Life finds a way (3rd gate training, 25% coupon)

It had been a while and it had been a busy few days, maybe even a week or so as she had been training pretty hard, managing to unlock the variants of chidori as well as improving her Zeus technique. But now, it was time to train something that most considered quite dangerous and it was only due to her black blood that the after effects to be reduced; the eight inner gates. The gates that were said if one unlocked all eight, would temporarily gain power beyond even the kages themselves. She had dipped her toe into the abyss already with the first two gates and with what Raiden had said, things may come to the point that this power will be needed and so, it was time to break the third gate in.

She wanted to be as far away from the village as physical possible as this was a technique she didn't want to do near people and so, headed back to the valley of the end; the place where she met Raiden originally and stood on top of a large mound, hugging on side of the waterfall. She looked at the waterfall and then to the world beyond as the river snaked down before she took a dive down, landing in the water and coming up; climbing onto a flat rock nearby.

She stood and took a deep breath, closing her eyes as red chakra began to vent out of her.

"Well, time to go even further then last time. At least here, I'm not going to blow up the street from this" She muttered to herself.

Zen walked slowly, he had nowhere to be at this moment and his body was done adjusting to his latest assimilation. He had no worries about being weakened during his next battle. He was passing through the Land of Valleys to get to his next rest stop. As he walked through the famed valley of the end, he felt a spike of chakra and moved to check out what it was. Curiosity was one human feeling he found to be most intriguing as humans were often drawn to something that could kill them simply due to the fact that they wanted to find out just if it COULD kill them. He had no worries of death however, as he was confident in his newfound abilities to heal him. When he arrived at the source, he found a woman simply charging up her chakra. He would remain off to the side, watching, learning. He wouldn’t interfere with her, he simply had nothing better to do than to watch her do whatever it was she was going to do.

Fauna took on a squat-like position and crossed her arms in front of her face as red lightning surged around her.

"First gate: gate of opening, release! She said, triggering more red lightning energy to flood out of her as the first gate unlocked.

"Second gate: gate of healing, release!" She called out as her chakra level rose as her skin was starting to turn red and her blood vessels turned black as her black blood worked to reduce the damage caused by activating the gates.

"Third gate..." She said as her skin was turning bright crimson and chakra continued to soar.

"Come on, keeping pushing..." She gritted her teeth, trying to force the next gate open.

Chakra:

Zenzo watched as she began to charge chakra and her body began to go through subtle changes as she pushed more and more chakra through it. There were three distinct bursts in her chakra that he could sense, he needed to know more about this technique. It seemed like quite the buildup for it to just be a weak technique. He didn’t bother going with a tactical approach, instead, he wanted to do something a bit more direct. He rushed forward intent to land a solid blow to the woman’s head. Her reaction to his attack would show multiple things that he could factor into the strength of this unknown technique. If she managed to dodge, he would know that it made her faster, if she managed to block or catch his punch, it made her both faster and stronger. Though, that’s all based on the assumption that she is currently at or below his current level. But, judging by her chakra capacity that she was showing at the moment, he estimated she was only slightly stronger than his base, as it was only thanks to his DNA that he was at his current level.

CHAKRA: 1,140/1,140

As she was trying to push the next gate open, she felt a surge of intent and becoming aware of a strange man coming at her; fist raised and aimed at her head. This man had the intent to take her out in one shot if at all possible. She didn't know how much or little this man knew, but she wondered if he was aware of the technique she was know being influenced by as one of the strongest expressions of Taijutsu possible: the Eight Inner Gates.

Spinning around at a speed equal if not slightly faster then his own, she managed to face him and catch his fist with her hand as red lightning surged around her and the black blood in her veins pulsed around inside her.

"Last time I checked, wasn't it rude to attack a woman; especially when she wasn't looking?" She said before she would rapidly spin around and kick him straight up by kicking his face upwards with her high heel before she would shoot below him with the technique known as shadow of the dancing leaf before bringing her foot around and then spin around to repeatedly kick him over and over before eventually, she would slam him into the rock she was training on, smashing it into ruins with one last kick to the stomach. She would then land on dry land, taking her breath back.

"I'm going to bet your still alive after that; so I want answers, who are you and what do you want with me?"

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Chakra:

Her catching his fist told him all he needed to know. That she seemed to have a physical enhancement jutsu active. He didn’t have time to really do anything else as he found himself in the air and then on the ground all within the span of a second. Many things had happened and he definitely had a few broken ribs and internal bleeding. She had spoken, so he figured he would respond as his body heals. Slowly getting up, spitting out a glob of blood, Zenzo would speak, “You are not a woman. Your reaction to my attack defines you as a Kunoichi. Ninja have no concept of ‘rude’ when it comes to accomplishing the mission. My mission is to learn as much about that jutsu you are using as I can. I won’t kill you. Unless you prove to be more useful to me dead.” His voice was monotone and unfeeling, almost inhuman. He would then hold out his right arm, it distorting and shaping itself into a long bladed weapon made of a dark metal. He would then dash forwards again, ignoring her other questions, he didn’t care to respond. His wounds had fully healed and he was thankful for his Akashiya blood. But, he did feel the dip in his chakra, so that was something to watch out for.

Chakra:  960/1,140

-150 chakra for healing broken bones and damaged organs.

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She looked at him getting up and, although at first, he seemed to be affected by her combo. She then saw him getting up, seeing him heal as he spit out a glob of blood.

"Is he like me? the blood must heal him like mine does, but its not the black blood, its something else; I must be careful with him" She thought to herself as he answered her question with strange, disillusioned and non-human language, making him even more strange.

He walked towards her, his right arm raised and before her eyes, it reshaped itself into a dark metal scythe blade before he shot towards her with his arm scythe. Not wanting to really block with her hand, she drew Zetsubo from its sheath and used it to block the scythe attack.

"Look, if you wanted to get to know me, try taking me out for a date first. Besides, believing that I would just let you know what my technique is, then your about as dumb as your ability to feel" She told him, calling out his lack of any emotion towards her or anything besides his mission. She had know hard-core ninja in the past, but this guy wasn't normal by any means. She would shift back slightly before bringing her sword up as red lightning screamed into it, sounding like tortured screams of people instead of the thousand birds it was meant to be and what gave Chidori its name before she would slash at him then aim to stab him with the Chidori blade to use its stun effect on him to see what effect it had on his healing factor. She also took into consideration that if he tried to block with his strange scythe; the chidor blade should cut through it unless he also had a jutsu to focus lightning chakra into weapons like her Chidori blade. But at this point, it was her best bet against him at the moment and so, in one fell swoop, she went for it.

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Chakra:

Feeling her blade clash with his own arm, he had to admit she was strong, but he could supplement his strength as well. His body would be surrounded by an aura of plasma, his hair now standing on end and his body letting off arcs of blue lightning. It would appear similar in nature to the Lightning Release Armor, but that isn’t what it was. This was a plasma shroud, he could feel himself growing stronger, his own blade gaining durability and strength behind it. Her rearward movement was all it took to give him the opening he needed to create some space. He would move backwards at a fast pace before dodging the blade now coated in red lightning. He barely managed to dodge, but managed to nonetheless. He would move to block her next strike, his plasma aura only barely making his scythe strong enough to weather the attack. Its blade cutting into it slightly. His other arm was free, but also unable to do much at the moment as his main focus was not getting bisected. He didn’t have enough chakra to throw around and just let her kill him over and over again. “I do not need you to tell me about your ability. You are showing me plenty. I can see the very atoms that make up your body, your chakra, everything. I see how they interact and understand their relationships. I already know all I need to about the makeup of this ability, I only need you to show it to me in action.” His response was one that may warrant a strange look, but one may notice his eyes glowing a luminescent neon green as he scanned her blade, noticing the firing of ions and electrons as well as chakra that made up the lightning coating her blade. He also could see what made up her chakra network and this ability that seemed to allow more chakra atoms to pass through her coils than normal. It was having detrimental effects on her body, but she seemed to have a natural healing factor fighting a losing battle against it. However, she wouldn’t be nearly as injured as one who didn’t have that natural healing.


Chakra:  910/1,140

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She tried to cut through to him, only for him to charge up some kind of blue lightning aura and seeming to enhance himself enough to be on equal level with her as her chidori blade only managed to cut into his arm scythe, but it did tell her one thing; there was possibly a limit to how much he could take before he broke, but continuing her current assault wouldn't get her anywhere.

He talked about her like some kind of device instead of a person and this was starting to grind her gears and, as he was discussing how her atoms relate to each other, she would bring her sword hand away as it was still bursting with chidori before she would sucker punch him in the face.

"How about you stop looking at my atoms and more on me and this fight, perverted bastard!" She said, somewhat mistaking his atom reading ability as something that could come across as something more perverted then was really intended.

She stood, hoping the punch had knocked him far enough away, she took on the same squat-like position she was in before with her arms in front of her face.

"If I'm gonna get this guy away, then I'm not going to have much of a choice...come on, I can't afford to loose to this guy" She said before her chakra flaired up again as once again, her skin turned a deep red colour, her veins turning even more black then before and her hair seemed to be floating up from the sheer release of power she was trying to release.

"Third gate...gate of life....release!" She called out before she finally managed to unlock the next step of the eight inner gates as the ground underneath her, her ponytails floating up, giving her a more demonic-looking appearance and she wasn't finished yet as red lightning surged around her, forming into a demonic-looking aura around her.

"Lightning style: Lesser Aura of the Lightning Devil" She spoke as she started to walk towards him.

"Your really starting to piss me off; but I must thank you for one thing; you've pushed me enough to get the next level of this technique and now; I'm going to pound you with it. Let's see how far this can go" She said before she shot forward in front of him, bringing her arms back before she would rapidly strike him, her arms a blur, leaving streaks of red lightning as she attacked him, each one equal in feeling to a tazer and another technique that should mess with the signals in his body. He may have a healing factor on a otherworldly level, but nerves and the way the body moved would probably be a more complex job for it to handle and she would hit him for a hundred times as her own special nintaijutsu she developed with both the aura, but now enhanced by the opening of three gates of the eight inner gates, so regardless of his healing factor; this was going to hurt.

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Chakra:

Zenzo watched as she entered the next level in her form. How her body seemed to enhance itself further and he realized this was most likely to aid it in getting used to the boost in strength. If you went too far too fast, you were more likely to rip yourself apart than grow in strength. So, he kept these notes and would work on using them somehow in the future. He was about to move in to make an attack when she moved forward at a speed equal to his own. He had been too busy analyzing her initial technique that he failed to see the follow-up. He was bombarded by a series of powerful punches that came faster than he was able to react to as he was still recoiling from the shock of it all. When it finished, he had gathered his wits about him and released a push against her electrons. This would cause her to be flung away from him. If she was, he would take a moment to let himself heal before turning to walk away. She didn’t seem like she wanted to fight, and he had gained all the information he needed on the technique that he had a few ideas of his own worked up. He kept his aura active though, as he expected her to attack again, but he wouldn’t complain if she didn’t.

Chakra: 770/1,140

-50 healing broken bones and bruises

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Fauna was surprised to not only that he seemed unaffected by the stunning effect of her strikes, but was able to counter attack with a blast that she was only just able to react to due to the gates and the enhanced reaction from her lesser aura, blasting her back a decent amount as her heels dragged along the river till she ended up on the shore. She saw him turn around and looked at him.

"hey, come back here! You fight me, then just walk away?" She said as red lightning surged around her hand before she shot towards him at great speed, raising her fist.

"Don't underestimate me!" She said as she would bring her fist towards her head.

"Lesser hammer of Raijin!" She would bring her fist into the back of his head and if it connected, would blast him so hard, he would be knocked into a tree across the river and fell the tree in the same motion as behind her, a lightning bolt fired out from the recoil. She stood, panting as red lightning surged around her still as she kept her aura up.

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Chakra:

Zenzo was walking away from the woman when he heard her yell something about underestimation and then about a hammer. He was then granted sweet release as he found it difficult to put his thoughts together coherently. He came back to his senses on the ground, his head healed and a tree laying next to him. Slowly standing up, he would crack his neck in an odd and unnatural manner before looking back to the strange woman. "I have already learned all that I needed to know. I need nothing more from you at this time." It was obvious, at least to him, that she was now useless to him. It wasn't that he underestimated her ability, no, she was powerful, it was that he hadn't went into that fight to win. Simply put, he did that solely for research and he had gained all that he wanted from it, therefore, to him, it was useless to continue. He would take a moment to look at her, covered in lightning still, both of them obvious beasts in the taijutsu field. "I do not wish to fight you anymore." He said it in more plain terms, hoping that she would understand more simple words.

Chakra: 620/1,140

-150 for healing broken bone and internal damage.

It seemed that this guy's healing factor was something else as she plowed his head into a tree, seeming breaking his neck, only for him to get back up, his neck snapping back into place as he got up, explaining once again that he was going finding out information and that he didn't want to fight anymore.

"And I want answers, firstly; who the hell are you?and secondarily, what are you? because besides the blood sages, I've never heard of a clan or kekki genkai that had such a powerful regeneration ability" She asks, keeping her lesser aura up for the time being; she didn't trust this guy to try and shank her when her guard was done.

Chakra:

Zenzo listened to the woman speak angrily at him. It would have annoyed him at a different time, but he had ascended past that point by now. At this point is was as though she was an ant speaking to a mountain. "My name is Zenzo. I am God." He spoke matter of factly, as though what he said wasn't absolutely outlandish to most mortals. He was not confident in what he was saying, no confidence left room for doubt. He wholeheartedly believed what he was saying to be true. Once he was complete, he would be on a level beyond anyone else on the planet, he still had a ways to go yet though. He could feel that there was just something missing from his soul, but he would find it and he would assimilate it into himself to bring himself into perfection. He wouldn't be on the level of these lowly mortals any longer than he needed to, they might could hurt him, but they would never kill him.

She drops the lesser aura and shakes her head at him.

"A god? is that really what you believe, Zenzo? Many men in the past have said as much, yet time and time again; they have been beaten and killed, these so called "gods". So forgive me when you don't exactly come across as holier then thou god material. Besides, going by what I see..." She says as she turns to leave, "...you lack the heart of a god" She says before she takes off, using the walking on water technique to run up the waterfall and land on top of the waterfall on the left side. It was here when she resealed the gates and felt the full wave of pain shot into her body, causing her to gasp and fall to her knees, having to bite her lip as black blood leaked from it.

"D-damn it; my whole body aches. Got a few broken bones and with my healing factor as it is, its gonna take a while before I'm able to run properly" She says as she just about gets up and starts heading to the hidden moon village to lick her wounds and what this Zenzo was planning.

[Exit and complete training unless Zenzo is gonna try to respond to her]