toward the demon in front of him.* "Kage, listen to me! You can't let the Darkness control you! YOU control IT! Sekiryō made sure of that when he made you into Darkness' next Incarnation! Don't be controlled by yourself!"

[Kage]

The demon chuckles a little bit the white life stream mist still coming from it's mouth. Lunging forward the demon disappeared a centimeter infront of Maneru only to appear behind him it's wings beating as it began to ascend into the sky. Looking down at the vampyre, the demon allowed a black orb appear in the palm of it's hand. The orange eyed beast flexed it's other hand before growling again.

[Shinku no Yami]

*He braces himself with his sword for impact, but just as the beast is about to hit Maneru, it vanishes. Stunned momentarily, he turns his head to look up after hearing another growl. Eyes widening somewhat, he wastes no time. He crouches down, then with the speed of a bullet, he leaps himself HIGH into the air, a blue aura trail being left behind/under him as he ascends, heading straight for the beast. Before he does, however, his entire body dematerializes into a strange yellowish mist that passes right around the beast. It is poisonous, but he doubts it would work on her. He rematerialized above the beast, rocketing himself downward to deliver a spiraling kick to its back.*

[Kage]

The beast chuckled a little bit before disappearing right as he was about to land the hit on him moving at the speed of dark it seemed. The demon appeared on a building a few paces away waving off the yellow mist that had trailed around it as if it were just smoke to the wind. Growling somewhat, it slowly lifted it's self up into the air with one flap of it's wings it's right hand gathering a speck of complete darkness once more focusing most of it's energy into the small speck.

As the demon did this a small gust of wind hit Maneru slightly as if pushing him towards the small speck within it's hand. If the vampire looked around he could see the other building, dust, and sand being pulled towards the speck only slightly(mostly the dust/sand atm). The particles that got close enough to the speck disappeared nearly instantaneously having been sucked in completely.

The yellow eyed beast grinned as it looked at the Vampire once it realized what he was creating minuet by minuet within it's palm. By the time he started to make his next move, the speck had grown to a smaller circle, the swirling darkness inside of it now clearly seen as more things were sucked within it.

[Shinku no Yami]

*Maneru's eyes widen viably once he recognizes the technique which he's seen used many times in the past,* "This is... bad!" *As he is pulled steadily inward at an ever-growing velocity, he reaches back and pulls his cape across himself so that his body his visibly hidden behind it.* 'I can't stop that attack, but I can hold it off for a while...'

*In one swift motion, he whips his cape open, creating a distortion in front of him as a large barrage of black electrified fireballs are fired from an otherworldly dimension from his cape. As the pull of the mini black hole increases, the flames roar through the air and converge on that spot, forming one gigantic ball of electrified black fire around it, stopping its inward pull for a little while as the ball of fire is slowly absorbed from the inside out. At that moment, a bright beam of light envelops Maneru from the sky, causing him to vanish within it in an instant. The beam disappears, only to reappear again farther away, with Maneru appearing within it as well.*

"I guess I have no choice. I might not be able to copy him completely, but it'll be enough." *In an elegant fashion, Maneru brings his open hand up to his face, the back of his hand facing out. With a swift motion that mimics that of Maneru grabbing his face, he whips his hand and arm away, his appearance changing to replicate that of one they both know very well.*



*He speaks, perfectly mimicking Sekiryō's voice.* "Koi, Kage-chan."

[Kage]

The demon growls lowly as it looked at the black eletrical ball that had surrounded it's black hole and hissed pouring a little more of it's energy within it before moving its body allowing all the bones to pop inside of it. It looked up as it popped it's neck at the vampire and stalled for a moment somewhat paying attention to what he was doing but other than the slight glance the demon payed attention to it's technique more so than anything else.

Looking up quickly at the call, the demon stalled somewhat as it looked at 'Sekiryo' standing before it. The demon tilted its head somewhat it's razor like teeth shown from it's slightly gapped mouth. ".... Oyrikes?" It said slightly horse it's voice a deep and feminine rather than masculine as it's outward appearance suggested slightly. The golden eyes gained a slight red pupil showing Kage somewhat gaining control but not enough to stop the demon at the moment.

[Shinku no Yami]

"Yes. Remember me? I'm the one who gave you that power you possess, a part of me. I did it because I knew you could control it. I had faith in you, and I wanted it to protect you, always." *He blinks, and "Sekiryō's" eyes return to his normal Uchiha-trademark onyx ones.* "Remember?"

[Kage]

The demon growled a little bit before relaxing the human part of kage coming out in one o her eyes before a spark of darkness comes back into her forcing her into submission to the darkness once more.

[Shinku no Yami]

'Damn, even after this she is still struggling. I guess I have no choice then...' *He closes his eyes with a heavy sigh, opening his left eye to reveal a very familiar pattern to Kage.*



"Ōwatsumi" (Great Ocean Possessor)

*Focusing "his" Mangekyō eye on Kage, time around her instantly freezes, inverting all color within the time-frozen sphere around her. Maneru struggles somewhat with his thoughts now, able to speak freely since sound waves will not reach her ears with time stopped.* "What can I do? I can't suppress Darkness of this absolute level. Not even the Seal of the Six Dark Hearts will work. I am outclassed without being able to copy Sekiryō's Anton and Kōton Zettai abilities."

[Kage]

The demon seemed to be frozen in a mild state of rage as it stood there within the sphere. The demon's eyes were an reddish gold color, a mixture of Kage and it's self. Each color still seemed to be battling for dominance inside of her. Before long however, the demon in there began to move only slightly as it's right eye turned completely red and the left gold. It's body began to convulse slightly before the life stream matter began to pour from her pours as a weak light repellent to the darkness. It's right side shown as half the woman he was used to seeing the other half still the demon deep within her. "Maneru..... I cant..... hold it back for long....." She called out in half her voice and half the demons. "The ... lifestream....matter.... is generating light.... to repel it.... for now..... you ... have to leave."

[Shinku no Yami]

*He continues to focus his left eye on the demon, which now appears more human than before. Veins become more prominent as he forces more chakra into the attack, moving the sphere to follow her as she moves.* "But... what about you? What about Sekiryō? How can I stop this?"