Throughout his life, Batista Kittu remained obsessed with stealth. He found the Ongyōjutsu (隠形術 disappearing and concealing techniques) that a shinobi learns in his formative years and practices for the rest of his days to be inadequate. He searched for a method of sealing the avenues of detection that a shinobi encounters in the field. Thus Kittu invented the Jiko Kieru, the Disappearing Self.