Asu Rashoujin

"“All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.”"

- Asu Rashoujin

Asu Rashoujin known as the Facilitator of Death. However, this is an inaccurate definition of power, as it is a label brought on either by ignorance, or simplicity. Asu is a large man covered in a coat of black scales which seem to be part of his new found power. Asu's consciousness is not one being but numerous spirits constantly trying to escape from his possession. However, before too far is gotten into the description of Asu's appearance, it should be stated clearly that the main ability of Asu, is the ability of corruption. Asu takes his claim of power in the world beyond the physical realm, acting as the lord to death, and the despair that comes with it.

Appearance
Asu has a well defined body, a product both of a long life of constant and strenuous training and as a indicator of his particular "demon". Asu stands at an impressive 6'3" and has a muscle tone that can clearly have his body labeled as being chiseled. His muscle tone is well defined, though deceptive, as his body possesses more strength then what it shows, a result of his abilities. In Asu's particular case, these indicators are of the many, and are his most defining features. Though born with blonde hair, Asu's hair was quickly turned the color of raven, and permanently remains this color. No matter how old he gets, there will not be a gray hair upon his sculpt. The hair itself is long, but does not go down passed his neck. The next indicator of his demon are his eyes. Born with black eyes, the recent merger of spirits has resulted in Asu's eyes being changed. The white of his eyes no longer exist, now being completely crimson pools. As for his black irises, these have been changed to the same blood red that is reflected in his eyes, and in the former eyes of his "demon". Furthermore, Asu possesses not one, but two sets of eyelids. There are, of coarse, his normal lids, and then a second hidden lid that slides sideways across the eyes.

Personality
Asu has a foul personality. He cares not for life, for he considers himself the facilitator of death. He is a being that has lived for as long as Gaoh (before being sealed), and even in death he continues on in his existence. Over this time, he has seen many things. The hatred of man festers in front of Asu. ''Wars. Famine. Genocide.'' All of these Asu has witnessed, and all of them case him to salivate in anticipation for.

Asu is a being without a heart, least in the spiritual sense. If the consciousness is reflected by the soul, then there is no heart to be found upon the soul of the Asu, for it cares for no one other then himself. His entire existence is concerned only with continued survival. Some say that this is cowardice. However, Asu has a vision of the future, a goal that transcends any other concern save for surviving until the day that he rules over all.

The title, Facilitator of Death, refers not to his particular "Accursed" jutsu Asu uses. Instead, the true malevolence of Asu stems from its power to corrupt. The dark power of Asu possesses the ability to corrupt the world. This has been shown, in the years long since forgotten, by how the Asu manipulated Gaoh into destroying countless lives and his ensealment. Gaoh was but a monk before being corrupted by Asu.

Within the forest, surrounded by both towering maples and wind, the dark chakra of Asu infected a priest of all people. It is such an odd turn of events, for someone whose purpose in life was to spread peace was morphed into a creature of destruction. It was through the corrupting power of Asu that a mortal man was risen to the stats of monster capable of taking human life with no conscious.

However, Asu's abilities went far beyond that. Corruption is not something that can only be passed down to those less powerful then you, but plagues all facets of the world. Though tremendous power is possessed in the ability to corrupt, the full extent of these abilities can never be unleashed by a normal shinobi, as only within the true form of the demon could so great a power be mustered to craft a demon of Bijuu strength.

Asu is power hungry. It is said that, "Men strive to preserve the power they already possess, monsters to gain more power then they can control." This is surely true when it comes to Asu, for he is a monster. Although trained by the Sage of Enlightenment himself, this creature holds a great desire, which stems directly from an inferiority complex of all things.

He is jealous of the power possessed by the Sage of Enlightenment, the one being that surpasses its own ability. Second place was never enough for the Asu, and so he seeks to gain enough power so as to claim the world for his own. In doing this, he, within his past, took to the habit of absorbing the strength of others.

The logic behind Asu is that he wants to possesses the nine other Bijuu. If his goal was ever reached, each of the other Bijuu would be sealed within his demonic form, through a Fuuinjutsu that only Asu can perform. Thus would grant Asu enough power to dominate over all life as we know it. However, this goal has always been out of reach.

Synopsis
As this story stems from his birth, Asu was born in land torn by strife and pestilence, known now as the Land of Swamps. Asu’s birth was taken under a gamble that the child would become the medium of the Rashoujin's clan of hatred. The infant Asu was born crying, not because of being born, but because immediately after being born he was dying. Asu was a child abandoned by his family due to severe poverty. Bitter with hatred and consumed with revenge, he decided to leave his simple household. While walking through the forest on a stormy, cold night he was found by a young Gaoh Minazuki.

"Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our goods deeds."

Gaoh took in the child, and decided that the child would need to learn how to defend himself and to express his ways towards enlightenment. As the time went, Asu became more accustomed to the new and strange techniques that Gaoh had taught him and over time Asu became considerably more arrogant. During some of their trips, Gaoh would often help people in need and Asu would consider it "worthless or a waste of time". Gaoh sensed that Asu had peculiar hatred of people in general. During this time, Asu began an almost ritualistic viewing of the Warrior Shrine that Gaoh showed him, which listed all the names of warriors who had fallen. One day Asu would come to find his teacher and friend, Gaoh, missing as if one was suddenly vanished into thin air. The feelings he felt then grew more fearsome as time went on.

Asu would soon begin to stray from the path of enlightenment that Gaoh taught him, instead he began to find his own trail of enlightenment, one that follows the "way of darkness". This is where Asu’s pains begin. Having found out about this deep seeded hatred within him, Asu was alone in learning how to face his demon. His body began to experience atypical changes; he literally began to take on several qualities of a demon.

His skin became a shade between sinopia and burnt umber, his canine teeth were replaces by hollow fangs, all of these physical modifications had set the villagers against him, now able to see he was physically different, through only he knew what he was. In Asu’s attempts to hide his power he began to drive himself mad, his emotions were haywire as he contemplated with his mass intelligence what dangers could result from every action. Above all he feared becoming a demon, and in this fear he separated himself from those that could help him, even becoming angry and vengeful. From this point Asu would become one with his dark nature, and since this acquisition of demonic power, he would begin to challange a number of people just to test his abilities but, he one day found an opponent on equal standings as himeself.

Before their bout, Asu steadily lost his emotions and became more bloodlusted before the fight began. The match was practically even. Both Marduk and himself were strong, smart, and although Marduk surpassed him in speed, Asu made up for this lack of speed with his flexibility and strategy to conserve his own chakra while Marduk spent his. However, eventually both participants would be worn down, and in the final moments of the battle, Marduk had landed an explosive tag on Asu’s back, directly opposite to the seal that he used to control his inner "demon". The demon in Asu had taken more and more interest in the fight as it progressed, and with this final near death explosion Asu’s body was lost to the chakra of the demon as he again reached his current treacherous state for the first time in his life. Asu’s power, speed, and stamina became unholy in levels, and Marduk’s life became threatened as Asu assaulted the boy, all the while Asu being unable to stop himself.

However, something was different about this time. For Asu, through all he had been through, finally had the courage to stand against his own powers, and in the moment before he stabbed Marduk in the throat, he regain control over his body, while it was still in its demon form. This would mark the beginning of a new age for Asu, for he could finally control himself when under some of the influence of the curse of hatred.

Granted, this was a small victory, but it was more important then having lost the match to Marduk because of him fainted from pulling himself out of the demon form. He would eventually find use of his powers of manipulation and corruption by becoming a leader of a small village located in the Land of Swamps. Asu used his powers to turn the once innocent, hard working village into, a blood thirsty, precarious municipality. Asu would eventually return to his training grounds and corrupt his previous sensei, Gaoh.

With his desire for power transforming him into a powerful demon and with his powers of manipulation caused the remaining monks to turn on themselves. He seeks to enlighten his progress in the "way of evil". To this end, he travels, killing anyone he can.

Abilities
Asu is a excrably powerful shinobi as for he himself was trained by Gaoh himself ages ago. Asu primarily uses his own branch of dark accursed jutsu known as Sakje-Geuzi, with those he has become one of the most recognizable face in the shinobi world. Asu displays numerous symbols of corrupt power that he has command over. The culmination of Asu's abilities creates a figure of pure chaos, as Asu does not possess a symbol of good. Thusly, he is constantly plagued by death, for it is an inescapable consequences of accessing this power. What this has meant is a cursed life for the holder. Death has surrounded Asu for years. Forever he is cursed to walk the world alone, unable to flee from the power stored within his heart. This, combined with the notable ability to corrupt, has lead to a form of psychosis. Dementia is known as a persistent disorder of mental processes caused by brain injury and marked by memory disorders, personality changes, and impaired reasoning. Each of these are reflected in some manor from varies uses of this power.

Sakje-Geuzi
Asu has the ability of bodily transmutation on a unholy level, and still dwells heavily within the realm of the metaphysical. By using the Sakje-Geuzi abilities, which grants the user access to even greater stores of chakra that then what is normally accessed. Through his transmutation, all of Asu's chakra has been replaced with that of this inner demon, meaning that the chakra that is nominally within his system is dark chakra. This is the reason why spiritual manipulation has replaced his former elemental molding capabilities. However, the Asu has one of the greatest stores of chakra in the world, and thusly not all can be expressed in a single human body at once. Thus, his techniques deal with releasing chakra still stored within the seal upon his's heart. This is a train that he has already been able to perform before the reawakening. Through these techniques he can release a chaotic charge of chakra in order to simulate such a move as Strong Arm, or even to use chakra to enhance his speed, healing rate, or systems of the body. However, these techniques put a strain on Asu's heart through the rush of chakra that surges out of it. Thus, only a limited amount can be performed and maintained, and with each use he moves closer to cardiac arrest.

Art of Ninurta
These techniques represents Asu's true form, a horribly powerful demon known to some as pestilence, and thusly their powers derive from physical forces, rather then from the spiritual energy around us, or the souls within us. These techniques, which relate most to the healing abilities of the Asu. While the natural healing abilities deal with the reformation of cells to mend damaged areas of the body, the release of the Ninurta arts results in reconstruction of genetic material on a cellular level. Essentially, it permits for the host to morph his body, reconstructing it into numerous forms. In essence, this results in the ability to shape shift. While at its most basic level, this shifting could result in a technique allotting for a more advanced form of transformation then what is taught at the academy level, as it would be true mutations and not just the appearance of a new form, it goes far beyond that. The user can shift their body to take on aspects of a more demonic form, usually resulting in areas coated in black scales. Claws, blades, even defensive armor can be formed from the modification of the body. While this creates tremendous potential, the downsides to Ninurta techniques usually amounts to physical harm. If left unchecked, the ability to skew out of control, resulting in permanent damage of the host's molecular structure. Furthermore, physical pain or fatigue is usually endured with each transformation. This limits the amount of time these techniques can be use, and endangers the body of the host.

Summoning
Since Asu was trained by the Sage of Enlightenment, his technique take on a form closely related to the summoning jutsu. However, instead of summoning a mere species, such as dogs, and snakes, the host is permitted summons of lesser demons. Essentially, the user is able to summon monsters, calling them forth from the spiritual realm. The monsters can take many forms, though they do not possess elemental natures. Nature manipulation is a thing of man, not monsters. Instead, their weapons are their body. Some are endowed with lesser forms of spiritual manipulation, but most are useful only for their physical prowess, or demonic weaponry. The downsides to Asu's summoning technique are very similar to those of the Ninurta art. While normal summoning does not result in a downside other then chakra cost, creatures summon from Asu not only result in a cost of chakra, but also of physical strength. Thusly, while these demons are out on the field, the user will suffer a multitude of hardships brought on through physical fatigue. More then just fatigue can result from the use of these summons. Each summon possesses a sacrifice aspect. Thus, whilst they are out on the field, something is lost. What is temporarily lost can be anything from strength to eyesight, thus limiting what can be done with each one.

Ahura -Madza
These techniques is reflected largely by the life of the shinobi, for such a life is a life of war, and with war there is murder in its purest form. To kill is to leave behind a mark, one that cannot be erased. Grief is caused by this mark, as is regret. Everyone that has ever taken another life has this mark branded onto their soul. However, these techniques goes beyond simply seeing a mark that could already be witnessed before Asu had access to these abilities. Instead, the power of this symbol is reflected as a off-shoot of the physical aspects of his inner demons's powers. This permits for, oddly enough, Ahura Madza Techniques. Essentially this is nothing more then an advanced form of the Transformation Technique. Using the same genetic reconstruction ability expressed in the Ninurta, Asu is capable of shifting his form into those of others, particularly those that he has killed. Asu will be capable of displaying the same strengths and weaknesses of the honored dead, though to implement this ability as anything more then a subtle transformation prevents the use of any other of his techniques. The downside for this form of transformation is that it evokes insanity in the form of grief. One cannot use this technique without absorbing the sorrow they have caused through their life, memories that are typically painful to experience. If left unchecked transformations can become uncontrollable or unpredictable and so it is unsafe to remain within a different form for weeks at a time.

Abstract Concepts
Asu received tutelage from Sage of Enlightenment, Asu is able to maintain partial command over the entity, the ability to decide between life and death. As this being, some of Asu's techniques has enough potential to manipulate the unforseen forces. However it comes with the ultimate price, for an equal exchange must be given. Thus it works from the principal of a life for a life, and it is almost assure that the user will die if they ever access this ability. One life for another.