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Chapter 4 - Chapter 04

"We're just saying to be careful," Fukusaku said, "We don't want anything bad happening to you before you find and prepare the Child of Prophecy."

"I know," Jiraiya replied, "But still, I wish to know what this fūin jutsu can do."

At that, Jiraiya closed his eyes to focus and summon the required amount of Sage chakra into his body. After several moments, he reached the level he needed. Opening his eyes, Jiraiya raced through the intricate pattern of hand signs that went with the jutsu he was seeking to execute. When he was done, he clasped his hands together.

"Fūin Jutsu: Izō Sōzō Fūjin," Jiraiya said summoning the activation of the sealing jutsu. No sooner than he did that when he saw that he couldn't move his body. Fukusaku and Shima sense their movements were also restricted.

"I can't…," Shima said with a strain, "…move…"

"I can't either," Fukusaku said, "What's happening to us?"

"I don't know," Jiraiya admitted, "I-"

Jiraiya was cut off when a sharp pain tore through him. His strained a scream that wanted to escape from his mouth.

"Jiraiya-chan," Fukusaku and Shima cried out to Jiraiya despite their own situation. Suddenly, seal drawings started appearing around Jiraiya's hands and traveling up to his forehead. Reaching his forehead, the seals then started writing more seal drawings down and all around the Toad Sage's body and to the bottom of his feet. When that was done, the seals glowed before being absorbed into Jiraiya's body. Seconds later, Jiraiya screamed out in loudly in agony as through he was being torn apart from the inside. All of his sage chakra and regular chakra were being drained from out of his body.

Fukusaku and Shima did everything they could think of the break out of the paralyzed condition but to no avail. The two sages could only watch helplessly was Jiraiya yelled out his pain. Moments later the glowing seals appeared around his whole body again before floating and removing themselves off Jiraiya's body and fusing into the written seals that were on the opened scroll on the ground in front of Jiraiya. As for Jiraiya himself, he was patting heavily with trying to gasp for breath in spite of the fact that he was losing strength and consciousness fast.

After fusing with the seals in the scroll, the seals in the scroll started glowing before floating off the scroll and forming into a bright glowing white orb radiating a mighty blue flame aura completely filled with sage chakra. The orb itself had moving seal writings and drawings all around it and at the center inside the orb was the glowing Uzumaki spiral crest, which was spinning like a vortex. In the center of the spinning vortex was the shining golden kanji for "Legacy."

The orb seal flashed brightly and shot off into the starlit night skies flying off towards an unknown destination like a shooting star. Seconds later, Jiraiya fell flat to the ground facedown unconscious with Sage Mode being deactivated right after hitting the ground.

"Jiraiya-chan," Fukusaku and Shima cried out worriedly after mobility was restored to them. The scroll itself deteriorated into dust after its envisioned purpose was done.

(Some Time Later)

Jiraiya's eyes moved slowly under his eyelids. A minute later, his eyes opened as they gradually adjust to the light.

"You've awoken," Fukusaku sighed in relief, "Thank goodness. Shima and I were worried that you'd never awake again. Shima is preparing some food."

Jiraiya tried to sit up but found that he was incredibly weak to even move an inch.

"Uuugghhh," Jiriaya whimpered, "Where are we?"

"Back in Myōbokuzan," Fukusaku replied before changing his tone into a scolding one, "That was a reckless and dangerous gamble you played performing that kin fūinjutsu ōgi. Not only were you completely unprepared for the side effects of using that jutsu but you'd have surely died within that very same hour if Shima and I didn't hurriedly bring you back for immediate treatment and medical attention.

"That jutsu took a heavy toll on your mind and body and chakra. And it completely absorbed all of your sage chakra and normal chakra as it brought you to within less than an inch on your life. The one and only reason why you didn't completely die was because Shima and I were still fused with you, thus some of our chakra helped keep you alive long enough to bring you here for immediate help. It was unlike anything we've ever seen."

"You're telling me," Jiraiya replied weakly, "How long was I unconscious?"

"Three months," Fukusaku said. Jiraiya turned to his mentor with a surprised look.

"Say what," Jiraiya remarked.

"You fell into a coma," Fukasaku said, "A deep one right after we restored your body. We tried everything we could think of to wake you but nothing worked. You responded to nothing we did and your vitals were on critical for days before we were able to stabilize them. We had no idea whether or not the condition was permanent. Left alone you'd have died long ago."

The pain in Jiraiya had soon gone away.

"Where's the scroll," Jiraiya asked.

"Destroyed," Fukusaku said simply.

"You destroyed the scroll," Jiraiya asked, "I guess it was too dangerous to be tested again, huh?"

"No," Shima answered as she entered the room with some food for herself and Fukusaku, "The scroll self-destructed right after you used that jutsu. Evidently those seals were only for a one-time use, taking the user's life after its completion."

"What I would like to know is why a clan leader and seal master from the Uzumaki clan from long ago create such a kinjutsu," Fukusaku said.

"That's what I wanted to find out," Jiraiya replied, "All I know was that I felt chakra and things in my mind were being pulled from right out of me while my body was being dissected and analyzed. It took whatever it did to me and flew off to who knows where before leaving me for dead."

"In the center of the orb was the word "Legacy"," Fukusaku said, "I wonder what kind of legacy it was meant to create before taking your life."

"I suppose time will tell," Jiraiya replied, "If or when that sealing jutsu's effects ever surface."

Jiraiya awakened three months later after a near death experience. But his reckless actions in using a forbidden master sealing technique with shrouded origins raise questions. Why was that jutsu created and for what purpose? Where did it fly off to and will its effects be made manifest? Will its effects be good or bad?

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