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Chapter 5: The Ceremonial Grounds
I appeared at the top of the tower. Again I saw the two faces that I saw to the sides of the tower. They looked at me. I was in both awe and fear at the titanic figures. Suddenly, they both looked up and backed away from the tower. I quickly looked up, and I saw the largest hand I had ever seen. I jumped out of the way, and I only missed it by a little. I turned around to see what the hand was connected too.
The beast was massive and appeared as a massive shadow. It's only features were it's limbs, it's one massive eye and the 10 tails of pure malice that extended behind it. It moved to lash at me with one of it's tails. I flinched, not knowing what to do.
"Shinra Tensei!" I screamed in desperation. The beast's tail came no closer and shot back with incredible force. The beast lost balance and fell upon it's back. It looked upon me with it's foul eye, but then chakra flew all around. Little balls of chakra of many colors flew around me before collecting at the center of the beasts eye. When all the chakra collected, it formed a huge black sphere. Even from so far away I could feel it's immense power. The ball began to compact and condense, becoming more fearsome. Suddenly, the beast shot the ball at me. My five second time period was still in effect. I held out my arms in some foolish attempt to block the power coming towards me. I began to glow and the sphere colided with me, but instead of detonating it began to break apart. Chakra flew out of the ball and I began absorbing it. I continued until the sphere was completely gone.
The beast moved to strike again, but stopped sudenly. I opened my eyes to look at it fully. It did not stop of it's own free will. It was contricted by chains. Massive chains made of strange chakra. One chain extended off of the beast and went high into the air. I followed the chain with my eyes until I saw the man they were conected too.
It was the man I saw in my first vision. The man that stood above all the others, but this time I could see him fully. He was an elderly man with white hair. He wore an old style armor and above that was a white robe. On his back he carried a ring staff, and like before he had my rinnegan eyes. This one stood out from the others. He had no piercings. I also noticed that his ten tails were gone. I looked at the confined beast in front of me. Ten tails. The man made a few one handed signs before grabbing his stomach and twisting it, revealing a strange black hole like seal in his stomack. He pulled on the chains and slowly the beast was dragged into the seal on the man's stomack. After the last tail creeped in he sealed the beast inside. He twisted his stomack in the oposite direction. Locking the beast within. He came down from the sky and stood before me. His eyes meeting mine.
I felt different about this one. The ones that came before him were so cold, unfeeling. But he radiated the warming sensation. Unlike the beast within him he was benevolant. I had never seen anyone so warm hearted. Even Konan had turned cold from Yahiko's death. The man did something else none of the others did. He smiled at me.
"Who are you?" I felt compelled to ask.
"I have long forgotten my birth name. Such earthly things do not hold gravity to me anyway," he said in a soothing voice.
"There must be something I can call you."
"I suppose you can refer to me by my most famous moniker. I am Rikudo Sennin. The Sage of Six paths."
"Jiraiya Sensei told me of one with that name."
"Your sensei sounds like a wise man."
"Yeah, perhaps if he wasn't such a pervert," I laughted quietly. The sage chuckled in response to me
"I'm sure you have many questions."
"What is going on?"
"This dream is to teach you of the powers you have been blessed with. For you have a role in my great workings."
"What role is that?"
"What is the point of having a destiny if somebody tells you what it is? I leave it for you to figure out," I was quite visibly annoyed
"Why are you here then?"
"To teach you of the powers you will possess. I will teach you of the skills the paths could not," he answered. He looked at the massive face at the side of the tower. "The king of hell and the Demonic Statue of the Outer path are two creatures that only the rinnegan can summon. They allow us to tap into the mystical powers of the Outer path. That which is beyond life and death. The first technique that you must learn is the Samsara of heavenly life. With this technique you can revive those who died very recently, but it requires massive amounts of chakra. Only use it when you have chakra to spare." I knodded in agreement so that he would resume. He sat down in front of the King of Hell and performed a ram hand seal, then a snake hand seal. The King of Hell opened it's mouth wide and released a glowing green energy that traveled to the bottom of the tower. I peaked over the edge to see the piles of bodies killed by the men that came before Rikudo Sennin. They all rose and moved with life once more. I was amayzed.
The sage brought my attention back to him. "You have much more to learn. Our time here is short, pay attention. This next technique is an extention of the Deva path. Are you familiar with the massive rock object in the sky?"
"The moon?" I replied, stunned by the question.
"Yes that. I used this technique to create that object." I was stunned. I knew he was powerful, but to create the moon, that was on another level. "It is called the Chibaku Tensei. You perform it by bringing your hands together and focusing the Deva path abilities between them. You release a ball that will act as the center of the object. The size of the object depends on the amount of energy you put into it."
The sage opened the seal on his stomack, and the ten-tailed demon lurked out again. The sage released a glowing black sphere that blocked out the sun. Everything was covered in light.The demon rose into the sky and began floating where the sphere was. Rocks of all sizes flew into the sky. The ground beneath us shattered, the tower broke into pieces and rose into the sky. The demon was crushed by the debris and the rocks became more and more compact. The tower colapsed and I began to fall to the ground. The sage caught me and landed on the ground. The debris continued to rise. I could no longer see the demon. The object became the moon and flew up into the sky.
"Why did you seal away that demon?" I asked
"I am replicating what I did in life. I sealed away the horrible demon to ensure that after my death it would not wreak havoc."
"But to seal all that power away. Jiraiya told me that the demon within you made you god-like."
"It did, somewhat. But I did not get rid of the power. I used a great power to re-create nine new beasts that were divisions of the Ten-tails power."
"Will you show me that power as well?"
"No. That power shall die with me. But I do have more to show you." The King of Hell disipeared and the Demonic statue stood before us. The six men I met in the tower appeared before me, but this time they had no piercings, and their rinnegan eyes were gone. I looked at the Deva path. This time he looked exactly like Yahiko. "These men will be a part of your destiny. As well as the technique I am going to show you." Giant black rods shot out of the stomack of the demonic statue. The rods pierced the six bodies and pierced the skin all around the body. The rods became piercings and they began to resemble what they looked like in the tower. The king of hell reapeared, he opened his mouth and his tounge picked up the six bodies. The king of hell began chewing on the bodies. He opened his mouth and the bodies came out and they all possessed rinnegan eyes. "Nagato, this is the six paths technique, the ability to turn corpses into bodies that you control. Each body has one of your rinnegan path powers, and their eyes are linked with yours. Everything the see, you see," he said as his body began to disipear.
"You are disipearing," I said
"My time is almost up. These bodies are those who met your sensei in his travels. I am giving you their locations in the real world. Just remember. Follow your dream." He disipeared. The locations of the five men and Yahiko flashed before my eyes. And I began to wake up.
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)Chapter 5: The Ceremonial Grounds
I appeared at the top of the tower. Again I saw the two faces that I saw to the sides of the tower. They looked at me. I was in both awe and fear at the titanic figures. Suddenly, they both looked up and backed away from the tower. I quickly looked up, and I saw the largest hand I had ever seen. I jumped out of the way, and I only missed it by a little. I turned around to see what the hand was connected too.
The beast was massive and appeared as a massive shadow. It's only features were it's limbs, it's one massive eye and the 10 tails of pure malice that extended behind it. It moved to lash at me with one of it's tails. I flinched, not knowing what to do.
"Shinra Tensei!" I screamed in desperation. The beast's tail came no closer and shot back with incredible force. The beast lost balance and fell upon it's back. It looked upon me with it's foul eye, but then chakra flew all around. Little balls of chakra of many colors flew around me before collecting at the center of the beasts eye. When all the chakra collected, it formed a huge black sphere. Even from so far away I could feel it's immense power. The ball began to compact and condense, becoming more fearsome. Suddenly, the beast shot the ball at me. My five second time period was still in effect. I held out my arms in some foolish attempt to block the power coming towards me. I began to glow and the sphere colided with me, but instead of detonating it began to break apart. Chakra flew out of the ball and I began absorbing it. I continued until the sphere was completely gone.
The beast moved to strike again, but stopped sudenly. I opened my eyes to look at it fully. It did not stop of it's own free will. It was contricted by chains. Massive chains made of strange chakra. One chain extended off of the beast and went high into the air. I followed the chain with my eyes until I saw the man they were conected too.
It was the man I saw in my first vision. The man that stood above all the others, but this time I could see him fully. He was an elderly man with white hair. He wore an old style armor and above that was a white robe. On his back he carried a ring staff, and like before he had my rinnegan eyes. This one stood out from the others. He had no piercings. I also noticed that his ten tails were gone. I looked at the confined beast in front of me. Ten tails. The man made a few one handed signs before grabbing his stomach and twisting it, revealing a strange black hole like seal in his stomack. He pulled on the chains and slowly the beast was dragged into the seal on the man's stomack. After the last tail creeped in he sealed the beast inside. He twisted his stomack in the oposite direction. Locking the beast within. He came down from the sky and stood before me. His eyes meeting mine.
I felt different about this one. The ones that came before him were so cold, unfeeling. But he radiated the warming sensation. Unlike the beast within him he was benevolant. I had never seen anyone so warm hearted. Even Konan had turned cold from Yahiko's death. The man did something else none of the others did. He smiled at me.
"Who are you?" I felt compelled to ask.
"I have long forgotten my birth name. Such earthly things do not hold gravity to me anyway," he said in a soothing voice.
"There must be something I can call you."
"I suppose you can refer to me by my most famous moniker. I am Rikudo Sennin. The Sage of Six paths."
"Jiraiya Sensei told me of one with that name."
"Your sensei sounds like a wise man."
"Yeah, perhaps if he wasn't such a pervert," I laughted quietly. The sage chuckled in response to me
"I'm sure you have many questions."
"What is going on?"
"This dream is to teach you of the powers you have been blessed with. For you have a role in my great workings."
"What role is that?"
"What is the point of having a destiny if somebody tells you what it is? I leave it for you to figure out," I was quite visibly annoyed
"Why are you here then?"
"To teach you of the powers you will possess. I will teach you of the skills the paths could not," he answered. He looked at the massive face at the side of the tower. "The king of hell and the Demonic Statue of the Outer path are two creatures that only the rinnegan can summon. They allow us to tap into the mystical powers of the Outer path. That which is beyond life and death. The first technique that you must learn is the Samsara of heavenly life. With this technique you can revive those who died very recently, but it requires massive amounts of chakra. Only use it when you have chakra to spare." I knodded in agreement so that he would resume. He sat down in front of the King of Hell and performed a ram hand seal, then a snake hand seal. The King of Hell opened it's mouth wide and released a glowing green energy that traveled to the bottom of the tower. I peaked over the edge to see the piles of bodies killed by the men that came before Rikudo Sennin. They all rose and moved with life once more. I was amayzed.
The sage brought my attention back to him. "You have much more to learn. Our time here is short, pay attention. This next technique is an extention of the Deva path. Are you familiar with the massive rock object in the sky?"
"The moon?" I replied, stunned by the question.
"Yes that. I used this technique to create that object." I was stunned. I knew he was powerful, but to create the moon, that was on another level. "It is called the Chibaku Tensei. You perform it by bringing your hands together and focusing the Deva path abilities between them. You release a ball that will act as the center of the object. The size of the object depends on the amount of energy you put into it."
The sage opened the seal on his stomack, and the ten-tailed demon lurked out again. The sage released a glowing black sphere that blocked out the sun. Everything was covered in light.The demon rose into the sky and began floating where the sphere was. Rocks of all sizes flew into the sky. The ground beneath us shattered, the tower broke into pieces and rose into the sky. The demon was crushed by the debris and the rocks became more and more compact. The tower colapsed and I began to fall to the ground. The sage caught me and landed on the ground. The debris continued to rise. I could no longer see the demon. The object became the moon and flew up into the sky.
"Why did you seal away that demon?" I asked
"I am replicating what I did in life. I sealed away the horrible demon to ensure that after my death it would not wreak havoc."
"But to seal all that power away. Jiraiya told me that the demon within you made you god-like."
"It did, somewhat. But I did not get rid of the power. I used a great power to re-create nine new beasts that were divisions of the Ten-tails power."
"Will you show me that power as well?"
"No. That power shall die with me. But I do have more to show you." The King of Hell disipeared and the Demonic statue stood before us. The six men I met in the tower appeared before me, but this time they had no piercings, and their rinnegan eyes were gone. I looked at the Deva path. This time he looked exactly like Yahiko. "These men will be a part of your destiny. As well as the technique I am going to show you." Giant black rods shot out of the stomack of the demonic statue. The rods pierced the six bodies and pierced the skin all around the body. The rods became piercings and they began to resemble what they looked like in the tower. The king of hell reapeared, he opened his mouth and his tounge picked up the six bodies. The king of hell began chewing on the bodies. He opened his mouth and the bodies came out and they all possessed rinnegan eyes. "Nagato, this is the six paths technique, the ability to turn corpses into bodies that you control. Each body has one of your rinnegan path powers, and their eyes are linked with yours. Everything the see, you see," he said as his body began to disipear.
"You are disipearing," I said
"My time is almost up. These bodies are those who met your sensei in his travels. I am giving you their locations in the real world. Just remember. Follow your dream." He disipeared. The locations of the five men and Yahiko flashed before my eyes. And I began to wake up.
