*Gurgle*
*Gurgle*
*Gurgle*
The sound of running water passing by filled everyone's ears as they looked around in wonder at the clear skies, and the beautiful meadow that made a small floating island.
"Is this an Illusion? How were we drawn In all together?" Aunt Madoka asked her father, looking around in shock.
"Demon Mirror Technique reflects and reveals the closest form of the mind of its target. Kekkai was the center of this technique and when he shot outwards that blast of chakra from his refinement took the technique and enhanced it! This isn't an illusion, this is Kekkai's mindscape that we are witnessing right now." Ryū explained while looking around
He was right, this was a reflection of my mind space, or to be exact my inner world! A space that I created inside my mind and soul to interact with and cultivate my various Tulpa constructs.
Speaking of which.
"That's, not the only thing it did! look, we have company it seems!" Yoshiko said while pointing at seven figures that surrounded her son in a circle.
Watching the strange party of Humans, Animals, and a tree surround me. Their forms shifted constantly and leaked multi-colored smoke as they sat with their eyes closed in concentration, well most of them, [Yggy] just sat there with her branches waving.
Tendrils of silver light extended and spread themselves from them and attached to me, this was the excess mental energy that I branched off and attached to them.
Tulpa, subforms of consciousness formed by pure thought and willpower, need constant enforcement and attention to survive in a person's mind space. They start from just a forced image and thought processing and then branch off from there. Slowly Taking forms and suitable personalities as well as individual thoughts and beliefs.
Here is a constructed wonderland of what I imagine to be a haven for my mind to relax and converse with them face to face.
Although I don't know how my Tulpa would react to chakra in this world it seems to be doing pretty well as none of them seem to be experiencing any changes. Much better than I am, it felt weird and I couldn't put my finger on why.
"Kekkai, who are these, um, People?" asked Akiko as she walked
"My tulpa, come let me introduce you, I've never actually had them manifested like this before, I usually perform possession using [Damian]." I smiled explaining while examining the Indigo Chakra flame swirling around my body, light and warm, and somehow mysteriously comfortable even though it looks like I soaked in gasoline and proceeded to set myself on fire.
It felt extremely pleasing, but for some reason, I can't seem to tune myself to my body. Like I know it's there and feels the sensation from it. But it's like whatever I do Is slowed down, an afterthought to my muscles, and completely not like my usual state where I usually keep myself in the tune with each muscle that I use for maximum effort.
It feels like I'm in a fog, everything is echoing out and colors are flashing from the corners of my eyes. As if trying to adjust to a completely new body and senses that I didn't have before.
Frowning I tried to tune myself into this feeling but it evaded me what exactly it was.
"Kek-, Kekkai!" Ryū calls from in front of me, I completely didn't notice him coming forward.
"Yes?" I ask
/Yep, something feels wrong!/ I contemplate
"I was asking about these people, are all of them Spirits? Why do you have them all in your head?" he inquired while looking around.
"As I said before, they are my tulpa." I shrug or try to. It was delayed and unnatural as if I was puppeting my body instead of using it.
"These people are your Tulpas? every one of them? I thought there was only one?!" Akane asked while looking at them.
"Never said I had only one, Tulpas need interaction to function, and even though I interact with them every day. I can't spend every waking moment enforcing them so For them not to get lonely I poofed up some more. Although three of them weren't voluntary and just happened, but, the more the merrier!" I say cheerfully
"I see. But what are they doing right now?" Grandma Chiho asks while examining the long cords of energy flowing from me in the center.
"Just holding my excess mental energy, one second, ugh," I reply before grunting, my senses were slowly coming in and I tried to manipulate the Chakra around my body to stop and calm itself.
"Stop! This is more difficult than it seems. Try not to move so we can adjust or there will be a backlash from your mental energy to us." said [Morpheus] hurriedly, his form still shifting like the others as they tried to control Silver Tendrils.
"Okay!" I immediately freeze and tried my best to settle down, as I did my body's senses slowly came into focus and the discomfort slowly disappeared.
"They can speak?" Aunt Madoka asks, surprised.
Six pairs of eyes and a branch turned to her and glared, [Sköll] the white wolf chuffed derisively at her and made a low growling moan.
Whatever her Chuff meant the rest of them snickered to the side before turning their attention back to their task.
"[Sköll] says Your question doesn't make any sense bimbo, if words are coming out of my mouth then, of course, we can talk! Here's a better question. Can you chew gum and walk at the same time?" [Morpheus] quips with a sneer, translating the inside joke between them.
"Bimbo? What's a bimbo?!" Aunt Madoka
"Umm, it's an insult. She called you stupid." I helplessly explained
"What! Why you little-" Aunt Madoka instantly flared at this and glared back at [Sköl] who smirked at her with a toothy grin.
"Auntie, please calm down! After all, I believe you're the one who insulted them first." I immediately played mediator so they do not fight in the middle of my Chakra refinement.
"And [Sköl] is my Tulpa, she doesn't mean anything bad she was just kidding you. Why don't I introduce you to all of them, ok?" I tried to appease
/Even though I don't even know how that would turn out, these guys are phantoms and have no physical form, she would just be fighting air/ I complain silently
Grunting, Madoka settled quickly and looked at the shining energy that connected [Sköll] to myself before she gave [Skoll] a nasty glare and turned away.
All of the tulpas just looked at each other before snickering to the side.
"#*#^}^}^~!" [Damian] mutters something under his breath.
"#^#^*}!" x6 The rest of them cracked up again.
[Morpheus] grinned and turned back to me but before he could translate, my rebuking glare made him shut up and keep it to himself with a shrug.
"Your [Tulpa] seem to have a sense of humor, but what language do they speak? Besides the one in black, the rest don't seem to speak the local tongue or any tongue that I understand." Hak-Or asked, looking at them before focusing on [Hati] and [Sköll].
"Beats me, when I made them, the only one who spoke words that made sense was [Morpheus], who does understand them, somehow, the rest only share emotions and feelings with me. While [Mopheus] does the translation."
"Interesting, do you mind if I try something?" He whispered
"Sure? What are you trying to do?" I permitted
"Just trying to communicate," He states before walking up and beginning to bow to the two wolves.
He said "أحييكم يا آلهة الموت"
*GROWL*
Immediately after he says this, [Hati]'s Fur bristled and he began to growl and snarl at my father.
"What?! Dad, what did you just say to him? [Hati] never growls!" I said surprised, ever since the two wolves appeared, although [Hati] liked to play fight with [Damian] and [Morpheus] and [Sköll] liked to joke around, the black wolf was never angry like now.
Hak-Or says, "أرى فتاحة الطرق"
Whatever he said set him off even more, now [Hati] was up on all fours, he began to grow in size rapidly and red markings began to sizzle and burn against his black coat. A savage and malicious aura began to escape from his body.
"I see, so you do understand me," Hak-Or whispered peacefully, not caring about the now 5-meter-tall wolf that snarled carefully at him.
"[Hati]!" Eyes widening I immediately yelled out at the snarling wolf.
*GROWLL*
Not acknowledging my call, [Hati] still focused on my father, snarling with wide fangs and placing his nose down until he came eye to eye with my father, who for some reason just sat there with a calm face.
*Snuff*
[Sköll] who was to the side glanced at my father before snorting and pressing a paw on the raging [Hati].
Turning and glancing at her, an unknown agreement was made. [Hati] chuffed and slowly shrank back down, not forgetting to take a swipe at my father with his front paw.
As the illusionary paw swept through him, my father didn't bat an eyelid before standing up and turning his back to him.
*Snarl*
[Hati] almost couldn't stand it and bared his fangs once again before settling down and closing his eyes to ignore my father.
"What the hell dad!? What did you say to him?" I inquired hesitantly.
"Nothing, my boy, nothing to be concerned with." He says after pausing for a moment before returning to my mother's side.
"Is it The Jackal?" She asked quietly
"Even worse! I'll explain later, when we leave I'm going to need to see my brother and sister-in-law." Hak-Or's brows borrowed in deep thought.
"It doesn't seem that bad though, they just don't seem to like you," she says
"Did you see them?" He said with an, are you crazy look.
"I saw them, it seems he takes after your side of the family! After all, you nearly ripped my head off when we first met, I see where you get it from now." she snickered and teased him by slowly drawing across her neck with a trailing finger.
*Gulp*
Seeing the finger swipe across her throat and hover over her abundant breasts, my father gulped as a fire was kindled instantly.
"No time for playing, not now!" He grunted and turned away.
"Hehe" Yoshiko chuckled, then she turned to her sister and nodded to her.
This made Madokas eyes widen and then she turned to whisper to Grandma Chiho.
Everyone else just looked at him in silence for a moment, they looked like they understood what was said but kept to themselves what that was. Looking back and forth between the wolves and then at the rest of my tulpa in sequence.
/What the fuck?! First, you ask me to see something with my Tulpa, and then when you rile them up, you don't even tell me what you did?! That's messed up dad, really messed up./ I complain
Silence prevailed through the air for a moment.
"My child, didn't you say you were going to introduce us? Now might be the time," said Grandma Chiho in an attempt to break the awkward silence.
"Fine," I sniffed, folding my arms together, (I'm five years old I can get away with it,). My limbs were completely functional now.
"Roll call!" I called out.
I cupped my hands to my mouth and begin to do my best announcer voice as I rattled them off one by one.
"First, meet my loyal, Brave, takes no crap from anyone berserkerrrrr! [Damian]!"
The shirtless muscular teen with red skin grinned sheepishly, before standing and puffing out his chest and starting to do muscleman poses.
This guy was my first [Tulpa], when I was sent over here I didn't exactly make it here in a blink of an eye. I spent a lot of time in some kind of abyss for most of my journey here. I bet that fucking bastard was trying his best to make me lose my mind because being sent to live in a place with no sound, no light, no touch, no anything is probably the very definition of torture through senses and mind.
In order not to be broken by the silence around me I tried everything I could think of, which I think lasted less than an hour because I can't even fucking tell the time in that place, thoughts grew confusing and any sort of counting switched places like some kind of loop in my mind, and I couldn't move at all in that fucking place!
So I could only sit there, aimlessly with my thoughts which grew more and more disorganized until I had an idea, a stupid one but oh boy was I glad it worked.
I created a friend to pass time. A Tulpa, a subconsciously different opinion from myself that I had read about in an article for a blog I did on Bleach and the Soul Reapers Zhanpakuto.
Visualizing and Manifesting him was the easy part, I had nothing but time to burn on figuring out how to do it, it was when he came into being that was hard. I got a friend that I knew could understand me, but I couldn't even understand him at all! It figures that the one thing I could feel was the emotions that came from him from time to time but they got stronger when we finally arrived and I was born.
I don't know how long that was, but from that time till now, I've had the best friend I could ever have at my side for 5 years.
"Next, he may be the weirdest but he can tear through knowledge and spit out facts like a fucking machine, he is the smartest bookworm I know. [Ryze]"
The blue-skinned boy grinned and puffed up the collar of his way-too-big mages' robes, dressed up like kiddie doctor strange but the collar hid most of his face.
[Ryze] manifested a little while after I was born, I wanted to have someone who could remind me about my past life knowledge in what seemed to be a fantasy-based world because as soon as I was born, I was practically baptized at the beginning with my family surrounding us in some kind of solemn ritual.
He's fun, nerdy, and kind of perverted. When I opened up my knowledge to him, even though he didn't know what sex was at first, he got the picture after he went through a gigabyte of 'Memory' concerning the act.
I admit I'm kinda ashamed of it, but he keeps me clean around the ears about learning and relearning whatever I can remember which is a plus in my case.
"Now you've already met them but let me clarify, The Yin and Yang, the Morale dos and don'ts that constantly nag in my ear when they get the chance, the tree-hugging Natures Advocates! [Sköll] and [Hati]!!!"
The two just snuffed and raised their heads at me, not even bothering to entertain my snub on the side.
These two, like [Iggy], came out of nowhere, they appeared the second I knew that this was the world of Naruto, and was beginning to worry about how to survive in this world full of assassins, Hypocrites, and Pedigree.
For over three years, they've been in my ears growling and sniffing at literally every single morale and emotional decision that I've made, Ever! Though now they've backed off a bit and They didn't like to interfere with me as much, they are still there, present and watching on the sidelines.
I swear these two acted like they're my third set of parents! How does your mind child think they know how to groom you like you're their literal cub? I just don't get it! And I love them anyway!
"Next, Is the smooth Master of Beat me up any day and every day with Karate! Who, despite knowing the same Taijutsu as me, brings it upon himself to 'let me show him that I know Kungfu, and then proceeds kicks me into next week every single time! [Morpheus]!"
Okay, I might be a little biased in this but I got the point across.
The Tall heavily built black man in a trench coat smirked and wiggled his eyebrows at the family. Only for a bolt of energy from the Tendril to whip out and hit him in the back of the head.
"Fuck! You bastard!" He growled and glared at me
"What? I didn't do anything!" I held my hands up and showed the best puppy-eyed look I could muster.
"Don't you dare give-" He started but was interrupted by a low snuff from [Sköll] who glared at him.
[Morpheus]'s face twitched and he sat back down and grumbled under his breath.
"What do you mean to beat you up? How does he do that?" Yoshiko asked
"He does it in every possible way when I use image training. Don't ask me how, I don't exactly understand myself. But he's also the reason why I can kick Akanes behind in every fight despite her refining chakra." I grunted and lowered my head in depreciation.
"He's the reason? I thought you said you just train harder than me!" Akanes eyes widened before glaring at the tall black man.
"I DO train harder than you, and this freak of nature makes sure I do," I grumbled
This bastard is my sensei and student in the strictest sense. I created him as a motivator for training and Martial arts practice. There is little I know about Magic and Chakra fighting but what I do know is that in all my Weeb career as a blogger is that the art of Giving Hands has always been and always will be, the best counter to anything the world can throw at me. I wanted to teach him the moves and the ideas that I got from fighting games, manga, scientific information blogs, and Actual martial arts that I learned in my last life.
I didn't expect much from him, because even though I created him two years ago when this guy LEARNS the techniques pulls it off like a damn prodigy and proceeds to school me with it.
Literally!
Being the only one that I created who can speak when he came for the smoke in the first challenge I entertained him, only to go looking for my missing baby teeth all over the floor. Since then he grew until he towered over me along with his mouth growing more and more rotten by the day, which is my background music for training.
Other Transmigrators have a ring grandpa who knows how the power system works and ways to help them fight around the world, some have even created systems using their extensive past life knowledge to understand and recreate the modern world, I've got neither yet I somehow made a fucking Dragon Warrior with the mouth of a freaking Drill Seargent!
The only one who can control him is [Sköll], [Hati] enjoys play fighting with him and the rest just watch him bully me whenever he gets the chance.
"Next, we have the Master of Delusion, The forge who knows only knows how to gorge,-." I stopped because a growling snort from the upset Minotaur rang out and a large war hammer appeared above my head. Threatening that if I continued on my current wording then there would be a pain to pay.
"The Appreciator of Art and Beauty, the refiner of a thousand works! My best buddy in the whole wide Ornn!" I continued, not that I'm afraid for my life, I'm not threatened at all! I just wanted to let his perks be known, that's all.
Black and red all over, this beefcake of an animal somehow wore a leather suit, jeans, and thick Harry-potter style glasses. Although his weapon designs and food critique are astounding he doesn't have any sense for clothing. [Ryze] made clothing designs too.
This Minotaur was [Morpheus] and [Ryze] idea, to help create and understand my past life technology and create weapons and buildings that are useful to bring here.
Though I haven't received anything from him, this fat ass is for some reason a Connoisseur, he loves the feeling of fine dining and flavorful dishes like no other.
And he always compels me when I go out to explore to sit at certain sites he deems beautiful to watch.
Though I don't complain, sometimes it is nice to watch a sunset, or appreciate some good food!
"And finally, the Home-Maker of our group, the mother I didn't know I had! The voice of reason when it's in season-" I announced
*Pop*
"Ouch!" I cried out
A long slender branch snaked out and popped me on the head like I was a puppy and needed disciplining.
"....[Yggy]," I muttered
This one was a mystery for history, when I made this mind space, she had appeared in the middle of it. A peach tree that fixed itself smack dab in the middle, she had multiple forms, a small 1-meter tree to her usual size which was over 300 feet tall and acted as a library, game room, lab, and a whole slew of other things. But she acted kinda bitchy and nagging if we damaged the insides when we fought. [Ryze] set off some kind of experiment once and blew up a quarter of her trunk. I heard his cries of pain for days on end as she belted him.
"Now that you know their names would you like to introduce yourselves?" I offered I had planned to do this sometime later, not wanting them to think I'm crazy for having imaginary friends or anything.
But it seems the situation called for my family in the flesh to meet my family in my mind.
"Well, I guess so-" Grandma Chiho starts but is interrupted by [Morpheus]
"Sorry, but we're going to have to cut the introductions short here. We already know who you are, but we are in a little bit of trouble." [Morpheus] says solemnly
"Why?" I asked with a blink
"You're about to explode." He says dully