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Manndar took a bite out of his sandwich. ".... Mine was some weapons merchant." He took another bite. "He was a big guy, but he couldn't use jutsu."

*Soul came, walking in the distance. He seemed a little darker than before, and his clothes where kind of tattered. He walked with his hands in his pockets with an empty look on his face. Soul coughed a bit as he was walking towards his teammates*
Yo....Are we set?

"How amusing..." Chaos said as the gates to the castle opened to reveal him standing there. He was wearing his belted outfit with dark purple ANBU armor over top, his gaioh headband missing but his old ANBU mask hanging from his belt. On his back he had three large scrolls and on his left hand a large steel gauntlet that had ten odd spheres in it. Two swords were on his belt as well, small chains handing from the base of the handles, and small dagger was attached to his left upper arm. "I see you defeated my past self and past comrades... Or to say a shadow of us. Hehahaha... But I figured you would. Hehahaha..." Chaos swiped some of his hair out of his eyes. "As once the pawns come to the other end of the board... They themselves become the deciding factor in the war, instead of the sacrifices of front."

"Hehe... So now you are calling me by my first name huh Kashin?" Chaos shook his head and smiled at Kashin. "There are no more tests. You guys are at the back of the board and I have some gifts for you... Gifts to make you more than pawns." Chaos said as he turned his back on the group and started to walk into the castle. "Come... Oh and Kashin. I stopped using that name when I gave up my humanity, long long ago..."

"I didn't build this place... It was the home of a lord who decided to try to kill me... We the four merchants were hired by him and he tried to kill us. He had Limstella murdered, Felix was sent into a trap to be killed, Kalas and I were poisoned. I only survived because the poison he used was my demon vine poison. As for what I am showing you... I am giving you all the ability to use Shichi Fukujin, otherwise you won't be able to defeat the White Hand..." Chaos said was he walked.

"Shichi Fukujin is a series of jutsu that pull from the power of the gods. There are seven jutsu that correspond with it. They will give each of you the strength to counter their powers. The white hand, myself included pull power from Izanami-no-kami. However the Master and myself can also pull from the Shichi Fukujin. With the Shichi Fukujin jutsu you will be able to counter most of the kami jutsu you will face down."

"No you will get all seven jutsu... They work in unison so in order to use one you must know others. The catch? There is no catch. Simply put I need the White Hand dealt with and I can't take all the four remaining fingers and the Master by myself."