37 Mission Complete!

Kibo's eyes shook and his breathing became rapid.

He looked around again to see if there was anyone or anything else there who she could be talking to.

"No need to look around, you're the one I'm talking to." The Goddess declared as walked over to him and stared him in the eyes.

She then let out a gentle smile, like the kind a mother would give to her own child.

"It's not so easy to intrude on a god's memory. Even with such beautiful eyes." The Goddess said as she placed her hand on his cheek.

Kibo's eyes widened as he felt her soft skin making contact with his own.

Her expression then slowly changed to a sorrowful one before saying, "Please, take care of her."

Kibo snapped back to reality and could still feel the warmth and sensation of her delicate fingers touching his face. He also noticed that he still remembered the meeting even though he was no longer touching the feather.

"Kibo is something wrong?" Seiryu asked.

Kibo shook his head before he said, "It was. . .I don't know."

He ran his hand through his hair trying to put what he experienced into words, but all that came out was, "I think I just met your master."

Seiryu's eyes widened when Kibo explained that his Tengan took him to his birthplace, and his master spoke a few words directed at him, "I even felt her touch! This has never happened to me before. When using my Tengan, I'm not supposed to be able to interact with the past, nor speak or touch it!"

"I don't remember much from my birth. It wasn't till my form solidified that my memories began. But if you say she spoke to you, then I believe you, Kibo."

"Thanks, partner," Kibo said as he removed his Tengan.

Reaching out to touch the feather once again, Kibo took it into his grasp and squeezed the relic.

In an instant, a new world appeared inside Kibo's mindscape.

When he closed his eyes and focused, Kibo could now see two pearls floating in endless darkness. Inside the pearls, was an entire world of their own.

One was Seiryu's infinite land of trees and ponds, while The Pheonix's was a sea of endless fire and red skies.

Volcanoes the size of Mount Everest constantly erupted and sent magma flowing into the waves of lava, filling it up as a glowing gold and crimson ocean.

A single super-massive red grass-covered island appeared in the center of the realm, on it was growing Parasol, Palm, Paulownia trees, and several other mythical trees that were associated with the Phoenix. They didn't burn but seemed to thrive in the environment instead.

Lastly, the heat combined with the foliage made the island give off a rich scent of flowers and fruit.

The Pheonix feather floated into the territory and like a starved Taotie. An enormous amount of the newly created realm's energy was being quickly absorbed.

Kibo noticed a drain on his Chakra Supply and felt like it would hit rock bottom at any second. He then swallowed his last Full Chakra Recovery Pill. As he did an insane amount of energy supplemented Pheonix's feather and filled him up to max.

A loud and charming 'Chirp!' echoed throughout his body before a roaring Seven Colored Flame entered his mind along with its blazing intent containing 5 sacred techniques.

Soaring Phoenix (Tai-Jutsu), Prismatic Flames (Nin-Jutsu), Soul Searing (Gen-Jutsu), Soul-Fire Rebirth (Cultivation-Technique), Heavenly Star Phoenix Cloak (Aux-Nin-Jutsu).

"Where? Where am I?" An enchanting voice called out.

Before Kibo could answer, suddenly, Seiryu appeared in the world of flames and shouted, "Sister!" while he flew over to the giant Phoenix.

She was as tall as a few mountains combined, similar to Seiryu's true size.

Her body structure looked like an Aquila, and she had nine pairs of glorious multicolored wings that laid on top of one another, making it seem as if it were a single pair when they were tucked in. [2]

Her eyes glowed like fine topazes that were aflame, her long yellow pointed beak and black talons gleamed with a razor-sharp and metallic glow.

"Brother Seiryu!" Suzaku said as she was wrapped up by the Azure Dragon.

"Sister Suzaku." Tears of Joy began falling from his eyes, as did Suzaku's.

Kibo wasn't shy about collecting it into his storage while waiting patiently for their reunion to end.

"What happened? The last thing I remember was Brother self-destructing. How did we get here, and what is this place?" Suzaku was full of questions and rightly so.

Kibo coughed to insert himself into the conversation and said, "Sorry to interrupt, Seiryu. But since you can enter this world, I assume Suzaku can enter yours. If you don't mind can we move the conversation over to Seiryu's territory?"

Kibo was sweating bullets. The heat may not affect those two, but it felt very uncomfortable for a human.

"Oh! Yes, of course, Kibo. My apologies." Seiryu said before he turned to Suzaku and to advise her, "Just focus your thoughts on me and use your will to travel to my realm."

Seiryu vanished and returned to his territory in an instant.

Suzaku had a worried expression as she focused on Seiryu and shortly followed after.

Now that they appeared inside Seiryu's realm, the atmosphere was much better for idle conversation. Kibo let out a sigh of relief before he cleansed his body with a Water Jutsu.

Suzaku looked at the ever-expanding land before them and nodded her head, "This place is perfect for Brother to train. How strange it's like the realm was tailor-made for you."

Kibo laughed before he said, "That's because it is! Just like your realm, an item of mine made it perfectly suited for you. This space exists inside my body, and you live here now I guess."

Suzaku looked to Kibo and replied by asking, "Seiryu, who is this mortal?"

Seiryu laughed and began explaining. After he had helped Suzaku understand all that had transpired since his awaking, Suzaku began to understand their situation.

When he mentioned that Kibo had met their master, Suzaku's eyes bulged while constantly swinging her eagle-like face back and forward between the two.

"I see. Then, if Master has chosen you for something, I shall bow my head to you as well." Suzaku leaned down and lowered her head as she continued to speak, "I am Suzaku the Nine Winged Phoenix, Guardian of the South. I embody the Fire and Storm elements. Please continue to care for me, as you have Seiryu. I hope to see great things from you."

Kibo waved his hands and said, "Please there's no need for that kind of formality. If you can see me as a friend and partner, I would much more prefer such a relationship than to be seen as a master."

Suzaku looked at him with a kind smile before saying, "Then I will do just that."

"Well...I have to get back to reality. You two should catch up," With that said, Kibo returned to the hidden shrine underground chamber. He then looked at the remaining egg and touched the podium it was sitting on.

Kibo activated his Tengan and learned of the item's origin.

It was a Golden Roc egg. The offspring of the village's mightiest Chakra beast.

At the time, it was equivalent to a 9-Tailed Beast in power. It had 9 massive tail feathers and full golden sun-colored feathers all across its physique. Overall, it resembled a dire hawk yet had an eagle's beak.

The parent had passed down all her blood essence and experiences to the child, yet sealed it so that it wouldn't be born until it fused with a worthy partner.

Taking the egg, Kibo thought that since he had a leftover Star Chamber Relic, he could give this to another team member.

However, Kibo was having a hard time deciding on who he should choose.

He wanted to give Karin a worthy Dao Beast as well, but he thought that the Golden Roc didn't suit her abilities.

The A and S rank monsters Kibo gained from the Uzushigakure went through we're rather violent species and prone to failing their First Tail Tribulations. That's why they had to be sealed in the first place, so they were a no go.

But before he could worry about how to give his teammates more power, he had to solve the issue of his lack of Star Chambers to offer.

Even if he didn't have another way to easily obtain more Star Chambers, Kibo could still study the sealing technique from the Village of the Rising Phoenix.

He was actually planning to leave a clone here to record and store the information on a single scroll. However, he didn't know if he could stay conscious long enough for it to finish.

The option Kibo could come up with was trying to alter the Shadow Clone Jutsu.

He figured that if his body could automatically absorb Star Essence, then why can't the clone do it the same? Sustaining its self with the energy it absorbs, rather than rely on the main body's Chakra Supply.

He began experimenting with his Ninshu, creating the base for a new hand sign as he sat down. Before he could begin, Kibo realized there was no light reaching through into this place.

Without the open sky, he couldn't absorb Star Essence.

So, after some time contemplating, he tried to swap Star Essence with Earth Essence.

A thousand failed attempts later, Kibo felt like he was finally on to something.

Making a hand sign that looked like a mountain by placing his fingers between and locking them together while the tips of his thumbs and index fingers moved into a diamond shape, Kibo felt the clone start to use the Earth Essence to support its existence rather than rely on Kibo's Chakra.

"Okay, one last test to see if this worked," Kibo said as he laid back.

He then relaxed his body while directing a portion of healing Chakra to stimulate the sleep center of his brain.

This was similar to how Gaara used the Playing Possum Jutsu, so it wasn't a very hard technique to replicate.

As he fell asleep, Kibo's clone felt like a line was severed from its body. All of the Chakra used by Kibo returned to the true body, but the Earth Essence being gathered by the clone was slowly being converted to Chakra that kept it from vanishing.

It looked over to Kibo while learning the differences between the Shadow Clone and this new Cloning Technique.

Clone-Kibo learned that it was ridiculously weaker than the main-body, standing was just about all it could do.

"It barely has enough Chakra to stand let alone talk," Clone-Kibo thought as he continued to absorb more and more energy from the Earth.

After ten minutes of Kibo sleeping, the clone finally had enough energy to perform the most basic tasks.

Clone-Kibo was like any other mortal now, but still connected and controlled by an invisible thread.

The clone walked over and shook its main-body awake while saying, "Have a nice nap, princess!"

Kibo woke up and frowned while saying, "I know it's probably what I would say in your situation, but please, just, don't."

The Kibo Clone shrugged its shoulders. It had noticed that the connection between the two had resumed its original Chakra feed, though Kibo could remove it at any time.

It appeared the clone was at max power while he was awake, however, after the Kibo performed the inverted Perma-Clone Hand Sign, the connection was lost again.

The clone then smiled while saying, "Well I guess this is where you leave."

"Man this is weird!" Kibo said as he crushed his Teleportation Relic.

Appearing outside once again, Kibo began flying towards the center of the rainbow glacier.

When he saw the green field of grass, he knew Naruto had defeated Doto. However, he only saw the film crew and Koyuki there when after he arrived.

Kibo placed his hand on the communication device strapped around his neck before saying, "Yo! Where are you guys?"

After a few seconds, Kakashi's voice could be heard responding to his call, "Kibo where are you? We've been trying to contact you for hours."

Kibo cleared his voice and replied by saying, "I found something fun! I was underground for a while, so the signal must have been jammed. Where are you guys? What happened to the weather? And why is everything green?"

Kakashi sighed before he said, "Come back meet up with the team. We'll explain everything. Do you know how to get to the Daimyo's residence?"

"Yeah, I'll be over in a bit, I have Koyuki here to guide me," Kibo said before he turned off his mic.

"The Oscar goes to?" Kibo laughed as he flew alongside the Snowmobile/Jeep in the direction of the Daimyo's estate.

After arriving he was met by Naruto who was about to jump on him. Kibo held his hand out and pushed his face away.

After falling on the ground, Naruto saw the giant egg in his hands and asked, "Nii Chan, what's that?"

The rest of team 7 had gathered around when Kibo said, "It's a Chakra beast egg, and a powerful one too."

Everyone's eyes bulged in surprise.

In response to the expressions, Kibo chuckled then said, "Listen, can we find somewhere. . ."

Kibo paused before he looked around. Seeing all the people bustling about, he gestured his head towards them and continued speaking, "Less crowded?"

Team 7 relocated to another area by the docks. It was quiet here since everyone had abandoned their posts. They couldn't wait to see the new Land of Spring that had popped up like magic in the last few hours and were still taking in the sights,

Kibo looked to his teammates, trying to decide who he should give the Golden Roc to. When his eyes landed on Sasuke, Kibo thought that he might make a good match.

Remembering, that Sasuke knew how to raise birds, and even had a summoning of one once, he had decided to give this Dao Beast to him when Sasuke was alone later,

Kibo then went on to explain how on his way back he found a cave with this egg in it, sensing a potent Chakra coming from it he had to take it. Of course, he didn't tell them that the Golden Roc inside the egg was already dead.

When he was asked about the Yukikage, Kibo replied by saying "I hit her with a Gen-Jutsu near the end of our battle, I was worried she might get back up."

"You beat a Kage level Shinobi?!" Naruto asked with stars in his eyes,

"Setsuna was a newly appointed Kage. She played along with my scheme to buy you time, and she didn't use her most powerful Jutsu, so I wouldn't exactly call it a win," Kibo said with modesty in his tone.

In response, Kakashi smiled and reinforced Naruto's claim, "No. He's right. Whether she held back or not, you managed to defeat a Kage. Your name is going to explode when we return to Konoha."