~Phoenix Theory~ {Hayabusa|Kokoro|Asura|Heise}{RP/I/Tr}

Hayabusa stood there, after being informed by the Monkey Summons he requested and audience with. Being left on his own with a bit of new information, Hayabusa sighed. He turned and walked back towards where Eliot had gone, reconvening in the throne room.
“What is going on?” Eliot asked him.
“You’ll know shortly…” he said. He looked at the emblems up on the wall above the thrones.
‘Kokoro…’ he reached out telepathically. He really had to concentrate, as she was half a world away.
‘My love?’ she responded.
‘I am sorry to pull you guys away, but I need you both here, now, and for a week or two.’
‘Right this moment?’ she asked.
‘Preferably…’ he said. There had been a long pause before she responded.
‘Ok… we’re all ready.’ She said. He pit his finger and slammed it on the ground, summoning Kokoro and the two others. He looked at her and smiled.
“My love…” she said, as she embraced him with a kiss.
“Hi Flower. I hope you are enjoying your exploration.” He said. She smiled and made her way to the throne with the angel above it. He looked at the shorter member, who finally took his mask off, revealing an adolescent. He came up to Hayabusa and gave him a tight hug.
“Father…” he said.
“Son. I do hope you’re keeping out of trouble…” he said.
“Grandfather has been doing that for me just fine. It’s Mom that you should reprimand…” he said.
“Tattletale!” she said, as she crossed her legs, which were still bare from lack of pants. Hayabusa laughed.
“Good work, Shizou…” he said. He stood back, looking at the arrived Asura and his companion. He nodded to them.
“Asura… my friend. I hope all is well…” he said. “I do regret that I would ask that all other persons leave the room. Guards, allow these three to explore wherever they may.” He said, as the five guards around the room nodded and would escort the remaining three to wherever they wanted to go. Hayabusa would wait for them to leave the throne room before commencing their reasons for being there…”
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The summoning was odd for Hayabusa-- as his summon failed, but that was only because Asura was mid-transmit. Even time-space had a duration of time , since Asura was using a unique form. But it didn't take long as a tiger-claw like tear formed in the throneroom. Asura literally dropped from it in place of Hayabusa's summonging technique. It seemed that the summon technique didn't work when someone was in the middle of a time-space rift. The tiger claw rift quickly stitched up and Asura rose to his feet. He felt odd to see Hayabusa-- happy to see him, and also tempted to knock his teeth out for being MIA for so long.

"Took your sweet time to call a meeting," Asura replied, a little annoyed by the summon. "And dude, just call me. I can teleport myself, you know. With all your powers you cannot use telepathy or some crap like that?" he said in a crass manner. Sure, Asura was a little rude, but that was him. He didn't mince words.

As the guards left, Hayabusa's personal country's men, Asura turned to the Uchiha. "So what is the reason for this meeting? You do know we could of met in SHinkoku. I made all that time and effort to establish a base for us. " he said, "At least there we got some pretty ladies to attend to us." he added with a snicker.

"IS anyone else coming?" He asked.

“Kokoro is all the pretty lady I need right now.” Hayabusa said, as he stood in the center of the room.
“Oh stop…” she said. “I could go for seeing Ayane. She’s hot!” she said. Hayabusa cut his eyes at her. “What!? Leave me to my fantasies. If we don’t have a REAL three way with her before I die, I will be thoroughly disappointed!” she exclaimed.
“What happen to your innocence.” He said to her.
“I died. My innocence along with it. And then that whole thing with ‘Shadow’…”
“Yea… well then, moving on.” He looked at Asura. “I believe being here is our best route currently. It is just the three of us, and we have quite a few things to discuss. First, and foremost…” he looked at the five thrones. “We have five branches… it is time we merge them down to three. It has come to my attention that some of our members have died. I believe I have discovered by whom, and I will be investigating that myself. However… there are only three Phoenix’s left. The three of us…”
Hayabusa would wait for Asura to ask about Shadow…
“It is time that you were told… you may be upset but…” Hayabusa stepped to the throne in which had the Black Serpent on it. The throne in which was obviously ‘Shadows’. He turned and looked at Asura now with his Mangekyou Sharingan. He then slowly sat on the throne as his skin turned from his normal to a black amphibian skin, and his red hair turned white, revealing to be the face of Shadow. This would be to imply that he was not only Hayabusa, but who they knew as Shadow as well.
He looked to the side, after a revelation may have come to Asura, and noticed Kokoro shaking in what was to be anger. He turned off his sage mode, returning to his normal looks.
“I am sorry, Kokoro… I wasn’t thinking…” he said. Kokoro hated that version of Hayabusa, due to what happened with the two egos split and Shadow tried to kill them all and raise their son as his own. He looked back at Asura.
“Uchiha Shadow… Lydeck Hayabusa… Darkness & Light. Two sides of the same symbol of Yin & Yang…. Sharing one body. But having two different personas. It was a disease really… maybe psychologically? Whatever the case…” Hayabusa stood up and looked at Asura. “I have achieved Balance… I am reborn as both Hayabusa and Shadow… and you are but one of the firsts to know…” he awaited his reaction and any questions…
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Asura raised a brow at Hayabusa. "If you really want a three way..." he said knowingly, but said no more. The Rinnegan bastard could really kill him if he wanted.

Moving on, Asura now dropped the jokes and listened. He had his arms behind his head as he listened to Hayabusa's words. It seemed he raised an issue how the number of AKatsuki members had fallen. Asura frowned at the news. -- then shit got real when he revealed his secret. Asura's eyes went wide for a split second.

--- in an instant Asura was gone, but not in space time, but in pure taijutsu speed. He acted-- and now had Hayabusa-- shadow, whoever the fuck he was by the collar and lifted him up a few feet off the ground. Asura's eyes glowed with the fiery Tengan, furious. BUt it was a silent, burning fury that didn't make a sound.

"You son of a bitch...." Asura growled, angry that the leader he respected was the same troll of a shinobi that tormented him back in Iwa. "I outta gouge out your eyes just for spite," he growled-- his tone dangerously close to that of a snarling tiger.

His time among the tigers of Blood Vale Jungle had made Asura very strong, but still he controlled himself. Even though he was pissed, he held back. He really wanted to squeeze his neck-- but that would kill any normal person. He glared at him, expecting an explanation, a better apology at least for the humiliation SHadow caused him.

Hayabusa’s feet lifted from off the ground. There had been a fuel in Asura’s eyes that thrilled him.
“I understand your anger…” Hayabusa said, as he looked behind Asura where Kokoro had already been stand up at attention with her blade unwrapped, and the tip at the back of Asura, siphoning the chakra from him until he would calm down. Paper scattered all over the floor from where it had been ‘unsheathed’ and she jumped to action from her throne. The Samehada glimmered in the sun from the skylight. It wriggled at the taste of Asura’s chakra.
“Stand down, Fireboy!” she said. To Hayabusa, this was surprising. She had really grown into something fierce lately.
“Frankly, my friend, though I am sorry I somewhat disobeyed your trust, I will not apologize for the deception. Hayabusa is a public figure for good. He has followers that idolize and look up to him. Shadow knew that bad things needed to be done, thus that was his role… he hid in the shadows. Everything bad about Hayabusa, dwelled within Shadow, and everything good about Shadow, dwelled within Hayabusa. It was necessity to be able to bring balance… to be able to birth Gesshoku Akatsuki… to bridge the gap. To be fair, only four other people knew. Kokoro being one of them, and she informed two of the other four who knew. You will be among the only one who knows at all. As far as the outside world is concerned, Shadow is dead…” he said.
“I don’t want there to be anymore secrets… with that being said… Kokoro I think it’s your turn.” They would wait until Asura would calm, and Kokoro would rewrap the Samehada.
“Oh, mine is not as bad as yours.” She sat back in her throne. “Asura, I’m dying. I don’t have much longer to live. So I know I’m a fun person and all, but don’t get too attached, kay?” she said, cheerfully as always, very nonchalantly. “Just wanted to put that in the air.”
“Please… just have a seat so that we can continue this meeting…”
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Asura looked back to Kokoro-- sensing the sword and the drain on his chakra. He finally got a look at that weapon-- but compliments were coming later. "You do realize I wasn't really going to kill him-- but I think you understand my reason for being pissed off?" He asked both of them. The explanation about the need for an alter ego to do one';s evil deeds seemed like bullshit to Asura. "Like you need another you to do the shit you don't have the somach for him?" He was pretty much ignoring the drain on his chakra as his physicla strength was all he was using at the moment. Still, the feel of his chakra draining was uncomfortable all the same.

After a long pause, Asura grumbled with discontent, and let him go with a drop to the ground. He never seriously wanted to steal the guy's eyes, but it irritated him of his personality-- even worse to know that Shadow was him all along. "You do realize I owe you a good thrashing after all this," Asura implied-- more out of a friendly fight than any desire to kill him. It just irritated Asura how much power this one man obtained... where he struggled to catch up.

"That's a nice sword by the way," Asura said, "I knew it. That's alive, isn't it? Think i can study it sometime?" He asked. "Or did you want to kill me for suggesting a threesome ?" he added the joke to break the sick tension.
There was one thing Asura respected about Hayabusa now-- he wanted to get the truth out. That certainly took the edge off his anger and he sighed. "Well... thanks , I guess..." Asura said, but was soon taken aback by Kokoro's news. She was dying-- her lifespan was nearing its end. That definately killed the mood a bit, still he felt sorry. "I see..."

There was a pause between them all, but Asura put the whole 'kicking Hayabusa's ass' out of his mind for now and sat on the edge of the center table. "Alright, so... back on track if you will," he said, his mind calmer. Even though he was a hot head, he had a sharp mind to back it. "So what is our new priorities then?"
His eyes soon reverted back to his normal state of red irises-- the fire in him now a calm ember.

After he seemingly calmed himself, Hayabusa spoke.
“It’s not that I couldn’t stomach it… I just had to protect the fragileness of those around me. Anyway, we can put this all behind. We now have open dialogue. If there is anything you feel you need to share, please do so. Otherwise… I motion to reduce the size of Gesshoku Akatsuki. Three branches. I myself, will set the Dragon Branch.”
“And, what of Yukimura?” she asked.
“I… I think the Yukimura we knew is dead. I don’t know how to explain it exactly… I don’t know who this new Yukimura is. I would say an educated guess would be a clone…”
“And this new Yukimura? Is he to be a Phoenix?”
“Perhaps not…”
“Very well… with Shadow no longer existent, and Yukimura no longer a Phoenix, I second the motion.”
He closed his eyes and opened them, revealing the Rinnegan. He held his hand out, and two of the thrones crumbled into dust. He waved his hand, and above, the symbols of the black serpent, the white small serpent with legs, and the monkey evaporated into nothing. Then, minerals came together to form an anthropomorphic black and white dragon above the center throne. He needed to stop being a support character.
“Requirements shall remain. Two lieutenants. Those lieutenants are allowed their own enforcers, if they choose, but that is not a requirement. We should be a team with a minimum of 9 members, but a maximum of 21, assuming all positions are filled. I want these positions filled as soon as possible. I have my lieutenants are Lydeck Eliot and Kaguya Ayane.”
“Awww man! I was going to pick her!” Kokoro exclaimed. Hayabusa rolled his eyes. “My lieutenants… Lydeck-Yamanaka Shizou and…” she paused for a moment. “Senju Yukimura… I will confirm with him at the conclusion of this meeting.”
“Very well… and will your branch remain as the Angel Branch?”
“I suppose, yes.” He nodded, then turned to Asura.
“Asura… the Flame Emblem has always defined your branch… do you have any alterations?”
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Asura listened in a carefree manner as Hayabusa went on to regard the roles of the Akatsuki-- once 5 now 3 heads of it. Asura had never considered himself a part of the major branch but rather the best one hauling the dead weight. He kept those feelings to himself but Hayabusa could clearly see he was holding in a lot of frustration that they didn't have a meeting up till now.

The talk of Yukimura, confused Asura. "Um,. new Yukimora? Is he some robot you guys whipped up?" he asked, not really caring about the stranger. However the thrones crumbled.

Asura rose his voice. "Why not we just seek out fresh blood. Believe it or this is an opportunity to allow our group to grow rather than shrink our ranks and limit our options." he proposed, "I do have some contacts, if you have any suggestions of people we need."

It seemed Haya was in agreement and spoke up more positions, but Asura wasn't following completely. UM... so where are we on that lists? Two lieutentants, ? Um..." he was confused since Haya never bothered to explain how their hierarchy worked in the Akatuski.
It was then that he asked Asura bout the flame emblem-- Asura sighed. "That's my clan symbol..." he said, raising his gaze to the ceiling, "Not sure if that would be appropriate for us here. But why do you ask? You need me to create a Branch?"

“Ok… there are three branches. Mine, Kokoro’s, and yours. We each have our two lieutenants. Let’s say first seat and second seat. The first seat would take your place, if you were to step down or fall in battle. You may be also challenged for you position by those lieutenants, if they felt the need to be the head of your branch. Likewise, they each have their own enforcers who would take their place if they were to also fall. It is basically a Wolf Pack mentality. Anything beyond that is how you would like to run your team. They do not have to pledge allegiance to Gesshoku Village. They do not have to be Missing-Nin. They just have to be willing to do as their heads command. It would be great to keep diversity. We have Suna ninja, Konoha, Kiri, and Iwa… perhaps I’ll need to look to Kumo for any interests. Anyway… moving on. I advise against a clan emblem. This branch is something that I expect to keep as the foundation of this organization. Not a particular allegiance to any one village or clan. Symbolic. Like mine is a Dragon. One in which is balanced with both Yin and Yang. Kokoro’s a dark Angel; a symbolic guardian and protector. Anymore questions?”
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The explanation of the branches were straightt forward that Asura got a grasp of it. "Jeez, thanks to know you have setups for my demise," he joked dryly, but got the gist of the discussion. "Basically any network you work with follow under this category if you have a leading factor in. But with the exception of my ninja animals, the Blood Vale Tigers, i don't have anyone-- unless you want to count them?" he asked Hayabusa, wondering how he viewed the tigers he met when he visited Blood Vale Jungle.

As for the symbol Asura thoguht for a moment. "Well... its hard to decide, but what would suit me best is either the Tiger or a Phoenix. Though a part of my clan's history the Phoenix is in fact something our clan values but not directly involved. " Asura announced, "You are free to choose but, any chance i may inherit the phoenix branch then?"

"As for members, do you have any suggestions of good ones. Anythat benefit our team better?"