Chapter 168: Kouga, Umbra
Mika, seemingly ignored by Kouga and the other two as they walked away received a notification silently.
The Eye Creature wiggled beneath her.
… What does Kouga want?
The 1000 year old grandma thought it was a little amusing, but her expression didn't reveal much.
"Sumire… Chocho… later." She nodded politely to them and left silently.
"See you tomorrow Mika." Sumire waved her hand.
Chocho munched on her chips, then looked at Sumire.
"Hey I heard a rumor you know…" Chocho looked left and right, moving closer to Sumire to whisper to her ears.
"Huh, what rumor…?"
"She's an alien…" Chocho's voice was almost controversial.
"Gasp… I heard that too…"
"You think everyone in her place is like her? I wonder if they have a potato chip version on their own…"
"You think we should ask… maybe I can ask Kouga too…"
The class was really overthinking it. There were some rumors that she could read your mind even. Or that the Hyuga clan's ancestors were aliens too and why they had the same eyes like Mika.
Nevermind that.
Mika went to a secluded corner, unnoticed by anyone before letting the Eye Creature crawl out.
As she looked into the creature's Sharingan, a message transmitted to her mind asking her to get ready to make an entrance.
… She contemplated for seconds, before going anyway. She opened a portal right to the Hall of Rinshinsho.
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Kouga led Boruto and Sarada.
"So you really had some secret base?" Boruto's hand in his pockets, he really believed Kouga had them, in some abandoned building or something given his personality.
"Hehe. I really had them okay!" Kouga grinned, his smile almost infectious.
As they walked out of the academy, Kouga's expression turned serious.
"We need to be careful of pursuers…" The veins around his eyes popped, his blue eyes glowed in blue light, as if containing the deep ocean. His slit pupil looked left and right.
"Stay close."
Kouga suddenly used body flicker, surprising the two. But the two quickly chase after him into a dark alleyway.
"We need to mask our chakra signatures."
Boruto and Sarada look at him in disbelief, then at each other. Before they can ask how, on Kouga's chest, a black void appeared opening from a slit.
Kouga plunged his hand into his chest, into the hole in his chest before taking out 2 white spiral masks. They were in fact made of Zetsu's tissues.
"Woah… how did you do that…" Boruto was in awe.
"I used my fragment of Divinity, the Beast of the Void that gained its spirit as a conduit to a space."
Basically, Reibi became a storage space. He used a partial transformation on his chest to look cool and took out objects that Reibi, unfortunately, forcefully swallowed.
"I don't understand it but that's kinda cool…" Boruto mused as he took the white mask.
"Can this really cover our chakra signature?" Sarada chuckled, just playing along as she put it on. But to her shock, the mask latched onto her face, and grew to cover her entire body into a white suit.
"W-what is this!" Sarada tried to pry it off to no avail.
"It could mask your chakra signature… Don't remove it just yet."
Boruto gulped slightly, quite anxious seeing the mask was really not simple.
"Are you sure this is safe…"
"... Hundred percent."
Boruto reluctantly wore them too. The Zetsu mask grew and covered his entire body as well.
Just then, Kouga dipped his hand into the void in his chest, taking out a white mask in the motif of a wolf.
He placed it on, his blue eyes glowed ever slightly. Dark purple chakra appeared out of his body, covering him in a black suit then into a black cape. Finally, a black hood covering his face.
The bright blue eyes with beastly pupils look up to the two, his aura changed, his expression contained no trace of Kouga. The dark alleyway highlighted his blue glowing eyes, and his enigma covered by the swaying black cloak.
"This way." His deep, serious voice sent chills down Sarada's spine.
A-ah…? She was almost stunned frozen, her ears almost turned red. She never thought Kouga could sound like that…
Boruto really felt the same, his body tingled, a blush appeared on his cheeks feeling he's so damn cool.
The two followed him into an abandoned building. It seemed there's nothing there, just a rusty empty building that was just dusty.
"Is this the place?" Boruto felt a little disappointed.
"No. It's a mere gate…"
Kouga raised his hand, turning his palm up. An Eye Creature crawled out of his sleeve, opening up its wing to fly down.
"Yicks! So you really had that weird thing. What is that really?" Boruto saw the creature again. He almost thought it was his imagination years ago.
"Why… why does it have the Sharingan…" Sarada felt a little scared. Who's eye was it… She suddenly felt Kouga wasn't a clown anymore. It felt scary all of a sudden.
"A key. An Eye of the Divine Mother…" Kouga replied.
The Eye Creature crawled on the ground and went to the centre of the room. It stared into the floor, it's three tomoe Sharingan spun. A seal activated, black fuin shiki spread out.
"W-wha…" Boruto took a few steps back in surprise.
The cement floors trembled, and a hidden staircase revealed as the floor split into two through a mechanism.
"Kouga… how did you…" Boruto had so many questions.
"Come."
Kouga didn't give them time to ask questions, already walking down the staircase.
A torch lights up in blue fire as they descend, lightening up the way as they walk down. Sarada and Boruto really went quiet. Their hearts racing.
As they reached underground, Kouga waved his hands, lightning up the hallway in torches of blue flames. At the end of the hallway was an ancient looking big stone door. An Eye carved mural at the center of it. Kouga led them, and let the Eye Creature once more stare down at the Eye mural. The stone door trembled and split open, revealing what's hidden behind.
"This is the Hall of Rinshinsho." Kouga said that as he led them in. The stone door closed by itself.
Blue torches light up the hall dimly. A huge ancient looking stone table, with the seats in the center of the hall.
Sarada noticed something at the side of the large hall, but as she turned to look, she gasped in shock.
The grey stone walls of ten meters height were illuminated by multiple torches…
A mural carving of a being, the long hair reaching Her waist, the wings sprouted from Her back, the long white robe, majestic. The carving of people beneath her feet worshipping. The carved Eyes, all over Her majestic figure. Each Eye was like a lantern, holding blue fire, making the mural ever more Holy. An altar with incense and even offerings were right below the carved murals.
"What… what is this Kouga…" Sarada asked in a shaky voice. This wasn't a joke…
"Ahh…! Holy Son!" Suddenly, a shrill voice shocked Boruto and Sarada.
Someone in a dark robe appeared from the dark. He placed the broom in his hand against the stone wall and quickly came over to kneel in front of him.
He rose to his feet slowly, eyes wide with trembling awe, hands pressed together in prayer. The dim blue from the hall revealed his grotesque figure behind his cloak. The multiple Sharingans embedded in his head.
Sarada took steps back, her eyes contained more fear seeing the person.
He rose to his feet slowly, eyes wide with trembling awe, hands pressed together in prayer.
"Behold! The Holy Son walks among us, flesh born of divinity and man, bearer of Eyes of the Deathly Sea!"
The man's voice was thundering. He turned to face the carved mural, his eyes more fanatic as he raised his hands towards it, as if inviting the deity Herself.
"She saw all! She forgave none! Through Her eyes, truth is stripped bare, through Her will, the world shall kneel! And through the Holy Son, He delivers Her decree!"
"Kouga…" Sarada was shaky, she felt her heart beating faster in anxiety. "R-relax… Sarada…" Boruto felt scared himself. He stayed close to Sarada. Their nervousness was apparent.
"You took care of the hall well, Pontifex. Take a seat. We are receiving new members." His cold deep voice echoed in the hall.
"It's a pleasure of mine, Holy Son…" He kneeled down respectfully one last time, before sitting down on one of the stone chairs with an Eye carving.
Sarada noticed the crazed way the man looked at Kouga, then at her and Boruto. She felt scared, especially seeing the multiple Sharingans in the man's head.
"Moonveil… I found two of the Fated." Umbra muttered as he faced the mural of the Divine Mother.
A slit in space appeared, cracking slowly above the mural.
Boruto gasped in shock with Sarada. A white figure stepped out of black void in space. Her feet rippled with chakra as they touched the invincible steps down one by one. The bell on her ankle rang each time she moved.
Her pure white robe adorned with white laces paired with her silver hair and pale skin. The veil on her face made her look untouched by the mortal world. Her hands in her long sleeves, as if not caring of anything or anyone.
The white figure turned to look at Boruto and Sarada. Although she wore a white veil covering all, the two felt her gaze on them.
Moonveil nodded slightly at Umbra, before taking her seat on a stone chair with a Moon carving.
"Holy Daughter… You are here…" Pontifex bowed in fervor. Moonveil only nodded at him.
Ssss…
White snakes suddenly fell from above, forming a cluster of white snakes in the hall.
"Ahh!" Sarada screamed and clutched onto Boruto, terrified of them. "C-calm down Sarada!" Boruto blushed slightly and had to hold onto Sarada.
The white snakes as if sticking and combining together into mushed flesh, and formed into a person in a blue white robe. A snake motif mask covered his face. His yellow snake eyes are visible through his mask with his white-blue hair.
"Solstice… take a seat."
"Yes… My Sun." Solstice took a seat on a stone chair with the mark of the crescent moon.
"Is Dr. Nethis occupied?"
"Forgive me, my Sun. He didn't have the time…" Solstice bowed slightly before replying.
"That's fine. He had more things to do…"
Kouga took heavy steps towards the biggest chair, the mark of Eclipse carved on them.
His black cape swayed as he sat down. His legs crossed, and from his hand, black void covered his palm - from it a silver chalice containing dark red liquid appeared. He swirled them, before taking a sip to his lips.
"Ha…" He let out a cold breath after taking a sip, placing the chalice down. He stretched his arm towards them, his palm welcoming them.
"Boruto, Sarada… welcome to the Order."
Blue flames erupted from the center of the stone table. Umbra's figure became more enigmatic, the glow in his blue eyes gazing into them, the majestic murals behind him and the blue fire illuminating the members of the Rinshinsho made the whole Order, real. The two outsiders couldn't help but shiver.
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