Ancestral Awakening

Arisu was the type of girl who meditated often. She'd always been the type to do so, trying to connect with the world around her, pouring out her chakra into the environment in a manner consistent with the teachings of Ninshu. After recent events, having killed the previous Mizukage and her predecessor, as well as re-acquiring the Animal Path from Ikomiki and arresting both her and Akihiro, Arisu had found that it was time to meditate again.

She had dropped off Akihiro and then went to find a spot where there were plenty of trees and water around so that she could connect with nature. As Ninshu was meant to be shared among other people, she brought out several clones, 10 total, 11 with herself, to sit in a circle with while she let her chakra flow freely around the area.

However, today wasn't like every other day. Today there was something special. When she reached her chakra out into the world normally, there wasn't a response. Today though, she felt a tug, and all of a sudden the landscape around her shifted into an ethereal swirling pool before it settled into a dark void of endless expanse, and she appeared to be on a pool of water with only a single figure, floating in a sitting position.

The figure had several striking characteristics, but Arisu noted him to be an Otsutsuki at the very least, and one whose chakra roamed freely around the world, meaning he was one who had passed here. A quick deduction told her that this was either the Sage of Six Paths, or his brother.

"Miss Arisu Otsutsuki. I'm the spirit of Hagoromo Otsutsuki, although I'm better known as the Sage of Six Paths. I've been watching you for a while, and you seem to embody many characteristics that I support. I don't have a lot of time here unfortunately, but I'd like to bestow upon you a gift that may help further your evolution. Please use it to continue connecting with nature and protecting this world."

The Sage held out a hand to her, and Arisu nodded, approaching and kneeling in front of him. Placing his palm on her forehead, Arisu felt a surge of chakra enter her body, and the mindscape in front of her had disappeared. Several key points of information flooded her mind.

Entering back into consciousness next to the river, the surge of chakra she'd been feeding out into the world started to mingle with the natural chakra of the world, and with the tether to it, she pulled, and began to fill her own body and the bodies of her clones with a massive amount of Nature Chakra.

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Stamina: X tier with Demon Bell
Stamina: 425/425
425/11=38.636363636363

11*10= 110 Natural Chakra gather

Name: Shadow Clone Technique
Rank: B
Power: -
Activation Cost: -
Upkeep Cost: -
Range: 1 km.
Speed: -
Element: -
Skill: Ninjutsu
Classification: General Technique
Requirements: -
Parent Technique: -
Hand Seals: Clone seal or Tiger
Description: The Shadow Clone technique creates replicas of the user, similar to the Clone Technique, but these clones are corporeal instead of illusions. Clones spawn next to the user. The clones are capable of performing techniques, including the Shadow Clone Technique itself, on their own and can even bleed, but will usually disperse after hit by a strong enough force. The clones can also disperse on their own or be dispelled by the user of the technique. This technique splits the user's chakra equally amongst however many clones they create.
Weaknesses: In addition, the user must maintain general concentration to maintain their clone's presence. If at any time the user is inflicted with heavy damage in contrast with their Constitution all clones will be dispersed. Also the user must not fall under the exhaustion threshold (below 30 CP) to maintain or create clones. Clones have a max base Constitution of C (or lower if the user's base constitution is lower). If the user has natural S-Tier Constitution then it can be improved to B. If a clone has lower than 30 chakra, they will also be subject to the exhaustion penalty as per the Stamina rules.

-Several days later-

Arisu sat cross legged in the same spot she had been in when she was there previously. At that time, she had unlocked quite the ability, granted to her by the chakra presence of the Sage of Six Paths. As an Otsutsuki, plenty of things came to her rather naturally, and she knew that her species were near god-like beings, so being visited by a chakra ghost didn't actually surprise her all that much. Besides knowing that she hadn't quite reached the pinnacle of her species, she knew that as they matured, Otsutsuki only got more and more powerful. As Arisu understood it, the Sage had simply sped up that process in her, giving her a bit of a jumpstart by imparting his own chakra into her system.

Much like last time though, in the middle of her meditation, Arisu began to feel the imaginary tug of another consciousness attempting to make contact with her. Frowning slightly, she wasn't quite sure where it originated from. With somewhat of a tether to the Sage of Six Paths, it could have been him again, but something felt different this time. It was something else entirely, a different energy. As she concentrated on it, she began to follow it back to its source, and was surprised to find that the consciousness was that of the Gedou Statue with which she was attached to.

"Summon."

A simple request seemed to be emanating from the statue, utilizing its connection to her Rinnegan to communicate somewhat. Curious, Arisu moved to summon the statue. Surprisingly though, when the smoke cleared from her summons, the statue wasn't present in the way that she would have normally recognized it. Instead, a large tree with a giant flower head sat where the statue would normally. Arisu recognized it immediately as a young God Tree. However, she knew that it was one and the same as the statue. At the top of the tree was a single fruit, which began to drop down to where Arisu was, growing down on a branch until it was in her reach.

While a healthy God Tree was much much larger, Arisu knew that this one wasn't a viable one to be replanted. If anything, this was something that the statue had made out of its own energy, an already dead God Tree that only held a portion of power, but no potential for new growth as this creation wasn't living. If the Gedou Statue was going to ever regain its status as a healthy, viable tree that could again begin to draw up the natural energy of the world and take root, it would need to regain quite a bit of chakra, at least on a similar enough level to that which made up the Bijuu that had split from it. The fruit that she was being presented was a paltry amount of its remaining energy, meant for something different than granting the power that a fully formed fruit would grant.

"Consume."

Again, she could only really get the gist of what the statue wanted her to do, so she reached up to grab the fruit, plucking it from the tree. As she did so, the tree began to instantly dry, shrivel, and disintegrate when the fruit was no longer attached. Holding the red fruit in her hand, Arisu stared at it for a moment, before taking a bite out of it. It was quite sweet, and she ate the entire thing, leaving nothing behind. For a moment, nothing happened, and she wasn't quite sure what that had been about, but she didn't have to wait long before getting an answer to that question.

Inside Arisu, a gift had been awakened, something that the God Tree had done en masse in times immemorial. When Arisu's Rinnegan had originally awakened, she'd connected to the Gedou Statue, which was itself the husk of the 10 tails. However, the 10 tails had once been the God Tree of this planet, and the God Tree utilized the nature energy it absorbed to awaken new abilities in their protectors, granting the Senju and their descendants extraordinary increases in their life energy, powerful bodies, and plenty of nature powers of their own. When Arisu had become a Sage, her connection to nature had deepened enough that she was able to feel the call of the God Tree, which sought to further its bond and connection to the girl for several reasons.

The stronger Arisu was, the better a protector she would be, and the more likely that she'd be able to reunite it with the beasts that had been spawned from it, one day bringing it back. The other was to connect them more on a spiritual level, entwining them in the process even further than before. The Gedou Statue, unbeknownst to Arisu, wasn't just a simple tree. It had been infused with the consciousness and power of another Otsutsuki. One that wanted to one day return to a body. The stronger that Arisu got, the more viable a host she may one day be to serve as the catalyst for that Otsutsuki's return. For now however, that was an unknown.

Inside her, new powers awoke. 100% suited to her Otsutsuki genetics, they were completely her own. The already impressive life force of Arisu grew even larger. While another Otsutsuki (Ikomiki) had done so artificially, stealing the DNA from another Senju to gain such a power, Arisu's powers were 100% her own DNA awakening the powers of the Senju that were already hardcoded into her. Even without using anything, she could tell that her chakra had increased, her body was tougher, and injuries would likely heal faster. She almost felt more youthful, although the girl wasn't that old to begin with. On top of that, with her elemental natures, Arisu knew that there was now an additional one. Mokuton.

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