The Revelation has started (closed rp)

Earlier that morning, Bankai was stumbling out of his room as his head throbbed continuously from the pain that he had been going through. With one eye shut, in reacting to the pain and trying to cope with it he continued on his way slowly to the forests. He did not know why he decided to go to the forest with all his pain. He could have just visited the physicians of Hanagakure who were more than anything ready to help him with his problem. But something inside him told Bankai that this pain was not a clear physical problem but rather a mental one and something within the confines of this forest would be able to help him. It was not one of those headaches that you can ignore and hope it goes away. People noticed him, some of them knew him personally and they tried to talk to him to find out what was wrong and he would have none of it. He just brushed them away and continued on his way. When the pain was too much, he would sometimes hold onto buildings or when he was especially desperate and did not want to fall, he would grab onto a nearby passer by as he made his way to the forests. The deeper he went into the forest the easier it was for him to deal with his pain. The lush greenery of the forest canopy above him in an unexplained way was soothing him. How the leaves above him simple soothed his vision in its shade. He trudged onward, slowly but at a steady pace. He never stopped to rest since the pain both held him back and drove him on to continue. Eventually he came to a clearing in the forest and the way the light struck on this moss covered stone tablet gave it a very surreal feeling. He sent down and cleared the stone of leaves and pulled off the vines that partially covered it. As he read the inscription to his surprise it was nothing ancient that he could not read but rather it there was a "WARNING" sign on it. Very modern and very inconspicuous. His eyes squinted as he looked around this concrete tablet that the more he looked at it, he could see this slab was not of stone but of modern prefabricated concrete. And that was when he saw a red flag figuratively speaking. He took a good look of the moss and scraped some off of it with his fingers and smelt it. It was some sort of synthetic moss, it did not feel right now did it smell right. He began exploring the immediate area around the tablet and at its sides were another word; "PROJECT IV". And at once, Bankai's mind flashed back to a different time, to the time when he had just busted out of his containment unit and fell to the floor.

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In his grogginess he looked across to the base of the containment unit and saw a golden metal plate that labelled it. It said "PROJECT VI SPECIMEN X, UNIT 1."

What the hell is this? This place cannot possibly have some sort of link to my abduction. No...it seemed so much farther than it is now. And right here in Hanagakure?  

Bankai started to search frantically for anything more and at first he found nothing. Untill when he was on the verge of giving up, he desperately pressed against the tablet and he felt his right index finger press something at the back of the tablet and it lifted backwards as it fell slowly onto the grass and revealed a hole that was large enough for one man to enter. He was a startled by this as he looked down into the hole. Suprisingly there were lights stuck on the wall of the tunnel and it headed downwards about ten feet and went horizontal in an unknown direction. He jumped down into the hole and continued walking along the tunnel. It felt as if he were walking around a mile until he came to a metal door that had a wheel to turn to open it, much like those doors you would find on a ship or a submarine. He tried to open it and he turned the wheel and it opened.

Well that was easy.

He opened the door and stepped into the room and it was massive. There were green lights all throughout the warehouse sized room. There was a catwalk runn throughout the perimeter of the place and smaller ones that made up a grid of catwalks suspended from the ceiling like the rest. Like the room where his execution had taken place there was a viewing gallery even above the catwalk. On the far end on the room was a room; no doubt they used that room as a lab for what it is that was going on here or used to go on here. It was after Bankai noticed these mundane things that he realised what was the main focus of this place as he noticed the liquid filled containment tanks. They were just like his own  and they were large in number. Hundreds of them and they had these thick power lines connected to them among other lines that were also connected to it. He walked towards the nearest one and of course they were empty and he looked around and he noticed that they were all empty except for one, all the way down to the opposite end of warehouse. Bankai walked down to the lone tank that had a floating body within its confines. There was something familar about the body that floated in this tank, the slenderness of the body, its size and the spikey blonde hair was just haunting him more and more with each step with the sound of his boots hitting the floor resonate throughout the massive room. As he looked at the face of the one that was in the tank and felt as if he were looking into a mirror. For the face that he saw in there was none other than his own. An exact replica or for use of a better term a clone of himself. Bankai at once got light headed as he staggered back and knocked over a metal table that had suregery instriments and they clanked on the floor as the table fell over with a loud crash. Bankai staggered to regain his composure as he pulled himself up as his gaze never moved from himself inside the tank. Not a moment too soon did he hear a voice coming from an unknown person and Bankai turned around and his face was still pale from the trauma of seeing yourself suddenly like he just did.

"Who are you and what are you doing here?" asked Bankai.

"I should be asking you the same thing. After all, this is my facility." said the man as he gestured about him the room that they were in. "And maybe you can tell me how a stinking experiment such as yourself could slip through my hands. I can assure you it wont happen again." said the man as he drew the two swords he had on his back and started walking towards Bankai.

"Your facility? So you are the one who abducted me? After all these years, it really was destiny that brought me here. For me to kill you." said Bankai.

"Yes, well not me directly but it was my team that took you while you were on that mission years ago. Count yourself as lucky because you were the original clone and there are only four of you that survived the procedure. Now you come to me and let me guide you to your purpose."

"My purpose? My purpose is to serve as a soldier, as a Lieutenant of Hanagakure. And anyone including you that threatens that I will not forgive them." said Bankai as he drew two kunai and readied himself for this man.

"No need to be hasty...Misaki Bankai." he smiled as he finally came to a stop about twenty feet from where Bankai stood.

"How do you know my name?" cursed Bankai as he glared at the man, his blue eyes glowing with anger now.

"Oh? Well I know all the identities of my pets. After all, I was the one who gave your identity. Hahahaha." laughed the man as he looked at Bankai. "Oh come on, its not like you did not know. I thought the way the Misaki clan treated you for such a small matter of slapping an Elder would tell you how they really considered you. Think of it 'Misaki Bankai.' Look at your memories and see how your so called parents treated you. All in the name of following law and order was it not? The slightest transgression, the most minute mistake little Bankai made he would be ostracized for it and of course you will swallow whatever they would throw at you. Even the Commander General could see that it was just a matter of suspension and house arrest would be an adequate punishment for such an offense against his military."

"Lies! All lies!" screamed Bankai as he rushed the man with his top speed and thrust forward with the kunai in his right hand.

The man noticed the speed of Bankai but he moved accordingly by parrying the kunai with one sword and bringing down the other sword to Bankai's neck and Bankai brought his other kunai up to block the attack and back flipped away from the man.

"Oh? You've gotten stronger X-1." he said as he twirled the sword in his hand confidently. "Don't hold back. Use your light abilities let us see how far you have come since you escaped like a swine the last time."

Bankai stood there, not attacking. He knew during combat that the most important thing is to never to let the words of your opponent get to you. His opponent he could tell was faster and stronger than he was. But that was not the only thing that determined a victor in battle. The man had two swords so no matter what he will at least always have two attacks coming at him simultaneously. And so with that thought he tightened his grip on his kunai and knew that technique and battle experience will determine who will win this. Bankai this time jumped into the air and launched two of his kunai to try and make the man to move his weapons and he would maybe make movements with his swords enough for an opening for Bankai to see. So said so done, as the man was busy parrying Bankai's two kunai Bankai had time to draw two more kunai and trust with one hand into the man's torso and POOF the man disappeared and a log remained where he was as he reappeared above Bankai and slashed downwards with his two swords as Bankai raised his hands and blasted the man with a massive beam of light sending him from one end of the room to the other end as his body crashed into the wall and POOF another log was charred in the power of Bankai's light. The man stood there as he sheathed his sword and began clapping as he started walking towards Bankai again.

"Nice...well done X. I trained you well. It is nice to see that my experiment worked. The others were not so lucky. Some of them their bodies could not handle the stress of such an advances element as light release."

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For the first time Bankai truly had not known clearly what to do. There was something about this man with his black cloak and shades with his two katana swords that unsettled him from the first time he saw him.

"Yes X, I can see that you are starting to realize and feel certain things, in this place...in my presence. It is a real pity that the truth can sometimes be such a hard pill to swallow. Do you not have dreams of this place? Would you like to see your own containment unit?"asked the man as he continued having his eyes fixed on Bankai.

"You have that? Why?" asked Bankai with his frown deepening.


"Yes...I can see your eyes widen at my words but I still have it. You can say I am a very sentimental person but that one would not be true. I kept it for the sole purpose as for this moment. When you come looking for answers to appease the headaches that you have been having recently, I would show you the container to further under mine your integrity to your beloved Hanagakure. When you see it, everything should come back floating up from your subconscious. Hahaha."

"Come what may I will..."

"What? Come what may you will what? Were you not going to say, 'defend Hanagakure at all costs?' Do you not find it strange that you have this resolve to save Hanagakure from all danger and they have done nothing for you?" asked the man slyly.

"They have saved me...they saved me from when I escaped from you. " said Bankai as his resolve sounded alot weaker not as he spoke. "I...escaped, from you and they found me."

"Rather fucking convenient if you ask me. A boy they once thought to be dead and your rescuers, their jurisdiction was far from here and would not patrol in these parts. But somehow these men found you. Yes the memory loss about your stay here was a side effect of the experiments we did on you but you may have had some recollection of you parents."

Bankai thought about this for a couple seconds as the head ache started to affect him, so much so that his left eye started to twitch under the pain. As he looked closely at the man he could see he was performing a series of one handed seals, no doubt it was not a natural thing that was causing this headache as his movements were what was causing the pain his head.

"So it was you who was calling me here using my headache as the line to draw me in."

"Of course. After what I see how your own village is treating you. Do you not think that as my experiment that you deserve to learn the truth about your past? Anyone would want to learn fully what happened in their past. The more you do for me, the better for you and the more you will learn. So, what say so X? Are you finally ready to join me? Of course Hanagakure does not have to know as they do not even know of my existence and quite frankly, they have bare acknowledged your own. But I know what is the basis of your resolve for wanting to protect Hanagakure but in time you will tell me yourself such things. So what say you...X?"

"Never, I will never betray Hanagakure. All you have so far are words. And your skill compared to mine is like the ground trying to become the heavens. Do not be mislead foolish one, I am Lieutenant Misaki Bankai and I will kill you for doing this to me! For trying to get into my head." cursed Bankai as he again clenched his fists around his two kunai.

"The man with the dark cloak clapped after Bankai was done speaking. "Very good speech X. If I were but a man I would have believed you. Well I do believe you will kill me, but at your current level it will be like a toothpick trying to dig metal right now. I did not come here to fight Bankai, but if you do not believe my words or would not listen to my invitations of undeserved mercy to you then you have forced me to beat the living daylights out of you to make you understand that your current life is a facade made up by me and my colleagues."

"You will try." said Bankai as he readied himself. This time taking on the defensive as he prepared himself for the man's attack.

And attack he did with a flurry of slashes and spins and parry as Bankai answered with his own movements as he blocked and when he saw openings he would of course attack with his kunai accordingly. Bankai managed to kick one of his opponent's arms with his foot forcing the arm out of the way and forcing an opening for Bankai to strike. Instead, the man pivoted and gave Bankai a round house kick to his mid section which he blocked and his feet skated backwards on the smooth concrete floor of the ware house. He stopped himself but not a moment too soon as the man already reached up on him with a spinning mid air attack with his swords. Bankai knew this was what the man wanted; he wanted to force Bankai in a corner where other skills were not important and he would be forced to use his light jutsu. But as much as Bankai did not want to give in to this man's desires , when he saw the man mere inches away from him coming at him with the spinning sword jutsu, he had to do it. A mighty blast of light erupted from Bankai and caught the man square in his body. Bankai could hear the crackle of the man's bones as the blast was striking the man's body. The man's body ripped through the wall at the light dissipated and Bankai retracted his arms as he was finished with his attack. Just beyond the smoke and flying debris from the blast stood the same man smiling at Bankai.

"You truly are the strongest specimen." he chuckled.

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With great anger Bankai glared at this man as he survived one of Bankai's more powerful attacks with ease.

"How is this possible?" asked Bankai.

"Oh, look over there." said the man as he pointed in the direction where Bankai had just blasted a large hole in the warehouse wall. As as the smoke cleared even more, he saw a figure lying on the ground and smoking.

As Bankai looked closely at it, it was the man minus his stomach and his cloak as a hole was blown through his body. Bankai did a double take and saw the man who he was speaking to and it was indeed the same person.

"Impossible..."

"Is it? Tangible copies of ourselves are made all the time. They are called Kage Bunshin. However this jutsu, allows you to create actual clones of yourself by sacrificing your chakra in half. So it is a jutsu that cannot be trifled with. I will teach it to you and I will teach you many things. And really bring out the full potential of your body."

"Why? Why will do do this for me when I am a Soldier of Hanagakure?"

"Oh my God, you are such an idealist it sickens me. You have a strong will X, and I applaud you for that. But your so called memories of your life after the experiments were all fabricated by me."

"Why...why did you do this to me? Why did you take me?!"

"Are you even listening to what I told you? You were born like that empty husk in that glass container over there. Then you were given a personality. All that lack of emotion and all that? Just a program and that is what you are...a product of an experiment to be used to my liking. Count yourself lucky, all the shinobi in the world are nothing more than just pawns to the Kages that they serve. Sacrificed and thrown away like trash and all their lives they are of the view that they are important to their leaders. Count yourself lucky that you at least knew from up front what you are and what your purpose is in the world."

This was all too much...he was going crazy...all too much information to sink into his mind and swallow. It could be likened to a building suddenly loosing its entire foundation and was about to collapse. Everything that he knew and everyone he cared for was nothing more than a lie. Even the comrades that he had so wanted to protect had faded aggressively from his mind. One by one the disappeared in his subconscious, the walls of Hanagakure, the beautiful cherry blossoms, the buildings, the missions, the battles that he fought, his memories of the war was nothing more than a program that was fed into his mind to keep him within the lie.

"So you are saying, its either I betray Hanagakure and allow you to use me as a spy of some sorts or I continue living my life as a lie." he said surprisingly calm as he looked at the man with his emotionless face.

"That's right. Never forget what you are, and your place in this world. Hahaha." he laughed mockingly at Bankai.

"Well if following the likes of you is the 'truth'..." said Bankai as he took a fighting stance, "then I will continue living my life as a lie. If fighting for comrades I do not really know or truly love is wrong then I will continue to be wrong."

"Tough words...for a lab rat." he replied.

It was eerie how the man just stood there menacingly and all of a sudden, he reached up to Bankai with his blade arched back and ready to strike at Bankai. With kunai still in his hand, he raised it to block the attack and of course the man came around with his other sword and he parried that as well. And again this sort of fighting continued and all of a sudden the man stopped and so did Bankai.

"Why did you stop?"

"I stopped because your fighting no longer attracts me. I have already taken your will power and you have already realized this fact. You may be saying one thing but with the clash of our weapons I can see clearly what is your desire. This little lesson is over X. Would you look at that? You no longer cringe when I call you by that name. Why you may ask? Because it has been embedded into your psyche ever since you were nothing more than a husk. And whether you want to acknowledge it or not, I lured you here today because I wanted to finish my mission by reprogramming your brain to my liking. I will do it in a way where you will retain the memories you have while changing your personality and appearance. You will tell them, you wanted a new look and they will sense the difference but will not be able to put their finger on it as to why. With all their power, they cannot read minds or have any idea that you came here anyway. Strange isnt it? Now come to me and let me finish you like a true project supposed to be."

With a wave of his hand, Bankai fell asleep as the darkness took him over. He re-awoke but barely and he did not know how much time had elapsed since he was out. He looked down, slowly because of his unexplained grogginess at his naked body and he eyed his clothing and gear in a corner of the room. Again he felt the pain of what he did not know at the back of head, right beneath the skull. He could have barely raised his hand to touch it and at once he knew that the man had already reprogrammed his brain. There was a burning sensation around the edges of the skin that made up his face. It felt as an embossed line all around the edges as if they welded his face onto his head. He partially saw himself in the faint reflection of the glass container that he was in and realized to his horror that he had a different face and hair. It was as if he were looking at someone else and not at himself and the thought unsettled him greatly. A breathing apparatus was attached to his mouth and nose and he was lying in a fetal position when the liquid came gushing in from the metal grating that was at the top of the tank. The liquid began to rise quickly within the tank as his body was fully submerged within it. This time however the liquid was not blue but rather it was red. In front of the tank was the man doing whatever it was he was doing on a control panel, no doubt he sent this red liquid to submerge Bankai's body. The more he thought about that name the more it gave him a headache

...ah yes that's better, my name is not Bankai oh no, its X just like how father said it would be. Once I call myself by X then the pain will go away. No...I am Misaki Bankai...Lieutenant of Hanagakure's military! Ugh...the pain is just too much....

"X, can you hear me? If you can hear me just nod. Good that's good. I can see you are still having some problems accepting your name X, your real name. I am going to increase the dosage and maybe that will make the adjustment easier. The more you fight this X the more painful it is going to be for you."

Bubbles was rising at a faster rate than normal signaling that Bankai was breathing heavier than before and somewhere deep inside his mind, he knew that this was wrong as was fighting it and his body started to convulse in reaction to the higher dosage of whatever drug they were pumping into his system.

I am X...I am a soldier of Hanagakure no sato and from this day forth I will be a different person. For I am X.


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"I have to complete your transformation and completely remove this stupid idealism of your former self. In other words, the life that you have been living was nothing more than an illusion. What I will show you that you have been leading an erroneous life and now that you have repented you will begin to show people the light of holiness and any one who is not worthy of the cleansing will be burnt, singed and be brought to dust before your immense light. They will eventually know of your worth and will know that someday, you will be a force to be reckoned with. Have you ever wondered why we chose light as an element? Because light truly has no weakness from the normal elements. I am sure you have seen in your own combat as well. How light over powers everything and how it is unstoppable and how it so versatile. The only other clone who survived the transformation, gave him the element of darkness. Ironic isnt it? It is really good that you cant say anything but look at me with those eyes and listen. Ah and now the dosage has been working the light from your eyes is being diminished as I speak."

Bankai knew to himself, his humanity, what little that was left was slipping away. And the more the tried to fight it, the weaker he felt. He could have barely kept his eyes opened to watch the man at the console.

At least keep your eyes open. Don't go falling asleep like a little...baby. Oh my god, I never knew it was possible to feel this weak. Ugh...

The man looked at Bankai floating there in the tank, helpless and totally dependent on him. He felt so powerful with someone being dependent on him.

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The man in the black cloak pressed a button and drained the containment tank and X's body floated to the bottom as he liquid was drained. It was then that a team of four men in hospital scrubs came into the room and the man opened the chamber with a press of a button as the glass cylinder was raised up and allowed access to the one that laid in a fetal position on the base of the chamber. The men came and picked up X and carried him to another room. It was an operating theater full with all the amenities that are usually in an operating room. This was a procedure they have done thousands of time but it was the first time that it was done on a clone. As he lay on the table the tea, surrounded him and started to perform their procedure. They opened his skull and had the brain exposed. They placed several metal leads into his brain and take readings of his brain activity and they could see that he was disturbed about something, they could tell from the reading they were getting from his brain. The man knew the reason why. The biological part of his brain was still trying to over come the programming he placed there. He ordered one of the operating room orderlies to bring the final part of the conversion. The chip was in a glass case and they removed the glass case and handed the other the chip to the man and he gingerly placed it deep within the confines of Bankai's brain. His face was now changed and now hopefully his mind. The man hoped that he would not be a conflicted person as he was earlier but at least the headaches will stop and that was one area in which he would not be able to control him any more. The chip however has a fail safe in it in that if the man wanted, he could kill Bankai at any time with the push of a button. He can enter his thoughts with whispers and try to have Bankai under his watch at all times and groom him fully for what is to come in the future.

After the procedure, Bankai had to heal to make sure there would be little or no hiccups today. When dealing with the brain, it must be treated as if it were a child, with tenderness and constant supervision if you want to get the desired results. Let one thing slip and all your work will be nothing short of a disaster. The man stood looking at the young man as he lay there in the medical bay of the facility. He did not have much time here still because soon, if he did not let him leave then Hanagakure soldiers will be coming to look for him and that was something he simply could not have. Good thing he set up barriers to detect if anyone was coming towards the underground base. It had only been twenty four hours and the Lieutenant was still within the borders of Hanagakure, he was no child and he did not leave Hanagakure and so his superiors could not have told him anything because he broke no law. The next phase of all this is to revive him and speak to him and see if there are any traces of his former self within his mind. He injected Bankai's body with a chemical to make him revive a little faster than he usually would on his own. A few seconds after he had administered the injection, the man opened his eyes and looked all around him. The room was painted in a soothing green and the sheets and the tiles on the floor and the ceiling were white and the bed and equipment was chrome.

"Where am I?" he asked as he looked around.

"You are in a hospital. We found you at the side of the road and brought you here to this place." said the man.

"You are lying to me. What are you trying to pull here? I remember everything."

"What is your name?"

"My name? Don't be such a fool my name is X." he said confidently, almost defiantly.

So the procedure worked like a charm. He still has his apparent hostility to me but his recollection of what his name was before seems to be completely gone. Mission was successful then. Let me prod him some more and the where exactly his brain stands.

"Good good. Where are you from?"

"I am from Hanagakure." X replied.

"And what is your mission?"

"My mission? My mission is to, well what I am supposed to do is...I don't know."

"I see, you do not know what your mission is."

Well he's a blank slate right now...I could tell him anything and he will be in agreement with it. This is really good for me.

"Well your true purpose is to gather information for us and be our soldier and in return we will teach you different things. For example that curious jutsu where you can make actual clones of yourself and not just the shadow crap those other ninja like to make. With such a jutsu you can ca increase your numbers and you can ensure you always have a companion with the utterance of one jutsu away. You will return to your life as a soldier of Hanagakure and become strong. But remember Hanagakure is not your ally. Beneath all the glamour of it all its all deceit my friend. Move normally with your friends and your family and never tell them what I have told you here. Now go...you will not be recognized at first. But you will be eventually maybe by the way you speak or your mannerisms."

X as he was now called will only be used for certain missions as he knew himself to still be Bankai. He will do investigation about what the man said himself soon. It will be a secret identity in other words. When certain things needed to be done, he will change his appearance once again and carry out his mission. To even off things and for things to be normal, he needed to go do some of his own village's missions to get the cash needed. Bankai slowly walked on his way home.

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