Become Darkness[Training]

[Midori Futotta]

Now that Maru was demoted to academy student, he didn't really know what he should do now. He could go back to the medical branch, however he didn't feel as if he could make it there at all. To be a medical ninja you needed to care for a persons life which he simply couldn't do, not to mention his enemy Sushi was there and needless to say if they would have to see each other on a daily basis that he would BLOW UP the hospital, so that branch was out of the questions. Then there was the main branch, he hasn't seen the Senin there but the head jonin was a individual that he didn't like plus he personally didn't like which means he would most likely cause trouble in that so probably he wouldn't be coming up in the main branch. Seems like there was only the option of saying screw it and just focus on getting stronger instead of worrying about titles.

So now Maru was on a quest for to become stronger, to gain as much power as he can now. But how will he achieve that? ’What a shame…’ Surprised, Maru shot a glance from left to right wondering who called out to him! The voice came again.. 'The Darkness within you isn't a curse, you witnessed what the darkness will do for you once it is strengthened. Shadow summoning, soul tearing, a sinful attack and even a drive for revenge. All these are examples of darkness.’ The room became pitch black, he looked down at his soul core that somehow began to glow a darkish purple. "Surrender to darkness, fulfill what you are born to do… become the new body of evil... a sinister red eye slowly began to open–

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Maru opened his eyes, blinked a couple times before looking outside, seeing that it was daytime. Then the covered his eyes then grumbled to himself.

 

[Midori Futotta]

The next day....
Maru sat within a dark room, looking down at a single candle that kept the room from being pitch black. Flames flickered along his face, making him look almost bewitching as he gazed down at the candle with a dark expression on his face. He took in a single breath, then blew out to begin a incantation that was rumored to bring out more darkness within himself. “Empty the good in my soul.” Maru began in a voice as grim as death, the atmosphere in the room becoming noticeably heavy. “Wisp away my good thoughts, my light emotions and give me an evil soul. Make me like a demon and give me the darkness I wish to have.” He picked up the back candle, holding it to his mouth before finishing off his incantation. “So mote it be.”

With that he blew out the candle, letting the darkness consume him. He began to channel his demonic aura within the atmosphere, the sinister aura making his room hot and dark as if it sat right out of the gates of hell. He could already imagine dark beings lurking about his room, circling around him as if they wanted to test him but then! A knock at the door, he lost concentration and then went to the door to see what the day had in store for him next….

 

[Midori Futotta]

Crash!

Maru's cylinder crashed through a window, rolling on the floor of broken glass Maru began to think to himself. ‘Damn.. I need a body!’ Maru rolled heading to the workshop were there were unfinished puppets, his cylinder shot into the nearest body he could slip into. Only to find that he was in a doll body that he hasn't finished, it was a faceless doll of sorts. It was a large wooden figurine, that would model clothes or hold up signs at a place of business or be used as a training dummy. It had joints at its: neck, shoulders, elbows, wrists, chest, waist, thighs, knees, and ankles. Maru began to move, holding his hands out in front of him he began to weave hand signs for a crystal eye so he could see.

‘Ahhhh… much better.’ He said upon getting his sight back. Before then he started to get to work on a new body, that was the first step because he didn't want to be a literal faceless dummy walking around. So he let his hands do the moving, not much time to think of a design so he decided to just puke up a good looking puppet then wear it. The next would be working on making new puppets which would either involve a grave robbing adventure or if there's any corpse around he might could pick up. Whichever comes first….

 

[Midori Futotta]

Maru walked along the streets, a bit angry due to him not having enough money to pay for more senbons needles that he wanted. Things pretty much haven't been going right for him at all, he was demoted twice, most of his doll collection had been destroyed, and there hadn't been really much of anything he could do around the village. Oh, and there was the whole bet things he lost to Asuka because someone decided to promote her for beating up a couple of students who were clearly weaker than she was. The whole thing was pretty ridiculous! RIDICULOUS!!!

Suddenly without warning, some guy who was clearly in a hurry caught the puppet master off guard and bumped into him so hard he knocked Maru down, landing on his behind hard. In a rage, he raised his hand up and yelled! "Aye! You knocked me over damnit!” But the man, didn't stop going he kept on heading to wherever he going which was the last straw. Maru pulled out a watch that looked like a strange metallic telescope then turned the watch backwards, everything simply stopped… the man who was running seemingly paused, the people around frozen in time then everything reversed about 30 seconds, Maru was suddenly on his feet the man was running about a few feet away. And Maru readied his fist.

Time goes on!

Suddenly without warning, some guy who was clearly in a hurry ran right into the hard wooden fist of Maru. The crowd around him looked scared at the random act of violence, then quickly moved across the street to avoid the wrath of Maru. The man holding his nose, he began to bleed and glared at Maru. “You bastard! I'll sue!” He roared, about to call the Anbu on Maru, but the puppet master didn't care. He hit the man with a 16-hit combo, followed by a fist of sin into an ally and he was out like a light. Maru ran up to the unconscious man, patting him down to check what he could find and he found pretty much some good stuff. His wallet was one thing, his watch, the wedding ring, and a scroll in which he didn't know what was inside but it was his now. So Maru decided that the man probably wouldn't remember him, but he didn't care. He placed the stolen goods in his pockets, wondering how would he make a grand escape when suddenly he heard a voice seemingly come out of nowhere.

“See you have been pretty busy. Aren't we?” It rasped, Maru looking around to see what was going on when suddenly the area gotten pitch black. The way he came from just simply faded away into the darkness. Maru wasn't the least bit interested in playing around with whatever had him trapped, so he prepared a justu to fire.

“You have 10 seconds to come out or I'm gonna rain down despair on your head.” Maru threaten, however in return he heard a laugh. Whatever laughed seemed amused by his remark. Finally.. It crawled down. Whatever it was had six inky spider legs sticking out from her back, all moved down slowly to show a pitch black figure with glowing red eyes and a big white toothy grin spreaded about it's face. "You want the darkness correct? You want to be evil right?” Maru backed up from the deranged shadow woman, then it laughed and clawed closer. "There is a underground gang of bandits, located in the city of thieves. If you want the life of a bad person, you should start there… gain the trust of the head, then when he dies take over the gang and make it into something a bit more demonic… Make them become pawns for the demon.” The woman, crawled closer Maru backed away a bit. "Do not sway from your path. You are born evil, you are created to embody evil… never forget the darkness." with that the woman vanished, but she wasn't gone. This thing had been watching Maru since he was first starting the academy, now it decided to appear to remind him that he was meant to be bad. Maru was to join in on the darkness of the city of thieves instead of fighting against it. Probably, on this new path he would be able to find the darkness he needed to achieve his true potential of being an agent of chaos. He had to admit, he was distracted from this path because of the people he met but now that all has changed. All the bridges had been burnt along with his collection and he needed to look out for one person now. And that was himself….

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