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"Over the edge and over this life, Destroy those who can't be destroyed, Release my wrath, unleash my soul Blackened sun, broken sky This is who I am - Amen" |
 Keshin Enenra | |
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| Kanji | 煙々羅ケシン |
| Romaji | Enenra Keshin |
| Title(s) | Tamagui (魂食い, Soul Eater) Chaos Hunter (渾沌狩人, Konton Shujin) Carnage of the Prophecy (預言の修羅, Yogen no Shura) Walker of Heaven and Earth (天地歩み, Tenchi Ayumi) Keshin of the Abyss (深淵のケシン, Shinen no Keshin) Keshin of the Six Swords (六刀のケシン, Rokutō no Keshin) Keshin of Yin-Yang Release (陰陽遁のケシン, Onmyōton no Keshin) Sixth God (六人目の神, Rokuninme no Kami) Sixth Shinigami (六人目の死神, Rokuninme no Shinigami) Shitsumeisha (失明者, Blind One) White King (白王者, Shiro Ōja) |
| Age | 107 |
| Gender | Male |
| Height | 211.18 cm |
| Weight | 92.11 kg |
Professional Status | |
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| Hometown | ??? |
| Team |  Hoīru
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| Personal Status | |
| Clan |  Enenra Clan |
| Ninja | |
| Rank | Leader of Hoīru |
| Classification |  Dharmapāla
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| Unique Traits | Pseudo-Immortal Can see Souls and Konkaku Passively absorbs Konkaku from living things |
| Nature |  Yin Release Yang Release Yin-Yang Release (Affinity) |
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Creation of All Things Technique |
| Weapons | Bō Fuma Shuriken Kogarusumaru Six Jiganemaru |
"It is the last hour; and as you have heard that the Antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come, by which we know that it is the last hour." |
| Chaos Hunter |
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Keshin Enenra (煙々羅ケシン, Enenra Keshin), widely known as both the Sixth God (六人目の神, Rokuninme no Kami) and the White King (白王者, Shiro Ōja) of Takachiho, is the Dharmapāla of mankind. A cosmic judge who holds the scales of humanity in the palm of his hand, and a harbinger of wrath upon those who incur it. The Shitsumeisha (失明者, Blind One) was said to hail from a clan with no real name nor members, and would rise from the ashes of an age long passed. He grew in stature and prowess amongst the Enenra Clan, which was the fabrication of his father’s dark dream. A clan filled with void, nonexistent people that relished in the emptiness of their own presence. It took the Sixth God fifteen years to discover their true nature, wipe them out, and set out on his own journey of self-discovery with the company of his lover. However, because he had neglected the path that nature had prepared for him, in a tragic but expected twist of fate, he lost his light twenty-years after finding her. A heavenly hound descended from the skies above and cleaved her in two right before his eyes. It was in that moment that Keshin accepted his calling: to purge the parasitic existence of those known as Ōtsutsuki. Over the course of a century, the Sixth God showed an immense amount of restraint in terms of his mission. He always eliminated the immediate or potential threats first in order of significance. Anyone from Ōtsutsuki near his own home system, to those who had been locked away in other dimensions, and even cultists who worshipped such beings; he took it upon himself to kill them all. For one-hundred years this continued, until a certain excursion to another world lead him to stumble upon Hachiman Ōtsutsuki, whom he struck down with minimal effort. Yet, for the first time since he met his lover, the Sixth felt compassion. Aware of her background as a rebel, he would resuscitate her, and nurse her back to health. She would go on to live with him in the Land of Frost, and once he’d overthrown the shogun of the galaxy, the two would be married. He would realize soon that, once again, he was not fit to live life as a protector of his family, and that rather, he was born to be a vessel for wrath and a bringer of woe. One such as himself lacked the binding force that brought people of all kinds together: chakra. Rather than be connected to humankind and the like, he was estranged, and trapped within the confines of his own soul. One who was destined to wander the vast planes of the universe for all eternity, always consuming the souls of others and feeding off Konkaku. This was Keshin’s fate; one worse than death. To oversee humanity for all of time. First as a mere spectator, then an active judge, and finally, as the White King.
The future White King was born without any chakra, and thus had no elemental affinity of any kind. It was not until he learned to bend his own soul that he discovered his natural kindling for Yin, Yang, and Yin-Yang Release. What he has become widely known for is his Shikisokuzekūjissen - his most powerful technique. The usage of such a power gained him the moniker Kujaku (空寂, Complete Emptiness). It is said that one such as himself is able to cross the boundary between planes, and can instantly transition between what exists and what is nonexistent. His feats are known far and wide, from the slaughter of over a hundred Celestial Beings, to the destruction of many Jashin Cult members, and even the warding off of a herd of Kuraokami Wyrms from the Land of Frost’s mountain ranges. But perhaps what he is known best for is his unethical swordsmanship. Renowned by samurai and shinobi alike, Keshin is, without a doubt, the greatest swordsman to walk the face of the planet. With his blades alone, he single-handedly brought down the likes of Hachiman Ōtsutsuki, who was considered the “Greatest sword-wielder in the galaxy” - the Sixth God ran her through in mere minutes. A man of his stature could fit several katana in his hands with ease, and as such, he would develop a unique kenjutsu form known as Rokutōryū (六刀流, Six-Sword Style). Six katana remain in his waist at all times, and six katana are always being circulated between during his bouts. No one, not even those with the Sharingan, have been able to accurately predict and counter his fluid movements. His uncanny kenjutsu is what gained him the title of Keshin of the Six Swords (六刀のケシン, Rokutō no Keshin). This, combined with his insane height, hunger for souls, and quest to annihilate all that descends from the skies above is what has allowed him to instill fear into whoever he has come across. Many, if not all, know the name Keshin. Even more try to bury his existence and forget about him. The knowledge that he is able to emerge at any moment is a thought too terrible for many to bare. His crusades have always concluded with one, and only one result: utter destruction.
It is said that Keshin’s conception was orchestrated by the likes of the first White King - Yomishiki Ōtsutsuki. The origins of the Sixth God remain unknown to the world, but are perhaps more terrifying than his existence itself. Before chakra was even brought to the planet, during the days of Godfather Enma (教父閻魔, Kyōfū Enma), the egregious killer of gods would fall in love with one of the monsters he battled. This beast was a fabrication of Yomishiki, and was created with the purpose of seducing Enma into adultery. The beast of a man would slay his own wife upon finding out about the child he conceived with the creature he had previously sought to kill, and locked away the genetically-engineered creation in another world. In a realm devoid of time, she was kept safe while Enma laid waste to the world’s kaijū and yōkai, until he finally deemed it peaceful enough for his new wife to re-emerge. Centuries had passed before she was allowed back into the physical plane, and by the time she was, it had changed significantly. Angered, she lashed out upon Enma, killing him in the process. For one such as he, however, death was only the beginning of existence. He stored his soul within another realm, the same realm she had been trapped within, but not before taking their newly born son with him. For decades, the saddened demon-woman wandered the earth. It is said that her tears brought about floods that washed cities away, and that her screams blew down forests. It was not until a millennium had passed since her death that the child was introduced to the world once more, now in the care of the curious Enenra. This is how the story of the Sixth God began.
He is known as more than the Sixth God, White King, and Keshin of Six Swords. The enigmatic swordsman gained the fear and respect of thousands during his long life, and continues to rack up names that both common-folk and warriors have assigned to him. Perhaps the best known of his other titles would be the Carnage of the Prophecy (預言の修羅, Yogen no Shura); one given to him by Yomishiki himself. A reference to the manuscripts detailing the Dharmapāla, and providing a look into the future about the final judge that would come about in the end of days. He would become a Walker of Heaven and Earth (天地歩み, Tenchi Ayumi), and would be able to switch between the realm of gods and man as he saw fit. Those who mocked him would refer to him as the Shitsumeisha (失明者, Blind One); a jab taken at the Sixth God after he had lost his sight in an encounter with a certain Ōtsutsuki. The destruction of a sense doesn’t seem to hold one such as he from his full potential in any way. With his Shogyōmujō, as well as his Dharmapāla sensory abilities, Keshin is all but cut off from the world around him. His refusal to associate heavily with mankind and the demonic rumors that pertain to his origins would cause those frightened by him to call the Sixth Keshin of the Abyss (深淵のケシン, Shinen no Keshin). Parents all around the world tell their children horrifying stories of an Ōni with six claws who devours the dreams of sleeping children, turning them into a hollow shell of their former selves. Other folklores recited worldwide call him the Tamagui (魂食い, Soul Eater); a demon who lures young men into holes and reaps their souls. All of these tales, while tall, are inspired by truth. The Chaos Hunter (渾沌狩人, Konton Shujin) does, in fact, eat the spirits of humanity; it is how he stays alive. As a Dharmapāla, death is his greatest ally; constant killing of the wicked and the demise of those who threaten the balance of the world. What better way for nature to keep him in line than to force his own doom upon him lest he continuously eat the souls of others? Hunting down his prey, bringing their judgement about, and using their soul as fuel for the next hunt; that is the way of a Dharmāpala. Each soul he consumes adds to his own life force and reservoir of Konkaku, as well as his own person. Thousands of souls all trapped within his own. Thousands of perspectives on life, people, places, ideals, and the world itself all screaming out in his mind all at once. A myriad of emotions coming and going at all times. Memories, hopes, dreams, and lost feelings are all processed and experienced by the judge of the world. Each and every person to die by his hands lives on within the Sixth God. And slowly, but surely, each and every one of these victims has surfaced a bit at some point, desperately trying to influence Keshin for only a millisecond. But, no matter how hard they try, they are crushed within him and lost in the well of souls. For his victims, he is Purgatory. He is Karma. He is Judgment.
Background[]
Prologue[]
Millennia before shinobi nations and chakra were even a concept, the planet shinobi now inhabit was a world ridden with beasts of all kinds. Littered all over the planet’s surface were dens that housed creatures unimaginable in the current day, such as the leviathan of the sea, or the wyvern who dominated the sky. Dragons the size of mountains crawled over the earth with their scaly forms, and dragged their bellies over the populace. No single man could stand up to the titans that wandered unchecked. It was apparent that, in this stage of the world’s life, a savior was needed. Someone who would unite mankind in order to save them from these creatures of old. Thus, nature heard man’s cries, and their prayer for salvation was heeded. Enma Enenra would arise in the human’s most dire hour. A man who wielded his own soul as a weapon, and a beast of a specimen. Towering over his companions in both stature and power, Godfather Enma (教父閻魔, Kyōfū Enma) would gird himself with his swords and slay the beasts. Legends of old tell tall tales of a man wearing only a bloodstained kilt ripping the eyes out from kaiju whose shadows were like those that clouds cast. Others claim he banned leviathan from the ocean, and dragged him into a volcano to die. The common theme of these legends, no matter how far fetched they sounded, was that Enma wielded powers beyond the comprehension of the populace. Many who laid eyes upon him died without explanation, and others were brought to their knees simply by his presence. Nations who opposed his own were swiftly defeated, and in due time, neither beast nor man alike could stand up to the likes of Enma Enenra. This state of things continued for a century, and even after a hundred years, Enma maintained the same image. He had not aged a day, and his people revered him as a god. However, during his one-hundred year reign, he grew bored. Irritated with the current state of the world.
Enma was a man who thrived off of conflict, off power, and loathed peaceful times. The issue with being so much more powerful than his fellow man was that no other man dared oppose him. There was never conflict. This was why he had originally hunted kaiju - the reason was far from helping his brethren, for he simply craved the rush. Over time though, no beast was able to rival him in power either. Due to his strange nature, he was able to outlast the giants of old in combat. Enma’s lust for a truly great battle resulted in him fleeing the continent in a ship he had claimed as a prize from a neighboring nation. He would set sail from the land he had conquered, eager to triumph over another. Hopeful that one day, he would meet his match.
After many months of treacherous sailing, crossing waters that no one in his homeland dared to venture, and seemingly overcoming the invisible boundary known as fear, Enma would arrive in a strange land. A place that seemed rather desolate at first glance. When his vessel sailed ashore, he noticed many men like himself wandering the cracked, gray ground below them. They were different than your average man, however, for they seemed unkept and wild. Their eyes were washed over with black, and their veins bulged and gave off a dark color. The stench was unbearable. As soon as Enma’s feet hit the shore, a horde of them attacked him, but to no avail. Individuals as undisciplined and rudimentary as these had no hope against the Godfather. Despite their animalistic appearance and sub-human intellect, much like animals, they seemed capable of fear. Watching their brethren be mercilessly slaughtered as Enma ripped their souls from their bodies was enough to frighten off the rest of the bunch. The Godfather sneered as he ventured further into the continent, which was now becoming shrouded in a thick mist. During his time in his homeland, he had never seen anyone quite like these people, and had never bore witness to such savage individuals. Although weak, he knew that for most, they would be problematic. Enma couldn’t help but wonder what drove these people to behave in such erratic ways. He could tell that there was something off about this place; something big lived here. It would not take him long to discover a massive kaiju hiding in the fog. It was a massive beast covered in white scales. It was faceless, only bearing a mouth full of jagged teeth the length of a katana. Standing on two legs in a humanoid manner, it was as tall as the mountains deep within the Land of Frost. It shrieked upon detecting a foreign presence, and thus, a battle ensued.
For three days and three nights, Enma and the creature clashed. The Godfather scaled the being multiple times, stabbing and grazing its body with his greatsword, only to be shaken off onto the ground below. For the first time in a century, Enma felt pressed, and genuinely pushed beyond his normal ability usage. He had to call upon the powers of those he had slain just to keep up with the beast. Despite being so large, it moved at blinding speeds, almost like the shinobi of the current day. If he blinked, the beast would have relocated and already hellbent on crushing him. It was not until the third night that Enma would finally carve open the chest of this otherworldly entity, spilling its heart out onto the earth below. Blood, however, was not the only thing to flow from this creatures chest. As it began to collapse and crash towards the earth below, Enma noticed a woman inside of the being’s organ - impossible. He could see a young, clearly distressed woman with charcoal black skin, crying as the blood drained from around her. From under the crimson tide, he could see how fair her complexion was, and the softness of her bare form. As he clutched the sword that punctured the being’s chest, he would swing to her, and grab her by the wrist. Leaping from the falling creature, he would carry her in his arms and make a run for his ship. Having found something curious in this land, in addition to an opponent that pushed him to his limits, Enma was satisfied for the time being. He would return to his home country with his spoils, and an interesting tale to tell his brethren.
Enma never returned to the land of Takachiho - the place he had claimed the life of that woman-harboring beast. Having returned to his homeland, he found companionship with the woman he had pulled from the organs of the beast. The two of them had built a home in the mountains, away from the peering eyes of the common folk, and had developed quite the meager lifestyle together. They were like a young couple freshly in love, and remained this way for nearly a year. Everything would change however, near childbirth. As she went into labor, about to hear forth a son, a pale-white, glowing being wearing a black crown would appear before the newborn and his family. The intruder demanded that Enma let him take the boy, which was quickly dismissed. The monstrous man, eager to shield his lover and child from this unknown assailant, would leap towards him, swinging his sword without a care in the world for the ceiling above or floor below. But his blade passed through the one before him. Imploring Enma once more to let him take his child, the being spoke in a soft, almost saddened tone. This angered Enma even more, who lashed out again by swinging his blade. While he crashed through one of the walls, his opponent appeared unscathed. Even more infuriated, Enma asked why the pale being wanted his child. The response was simple: the woman was his creation, and now he wanted the child for his own purposes. The celestial went on to explain that the infant was to be raised to be a weapon; one that would save the world - he was here to reclaim his creation and the fruit she bore. Despite the pale one’s calm manner of speaking, Enma was anything but calm. In a fit of rage, he would open a wormhole underneath his lover and child, and whisk them away to another world. Once he had done so, he charged at the curious king once more. His steel was robbed of spilling blood for a third time, and the celestial disappeared. This encounter changed the course of Enma’s life, and instilled a deep hatred for celestials within him. From here on out, he would keep his lover and son locked away in a world parallel to the one he walked - a safety measure of sorts. The realm they inhabited was devoid of time, and served as a pocket dimension of sorts, as well as a place that he stored the souls of those he reaped. Enma determined that since he had meddled with whatever it was that was on that continent, the world was no longer safe for his family. It was because of that pale being, and any others that may walk the world. Enma made it his mission to erase them from existence; he would make the world safe for his family. Until the day came where this being was mounted on his wall, they would remain in stasis. He refused to allow his son to be born in this accursed world.
Enma searched far and wide for this being. He traveled between dimensions using his dark portals, as well as returned to Takachiho to search for the pale being. He scoured every inch of the land, but could not find him. His inter-dimensional travels, however, did bring him face-to-face with many who shared the same blood as the one who implored him to offer his child up. Each one of these beings boasted extraordinary power, and would push Enma to his limits. After striking down the first of their kind, the Godfather would feel a rush that he had never felt before; an excitement that washed over his entire being. For the first time since battling the kaiju that housed his lover, he felt complete. This rush he experienced was enough for him to completely forget about his lover, child, and the original reason he had begun the hunt in the first place. Only the hunt itself was on his mind now - the thrill of the chase. Enma abandoned the idea of finding the one who appeared before him, and was now chasing after any trace of the Ōtsutsuki Clan he could find. He loved these beings; they gave him battles that no human could ever hope to bring to his threshold. For a thousand years, the Godfather traveled beyond the world he called home, and waged war amongst the stars. He traveled between worlds and dimensions in order to satiate his lust for extraterrestrial blood, and would continue to do so over the course of an entire millennia. For a thousand years, his cursed feet did not touch native soil, and when they finally did, they did for the last time.
Upon his return home, having successfully slaughtered over a hundred of these heavenly ogres, Enma brought with him the horns of those he’d slain. He hoisted these spoils in a large leather sack fashioned from some otherworldly beast’s hide. When he walked in his door, however, he was swiftly struck down by none other than his lover. Despite having just given birth to the baby boy she held in her free arm, she seemed vigorous and full of life. Her arm was lodged in his chest cavity, and her hand clutched his heart. She looked Enma in the eyes as the life was drained from him, and mouthed something as he slipped away - something he didn’t catch as he perished. This marked the end of the Godfather and the birth of the Sixth. Covered in his father’s blood at birth. Yet, despite Enma’s death, no body was left behind. As soon as his form hit the floor below, it disappeared into a dark mist; intriguing the mother of his child.
Not even two days passed before she was killed by a group clad in black. She was struck down in her sleep and robbed of her child. The land that the old rotten house stood within was now known as the Land of Frost. During Enma’s time away from his home world, the continent had undergone many changes - it was now known as the shinobi world. Countries such as the Land of Frost, as well as many others, had adopted a “one village” system. Nations were ruled by feudal lords, who looked to shinobi and their villages to maintain peace and order. The group that had taken the woman’s child were comprised of such shinobi, but held no ties to any particular village. They were only known as the Enenra Clan - a clan fashioned in the image of the late Godfather Enma.
Birth of the Sixth[]
Keshin was named by the leader of the Enenra Clan who was tasked with watching over him. The name given to the boy meant “Avatar”, as he was said to be the one through which the clan’s empty dream would be fulfilled. The infant would remain living in the patriarch’s tent until reaching reaching the age of five. Once he had, he was expected to manage his own living space. The Enenra Clan never stayed in one area for long, and always seemed to move about. They carried foldable tents crafted from the hides of wyverns - which served as an excellent defense against the ruthless weather the Land of Frost was known for. The nomad life was not an easy one, especially for a five year old who was only receiving help in the form of food and water. On many occasions, Keshin would fall behind the clan, and would supposedly be left for dead until he collapsed holding his folded tent. It seemed no matter how many times he reached the end, however, he always wound up in the midst of the clan’s camp. Tent unfurled and set up, lying in bed until he came to. Every time Keshin tried to ask someone what happened, then simply ignored him. No one within the clan aside from the leader ever acknowledged him. It were was though he were invisible, or simply didn’t exist - something very hard for a five-year old boy to mentally cope with. On one such occasion that he passed out hauling his mobile home, he would wake up in his tent to find something that had never been there before: a set of six swords. They were lying neatly next to the mat he had been sleeping on, and were held together by a black sash. As any small boy would, Keshin hurried to pick one up. For a moment, he was able to carry it, but the weight was too much. The tip of the blade would hit the ground, causing Keshin to lean forward. Still, despite his current inability to wield it, he wanted to learn. Suspecting the patriarch to have been the one to gift these weapons to him, he would leave the sword in his chamber, and run over to the leader’s tent. When Keshin thanked him for the blades and promised he would learn to use them, the Enenra’s guide looked at the boy with confusion, and dismissed him from the tent. Disappointed, but not discouraged, the child ran back to his own tent to retrieve one of the blades. He dragged it behind him, carving a small path in the snow as it scraped the earth below in his wake. Keshin was determined to learn the art of the sword. Perhaps if he gained some sort of worth, maybe everyone in the clan wouldn’t ignore his presence. Maybe he could be accepted.
Every day, Keshin would practice swinging his sword. Although it was longer than his five-year old body, that didn’t deter him from trying to master his weapon. It was given to him for a reason, after all. Each morning without fail, if the clan wasn’t relocating, Keshin could be seen outside just a little ways from the camp. For the first week, he was struggling just to hold the weapon, let alone swing it properly. But as time went on, he learned more about balance, and was able to be more precise with his strokes, even if they were slow. Over the course of the remainder of the year, every waking second was spent honing his skills with the sword. By the time he turned six, Keshin was able to use his body like a fulcrum, and deliver intense slashes via flips and spins. Despite not possessing an immense amount of strength to wield the blade effectively, he learned that by shifting around his center of gravity, he could deliver deadly blows at rapid speeds. It wasn’t much longer, however, before he was able to wield the blade normally. By the time he was seven, he had grown quite a bit in both stature and muscle, and was no longer falling behind the rest of the clan as they moved. He was able to keep up with the adults now. Despite this, they still paid him no mind. Keshin always assumed that since he was always falling behind the others, they saw him as weak. He figured they tuned him out because he wasn’t able to walk by their side, they simply ignored him and viewed the child as a nuisance. Anger began to boil in his little heart. Why did they refuse to interact with him? More often than not, he would try and get their attention, yelling at his clansmen to try and get a reaction, even poking or flicking their hands as they walked. He never got a response. Anger turned to sadness, and that sadness turned to fuel for his training. He became even more diligent than before, and opted to further his kenjutsu developments even more. This desire for more power would spark a conversation between Keshin and the patriarch.
On one night in particular, after the Enenra had set up camp, Keshin would enter the tent of the clan’s leader. He asked a question that incited laughter from his superior - how could he wield chakra? The patriarch explained to the boy that chakra was, by nature, a binding force, and was what kept the clan together in sync. He then asked the boy if he knew why everyone around him rejected him. Keshin shook his head, signifying he had no clue. The patriarch smiled, then explained that out of everyone within the clan, Keshin was the only one to be born without chakra - that he was identical to his father. Shocked, the boy would ask who his father was, only to be waved off and told to leave the tent. For Keshin’s tiny heart, hearing that he couldn’t wield chakra was quite devastating. He’d seen what the patriarch could do when wyverns attacked the clan, as well as what the other members could; but he could never do the same? It was beyond irritating. What was the point then? Why not just be a regular citizen?
As stubborn as Keshin was, this wasn’t enough to deter him from trying. He didn’t understand why the patriarch told him he didn’t have chakra; why would they keep him around? He was sure they would have cast him aside if he were that useless. Plus, he could see something in others; vibrant white auras found within all living things - this was chakra, no? Questions such as these were never answered by his clansmen, and he was left to decipher the root of his power by himself.
Most of Keshin’s early life was the same story, different day. It was a constant cycle of waking up, packing the tents, wandering the Land of Frost, then setting up camp at whatever location the clan’s leader decided. It was a very strange practice, but Keshin never thought to question it - not until he was fourteen years of age. By this point, he had grown bigger, stronger, and taller than every other member of the clan. While they all seemed to have a similar build and stature, Keshin was different. He stood a full head’s length above the rest of his family. The endless days of hauling tents and battling wolves and wyverns had allowed him to grow strong, letting his body fill out with its respective muscles. He was lean, yet toned and sinewy - the fruit of his laborious childhood. What further helped his case was the fact that he hadn’t let up on his training, and now carried a pair of swords at all times. Keshin would grow bored with the constant trek, and would deviate from the course that his clan walked. He would go “hunting” - finding shinobi who were out on missions and battle them for his own entertainment. More often than not, this resulted in the lad jumping a group of genin, complete with a jōnin leader. What would be a sure death sentence for most children turned out to be completely doable for someone as he. Keshin learned that the power he wielded was not chakra, and was an extension of his own soul. Thus, it had no nature, nor elemental properties; he learned how chakra worked by seeing it firsthand. However, this didn’t stop him from applying what he did have in crafty ways. Keshin was still able to apply the principles of []Yin Release|form]] and vitality to his essence by drawing from the same respective elements that comprised his person. This resulted in the ability of telekinesis, and the power to morph his blade into a burning cauldron of raw energy. This alone was something the shinobi of the Land of Frost had not encountered, and combined with his overwhelming physical ability, was enough for Keshin to hold his own against a four man squad.
People in Shimogakure whispered of these incidents. Shinobi who would venture from the gates often returned beaten and bruised. Others would be missing entire limbs that had been lopped clean off by a sword. The government within the Land of Frost grew hasty to locate the source of these events, and would employ the power of Shimogakure’s ANBU Corps to locate the one responsible. The entirety of their force would be dispatched no later than a week after the first incident, yet these brutal attacks continued for months. It was not until an entire squad had been murdered that an order was made by the feudal lord himself: no shinobi was allowed to leave the village under any circumstance, save the ANBU who were actively searching for the source of the carnage. This lockdown that had been placed upon the village would ensue for another four months, and almost half a year had passed before the young Enenra was caught in the act.
On that day, Keshin had decided to stick with the clan and haul his tent like the rest. He’d become somewhat bored of his hunts, since most of his victims were incapable of keeping up physically. Occasionally, he had the pleasant surprise of a jōnin leader pushing him to his limits - his hunt from four days ago being one of those cases. Keshin had been stabbed in the stomach by a hidden blade within his opponent’s sleeve, and nearly perished as a result. When this occurred, it seemed as though some sort of instinct kicked in. The energy that he had seen since he was a boy - the white essence within all living things - began to take on a different form. It was delectable, and became something he craved. A fourteen year-old Keshin would learn that he could consume the souls of others, and that it would rejuvenate his body. When he asked the patriarch about such a thing, he was met with silence; typical.
During this hike, a squadron of ANBU eight men deep would call out to the Enenra Clan. They demanded the wanderers halt, and to Keshin’s surprise, the clan did. The single file line they formed had come to a complete stop just along the land’s border - a still near-endless flat that was painted white in all directions. The men who had stopped the collective were dressed in black robes, all sporting a unique porcelain mask to hide their faces. The one who called out to them wore a white robe, and he would walk down the line until he met Keshin’s eyes. Looking up, he muttered something, and the other members would leap into the air and hurl their ninja tools at the confused boy.
Keshin would evade the incoming knives and shuriken, and would leap clear of his family by heading backwards. Dropping his tent from his back, he would unsheathe his two blades and immediately pivot to an offensive maneuver. Two of the ANBU landed adjacent, and his swords clashed with their kunai.
One by one, he would out-maneuver, dispatch, and brutalize the shinobi. Many techniques were launched at the boy; techniques of all elemental properties and variety. Although he’d been burned, shocked, and battered with stones, Keshin’s willpower and physical prowess proved to be too much for even the ANBU of Shimogakure. Limbs flew from their bodies as his strikes connected, kunai were redirected by the boy’s telekinetic power, and heads would drop into the snow below as a glittering arc displaced them. The whole encounter lasted for less than five minutes, and Keshin would emerge victorious with the leader’s severed head at his feet.
He was angry.
The entire time, he’d been pleading with his clansmen to help him, begging that anyone come to his aid, but they did not. The single file line of Enenra simply spectated as Keshin endured the course of the fight, watching as the first man’s fire release burned the side of his face. As Keshin ran him through with both blades, he screamed for their aid again. They did not help, but watched as a lightning release kunai pierced his lower back. The earth underneath the boy would revolt and strike him in the jaw, sending him flying backwards from the pillar. Again, they did not help. Keshin would destroy the assailants in the end, but his family’s refusal to help him stung.
The boy screamed at them as he kicked the fallen ANBU’s head their way, demanding they answer him this one time. He called out and asked if they viewed him as inferior, or if he wasn’t good enough? Had he not just proven his worth?
Why did they ignore him?
And on queue, the collective turned to their right, still single file, and resumed their trek.
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Appearance[]
Personality[]
"Shut the fuck up and fight me." |
One of the Sixth God’s most defining traits would be the aloof position he assumes. Keshin, for the most part, takes on the role of a disinterested, slightly rude individual who seems to only show a sense of concern when something could directly affect his wellbeing. This disposition he maintains has often resulted in him being branded as repulsive — a sort of complex that seems to stem from his own pride. When speaking, he rarely averts his attention from what’s occupying him, and tends to try to ward off the one addressing him with a hasty one word answer. When he deems something unworthy of his worry, he simply ignores it. However, Keshin is much more complicated than this. This state of mind is the result of his upbringing. As a child, being a candidate to one day lead his clan to glory, it was only natural that he be brought up alongside other potential successors to the clan’s name. However, once he had a firm grasp on the art of combat, Keshin discovered that he could, rather than build upon existing principles and simply come up with some sort of “new” fighting style that encompassed many of the same moves and applications as the base style everyone learns, he should develop something completely his own. Ever since he was a boy, he has been independent, and was often seen taking care of things both around the house with his aunt, and among his fellow clansmen - assuming a type of leadership role in his day-to-day life. This was not out of the kindness of his heart, but simply because that was how Keshin believed it should be — kindness was an afterthought. He took pride in what he could do that others couldn’t. However, despite this, he does indeed have a sense of morals, and rarely uses deprecating language to those who are less suited to completing tasks that he himself has no problem handling. Rather, he prefers to let his actions speak for themselves. This trait is perhaps what has earned him such respect among the members of Hoīru, and is what has allowed him to keep his reign over his subordinates. In short, his seemingly arrogant, apathetic persona is possibly an extension of his indomitable will.
When spoken to in a disrespectful manner, or when challenged on a certain point, Keshin rarely responds in a similar respect. Most snarky comments are simply put off with a dry chuckle, as if he didn’t believe what he heard. This is because he holds others to the same standard that he holds himself to — if you wish to challenge someone, take them down instead of boosting your own ego with empty words. The only time Keshin has ever been seen to go off on someone with his words is when his swordsmanship has been challenged. Before rebutting, he tends to laugh for a while. At heart, in his very soul, Keshin is a swordsman — he always has been. A shot fired at his kenjutsu is like pointing a weapon at his neck and expecting him not to react — which on some occasions, he actually hasn’t. It isn’t as though it makes him feel insecure, but it’s because Keshin knows he is the best at kenjutsu. To this day, no challenger that has one-on-one fought him has been able to equal him on his turf. The moniker “Fierce God of Kenjutsu” was not given to him without basis - Keshin is the god of kenjutsu. However, when he is challenged, he hangs on to the hope that there might be someone out there such as himself. He longs to find an opponent who can go toe-to-toe with him in sword combat. Tireless battles with ninjutsu bore him. To Keshin, deciding a battle with the mere firing off of techniques isn’t an honorable way to battle. Powers such as those are inherited - passed down through families. Keshin picked up all six of his blades on his own and pioneered a style that no one else has been to replicate. When one looks at the Sixth God in this light, his arrogance begins to make sense. However, one cannot simply justify one’s flaws with a simple reasoning such as this. Even if one is truly better than another, such thinking can result in incorrect reasoning, and has the potential to cloud one’s judgement. Despite his pride, Keshin does keep his wits about him when fighting an opponent, even if he deems them totally unworthy.
Though, in many cases, when fighting someone weaker than himself, he purposefully seems to restrain himself from going all-out in a battle. For example, when battling the samurai that have made their home within the Land of Iron, he will actually refuse to utilize techniques that enhance the cutting power of his blades. When he believes that he can completely outdo his enemy, he sees no reason to rub it in their face with extra abilities - surprisingly, this does come from a softer side Keshin possesses. In his own way, this is his how Keshin shows kindness, in order to preserve his foe’s self-esteem. Secretly, however, this too is also just another way his selfish intent takes over, as he hopes the humiliating defeat they suffer at his hands will result in them bettering themselves as a warrior - all so he can mold them into the perfect rival. Perhaps this is all Keshin needs, someone he can fight on equal terms in his select field. While there have been many worthy opponents who have fought against the Sixth God, none have been equals with him in kenjutsu. His kenjutsu prowess is the source of his pride, and is where all the arrogance stored up in his heart comes from. This pride affects his outlook on the world — how he views his own existence and the way he gauges other people. Something Keshin had to conquer shortly after he left the stronghold of the Enenra — his cage. If he could do it, he believed anyone else could. Anyone who wasn’t capable of doing what he could was considered inferior, and shouldn’t even be bothered with. At the same time, people such as his aunt who weren’t accustomed to fighting weren’t viewed as lowly. This callous mindset only applied to those who boasted in their own abilities, claiming to be shinobi and acting as though they were special. Keshin hates people who talk big while being unable to back up their words with actions. Those who are prideful hate others who are prideful — Keshin is living proof of this. However, over the years, he has undergone many changes in regard to the insensitive ego that he bears within his being. It was during his time within the Cult of Jashin that he really began to see others for who they were, and when he discovered the truth about himself. When he saw firsthand a gathering of so many different people, each and every one of them being different from the rest, he would learn that every one of these people had a pride to swallow. Keshin himself would follow suite in order to serve this god. While his time as a Jashinist was indeed dark, it showed him that his pride was a means of trying to fill the hole in his heart. In short, it was a humbling experience for Keshin, and in actuality, becoming a follower of such a dark religion saved him from his own darkness. Such experiences within the cult such as losing his right eye have lowered him in his own sight, and have allowed him to overcome the wall of his pride.
By nature, Keshin is a rather curious individual. Throughout all of his travels — which are, in part, due to his curiosity on extraterrestrial subjects — his pursuit of knowledge on various subjects is insatiable. When something, or someone, happens to pique his curiosity, he will do everything he can in order to satisfy his personal interests. However, rather than try to force himself into an unpleasant situation, he tends to watch from afar. To a man such as himself, results are everything — should his meddling mess something up and change the outcome in a negative way, he will keep his nose out of things for the time being. However, when it comes to the Ōtsutsuki and their parasitical activities, Keshin is more than ready to meddle. As he travels in and out of various worlds, scouring every corner of every country, sector, and dimension that he has decided to explore, he watches out for any signs of their past, present, or possible future activity. While doing so, however, he tends to become distracted, and is often overtaken by his own personal desire to learn more about the Ōtsutsuki, other worlds, their connection to modern-day shinobi, religion, and most importantly, his own lineage. Keshin believes that all of these things are connected in no small way, and that his own power will play a larger role in the grand scheme of things. While not seeing himself as some sort of grandiose hero, or the protagonist of some apocalyptic story, he does not take his own gifts and his own destiny lightly.
When Keshin was taken into the Jashinist Cult overseen by Jinpachi Budo, he learned a great deal about the infinite loyalty the members of the brotherhood had for both each other, and their god. His whole reasoning behind joining the cult was to try and find something other than himself to fill his heart with. Doing something for another rather than for one’s self interest always proves to be a much more satisfying pursuit. Even though the Jashinists way of life heavily relied on building upon the suffering of others, it opened his eyes to a greater existence. After departing from the Jashinist hideout and continuing his wanderings, Keshin became a kinder person. His experiences within the repulsive cult had caused him to become more open-minded, and had allowed him to evolve as an individual. Such thinking is what lead him to grow past the selfish attitude that he held onto for so long — in part anyways, as Keshin is still quite arrogant. This arrogance is perhaps what caused him to separate himself from the Jashinist cult, and even his own clan. Oddly enough, it was the mindset that he himself could do better what those groups did wrong. Even when seemingly doing something righteous in the eyes of others, such as breaking off from a sect of people for their wrongdoings, there are still these selfish motives that guide him. To further fuel the pride that, perhaps while channeled differently now, still very much existed, Keshin would gather information about the Ōtsutsuki Clan and their abilities through his own interdimensional travels — a rather tedious journey in search of greater power.
The greatest influence in Keshin’s life, however, would be the effects his clan’s corruption had on his father. To the Sixth God, no mortal, or immortal for that matter, could stand on equal ground with his father. While having never met his old man — or either of his parents, as Kāma seemed to have taken them both away from him — Keshin still holds him in the highest respects. The legacy his father left behind, dying saving someone who hated those from other countries, then dying by the one whom he saved’s own hand; something such as this is an act that Keshin readily admits he could never follow through with. For the Enenra Clan to have scorned Kaz during the fiasco that took place when the clan made a move on the now-weakened Shōtoku Clan, as defending the innocent women of the clan was a type of “betrayal” on his part…Keshin simply has no words for the honor he has for his father, and the hatred he harbors for his own clan. To him, the Enenra are a bunch of egotistical, mediocre fools wound up in a senseless traditional practices. This is, in part, what has fueled Keshin’s desire of self-elevation — a goal he pursues in order to show up the rest of his clan. To ascend beyond anything anyone in his family has ever become, and to rise to the status of something that overlooks the rest of his clan — this is one of Keshin’s ambitions.
Despite his desire to gain their power and to learn the secrets of their clan, Keshin’s opinion on the Ōtsutsuki Clan doesn’t quite ride along the lines of admiration. If anything, he is cautious of them and their abilities, recognizing them as a potential threat to the world and its people. The powers that were forced upon him as a young child, the abilities of an Ōtsutsuki, are both revered and maligned by the Sixth God. His overall impression of the Ōtsutsuki is that they are a bunch of fools who don’t know how to keep to their own business. Ironically enough, he himself goes around exploring the ruins they have scattered across seemingly all of time-space itself — justifying this through the excuse of “preparation for the inevitable”. Though, while always eager to investigate the mystical aspects of the extraterrestrial clan that lives up in the star above him, Keshin cannot help but fear his own connections to the people of the stars. His own powers and affinities all come from the meddling of these creatures. Thinking very little of humans, they came and tried to take away his parents, seeking nothing but their power. However, with his parents being too much for them to handle, they would slay a pair of these beings. Even in death, these loathsome aliens still managed to take away his parents from him. And in their death, he was born with powers that stemmed from the very beings who took his family from him. This has caused many insecurities within Keshin’s mind, and has caused him to lose sight of himself more than once. Such crisis are what guided him to join up with the Jashinists in the first place. This loss of self and twisting of his own identity shows just how vulnerable Keshin is; a man who is lost between his nature as either a god, or a man.
Vulnerability in and of itself is one of the most defining things that characterizes the Sixth God. As one who is still a man, Keshin has many weaknesses — a great deal of mental weaknesses. On the outside, Keshin comes off as an egotistical, nonchalant, aloof jerk who doesn’t seem to care about the wellbeing of others. However, this is, i part, just an act. Perhaps it could be said that he cares too much about the greater good; so much that he cannot help but fake disinterest. When he sees someone who needs help, his heart will begin to ache, and he can’t help but want to assist them. If he has the ability to help someone, well, why not? Nowadays, he finds himself meddling with things he normally would have wanted no part in. As he goes helping people, in these times of mercy, he often curses himself for being so soft. Maybe this sudden sense of sympathy he has recently developed is the product of his own suffering at the hands of his own shortcomings.
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Abilities[]
Keshin's abilities are the product of his close ties to the Otsutsuki Clan - his distant celestial heritage became much more intimate due to his parents being vessels for a pair of Otsutsuki beings. His superiors within the Enenra Clan were well aware of everything that had transpired with his parents, and had hypothesized that Keshin himself had inherited the power of the Otsutsuki. This resulted in him receiving personal training from many different members of the Enenra Clan, and allowed him to observe and practice many different fighting styles used by other members in the clan. When he watched, Keshin would always try to break down the moves of his mentor(s) down into simple actions within his mind - usually asking himself "how could I make that quicker?" Or "maybe I could skip that move?" Even from a young age, it was obvious that Keshin had a very tactical mind. Rather than simply accepting what he was being taught, he always put it to the test in scenarios within his mind, and artificial scenes recreated in the physical world. Keshin wanted to be sure he could take down an enemy with as little effort as possible, and was always trying to find ways to simplify things. Efficiency is his friend.
This mindset he had while looking at various taijutsu styles trickled over to the kenjutsu he was being taught by the clan. Eventually, he completely abandoned everything he had been taught by his teachers and decided it would be best to learn on his own. The issue in Keshin's mind with formal lessons in a subject was that everyone was being taught similar, if not the same principles as everyone else. He was confused as to how he would surprise an enemy if he applied the same sword techniques they did. This is why Keshin created his own kenjutsu style - the Rokutoryu - a style that incorporates the simultaneous use of six blades during combat. Anyone could take on someone using one blade, and anyone could wield one blade - maybe even two. But how would one defend against six, or more importantly, how would Keshin even wield six? Perhaps this is what gained him the moniker Sixth God - the fact that he could surpass the expectations of everyone and establish his own status quote.
His ingenuity did not stop with kenjutsu and taijutsu, for Keshin would approach ninjutsu with a similar mindset. With no one within his clan to teach him, it was up to him to create his own arsenal of Yin and Yang techniques. By the time he was twelve, he had developed a form of psychokinesis that made use of Yin energy. By thirteen he had created a technique that allowed him to spawn highly destructive, explosive flames composed of raw Yang power. But Keshin wasn't one to simply go and learn a large amount of standalone techniques. Rather, he blended his Yin and Yang Releases with his kenjutsu, and developed techniques that allowed him to support one with the other - specifically, his Yin Blade and Yang Blade techniques. Through these, his blades become much more than mere swords, as he can freely manipulate its path and sharpen its edge to cut through nearly any substance.
But perhaps his greatest achievement is the melding of Yin and Yang to manifest the Yin-Yang Release. After studying many ancient Otsutsuki documents and traveling between many dimensions through the usage of his Yomotsu Hirasaka, Keshin was able to unlock a technique first used by the original God of Shinobi himself - the Creation of All Things Technique. With the aid of this power, he can freely control both Yin and Yang, granting him dominion over many aspects of the surrounding areas and reality itself. Keshin, still not satisfied, would go on to steal secrets from an organization known as Sargon - one attempting world domination. While he wasn't interested in their idealism, their developments in Yin-Yang Release piqued his curiosity. After observing a few of their agents, he would go to replicate the techniques categorized under "Very Hiden". Once he applied some of his own shape transformation to Sargon's Nonself Concealing Calamity, Keshin created his own Manifested Sealing Calamity - an ability allowing him to imbue existing objects with the darkness of Sargon, making the technique easier to use and more subtle.
Even after all this, Keshin still went on to study the Otsutsuki secrets, and would develop many other uses for Yomotsu Hirasaka, the creation of Black Rods that work similarly in function to the shadows of the Nonself Concealing Calamity, and a technique wielded by the Otsutsuki of old known as the Deep Crimson Spiral. Powers usually accessible only to the Otsutsuki with the most noble blood sit within Keshin's grasp. But aside from his celestial abilities, he possesses a great deal of power that is said to have originated from worlds unknown. Powers associated with dominion over the human soul and the energy within it - Konkaku. A great deal of power has made its home within the Sixth God, but there are many unknowns about the truth behind his abilities. Some things still remain in the dark about his true power.
Physical Prowess and Kenjutsu[]
When the Enenra Clan decided that Keshin was to be the heir to the leader's seat, the first thing to be done was to evaluate the boy's potential. Since mental power begins with the body, Keshin was made to rigorously train every day in order to ensure that he would be ready to lead the clan. Sessions included push-ups, sit-ups, pull-ups, and long runs in the snow. Starting when he was about ten years old, the clan decided that if this constant exercise wore Keshin out, then perhaps he wasn't fit to become the heir. On top of this, he was to participate in extensive hand-to-hand combat matches against the best in the clan. He was not made to do this so that he could defeat them, but to show how much he learned from his losses. Proving that he could learn from failure was the first vital step in his training. Over and over, he was made to battle men and women he stood no chance against, and this would continue for the remainder of his time within the clan. Keshin did learn, for after eight days of losses to the same opponent, - a boy of about seventeen years of age - Keshin defeated him by adjusting his tactics to counter his opponent. He learned that everyone fights using a different style, but certain forms do indeed counter others. If Keshin could develop a form of combat that allowed him to create a response to everything, then he could bring about a quick end to his battles.
Members within the Enenra Clan watched over Keshin as he trained, and more often than not, showed him new things he could incorporate into his own fighting style. He learned different kinds of throws in order to send his opponent flying, such as an overhead type of throw - one that requires Keshin to flip over his opponent and grab them by their arm; slinging his weight forwards once he lands in order to yank them off their feet and send them sprawling across the ground. He learned different kinds of grappling techniques for once he got an opponent onto the ground, and how to lock them in different holds that put their arms, legs, or neck at danger - an example being a chokehold, a move used to force the enemy to pass out due to a cutoff of blood and oxygen to the brain. The type of taijutsu combat Keshin employs is always very physically demanding, and requires him to maintain a precise control over his body.
Acrobatics play a major role in the way Keshin fights, and allows him to become a difficult target for attacks. Reducing his target zone through bringing his body closer together, combined with the spinning moves of the flips he uses in combat makes him extremely slick. Though, no movement made by Keshin is a wasted movement. The momentum he gains by leaping and flipping into the air is more often than not put to use in the form of a punch or kick, allowing him to deliver an especially hard body blow to his foe. If he's flipping around, most of Keshin's hits will most likely be aimed at the opponent's face. Spinning kicks executed midair are a favorite, as he can use them to sever the foe's connective tissues and bones within the neck. The amount of raw strength within a kick from Keshin is enough to create a small crater in the earth - as though he were applying some sort of enhanced strength technique. The power alone that lies behind his movements is often enough to overwhelm an opponent. When combined with the speed at which the hits are delivered, they become all the more deadly. Blows from either his hands or feet are brought down swiftly and accurately on their targets, and if not evaded properly, will result in massive collateral damage to the victim's bones and nervous system. Even when blocked, one can sustain damage from the sheer force from these hits.
Like the wind, Keshin's moves are fluid and brisk. There is no roughness in the way he carries himself in a battle, and no difficulty between transitions. Swift, crisp moves make up his fighting style. When combined with the aforementioned acrobatics and quick blows, you get a form of combat that rarely leaves openings while being able to pummel a foe with a series of blows before they can react. When the elders of the Enenra Clan saw just how far Keshin had progressed, they introduced him to the art of bōjutsu - a method of fighting using a wooden staff as a weapon. The usage of the bō staff as a boy helped Keshin evolve his moves into what they are today. He would develop an extraordinary sense of hand-eye coordination, and created a very acrobatic, aggressive style of bōjutsu combat as opposed to the traditional, patient variants. The bō could be used to both offense and defense, as the complex spinning movements of the staff could be applied to deflect a barrage of incoming projectiles, or to use the edges of the weapon to beat down an opponent with a flurry of strikes.
Another thing the bōjutsu training helped Keshin develop was his footwork. Different stances were used before and after combos, and within these complex attack patterns, one needed to know how to position their feet in order to keep the chain moving effective ly. Pivots were frequently used in between strikes in order to help gain momentum behind the weapon, and to allow Keshin to suddenly switch to the other side of his opponent. Furthermore, he would change the way he held the staff many times during a single combo. Perhaps he'd begin at the center, using his wrists to guide how the bō would move - when holding a staff in the center with one's hands spread slightly apart, a slight move of the wrists can alter the path of weapon dramatically, allowing quick hits to be executed with minimal effort. Keshin would often move his hands closer to one of the ends of the staff in order to use it in similar fashion to that of a greatsword. When swung in this way, all the force gathers at the end of the stick, and while using the staff this way is a bit slower than the previous method, it is still an effective form. Keshin usually waits to employ this once he has landed a few blows with his staff already, then he will switch to the more brute variant of bōjutsu combat once his opponent is disoriented. Even to this day, he still makes use of this art, however, he replaced the traditional wooden pole with a long, black rod created by one of his own techniques - a much more practical weapon to use against shinobi and the like.
His taijutsu and bōjutsu, while capable of standing alone, were, in actuality, to serve as foundations on which Keshin would build his own form of kenjutsu combat. His swordsmanship is most assuredly the core of his abilities, and is indisputably his deadliest feature. When Daitengu and other members of the Enenra tried to instruct Keshin in the way of the sword, he completely abandoned their teachings, and decided that it would be better for him to develop his own personal style of kenjutsu combat. His reasoning behind this was not because he was struggling to grasp what he was being taught, but simply because he believed that learning what everyone else learned was futile. If Keshin were to be the best, he would indeed need the basics, however, with those basics he must find his own way. Every day atop the tallest mountain in the Land of Frost, Keshin trained himself in the art of the sword. He had six blades in his name - having inherited what was left of his father's massive collection of identical katana blades. All six of these were brought with him to the top of this mountain. After fastening one to his waist, he first began to repeatedly unsheathe and sheathe his sword. This was not only to gain a sense of muscle memory, but to also get an overall feel for how a sword exits and enters the scabbard. Over and over, Keshin would repeat this same action, some days would be spent sheathing and unsheathing a sword from sun up to sundown. He needed to become one with his blade if he were to master it - that was the key.
Once he moved past this, Keshin would study the six marks of contact laid out by the swordsman of old. These six marks were: head, right arm, left arm, right leg, left leg, and waist. Hitting one of these marks with your blade almost always resulted in an instant victory. A battle between swordsman was simply a competition to see who could hit one of these points first; nothing more. If that were the case, hitting one of these marks on the draw - before your opponent could even set up a countermeasure - pretty much always resulted in an instant win. Once again, Keshin returned to unsheathing and sheathing his blade. This time, rather than repeating one single movement, he would formulate different patterns as to how he would remove and return his sword. One hand always remained on the scabbard, while the other on the sword. Keshin taught himself to draw his blade six different ways by positioning the sheathe differently on his waist each time using his left hand, while his right hand pulled the blade out. The idea was, every time he drew his sword, he should be able to bring his blade across one of the marks of contact. He learned to draw the blade at a one-hundred and eighth degree angle to slash the waist, diagonally to hit the arms and/or neck, and even in a style and resulted in the blade moving downward, cutting off either of the legs and grazing the ground.
As Keshin continued to repeat these moves, he realized that one blade, no matter how fast it moved, was relatively easy to block. If his opponent put a blade of equal power in the way of his own, there wasn't a very high chance of his attack going through and connecting. Noting that he had six swords, he moved on to another exercise. Similar to how he had drawn and sheathed one blade, Keshin began to do the same with two. With a frame that was much bigger than most, he had very large hands. He could comfortably fit the hilts from a pair of katana within his hand. Once he could comfortably draw two swords - still hitting the marks of contact when he unsheathed them - he moved on to three. What Keshin noticed when he drew them is that if he allowed the handles of the two outer katana to cross over the middle hilt - one on the underside, and one over it - the blades would cover a wide range. Essentially, he could hit multiple marks with a single move by fanning out the swords once he drew them. It did not take Keshin long to master this technique with both hands.
This, however, was not the end of the development of this new fighting style. Keshin still had to master slashing and creating combos while wielding six swords at once. During a slash, he realized he could reposition each blade separately in his hand if he used a finger or two to do so. For example, while holding two blades upright and swinging across, Keshin could flip one of he blades upside down, allowing him to bring the repositioned sword back in for another slash while his opponent is still reeling from the first. Furthermore, he could trap a foe's blade between a pair of his own before bringing around his other hand and it's three blades for a blow. Despite all the advantages Keshin was seeing from fighting this way, he did notice that wielding six blades could be clunky sometimes. This resulted in him repeating yet another motion from sunrise until sunset - the apparent secret to Keshin's prowess. He would practice sheathing a blade or two with one hand, while holding the remaining sword(s) in the opposite direction, slashing at a target while returning his sword(s). That way, he could return a blade or three if he needed to, while still keeping the same offensive abilities he needed. The name of this patchwork style of kenjutsu combat is Rokutoryu - a form developed by a man void of any extensive formal kenjutsu training.
Rokutoryu, while applying all of the aforementioned offensive tactics, can actually be practiced defensively, as well. Keshin always seems to have his guard up, whether he's drawing, sheathing, or slashing with his blades. This absolute form of offense is also the greatest defense kenjutsu can provide. Without a doubt, Keshin's skill in this branch of combat seems to have no peer. Having fought far and wide against various swordsman, and even the samurai holed up in the Land of Iron's natural mountain fortress, he has proven that he is the best in kenjutsu. Despite this, Keshin is still looking for an opponent who can equal his power in the art of the sword, and longs to have some sort of rival he can battle. Between the Enenra Clan's best, the shinobi of the Hisakawa Clan within Konohagakure, and the Land of Iron's samurai, no one has been able to come close to Keshin's prowess in the art of the sword.
One thing Keshin did realize is that on top of having his own personal fighting style - being Rokutoryu - he could actually break down all existing kenjutsu forms in order to make them easier for himself to grasp. While the exact execution of each particular style differs from person to person, Keshin sought to briefly summarize seven different forms of kenjutsu, which although they were his own creation, did apply to many existing forms of kenjutsu combat. For Keshin himself, these forms applied to how he used Rokutoryu, rather than solely using one of them.
- Kettei (決定, lit. Determination) is the first and most basic of his seven forms. It includes various "ready" stances, parrying, and finding marks of contact. The six marks of contact are the neck, waistline, left arm, right arm, left leg, and right leg. Kettei is the fundamental for the other six of Keshin's forms. When using it, Keshin simply remains in a defensive position and awaits his opponent's move. When they have closed in on him and have begun their attack, he will counter with his blade, and deliver a swift blow to one of the six target zones. Keshin will choose a zone after studying his opponent and verifying which mark of contact is the easiest to sever.
- Shuchō (主張, lit. Contention) is a formal style of kenjutsu combat that consists of classical and elegant moves. It is a calm form of kenjutsu that enlists the usage of various spins and flicks of the sword to catch an opponent off guard. A skilled user of this style like Keshin can disarm a foe with ease by using their own sword's leverage to send the enemy's blade flying out of their hands. Keshin seems to be able to slip through just about any defense and deliver a critical cut to one of the target zones established in his first form: Kettei.
- Kaifuku-Ryoku (回復力, lit. Resilience) is the third of Keshin's kenjutsu forms. Perhaps the most passive of the six, Kaifuku-Ryoku focuses on defense through efficient body movements. This includes various ways of reducing one's target area's size. Kaifuku-Ryoku is well suited for blocking incoming projectiles and countering basic attacks to open ways of escape from complex or extremely fast assaults.
- Shinryaku (侵略, lit. Aggression) is the fourth, and perhaps the most difficult to master of his seven forms. It employs an extensive use of acrobatic assaults to overwhelm an opponent and aims to catch them off guard by quickly delivering attacks from all sides. Shinryaku could involve flips over an enemy to attack them from above, powerful slashes in conjunction with leaps and spins, and other various elements.
- Konki (根気, lit. Perseverance) is the fifth form, and an offshoot, or rather, continuation of the third form; Kaifuku-Ryoku. Rather than reducing one's target area and trying to find ways of escape through various counters and parries, one will use these means of defense in offensive manners. Such as the use of defensive parries to force and opponent to drop their guard, or the skillful disarming of a foe by catching their sword with one's own blade.
- Setsudo (節度, lit. Moderation) is the sixth of Keshin's forms. It seeks to balance out the strengths of the previous five to create a single, solid form. Setsudo is said to be the pinnacle of kenjutsu mastery, for a skilled wielder will be able to deliver swift, deadly blows, penetrate even the most solid of defenses, and show great overall abilities with the sword. However, while Setsudo does not focus on raw strength or power, a true Setsudo master will wield their sword with amazing tenacity.
- Dōmō (獰猛, lit. Ferocity) is the seventh of the seven forms, and easily the most powerful, yet most dangerous. This style consists of using one's inner emotions and the emotions of others to fuel their own aggressive style. One must enjoy combat to the fullest in order to truly be a skilled practitioner of Dōmō; they must love the sights, sounds, and perhaps even the taste of blood. Thus, Dōmō is much more than a fighting style; it is a way of life and a state of mind. One has to be willing to give into their darkness, accept the fury of their opponent, and glory in the death of the enemy.
On top of the employment of the forms listed above in conjunction with Rokutoryu, Keshin realized that with so many blades, he could afford to utilize some for more than just close range, melee weapons. By attaching chains to the handles of two of his katana, he could let go of his sword's hilt, and direct its moves with the chain. Keshin is skilled enough to deflect incoming kunai and other projectiles with the taut chain, and has been seen to use it to wrap up opponent's hands with it. The chains are there to make sure that his weapons are always within reach, but are also used to bind or throw off an enemy. Keshin will also swing these swords like kusarigama - usually sheathing the other four blades when he does. Possessing training in a multitude of different weapons, he noted that swords could be used in all sorts of different ways. Improvisation is the secret to his success as a swordsman, and has allowed him to make these developments in modern kenjutsu.
Keshin's prowess and ingenuity in kenjutsu is so far beyond anything that anyone before him could have ever had, that in the shinobi world, he has become known as the Fierce God of Kenjutsu - a title rightfully earned by the Sixth God. The speed at which Keshin can swing his blade, combined with the complex combos he seems to execute so easily - a result of repetition and perfect footwork - makes him an absolute monster in combat. Keshin has become so accustomed to wielding his swords and the pressure of combat, that he can even deflect incoming projectiles such as shuriken with his swords - giving him some sort of relief at range. At close range, there is nearly no way to overcome him. One's best bet at defeating the Fierce God of Kenjutsu would be to engage him using something other than kenjutsu. Should one be foolish enough as to point their own blade at the Sixth God, they will meet a swift end.
Because of the vast amount of knowledge that Keshin possesses on the subject of kenjutsu, he was able to develop a style of kenjutsu combat that made up for any other style's weaknesses. Using the constant drawing and sheathing of multiple blades while simultaneously slashing while he put away his sword. The overall fluidity of his movements would already compensate should he choose to utilize a traditional style such as Iaido - a technique Keshin passionately hates, as he considers it to be too generic. Due to the inferiority of most other styles of kenjutsu, he will actually refuse to draw his swords for most swordsmen that he faces. Rather, he employs a type of kenjutsu style that he created in order to completely counter kenjutsu. While it utilizes much of the same footwork his kenjutsu does, it involves more movement of the hands and torso.
The goal of this form is to effectively disarm an opponent of their weapon. At first, Keshin would employ different variants of the tachi-dori technique - a type of grab that pushes the opponent down with one hand, while yanking their weapon with the other. This, however, was not an ideal way to remove a weapon from the wielder. Rather, he decided to create his own form, just as he had with kenjutsu. Keshin began to experiment with sideways movements such as sidesteps. The key was to make sure none of his limbs were outstretched for long - that way, he could reduce his target area and force his opponent to try and land direct hits. The other thing Keshin needed to ensure he did was keep his hands flat, as if he were practicing the Hyuga Clan's Gentle Fist technique. He'd often test the viability of his movements with various members of the clan, having them attack him with shinai - long, bamboo swords used it sparring matches. During these mock battles, Keshin tested how accurately he could hit the flat of his opponent's sword during combat. With the precognitive abilities granted by his complete mastery of Konkaku, watching a foe's soul helps him predict moves and adjust his body accordingly - an ability achieved through supernatural instinct. This made it easier to land his blows to the sword, and let's him consistently knock away the blade of the aggressor.
However, simply knocking away an opponent's sword isn't necessarily the most effective way to end a fight. Hitting the flat of the blade with his hand was almost like a way to get a feel for the blade before he progressed. More often than not, Keshin will bring both of his hands down on either side of his enemy's sword, restricting their movements. Using the force between his hands, with one hand positioned slightly above the other, he will snap the opponent's sword with his hands alone. If one cannot even get past the defensive maneuvers of Keshin's hands, there is almost no hope once he draws his swords.
While Keshin does indeed prefer to wield the six blades he carries called Jiganemaru, he is not limited to the employment of Rokutoryu. During his years as a wanderer, he would experiment with many different types of swords and knives. His personal favorite among all other types of weapons that he wielded was a greatsword he forged through the powers of his Creation of All Things Technique - he named it Kogarusumaru (---,---, Little Crow). Weighing about the same as the Kubikiribocho kept within Kirigakure as one of its seven treasured blades, the Kogarusumaru is a much heavier blade than any other sword Keshin possesses, and requires much more skill to effectively use in combat. When one uses katana, the sword is mainly directed with the swinging of the arms, tilting of the wrists, and a bit of footwork. Keshin, however, quickly discovered that if one approaches wielding a larger weapon such as this with the same mindset as he'd have when using a katana, he would fail to create the most efficient style of combat.
To his surprise, Keshin actually found a lot of information within Otsutsuki observatories on earth and various ruins in different dimensions concerning the creation of weapons through a peculiar technique. More often than not, the tools created through this method were heavier by nature. In addition to how to create these ethereal weapons via the Tool Creation Technique - a technique Keshin was actually unable to use - there were various techniques listed in the scrolls he located on how to wield heavier weapons. Most of these tactics applied to halberds and battle axes, but Keshin was able to create a style that allowed him to wield his blade effectively. For the most part, a greatsword was used to quickly end battles through sheer force and power. The downside to this form of combat was that it had the potential to be very tiring, and required immense upper body strength and stamina to allow a practitioner to use it for an extended period of time.
Keshin found out that by keeping his arms close to his body, he could swing the blade by using not just his arms, but by using his whole body as a fulcrum. Strong, circular movements are employed in order to make sure that his arms are not tired out. By spinning on one foot and using the other as a guide, Keshin can pivot rather quickly - this does, however, result in most of his strikes being horizontal in nature. His greatsword combos usually consists of several quick spins that bring the blade through the air at blinding speeds. As he slashes across the opponent's own sword - assuming it does not shatter from the weight and speed of Keshin's attack - he will wear down their defense with many blistering attacks. Even though he wields a heavy weapon, this does not mean he cannot create powerful barrages of heavy kenjutsu techniques. Following the onslaught usually comes an overhead attack in the form of a flip. By doing a somersault forwards toward the enemy, Keshin makes it difficult to target him once he commences the attack by keeping his knees and arms close to his body. As he does this, he will bring the sword close to his chest while he spins midair, resulting in the blade coming crashing down upon the opponent. If such an attack collides with the ground, a large crater forms underneath the weight and magnitude of the blow.
On top of being excellent on the offensive side, Keshin's use of Kogarusumaru is actually quite effective as a defensive tool. Due to the weight of the blade, combined with the width, it could serve as a literal shield to many physical attacks. By leaning his greatsword against his back, Keshin is able to use his own body as a means by which to support the large blade of the sword as it intercepts opponent's blows. Another way he has been seen using his blade as a shield is by planting the tip in the ground and hiding behind it. On some occasions, Keshin has actually been seen summoning Kogarusumaru with the sole intention of using it to block an attack, or to drop it on an enemy like a heavy weight. When parrying with the massive blade, he tends to use it to shove an opponent's sword out of the way, then proceed with attacks with his feet - Keshin uses the Kogarusumaru as a point of leverage by which to push himself off of; possibly planted in the ground. By implementing more acrobatics into his maneuvers, he can flip around with the blade close to his body and create devastating parries even while airborne, allowing him to formulate openings in an opponent's defense. Once doing so, he has to be quick about exploiting them. One of the most difficult things about wielding a massive sword is that one cannot always make the necessary move as quickly as necessary, due to the need to recover from throwing the weight of a gargantuan blade around. This is why Keshin always tries to keep the sword close, so it simply feels like it's adding to his own weight, rather than swinging something heavy around.
Body Modifications[]
When Keshin waged a fierce battle against the Shotoku Clan of the north, he would lose one of his arms during the conflict. This did not stop him from taking dozens of lives among their ranks, but made him come to a realization that he needed to totally become a weapon in order to further his likelihood of victory. To replace the arm he lost, certain members among the clan would manufacture a prosthetic arm that would respond to Keshin's Konkaku, allowing him to use it just as he had his past arm. However, not satisfied with this, he would ask that they go ahead and remove his other arm as well. In addition, he asked that a katana blade be melded to his arms in place of the bones within his forearm. This way, he could remove the prosthetics at any time and reveal a pair of slightly shorter blades. On top of possessing phenomenal kenjutsu, Keshin wanted to add another element of surprise to his unorthodox manner of fighting.
Aside from him being able to suddenly manifest a pair of blades in place of his forearms, the hands themselves give him an advantage. Similar to the appendages of a puppet, his arms are much more hard than human limbs. The strength in his hands is enough to actually crush bones. They can endure much more stress than his previous hands could, and allow him to deliver much more devastating blows with punches and other attacks. Another pro to having artificial limbs is that they are not easily destroyed, and are durable enough to intercept attacks from swords and the like. This means Keshin can add a certain degree of recklessness to his fighting style, and gives him a resistance to attacks that target hands - a common practice in sword fights. However, there have been times where Keshin will purposefully put his hands in jeopardy in order to break them, allowing him to quickly access his blades while keeping the element of surprise.
Shurikenjutsu[]
As a basic art every shinobi practices, shurikenjutsu is often one of the first things one thinks of when they think of the shinobi way of combat. Though, when used by most, shuriken tends to serve as a minor distraction rather than end battles with decisive hits. As Keshin always does when he learns, he began to experiment with different ways of how to make shurikenjutsu more viable during combat. The elders in the Enenra Clan, and even Keshin's aunt, would often watch over him as he threw shuriken at a target. Like every other trainee, he began by trying to hit a bullseye with his weapon. It didn't take to long for him to master this, but simply throwing a pointed weapon at someone wouldn't likely help him win a fight. Shuriken are relatively easy to dodge - it was as simple as that. What Keshin needed to learn to do was make his shuriken fly erratically. Once he had mastered hitting a target that he had placed straight in front of him, he would constantly move them back until he could at least reach targets more than ninety meters away - he would usually clip the sides of it, and could rarely come near the bullseye at such range. Still, reaching a target at that length is quite the accomplishment for a boy training at thirteen years of age.
When he became satisfied with these achievements, he decided that the next step was to bend the shuriken. He would arrange targets at different angles away from him so that he could become accustomed to hitting objects at different points from one point. He would bring the targets up to the mountain that he and Daitengu had found the Otsutsuki observatory before, and would mount targets at different points at the summit. His training would teach him how to bend the path of a shuriken. Doing so involved various wrist movements, and requires one to be fluid rather than rugged. Keshin can hit a target at near a one-hundred and eighth degree angle through bending the path of the shuriken with his hands alone. Keshin has mastered curving shuriken to make a far left, a wide right, or suddenly drop down or fly upwards. Some shuriken that he has wielded seem to almost wobble while flying, then suddenly break to the left or right, depending on how Keshin has read his opponent.
Another method of manipulating their path that he trained rigorously to master was hitting one shuriken with another. On one occasion, it was said that the Sixth God redirected hundreds of shuriken and kunai thrown in a volley above him by redirecting two of them with one of his own. Not only does such a feat require an immense amount of practice and consistency, but this also makes use of a knowledge of physics and how things work. While if he were presented with a problem in a textbook he would most definitely fail, Keshin is a master when it comes to applying physical principles in the real world. If he were not, Rōkutoryu would have never came about. Observing how things move and how they react when coming into contact with other things is one of the few things to actually pique Keshin's interest. As a child, to entertain himself, he would often collide his shuriken midair to try and see if he could make them split in opposite directions.
Fooling around in such a manner eventually resulted in him practicing in ways that required him to bounce shuriken off of each other in order to hit a target - exercises such as these are what allowed him to accomplish such feats as the one mentioned above. Keshin became a master of chaining shuriken together, and has been seen combining as many as six in order to repeatedly alter the direction of his projectiles. This has also allowed him to - as already mentioned - redirect an opponent's shuriken or kunai as well. He has shown his ability to manipulate the paths of these weapons in insane ways. With just three shuriken, if he bends them appropriately and chains them together, he could nail himself in the back of the head if he desired. He can create circles of flying shuriken around him and maintain them by mixing in more shuriken, and can even create zig-zag patterns and other unpredictable formations with his flying projectiles. Running out of tools during combat is never an issue for Keshin, as he can simply create more with his Yin-Yang Release. This allows him to go on and on without exhausting his arsenal in a shootout, always giving him the upper hand.
His shurikenjutsu, however, does not simply stop with the basic tools used in this art. Keshin is also quite accomplished with his use of Fūma shuriken - manufactured and sold by the Fūma Clan. These shuriken are capable of folding their four blades together to create a sword of hook or claw, making them easier to carry. With the press of a button, a mechanism triggers their transformation, making them manifest their four blades. Much larger in nature than a standard shuriken, Fūma shuriken are more difficult to wield than normal ninja tools. They are heavier, bulkier, and cannot be thrown as easily. And yet somehow, the Sixth God seems to wield them just as easily as he does his regular shuriken. Just as he can with standard projectiles, Keshin has been seen bending the path of even the Fūma shuriken. Upwards, down, to the left or right, he can do it. While chaining two of these large projectiles is rather difficult and less practical, - though, he has been seen doing it; Keshin knows it's less practical from experience - he has been seen using the largest shuriken as a means to direct the smaller ones.
After throwing a Fūma shuriken, possibly straight up towards the sky, Keshin will launch a horde of standard shuriken at the larger one. Using the momentum of the Fūma to direct the smaller ones, they will all bounce off of the large one in the direction it is spinning. While it is ultimately up to chance, the idea behind this attack is to simply bombard opponents with a massive amount of shuriken. Though, using the Fūma as a sort of mediator for other shuriken has seen more effective usages, such as launching one straight out and using smaller ones to bounce off the sides. This allows him to land hits on targets adjacent to the path of the Fūma shuriken. Furthermore, of Keshin wishes to create a massive attack comprised of shuriken, he can simply utilize his Yin-Yang Release once he has launched them into the air. This allows him to generate hundreds of shuriken within mere moments. It has been said before that the Sixth God can block out the sky with the amount of shuriken he can create - this may not be an exaggeration of his abilities. One way Keshin elevates his Shurikenjutsu past the supposed limitations of this field’s usefulness is through the application Yang Release. By combining multiple techniques into his shuriken assaults, he can overwhelm a foe with the intricacy of his attack. Just as he does with his blades in his kenjutsu, Keshin can coat his flying projectiles in a radiant red aura that takes on a form similar to that of fire. By concentrating his Yang energy into his shuriken, he can achieve this result. Much more powerful than standard shinobi tools, they are capable of penetrating nearly any defense, as they inherit the celestial cutting edges of the blades influenced by this technique - this is simply another use of Keshin’s Yang Blade Technique. The shuriken affected become much more efficient than even the flame-coated shuriken of the Uchiha Clan.
Mental Prowess[]
As one who grew up not attending anything like the shinobi academy that are found within all of the shinobi villages of the world, Keshin was not necessarily less intelligent than others who did attend such functions. At a young age, he was taught to read and write by his aunt, who made sure the boy was learning how to use the appropriate kanji in his sentences - something he struggles with to this day. Right after he learned to read, he would discover that one of his favorite pastimes was to read. When he and his aunt would leave the mountain stronghold the Enenra called home, it was not a rarity for Keshin to come home with a new book. His love of reading would bring him to spend many hours in the vault of Enenra historical texts. Since before the beginning of shinobi, the clan had always documented everything that went on in the world. There were detailed accounts of wars fought between the feudal lords of old, incidents involving extraterrestrial visitors from the Otsutsuki Clan, and even battles between legendary shinobi had all been recorded and stored within the extensive records of the Enenra's library of sorts.
By reading much about history, Keshin would come to realize that there lies an inherent cycle that has yet to be broken. Humans want something, then war begins, and both sides lose something. Because both sides have lost something of their own, hatred is born. This hatred results in one side seeking to take something from the other, and a whole new war will ensue. In short, men are selfish. In order to be successful, Keshin realized that he would have to remain outside of this cycle. He would have to soar up above while everyone else was grounded to the earth below. But rather than spend his time trying to think how he could better the world, Keshin believed that in order to overcome the predestined course that history was speeding down, he would need power. An atypical power that stemmed from his own thinking and philosophy. This type of thinking that he has - the kind that doesn't follow the crowd, but goes against it just for the thrill - is what lead him to creating the advanced fighting styles such as Rokutoryu that Keshin is so renowned for having created.
His intelligence in the field of combat is truly impeccable, and allows him to always remain a step ahead of his opponent. On top of all the historical texts that were consumed by the boy's lust for knowledge, Keshin had read many books acquired by his aunt from the Five Shinobi Nations pertaining to typical shinobi combat. He read up on tactics that consisted of operating as a four, three, or two man cell - since shinobi were rarely deployed alone - in order to gain an understanding of how his opponents among the shinobi nations would maneuver. He also gained an understanding on the subject of ninjutsu and chakra, despite possessing no chakra of his own. Keshin believed that to be the best, he would need to come to understand all forms of combat, so that he could properly prepare himself using the branches he knew how to use best. This is seen clearly in his kenjutsu, which can be used to deal with nearly any opponent when applied, no matter what kind of fighting style they use.
Further testaments to Keshin's genius would include the fact that he learned and developed every technique in his arsenal aside from the inherited techniques that are a result of his celestial lineage - examples being Yomotsu Hirasaka and the like - on his own. Due to his unique situation, the elders in the Enenra Clan were unable to teach Keshin much, and it was all up to himself to learn how to use his affinity for Yin and Yang. Through his own diligent training and studies of Otsutsuki texts, he was able to create his own form of telekinesis through Yin Release, ways to enhance his kenjutsu using both Yin and Yang, and even master a long lost technique known as the Creation of All Things through a mere explanation through an ancient scroll. It should be dually noted that Keshin actually pioneered many ideas that lead to his astounding developments in Yin-Yang Release, such as that one of the composite natures can be used to attract the other, and that the two can even be substituted for each other for unique results. His tenacity in this field and overall intelligence has earned him quite the reputation, and he continues to experiment with new uses for Yin and Yang, as well as different fighting styles.
Konkaku[]
Keshin is a Kirawa, and surprisingly, possesses no chakra at all. Just as his father before him, he was born a Kirawa without the energy said to be standard among all humans. However, unlike all humans, what he does have access to is the energy that lies within the souls of all - Konkaku. As a Kirawa, Keshin is one of the very few who can even visualize, let alone manipulate this energy. Konkaku is said to be visible to those with the Rinnegan when clustered together in the form of a soul, but only those like Keshin can actively see it and use it outside of that form. The Rinnegan's interaction with Konkaku is like a shovel to sand. One can scoop up large, concentrated bunches of sand - the soul - with the instrument, but picking out a few select grains - individual clusters of Konkaku - is nearly impossible. Keshin has the ability to make out the faintest of Konkaku traces, and can easily absorb the surrounding auras of souls. He is constantly feeding off of this energy, and always seems to be taking in the Konkaku of those around him. Though indirectly, he can leech the energy off a soul that is still intact to the body of the host, leaving them unharmed as he absorbs the extraneous Konkaku.
As for his natural reserves, they are rather massive. At the beginning of his training, his mentors couldn't help but note that the amount of Konkaku that Keshin possessed was far beyond anything they had ever seen in previous Kirawa. When one looks at his soul, it appears to be far larger than his body, as it seems to be poorly contained within the fleshy vessel. The seemingly boundless well of Konkaku that Keshin possesses is absolutely mind-boggling to look at. While comparing Konkaku and chakra is difficult, Keshin has so much Konkaku that he can fire off two large-scale uses of his Creation of All Things Technique per day. To put this in perspective, the Sage of Six Paths in his old age could use the technique once before exhausting himself and nearly draining his entire reserves. Though, Keshin's most expansive application doesn't exactly near the scale of the creation of Nine Tailed Beasts - he tends to use the technique to split incoming attacks and generate weapons rather than actually create living things.
The Konkaku possesses - the essence of his very soul - is stated to be insanely foul. The aura that always emanates from his being can be felt by all living things, although Konkaku is - in its normal state - unable to be sensed by humans. The unique properties within his Konkaku are said to be a product of a prolonged devouring of souls. The constant merging of Konkaku within Keshin’s being causes it to become impure, and instigates unusual developments and transformations within him. On top of being strange in its composition, Keshin’s Konkaku is insanely potent, and when bestowed upon others, seems to quickly rejuvenate them. Ironically enough, it does not seem to grant him any unusual regenerative abilities aside from the form of pseudo-immortality he naturally possesses - a byproduct of consuming souls. The sheer power of his Konkaku upon release is enough to intimidate some, and seems to thicken the air around him, as if it were weighing down upon the surrounding area. The potency of his Konkaku is why when it is used to fuel techniques, it serves as a most efficient fuel - he can fire off several techniques that would be quite taxing on one’s chakra while expending less Konkaku in the process.
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Techniques[]
Having been born with the curious affinity for techniques made up of Yin, Yang, or both natures, Keshin wasn't able to receive any training in ninjutsu from any of the members in his clan. Once Daitengu taught him how to wield his Konkaku, he was on his own. Keshin was forced to create his own original techniques and learn everything by himself. Even as a small child, he began to experiment with different uses of Yin and Yang energies, independent of any help from anyone. Like he did with his kenjutsu, Keshin learned that by creating his own techniques, he would be able to always keep his enemies guessing. If he possessed a few techniques that no one else had seen before, it would be better than learning multiple techniques that many people already possessed. In addition to the techniques he developed, Keshin mastered several arts developed by the Otsutsuki of old, and after amassing an immense amount of knowledge on his ancestors and their powers, he would master techniques such as the Yomotsu Hirasaka, - a doorway to other worlds - and a technique dubbed the Deep Crimson Spiral.
Yin Release[]
The first nature transformation Keshin began to use was the Yin Release. Seeing that it ruled over all types of physical energies, the first thing Keshin wanted to be able to do was freely manipulate form. In order to accomplish this, Keshin would practice with a wooden splinter and attempt to cause it to expand. Channeling his Yin energy in just the right way was quite difficult, and the whole process of learning to do so took Keshin about a week. By the end of this period, he could cause the splinter to not only expand, but shrink as well. This technique, once applied to Keshin's kenjutsu, was dubbed the Jiseijin. Using this principle on the blades of his swords, Keshin is able to bend, expand, and contract his blades in any fashion he chooses. In the middle of combat, he has been seen to lengthen his swords in order to extend their reach. In actuality, there isn't really a limit to how far the blade can reach, as long as Keshin continues to pour Yin energy into his sword, it will continue to grow. This was the main solution to the weakness of his fighting style: creating a way to pressure opponents who fought at range. Since Keshin's main way to defeat an enemy was kenjutsu, he needed some sort of ranged attack that could allow him to keep an opponent busy as he closed in. By extending the reach of his sword(s), he can easily accomplish this.
Through the same technique, Keshin can also shorten his blade, allowing him to easily escape a bladelock- though, since he practices Rokutoryu, this rarely occurs. If an opponent's sword presses against his own, Keshin can partially retract his blade in order to slip underneath them. Another practice use would be the ability to widen his swords, allowing him to deflect projectiles even more effectively. Furthermore, he can completely change the overall shape of his blades, and create complex structures through this method. An example of this would be an application of Yin Blade based off of the Dance of the Branching Ginkgo - a technique used by the Kaguya Clan. By simply charging his blade with massive amounts of Yin energy, Keshin's sword will suddenly begin to recreate itself over and over from various points on the blade as it extends forwards. This results in an infinitely expansive blade with dozens of hundreds more blades branching off the original, piercing whatever they may come into contact with. The free manipulation of his own swords just adds to the unpredictability of the Sixth God's unique fighting style, and allows him to constantly take his opponents by surprise. However, sudden surprises aren't always the way to win a fight. Sometimes, one needs to make subtle alterations to an existing strategy on order to claim victory. An example of this would be the curving of the end of his blade, creating a hook in order to pierce and pull and opponent, or simply manipulate the path of their sword.
What Keshin soon discovered concerning Yin Release was that he could not only manipulate the physical aspects and characteristics of existing objects, but that the forces around them and himself could also be moved through this release. The first time Keshin used this ability was to simply flick pebbles off the side of a large mountain. As he watched the rocks fall down towards the precipice below, he would then try to reach out and stop them from falling. This method of training took quite a while to bear its fruit - dropping objects was one thing, but overcoming the forces of gravity through an application of a technique was much more difficult. After several days of this, Keshin was able to actually prevent the pebbles from hitting the rocky ground below, and even bring them back to his hand. This development in his Yin Release's usage opened up an entirely new aspect of his fighting style, and allowed him to compensate for many preexisting weaknesses that lied in previous strategies and fighting styles. Soon, this technique would evolve far beyond anything else he had developed so far. Keshin dubbed the technique Shogyōmujō, as it allowed him to manipulate nearly anything he desired.
Keshin's psychokinesis grants him the ability to manipulate situations to better suite himself. The most straightforward application of the technique would be the ability to freely move surrounding objects with Yin energies alone. Unbeknownst to his younger self, he had created something that would, in most cases, prevent simple ranged assaults from even reaching him - this allows Keshin to stick to the close-range combat that he has become so proficient at. Projectiles such as shuriken, kunai, or any other tool used by shinobi are quite easy to stop through this technique, and are usually redirected at the perpetrator in classic "return-to-sender" format. While contrary to popular belief, the psychokinesis granted by this ability is not affected by the size of the object - any singular thing can be easily moved about by Keshin's Yin Release. This astounding power makes extensive use of the surrounding environment, and makes it easier to set up shields against enemy attacks - as any large object Keshin sees will usually wind up being a meat-shield. In addition to all of this, the taking up of his enemies is not beyond the grasp of this metaphysical hand of his. By seizing an opponent, Keshin can fling them around and slam their bodies into whatever is nearby: the ground, rocks, walls, and anything else he can use to break bones. However, a much more efficient application of the technique would be to simply choke a victim to death. By focusing on the enemy's neck, Keshin is actually able to press down on it from all sides, allowing him to cut off the blood to the brain, and ultimately kill a foe through a deprivation of oxygen. While this method is indeed quick, and not to mention, quite brutal, an even quicker way of dealing with his foes is to simply snap the neck of the victim. By severing the connection of the spine to the skull, he can paralyze the opponent, and basically ensure their death. Despite these tactics seeming nearly too effective, Keshin can only really ever make use of them if he's either dealing with a weakened opponent, or if he's caught the enemy by surprise. Catching a moving target is actually rather difficult, and normally requires them to be moving straight towards him.
While telekinesis is indeed a splendid power, applications of this technique are not limited to simply moving objects to and fro. Through further development, Keshin was able to further focus the Yin energy applied in order to create concentrated blasts of kinetic force. Spiraling waves of energy can be sent at an opponent in order to knock them or an attack back. Similar in fashion to the Rinnegan's Shinra Tensei, this use of the technique is often activated through a movement of the hands. The sheer power of the blast is able to actually instigate a pseudo-necrosis of the opponent's cells, as they are literally shaken apart in the mark of contact - usually only if they take the full force of the blast. Various tools and nearly all ranged ninjutsu can be completely neutralized by the force coming from the wave.
If Keshin can afford to destroy the surrounding area, then he will normally resort to a much more destructive and less usage. Rather than release the energy in a single blast towards a target - be it a foe or tool - it is sometimes more effective to simply blow everything away. By focusing a massive amount of Yin energy around himself, as if he were cloaking himself in a sphere of Yin, the space around Keshin will normally become distorted. Usually, he will come up off the ground a meter or so, and tighten his limbs - almost creating a pose similar to someone cannonballing into a lake. After gathering a sufficient amount of energy, Keshin will force his arms and legs out. By doing so, he will suddenly force the accumulated energy out in a massive, ever expanding wave. The spherical concentration of kinetic force will tear apart anything in its path, be it people, landscapes, or even giant trees. On this scale, however, the pseudo-necrosis that would occur in one location on the opponent's body now becomes a sudden erasure of the foe from the face of the planet - as if God himself blotted the name of the victim from the Book of Life. The almighty surge of energy is said to leave no survivors - this ability does not discriminate from friend or foe. Luckily for Keshin, he more often than not fights battles where he is vastly outnumbered. Such a power allows him to always maintain the upper hand; an ability that allows him to deal with either a multitude of foes, or a singular large threat.
Despite the great power of this technique, it is not without its downsides. In order for him to maintain a control of the ability, Keshin actually has to constantly meditate to keep this surreal power under control. After he created the technique, he began to experience sudden outbreaks of the Yin energy within his body, resulting in his own body dislocating different parts, and literally attempting to rip itself apart. Keshin realized that this was due to the unbalanced nature of Yin and Yang within his body. What this meant was this: when Keshin made extensive use of his Yin Release: Psychokinesis, he was utilizing a massive amount of his own Yin energy to activate this powerful form of telekinesis. Applications like the massive repulsive wave, or the manipulation of the space around various objects in order to guide them were very stressful on the Yin that made up his being. Most likely, if he refused to undergo a daily mediation, he would die a terrible death - Keshin doesn't want to die to his own technique. This resulted in him meditating to act as a counterbalance: the daily restoration of his Yin energy through an absorption of the Yin from the surrounding area. When Keshin does this, it usually does cause the partial breakdown of the area around him - an expected result from the absorption of Yin. Keshin's meditation, however, does show that he possesses the ability to completely manipulate the Yin and Yang of nearly anything - an ability that emphasizes his already absolute dominion over Yin and Yang.
Yin, in and of itself, is an extremely broad nature that has many collective usages. Limiting himself to the manipulation of his weapons and environment would have been quite foolish on the Sixth God’s part. Thus, Keshin would go on to study genjutsu — one of the most well-known uses for Yin Release. Briefly summarized; genjutsu is using one’s own Yin to manipulate someone else’s senses through their Yin, allowing the caster of the technique to freely enforce any scenario upon their victim. Genjutsu, in order to be successfully executed against more experienced foes needed to be quite subtle; as if the false scene pushed onto the target completely blended in with the current situation. This seamless connection of true and false events would potentially allow Keshin to weave something extra into his opponent’s mind. A fallacy of some sort. As a child, he practiced on animals, such as the arctic foxes that roamed the snowy country he lived within. Within his mind, he would paint the picture of a large, bear-like creature; it was restraining the fox. If the technique were successfully cast, the small fox would become immobilized. Keshin would then approach the creature, releasing the genjutsu and watching it run off.
Having created yet another use for his Yin Release, Keshin would wield one of the most powerful genjutsu techniques in all of existence. Unlike the Sharingan, Mangekyō Sharingan, and Rinnegan’s genjutsu, the technique was not activated through the crossing of two visual axis. And unlike the Kurama Clan’s Kekkei Genkai, the technique did not break the barrier between reality and genjutsu. Keshin’s genjutsu, having a different means of activation and a somewhat unique effect upon the target, is activated through the expulsion of raw Yin energy from his own body into the air. In a wave fashion, it pulsates throughout the entire area until it has captured its victim. Once the Yin of Keshin’s technique has come into contact with the Yin of another, their mind will be given over to the Yin their body has come into contact with. When that happens, their mind will fall prey to the immense and infinite darkness that is bound within the technique. Having been created to be able to capture even the most advanced of human minds, the genjutsu created by Keshin cannot be so easily undone. Normally, a genjutsu can simply be extinguished through some sort of other Yin technique; a type of release that works as a generic antidote to genjutsu techniques. However, the technique that Keshin wields cannot be vanquished through any application of Yin Release, no matter how advanced in nature. This is an extremely problematic factor for any master of genjutsu, as they may engage in a battle of Yin with the Sixth God nonchalantly. Not the members of the Kurama Clan, the warriors of the Uchiha, nor the Ōtsutsuki Clan themselves have discovered the secret to Keshin’s incredibly potent genjutsu. Due to the extensive and absolute knowledge he possesses on the subject of both Yin and Yang, the techniques he can create with these two natures tend to borderline the power of gods. His genjutsu employs tactics that no other genjutsu does, and can only be undone through one method. The other detail that makes his genjutsu so very difficult to deal with is the fact it cannot be negated or predicted with any type of genjutsu. The crimson eyes of the Uchiha, nor the white gaze of the Byakugan is capable of countering, comprehending, or even visualizing the genjutsu cast by Keshin; until they themselves have had their psyches whisked away by the technique. With those wielding genjutsu being unable to vanquish the illusionary world created by Keshin, it makes a perfect tool to use against the Ōtsutsuki, or anyone else who has inherited their power.
When utilized, his genjutsu is usually brought into play in — surprisingly enough — close combat. During a clash of blades, fists, or whatever type of war Keshin is waging, a sudden change of pace for the target is often devastating. It is when he battles a foe up close, when the two are locked in a deadly exchange of blows that he chooses to employ his genjutsu. By suddenly releasing a wave of Yin when so close, he has practically ensured that his target will be trapped within the technique. Once the technique has afflicted a target, there are a wide variety of options and endings Keshin can choose. More often than not, rather than create some grandiose illusionary world, he will simply create the current scenario within the opponent’s psyche. This causes the victim to not realize they have been caught up in a genjutsu. Once this has been accomplished, he will create situations that will keep the target’s mind occupied within this fake realm, while he himself deals with their real self. Thus, the technique often ends in the target losing their life in a helpless manner. While the victim continues to battle an illusionary Keshin, they will die in the real world.
However, while this is indeed the usual application of the technique, it is used for much more than distracting an opponent’s mind. The power of Keshin’s technique far exceeds such limitations. For when the technique touches the Yin of another, not only do they fall prey to the genjutsu, but something happens to Keshin as well. He will gain a view of their mind, allowing him to visualize their hopes, dreams, thoughts, and most importantly; fears. Fear plays a major part in genjutsu. By exploiting his target’s worst fears, he can create a scenario that will play to their weaknesses, and will cause them to bend to his will. Some usages of the technique aren’t in the least bit subtle, as they may result in the victim’s mind being whisked away to some other plane of existence. In such a place, the Sixth God is totally in control, and will do whatever he sees fit. In most cases, he will torture his opponent somehow, forcing their mind to ride along the breaking point. Usually, Keshin will attempt to desecrate their psyche, break their mind, and completely crush their will. The experiencing of the more torturous uses of the technique is more than enough to inflict extreme cases of post-traumatic stress disorder upon a victim. Some have even been known to completely break under the stress of the technique; death is a possible side effect. In many cases, Keshin has either caused his target to break down, or completely shut down their body — being unable to bear the stress — as a result of his torture. There is but one counter to Keshin’s genjutsu; one that is overlooked by many, and inaccessible to some. Through an equally powerful application of Yang Release can one disable Keshin’s Yin Release. Once one has bathed themselves in the vivacious energy of Yang, they can vanquish the effects of the technique. While dōjutsu, genjutsu “releases”, and any other such cure-alls for genjutsu cannot override the technique, a simple usage of Yang Release can. This well-hidden secret can completely negate the effects of Keshin’s technique. Furthermore, if the target is currently using some sort of chakra cloak or technique that surrounds them in a type of Yang energy, they will be impervious to his genjutsu. While being a rather obscure weakness, the knowledge of such an antidote could indeed be the deciding factor between one’s life and death; assuming they do not fall some other way.
Yang Release[]
To everything's darkness, there must be a light. In order for Keshin to maintain the balance within him, he must show a control over both Yin and Yang that balances out, resulting in a perfect and harmonious union between the two. So, as Keshin possesses a Jiseijin, he also created an opposing Jiseijin - one that would only amplify the absolutely monstrous kenjutsu prowess he possessed. With Yin governing the form of his blade, the Sixth God would come to realize that it didn't really matter if he could bend his blade to do all sorts of things; that did nothing for the stability and sharpness. If Keshin stretched his sword out across the battlefield at a blinding speed to stab an opponent, they could easily put up a defense and neutralize the attack. However, just as Yang completes Yin, the Tenseijin would provide a solution to the problem at hand.
Yin, as an energy, rules over the form of objects. This has been fleshed out through Keshin's aforementioned abilities. Yang, however, takes a more straightforward role than his Yin. Yang Release rules over vitality and life - in Keshin's case, the burning red energy that coats his blade. Through the Tenseijin, Keshin will focus a very concentrated amount of Yang energie into his katana blades. When he does this, the steel is bathed in a majestic red inferno of unadulterated vitality. A tongue of vivacious flares that dance off the red turn pink before fading away into nothingness. Perhaps the burning red blades of Keshin's enhanced swords are like a trademark of his; you would never see another swordsman such as him - someone who wield six swords at the same time, all with the ability to cut through nearly any substance while keeping all of his appendages intact. These blades created through this advanced application of Yang energy are rumored to be able to cut through anything, as mentioned before, and are said to be able to dissipate even chakra itself when touched by an opponent's ninjutsu. The sheer power of the Yang Blade Technique makes fighting Keshin with a sword all the more foolish than it normally would be, as now, the foe's sword would simply be reduced to mere fragments.
Despite its appearance being similar to fire, and many likening the blade to the sun, the gleaming beams that overtake Keshin's swords are actually not hot at all. Quite the opposite, they are apparently cold to the touch. How the blades cut through substances has nothing to do with sharpness or melting through the atoms, but rather, is a result of a form of necrosis. When the blade comes into contact with its target, it actually begins to overload and draw out the Yang energy of the molecules within whatever it has come into contact with, and causes them to rapidly decay. This creates the illusion of an extremely sharp sword that cuts through any and every substance with a single slash, but in reality, it instantaneously divides and destroys the molecules making up the area it comes into contact with. It has been proven that there is nearly no defense capable of withstanding a blow from the magnificent crimson blades created by Keshin. Though, it is theorized that another structure containing an equal amount of Yang energy could cancel out the affects of the Yang Blade Technique. However, when combined with Keshin's Yin Blade Technique, it usually results in an insane bombardment of thousands of katana blades that cut through nearly anything they come into contact with. While using Yin Release to cause several of his blades to branch off, the Yang Blade Technique usually comes into play, creating thousands of blazingly cold red blades. Keshin can cover a massive amount of ground with this combination, and can wipe out a horse of enemies, or oppress one massive one through this advanced tactic. Combo attacks like this that make use of both Yin and Yang is what earned Keshin the moniker the Chaos Swordsman (---,---).
Yin-Yang Release[]
Keshin's mastery of the Yin and Yang Releases is quite terrifying. Independently, they are sufficient to defeat some opponents and have earned him many victories. But one thing that he learned about these two releases is that they resonate with one another. Aside from the simultaneous employment of each release, Keshin has created unnamed applications of each nature that corresponds with the other. Perhaps the first discovery Keshin made concerning Yin-Yang Release is that Yin can be used to attract Yang, and vice versa. For example, by using an amount of Yin energy that mirrors the amount of Yang energy within a target, he can actually extract all of the Yang energy from the said object or person. Basically, it will result in the graduate absorption of all vitality within a person, draining them of their energy and leaving only their body and soul. Or, with Yang used to remove the Yin, it can be used to destroy problematic structures within an area, or slowly erode an opponent's body as long as he can maintain a point of contact - similar to, but much weaker than a Kekkei Mōra technique called All-Killing Ash Bones. This phenomenon can easily be explained through an existing law: opposites attract, likes repel. If one is perceptive enough to gauge the amount of Yin or Yang energy within a technique or object, they could easily negate it through a use of the opposite nature.
Another such ability Keshin developed through creative usages of Yin and Yang is a bit more complicated, but has been built on a similar principle. Through this seemingly magnetic chemistry with Yin and Yang, he has actually found a way to instantly remove all Yin or Yang within a construct, then replace it with the opposite energy. For example, if Keshin were to apply this to a boulder while using Yang energy, he would infuse the correct amount of Yang that corresponds to the Yin. When he does so, he will force the Yang into the position that the Yin lies, resulting in the creation of an unstable energy cluster that would readily explode. Rather than fusing, or canceling each other out, he will use a small amount of the same energy to push the Yin out, allowing him to absorb it. This example of Keshin's use of Yin and Yang is like taking two magnets and shoving their like poles into each other. Doing so causes them to force each other away. But as one was being pushed, one magnet was flipped to make the poles opposites, suddenly drawing the other one in. This analogy accurately sums up the aforementioned ability. Keshin uses Yin to push more Yin energy, then puts the Yang were the Yin was located. By absorbing the Yin he removed, the process completes without any interference from the problematic energy. Furthermore, absorbing the energy makes sure none goes to waste, and while it is impossible to be one-hundred percent efficient, Keshin will always shoot for the ninety-nine point nine.
During Keshin's travels all across the shinobi world, he became rather accomplished at using his Yomotsu Hirasaka - a technique that allowed him to use portals to get to any location he could envision. He would make various stops at different Otsutsuki relics and ruins that were littered all across the continent, and even those that required him to cross the ocean. At each one of these stops, Keshin would lift the scrolls and documents of each and every one. He would make use of any and all information that he could to further his studies of Yin and Yang. While he had indeed made a ton of progress, there was no reason to stop and be satisfied. This resulted in him traveling around for nearly five straight years - not settling down anywhere as he did. For the most part, Keshin wouldn't come across any groundbreaking Otsutsuki texts. Various notes on things like the Main Family's law codes, scrolls pertaining to Karma, and maps that blended dimensions together in order to make one big display. However, one of the last ruins that he would investigate had a scroll that would pique Keshin's interest. Tossing aside most of the useless things he came across, he would take the scroll and go to his spot atop the tallest mountain within the Land of Frost - the Enenra Clan at this point knew better than to try Keshin.
The scroll explained the union between Yin and Yang, and went into detail about many of the things that Keshin was already putting into practice. For example, the seemingly magnetic relation between the two energies, and how one could be used to draw out the other. Information such as this wasn't anything Keshin needed, it only proved that what he was already putting into practice was viable. But what lied past all of the useless information that he already knew was something far greater: a way to combine Yin and Yang to create something incredible. A simultaneous use of both Yin and Yang, not isolating one from the other in the form of separate techniques. An application of both meant that Keshin could govern Yin to create form from nothing, while manipulating Yang to spawn life and vitality where it would be void. A power that had been long lost around the age of the Sage of the Six Paths. He had actually recreated the Creation of All Things Technique through his own power. The very technique that was used to create the Nine Tailed Beasts all that time ago, it has a great deal of applications beyond creating life.
The principle behind the Creation of All Things Technique is comprised of a complex usage of Yin and Yang simultaneously. This stimulates the creation of form and vitality all at once. For example, if Keshin were to create a sword, he would use Yin to put out a sort of stencil from his mind, then apply Yang energies to fill the void. In the middle of combat, he has been seen spawning a variety of weapons from this technique. Since Keshin can wield a large amount of different shinobi tools, he has been seen summoning weapons such as tantō, chokutō swords, Fūma shuriken, sai knives, chains, kusarigama, a ball and chain, scythes, and even a bow and arrow. While he cannot wield all of these weapons with the same efficiency as he can his swords, his skill with other tools should not be taken lightly. Even more than creating weapons, Keshin can also create other things. Any object in existence instantly becomes up for grabs with this power, assuming Keshin has the appropriate Konkaku needed to create said object. Anything from giant shields to massive stakes, he can create it all.
Perhaps the most common use for Keshin's Creation of All Things would be the tampering with existing things rather than summoning something new. With this power, he can manipulate the surrounding environment and elements with the power of Yin and Yang. The ground, the trees, and the air all become subjugated to Keshin's will. Through him infusing the environment with this technique, he gains the ability to freely manipulate it. In this case, his Creation of All Things is used to instantly build something up or break it down until it fits his purpose. In many instances, it will involve him weaponizing the area around him. Massive spikes of earthen rock emerging to attack a foe. Or maybe ripping open a canyon below an opposing force in order to drop the one against him into the abysmal precipice below. Trees can suddenly splinter and pierce enemies, severing limbs and reaming through flesh and bone. In essence, Keshin actually controls all of the elements through Yin and Yang. Yin-Yang Release is said to be able to negate the effects of all other natures. But just as Creation and Destruction go hand in hand, Yin and Yang do more than cancel the other natures. Together, they can actually replicate them. Fire, Water, Earth, Wind, and Lightning can all be freely manipulated through the powers of this technique.
These preexisting elements are completely under the control of Keshin's power. The most well-known usage of this would be the breaking down of incoming ninjutsu. By using an advanced application of his Creation of All Things, he can actually subjugate basic elemental attacks to his manipulative abilities. By bending the elements to his will, he can send ninjutsu back at his opponents. Essentially, Keshin is a bender of the five nature types, but cannot simply use ninjutsu of those natures. He has been seen to suddenly manifest a blast of fire through an application of Creation of All Things, but he very rarely employs such a use. What Keshin prefers to do is toy with an opponent's techniques, like reverting Kekkei-Genkai and Kekkei Tōta techniques back to their composite natures. This is Keshin's way of ridiculing those who rely too much on their bloodlines, and allows him to turn the tide of a battle with one chaotic attack. For example, if someone were to launch a Dust Release attack at the Sixth God, he could revert it to fire, lightning, and earth. Then, by using his Creation of All Things Technique, he would create more of the existing nature and send it back at the original caster. However, this is very taxing on Keshin's Konkaku and Yin-Yang energies. He can only break down a handful of techniques a day, and only does so in the most dire of situations. His Creation of All Things is indeed a powerful technique, but he rarely makes use of it - Keshin either doesn't need to use it, or it would simply be too much trouble to use in the first place.
Celestial Abilities[]
The ancient members of Keshin's lineage descends from the Otsutsuki that resides on their home planet - a result of his mother being a purebred Iyoku. Both of his parents, however, were hosts for Otsutsuki beings through Karma. This would result in the manifestation of Otsutsuki traits in the two of them, as the lingering consciousness' of both remained through the seal. Karma is a type of extremely advanced fūinjutsu that appears to implant the consciousness of an Otsutsuki into the body of the one who killed them. Apparently, it is the beginning of a magnificent process of rebirth that results in the birth of an entirely new being. According to ancient law codes devised by the extraterrestrials of old, passing on power in death is mandatory of all Otsutsuki within the Main Family. That way, the great powers of the clan are never lost, no matter how close to extinction they may be. The powers that should have been gifted to Keshin's parents were passed on to him - with both of them being vessels, their combined DNA would make their child nearly seventy-five percent Otsutsuki. This allowed Keshin to awaken many abilities that to some, may be considered otherworldly.
The first of these powers that would surface was the ability to transfer himself across any alternate space-time dimension - a power known as Yomotsu Hirasaka. This ability was seemingly first used by the supposed Mother of Chakra, but its true origins are unknown. It is the progenitor to all other space-time techniques, and can actually be applied in similar ways to nearly every space-time technique in existence. The most basic application of this would be the creation of portals. Originally, the wormholes created by the Yomotsu Hirasaka were used to connect the dimensions created by the Rabbit Goddess, however, they can actually be utilized to invade nearly any time-space. For the most part, Keshin sticks to these dimensions that had been formulated by the power of the Branch Family's Matriarch, and has found much use for the ability. Each one of the dimensions connected through the Yomotsu Hirasaka is different from the others, and each one can give Keshin a different advantage depending on when he and an opponent enter them. An endless frozen plain, a world comprised of lava, a scorching desert, a sea of acid, a time-space that God himself seems to be pressing down upon, and a core dimension where the original truth-seeking ball was created.
When inside of one of the dimensions, Keshin has realized that he can influence the elements within his current dimension in order to help him. For example, when he has transferred himself to the desert time-space, he can whip up massive sandstorms and waves of sand to wipe out an opponent. If he is within one of the dimensions of fire or ice, he can create waves of lava or spears of ice to launch at the enemy. Furthermore, when he inhabits the ice dimension, he can suddenly freeze the air around an opponent to trap them within a frigid construct, allowing him to restrict their moves. A dimension like the sea of acid is normally used to suddenly drop a massive quantity of burning liquid on an opponent trapped within another dimension. The core dimension, while the Rabbit Goddess used it to gather chakra, has seemingly rejected Keshin's presence, and seems to have been locked away during her absence. Keshin himself has no idea why it was severed from the Yomotsu Hirasaka, or why he himself cannot visit the place, but he has theorized that it has to do with his inability to wield chakra.
However, despite not being able to inhabit such a place, he can breach nearly every other time-space in existence. What Keshin noticed about shinobi who utilize such techniques - a prime example being Kamui - is that they will use their dimension as a safe haven from attacks, while keeping an image of themselves in the other. When he realized that Yomotsu Hirasaka can influence any dimension, he found out a way to focus its influence in a different manner. Rather than simply manifest a giant portal, he can isolate the effects of the technique to an object, like a sword. This allows whatever he has subjugated to his power to breach any dimension. For example, if an opponent were to retreat into Kamui during a battle, Keshin could channel the abilities of Yomotsu Hirasaka into his blade and still cut through them. This is simply another testament to why the Otsutsuki's power in the hands of the Sixth God becomes all the more terrifying. With something such as this, no one is safe from his hands. In , addition to breaching the dimensions others may be inhabiting, Keshin realized that he could also use his Yomotsu Hirasaka to blend in with any of the dimensions that are naturally connected to this technique. Similar in principle to the Kamui, it allows him to phase out of existence within one particular dimension and into another. However, rather than simply fade as the users of Kamui do, the part of his body that comes into contact with the opponent seemingly vanishes, and is replaced by a portal in the shape of the distorted space.
Further research of Otsutsuki texts would lead to the discovery of a technique that had been developed by the Otsutsuki of old who had completely mastered a technique that showed their advancements in shape transformation and the like. By focusing a large amount of chakra into a vortex contained by their hand, they would manifest bright red spiral of chakra that swirled around a stagnant core - a type of precursor to modern techniques like the Rasengan. Konkaku, in some instances, actually works better than chakra. The energy comprising one's soul is much easier to mold than something such as chakra or natural energy. Keshin can effortlessly and instantaneously create a sphere of swirling red energy. The powerful whirlpool-esque nature of the technique is enough to completely tear through flesh and bone when slammed into a target. It should be further noted that at any point after activating the technique, Keshin can expand shrink the sphere of blowing energy. Enveloping a foe in such an energy usually results in the total breakdown of the enemy's body, ripping them apart completely.
Dharmapāla Abilities[]
But just as Keshin wields powers stemming from the heavens, his arsenal also comprises of techniques that came about from the influence of dark, otherworldly presences. The origin stories about how beings such as Kirawa and Oni came to exist predate the era of the Rabbit Goddess and the Sage of the Six Paths. Thousands of years ago, during times of endless war and destruction, chakra had not yet been cultivated on earth. Legends say that during this time, ancient Kami lived alongside humans and were worshipped by them. However, when the gods saw that men were evil, the story says they left to make their home in Takamagahara, a distant land said to lie past the skies. Shortly after, the Dharmapala would descend from heaven in order to constantly moderate and judge mankind. These "gods of wrath" would bear children, and it is said that Kirawa came from the pure blood of the Dharmapala being defiled by humans. This resulted in the birth of impure children, creating various lineages contaminated with foul blood.
Apparently, some Kirawa have the potential to become a Dharmapala - a supposed perfect Kirawa that has broken free from the bloodlust holding them back. Keshin has ascended to this state, and can wield every power granted to this race with perfect control. His mastery of Konkaku allows him to access several abilities exclusive to Kirawa. With all of his Kirawa powers relating to the human soul, he can visualize the souls of all people. The level of observation and influence this grants him far exceeds the power of the Rinnegan's ability to see souls. Keshin can see them on such a level to where he can make out the individual clusters of Konkaku that make up and emanate from the soul. As a Kirawa, he can, of course, absorb this energy from living people by ripping their soul from their body. Or, he can simply leech off the Konkaku that floats off the soul - this is often a tactic employed during combat, as it allows Keshin to constantly resupply his reserves in the midst of combat by taking from his opponents'.
After many years of learning to better visualize and manipulate Konkaku, Keshin discovered that he could watch his opponent's soul in order to utilize a type of precognitive ability. By watching the soul's energy, he can accurately read his enemy's next move. One of the reasons his kenjutsu is so powerful is because he can completely see through an opponent's patterns and habits in order to create his own counterattack. Or, he can predict their next attack and deflect/parry it with his blade. Apparently, this ability is said to be some form of "godly sight" wielded exclusively by the Dharmapala of old. These wrathful deities said to have one day wandered the earth would enact judgement upon the enemies of the gods. Legends say that this ability was bestowed upon them by the Shinto known as Tenjin - the kami of knowledge. With Keshin being the only remaining Dharmapala, he is the sole wielded of this ability he dubs "Ectoplasmic Reading".
Perhaps the most straightforward of the powers granted to him through his Kirawa nature would be the form of pseudo-immortality that has kept Keshin alive for so long. This stems from the principle of Konkaku absorption. When he was first learning to take in the Konkaku that emanates from the souls of others, Keshin's body began to adjust to the constant taking in of others' Konkaku during practice. However, it was almost like his body became lazy, and decided to cease to produce Konkaku under normal circumstances, only ever daring to create its own when Keshin is in dire need of energy. Thus, he has become quite accustomed to drawing in the Konkaku of others. Because of this, his body is always being replenished by the Konkaku he absorbs, revitalizing his soul and strengthening his body. More often than not, Keshin's body does this subconsciously, and seems to have a programmed response to sensing Konkaku - to devour it. In the past, before he had ascended to the level of Dharmapala, this drove him insane. More often than not, it resulted in him consuming the souls of others to satisfy the ever-growing hunger for Konkaku. The longer he lives, the worse this longing becomes, and the more Konkaku he must consume. Even now, Keshin must occasionally devour souls in order to keep this thirst in check.
The result from taking in hundreds, if not a thousand entire souls within his body was the compilation of many beings within himself. It seemed as though every time he consumed a new soul, his persona would alter slightly. Although he would rarely experience a drastic change in his behavior, it were as though the thoughts and personalities of whoever he devoured would become trapped within him, allowing Keshin to see the world from a different point of view. This ability has is perhaps in part responsible for why Keshin is so intelligent. He possesses the thinking of hundreds of men with the brain of one man. In a way, this speeds up the rate at which he can process information, his reaction speeds, and his overall mental performance. Keshin began to try and solve problems in ways that his old self would have never considered. It has become as though he were blessed with some sort of divine intelligence, but rather, this is a product of demonic powers. WIP