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Eclipse walked through water country with Chobey flying directly at his side. It had ben a while since he had walked the town and the feeling was mutual. He wasnt missing much in the country of water now that he had little to hold to it. It had ben ten years since his father Mizu Seita had walked through the town with him. To him Seita was the worlds greatest Mizu even if Seita didnt believe it himself. It was always Sai, Sai , Sai... Seita jumped up and down for Sai whenever he asked and Eclipse never did like the power that Sai held over his father. Maybe it was because Eclipse never did really understand the relationship that Seita and Sai had with one another. After all he was just eleven when his father died. At that age he had just gettin out of the academy and headed towards the chunnin exams. It was all so sudden and yet Eclipse, like his father, Was very gifted in the ninja arts. Although it might have ben because of his one and only friend Chobey by his side and the relationship he had with him. Chobey, a dragon that to the bare eye looked like a child. Chose him at birth to accompany him in his lifetime. Which wouldnt be that long for him. Chobey was small gracefull and had a slight whitish color on him. Cute and innocent in his non primal form. On the other hand once in battle he turned into a large fully grown dragon with a bluish glow sorrounding him. Both forms where beautiful and both forms aided him equally in his stride to become greater each day. Of course that goal was back then. Now it was to find and kill his fathers killer. Thinking back at the chunnin exams after he had successfully completed all three tasks and finnished in first place as his father did. All without using a single Mizu jutsu and relying on his kaguya form. Seita, his father was a unique Kaguya/Mizu breed as so was his one and only child. As far as Eclipse remembered his father used nothing but his Mizu skills to fight and created the legendary style of bubbles. Everyone since his birth expected him to use the same jutsu. For some reason or another Ninjutsu didnt really click with him. The only thing that seemed to work was his Taijutsu skills with Kaguya since it didnt take any excess chakra to maintain. Maybe he got that from his mother even though he barely knew her true name. At any case he mastered the kaguya and found a way to manupulate his bone structure to make him almost invinsible... And automatic defense unlike his fathers. chobey on the other hand grew towards his Mizu clan power and found ways to manupulate it as such. It was conforting to have both ninjutsu and Taijutsu at his fingertips.. Actually it was pretty lucky.

"Eclipse, Are you going to search for more information" His trusted friend asked flying around him gracefully. His wings gliding with the wind and turning it to his favor. "Youve grown stronger now. I believe you are ready?"

Eclipse smiled and looked at chobey with his red and purples eyes. "My friend! You say it as a question. I am ready but we must take time. The trail will never erase," He looked up to the sun. "And unfortunately i have to follow orders." The order to find my fathers killer was dissmissed a long time ago buy the MizuKage. I was only twelve and i wanted to kill someone i had never even met. At the same time to kill my father you had to have a great power and at that you would have to know how to pass my fathers defense. Something only a Mizu would know how to do.

Chobey glided to his sholder and stood lightly on his right side. "Understood then. As long as you grow stronger so do I. Keep that in mind as you travel and train." Chobey was thinking back to his time as a god in his earlier years. He was born a god and had complete control over the waters. Legend had it that Chobey was the one who gave the Mizu clan its power long ago but was stripped from his godly rights when the Mizu clan became extinct a while back. Now that The Mizu clan had grown its right to stay within the world He too needed to gain his right to become a god. And with Eclipses help he could once again obtain that right.

Eclpes Knew this truth but acted as if he did not. For now it was just conforting to have someone to talk to .. Someone that knew about him the way his father did.

Eclipse stared at the boy for a while. "Youll only loose interest." Chobey stated as he looked at Eclipse. "I guess your right." he stood up after leaving a few ryo at the table to leave the bar. For some reason or another he just wasnt that hungry. "I must go and find my father's killer. Nights are getting harder and harder as the time goes by." It was true that a desents night sleep had excaped Eclipse every since he learned of his fathers death. Although a ninja's life was uncertain. It bothered him not to know who did it. "Well the closest thing to your father was his teacher and your mother. I watched your father closely as he strived for purpose and I would go towards those two paths. Which one to take is your own choice." Chobey was now walking besides Eclipse like a dog to its owner. "Ok then.. I heard Sai was on a voyage. "Can you track his chakra from here?" "Sai was once a kage of his own village.. It wont be easy unless he used jutsu recently. As soon as Chobey spoke he was in the air glowing to a point that Eclipse had lost his sight. Slowly chobey morphed into his battle form. Chobenra!. "I have found him at the winds edge. "Eclipse nodded and jumped up onto his back. "Lets go then.. " Chobenra floated upwards towards Wind Country. Father you will be avenged.

Sorain stood for a moment, still slightly dizzy due to the after effects of being in such a prolong state of in animation. After a series of short breaths followed by momentary yet violant shakes of his entire body, Sorain for the most part regained his composure. He walked slowly over to his desk with a hand over his forehead, although he had regained himself that did nothing to sooth the inevitable head ache that occurs from being submerged for months at a time. Sorain closed his eyes and yawned as he used his right hand to type on his access to the laboratories systems. The large monitar mounted on the wall mounted to life and projected a holographic display of his entire body right in front of him. On it was highlighted the areas to which were resistant to the process. It seemed to him that every time he went through this more and more of his body rejected the jutsu. It was a miricle that his structure remained in tact this long without any side effects to the brain. Sorain chalked that up to the fact that he had used his mastery of technology to enhance and stabilze the jutsu. The entire machine was made to mimic the human process of chakra minipulation in such a way that the chakra needed for the jutsu would kindle silently until it was called upon and molded into what it needed to be.

Sorain sighed to himself, for the moment he literally had no idea what he was going to do. He figured the best course of action was to either come upon a new jutsu to help him maintain his life on this plane, or simply do what he did before and transverse diminions, into another world in which (if all things went as they did the first time) would end him up in a much younger version of himself, to which he could start over yet again.

Sorain closed his eyes, why did he go through such troubles? What was it in him that made him belive that he diserved to live beyond the bounderies of time to which all others are confound? Sorain often tried to force himself into beliving that it was simply because he was needed, as Mizukage he was not ready to leave his people. But there was a deeper truth. Deep down he knew what awated him in the after life. Like so many from his clan, Sorain had always been taught to respect the gods, to give them their proper grattitude and to fight using their gift, the divintions. The gods blessed him with their eyes, and yet he shunned them without paying proper tribute. Was this the reason he was inflicted with the demon inside him? A brand? A label?

The holographic image disappeared before resurfacing to show a fully clothed Sorain. He nodded once before turning and backing into the hologram, which then solidifed and turned itself into his trade mark blue kimono, decked with chest plates, arm guards, leg guards, his rings along with various other accesories to his wardrobe.

Sorain turned and raised his hand to the screen causing a beam of light to appear, scanning his hand before creating a virtual image of his head gear and single ear ring. Sorain lowered his head before grabbing the vitrual items, starting with his head gear that slide effortlessly over his face. He closed his eyes and took a deep breath into its filter, taking his first real breath of pure air in years. Already he could feel his body responding happily to the superior oxygen. Next Sorain tilted his finger to place the ear ring onto it, raising it up to his right ear he clipped it.

He then turned and walked placidly out of his laboratory, headed for the village. "Time to see what ive missed.." He said under his breath before bursting into a cloud of mist in the sun.

Sorain kicked through the doors of his old office, already from the outside he could tell that things had changed drastically. He entered the room with his eyes jaded and calm. He had no intentions of freaking out and loosing his mind, less he be forced into accidental killing the innocent like he had done once before. As Sorain entered the room several old faces looked down from their seats at him, each holding the same shock as the first. Whispers started flying up everywhere and before long the entire rooms attention had moved from Sorain to a man sitting at the main seat. "I thought you said he was gone for good!... You idiot! We are undone!!" several cries burst out through the room lashing away at their so called leader.

Sorain walked calmly up to the main seat and looked down at the man sitting in the seat. He blinked once, trying to decide on what he was going to do from here.. It was before he even had a chance to react that a young messenger walked in. "Forgive the intrusion Furor. There is a message for you that requires immediate action."

Sorain looked down to the supposed Furor and nodded his head, "Well Furor, arnt you going to address your duty?"

The pale skinned male shook his head slowly no.."Pr..Proceed Mizukage - Sama"

Sorain gave him a half hearted smile, "You sure? I mean I know that you were left with a job to do I wouldnt want to screw that up. I mean you did so well in assisting the counsil. I really like what you have done with the place, fear and anger really looks good on us." He said sarcastically. Sorain grabbed the message and read it to himself before crumbling it up and tossing it to the former Furor.

"Ohh kay this is how its gonna happen. You are all relived of duty. Report to the Water Country Diyamo withen 24 hours and explain to him the situation or you will be labled as a Missing Nin, Placed in the Bingo Book, and Killed by my hand.. Personally."

Sorain moved over to the windows and closed his eyes. He could feel the rest of his powers slowly returning. He took a deep breath and searched his body for the presence of the Demon Dog inside him.

"YEA Im still here!"

Sorain smirked to himself. Although he hated to admit it, he had grown used to having the demon inside him, and in all honestly, it was a weapon that he would never give up. He rushed down out of window and headed towards the peer, where he then proceeded on to his destination.

Sorain walked through the village, nodding his head towards the villages as they waved in admiration. He had grown used to this sort of treatment but right now more than any other day it was at a all time high. He figured that it was due mostly to his prolonged absence, he was just glad that now he could be here and be the kage that he needed to be. Sorain looked rounded the corner, following him were two cloaked shinobi and one rather short young girl barely out of her teens. "Mizukage - Sama, graduation day is today for the new genin, it might be a good idea to make an apperance to let them know that you have returned for good. " Sorain rubbed the back of his head, "yea thats a good idea I suppose, I just hope that they are not like the last couple of genin that I went to meet at the acadmy, that was a nightmare" He joked openly towards her.

Sorain headed down towards the academy where he removed his hat slowly, letting down his long silky black and blue hair. His skin, though pale at times, still held the coffee brown that glowed perfectly in the rare sunlight that actually made it through the village thick mist. His eyes were of a whitish grey trademark of his hyuuga birth in combination with the green seal placed just above his brow. He folded his arms into the sleeves of his robe as he often did before finnaly reaching the acadamy area. He stopped and looked around, servaying that material with his eyes. The level of some of these genin were amazing though not surprising.

"Congratulations new members of the Kirigakure army" He said with a smile to the many acadamy students walking out with their head bands. He noticed Yua standing alone, deep in thought. He looked at her and could literally feel the stress that was radiating off of her body. Sorain raised an eye brow as he got a slight hint of deja vu when tapping into her mind but shrugged it off as nothing.

Sorain made his way over to her and held out a hand, "Congratulations on becoming part of the Kirigakure army"

Sorain gave a false smile, "um..well.. You pretty much answered your own question" He said before turning his head and looking over to his group of followers and whispered, "Do I have time to hang around here?" He asked to one of them. Both of the hooded figures remained silent under their direct vow to never speak unless absolutely necessary, the short girl who for the moment was acting as his secretary nodded to him before finally speaking, " as long as you get back to your office and sort through the Mission request inbox before the end of the day you should be fine" she said while marking it down in a digital planner. "Great then" he said before turning back to Yua, "The answer to your question is simple, just do what feels natural. Your use as a ninja is what defines you, so it must be something that you already know. You just have to go deep inside yourself and figure out just what it is. Might I suggest looking into something physical that you can use from stealth"
Sorain folded his hands back into his sleeves. "In any case, what ever you decide to do make sure that it something that you can stick with and something that will work for you in battle. The days of book learning are over, you are now a Kirigakure genin, which means you will be expected to fight"

’I shall fight to honor the name of Kaiten, the name of my father…

Erkamina stared intently at the Mizukage, everything seemed off about the man. His eye color, for one, wasn’t natural. Or rather didn’t ‘seem’ natural. It was a pale gray color, nearly off white, and didn’t have a visible pupil. His forehead bore a strange green mark, looking like a seal of some form but what kind she couldn’t tell. The way he sat, or rather stood now that he was greeting some of the other graduates from her ‘class’- or rather the ones that happened to graduate with her, screamed authority. But she couldn’t shake the anger of just looking at the man. But she stood her ground, straight and narrow, as the other student walked away downtrodden. She put away her knife and massaged her jaw; the pain was hitting her now that adrenaline was missing from her system. She was the only one to graduate this quickly after (re)joining the Academy but she had the previous ‘failure’ to add to her repertoire, not that she wanted it. What she wanted was something much more than met the eye, and even someone that could read her wouldn’t see it as well hidden as it was beneath the ideal of revenge. First the ones that were guilty, then those that refused to act. In the end it was a rather long list that ended with the very man that was at the receiving end of her gaze. She’d have to wait though, he was much stronger than she was now and she wasn’t one to die before she’d gotten her way, so she pushed the hatred down as far as she could and feigned respect for the man, seeing as her life could very easily be ended by him she needed to be as close to his ‘good side’ as she could be. She ignored the others, the chattering of voices rang out over and over, with one dashing to go get a book and returning shortly after and pointing at a page in it. "A bookworm? Figures... She'd probably be better suited for a student... Funny I don't remember seeing her in class."

… Soon I will show the world the worth of that name.’