The Jinchuriki of The Akatsuki! [Private]

The day was aging, and fading away into the night once more. He sat in the middle of a clearing of trees, resting on the cool green grass. He had to calm himself down before he got himself killed, or rather.. killed someone else.

His entire life he tried to uncover his past, and find out who he really was. He was coated in the unknown and begged to get out of it. Yet now he learned. It was was no long about his past, or what he did, but about his future, and what he could do.

He founded the Akatsuki, sure. Just because he was a bad guy, didn't mean he was a bad guy. Everything had its' purpose, just as the Akatsuki did. Just as his conversation with the Hokage. Just as his conversation with the Raikage. He had his own plans, something he hadn't told a living soul. He wouldn't utter a word.

He sat there, thinking to himself about the world he would create. With it, he could lay himself to rest... or even act as a guardian of this new world. He was going to change the world...

but first, he had to get over a parasite.

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"You're a thorn in my side."

"And you're still a parasite." He sat within his own consciousness, judging her. She wasn't easy to get along with. "But making puns won't get us anywhere, will it?" He was serious in his motives and thought. They would get no where if they continued to bicker. It had been perhaps a week or so since their first confrontation. Kaseki had already accepted his fate, but it seemed that with each day Chomei grew more and more... enraged.

"You really thought coming out here and revealing that you had me was a great idea?" She yelled at him, the chains holding her down, shaking. "I could have ended up in the hands of that woman, or even some little kid! You're so foolish!"

Kaseki smiled as he looked up at the great beast, only having her solidify his belief. "You're stuck with me, that's that. It could be worse. I could free you if you really wanted." He grinned at the creature, only to have her dreams crushed and brought up with his next words, "Then someone else like Madara will control you and use you for war and misuse." He has grow wise since he stepped out his cave just over a month or so ago. The world hadn't changed one bit, just the people in it. "And stop thinking about yourself. Think about the others, and who they may be stuck with. Sure we found one, but think about the pour choices the sage made for the others." Kaseki pointed at Chomei with a single finger, almost as a commanding question. "I will never ask you to do something you don't want to. But if you don't want to save your family, then I'll do it without your help!"

He could only wonder how the other jinchurki were treating their tailed beasts... beasts... it was a better word that demon. They were creatures all alike. It was just only that there were nine of these beings, and the world used them for war. Kaseki would change that. Today he would become the hero.

She landed on the ground, no longer trying to break free of the chains at held her down. "Perhaps you're right." she told him. "Let's start over. My name is-"

"Chomei, I know. I fantasized about becoming as strong as Naruto and Bee that day of the shinobi war. I read books, I read lore. That dream... " He turned away from the creature, to recall the memory, "That forest, I heard a voice. I know now that it was the sage himself. He told me I would be granted a guide, he told me that Chomei would come to me." He smiled, a single tear falling from his face.

Today he made a friend.

It was not the first, nor the last friend he would make. This was just the beginning of the tale.

"Why do you trust her?" Chomet's voice rang in Kaseki's mind. He replied with a single smile. "How can we expect anyone to trust me, if I cannot begin the service?"

He remained silent, only to lift his right hand to his face. He glanced over at the girl, only to scar his face with his index and middle finger. Two lines ran from his cheekbone as he swiped his face. He was carving into his skin only to make a forbidden seal. His hand begun to rise and return back to the scar, only to have the tip of his thumb carve next, ultimately creating an "X" on his right cheek. He looked deep into her eyes, watching her crimson eyes for change. He then pressed the seal directly in the center with his thumb, ending the technique.

It was almost as if his face had begun to burn into a white flame. Yet it did not destroy his body, but turn him into something else. From the seal grew an odd material... flesh? Hair begun to grow, and the seal began to bleed. He began to attempt to stand, only to watch his own body begun to fade into that of what looked human. He was weak in this state, at least temporarily.

"I can promise you that you will not regret trusting me." His voice sounded as if it was full of scorn and hatred, but it was much more than that. "People speak of the world that once was, and how perfect it used to be." He spoke with a venomous sting in his words... but that wasn't his mood. "I am the last of that era. I have out lived all of my friends. All of my family are gone." No, his voice was full of sorrow and regret. He was beyond his era. Even if he could go back, they would not accept him. If he were to remain in this era, he would continued to be titled a monster. He smiled, an odd thing to see through his new flesh and bleeding face. "I will help you." It was a smile of joy and great happiness, "Rena-ssi, I will help you."

He was standing erect, like that of an old and proud Kage. Kaseki had nothing more to hide from anyone. If he was to be killed, he would be put at peace. If he was to live out his entire life, he would find peace. If he was going to live forever, he would make peace.

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In the depths of his own consciousness he sat before Chomei once more, now in the body of a human. He smiled, the wound looking like a tattoo on his face, a simple X.

"I asked why."The insect seemed angered with his choices. She wanted answers. She would stand with him either way. She would remained chained until he unlocked the power to release her at will. She knew Kaseki kept her chained for their own good. If she was revealed to the wrong face, it would end up horrible for them both.

"This world is not about our generation." He smiled back, something out of age and experience, "It's going to be my goal to make the world even better for the next generation."

Chomei nodded. She knew exactly what he felt.
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Jutsu Used:

The smell of his burning artificial flesh lingered in the air with his false blood. It wasn't to say that he was human, he was just less of the monster people made him out to be. To anyone, the blood was real, the skin was real... but to the trained professional, it was the smell of melted metal, the copper mocked his blood. He could feel the odd emotion that seemed to dance within the aroma of his artificial appearance. He couldn't put a finger on quite what it was. Perhaps all of those years of solitude that he forgot how to interact. He talked to a mere child, a mad scientist, a lost fighter, a misguided man, and someone who had bones of steel. He also conversed with two kages... as well as a decedent of his friend and... her.

He looked, over analyzing everything before him. It wasn't that he didn't now how to interact with anyone, he was well adjusted... but why the jumping thoughts... could it be?

He stood before her, only to ponder his true intentions, and the dream that visited so many times. He continued to search for answers in her eyes.  It was only then they he noticed the beauty in such a mutation. Afterall, that's what all Kekkei Genkai were. But why were her eyes so different? "It's because I trust you. It continues to be the reason I am alive today, and will most definitely be my end." he said. He was firm in his answer, only to reveal that it was the truth. "I had hoped for a world where all of this would change. Any maybe this is what leads up to that ideal world everyone keep talking about." He spoke, the crimson liquid still dripping down his cheek. It was slow, but it was still there. He paid no attention to mind it, nor clean it. He left it there, for some unknown reason. Her touch had stopped the wound from advancing, but it did not clean his face of the remains.

Chomei sat there within the darkess of her host's mind, much like a parasite eating away at a brain. They would continue to bicker and fight over things only off the visual, and metaphorcal puns that brought them together. It was the tree and had the insect. In his mind, Chomei was chained to the ground, not to keep her there, but to remind her of her true potential. They both knew she could easily shatter them. She didn't, just to show her respect. "Why are you so trusting?" she would constantly ask. She knew it would one day lead him against the wall with no where to go. Kaseki would reply to her, but not only in mind, but in reality.

"How can you expect a world to love, if you treat it with hate?" Kaseki stated, "So how can I expect the world to have faith in me, if I don't trust anyone?" His eyes fell to the ground, only to really think about the sounds he uttered. What was he saying? What was he thinking? Everything he had begun to do was for the next generation. He wanted no fame, no honor. He wanted to do what was right. But would it be wrong to finally do something for just himself? His mind seemed to switch between his fantasy and the reality before him. Part of him wanted to believe that his friends were not all gone, and that he would see them again. Part of him told him that getting close would only mean pain. In his state, he would outlive all of his friends and allies. It was a curse of immortality. even if he was destroyed, his body would slowly grow back. His ashes would become him once more. "Maybe..." He thought about it, his words falling short. He started Akatsuki just off a dream of a new world. It was through Kenpachi that he perhaps found someone who wouldn't disappear so soon... yet he did. Now he sat before someone of great elegance and gracefulness, only to realize her eyes say the same world. She too would share the fate of a long life. Maybe Kaseki was just looking for someone to fight the end of the world when that time came. "Maybe I should get to know you better. And maybe you should get to know me." he finally said.

And that alone could not be anymore that what he wanted.

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"We're here to train." Chomei insisted of her companion. "Find love elsewhere."