Finding out about yourself could be an amazing thing for some people. They would ‘wander the earth’ and learn all about who they truly are on the inside. Some would use psychoactive aids in their search for self; some might seek theological or spiritual help in it. Enzeru was looking for something a bit more concrete, however. He stood in front of one of the tunnels leading into the lake, the first one he’d seen that wasn’t collapsed and frozen over. Through the tunnel, then through the ice itself would lay the ANBU HQ. The barracks he lived his life in from child to man. He didn’t like the idea of going there, but someone had set fire to the hospital and the offices of a sennin who would have had the paperwork.
Enzeru wore his special armor made by Sousuke for the trip. He looked rather intimidating he thought, what with the multiple safety precautions that were in place to protect him from this place. If there was a hell, this was it. So cold that even through all of this his swear would freeze. So dark that even his sight couldn’t see more than a few hundred feet. And the wind was unnaturally still. Everything about this land was wrong, and more so to one who lived here before all of this and knew what the place was like. The tropical paradise of black sand and clear waters was now white and black and frozen. It was almost like an angry deity cursed the land.
His blue eyes take in the passage before him, dark and cold and completely insane to go through. But they had to. He had to. And he knew better than to tell Kimi not to. Enzeru turns back to look at her. A woman of immense strength and yet so vulnerable in her own ways. And behind her the twins, her tigers that seemed to love her as much as Enzeru himself did. And behind them a man in odd attire for the surroundings. White hair cut to the chin, half of a leather jacket, leather pants that ended in metal-soled boots and a leather dress with buckles adorning it. His skin was a neutral gray color, which matched the eyes that stared past the girls to Enzeru. The two swords crossing behind his back were not showy, but obviously deadly. Worst of all, just the sight of him brought dread to Enzeru’s mind.
”Kimi, get out of the way.” The words were not yelled, sound carried easily in this place. But the man was simply unsettling. More than that, he was familiar. As he pulls a sword free, it seems to simply vanish for a moment before the passage now behind Enzeru collapses in on itself. And then his mouth opens, and a beautiful and terrifying voice speaks.
”Aijihiya. You were told not to test the wall. Why do you always fail to heed us? Why do you always force me to restart the cycle?” The other sword comes free now, the intent of the man quite obvious. And a memory begins to jog within the hidden part of his mind. An angel who brought the swiftest mercy to others. Death.
”Kimi, run.”
Enzeru wore his special armor made by Sousuke for the trip. He looked rather intimidating he thought, what with the multiple safety precautions that were in place to protect him from this place. If there was a hell, this was it. So cold that even through all of this his swear would freeze. So dark that even his sight couldn’t see more than a few hundred feet. And the wind was unnaturally still. Everything about this land was wrong, and more so to one who lived here before all of this and knew what the place was like. The tropical paradise of black sand and clear waters was now white and black and frozen. It was almost like an angry deity cursed the land.
His blue eyes take in the passage before him, dark and cold and completely insane to go through. But they had to. He had to. And he knew better than to tell Kimi not to. Enzeru turns back to look at her. A woman of immense strength and yet so vulnerable in her own ways. And behind her the twins, her tigers that seemed to love her as much as Enzeru himself did. And behind them a man in odd attire for the surroundings. White hair cut to the chin, half of a leather jacket, leather pants that ended in metal-soled boots and a leather dress with buckles adorning it. His skin was a neutral gray color, which matched the eyes that stared past the girls to Enzeru. The two swords crossing behind his back were not showy, but obviously deadly. Worst of all, just the sight of him brought dread to Enzeru’s mind.
”Kimi, get out of the way.” The words were not yelled, sound carried easily in this place. But the man was simply unsettling. More than that, he was familiar. As he pulls a sword free, it seems to simply vanish for a moment before the passage now behind Enzeru collapses in on itself. And then his mouth opens, and a beautiful and terrifying voice speaks.
”Aijihiya. You were told not to test the wall. Why do you always fail to heed us? Why do you always force me to restart the cycle?” The other sword comes free now, the intent of the man quite obvious. And a memory begins to jog within the hidden part of his mind. An angel who brought the swiftest mercy to others. Death.
”Kimi, run.”