Snowy Icecaps of the Mirage Peaks

A torrential blizzard howled malevolently as a young Uchiha trudged his way to the top of them in search of a polar bear. Up here it was cold, windy, and hard to breath. The peaks were wide enough for a small town to be formed here. To which there was one not too far from where he was. Meian would visit it after accomplishing the very difficult, nearly impossible feat of killing a bear with your bare hands. The kid chunked a snowball at one while it was wandering around. This act of course provoked the beast into attacking the boy. The boy didn't try to run for if he did, he would have been viewed as prey and eaten alive.

Meian instead waited for the bear to stand on its two feet and present a challenge to him by roaring, and swiping its claws at him.

Meian using his MS would acknowledged he accepted the bear to a deul by swaying backwards beneath the first slash. Then he retaliated by leaning forward, crouching, and punching at its gut where its kidneys would be located. Next he would stomp on one of its feet, holiding it in place as he uppercutted it in its chin. This made it spew blood through its fangs; before promptly leg sweeping its hind legs to trip it onto the ground. Its body thudded onto the soft wet glistening blanket of snow leaving a stencil like imprint of where it had fallen. Quickly mounting its upperbody, The Uchiha hammer-fisted its face continously. Before the bear could sit up, it would be in a headlock where its chin was in the center of Meian's forearm, and immobilized. Meian's left hand jerked the bear's neck right, as Meian tightened the hold on it with his right bicep.

KERRR...CRACK!!

Meian had crippled its neck and had become its victor. He smiled at the fact his months worth of training in Taijutsu had finally paid off.

He continued on this path towards the town wondering what it would be like, and who would he encounter next in his life...

Meian would catch eye to the bear he had seemingly killed to be stepping infront of him. The beast could actually speak, talking to Meian with a human voice. "Thought you could kill me, eh Uchiha? I'll be damned if a young brat's gonna do that!!" The bear roared, placing it's claws to the ground, ready to charge. Yards away, an old man stood in a robe, watching the Uchiha with golden eyes, bearing a similar pattern to that of Sharingan's first tamoe. Meian had yet to meet his newest ally, or newest opponent. "What a louzy attempt to kill me. You can break my neck all you like, but it won't do a damn thing, you fool!" The bear continued, making several lunges at Meian's torso as the controller made his plan into action.

i begin to walk upon the barren frozen wasteland, wearing my usual attire, not differentiating between summer or winter clothing styles. my skin grows a light pale as the blood flow from the surface of my skin begins to reduce to conserve the bulk of my body heat. i begin to look across the white plains and see what looks like a blur from a distance. my nose twitches as i smell perspiration and the faint fragrance of blood. my feet sink inches into the snow with every step as i march on to get a closer look.

In more than one way the Uchiha had instantly become confused, but he didn't let his guard down to the apparently now undead, zombified, talking creature. . The disfigured grin of the white bear and twisted neck could make anyone feel uneasy if they were not use to a situaition like this. In the distance a hazy figure with golden eyes could be seen. Meian bent his knee's and withdrew a katana and waited for the bear studying its foreseen pattern.

Once it drew, charged near Meian would drag his blade horizontally through the stiff carcass as if it were butter. The bear would then swipe,slash and attempt to cut the Uchiha fatally. Meian would react to this by leaping backwards as his shirt wavered from the force of the initial slash. Hopping backwards was one way he dodged, another was a roll off to the side. While in the middle of rolling he re-sheathed his blade, and reached for an abundance of senbon and flung them at the nodes of the chakra the beast may have to try and paralyze it. Since trying to cut it probably didn't do much... He kept up evading/parrying the bear's attacks wondering how to stop it while thinking about the golden eyed man in the distance. His Sharingan would detect that the chakra of another potential ally ( Hanto ) or enemy was within the area.

The Wolf-like child would have the unsettling image of a zombified bear fighting a Shinobi with valor, and courage, while most would run, piss themselves or both. The bear grinned with a snarl as Meian rolled backwards, the man with the golden eye now infront of right behind Meian, using object to send the Uchiha flying from a blind spot. The two enemies of the Uchiha spoke in harmony, their voices in synch, and at the same sound: "Such a foolish mistake, you surely are an Uchiha. And come out, you other scallion, I can sense your chakra like a bee to it's honey." He displayed both his strength with the true potential, his skilled use with his wooden cane, and his abilities as a sensor. He was following the code of the assassin in how he attacked Meian. He had to be quiet, make his breathing silent, and attack before he can become noticed too much. "Your chakra capacity isn't too high, Uchiha, at least from first glance. How are you able to support that Mangekyou Sharingan for so long? And how did somebody so young get it this early in the first place?" The old man asked alone, the bear moving over to him as a defensive strategy.


(Posting order: Me, Hanto, Meian)

The set of golden eye's had begun to fade away in the icy winds. This prompted the Uchiha to surreptitiously scan the area. To find another source of chakra, while dodging and countering the bear with attacks. Meian performed his roll off to the side to attempt to neutralize the polar bear with senbon. He glanced half-way over his shoulder just in time to see a wooden cane strike at him. The Uchiha tensed the muscles in his calves as it came close to hitting him. When it had just barely tapped his backside Meian decided to feign being badly hurt.

With two fist full of senbon totaling in 20; the noble prince sprung, somersaulted forth to appear to be sent flying by his attacker's blow. This would greatly reduced the damage to a minimum degree, in contrast to taking the direct hit without moving.

In the air Meian vaulted over the pure shimmering untouched snow. His body flipped upside down giving him a clear view of the bear's back and more than a glimpse of the one who thwacked him with their cane.

The MS user had thrown his senbon to try and accupunture both the bear and old man in the nerves, pressure points of their limbs and back. He wanted to neutralize them, disrupt their flow of chakra. The bear unknown to the Uchiha being manipulated by the spirit portion of its chakra would no longer be able use the region numbed by its attacker. Since there would be no chakra/spirit energy to control in that section. As for the old man, they'd be aimmed at as they came after Meian who landed and skidded backwards, facing this new breed of an enemy.

Meian would answer his question, but not thoroughly all the while launching his 10/20 remaining senbon at him. These eyes were granted to me by the death of a friend, and your eye-sight is failing you. My reserves on the contrary are quite high. Meian said in monotone still picking out where the man would move next dispensing his senbon sparingly ready to jump off to the side again to evade the in closing senior citizen like figure.

The old man had his grin reversed, now being royally annoyed and pissed off by the Uchiha. His eyes sent what happened straight to his other body: the bear. He moved quickly, displaying his excellent speed and agility to the Uchiha who took him for granted. The bear moved it's body fluidly, moving around the senbon to charge at Meian still, showing ruthless behavior. The old man had a plan, but needed Meian to be in a certain range for it to work. Meanwhile, he got enough that he could hide inside the snow unseen, cloaking his chakra while the bear's chakra, or spiritual energy at this point, remained strong, being the only locatable target for Meian right now. The bear knew where it's controller was, and the old man simply had to press the right buttons to put the opponent in range. The old man hid in the cold, undetected, and wait for his plan to work it's magic.

The air whisped as the thin, nearly visable senbon went all around the suprisingly bulky graceful bear. Much Meian's digust he didn't let it get to him even though the old man advoided his barrage as well adding insult to injury.

'How is my body's too slow, for someone THAT OLD?' Meian screamed inside his head drowning out his other thoughts.

The deranged animal finished its bear-a-rina like moves and then abrubtly assumed its charging position once again as the alleged 'oxygenaric' cloaked himself. Meian knew only one aspect of what kind of ninja Aruji was, a 'sensor shinobi'. He'd fought and allied himself with one before, the deceased one he mentioned earlier.

Meian knew being absent minded of the old man was hazardous to his health. The werewolf kid was also still on his mind as well as the bear whose eyes bore a uncanning resembalance of the pair he saw earlier. They were of gold.

These golden orbs trampled through the snow gunning for the motionless Uchiha who stared back of these with pupils. His eyes were of a glowing crimson an atomic flower that spun hypnotically as the bear would come within 5m of his body.
~Meian ignitiated his theory of the eyes being somehow connected to the 'retiree'.

"Tsukuyomi..." He would use an incomplete version of the Tsukuyomi on the reckless, ruthless mammal. Meaning he had no control over the time and it would end shortly.

If the bear used a genjutsu before Meian would. The Uchiha would reverse it with "Kyouten Chiten" a genjutsu technique unique to the Uchiha clan.

The bear didn't get affected by this, due to the fact it had no subconscious to harbor the "mind technique" that was placed upon it. It was empty besides how Furumetaru commanded and manipulated it, making it's mind an empty shell but what he chose to place in the dead bear. The bear, unexpectedly to Meian, would press on it's back legs, thrusting itself forward to lunge it's claws into the Uchiha's fresh, untethered skin. The controller and the bear may have shared visions, but their minds were completely separate, preventing chaining their minds, which would allow for something like a genjutsu to go from the bear to him. The bear literally had no mind; it was something the Uchiha needed to understand. The old man waited to see the Uchiha's reaction to the bear's survival of the technique Tsukiyomi, and his reaction to being hit by surprise like he was.

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Although the bear's situaition was similar to that of Pein's path and Ino's Mind Transfer jutsu. The bear didn't have a concious mind to be controlled nor was it linked to Aruji's mind.

Meian put his right hand over his 'right eye' after experiencing the after effects of a failed use of the Tsukuyomi. His eye ached badly and on top of that his vision blurred a little. Thankfully his left eye unlike his right wasn't phased, an it was an EMS. He could see the bear getting into its pouncing stance beforehand, even though his body didn't have enough momentum to advoid the attack he stepped backs about an inch.

The bear still had much weight that would prevent it from trying to bodyslam Meian with its outstrecthed claws. The long untrimmed nails however dug 2 inches into the Uchiha's body. Meian didn't wince nor gasp. A mace with 8 long sharp poisonous spikes made this bear's 4/5 nails seem like child's play. Before the bear could impact the ground Meian used Konoha's ancient 'Rising Knee' on its chin, hard enough sever its head from its previously loose flesh located at the neck. The living bear's headless slashed body painted the white canvas with its blood as it struck the ground.

Meian would take this time to search for the 'old relic' and put some distance between him and the bear. He'd still glance at the werewolf as his eyes sought assistance. However he'd be prepared to also fight the wolf kid if necessary. Meian's fingertips were starting to turn blue from frostbites. Skin growing pale. He was cold, his torn shirt made it worse on his body. He shivered involuntarily occasionally, but was on alert.

The old man used the chakra from the active Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan eye, tracing it's chakra to tunnel under the snow, and keep below Meian, under the layers of snow. He pulled out his Hunting Knife, and Machete, using it to strike both legs from his hidden location. The Hunting Knife, Sutīru, absorbed Meian's spiritual energy, removing chakra from his possible amount, not affecting the bijuu so far. The Machete, Jojishi, collected the spiritual energy that was absorbed, while keeping a deep wound in Meian's body. With this absorbed spiritual energy, he simply needed to wait to use one of his powerful techniques, that the Uchiha could least expect.

The distance in which he had traveled was enough to eye the tundra. His cargo pants wet, and sticking to his skin. He breathed air that was visable to him as he surveyed the tundra. He focused his willpower on his quivering muscles to tell his body he wasn't cold. "Reverse pyschology" he thought. To his suprise it actually worked a little as he combated the numbness.

The bear didn't move. No sign of the old man, wolf boy was still on the sidelines. Everything was at a stand still.

Meian closed his eyes listening to the wind for disturbances -this deactivated his Sharingan too- making Meian invisable just as the man struck him. The Uchiha's first leg was cut as the second was lifted up, so that man would find nothing there. Meian's reflexes heightened and reacted to the pain he that could still feel.

The second leg came down onto the retreating forearm to stomp it and try to pin him in place. Meian would then swiftly remove his sword and try to plunge into where-ever he assumed was the shoulder of the elder beneath him. His Sharingan was now reactivated. He'd take his foot off the arm and dig up the fossil like an archeologist.

The old man smirked, gathering the spiritual energy for his attack. He thought the techniques name to himself as he launched the attack, unseen due to the covering snow. Seishin Bakudan No Jutsu! The spiritual energy surrounded his torso, taking a compact form, as it expanded quickly, and made a large explosion around him, more than likely sending the unsuspecting Uchiha flying as he was busy stepping on the man's arm and about to strike it with his katana. "Call me an old man, will you!? I can kill you with that bear, and almost did. You're like a chess piece known as a rook; you're expendible, and easily replaceable - even with a better replacement! With any luck, your replacement will be a queen!" The old man chuckled, feminizing the Uchiha cheerfully.

Meian could visually see the spiritual energy mainly, becuase of his activated Sharingan. However, since his leg was on the man's arm via the source of spirit blast. He was blown away from the welling suprise attack. The boy flew through the air and back down onto the snow. His body tumbled and rolled as he crashed into the field of snow. Soon afterwards after the landing, his body was coveted with a radient golden orange, tints of green and yellow cloak with pure white chakra bubbles. His eyes narrowed and darkened a deeper shade of red that would remind anyone of a hawks.

He had chosen a wavelength to percieve the world through his eyes. The wave selected was of an infared visual level, a method of detecting someone's body heat, even if their chakra signature was completely off the radar. The eyes flickered open, battling flakes of snow off his lids. He was in his first-tailed form. He'd experienced this stage before a little over a month ago. He was now able to control his own body well enough to be able to speak and and move. He knew enough not to try to allow himself to become enraged further to escalate to his second-tail.

Rising to his feet kneeling in the gust of a passing snowstorm. One with clear sight could see his wounds were healed, and his body shone like a lighthouse. Meian called out to the man who felled him "You asked me a question earlier right? Now, you can see why my reserves are higher than that of a normal ninja. I am the 5-tailed Jinchuriki of Light, Uchiha Meian. Now my question is who are you?"

Meian said humbly seeing that the man he assumed to beyond the legal age of being a shinobi, was indeed still a force to be reckoned with. The light chakra gave the Uchiha a sense of warmth as it radiated on his skin he was no longer cold. He showed no sign of being a potential threat to the man anymore. Infact he felt honored that someone at that man's age
could still put up a challenge, if not more.

The old man laughed sinisterly, obviously not having friendly motives when he attacked the Uchiha like that. "Hahahaha! A Jinchuuriki?! You fool, having that bastard inside you just makes you more corrupted! More chakra... do you have no soul? Not only is what you people do corrupt, but you let that bag of bones that's being a parasite to you take advantage of you. What lies has the hethen been spilling? You need power to avenge your clan? No, no! You need chakra, his to be exact, to achieve your goals!? Aye! You make us all sick, you bratty, little, prawn-eyed prick." The old man spit out, twirling his cane out infront of him as he introduced himself, using it to ease his steps after slamming it on the ground. He body flickered in an instant to the bear, placing his hand on it's head, absorbing it's spiritual energy, and that of his, it appearing as a sparkling aura flowing into his hand. In the next moment, he appeared by the rest of the corpse, doing the same to the detached body parts. He then returned to where he was in the first place, when he was insulting the Uchiha. "I'm Aruji, the rest is unimportant, at least until you become wise enough to make me tell you," The elderly responded, refusing the answer the other part of the question.

The Uchiha stood there baffled as to how the man acquired so much information about him. He never once cut off his Sharingan, until the man was out of sight. Even then his eyes were closed. So how'd he know his true eye color was coal, onyx black i.e the uneasily mistaken 'prawn' comment? Much more worse was that he deciphered his hidden agenda without Meian even speaking of it. He only told him he was an Uchiha and nothing about his plan of avengence.

Meian could only deduce a few things that were certain. Aruji despiesed primarily Bijuu, and not the host. The attack earlier left him drained of chakra or atleast the spiritual part of it. The absorbed spiritual half of chakra OF COURSE!! It dawned on him like his radient aura of chakra. The spirit contained the experience a ninja has built up over time. i.e Their memories, and thoughts. "You couldn't have read my mind unless you drained the mental data from me somehow. You learned all that just from the gash you made on my left leg earlier." The genius of a brat called out the old man's special attack style. He wasn't done talking quite yet though.

"If you know all that about me, then you would know. The tenant in my body pays me rent just for staying, yes chakra, what you didn't know it grants me other gifts. He would say while tapping his chest. Its why I can see you next to that bear right now even thought snow would be blocking the normal line of sight. I didn't ask for this to be bestowed upon me. I don't wish to see it roam free. If you hate bijuu's or beings of chakra so much then you'll help me keep it from escaping me and wreaking havoc. I don't need it to complete my goals as you say. I seek to work on my own physical, mental strength, first and for most. Its why I attacked your pet with no intention of using ninjutsu Aruji-san. I cannot use ninjutsu if my body, mind isn't fit to use it now can I? Which is why I seek someone capable of teaching me to do so. That someone could be you Aruji. Meian stated.

The old man laughed at the Uchiha's fabled assumption that the spiritual energy absorbed gave him that information. He laughed harder as his head shook with disapproval, and denial to the Uchiha. "No, no. I have a special ability that lets me read... oh, why the hell am I telling an idiotic Genin such as yourself!" He said, mentally face-palming himself. He then sighed in annoyance as the Uchiha presumed what he hated, and all the other things. " I'd rather kill you both, to be completely honest, both complete abominations... and cocks. Haha, get it? Eh... I don't give a flying crap if it gives you more than chakra. Help you? HELP YOU?!?!? Bahahahaha! What a stupid child... you insolent fool. What of that man who took your clan's eyes from the dead... a no good braverobber. Wait... since there were two, I'll just clarify the name: Naito. And you seek for power, maybe in things besides ninjutsu, but you are all the same... mongruls that is my duty to sponge from this earth. I will never align myself with the likes of an Uchiha... I'd sooner die of old age --- since you or anyone else in your generation could ever kill me." He explained in a long statement. He pressed his cane on the ground, and swiped it upwards with great speed in the manner of it uppercutting the snow, disappearing from the Bijuu's radar afterwards as due to his speed surpassing Meian's eyes.

Meian's liquid boiling shroud died down into a flaming gas like state to his "Initial Form of a Jinchuuriki". This is one of the modes he had skipped. When he went into his one-tailed state when he fought Fu out of sheer rage. So the old man wouldn't know of this stage. All of his physical traits were the same, minus the chakra arms, and the density of his cloak.

This is, because despite the many insults Meian's mental state of mind was in peace. That lets you read "souls?" Meian abrubtly filled in the blank as the man spoke. Oh. that's rich. A minute ago you had to ask if I 'had' even one. Meian enounciated while still eyeing his nemesis sharply. He was awaiting the slightest tension in his adversary's muscle. The first twitch was a false alarm as the apparently senial, hypocritical man face-palmed and proceeded to degrade both the bird and Meian further. He called them either chickens, or pricks. The stoic Uchiha allowed these to 'flipped-bird' obscenaties to fly over his head. Furumetaru's voice had begun to replay in his head as his answer followed. "Attitude A. B. or C?"

While surveying the man's body, intentions the first true sign of any harmuful actions came into play. The motion of the hand that held the cane before it hit the snow.

While it may/ or may not have allowed the bird demon itself to see the moves. The Sharingan in tomoe 2 learns to track and keep up with the fastest of objects. Meian's eyes were [Left Eye (Genjutsu) = Tsukuyomi] Right Eye (Genjutsu) = 3rd Tomoe]. The gift of light allowed him to see wavelengths so the man's future movements would be in sight the whole time. Meian would have to act faster than what he could see to overcome his preminition. Speed was equivalent to the total distance divided by time. The distance was atleast 20m tops, as Meian was knocked away from the "Spirit Blast".

Time was the 'X' variable in this equation. The Uchiha would have to buy that by detering the man somehow...

The Uchiha's inverted Mangenkyou Sharingan was the color of black, the tomoe was of 3 red ellipsis. A mixture of a red, black gleam that observed as the faintest muscle in the wrist trembled before the cane would even touch the snow.Chakra didn't have to be seen for this effect to occur, only the body. The Jinchuuriki was also now using an X-ray like wavelength so as he wouldn't be blinded,or affected by his own forecoming attack and would still be able to see the old coot. While still in his kneeled position the valient shinobi had a trump card to use at his discretion.
He would remove a majority of kunai in his inventory, and a explosive tag from his large pouch. Attached to to the several dozen kunai were even smaller pouches filled miniature explosive tags attached. The opponent while attempting to deflecting these would cause the sacks to break and scatter tags on themselves, and the area around them. Usually all the user merely has to do is throw another kunai w/explosive tag attached to ignite the other tags. Thus pitting their opponent in an immense explosion. However, in addition to this chakra would not be applied to any of the objects. over half of the kunai we'll be thrown in a way they richochet and detonate the tags anyway by creating sparks. That way even if Aruji doesn't decide to deflect the sudden wave of kunai in his path, they'd still explode on their own.

The range of the explosion would take place anywhere from 5 to 15m starting right behind and ahead of where Aruji would run. To trap him in the middle of the 30m in diameter radial like blast. So traveling East or West wouldn't exactly leave him free from being attacked by the debatable C to B ranked "Sakura Fubuki", otherwise known as the 'Cherry Blossom Snowstorm'.

This would give Meian a total of 5 meters of safety away from kill zone. Out of the 20 meters that separated them and the 15 to 30m blast. Also unlit tags will be white colored shreds of paper blending in with the snow falling around the enviroment. Meian wasn't done.

While the 15m to upto a good [if more paper is lit] 30 meters in diameter like radial blast would just about end. Meian would construct a paper airplane and place torn bits of an explosion tag he pulled out earlier to hide them inside the crease.

With the help of Wind Chakra, he would guide it towards Aruji's location. While Kamikaze Kougeki, Divine Wind Attack was normally used for paper cuts, an explosive could make it quite lethal. Also the jutsu required no hand seals which made it easier to produce. He would throw the all white sheet of paper [its color making it blend with the enviroment] to hide its appearance.It would start off by flying low just above the frost covered surface. This so that its flat wings match that of the plane of snow.

The paper plane would be sped up by the wind chakra. It would be steered near the blaze of the fire that would have evaporated the snow up ahead; to catch fire. It would then have a very short amount of time to go after Aruji's location as the flames would lick away at the material. Even if it didn't quite reach the target, it would make the explosion's range increase by adding onto it with is own destruction.

Thus allowing his once planned distraction to become a powerful attack. Meian would of course go back 10m to evade the new wave of roaring fire while looking for his predator.

In total the number of techniques he had used were 2. One required no chakra, the second one would be an E-ranked Fuuton Ninjutsu.
The Uchiha wouldn't know that he might have made the livid, senior citizen would be alzheimer patient ,crankier than ever. His 2 Ninjutsu were performed in rapid succession, since not much effort would be required for them.

Meian didn't consider the grampa's cane of no real danger. Disregarding the thwack he almost took full force of, he didn't recall it ever syphon out his 'soul' when it struck his back earlier. Still unaware of its actual functions, he would remain on his guard and be ready to withdraw his supposively 'crappy' sword if necessary.

As Meian would be setting out this entire large strategy, he wouldn't be paying attention in the least to know the old man had left, and was far out of the bijuu's sight-enhancing capabilities. The old had been heading inside the village of the Mirage country, ignoring the Uchiha of whom he despised a great toll of.

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*From the water created by the blast a water clone that looked like Naito set on a icy cliff and just set there observing while his eyes glowed blue*

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