Abikyokan Clan

The **Abikyōkan Clan** are a wild and tribal off-spring of the **Funato Clan** members who failed to properly surrender to the **Land of Water’s** **Jōnin Commander**.  Members of this clan are extremely similar to those of the mother clan, that is, until they enter combat, in which they undergo strange transformations that give them monster-like features.

## History

Long after their leader escaped from prison, the Funato Clan underwent self-isolationism, sailing far from the shores of their homeland.  The only time this changed is when they were thirsty for something more than water, hungry for something more than fish, and craved carnal entertainment.  And over time, their fortress became a story of legends, said to be a ghost-ship that raided and pillaged those who were unfortunate enough to tread on its waters.  However, they were never enough of a threat for the Five Great Shinobi Nations to take notice of, so they went under the radar for the longest time.

That is until one of them foolishly attacked the transport barge of a rather important project that belonged to the Land of Water’s Jōnin Commander, receiving his full attention and ire, the worst-case scenario for anyone.  It took the Khan less than three weeks to find the Funato, and when he came face to face with them, he single-handedly destroyed the outdated fortress that had made the clan so reputable.  He then offered each and every one of them a chance to return to their homeland, which many did, but there were a few who were too blinded by pride to understand the consequences of defying the Land of Water.

It is here that the Abikyōkan Clan came into existence, for when the Khan re-forged his project, he used them as experiments….

## Experimentation

The Abikyōkan Clan is the prototype of the infamous transformation process conceived by the Khan.  As such, it has involved the manipulation of the human body to the extremes, but it starts a bit further back than that.  In fact, it begins at the very core of an Abikyōkan’s biology, their chakra.  The Khan, in one of his strokes of genius, found a way to corrupt the chakra in one’s soul through various means of torture.  Which included many things such as mental reconditioning, a torture rack here and there, and even the infamous bronze bull.  However, none of them were ever said to be as bad as the “Hivemind”, which sounds far better than it is.  And before anything else is mentioned, one should know that they were given a surgery that increased the sensitivity of their pain receptors, meaning it was far more painful than it would’ve been without it.

To put it lightly, it involved stripping a victim nude and firmly fastening each bit of them to a tree, rowboat, or some other form of desolate location with their head and limbs protruding.  They were then forced to drink and eat rotten, spoiled foods that caused severe issues with their bowels, and then rubbed in the leftovers which they could not finish.  After this, they were exposed to the elements, which transformed them into mock-aburame.  Not because they developed the same techniques, but because insects eat, sleep and breed on the exposed flesh, which they eventually began to devour and treat as a hive.  However, the torture did not end here, for they were purposely nourished so that the torture could go on.  And when they were finally on the brink of death, an extremely proficient medical-nin brought them back to full health, only for them to endure it all over again.

This process transformed many of them into nothing more than gibbering beasts who quite literally foamed at the mouth.  They were killed, but the unlucky ones that kept their sanity, their chakra turned as dark and festered as a moonless sky.  Yet their suffering did not end, at least not for the women, for they were put under the scalpel for a special type of change.  By re-aligning the flow of chakra in their body, the Khan was able to make it so that their womb is where all their chakra was molded, which meant that the next generation was going to be stricken with it even more than the first.  Or at least, that was his hypothesis, and he wasn’t that far off.

Less than nine months after the surgeries, when the first embryos started developing, the mothers started dropping like flies.  The reason turned out to be that the babies were so consumed by the dark chakra, that they began eating their mother alive from the inside out, and began to develop unforeseen mutations.  Their skin seemed to have disappeared from their body, their eyes were nothing more than black voids, and they had a hunger for nothing more than flesh.  Or at least, this is how they were when they became angry, violent, or injured.  It seems as it turned out, the Khan’s initial surgery on each member of the clan lingered through the generations, becoming their family curse.

## Mutations

All members of the Abikyōkan Clan, regardless of male or female, are genetically modified to feel pain far worse than normal people.  Although it varies from member to member, with some being unable to breathe without crying, to some being able to take hits, it is still a difficult affliction to deal with.  Fortunately for them, the one saving grace that they seem to have is that when their pain receptors are activated, they get a slight boost in things like strength, speed, and even a spike in their chakra.

However, if one was to overdose on the pain, they’d enter a new state.  This transformation as some like to call it is known as the “Flayed Rage”, for their skin seems to melt from their flesh, their eyes sink into their sockets to the point that it's nothing more than a black pit, and they seem to enter an uncontrollable rage.  Most of the time, individuals that enter this state are forced to be put down, but those who can control it are said to be far more dangerous than anyone else could comprehend.  On more than one occasion, they are even thrown onto the battlefields as the first line of offense and have sometimes come back victorious.