Chapter 60 - Aftermath and Name

After a few minutes Ren recovered enough chakra to at least start giving first aid to his teammates, so he went near the still unconscious Dosu, removed the stone from his stomach and than closed the wound, than he went to check on Ao and Chojuro were he just stopped the bleeding, than Mei and Zabuza, to them he just stabilized their wound as he didn't have enough chakra to heal them yet.

While he was working on Mei she asked "Is it done? Did we really do it?" and Ren replied "Yes, Yagura is dead, next is the hard and boring part....you know the classic politicking, chose a new Mizukage, change the rules, and making the one that benefitted from the previous rule pay".

Hearing that Mei smiled and said "That is in part true, but I already have the support of all the lowest caste and the second caste, and also some of the first caste, during his rule, Yagura made many enemies, it was thanks to his strength and his loyal retainers, that he was able to rule until now after all Zabuza wasn't the only one to rebel in these past 7 years".

Then she asked "How much it takes for me to heal?" and Ren answer with "As soon I recover all my chakra, I can fix you in 3 hours, Zabuza-san in 5, Dosu in 1, Haku in 3, and Chojuro and Ao in 30 min, but even if you are healed you have to rest for at least a week before you come back full strength".

Then Ren woke up, Chojuro and Ao and asked them to move carefully Mei, Haku, Dosu and Zabuza, the he healed his own wounds, starting with his still broken left arm and then moving to the various cut, scrapes and bruises.

'This is the first time that an enemy is able to wound me like this, until now the only one able to wound me was Senbonzakura, but this proves that my strength is almost at the Kage level, and the combo Shunko+Shikai drains me so much that I was able to use it only for a few second, but the result speak for itself, I killed a wounded Kage level Jinchuriki in his Bijuu (Tailed Beast) Form, and in one hit. Maybe I can move a little faster with my plans'

And so Ren spent the rest of the day recovering chakra and healing the others, and securing all the downed ANBU, while Ao sealed their chakra so that they could not escape, and Mei sent to her allies the news about their victory and to start the preparation for the election while imprisoning the still clueless loyalist, and calming the civilians.

The next days they gather together almost as good as new, Mei had all her bones fixed But she will still feel weak for about a week, Zabuza got his arm back and all his bone fixed but he will need a month to be back to full strength, it seem that during the final blast at the last second he covered Mei with his body.

Haku, Dosu and Chojuro's wounds were the less severe, so after a few days of rest they will be back to full strength.

Ren was the last to come has he was still tired from yesterday fight and then he had to heal them non-stop, as soon as he came he heard Zabuza voice that asked "Hey brat, thanks for putting my arm back, while I still feel weak, I know that after some time I will recover completely, how does this even work?".

And Ren explains "The Shiningami healing art is so good that if you aren't dead you can be saved, it does have its drawback, its name is Kaido (Turn Way), when they heal someone, they perform Chakra/Reiyoku restoration first. By doing so, one can attempt to recover the physical body using the patient's restored Chakra/Reiyoku and the healer's external Chakra/Reiyoku, the drawback is that you will still need some time to fully recover depending on how grave were your injuries,after all this type of healing does put a burden on your body and Chakra Pathways System, so you will be weakened for a while."

The others nodded than Mei started talking "First of all, I want to thank everybody here, for coming to help, especially Ren-kun and Dosu-kun that do not have anything to do with Kiri, Then I want to talk about what is coming next"

Then she turn her head to Ao who says "Now, our allies in the village have already took control of the situation they have calmed the civilians, and captured the loyalist, and are already preparing for the election of the next Mizukage, from what they says, the majority of the people are happy that Yagura is gone, and I think that is normal as under his rule the village was really in a bad shape...."

Then Ren remember Yagura last words so he interrupt Mei says "Wait Mei-san, just now I remembered Yagura's last words before he died, it seem that has he was dying the genjutsu holding him was broken, He said that it was a masked man with a Sharingan, and also to be careful of people wearing a cloak with red clouds on it"

Hearing that Ao starts to yell "Then all this is Konoha's fault?!?" and Ren says "No it isn't, in Konoha the only ones with a Sharingan are Kakashi, who isn't a Uchiha so he doesn't have such control over the Sharingan and Sasuke Uchiha, who is my age and so too young to have anything to do with this, and the same is with Itachi Uchiha, while his strength is at that level, he also is too young to be this masked man,after all he is only 5 years older than me, and these are the only Uchiha know to be alive..."

And then Mei ask with a serious face "And how do you know all of this?" and still calm Ren replies "It is simple, I am from Konoha, and Sasuke was my classmate during the Academy days....and another thing, I know about those guys with the red cloud cloak, they are a group of missing-nin from various villages, the name of this organization is Akatsuki, I know this because the have come to our village to search for our Jinchuriki, and the only know members are Uchiha Itachi and Hoshigaki Kisame"

Hearing that name Mei, Zabuza, Ao and Chojuro flinch for a second, then Mei says to Ao and Chojuro "Then our objective after we are done with fixing things in the village is to find out more about Akatsuki" then she turn to Ren and ask "What about you guys? What will you do now?"

After thinking for a few second Ren replies "Now, Haku, Zabuza and Dosu are free to do anything they want, Haku and Zabuza if they want can stay in Kiri and even help you guys, the most important thing is that they keep training, and keep their ear and eyes open for information about Orochimaru or Akatuski, Dosu can also stay here in Kiri or hunt for Orochimaru's info, but remember that for what I know he is stronger than Yagura, so do not be reckless and call for us if you find anything, while I will go on my journey and keep training, while searching for info on other evil missing-nin, underground organization or village in need of help, after all I created this group to make this world a better place, without begin bound by the village"

Hearing that Mei Haku and Chojuro smile, while Zabuza and Dosu click their tongue and Ao remain indifferent, then Mei says "Okay, when I'm elected Mizukage, I'll remove Zabuza and Haku status as missing-nin and be once again a civilians of Kiri, and I'll give them a house, as for you and Dosu will always be guest of Kiri, and I'll give you also all the info we have on missing-nin, organization ect, but I'm curious what is the name of your group"

Then Ren says "Well after thinking about it, I choose the name that the Shinigami had in ancient times, as that represent my aim for this group, Baransa (Balancer,Regulators)!"