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Kiraki's faceless mask showed no emotion but underneath it was the smirk was there as brought his arms back to a nuetral position.
The sound of the activated chidori was a dead give away as Kiraki smiled. The wooden beams retracted their hold on the three gaurds. The retreated into the ground as a hand clap echoed through the dimly lit cave.

"Not quite. But see through a technique thats already happened." It was also Kiraki as he appeared on the other side of the room through a stone archway. He was wearing the Mask of the Everglades as he spoke, tapping on his mask as if he was indicating something.

The Kiraki that David was willing to skewer dissapeared in a flume of smoke as the real cloaked shinobi walked up to Verdugo. It was a shadow clone the whole time.
"What kind of abomination is this?" He said, paying the Uchiha no mind. He looked like a dog examining a tree stump as he looked over Verdugo.

"That will do... This place is amazing, as is this monster. Perhaps you may be of more use than i imagined...." The last sentence trailed off. In his left hand, Kiraki fiddled with a ring.

The sound of experiments perked up Kirakis mask, changing from the reed covered fencer mask to the natural colored iconic Mask of a Thousand Faces. the masked ninja jerked his attention from Verdugo to David.
"I think I might be able to accomodate you here." He said. Turning heel, he moved away from the experiment and its owner, walking back through the stone archway waiting for David to follow briefly.
With each step Kiraki took down the unadorned stone hallway, more orange orbs of light lit up in front of the pair as Kiraki turned right and stopped.
"This should suffice hopefully. Even with all the rumors and legends surrounding this place, it seems as if they were rarely here....." A thought occured in Kiraki's head as he tilted his it further down the unlit hallway. "Except one place..."

David followed Kiraki as he turned to hear something beyond the rock, "someone else wants in..." he said as he continued to follow into the room, "was this Orochimaru's lab or something?" he said as the three guards followed into the room behind him. he quickly began to unpack a few supplies from a scroll making it more homely, placing posters of the human anatomy upon the walls, and placing a few other posters that had pictures of fossils and the Las Plagus upon them. "this should be homely enough." he said as he set up a few tools that he used when putting together a corpse or experimenting upon his parasites. "you may go." he said sturnly hoping to start to prepare a few extra things.

“Memories of a broken past that’s all that’s left really… no matter how far I go… what I see… what I learn… everything is still Fragmented. It doesn’t help that this sword won’t shut up either…..” A man completely obscured by a grey cloak wrapped around his whole body, the hood thrown up and obscuring his features he wandered through the wilderness with no particular destination. “Just another traveler that’s all I am….” He paused looking around as the world warped around him, another fragment of memory assaulting him; he raised a hand to his face revealing a twisted metal gauntlet with long sharp talon like claws ending each digit. Darkness… clouds of blood…. The nine who are one… is this supposed to be my past…. Or is it my future? The world returned to him as he stood there in the forest, but now he found he wasn’t in the some place that he last remembered being. “I’m on the water…? What is going on here?” The pain came stronger this time, assaulting his mind with brutal intensity images flashing before his eyes, a gravestone with a glass rose sitting on top, an ocean of sand broken limbs and blades sticking out everywhere, black sky and clouds of blood, a voice whispering him, not just one voice, but many, many voices blended into one, a voice which he couldn’t help, but obey, he was being called and he could no longer resist that call. A voice called out to him startling him out of his trance like state, the stranger found himself on the center of the small spring his hands clasped in a foreign hand seal. This mysterious watched as with a thunderous groan a mountainous boulder which seemed to cover the opening from which the spring was fed began to levitate upwards. He advanced forward knowing that he could do nothing to resist the call of whatever had brought him and implanted these thoughts in his head. The man seemed to be paying no attention to the commotion off to side and had somehow slipped through the defenses as if he had prior knowledge of the layout of the area. Just who was he anymore? At this point that subject had become fuzzy even for him.

The ring on his hand warmed up even more as Kiraki was surprised at the amount of activity that was going on.
His astral projection merely said, "I see....you may proceed with safe passage. See you inside." As the genjutsu lifted and the projection dissapeared.

Rushing down the hall to the cave entrance he spotted the second new comer.
"oh....it's you. Glad you could make it." Kiraki said, his voice giving off the impression of a smile as the featureless mask looked upon the heap of gray.

David would finish setting a few things in the room as he took the ring and looked at it, "hmm, neat!" he placed it on the apropriate finger as he smiled looking at the ring and examining it for any sort of bugs. as he soon found out it was basically a normal ring. "hmm, do i get one of those cloak things or something? it might be a neet thing to wear since this is to obvious of a cloak. and especially with my old clan insignia." he said as he looked around the room and Garrador walked forward from where he was currently standing. unfortunately it was quite comedic as he was blind now and accidentally walked headfirst into a wall. he stumbled backwards, it appeared that the hearing it had only worked for sensing things that made noise first. the Regenerator began to laugh in a very weak and weesy voice, it seemed to have changed slightly more as the time had begun to pass. Garrador quickly reacted as it roared loudly, causing a terrifying affect in the small room. the blades upon its hands extended as it ran forward at Regenerator and slammed a bladded fist into his body. it quickly pulled it back and Regenerator seemed to be working fine as his body began to instantly fix the spot that had been hit. David quickly left as his actual guard started to take its job and stop their fighting and reorganize them as David left followed by the three guards. Verdugo to his right, the Regenerator to his left, and Garroador following the sound of their steps from behind. David stopped as he saw a few Akatsuki cloaks sitting in a pile, he quickly grabbed one of them and walked out of the cave waving to Kiraki, he also said "i grabbed a cloak, just so you know." he then left with his three guards and headed to his home to find Itachi and learn a little about the techniques used in the Akatsuki.
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The shadows shifted on the man as he raised his face to view the man standing in his way. A masked man versus a man of many masks, the cloaked figure was wearing an ANBU Hunter mask. "You don't fit... Sorry," He had a long barreled pistol leveled at the man's face. If he looked closesly he would be able to see the real Void ring worked in as part of the gun, the ring was a link between the two main parts, but would normally go unoticed as the band faced upward and the symbol downward. The masked hunter seemed to notice the ring for the first time. "You don't fit what's supposed to be here, but that ring says you do." the masked hunter was of course speaking of his own shattered memories of this place, they weren't actually his memories to begin with, but memories of a twisted creature who had previously been a member before death. The pistol twirled in the ungauntleted hand like quicksilver and when it stopped it was in it's three components the barrel, the ring connecting the two and the stock. The pistol twirled backwards this time and when it came to stop it seemed that the ring was really just an aesthetic component as the two main peices still fit together. The gun seemed to withdraw straight into the man's palm as near luminescent green orbs stared at the masked man oposite him. "These rings link us...? Where is the Tiger I would speak with him." his fragmented memory only revealed to him one person who actually belonged in this place and the was the white tiger. Little did he know that the tiger was just someone else he had killed over the years. He didn't know his name only the symbol on his ring that represented him.

(which ring is the kai? like which finger)

Hurdy took his ring and cloak, and headed back to a room down the hallway. He picked out the first one and changed into his akatsuki cloak before slipping his new ring onto his right pinky. He took a potted plant out, and placed a seed in the soil. Transfer. Over the next week, this seed would grow into Hurdy's new body. WHen he dies, his soul will be transfered here and he will continue to live. It was a new jutsu of his, and with it he will be able to live for ever...