A Dance of Doctors [p,nk,Den]

Casually? Nonsense. Nothing was casual to Kozai. Perhaps, though, it was because of this that he seemed so calm. In situations such as this, every detail was important, every person had significance, despite what he might say outwardly.

"I've been betrayed before, but... never from someone this close." As much as he hated to admit it, Mitsui had some sentimental value. He kept trying to tell himself over the months that the kid meant nothing to him, but when he thought about it, as far as he knew,  Mitsui was his last remaining link to Iwa... and Agito. Even his sister, who had actually meant nothing to him, had died in the village's destruction. Only Mitsui was left, and now, he had to die.

"We all have to make sacrifices. You, of all people, should know this." Kozai's formerly sharp expression grew somewhat more melancholy, tinged with... regret? He tried his best not to show it, but it didn't come out. Hmph. How was he to prove Echo wrong if he was breaking down like this? 

To be fair, objectively, Kozai wasn't actually having an emotionally hard time. However, even the slightest bit of subjectiveness within his soul was abhorrent to him. 

However, noting that one of Denkiteki's... buds? Apomixis offspring? Well, "sons" would suffice for now. Given that one of his sons was about to do a thing, Kozai stood up. Perfect timing, too.

"The library is now closed due to maintenance. We will be opening tomorrow at the normal time."

With that, he looked at Den once more, his face hard and unforgiving. 

"Let's do it as soon as possible."

Den still wasn't sure about Kozai's motivations but Den often preferred to be safe rather than sorry. Sure he could monitor Mitsui using Sanctuary Pond but there was only so much he could discern with that, as proven by how he misinterpreted the situation with Kozai.

The eagerness Kozai showed made Den further suspicious of the librarian, closing the library at the mention of their being a possibility of summoning Mitsui soon.

Motioning for Kozai to follow Den would make his way to the door. If the librarian did Den would wait until they were walking through the streets before he continued talking. If Kozai didn't follow Den would wait at the door.

"If you won't tell me about how Mitsui's betrayed you at least tell me of some crimes hes committed, the reasons you think he would want to come murder you. I need to be able to go before the nobles and give them a reason why this man is dead once this business is concluded and I can't just tell them he was a trouble maker and you were worried he would come after you." The summoning site was a mile north of the village, so they were heading towards the gates.

Following Den out, Kozai realized that things might not be going as smoothly as he had hoped. What, Den was suspicious? Well, even though it was inconvenient, Kozai had expected it, somewhat. It wasn't like this man would take action without knowing everything that was going on. To be fair, Kozai mostly wanted to kill Mitsui for security, for himself and for Hoshi. Most of these judgments were made not on a subjective basis, but instead on an objective analysis of what Mitsui was likely to do. The kid was pretty damn unpredictable, and this mental simulation had taken quite a while. However, in the end, Kozai had to make a decision: hold on to his last, precious suboordinate, or cast him aside for his own sake. The decision wasn't as easy as Kozai hoped it would be. Even his own selfish philosophy broke down just a little, but in the end, he stuck to it.

"Mitsui caused quite a bit of havoc outside Konoha, but most of all..." Kozai remembered what he had found out from the Ame girl whose corpse he now carried, and what he had seen at the border outpost, "... Mitsui's got a pretty high bounty on him from Ame. It seems that he... attacked him." This had been contrary to Kozai's orders, since he hadn't told Mitsui to make such a forward approach.

"Well, he's also given out some of my personal information, so you can see why it would be concerning." Kozai remembered the Yukigakure incident. He still hadn't completely forgiven the kid on that instance.

"Should THAT be enough for your elders?"

Who was the person Mitsui attacked, the leader of Ame or something? That was Den's assumption seeing as Mitsui apparently had a large bounty there. And if he was causing trouble in konoha then it would be wise to deal with him, Maku had created an alliance between the Fire and Haven nations before he... departed. There was a new Hokage now, perhaps if he dealt with a missing nija that was causing problems there he could garner favor with the new leader.

"Yes.. knowing he's caused problems else where will be enough for them." Unless Kozai said anything further or stopped following Den the two would continue in silence, the Hoshikage picking up speed once they were out of the confines of the village. The site for the summoning circle was to be a mile north of the village, Den didn't plan on using the summoning site to bring allies to the village so he didn't want to put the citizens in danger.

The two S ranked ninja would arrive to see Tomoya and Shina working on a fuinjutsu seal 10 meters in radius. The location of the seal was out in the plains, just grass to see in all directions except for Hoshigakure barely visible a mile away. The spot the seal was in was clear of grass, a good 15 meter radius of ground was cleared before Tomoya and Shina had begun their work on the seal.

"The seals almost done. Why'd you both come all the way out here, is there someone you want to summon already?" Tomoya looked between Den and Kozai as he asked the question. Shina continued to work on the seal as he got up and approached Den, who would be standing at the edge of the grass. "If you plan on doing that I should warn you... the seal isn't as powerful as Shina and i hoped it'd be. I'm still figuring out the exact ratio but... I'm thinking we'd need the 3 of us here to summon someone with a chakra as potent as mine, and that's if Denkiteki makes his chakra more potent using his jutsu. Otherwise we'd need Shina's help."

Den frowned at this, "That's not good... the summoning will also have a delay so that means.." Looking towards Kozai Den would ask, "Does Mitsui have any techniques that can make his chakra more potent, how much stronger has he become?" If Mitsui could make his chakra potent enough he could resist the jutsu, Den wondered if he might need to call in more people to assist him.

Wow, they sure worked fast. Hmph, even if the civilians of this village were underwhelming, at least some of the ninja were worthy of merit. Especially Den... the ability to create life was a different path he had taken from Kozai. Well, whatever. At the very least, they were actually getting somewhere now. 

"Mitsui possesses a technique that allows him to increase his own faculties. It's very adaptable, but for the magnitudes of chakra that we have here, especially yours..." here, he eyed Den, remembering how hard it had been to fight him and his massive chakra signature, "... his technique really shouldn't matter much. Besides, I possess a technique that targets his internal organs. As you well know, they aren't exactly the most durable of objects." 

While he was saying this, he made his way to the spot on the edge of the circle directly opposite Den. When Mitsui would be summoned, he assumed that he would appear directly in the center of the circle. It was good that the reasons he had given for Mitsui's execution were enough. This meant that the elders were reasonable people, or that Den had a  great influence on them. Either way, he didn't care. As long as he achieved his goals, it would be fine. 

As Kozai stood there, he began to have his doubts. Should he go through with this? A piece of his mind, a mixture of experiences from talking to others, told him that Mitsui had a right to live to. But then he realized just how foolish this was. He didn't have a right to live if he got in Kozai's way like he was now. The sanctity of life? Bah! What nonsense. Performing two handseals and then  shifting his right hand forward, Kozai began charging his chakra.

"Well, shall we get on with it?"

Tomoya wasn't sure who this Mitsui was but he wasn't sure if they could summon him using the fuinjutsu seal that was prepared, if he could increase his chakras potency he might be able to resist.

"There's another thing.. you never taught me the summoning Jutsu Denkiteki. So I can't actually assist in the summoning itself until I do learn the technique.." Tomoya felt like he was letting Den down for not being to help him in whatever mission he and Kozai were on, but in his defense the two shinobi had just sort of showed up while he was making the seal, Tomoya and Shina hadn't been planning on attempting any summonings once they were finished.

"Alright... well let's hope that my chakra's enough then.." As his voice trailed off Den activated his Power of the White Dragon technique, enhancing his chakras potency as well as increasing his speed and reaction time. His chakra took form around him as he activated the technique, trails of white chakra floating upwards from Den's body. His pants created a hole for his tail to grow out of but Den didn't manifest his wings, unfortunately his brothers robes were not made of manipulated fabric.

Den had rarely used this ability, normally remaining in his fairer form that still resembled that of a normal human. The humanoid dragon looked down at the summoning seal as he prepared himself for the next step. He'd never combined Kokou's power with this form before, he could guess at what he was capable of in that form but had never actually activated both abilities at once until now.

As golden ernergy began to form around his body and clothes Den's chakra reached new heights, reaching a level very few had ever achieved. He had expected there to be pain, unleashing so much power at once, but instead he only felt elation. So much power coursing through his veins! An aura of golden and white energy surrounded the Hoshikage, the size of the aura reaching an immense size as the man let his power flow freely for the first time in awhile.

A rare smile appeared on the Hoshikages face as he did the seal of confrontation needed for the summoning jutsu, "Are any of us at risk of being injured by your technique?" Kozai's technique sounded like it was potent bbut other than that he hadn't given any explanation for how it worked.

As Den asked the question Shina would finish preparations on the seal, she had stopped working for a few moments to stare at Den when he had transformed. What was he? Sanding up from the seal shina would back away a few meters, her eyes still a bit wide and staring at Den's now golden form. Tomoya would walk to her side, though he was less obviously impressed by Den's power, he had of course never seen the two abilities combined before but he knew of Den's transformation and bijuu.

Once Kozai made it clear he was ready, asking Den that they get on with it, Den would activate the Summoning Technique on the Summoning Site, his intent to summon Mitsui into the center of the circle.

80 AP Spent on POWD
200 AP on Golden Cloak
280 AP Spent
989 AP Left

10 AP Spent from Golden Cloak for summoning
490 AP Remaining from that

stats are:
70 Health
245 Chakra
20 stamina
230 Speed
110 Strength

Requesting 500 words towards Summoning Site creation (Fuinjutsu users are Tomoya and Shina) and after that trying to summon Mits
Current WC: 2549 (2049 WC unclaimed now)

Hmm, well it seemed that Denkiteki had been negligent of his production, the living clone. Oh well, that was fine. As the pink aura of Kanade spread out over the area, everyone present at that time would be exempted from its damage. Kozai was easily able to input the values of their chakra signatures into the jutsu, allowing it to pass over and through them in a benign fashion. 

"Don't worry. As you can see, none of us are at risk. Should any random Hoshi nin enter the field, they too will be safe. Mitsui, however, will not. I'll explain how it works later."

Although, should Denkiteki view the technique through his sharingan, he would probably get a good sense of the jutsu itself. It used the opponent's chakra against him, so that the more he had, the more damage Kanade would do. In this sense, it was an almost flawless technique, but to Kozai, it was never good enough.

At the moment that Denkiteki initiated the summoning, Kozai would join in, using his power in conjunction with Denkiteki to initiate the summons. The moment Mitsui appeared in the middle of the summoning site, the jutsu would hit Mitsui, causing all of his visceral organs and hearts (and brain) to rupture and bleed, killing him.

[-100 AP for Kanade
Kanade at 205 power]

Mitsui did not want anything to do with the summoning. As soon as Den and Koz attempted to summon Mitsui, Mitsui would simply refuse to be summoned. Mitsui was not marked, so Mitsui simply could decline.

(Den told me that he found that the summoning site allows people who are not marked to go and just resist summoning. I am also not marked, exit)

(can I claim that I have safely exited? I think that there is not really a way to stop me from exiting, and I think I can 48 hour Koz and 72 hour Den.)