It had been nearly a year. A year since Dameon Shikyo of Kirigakure had been taken hostage by the group known as the Shikyo Four. Attempts had been made to rescue and save Dameon from an unknown fate. The Mizukage had fought valiantly despite Dameon wishing that she would let him go in the interests of protecting the civilians of the village. His own students had attempted to rescue him despite a massive gap in power. They had nearly been killed and would have been if Dameon had not resisted and fought back the Four of them in time for the Kumogakure ninja’s to arrive. Badly injured Dameon would seek assistance from the Kage of Kumogakure, a dear friend and once a sensei. Giving only a small amount of info that the Kage had possessed Dameon would head out to locate his childhood home in the mountains of Kaminari. Upon his arrival he had discovered that the village had been burned down and the innocent peaceful members of his clan butchered, including his own family. In a fit of rage Dameon let down his guard and was soon captured by the Shikyo Four after severely injuring Dai Shikyo.

Dameon was taken to the Four’s hideout within the mountain that overlooked the Shikyo village. The Four needed Dameon’s life force and chakra to awaken Zeta. Zeta was the original Shikyo and a legend who took all of his secrets to his grave, but before doing so embedded his life force into the chakra of his five children. However as four of them had died only the strongest remained. Since then Zeta’s life force could only be found in the strongest of Shikyo, the one who was the strongest of heart, body, and mind. Zeta currently resided within the body of Dameon. The Shikyo Four would need Dameon’s cooperation or his body to discover Zeta’s burial place and find his secrets to his power. Dameon had refused to assist. Dameon once captured would be tortured for three months as they waited for Dai to be healed from his injuries. Once healed Dameon would be connected with a machine that was built to drain the chakra and life energy from Dameon’s body while still keeping him alive. During this time the Shikyo Four would take turns monitoring Dameon to make sure he could not escape. His legs were broken and his chakra drained for what felt like an eternity.

The process of draining his life force would cause Dameon’s body to age at an accelerated rate but the process induced him with chemicals that would make the world around him appear to move slower than it actually was. This process would continue until it was less than a month from the anniversary of his initial capture. Dameon still resisted, waited, and planned. He planted seeds of doubt within the Four hoping to turn them against one another or make them more complacent with his treatment until his legs could heal and he could escape on his own. He still had a life to live and a Kage to serve and he would not let those he made oaths to down. After what felt like a decade he felt he finally had worked a way out of his restraints and he knew it was now or never and that if he could escape his window of opportunity was quickly closing. He only hoped that his body was up to the task that his mind had made up.

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Dameon watched from his position in the dark room of what he could only assume was some sort of underground cave or other structure. His body attached to a machine that was constantly drugging him and draining him of his chakra and life energy. This process made it seem like Dameon had spent years within the place but he knew this could not be true. His four captors after all never appeared to age or at least not like how he would expect from being in captivity for what felt like an eternity. However three of his captors had now moved on to another base leaving just one of them looking after him for what seemed like a few days at a time. He had been waiting for a specific one to see just how she would react. Over the time Siyho had often taken liberties that the others hadn’t with her party interests and high sex drive. Perhaps in all this time she was the one he had the most impact on when it came to planning his escape. He would talk to her when she would allow it and plant seeds of doubt in her mind and slowly over the course of time she had started to believe him and fall prey to his deception.  He laid in waiting for her to arrive to see if his potential plan of escape could amount to anything but it all was reliant on just how she would respond.

The time and process had not been kind to Dameon, being kept starved and weak as a means to make him less likely to try anything. Torture, drugs, and constantly being kept in the dark didn’t do much t help either. He couldn’t tell if it was day or night or if the scars on his body would become infected or heal from their torture. The only one that showed even a remote amount of compassion was Siyho but that was simply because she was a medic and needed to do what she could to keep him alive till their process was finished. He suspected that it had to be near completion based on conversations that he had overheard during his time here. He needed to act now before he became expendable, if he could escape now there was a better chance of him surviving as they would not look to kill him. They would need to complete the process or it would be useless. Dameon looked up as he heard the soft clack of footsteps from the hallway through the door in front of him. A small grin on his mouth appeared but covered by his long hair. Dameon had very little chakra because of the machine draining him but a benefit of his clan was that their bodies had unnatural occurrences of their element. Dameon for example always had raiton built up in his body like an electric eel and for a while he had been slowly making sure that the electricity he generated was traveling into the machine from the points in his bodies, this caused the machine to slowly have electrical issues as he would overload the circuits and potentially cause further damage. In turn this had caused an unexpected decrease in the amount of chakra that was being drained. He finally felt like he had saved up enough chakra and energy to turn the tables.

Moments later Siyho walked in through the door carrying a bottle of alcohol which seemed to be the norm as of late. She stared at Dameon before taking her normal seat at the desk in the corner and propping her feet up.

“Not much longer now and you won’t have to be such a nuisance to my late nights,” Siyho said obviously a bit drunk in the way she slurred her words.

“I suppose so. I thought after all this time you might miss me being gone,” Dameon responded with a bit of a chuckle as he toyed with her verbally all the while focusing shakra into his hand to work on his restraints.

“Maybe…I wonder if Fuyu will let me keep you as a pet. You are quite attractive even more so when you are healthy,” She replied as she took another swig of her bottle.

“I doubt it. Fuyu is a hard ass and wouldn’t let you do anything that you wanted to. Don’t you remember the last time? She made you look like a fool in front of the others,” Dameon added as he waited now for the best moment that he could.

“You’re right Fuyu is a bitch and I should call her out on it. If I want something I am going to get it. She can kiss my ass,” Siyho said as he stood up from her chair and made her way over to Dameon.

“If I wanted to cut you down from there and ride you till the sun came up I would love to see her try and stop me,” Siyho said with a bit of a laugh as she pressed her body against Dameon and put her hands on his chest.

Dameon watched as she played into his hands and got closer. Now was the time to strike if he could get free. He focused his chakra into his right hand and created a raiton blade and cut through his restraint quickly while she had her face tucked into his neck. He would catch her by surprise as he shattered her bottle across her head and discharged enough raiton to ignite the alcohol and catch her on fire. He used this added opportunity to cut himself free of his other restraints as he stepped off of the vertical table that attatched him to the machine and pulled the needles out of his flesh before he started to make his way to the exit. He made sure she was still burning as he left but clearly she would survive as the fire started to go out and water started to excrete from her skin. After all she was the suiton Shikyo. He didn’t have the chakra or the energy to try and finish her off as he hobbled his way to the exit.

Walking hurt and running seemed to hurt even more as he hadn’t moved for so long and with such a weak body. He knew the area though, he was still near where he had grown up as a kid and where the Raiton Shikyo had settled. He needed to get to kumo as soon as he could and before Siyho could warn the others or he would be in bigger trouble than before. He would keep running as he looked over his shoulder and eventually found himself at the outskirts of the city he hadn’t seen in a long time. He would need to play it safe from here, while it was unlikely that the Shikyo Four would continue their pursuits into the city of Kumo he still had no idea of what had been going on for the past year since he had been here last. He only hoped that he had some kind of ally within the city walls. It was possible that Sanosuke or Gin could be located and be willing to assist him.

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