Board Thread:Konoha Arc/@comment-25687356-20160506032500/@comment-24937485-20160510071012

He hadn’t remained still for long, for how could he with such a magnificent battle taking place. Explosions and shockwaves galore, the entire area was turned into a field of war of such proportion that from outside view it’d seem like a veil of sand clung around the village. The stench of blood and ashes was strong everywhere with its pungent smell that’d easily drive one nauseous but Kei’s hardened vitality withstood it easily; being no stranger to such environments. With his Sharingan activated he slowly treaded forth before suddenly being alarmed by a fiery expanse of such intense heat that it almost burned through solid walls. But one such wall had provided enough protection from the outer surface of the explosive radius which allowed Kei to escape unharmed.

Counting to three, he waited carefully while listening and sensing for anything out of the ordinary. But when he found there was nothing but silence Kei got up off his feet and silently walked over to the center of the explosion; the direction of which he had deducted from the previous shockwave.

Nothing, however, could have prepared Kei for what he then saw as he came to face four bodies of ashes. He then remembered, how in that split second one body was seen overheating to such proportions that the user surely must have died seeing as raising one’s own temperature to such levels could lead to nothing but death, or else it wouldn’t have killed the others. There was nothing special, no shield of chakra or anything, protecting the user from increasing the temperature of his very own body, so death would’ve been inevitable. (Nothing in the villains post said anything about his body being protected from heating to 570 F. Which means that, by law of T1 rules, the villains own body has turned into ashes while killing the Konoha shinobi by a succesfull suicide attempt. If the villain somehow managed to survive these effects he has no protection from, then Seika & co are still alive. In Reality, the Villain would’ve died before the others since he’s the very epicenter of the heat; since it’s his body temperature which is rising to such high levels.) This meant that Kei would be looking at the ash statues of the villain he had never met, Seika, Yuki and Hitomi; all four perfectly recognizable by the magnificent pieces of art left behind. For a moment, Kei couldn’t help but marvel at the morbid beauty of the scene as he stood on top of the remains of a root not far away from the crime scene.

“Hitomi…. With your eyes… how could you not have seen this coming?” –No pun intended.-

Unsure of anything at this point, Kei kept a wary eye to see if anything unusual were to happen while grabbing the sheathe of one chokuto in his right hand, as his left hand moved over the sheathe; ready to draw at a moment notice as he rood poised to kill. If nothing caught his attention, or simply felt off, and the ash statues dissipated with the wind produced by a sudden shockwave not too far away, Kei made his move to the frontline of the battle where he’d lay eyes upon Keldran who was locked in intense combat with a brutal and grotesque looking foe while aided by a unknown shinobi of the leaf. –Approaching Keldran’s squad.-



“Bodies… bodies everywhere. The streets lay covered in bones and blood… so many souls have perished… yet it’s not their deaths that affect me. It’s the tragedy of knowing the life that could’ve flourished here had today’s events not occurred. Yet, what sparked this hatred? What was the cause for all this anger? We know nothing… and wander as mere pawns on the lookout for answers.”

During his approach, Kei used his sharingan to remain aware of his surroundings, moving like a panther, by means of silent killing, to avoid himself being found out easily. Each and every one of his steps was calculated as he sneaked behind the ruined remains of walls that provided ample cover as he made his way towards what seemed like the only beacon left shining in Sunagakure. If he got in close enough, while undetected, to his knowledge, Kei would move up to 12 ft away from Keldran & Co; settling in what was left of an old bakery; eyes and ears peeled for any disturbance outside the battles taking place and ready to aid his allies.