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The doorway slowly materialized a few feet up in the air, Maxaku still not used to shifting between the real and the immaterial world. He nearly fell through, his hand barely catching on the door frame, he stepped through the portal to find his feet on a soft cushion of grass. "Where am I again?" the confused nobody looked left then right pulling down the hood of his black robe in the process. The shiny blue spikes of hair shook slightly in the breeze as it swept over the village, for the moment it seemed the blades that had opened the door back to the real world had vanished as he examined his empty palms. It was only then that he noticed that he wasn't alone in this place, standing off to the side of him somebody was hoisting another someone up in the air. Maxaku was still unsure not yet willing to move forward, he faltered, not sure if this was something he should be witnessing. Behind him the samurai nobodies under his control had already entered into the fray all around them, but Maxaku, he stood there silently a sentinel to the carnage around him as he watched the other two fighting.
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This strange body seemed to respond even though he didn't tell it to, the strange blades appeared in his palms. Little did he know that the blades in his hands were just fakes, copies of the real blades that had now found their way to this world. The blades seemed to hum with anticipation sensing the nearness of danger, but Maxaku kept his hands loose at his sides still slightly wary still knowing full well that the nin on the ground shouldn't have been thrown around like that so easily. He had no idea who either of them were, but the the one on the ground had a slight air of familiarity like so many other people that held the keys to his memories. His gaze rose to meet that of the womans, "Mother is a term unfamiliar to me, like so many other things, but yes I act under my own free well...... at least I think I do," the nobody looked rather confused at his own statement. "And these jewels... if I had seen them? What would that mean...?" his gloved hands tightened around the hilts of the blades in his hands.
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"I... I... I'm just a shell???" Maxaku stumbled backward disbelieving, not able to fully comprehend what he was being told. "That can't be true!" his movement backward stopped he now stepped forward firmly, raising his blades into a fighting stance. "I do have a soul, I just don't know where it is yet. I have a past! I have a present! I have a future! And no one can take that away from me!" Maxaku charged forward blinded by rage, his nobodies responding to his emotions leaving their own respective battles to leap into the air forming an ever tightening noose of blades as they headed earthward.

"I might not have a purpose now, but I'll find one! Maybe stopping you!" Maxaku swung both of his blades downward in attempt to drive her blade into the earth. Maxaku aimed a low kick around the blades at the womans ankles hoping to catch her off guard and send her sprawling to give him an opening for attack.

Shiro smirked laughing as he leaped off the reverting Hotaru, his other Chimeras and Greed alighted around him in the center of the brightly lit village. Even without the troops approaching from the north their numbers were impressive. Shiro stood atop the local Kage tower, Greed stood at the base Rayquaza coiled under him his 4 newest puppets, all products of alchemy sitting upon the long dragon. Using it's Bend and Break skill Greed had made 4 puppets similar to elementals a puppet made from Shiro's animated suit of armor, one made of course from simple wood, another made of earth easily 12 ft tall, and the strangest one of all it's body smoking a puppet made of dry ice, this one the most unstable constantly having to be renewed from the carbon dioxide in the air to replace matter lost when it's body sublimated. Kagiri and Chinmei swirled around the tower spiraling around each other with graceful wing beats. Kuroi, Hotaru and Zakun all stood on the roof near Shiro. In total Shiro group numbered 12, 12 separate opponents that a challenger would have to fight all at once. Shiro cupped his hands to his mouth and shouted his voice echoing throughout the village. "VILLAGE OF GRASS! MY NAME IS SHIRO AND TODAY I OFFER THE VILLAGE OF ALCHEMY"S SUPPORT TO YOU FOR A SMALL PRICE, YOUR SUBMISSION. THIS OFFER HAS NO OTHER OPTIONS, I DON'T SEEK A BLOODY WAR NOR WILL I TOLERATE IT. I UNDERSTAND THAT THERE WILL BE DISSENTERS, LET THEM COME FORWARD AND FACE THE POWER OF ALCHEMY. IN 3 DAYS TIME YOU ALL WILL BE PART OF THE GLORIOUS NATION OF ALCHEMY! That is all..." Shiro stood atop the tower blade in one hand rifle in the other.
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Hurdy's soul decended from the afterlife, as it rippled invisibility. He came to the Hidden Village of grass and looked down at a student academy. This was the school of the Zetsu clan. They specialized in using their giant Venus fly trap and plant powers for killing. Their most famed member was apart of the Akatsuki. Hurdy picked the youngest one, he wanted to be able to learn from scratch so that he could master this body like any other part of the clan. He came closer to the academy, moving in past the clouds.

(1 of 10 Fly Catcher Technique)


As Hurdy neared the boy, he began to shiver. "Hey guys,is any one cold?" THe rest of the clan looked at him weird and conitued training. Hurdy smiled as he entered the boy, and took over his system. His memory was erased in the process, so the boy's were his only at the moment. He conitued training, working on mastering his venus fly trap. He then started to throw kunai and hit the targets. The older kids looked at him weird, since he had never been good at throwing kunai, but now he was a pro.

(2 of 10 Fly Catcher Technique)


"Hey How did you do that?" Asked one of the oldest boys there. "You've never been able to do that. And now you can do it all of a sudden? I don't think so...." He drew one of his own kunai and threw it at the target in a challenge. Hurdy nodded and accepted. He was way better, with his abilities as a ninja for years, this zetsu body would work amazingly. And since he had abilities and only te kids memories, he couldn't explain how he could do it. The older zetsu hit the 3 ring in. Hurdy aimed for the second, and hit it. Just beating him, but still winning.

(3 of 10 Fly Catcher Technique)


The older boy was angry, and threw his kunai in the 2 ring, not far from Hurdy's first, but a winning throw. Hurdy then smiled and aimed his kunai for the first ring and hit it, winning yet again. The other boy was noticably mad and he threw it, hitting the farthest ring out. He was angry and Hurdy knew he would hit a good one. So with his kunai on the farthest part, Hurdy easily knocked down a bulls eye. The kid shrugged in defeat and returned to his chakara molding. The other kids lingered about, but eventually returned to chakara molding as well, Hurdy joined them.

(4 of 10 Fly Catcher Technique)


The oldest students were able to lift their leafs off their heads. Hurdy was able to lift it up, make it spin and land side ways in perfect balance. They all started to get angry now and one of them threw a punch. Hurdy caught it and threw him to the ground. "What is with this kid? How did he get so good?" CHimed in a fellow student who was impressed, but not angry. "WHo cares ima kill him. He is a freak of nature..." Three more kids agreed and the four of them came at Hurdy. He readied him self for a brawl. "You guys really mad at me? I'll stop I promise." Pleaded the body Hurdy occupied. He didn;t know that he could easily take them out with Hurdy's abilities.

(5 of 10 Fly Catcher Technique)

Hurdy Smiled, and bowed to the sensai. He headed out side and begun to walk home. Now that he had a new teacher that acually tought him stiff he would truly accel at being a ninja. He needed to first though find out how all of a sudden he is a master at fighting and kunai usage. He stumbled upon the road, almost falling. A couple sitting near by laughed and continued kissing. Hurdy blushed and kept on walking. The road was old and worn, with grass and flowers blooming every where. Hurdy felt weirdly attached to them.

(1 of 9 Deadly fly Trap)


He walked on, careful not to step on any of the flowers. Why did he care for them so? Why did he just want to sit in them for hours. He couldn't figure it out. Manythings were happening today that he couldn't explain. He flexed his Venus Fly Trap, and snapped it close a couple of times. He liked it when It was closed, he felt safe and warm. He couldn't wait until tomorow and the master tought him a new move for it. Wandering down the street toward his house suddenly felt odd, when the wind started to blow...

(2 of 9 Deadly fly Trap)


As the wind picked up, the flowers around Hurdy begun to swirl, and twist around him. "What?... WHy is this so familiar." Hurdy suddenly fell to the ground and his head began to pound. He awoke and it was all white. THere infron of him stood the same Man as him. "You have come into my body and I want you to leave right now." Hurdy smiled at the boy who once controled the body. "Why should I? I am the reason you are getting tought. You got a taste oh my skill, but now that I remeber... you are going to have to leave."

(3 of 9 Deadly fly Trap)


The boy looked frightened. He knew that in a fight Hurdy would win. But what could he do? this was his body and he needed to fight for it. He ran at Hurdy and attempted to bite him with his venus fly trap, using the fly catcher technique. Hurdy fell belly to the floor and jabbed up with a kunai. It stuck the boy in the face, and he began to fade away. "You may have won this, but remeber this is my body, when it is missing, my family will look for you..." Hurdy smiled.

(4 of 9 Deadly fly Trap)


Hurdy opened his eyes and he was being poked by a stick. "Hey kid are you okay?" Hurdy grabbed the stick and shoved it back at him, sending it through his eye socket. He then stood up while the pocker hit the floor. Hurdy shrugged and headed into the forest near by. It surrounded the village and he would be able to manuver around the village with out being seen. He circled throught the trees and found a view of the police station. He sat back on the tree limb and waited. He was a missing ninja, and he needed to be sharp.

(5 of 9 Deadly fly Trap)


Hurdy had been sitting the tree all night. He had an oppointment with the master to learn jutsu in a hour. Since this body was still a little kid, the parents would be looking for him and wondering why he wasn't home last night. They hadn't came to the police yet, and so Hurdy wasn't that worried. He gave the rest of the day until he figured they would report him in. They would be at the school as well, so he would have to be careful not to be spotted. The teacher that sent the boy to the master would reffer the parents to the master. So he just had to convince the master to let him stay.

(6 of 9 Deadly fly Trap)


He headed off to the school, and entered the grounds. So far so good, every one is training and I am out of sight, just down this hall way... Hurdy knocked on the door, and bowed when the master answered it. "Hello master, I am ready to learn a new jutsu." He nodded and invited him in, closing the door behind him. Surprisingly, he locked it as well. "Today you will be learning a dark art of our clan... one that is most evil. But, it benefits us greatly." Hurdy seemed very interested, as he loved the dark arts. "But before we begin master, I have something I must ask of you."

(7 of 9 Deadly fly Trap)


"Yesterday I didn't go home so that I could train more witht he Fly catcher. So, my parents will be coming here tomorow. If they knock on the door, would kindly tell them that you haven't seen me since yesterday? I don't want to go home with out being powerful." The master nodded and seemed to think over the request. "I will only do this because you ask me to in the reason of training for your clan. If it were not for this, I would have to tell the truth." Hurdy nodded, bowed ,and verbally thanked his master.

(8 of 9 Deadly fly Trap)


"Now, back to teaching. The jutsu I am about to teach you is acually not a jutsu. It is a move that you will be able to do with your Venus fly trap. It is known as the Deadly FLy trap. After you kill and enemy, or if they are paralyzed, but I wouldn't recomend alive, you may eat their body. THis wil offfer you a little bit of their chakara. Also, if you need to be stealthy, it will eliminate any kind of evidence. A very usful move that will serve you well." Hurdy smiled, this was perhaps the greatest move he had ever seen. "Now, it starts with you with drawing your shoulders and head in so that it is only your fly trap revealed. Then, eat. Simple as that." Hurdy practiced on a cadiver that the master had and completed the jutsu successfully.

(9 of 9 Deadly fly Trap)

The master looked up as he succeded the Green wall jutsu, so that he could blend and apear at will. "Very good, now go home and do you part of the promise." Hurdy nodded and bowed to his master as he succeeded in completing his part of the bargain. On his way out the master said. "Once you get done, hurry back. I have one final jutsu to teach you before you are finished." Hurdy nodded and turned toward the door, smiling. Since he was about to finish, he assumed instead of seeing his parents, he should just remeber the rest of his jutsu now.

(1 of 7 Sweet Aroma Lure)


He headed down a dirt path, off the main roads of the village until he was safe enough away. "Now.. this will be dificult...." He delved into his mind and found the nagging jutsu. He started off with the first one. Bunshin no jutsu, he summoned a clone of himself. It then used henge to look like the master. It ran at him and Hurdy sunsituted for a near by log. Hurdy then walked up the tree with tree walk and then formed a sand eye out of the dirt he crushed. He crushed more dirt and made a sand clone, and hit it with the hell viewing technique, where it saw it's own death.

(2 of 7 Sweet Aroma Lure)


He then used body flicker to move to the ground and Black clouds o make it rain oil. Before it hit him how ever he was blocked from wetness by the shadow clones. They cleaned up before blowing up, the last getting hit with a thousand years of pain. Hurdy then turned into a naked lady and made a large explosion with a cherry blosom snow storm. He then formed the 3 versions of exploding clay, but they were crushed by the revolving split earth palm. The smushed clay formed a jibaku clone before getting hit with poison mist and spit needles, followed by a tooth pick. Hurdy then cut himself and formed many things with his blood.

(3 of 7 Sweet Aroma Lure)


He then took on the properties of the tree next to him before summoning a swamp. He blended in with a camoflauge concealment before blowing up a tree with a rasengan. He formed snakes out of his sleaves before killing them with lightning shuriken. He touched the last one and disrupted his nervous system before making another forest and a wooden clone of himself. He made all around him go dark and then Made a shield of water. After the sheild was formed, he made a dragon out of it. He threw up a kunaia and it stopped with levatation. He jumped high into the trees with an impossible leap before spinning and landing a great combo on a tree, which while was in mid air he blasted up with a rasengan. He formed another and lit it on fire with sake and launched it.

(4 of 7 Sweet Aroma Lure)


He then drew a man and it apeared, but Hurdy apeared at his foot, and dragged him under ground so his head showed. He then drew a lion and it attacked the head. He took on the form of a rock and stretched his hand grabbing a tree, then he crushed it. He greew back a cut off arm before making a sword of wind. He then lifted up a one ton sword and turned it into a kunai. He threw it and it became invisible. It came back and he passed right threw it. He created hundreds of snakes and swept them away with a river of mud. He then shot a fire dragon and tried to burn them all. He then summoned up a bunch of iron sand and made a hundred copies of a shuriken. He made a cloud of mist apeared and then apeared in it. He made a bolt of electricity apear and strike down and then made his own aura. He played a tune on his flute and then used bells to the same effect.

(5 of 7 Sweet Aroma Lure)


He made a ring of fire, and then a frogs throat. He spit out hot ash, and made a maze of stone. He sunk under ground and fought while he was asleep. A mud dragon head came up and fired off earthen material. He created a shield and spear, and then learned how to use his hearing amazingly. He used a clone to fight well, And then used purge to suck in all evil. He grew in size and healed himself witht he evil. He used his threads to sew up a cut and created a house. After all of this, Hurdy was sweating and exhausted. He would wait until morning to return to the master.

(6 of 7 Sweet Aroma Lure)


Hurdy awoke, still stiff and headed back to the school. He knocked and the Master let him in. Neither mentioned the parents, they just wanted to finish training. "This final jutsu, you will learn is the Sweet Aroma Lure. It will allow your victim to smell their favorite smell and become drawn to it. This is used by you sticky saliva in your venus fly trap. It will become so intesnse for them because it is their favorite. They will have to smell it. Tis can be used to bring an enemy into a trap. That way you don't even have to move from your hiding spot. Hurdy used it on his saliva and the master was instantly attracted. "good job, now stop the smell..." Hurdy didn't and the man kept coming. Hurdy smiled and hit him with a kunai. He bled to death and Hurdy left for the docks.

(7 of 7 Sweet Aroma Lure)