The Land if Fire ii

Book Four

Volume 11

Ch. 148 The Land if Fire ii

Pov.

-Kara-

"I come to you with a proposal. One that will be of benefit to our nation's alike." Itachi says

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"And what might that be?"

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"Well, for starters. I would like to hold off the industrialization of our continent for as long as possible.

There is far too much tension between the nations, opening the gate to a nuclear armory is the last thing we need."

"So what exactly do you want from Me?"

"A rebellion is brewing in the Uchiha clan. After the festival tonight they plan to invade the village while they indulge in their drunkenness.

"I want you to assist me to see that doesn't happen."

"Hmh." I smile "you do know what you're asking of me, right?"

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"Yes. Yes I do."

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"Then consider it done."

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He turns around and disappears into the darkness

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"That Itachi guy is pretty cute if you ask Me" Esdeath nudges My arm

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Tsukuyomi, huh? At the age of thirteen no less.

He must've explained everything to her there

A fight with him would be interesting.

Still, he has quite a ways to go.

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"What? We still have to kill Emperor Caesar Makoto tonight, don't we?"

"You'll do just fine on your own." I shrug

"Was that a compliment?" She raises an eyebrow

"Like hell."

"Minister Honest didn't say anything about-."

"Don't you get it, Esdeath? We're being Blackmailed, whoever came to an agreement with Minister Honest will make sure to it that the Emperor gets back home."

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"Oh-." She pouts

"I'll be back by morning."

"You-." Before I could hear it from her I teleport Myself to Itachi's side, who was looming over the village

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"What's up with that guy?" I ask about the guy with a twirly mask on his face

"Tobi." He said though clearly an alias.

His mask swirls around, revealing his half scared face

"You'll be in charge of disposing of the woman and children. Tobi will dispose of the military police's force."

"What about you?" I smile at Itachi

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"I'll deal with my family." He goes on his way

"Quick and painless deaths, don't even let them see you coming." Tobi stands up

"That's no fun." I draw My blade.

"There's no need for any suffering." He disappears into the house below

"Right." I smile

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Working with the minister all this time I was bound to do these kinds of jobs.

Villages that couldn't formulate enough tax revenue were massacred by My hand

So there really was no difference

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I jumped from house to house. Taking out women, infants, and children. Without a sliver of remorse.

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Or so I thought.

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"Yup! Love you too momma!" The child giggles after her mother tucked her in for the night.

Alrighty Mr. Cuddles Worffs. She giggles in thought before I strike My blade through the back of her head.

Her head rolled aside as I stepped through the wall.

The mother was humming down the hall when she froze before she could turn the corner into the kitchen

I cast the mangekyo sharingan technique, Inari. One capable of bending the space around Me to an extent, granting invisibility for as long as I could hold it.

It was odd

I have not made a single frequency of sound. Not in My breath and not in My step.

So why? What called for her attention?

"Raba?" She whimpers, "Raba-baby? A-are you asleep, darling?"

How could she possibly have known?

She quickly hurries for her child just before I made My presence known and I managed to toss a kunai knife into her shoulder

"Raba! Baby, wake up!" She cries

I watch through the wall as she hurries to check on her daughter before finding the puncture wound in the back of her head

She quickly pulls her child into her arms as I step through the wall

She hurries into the next room connected to this one

I step back out into the hallway as she made a break for the door in which I tossed three more kunai into her back and another that clipped the vocal cords in her throat

Even despite the immense fear, all those injuries, the dead child slowing her down, she managed to jerk the door open and hurry onto the street

Blood spurts and gushed from her throat as she tried getting away with her baby

It was just like then. When Lucy slaughtered Kei and Sakura, My women and their children.

Still, even now I couldn't understand why they have the need to protect their litter with their very own life

I throw another kunai knife at her knee and she finally trips and stumbles to the ground

She crawls back before turning around and shielding the child's corpse with her body

I slash and stomp on her back, trying to get her to let go of the child just before Tobi came in and slit her nape

"Quick and Painless. I thought we came to an understanding?"

"Whatever guy. Where's your boy?"

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I follow him back to Itachi's place where he was sitting in the living room with his girlfriend where he had entrapped her into his tsukuyomi

There he introduced her to the happily and wedded life that they could've had under any other circumstance before he dug his kunai through the back of her head

"Pity." I smile

"You!" A child stumbles down the stairs "you killed them! Itachi, how could you?!"

"What about that one?" I cross My arms

"Sasuke.. he lives."

"Really? That sucks." I pull My hood down, making sure he engraved My face into memory.

After laying the girl down Itachi joins his brothers side

"If you want to kill me, Sasuke. Despise me, hate me, and live a loathsome life." He raises his blade

Sasuke grits his teeth and balls his fist before Itachi knocks him out with the dull side of the blade

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"Hmh." I smile

Think I'll see what's up around here.

After My business with the Minister is over that is.

After excusing Myself I hurry back to Esdeath who had been confronted by a one eyed warrior

"Kgh." Esdeath chokes "h-he's too strong Kara, I-."

"Shut up." I hold My hand out and I teleport her to the Kamui dimension of My sharingan

I knew she was careless, but this is just sloppy.

"Kakashi Hatake." I cross My arms

He was descripted as being one of the ninja to be most wary of

He lunges at Me right behind the kunai knives he launched

I take a few steps back, creating a handful of shadow clones of his own self as I did

He takes them down one by one just before I quickly possess his shadow after linking mine to the clones

One of the clones digs its kunai into his throat before it pops into a cloud of smoke and disappears with the rest

"Kara, is it? Tell Me, what is a Roman Mercenary doing so far from home?" He rips the kunai out of his throat

I step back as the real Kakashi came crashing out of the ceiling with a kunai

The clone that had its throat torn pops into a board that he ripped off the ceiling using the shadow replacement jutsu

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After trying to slash My face I step back in, leading with My elbow heading straight for his throat

He drops his knife and just barely managed to catch My elbow before I'd suffocate him

"The emperor? Why?" He grumbles

"Hmh." I smile

"It is none of your concern, Kakashi." Someone said down the hall, behind him.

Kakashi retreats after hearing his boss suggest his allegiance

"What's going on Danzo?" Kakashi huffs

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"I was under the impression that you were going to carry out with this assasination yourself."

He tosses a bag of their currency and a signed contract that'll buy our ticket back out of the continent

"What's the meaning of this Danzo?" Kakashi demands as I head over to the balcony

"You answer directly to the hokage." Danzo turns around, "like I said, this doesn't concern you. Not anymore."

I disappear just as Kakashi turned his head

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"Kah, pleh!" Esdeath coughs after I spat her out of the Kamui dimension

"Were you masterbating?" I raise an eyebrow after seeing she was draped in sweat and her hand squeezed between her thighs

"Do you have any idea how long I was in there?!" She jumps to her feet."

"Pipe it down, bitch." I glare at her

"Hmph." She pouts

I turn to the sea and shut My eyes.

I woke up by the time we arrived at the shore of Rome.

From there we had to cross the entire continent

Once we finally arrived I had Toga relieve Me in our bedroom

"Mmh. You know, you probably should've checked in with the Minister." She moans after I pull My fangs out of her shoulder

"Oh yeah? Where is he anyway?" I wipe the blood off My mouth

"You know him, always playing with his little toys."

"Right…"

She rides Me for a while longer before Esdeath finally joined us

"What? Why not?" Esdeath pouts

"Because, I don't want one." I grumble

"A baby? Well who else are you going to marry, huh?"

"Isn't it obvious?!" Toga shoves her aside

"What?!" Esdeath growls

"He wants me!"

I sit up

I forget just how annoying these females could be

Esdeath is now 24 it's only natural that she now begins having this baby fever. But Toga?

She could go ahead and kill herself

"Where are you going?" Esdeath asks

"Leaving." I grab Togas chain as she followed Me to the door

"Leaving? Where?"

"Minister Honest said I was a free man once the empire became his."

"The young Prince Makoto has yet to be crowned" she hurries for her clothes as I walk Toga out like a dog in her nude

"So what? Don't you have it all here? We'll be treated as royalty under the Minister's rule." Esdeath finally joins My side

"Yeah, you can have any woman and the vast riches the minister will provide us." Toga adds at My feet

"I have no interest in money and have no problem finding a woman."

What I want is My pride.

It was dragged through the dirt the moment I began taking orders from that fat oaf.

I kick the door open to the Ministers royal bedroom

"Kara, My boy!" Honest laughs, getting dressed by the bedside

In his bed there were two young boys in their nude and their even younger sister whimpering and crying in each others arms beside the minister

I turn My head away.

With all that splooge, if I honestly had to admit it to Myself it was Revolting.

"See? He knows how to have fun." Esdeath nudges My arm

"Shut up." I grumble

"Yeah, Esdeath. You're gross." Toga frowns

"Bohoho." Honest laughs "now-now darlings, I'll be right back." He winks at the children before following us to the throne room

"Finally, after all these years." He slowly sits down on the throne, grumbling like a pig as he did so

Esdeath and Toga both bow their heads and drop down on their knees

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"Is something the matter, Kara?" Honest asked after finding that I still stood tall

"You're going to remove this bomb out of My chest. And I'm going to leave."

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"I did My part." I cross My arms "time for you to honor your word."

"You lousy." Budo gets ready to draw his blade

Honest stands up

"The fun is only just beginning."

"Maybe. I just want to get out of here."

Budo steps right before Me

"Very well, Budo? The imperial arm."

Budo raises his hand to My chest and deactivates the bomb

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I quickly stepped back before he could slice Me in half.

Amidst pulling a kunai knife out he was already standing before Me with his hand on My elbow, keeping Me from drawing it any further.

I let go of the knife and I knee the the base of the knife so hard that I twisted My body

He tilts his head just in time for the kunai to slit his cheek

"Kghe." I smile widely

"Kara, don't-."

Before I could even react, Budo slammed his knee into My ear, sending Me crashing into the wall.

As I cough and gasped for air I found his blade had already struck through My chest

I grab the handle before he stomps it deeper into My chest

He beats Me and knocks Me around before I manage to slip away and stumble on My ass

He was strong, strong as fuck. Could've give even Ozai a run for his money.

No doubt.

"That's enough, Budo." Honest steps forward as I cough loads of blood all over the floor

"Kara!" Esdeath hurries over but stops right besides Honest

"Kara, you want to be free, do you? Even after everything I've done for you?"

"Y-you mean, everything I've done for you." I huff

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"Very well. I'll honor our agreement. You have one hour before I put a bounty on your head of twenty-five million."

"Twenty-five? Is that it?" I smile

"Every hour, on the hour, it will raise another million. You can wait for however long you wish, but the day you decide to come back to me you can claim this money for yourself

"Motherfuck-." I grumble

"What about you, darling Esdeath?"

"I…"

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"Will you join your beloved? Or stay here?"

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"I'd like to stay" she bows her head

"Kgh." I choke on My blood

Whatever. It's not like I care.

Treacherous bitch.

Using Kamui I back into the wall behind Me and I hurry out of the castle

I was far too weak. Using the technique would've killed Me had I not directed the strain into My organs.

Specifically My lung which had been pierced by Budo's blade. It pops and after spitting the blood out it grew back a new

After stealing the first Horse I came across I have it head straight for the city gates

One hour isn't nearly enough to escape the capital.

Dammit.

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I shut My eyes and focus My energy on healing the fatal wounds

But just before the hour was up I hear shots ringing behind Me

I duck My head as the bullets zip past My head

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I fought My way through the capital before collapsing from exhaustion before I could even reach the gate

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"Gh-kgh." I choke

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I was in the back of a wagon

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"Mr. Joshua! Looking about as young as ever I see."

"Yes, incredibly so, oh-hohoho." The old man driving the wagon laughs after they let us through the gates

What the hell is going on?

I sit up.

As I did I gradually aged Myself to 16 years as well. It was the most I could hold even in my sleep for a month before having to give the transformation a break

I also grow a thick coat of skin that could only be removed by strong acids like the ones found in a titans stomach long ago, to hide My scars.

Thus changing My identity.

I figured it would have come to this. That's why I stayed in My adolescent state for My time in the Empire

"And who the hell are you?" I stretch My neck

"Me? Well just a farmhand, devoted follower of Christ."

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I throw a kunai straight for his head, only for it graze his hair after he turned his head from sheer fucking luck

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"The world seemed to be coming for you, son. I thought you could use a hand." The farmer said as he snacks on a bag of peanuts

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"What makes you think I won't just kill you Myself?"

"A good tree can not bear bad fruit such as a bad tree cannot bear good fruit. But I tell you, there is not a bad seed in this soil. Least not on my farm, wohohoho." He laughs

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"Kgh." I grit My teeth, still coughing and choking on my blood.

"Tell Me young man. What is your name?"

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"Doesn't matter." I lay back "I don't plan to revisit this wretched kingdom any time soon."

"Indeed so. Now, off we go!"

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We traveled north west, into Fiore where we went our separate ways.

Right

Now…

Ursa…

I head into the heart of the country before dropping back south after picking up her scent.

I followed it into a town and a building that seemed to be a massive clubhouse of sorts.

"Ahoy there!" Some short old man shouts over the rioting brutes behind us

"Welcome to Fairy Tail!"

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-to be continued