Khrona, I have a question

Koudo stood outside Khrona`s office, unsure if he should just enter or knock. He had done his research on Khrona and knew it best not to surprise him or piss him off. Koudo wanted to do neither, though it would be interesting to see Khrona that way. Koudo figure that the man in the office, would probably sense that he was there and the door would open on its own, so he waited.

Thinking about it now, Koudo figured that knocking would be best, since then they would actually know he was standing outside the door. Besides, Koudo`s question was something that he was sure only Khrona could answer and he really wanted to hear the answer directly rather than searching for it in a book and risk running into the barbarians again. Nodding, Koudo placed his fist to the door and rapped on it lightly.

" Lord Khrona, are you in? "

( Just a fancy way of bumping the thread. )

(Oh, damn, sorry, i didn't even see this...)

Khrona's door opened up all nice and smoothlike, not making a sound whatsoever. In the blink of an eye, Koudo would be in a chair in front of Khrona's desk before he could realize what happened.

"... Koudo Tamura... A new ninja of mine. What's up?"

Khrona was looking up lackadaisically at the ceiling, not seeming particularly focused on anything whatsoever for some reason...

( It`s fine. I wasn`t in a rush, but I was bored so why not get this over with right? )

Damn powerful people, and their showing off. Koudo grumbled something completely inaudiable, at least he hoped, before looking around the office and then to Khrona, who looked like he was out of his mind to say the least, which was sort of true right? The thing Koudo wanted to ask about was Souls, specifically Soul weapons , and on top of that, he wanted to ask Khrona about someone that he was interested in meeting. But before that ...

" Well Lord Khrona, I wanted to ask about Souls. And more specifically, Soul Weapons. To make a very long story short, I was taken hostage a little while ago and realized that if I would have had a little back up I might have been able to see the person coming. Soul Weapons, if trained good enough, can see souls right? And can tell if someone is good or bad right? So I want one so that I don`t run into the same problem. "

Koudo explained before looking around the room again and then back to Khrona. Something , or someone was missing. Oh right, Khrona`s soul weapons. Misery and what was the other one ... Despair or something like that. Koudo was interested in seeing what they looked like up close. Word had it that they were fairly beautiful and Koudo really wanted to see.

" If I may? Where are your Soul Weapons? "

Khrona looked up only slightly at Koudo.

"... Yeah, so what if I like to show off? Would you rather do this again in a normal, boring fashion?"

Before he could answer, he was back at Khrona's door, knocking. This time, however, Khrona opened the door himself and allowed Koudo to sit down of his own free will as Khrona sat down at his desk looking a bit angered.

"... Was that really so much better?"

After that, Koudo asked about souls and all the like... He knew it.

"... Souls. Well, you need a Soul Weapon first and foremost, and Shinigami-sama has those at the joint he runs... Shibusen. It's an academy that teaches you all the shit you need to know about souls and weapons and techniques and all that fancy crap everyone's trying to master these days."

Khrona stretched a bit, but opened an eye out of curiosity when Koudo mentioned Misery and Despair.

"... My weapons? Huh. Alright, if you insist..."

Khrona's wings would spread, however due to circumstances, they did not release a force... barely any wind at all. It was Khrona holding their power back as to not destroy the office... AGAIN... or to blow away Koudo. His wings would take up the entire office without being fully expanded, plunging the entire office into blackness. From the blackness, there was bubbling... bubbling which started to excrete two beautiful women that did not look a day over 20, if that... Misery and Despair.

"... Misery... Despair..."

The two of them walked over to Khrona, symmetrically leaning against him as his wings closed themselves up, Khrona folding his hands with elbows on the desk, practicing his ol 'Gendo Ikari' face.

"... Here they are. My two weapon partners... Misery and Despair. What of them?"

Koudo shook his head and listened to what Khrona had to say about soul weapons and all that good stuff, when it came to Shinigami-sama, Koudo kinda smacked himself for not going there first. But he wanted to see Khrona anyway and get an idea of just how powerful he was, and from what he saw from the wings, he could sense that Khrona was beyond his comprehension as of right now. Nodding, he surveyed the two women before looking at Khrona.

" Well, looks as if people didn`t lie about them. They are beautiful. Must be goddamn strong too am I right? Man I want a female partner too. "

Koudo said before leaning back in the chair. It was time to ask about the person that Koudo really wanted to see now and he wanted to see if Khrona could hook him up with a meet and greet. Of course Koudo would have to go see Shinigami-sama before this other person, but he wanted to meet Cleff. He`d heard interesting things about him .. very interesting things.

" So, the other reason I`m here to see you Lord Khrona. Do you know a guy by the name of Cleff? I want to meet him one day, and I was wondering if you had the power to set that up. Not a day soon mind you, but maybe the day I finally make Chuunin. So can you do that? I`ll do anything you need me too, to make this meeting possible. "

Koudo was very serious about this. Being trained with Cleff would be like a dream for him. With what he could learn from Cleff, Koudo was sure that he could get so strong, that he could completely decimate the vermin in one attack, as well as show the barbarian what he was truly made of. The fires of passion were burning in his eyes now and he was starting to get excited.

Of course, Khrona was a bit surprised to hear that people had been talking about Misery and Despair... and the fact that they were beautiful, as well. Khrona smiled as the two of them blushed, Misery turning away while Despair giggled a bit.

"... Ha. Seems like you two are pretty popular within yourselves, huh?"

Misery: Heh. You think I'm beautiful, huh? This guy's alright with me.

"... Wait, you mean you DON'T hate him!? Wow. That's a first, Misery... You hate everyone."

Despair: Oh, what a horribly nice thing for you to say, Mr. Koudo... You have my gratitude... You are a very nice boy...

Khrona couldn't help but smile. "Yeah, these two are pretty damn strong by themselves... But when all three of us are together, we're a terrible force to be reckoned with, I'll tell ya. Hahaha... Good times... Gooood times..."

Khrona stood up and stretched, placing either arm around Misery and Despair.

"... So. You wish to meet the Technology Sprite, eh? Well, sadly, I have never met him in person. I mean, I have intel on damn near everyone on Vescrutia, but a lot of the people I know of I haven't met. Regardless, Cleff is known to sometimes come to the lab located a little ways away from here. He has a series of bases set up in the 3 villages as well as the main point of Vescrutia, so you can check any one of those places... That, or the Chaotic HQ, where he lives... Since his team died off and left him with everything, that is..."

Khrona coughed.

"... But yeah. Go check out one of those places. He should be there."

Koudo nodded and stood, before bowing to Khrona and his weapons, not too low, mind you, just a simple bow before he started towards the door to the room.

" Thanks for the help Lord Khrona. It was nice actually meeting you in person. You too Misery and Despair. Welp, I`m off to get a partner for myself, hopefully she`s as good looking as both of you. "

With that Koudo opened the door and walked out of the office. It was time to go and get himself a partner as well as find Cleff. But before that, he peeked his head back in.

" Also, when I get my partner, can you analyzed my soul and tell me what kind it is? That`s not too much for the great lord Khrona is it? "

Khrona knew for a fact that Shinigami or one of the Death Scythes at Shibusen could easily decipher his own soul... Yet, he wished for Khrona to do it, instead? That kinda made Khrona a bit happy. With a giddy chuckled, Khrona gave the thumbs up.

"Oh yes, of course, Koudo! I will be happy to help. See you when you come back, then. We shall be waiting."

Misery smirked at him, giving him the peace sign while Despair smiled gently and waved gracefully upon his departure.

Misery: See ya, kid.

Despair: Your presence was definitely morbidly delightful... Please come back soon...

( Time skipped to after he got the weapons. Why make a new topic right? )

Koudo stood in front of Khrona`s office once more, his weapons walking behind him, Maina looking as irritated as she did when he first got her, for reasons he still didn`t understand, and Naina looking as shy and timid as she looked when he first got her, for reasons he still didn`t understand as well, all in all the three of them looked like a pretty crappy team since he hadn`t even tried to wield them as weapons just yet. He wondered about them even being able to be on the same soul wavelength, but he was sure that all of theirs was the same, so he didn`t worry much about things he needed to do more research about.

Maina: " Hey smart ass, knock on the door already. What the hell are you thinking about? "

Naina: " .... "

" Alright, alright loudmouth, keep your dress on. "

Koudo grumbled before knocking on the door and waiting for an answer.

The door would open quickly, as Khrona would sense the souls of 3 people this time instead of just Koudo's soul by itself.

"... So, you've gotten your two weapons, I see. Good thing that they're twins, or else it would be literally impossible for you to wield them as you are right now."

Khrona snickered and made his way back to his seat, Misery and Despair sitting on either ends of the desk looking square at Koudo's new weapons; Misery finding a fascination in the mean one and Despair, the shy one. Maybe because the two of them could relate to the other two quite well. Misery was a mean bitch and Despair was shy to an extent.

"Well. How did it go?"

Koudo stepped inside and walked to the same chair that he was sitting in previously. The girls standing to either side of him, each standing adjacent to the women with Khrona, that were fascinated with them, Maina in front of Misery and Naina in front of Despair. Koudo sighed to himself and shook his head.

" In one word ... horrible. She`s a loudmouth and the other one doesn`t talk ... at all. "

Koudo said pointing to Maina, who normally would have protested when being called a loudmouth, but seemed to busy locking eyes with Misery ... sizing her up as you would. Naina did the same with Despair, though she wasn`t sizing her up just staring with a blank smile. Koudo shook his head once more.

" Doesn`t matter, after a while we`ll get to know one another and hopefully everything will be smooth sailing. I met two interesting people though. Shinigami-sama and a death scythe named Tear .. they were interesting. "

Koudo explained before closing his eyes and looking off to the side, leaning back in the chair and getting a little more comfortable, before he looked back at Khrona.

" Said I should seek some help with training with them. You, Chroma, Ken, TJ, and some others. I plan to find most of them and ask them specific things about training. The more I learn from each the better I`ll get. "

Koudo explained before shrugging and then looking from his girls to Khrona`s women.

" Though training with you the most, would be the best thing to do. "

Khrona started to laugh as he named those people, knowing that some of them weren't exactly... As skilled as Shinigami may give them credit for. Hell, even his own daughter needed work in wielding a weapon... She had been off being an autonomous weapon, she had forgotten about her two weapons she had to take care of already... Boy.

"... Ha. Yeaah... I would suggest coming to me most, as well... The others aren't really... All that great. Last I checked, TJ has had a soul weapon for the longest time and has collected NO souls whatsoever, Chroma, my daughter, doesn't even use her weapons for whatever damn reason she says, We barely SEE Ken anymore... Heh. I'm assuming that myself and the others would prooobably be better..."

Misery couldn't help but laugh at Khrona's remarks after she was done staring down Maina.

Misery: Hahaha! Do they all really suck that much? Not like I've noticed that much, anyway. Heh. I mean, is there anyone that DOESN'T suck besides us?

Despair: ... Surely Maze is very skilled with his weapons... He just doesn't use them anymore...

Misery: Uuuuh huh. That's what I thought. I mean, Takai uses his weapon quite a bit, so I guess he's decent. Nathan pulls his out every... blue moon. Ha, you see what I did there? Moon? HA.

Usually, Misery was not one who did lame puns like that... Especially since Nathan is a Lycan. But, whatever. She pulls some jokes out once every blue moon. HA, you see what I did there? Used her own joke against her? Haha, yeaaah...

... Anyway. "... These are all very true statements... I mean, currently, we have a new weapon user, Atra, who shows some promise... More promise than the others... So, if anything, I would suggest going to either myself, Atra, Takai, Maze or, hell, even Shinigami-sama and Tear."

After all the fun and games were over, though, Khrona cracked out his ol 'Gendou Ikari' and stared at Koudo with folded hands and an intense and serious stare.

"... So. You wish for training to begin?"

Misery and Despair looked a little more anticipated than usual...

Taken aback a little by the explanations they were giving, Koudo tried to follow but ended up only catching the end of the entire back and forth that they had with one another. Which was pretty much Khrona naming people that were alright to go to, him, Atra, Takai, Maze and of course Shinigami and Tear. If there were anymore people well Koudo would just have to stumble across them another time.

When offered training right now, before he could answer, Maina butted in quickly.

Maina: Make it happen! The sooner we get a bit of training in then the better well get and the sooner we can go on our first soul hunt.

Naina: .... We could go now though ...

Maina: So she does talk, why are you always so clammed up?

Naina: ....

Yeah that was all the speech that they were gonna get out of her before she went back to the blank smile that she usually wore. Koudo sighed to himself a little and looked from Naina and Maina then to Khrona and shrugged his shoulders.

" I mean, if you wanna help then sure. But could you give me so time. I wanna see if my infestation will work on them first. "

Maina: INFESTATION!!!! Tryin` to give us a disease or somethin`?

" No, my infestation is different, you`ll see when I use it. Since I`d have to actually hold you two, I wanna see if my infestation will make it so that I won`t have to, but you two will just hover where ever my hand moves. "

Koudo explained, but he was getting a little ahead of himself and quieted the explaining down a bit.

" Welp, training with you would be the best, so I can figure out the infestation thing as we go along. "

Koudo decided while talking and looking at Khrona, the girls behind him looking at each other before looking to the corresponding woman in front of them.

Maina: This is gonna be fun.

Naina: ... fun ...

"Infestation, you say? Heh. How about we stick to the basics first and you can get fancy with it later. I mean, what's the point of being fancy if you don't know what the hell you're doing, right?"

Khrona snickered.

"Well... If we're going to train, I don't feel like moving so, we're training right here."

Khrona would sway one of his mighty, mighty wings and instantaneously, the two of them were taken to an entirely different environment. It was a plain field with dark skies... Further inspection would reveal that there was no sky but only grayness that resembled clouds... yet, it wasn't a cloud.

"This is my personal training field. I could take you to a place I created which I like to call the Trinity Plane, which is a combination of the Mind, Body and Soul all on one plane of reality, which you can hone the 3 of them at the same time with everything you do. But, we can do that later."

Misery and Despair were next to Khrona as always and he would grip them by the backs of their necks, the two of them giving a faint, dirty smile as they began to transform in a glow of blackish and purplish light, becoming a Sword and Razor respectively.

"You said you wish to learn about just the usage of your weapons first, right?"

Not surprised by the sudden change of scenery, Koudo still looked around in slight awe and fascination before he looked to Khrona, who looked ready for battle. As such, Koudo stepped back, between Maina and Naina, and nodded his head.

" Of course. Usage is always the first thing you need to learn. "

He stated before wondering how to get Maina and Naina to transform. He noticed what Khrona had done, but didn`t really wanna try it that way ... yet, so he gripped their hands and almost like magic, they transformed. Not in a fancy show of black and purple light, just a simple white for now, taking the form of two, slightly larger than average, Chakrams.

" Well ... Shall we get started? "

Khrona smiled as he even seemed fresh to their transformation. Oh, such an amateur..

"Ha. Of course. When your souls are more in tune with each other, your weapons would be able to know when to transform without you saying a word."

Khrona figured that using both Misery and Despair was a bit of... overkill for the newbie... But at the same time, not too many people used dual weapons, so it was going to have to be a learning experience.

"Hm... Your souls seem to be slightly in tune with each other so far... Wielding two weapons is harder than wielding one, I hope you know. Though, twins makes using two weapons a lot easier, for twins naturally have similar Soul Wavelengths that can match their wielder's at the same time. The only problem is evenly distributing your own wavelength equally between the two to ensure maximum potential in the both of them... Thus, Soul Resonance becomes difficult."

Khrona nodded his head, pondering...

"... Bah well. Let's get this show on the road..."

Khrona would have to hold back... He knew how to do that. Let's see...

"Come at me, Koudo. I want to see how well you can use them right off the bat."

Koudo listened to the explanation that Khrona gave before looking at the chakrams in his hands, tossing one in the air and catching her perfectly, before bringing it in close to his face and smirking.

" Hmpf ... alright. Lets try this. "

He said cocking the same arm that he used to toss the chakram up in the air, back, and threw it in a straight line towards Khrona. Though it was a little harder to use actually weapons that you had to throw, since Koudo was used to using guns, he was up for the challenge of mastering them, and throwing them in a straight line was no problem. The problem he saw for himself was making them curve and deviate from that straight line to surprise a foe.

Khrona would swiftly raise Despair, the razor, up to block the chakram, deflecting it and sending it to the ground as if it was nothing.

"... You have good aim, but you do not have much control with your weapons once they leave your hands, do you? That can be fixed via both of your Soul Wavelengths. When you have a better connection with your weapons, the possibilities of what you can do with your Wavelength is almost endless. Though it does take a lot of hard work and practice..."

Khrona smiled, putting Misery down and having Despair change into her seldom seen second form... Which was that of an explosive projectile launcher. Oh yeah, it has been a while... Khrona didn't even set her on his shoulder, because that's not how he used explosive projectile weapons. He wielded them as if they were straight guns, which would be physically impossible for damn near anyone, but Khrona made it happen. He held the bazooka-esque weapon up, pointed at Koudo... Khrona's eye was a natural scope for these things. He launched his weapon a series of times, large bazooka shots coming from it aimed at Koudo's general direction. He only had one of his two weapons with him, so Khrona wondered how exactly he would get his weapon...

Damn, one weapon in hand and bazooka shots coming his way. The first thing Koudo was worried about was getting out the way of the shots, so he dove to the side, lucky enough to dive to the side that his other chakram was laying on. Koudo looked at the other one in his hand before turning it sideways and tossing it like a wheel, making it collide with the one on the ground and knock them both in the air. Alright, now all I need to do is get to them before they hit the ground again. The smartest thing he could think of was to make a mad dash towards them, which he did.

"Aaah, that's good..."

Khrona aimed his bazooka nonchalantly at Koudo, or, more specifically, where he was running to, then fired off another blast at that specific position, trying to blow him to smithereens, once again. It was amazing that this was Khrona actually holding back.

"They're up in the air, but missiles can fly~. Khrona likes to make things go boom~!"

He was singing things now. Oh boy, must mean he was having fun with the genin. But, what Khrona was actually saying through his song was that he was about to fire a shot at the chakrams in the air as well, and as a result, aimed at them both and fired one directly at them. Could Koudo avoid the shots and get his weapons at the same time? Stay tuned!

" I`m better with my hands alone anyway .. at least for now. "

Koudo stated, he clapped his hands once, before they started to glow a mixture of blue and silver. This was probably gonna be the most risky maneuver that he`d ever try, and he was sure that he would never try it again, but he dodge one of the blast just in the nick of time and pressed his hand to the live shot.

" INFEST!!! "

The scream wasn`t for dramatic effect, no, from the scream sound waves started to emit from his mouth, reaching the area where his weapons were free falling and deflecting the shots going that way. As for the live round he had a hand on, the blue and silver glow wrapped around the round before turning the shot blue and silver, moving it to just next to his head, hovering there. It was still live of course, there was no doubt about that, but it was bent to Koudo`s will and he wanted to to remain with him for a little longer, so he could figure out what to do with it.

He started to run again, lifting off the ground with a mighty jump, and reaching one of the chakrams that was free falling, while the other slipped passed his other outreached hand and fell to the ground once again, this one being Naina and not the previous Maina that was on the ground. Damn it ... So close .... He started his decent to the ground.

Khrona cocked his head to the side, scratching his head with his bazooka.

"Eh? That's what that does? Hm. Oh well, I guess I should detonate it, then."

Despair would surge her wavelength through the live ammo, because it was actually created by her soul, itself. It wasn't like she actually used real ammo. At least, not this time around. Sure, it looked like it, but it really wasn't. Khrona didn't have time to buy petty AMMUNITION. HA.

Surging Despair's wavelength into her own shot from afar would cause it to explode. Koudo could take control of the outside, but not the inside. Thus, if it was as close to him as he said, if he didn't react to Khrona's words, then that meant he might be in a little bit of a situation. Khrona wanted to see the results of this, actually...

" Detonate? .... damn. "

Koudo said as his feet touched the ground, as a reaction he pointed his finger forward, not thinking about the direction, not even realizing where he was pointing, and just from him pointing his finger the round left his side, but explode semi in front of him so he was blown backwards.

He landed, on his feet, sliding backwards across the ground before kneeling and looking at the ground with a slight smirk. This is fucking crazy. But he started to laugh, silently, but he laughed and stood up, showing that he had both the weapons in his hands again.

" You really tried to take my head off there .... Ah well, I got the girls again, so lets try attacking with them again. "

Koudo said charging forward, arms spread out to both his sides.

Khrona snickered a bit under his breath as Koudo managed his way around the detonation. Khrona's eyes dimmed as his smile widened to insane heights, his eyes slowly making their way down to Despair's location.

"Hey, Despair... He wants to fight close combat. Haa... Close combat..."

His eyes would slowly make their way back up to Koudo, who was still running at him. Despair started to glow again, this time taking the shape of a very small razor blade, which was the form Khrona usually had her take. He stood there, razor in hand, looking like the young Sweeney Todd and simply waited for Koudo to make an attack. He was twirling Despair in his hands in a fancy fashion...