NLS191-204

Chapter 191

Misu opened the pot and went through several hand seals which

allowed her to create a tube of chakra flowing from Anko's neck to the

pot. And I had the most important role of her, I was going to release

Orochimaru.

I activated the mystical palm jutsu, lighting up my hand with a green

glow. I turned to Anko, "you sure about this?"

She nodded, "yeah. I am. Even if it kills me...I refuse to be a puppet."

I nodded, "right," I took out a set of goggles and strapped them on.

They were tinted so only I could see through, and no one could see

inside.

"What's the goggles for kid? A fashion statement?" Anko asked with a

chuckle.

I smiled, "it's a special set of google that allows me to focus my chakra

sensory skills. Now shut up, your sexy voice is distracting me."

Le successful!

The truth is the only reason I wore these goggles is because I don't

want people to see me activate my sharingan. I would need it's ability

to see people's chakra veins to work on removing Anko's seal.

"Evil Releasing seal!" I made a Horse hand seal and placed my green

glowing hand on ANko's neck.

"ARGH!" she cried out in pain, gritting her teeth and slowly a giant

three headed white snake began pouring out of Anko's neck.

I carefully used my chakra to unwind Orochimaru's chakra from Anko's

own network. I then healed her body as each stem of Orochimaru's

soul was removed. Misu then guided the three headed snake into the

pot, activating the seals and made the pot seem like a living body,

activating the containment seals around the pot.

"Keep pushing babe! You're almost there!" I encouraged her as the

chakra unwound itself from her body.

"YARGH!" Anko screamed as the last of Orochimaru's soul was ripped

out and put into the pot. I immediately began to heal her wounds while

Misu sealed the pot up, trapping the snakes soul inside of it.

I sighed as I began close Anko's wounds, Misu took the pot away and

put it into another Uzumaki special seal that would prevent it from

leaving, even if it broke the pot.

The gaurd platoon stopped their flow of chakra and sighed in relief.

Anko's breath slowly returned to normal. I finished healing her as the

doctor and nurse came up, examining her thoroughly.

"I-Is it over?" Anko asked.

"Yeah, it's over," I smiled.

Ping!

Quest Completed!

Rewards:

Permanent 100 REP with Anko (unless you perform an

unforgivable act)

+5 Skill scroll

Cursed Seal of Heaven formula!

I smiled at the 100 REP thing, which is totally awesome. And the skill

scroll would be useful too. And the formula for the seal of heaven does

peak my interest. If I can get rid of the bad stuff and just use the

good...hm, could be game changing.

Misu and I packed up, thanked the platoon for their help, and went to

see Anko in the recovery wing. Anko was asleep, which was too bad,

but, she did look peaceful which was something.

Misu decided to go back home while I wanted some fresh air. It had

been a long four days making that pot, I'm just glad it worked. I walked

around the park and sat down, relaxing in the pleasant wind I felt in my

face.

I opened my inventory and took out the +5 skill scroll. While I should

probably use it on my chakra enhanced strength or something, I

decided to have some fun and used it on flirting instead;

Flirting, Lv- 17 (0%)

Your ability to charm your target to drop their gaurd, confuse

them or getting them to like you.

43% chance of it working (+40% from Ladies man) (+30% from

nobel)

+5 REP bonus if works

Yup, with chances like this there's no way the ladies can resist me now.

Thank you Ladies man perk! And speaking of perks, I wonder if I got

any new one's thanks to Anko gaining 100 REP with me?

I opened it up and found two oddly enough;

A woman's bed- Gain +10,000 EXP every time your lover(s) and

you share an orgasim together. (Conditions to unlock- Achieve

100 REP rate with a woman) PP cost- 20

Snake summoner- Gain a the snake summoning contract.

(Conditions to unlock- Achieve 100 REP with a snake summoner)

PP cost- 40

….I want the first one. I want it, I want it! I need it!

Ping!

You have obtained the perk: A woman's bed!

A woman's bed- Gain +10,000 EXP every time your lover(s) and

you share an orgasim together.

And as for the snake summoner thing, I never was much of a snake

person. Hate those things, so sneaky and deadly. But...that did get me

thinking, what kind of animals do I summon? My curiosity took hold and

soon I was on a mission.

Ping!

Quest Alert!

Find your summons and form a contract!

Rewards:

Summoning contract!

Failure:

Possible death/dismemberment

Do you Accept?

Y/N?

I of course pressed yes and took off, intent on finding more information

in the library. I found a lot, mostly just a general guideline, but I also

found several summoning contracts in the library itself.

The thing is, a summoning contract is a very powerful and private

thing. Usually only a powerful ninja would have one, and they would in

turn only allow their students to sign it, like Jiraiya did with the Fourth

and Naruto.

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But there were common summoning scrolls that anyone who earns the

right to sign them get to us. Like the turtle scroll, the dog scroll and the

rat scroll which was the village's basic summoning scrolls.

Only jounin level ninjas could use them however, and I really wasn't

interested. It was honestly a pain. Plus it's not like I need a summoning

contract, I do infact have pokemon….but no way to use it.

Hm, maybe I should make it so that everyone believes that the

pokemon are my summons! A custom made summoning scroll that

integrated my pokeballs and the space and time factors of the

summoning jutsu!

But the quest, it implied I needed to find my summons, hm, that could

take a while, and I only have to days left in my break. So I'll do that

later, for now, I need to figure out how to make my pokemon seem like

summons.

Two Days Later:

It was the day of departure and I now sprouted six new seals on my

arms, three on my left forearm and three on my right. They were

covered by bandages, keeping everyone unawre of what they could

do, but needless to say, I had succeeded in creating a pseudo

summoning contract.

I was called into the jonin HQ and inside found myself in meeting room

4 where Zabuza and Haku were already present. The ten jonin that

were assigned to this mission was also present, taking up the front

three rows.

We had three aburame's, four Inuzuka's, a clanless ninja that was

covered with scars and two medical kunoichis.

"Morning!" I smiled as I waved at everyone as I walked in. the Jounins

smiled and waved while I sat next to them, while Zabuza just glared at

me, though Haku did smile back. Just then the doors opened as

around 20 chunin walked in, sitting down behind us. They were all a lot

older than me, probably had a lot of combat experience.

"Alright everyone, settle down," a Nara walked in and judging form his

name and how familiar he looked I'm guessing he was Shikamaru's

dad;

Shikaku Nara, Jonin commander

Lv- 72

REP- 60

He yawned as he took the podium and looked around, he then nodded

to Zabuza who came forward standing next to the Nara with Haku by

his side.

Shiaku then explained the mission, what we were going to do, how we

were going to do it and what the Demon of the Mist was doing standing

right next to them looking calm and almost bored.

"...And that's about it," he sighed, "you'll follow Zabuza's lead,

essentially, he's in charge. We give Kiri that image, but in reality Tota

will be the lead on this," Nara pointed to the scanned clanless ninja,

"any questions?"

No one spoke, professions, nice.

"Good. Now, Zabuza will explain the mission parameters," Shikaku said

as he stepped away and walked towards me, taking the free seat next

to me. He turned to me and gave a slight nod, which I gave back.

"Right," Zabuza said stepping before us and grumbled, "honestly, I

hoped I would get more help but...whatever, you get what you get.

Hopefully you won't blame us for dieing because you stepped into a

fight that isn't your own."

The ninjas around looked unimpressed at Zabuza's attempts to rile

them up, Obviously they wouldn't fall for something that stupid. The

missing nin then began his talk, detailing where we were going to lad,

how we needed to go about making contact with the resistance and

how we have to behave.

After the briefing we were lead into the armoury, I had never actually

gotten a proper introduction into this place, no time. I either was on

missions or was training and since the Hokage never told anyone to do

it, I guess they just didn't bother.

Damn, now that I think about it, even though I am a tokubetsu jonin, no

actually treats me like one. They still see me as a kid! The people I

worked with, Ko and team eleven, they respected me, even Kakashi

and Zabuza had respect for me, but these guys? No way.

Anyway, since I didn't know the route I moved to the man and followed

the team, which was labeled Team Wet Wood. We ended up in a locker

room eerily similar to the ANBU room and before us was a table filled

with identical gear, handed out to each person.

Each person got a grey cloak with black and white camouflage patterns

and a new set of weapons, which I really didn't need.

"Alright, as I call out your names step forward and receive your mask,"

Shikaku said as he held up a porcelain white mask with numbers on

them. They looked like the hunter nin mask that Haku first wore, but

these had red, green and brown patterns on them.

"Tota, you're number one," the Nara tossed him the mask, "medics

Sushi and Furo, 2.1 nd 2.2," and like that he went, tossing people their

masks.

By then we were all in our new gear, all ready for anything. But as

more and more people gained their mask I started to grow worried,

where was mine? And soon, the masks were gone.

"Alright, now that we're all set up let's move," Nara turned to Tota and

Zabuza, "good luck you two. You'll need it."

"Ah, excuse me jonin commander Nara? I don't have a mask," I called

out.

The man turned to me and smirked, "tokubetsu jonin Yami correct?"

I nodded, "yes sir."

"Right, well you're under special orders from the Hokage Yami, you

aren't allowed to hide your face," he pointed to my face mask ad hood,

"take them off. Since you're already an A rank in the bingo books we

want you showing off for a bit, got that?"

I nodded, "make lots of noise, show off, look sexy while doing it. Got it."

"Is he related to Anko?" a jonin asked in a whisper as a few chuckled.

Nara smirked, "right. Oh, and one more thing, the Hokage told me to

tell you that you aren't allowed to show the red while during the

mission, unless it is a life or death situation. Do you know what that

means?"

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'No sharingan huh? Hm,' I nodded, "I do," I pulled down my hood and

face mask showing my real face to everyone.

"Huh, so that's what you look like huh?" Zabuza snorted.

I smiled, "why? Are you falling in love me with Zabu? You know I'm

straight right?"

"Annoying brat," the man hissed.

"Nice one kid," said number 4.1, a chunin and jonin number four. She

has short spiky brown hair and was around level 45. God, how can

someone so old be so weak?! Ah! This is infuriating!

"As I was saying, good luck, all of you," Nara nodded, "you'll need it.

Dismissed!"

"Sir!" we saluted the man and went out in a swarm.

"Yami, take lead on this," Tota, now called 1, ordered, "you're a chakra

sensor right?"

I nodded, "yes. My range is about 800 feet sir."

"Okay, they take the lead. Number 5 and 4," he pointed at the

Inuzuka's and their wolf like dogs, "gaurd him. Chunin ranks follow

behind Zabuza, Haku and myself, 2.1 and 2.2, behind them and the

rest bring up the rear."

"Right," we nodded as we all began to move into position, with my

protected by 5 and 4, whose giant dogs kept close to my side.

We travelled at around high chunin speeds, surprisingly the weakest

chunin, number 3.2 whose level was only 43, could still keep up. I think

it must be because of age and leveling up his skills. Obviously levels

weren't a clear cut answer to how strong a person was. Example a,

me.

We kept this pace through the day and into the night. I honestly wasn't

bother by much because of this, not at all, but, the chunins, especially

3.2, started to get tired. We did however reach a coastal town by

nightfall and hired a boat to take us across the ocean to Kiri.

We were out into international water by midnight, and it was only then

when 1 allowed us all to get some rest. Though I didn't need it, I did

have to pretend I did, else they would grow suspicious as to how I can

stay awake without any negative effects.

The boat rocked gentle across the calm seas as we sailed for over a

week. Kiri was a far away group of islands just off the coast and the

Land of Fire and the Land of Lightning, as such it rarely ever was much

of a country that was involved with any major wars or rivalry. It was far

removed, which was both good and bad.

The night before we reached the land I found myself on lookout duty,

since we were approaching a cluster of islands filled with ninjas, there

were bound to be a few people who would note a boat full of ninjas

coming for them.

As I stood at the ship's portside I noticed someone else come up from

below deck, Zabuza and Haku. They walked onto the deck and walked

towards me.

"Did you get anything kid?" Zabuza asked.

I shook my head, "it's clear for over 800 feet...although there are some

creepy ass fish in this part of the sea," I noted looking down to see a

giant fish fin rise up from the sea surface, splashing back down almost

instantly.

"Kiri's water's are dangerous, and not just because of the ninja. We

have sea monsters living in the waves. Some are….less friendly than

others."

"Do you guys have mermaids?" I asked.

He blinked and turned to me, "what?" Haku was chuckling softly in the

distance.

"Mermaids. You know, bottom half fish, top half woman? Totally hot?

Don't….you don't have those here?"

"Are you talking about the Hoshigaki clan?"

I blinked, "Kisame's clan? What about them?"

"They are a clan of ninjas with shark like features. Kisame is just one of

them."

"Huh...do the women also have sharp teeth?"

"Sharper."

"Nevermind then," I shuddered.

Zabuza laughed, "yeah kid, don't' even think about it. I heard from a

friend about a ninja dumping a Hoshigaki kunoichi that ended with his

cock bitten off. You don't' want to fuck with that clan."

I nodded, "yup. So...what's Kiri like?"

"What do you mean?" he asked.

"You know what Konoha is, loud, stuffy and covered with forest. So

what's your village like?"

"It's...wet," he turned away and walked to the other side of the ship,

ignoring me and Haku.

"Don't take his actions personally," Haku replied, "he hasn't been home

in a long time. To him it's still a place he would rather forget."

"And you?" I asked, "you're from the Yuki clan yes? An ice user. Would

you prefer if you didn't return?"

Haku smiled and shook his head, "no...to me, this land is still

home...though I can't say I look forward to being back to a place that

hates me for something I have no control over."

I sighed, "that's sad Haku...so tell me, are you really a guy? Because

you're way too cute for that."

Haku smiled, "I assure you, I'm a guy."

I looked at his neck, but oddly enough it was covered by a turtleneck

collar, "show me your neck."

Haku blinked, "excuse me?"

"Your neck, show it to me. If you're really a guy you'll have an Adam's

apple. So...show me."

Haku blinked, "I...I don't' think that's necessary now."

I blinked, "oh my God….you're a girl!"

"Heh, about time you figured it out," Zabuza grumled.

"Lord Zabuza! Don't encourage him!" Haku cried out, and that moment

of doubt I pressed my hand against 'his' throat and felt it smooth, no

adam's apple, "shit!" Haku cried out as she slapped my hand away,

"what is the hell is wrong with you?!"

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I blinked, "you are a girl! Ha! This is hilarious!"

Haku growled as she turned away and walked back inside, growling

under her breath. She slammed the lower deck door shut, I could see

ice forming on the handle.

"You've done it now kid," Zabuza said as he turned around, "she'll

probably freeze your balls off for that stunt."

I shrugged, "if she does I'll just thaw them out, no biggy. So why did

she hide her gender anyway?"

"A lot of people would want the last daughter of a bloodline clan like

hers," Zabuka explained, "we perfected her male identity for her own

safety. And if you tell anyone about it," he turned to me leaking an

obscene amount of killing intent, "I'll fucking kill you."

I shrugged, "you can try," he growled, "fine, fine, I promise, I won't tell

anyone. Shesh, it's not like I want her to be molested."

The man huffed and looked away, his eyes fixed on the horizon. We

sailed until eventually I could see land coming up thanks to my 8.0

eyesight perk. The ninjas came out from under deck and we all go

ready, suiting up and arming ourselves.

The boat stopped a kilometer away from land as we hopped off and ran

the rest of the way to land, water walking as quietly as we could. The

boat then sailed away, intent for a trading port nearby to trade its

goods, a boat coming all the way out here only to turn back would have

been just too obvious.

We managed to reach land, Zabuza taking the lead as we walked

through a bamboo field heading East.

We couldn't run, going that fast would only attract attention towards

ourselves. And around an hour later we came upon a campsite, a

bandit camp site.

"What do we do?" 1 asked Zabuza.

"We sneak around," the kiri ninja explained as he observed the bandits,

"they look like they have raided some merchant's caravan, they won't

bother us."

"What exactly are we trying to do here?" I asked.

Zabuza looked at me, "we're trying to gain information about the land

and what's going on."

"Then let's do that," I replied cracking my knuckles, "I'll take them down

and you lot and interrogate them."

"There are around thirty men down there," 1 said motioning to the

campsite, "you can't take them down without drawing attention to us."

"Genjutsu," I replied.

1 and Zabuza looked at each other before the Kiri ninja nodded, "if

you're confident about that, then go ahead kid."

"Right," I stepped forward and went through hand seals for an A rank

genjutsu I learned in the library;

Temple of Nirvana jutsu, A rank

A powerful genjutsu that generates a fluttering rain of sleepinducing, illusory white feathers.

CP cost- 1,000 CP

Area affected- 100 square feet (per 1,000 CP used)

It was the same ninjutsu Suna used in the Chunin exams when Naruto

was involved. I threw my charka out which entered into all thirty

enemy's chakra viens, influencing their minds to see white feathers rain

down from the sky. Soon they all dropped down asleep and my team

moved out.

We tied them up, stripped them of their gear and then began

integrating them. While they did that I was waiting for my peace lover

and peace briner perks to kick in. But surprisingly I didn't any bonuses

for sparing the lives of all the bandits.

Hm, it did say sparing them in battle, so maybe it wouldn't work if I

didn't actually fight them. Hm, something to keep in mind.

Finally they were done, One gathered us all around as we used the

bandit's campsite for ourselves.

"Here's what we know so far," Zabuza said as Haku held up a map of

the Land, "Kiri has seven islands around it's main chunk of land that it

controls, the others are mostly uninvolved or have their own daimyo in

it. So for now we focus on these islands. Each is named after a

weather style, Cloud, Rain, Mist, Lightning, Sunny, Storm and Sky. The

main island is just referred to as Kiri.

"These Islands are divided by straight's of water keeping them apart. It

would take a chunin a day to cross the strait between each island, as

such most conflits don't pour over immediately into each island. Here's

what we know so far, Sky, Storm and Sunny have been taken over by

the resistance.

"Cloud and Rain are neutral in all of this because of the clans that live

on the island refuse to fight for anyone and would kill both the

resistance and the Mizukage's forces if they ever came to their side.

That leaves Mist and Lightning in the hands of Kiri, along with the main

island. And to make things worse the battle on Sunny island is getting

bad, the Resistance is losing."

"So we're going to sunny first?" 1 asked.

Zabuza nodded, "yes. Sunny first, that's the war front. I've been told

that the resistance movement doesn't wear the Kiri headband, instead

they wrap a blue bandana around their foreheads, that's how we'll

know the difference."

"Which island are we on right now?" 5 asked.

"We're on Cloud," Zabuza sighed, "fortunately for us Cloud isn't

as...deadly with their forces as Rain is. We need to move, now. It'll take

us four days to travel around the island before we can move for Cloud,

which will two days more. It'll be a long journey."

"Can't we just use a boat?" a chunin asked.

"We can't afford too," 1 replied, "we would be too obvious."

"We could disguise ourselves," number 3 suggested pointing at the

caravan, "we disguise ourselves as merchants and go into town and

hire another boat. Or steal it if we have too."

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"Not a bad plan," Zabuza nodded, "I'm done. You?" he turned to 1.

1 sighed, "it'll be risky...we'll have to hide the Inuzuka dogs inside the

caravan...and the bandits will have to be dealt with," he looked at the

unconscious bandits, "but yes...it'll work."

"Then let's move," Zabuza ordered.

"Right, 6 to 8, every get moving, wear the bandit's clothes and any

other merchant clothes you can find inside the caravan. 3 to 5, get rid

of the problems," he motioned to the bandits with his hand.

"No. Wait," Zabuza stopped him, slowly turning to me, "let him do it."

"What?" I raised an eyebrow.

"What are you doing Zabuza?" 1 asked.

"He's never killed, have you boy?" the man smirked, "you have never

taken a life before. I heard even when you fought over 600 of Gato's

goons, you only killed around five of them, and that too they died from

blood loss, not from your hits. I can't go into this mission with someone

who will freeze when they're faced with a tough choice. So you kill

them...all of them."

"That's crazy!" 4 came to my side, "he's just a kid!"

"He's a ninja!" Zabuza snapped, "and a jonin at that. It's about time he

learns what that means."

I understood what he wanted, he wanted to know that I could be useful.

I looked at the bandits, how many did this because they had no

choice? How many had families to feed? How many….how many did

this because they just wanted to not die like a dog on the streets?

But Gamer's mind slowly kicked in and I could see clearly, Zabuza was

right. If I didn't show my ruthless side then they would think I'm just a

kid and I can't let that happen. Because if they don't think I'm useful,

when it comes to the dangerous stuff, I won't be allowed to fight, I won't

be allowed to try and save more lives. So I had to kill these men, and I

had to be ruthless.

"Well? You going to do it kid?" Zabuza asked in a mocking tone.

Pushing my insecurities aside I walked up to the stack of people, they

had all be tied together and all knocked out. I don't think I have the

stomach to kill them all one by one by slicing their neck open with a

kunai. So instead, I choose the second best option, a quickly death so

fast they won't even have time to wake up.

I made five clones, we circled the bandits. The ninjas all turned to us,

curious as to what we would do. We moved through hand seals,

landing on a half tiger and half bird seal, breathing in, and gasping out

as one.

'Scorch Style: Dragon's Breath!' I thought to myself as the bodies were

burnt asunder, not even ashes were left behind.

None of them woke up, they all died in their sleep. We ended the jutsu

after twenty seconds, finding nothing left but ashes, not even bone.

They had all been reduced to dust, and now the blue flames burnt

those as well.

I turned to Zabuza with a blank face, "let's move, we have a kage to

kill."

They didn't say anything as I moved to help find clothes to wear form

the caravan. They all began to work as well. I noticed a few of them

look at me, I could feel their fear thanks to their chakra, even Zabuza

kept an eye on me, though it was more out of pity than anything else.

As we removed out ninja uniforms and mask, wearing the civilians

clothes we found, I kept telling myself that it had to be done. There was

no way we could even risk those bandits running off and telling

someone about us.

And then I asked myself, who would they tell? Other bandits? Ninjas?

And what could they tell? I then answered myself, the ninja clans in this

island, they could tell them. And they could find us. It was the smartest

thing to do. I know that, and yet...I couldn't help feel sad.

We disguised the wagon to make it look different, just in case the

merchant who owned this reported it stolen. We then moved out,

Zabuza, Haku and the medics hid in the wagon along with the Inuzuka

dogs. 1 took the lead as he and 8 pretended to be my father and

mother, and me the happy go lucky kid who traveled with them along

with the other merchants.

I skipped along the road, smiling and humming as I cheered a tune. 1

and 8 looked at me, obviously worried. They rest of the ninjas were

talking in pairs, pretending to be a normal merchant vessel, while

secretly keeping an eye out for trouble.

"Yami," 1 spoke up, "do you want to talk about it?"

I smiled and looked at him, "what do you mean pops?"

1 sighed, "you don't have to act Yami. Do you sense any enemies

nearby?"

I shook my head, "nope!"

"Then drop the act kid," the Inuzuka lady, one Toba Inuzuka. She had

wild dirty blonde hair tied into a ponytail with black fang mark under her

eyelids. She didn't have much curves, figures, and while she did have

a slim figure, her almost animalistic snarls really pissed me off.

"Fine," I sighed dropping the stupidly exaggerated smile, "I'll admit, I

didn't enjoy that, but it had to be done."

"Yami...why did you spare those men?" 1 asked, seeing my confused

look he clarified, "I read your file. You fought 600 men, you didn't aim to

kill a single one. Why?"

I sighed, "because I don't like killing. I believe….I belive that if try and

show the world some kindness, then we can fight back some of the

hate in the world."

"And get stabbed in the back," Toba snorted.

"Yeah, maybe, but if you can stop a war, isn't that worth it? Isn't that

one of the reason's we're here?" I asked.

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"We're here kid because if we help Kiri now, then we can control who

comes as the next Mizukage, giving us an alley and great power over

them," Toba snorted twitching her nose, "not because we feel bad for

these bastards."

I smiled, "you might be here for that, but I'm not. I'm here to stop the

pointless fighting, that's all. Our goals are the same, but what we want

are different."

"And if you had to chose between the mission and your beliefs, which

would you pick?" 1 asked.

"I would pick both," I replied.

"You can't," 1 shook his head, "you have to pick one."

"Give me a situation where that can possible apply?" I snorted.

"We get the Mizukage cornered, we have him in our sights. But, you

notice his army is across the land slaughtering hundreds of people at

once. Who would you go after?"

"I would use the shadow clone jutsu to send a small army to save the

people while I fight the Mizukage."

"And if you have only enough chakra to do one thing?" he challenged

me.

"Then I would kill the Mizukage quickly and dump his body in front of

everyone, showing the enemy ninjas their leader is dead. Either they'll

get so discouraged their stop fighting, or they'll come after me. Either

way, they fighting stops."

"You have an answer for everything don't ?" 1 snorted.

I nodded, "I try to think of a way to make the best in any situation."

"One of these days kid, you'll have to face a challenge you can't out

think. What will you do then?" Toba asked.

I smirked, "on that day, I'm sure you'll be there to tell me, 'I told you so'.

But, until that day comes, I won't give up on my beliefs. The world can

be at peace, one way or another."

And with that, we continued, 1 and 8 stopped bothering me, and put on

my mask of an innocent child.

We reached the road quickly enough and with Zabuza's help we

managed to reach a port town by nightfall. We slept outside the town in

tents, I shared one with 1 and 8 to keep up the family image. It was

weird, 1 and 8 don't really know each other, but they have no problem

pretending to be in love, and pretending I'm their child. I really need to

get better at acting.

It was around midnight when we dropped the merchant disguises and

suited up. The town didn't have any ninjas on patrol, so we easily

managed to sneak inside and steal a boat from the harbour.

Number 7, 8, 7.1, 7.2 and 8.2 were all water users, they used their

ninjutsu to speed up our journey. We were an hour into sea when I felt

someone approach.

"1! Zabuza! We have twelve ninjas incoming! All chunin level!" I cried

out, "they're around….700 feet away!"

"Shit! Someone must have spotted us leaving the harbour!" Zabuza

cursed, "alright, everyone get ready for a fight!"

"8, 7, and everyone else keep going! The rest of us will deal with this!"

"500 feet!" I called out as I made ten clones, each with 500 CP that

dived into the water, activating Chakra concealment;

Chakra Concealment- Make your chakra levels seems like that of

a civilian. (Active)

Hopefully they wouldn't notice them right away. The water was clear, so

we could see the ship coming towards us.

It was a large boat, judging from the way it traveled it was faster than

anything we had. And on it were the twelve ninjas in question, though

only ten were getting ready to fight us, with one still on the boat and the

other...was tied up in one corner. A prisoner.

Each ninja had a grey plain jacket, similar to what the ANBU wore,

except less thick. They wore full length grey shirts and a pants with

their Kiri headbands tied firmly on their foreheads. Meaning they

weren't with the resistance, they were Kiri ninjas.

I made a clone and dispelled it, informing my clones underwater that

they can't just burn the boat like we planned. We needed to save the

bound and bagged prisoner first.

"Halt!" the ninjas called out, "you're trespassing on Kiri waters!

Surrender now or die!"

1 motioned with his hands, the others slowly moved to the back of the

boat where they climbed off and walked around stealthily. 1, 8 and I put

on our family disguise and moved to the boat's edge and called out,

"hello there! We're just some travelers looking for the island of Sunny!

Could you help us?!"

"What's your name?!" the ninja called back.

"Wataru! And this is my wife Sakura and son Tatsu!" the man smiled

pushing me forward.

"Are they ninja pops?" I asked innocently looking back at my dad.

"Yes son, they are. They're the ones that protect us," he smiled ruffling

my head.

"What are you planning to sell in Kiri?" the head ninja. He was a level

51 chunin with grey hair, around 40 years of age.

"Spices from the Land of Noodles and tea from the land of Tea!" 8

replied.

"Oh? Can we try some?" the ninjas challenged with a raised eyebrow,

their hands going for their kunais, while 1's did the same. I saw one of

my clones reach the surface right behind the boat. They were trying to

make a grab for the girl, I had to gain more time.

"Sure!" I cried out suprising 1 and the enemy ninja, "I'll get you some!" I

turned and walked under deck, making both parties look surprised. I

opened my inventory and took out the tea bags I gained from my

mission as a thank you reward for saving Rias and quickly came back

up, waving the box, "here you go mr. ninja sir! The best tea! All the way

from the Land of Tea!"

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I tossed the bag to the man who caught it with one hand. He opened

the box and smelt the tea inside, he smiled, "this is some good stuff

here boy. How did you get it so fresh? Tea leaves form that land are

always so difficult to trade."

One caught on quick as he smiled, "sorry lord ninja, but that's a family

secret."

"I see. Well then I suppose it's fine, after all, we ninjas shouldn't be

trading secrets to each other so easily," and with that, all hell broke

loose.

The Kiri ninjas leaped from the boat right at us. Our allies moving from

the back, throwing kunai and shurikens at them. 1, 8 and I moved

backwards, donning our ninja gear as the enemy landed on the deck of

the ship, a few cuts and bruises but no major damage.

"Swift Release: Speed up times 10!" I cried out exploding into motion. I

charged my fists with chakra and collided them into their groin and

neck several times, launching them all into the air and out of our boats.

Ping!

Chakra strength- 15 X 150 = 2,250

You gained a critical strike! DMG is multiplied by 5!

2,250 X 5 = 11,250 DMG!

I did that much damage to each one.

"Kill them!" 1 ordered as the Konoha ninjas jumped on the downed and

confused Kiri ninjas who didn't see me coming.

"Shit!" the ninja back on the enemy speed boat cried out as tried to turn

the boat around. But by then my clones had climbed on board and

began beating his ass with their enhanced fists while a spare clone

grabbed the prisoner and jumped over to our boat, placing the prisoner

besides 2.1 and 2.2.

"Who is this?" 2.1 asked.

"A prisoner!" I called out as I engaged with the head ninja, pushing his

kunai back with my dagger before breaking on arm and placing a

status seal on his forehead, dropping him down for the count.

Soon they were all either knocked out or killed. At the end of the battle I

gained a new notification;

Ping!

You gained +6 points and PP!

Hm, so only six of the eleven enemy ninjas survived huh? Damn it. We

pulled all the survivors onto deck where we tied them up. Only then did

Zabuka come out and reveal himself, looking at the people we

captured.

"They are part of Kiri's patrol unit," Zabuka explained, "I don't know

who the old guy is, but them going missing will attract a lot of attention.

We can interrogate them for information and burn the boat, hopefully

they'll think the resistance did this."

"And what about her?" 2.2 asked she removed the bag from the

prisoner I took away. Underneath the mask was girl, she was around

my age, maybe a year older. When the bag was lifted, the first thing I

saw was a head of pearl white hair come down till her shoulders,

almost shining what little light reflected off it. Her face was soft, almost

beautiful, elegant even, her white eyebrows framing her face perfectly.

Yukiko Karei, The Last Karei

Lv- 24

REP- 0

"Oh my God," Haku gasped, "lord Zabuza! Thats-"

"-I know," Zabuza growled as he clenched his fists.

"Who is she?" 1 asked as we all turned out the girl. She wore rags, you

couldn't call it anything else. The material was thick like a sac, dull

brown colour. Her arms and legs were tied up, dirt covering her

perfectly smooth skin.

"She's a member of the Karei clan...has to be. No other explanation for

it," Zabuza grumbled.

"The Karei clan?" 3 asked curiously.

"The Karei clan was a clan that helped found Kiri. They...they helped

create one of the seven swords of Kiri, Hiramekarei. They have a

special bloodline that allows them to easily turn their chakra into a

physical form, making them very...dangerous."

"Why did they capture her?" 2 asked, "if Kiri really does hate bloodline

users why didn't they just kill her?"

"Because even before this whole war began her clan was extinct,"

Haku explained, "it was..almost impossible to know if one is a member

of the clan. They only way to know for sure is by their hair. When they

reach 13 their hair turns white, ice white. If they want though, they can

change it back, therefore they can't be found, unless they want to be

found."

"And even then, more than being a bloodline clan, they are a founding

family," Zabuza growled, "the people will revolt if they found out the

Mizukage had a Karei killed."

"What do we do with her?" 8 asked.

"We should probably wake her up and ask her that don't you think?" I

put in my two cents gaining everyone's attention.

"He's right," 1 nodded, "2.1, 2.2, can you wake her up?"

"Yup," 2.2 took out a capsule which she broke open under the girl's

nose. We waited when suddenly she gasped awake. Her eyes flashed

open and I faltered as blue eyes as bright as my blue flames looked at

me, her first sigh was on me, she was looking at me, right at me….oh

my god. I think I'm in love.

I faltered, I didn't know what to say. I held up my hand, "h-hi. I'm Yami,

what's your name?"

"Kya!" she cried out as she ran away, crawling to the boat's edge and

getting to her feet and tripping because of the chains around her feet

and hands.

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"Woah there, careful!" I caught her, she looked up at me, "you shouldn't

move that-"

Smack!

Her fist flew right into my nose. It hurt, I even lost 2 HP points. I didn't

drop her though, as she slowly moved her hand back I looked at her

and groaned. I was going to say something smart and snarky, "you are

one crazy...beautiful girl. I mean! I..." someone snickered, I blushed as

I looked up to see everyone looking at us, even Zabuza has an

amused raised eyebrow.

"W-who are you people?!" she cried out as she got on her feet and

struggle out of my arms. Standing back as she pushed herself up

against a wall, looking at us. She then finally noticed the beaten Kiri

ninjas lying on the boat's deck and her eyes winded, "you're all ninjas?"

"Yes, we are lady Karei," Zabuza bowed, "my name is Zabuza

Momochi, have you heard of me?"

"T-the Demon of the Mist," her eyes went to his blade, "you're one of

the seven swordsmen of the Mist. Y-you were banished for trying to kill

the Fourth Mizukage."

"That is correct. And now I have returned, with help," Zabuza motioned

to us, "this is Haku, my chunin apprentice."

Haku stepped forward and smiled, "hello last Karei, it is a pleasure to

meet you."

"And the rest are all tree huggers, and I didn't bother learning their

names," he snorted as we glared at him. He then looked at me and

smirked, "and the kid who just tried to molest you is Yami."

"I wasn't trying to molest her!" I snapped, "I just didn't want her to fall!"

"And you didn't just spend a full minute gawking at her face, right, got

it," 8 snorted.

"Hey! Who's side are you on?!" I cried out.

"W-why are you all here?" the white haired girl asked, "why did you

capture me?"

"We aren't here for you is that's what you're worried about," Zabuza

stepped forward making Yukiko pull herself inside, squinting in fear.

Zabuza put his hands up defensively, "I'm not going to hurt you. I

promise"

She looked at him and her eyes were drawn to his blade. Zabuza

quickly removed it and tossed it to Haku, "there, see, no blade. I'm not

going to hurt you."

She nodded as Zabuza walked up to her and using a kunai he drew

out very slowly, unlocked her shackles.

"Thank you," she mumbled as she rubbed her wrists.

"No problem lady Karei," Zabuza nodded as he stepped back.

"What are you going to do with me?" she asked in a soft voice.

"We don't know," 1 admitted, "we're here to join the resistance and help

free Kiri, so we intend to first find the rebels who are on Sunny island."

"Is there anywhere we can drop you?" I asked trying to not sound so

much like a love sick puppy, "do you have family? Friends?"

She shook her head, "no...I don't."

"Then you can come with us," Zabuza offered, "as long as you're out

there Kiri will come after you for your bloodline, I'm assuming that's

why they captured you in the first place yes?"

She nodded, "y-yes."

"Then the only place you'll be safe is with the resistance," the man said

as he offered his hand, "you can trust me lady Karei, we mean you no

harm."

She looked afraid, I could feel it in her chakra, a little as it was. She

however gulped and nodded, accepting his hand. She was so scared,

I'm honestly surprised she can even move let alone trust someone

else.

1 had 2.2 and 8 take her inside and get her a change of clothes,

something we had left over from the caravan. And then, after Karei left,

we began to interrogate the prisoners. I didn't like the torture, and I'm

sure as hell knew that if our new guest heard the screams she would

be only more afraid of us.

So I quickly set up a sound numbing seal that made their screams

silent, poor buggers couldn't even scream to dull to the pain. But finally,

finally we got what we wanted, the patrol schedules and Kiri forces in

Sunny island.

Zabuza cut off their heads and dumped their bodies into their boat and

had me burn it all into ashes. We then sealed the heads away and set

off.

Thanks to the new info we got a course was plotted which would get us

to Sunny by morning. Zabuza knew a river that flowed into the island

that we could use to sail inland and move out faster. So with that the

course was set.

The rest of the ninjas went to sleep, I of course volunteered to stay as

look out thanks to my powers. 1 promise to come a relieve me later in

the night, though I insisted I could handle it no problems.

The water nature users also took turns, though theirs was based on the

hour and on the other side of the boat, so we never really spoke.

As it grew later and later into the night I felt someone stir inside the

ship, Karei. I don't know who she tried to fool, but she tried to sneak

outside, I could tell she woke up everyone on the ship with her stunt,

but for some reason no one tried to stop her.

I hide as she walked onto deck and looked around. She looked over

the sides, cursing seeing nothing there. I sat on the bridge and

watched her look around the sea, cursing as she realised there's no

way off.

"You know, you don't really have to worry about us," I spoke startling

her.

She squeaked in shock as she looked up and found me looking at her

with a smile. She blinked, "I-I was- I just-"

I chuckled, "it's fine Blue Eyes, it's understandable. You were

kidnapped by ninjas only for them to die and you get captured again by

another group of ninjas. It's understable you're afraid, hell, I'm afraid

and I'm a ninja!"

She blinked, "y-you are? But you're so young."

I shrugged, "the good ones start out young."

"How young?"

"Seven...maybe six," I admitted.

"That's horrible," she gasped, "a child having to be...a killer...a thief?"

"No...even we wouldn't do that," I chuckled, "usually ninjas are twelve

when they begin, and for over half a year they aren't allowed to do

anything more than chores, like washing clothes, painting buildings and

shopping for old people. We don't even think about letting them out of

the village for at least a year, maybe more."

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"When do they kill?" she asked.

I shrugged, "depends on the person. As you know Zabuza took to it

very young, the little sack of shit," I snorted, "but others...they don't

really take to it."

"H-how many people have you killed?" she asked.

"As of yesterday?" I sighed, "more than I wanted. But I spare the lives

of more people than I killed, so I like to think that I'm not a complete

monster," I smirked, "don't' worry, I won't hurt you. You're safe with me,

I promise."

"W-why do you care about me?" she asked, "you barely even know

me."

I chuckled, "that's true, heck I don't' even know you name!"

"I-it's Karei," she replied.

"No, that's your clan's name. I want to know your name," I smiled.

"W-why? Isn't that enough?"

"No, not really," I shrugged, "I'm an orphan so I never really gave any

weight to people who from big clans. What I care about is the people

inside, not their clan, to me a first name is far more important. So,

what's your name Blue eyes?"

She looked at me with the galaxy wide blue eye and spoke in a

whisper, "Yukiko. My name is Yukiko."

I smiled, "hello Yuki, I'm Yami of Konoha, it's nice meeting you."

She nodded nervously, I sighed I jumped down, making her skimp back

in surprise. I smiled as I walked up to the bow of the ship and motioned

her to join me. She nervously stepped next to me, I looked down at her

clothes, she now wore a royal purple kimono that was a size too large

for her frame, though it did show off some curves I didn't realise she

had.

"You look nice, those robes suit you," I said with a smile.

"T-thank you. Ms. Toba gave them to me," she replied with a smile

looking at the robes.

"Do you like them?" I asked.

"Yes...I never had such fine clothes before," she replied in a low tone of

voice.

I raised an eyebrow, "forgive me Yuki, but I though your clan was a

founding member of Kiri? Why is this the best you ever wore?"

"I...I didn't know," she replied as she looked away ashamed, "I grew up

as a street urchin, begging for money to give to Dudo, the man who

had us beggar kids working for him. When I grew up they...they..."

I reached for her hands and squeezed it, "you don't have to talk about

it," I whispered as I squeezed.

She nodded, "thank you. I...I fought back when they tried to...have their

way. I fought back and suddenly...something happened. I wanted him

dead, I wanted to cut his head off and suddenly my body started to

burn as his head suddenly came off his body. I screamed, I ran away,

and when I finally stopped and tried to clean myself in a river, I noticed

my hair had turned white.

"I...I couldn't turn it back, I tried but I couldn't. I knew what this hair

meant, I heard stories about the Karei clan, but to think I was one...it

was impossible. I try to hide, but eventually those ninjas found me and

told me they were going to bring me to the Mizukage. And then...and

they you all found me."

I sighed, "shit...I'm sorry your life sucks...but...what are you going to do

now?"

"Now?" Yukiko looked at me like I was insane, "I don't know...I guess I'll

just die. As long as my hair is this color I...I'm marked for death."

I blinked I reached up, making her flinch for a second before she

realised I didn't mean her any harm. He slowly moved and touched a

hair strand, I could feel chakra flowing through her body, her whole

body was covered with it, especially her hair. That's why it changed

colours like that.

"Yuki, do you know what chakra is?" I asked.

She shook her head, "no. What is it?"

"It's the life force of the world," I told her, "it what allows ninjas to do

what we do, and everyone has it. The reason your hair is this colour, is

because right now you're using chakra without even realising it."

"Can you change it back?" she asked.

"Well...no," she looked saddened, "but I can teach you how too."

She blinked, "r-really? You can?!"

I nodded, "sure, here, come sit down," I moved away from the edge of

the boat and sat down in the lotus positions, Yukiko doing her best to

copy me.

She sat down, struggling to make herself comfortable, "alright, now

what?"

"Close your eyes and concentrate," I told her, "focus on you body,

focus on the way you feel, the way you breath, the way your skin feels

against the wind, concentrate and keep focusing until you feel

something in your gut tingle."

She nodded as she did just that, focusing, staying still for well cover a

minute before she grumbled and opened her eyes, "it's not working!"

"Patience, it'll take some time, but don't worry, you'll get there," I smiled

as I took hr hands and held them in mine, "here, maybe this will help," I

then began pouring chakra into my hands, circulating it around my

palms, "can you feel that?"

She blinked as she squinted at my hands, "I...yes...it feels...nice. Soft.

Warm even."

I nodded, "right. Now try and feel for that feeling inside of yourself. Use

my chakra like a guide and look for your own."

She nodded as closed her eyes, this time keeping them close for well

over ten minutes. I don't mind, I rubbed her hands gently with my

thumb, they were callous and well used, but...they felt so soft around

her palms.

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And then, at the ten minute mark, she opened her eyes with a gasp, "I

felt it! I felt something in my stomach! It was so nice! Like a feather!"

I nodded, "good. Now, I want you to feel around the chakra, see where

it goes, see where you can take it. Try and see where it's all going,"

she closed her eyes and she did just that. I continued, "feel it move

from your gut, to your chest to your throat and to your head. Can you

feel it? Can you feel it in your scalp?"

She took a moment before nodding, "y-yes, I can feel it."

"Good. Now imagine you're pulling on a rope made of your chakra, pull

the rope into your gut, pull it into your stomach and away from you hair

and don't stop until it's all gone."

"Yes," she spoke with such clarity and focus I was surprised it came

from the same mouth that sounded so scared all the time. I watched as

slowly the whites of her hair sank into her scalp, I felt her chakra go

back into her gut and finally, her hair was midnight black, ironic I would

say.

She opened her eyes and looked at a strand of her hair, "it's back to

normal!" she got on her feet and looked at her reflection in the waters,

"amazing!" she turned to me and jumped hugging me, "thank you!

Thank you! Thank you!"

Her REP went from 0 to 20 immediately as I hugged her back.

When she finally calmed down I sat her down next to me as we began

to talk. I told her about my life, about Naruto and the village. She

seemed enchanted by Konoha, amazed that orphan children wouldn't

be left to beg on the streets but instead would have a place they could

stay and have food to eat. Guess the war was tougher on Kiri than I

thought.

Eventually it got late and Yukiko, now finally relaxed enough to let

herself get some sleep, dozed off in about ten minutes into my story

about how I passed the chunin exams. I watched her doze off and

smiled, she needed the break.

Just then 1 came up on board and looked at Yukiko sleep with her

head tucked into my shoulder and me smiling off into the distance with

closed eyes.

"You should stop staring, it's creepy," I told him as I opened my eyes

and looked at him, "come to take her inside?"

"Take her in yourself, and then get some rest, I'll take over for now," 1

replied as he stepped up to the bow.

"I can stay you know, I'm an insomniac, I don't sleep for days at a

time," I told him as I carried Yukiko in my arms, her head tucked into

my chest.

"You're a growing kid, you need to sleep if you want to grow up," he

said dismissing me, "oh, and make sure you and her are in separate

beds. Got that?"

I snorted, "yeah yeah. Night Tota."

"Night Yami," he replied.

The next day:

We reached Sunny island later that originally estimated. It took us all

morning to get to the island. By noon we found the mouth fo the river

that took us inland.

Zabuza stood at the bow of the ship and faced us, everyone was on

deck, even Yukiko, who was sticking closely to me as she still had

trouble trusting everyone else, especially now since they all wore

masks.

"This river will eventually taper in around 10 kilometers in," Zabuza said

as he pointed at a pair of mountains off in the horizon, "we'll reach

those mountains and get onto dry land and reach a small town there

names Shichibu. Once there we can find more information about

what's happening and where we need to go to find the resistance."

"Lord Zabuza," Haku suddenly spoke as she looked over the railing,

"look."

We all watched as a bloody stump of a hand floated down the river,

hitting the side of our boat loudly. Yukiko shrieked as she moved

behind me, watching the floating arm float away in horror.

"It looks like the battle started without us," 1 replied and he looked

further ahead, bodies slowly coming around the riverbend. One wore a

blue sash around his forehead while another had the Kiri headband,

"the resistance and Kiri...looks like the war came sooner than we

thought. We need to hurry up! Zabuza what's the plan?"

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"We fight," he growled, "the bodies look fresh maybe five minutes

ahead? Have the boat dock by the river side and serve as a base.

Haku, you and the water users stay here with the healers and Lady

Karei, keep everyone here safe. The rest of us will be fighting."

"Here," I took out the blue kimono I wore while under cover and tore off

several stretches of cloth, "ties these around your heads so the

resistance knows we're friends."

"Good thinking kid," Zabuza replied as he removed his headband while

putting on a blue band and, an act copied by everyone else, each

wearing the bandana over their masks.

Slowly the boat turned the bend in the river and suddenly a giant

smoking and wet battle field stood before us. It was a sloping plain,

with a fortress on the top of the mountain that was reduced to nothing

more than rubble.

The rebels had the higher ground while the Kiri ninjas refused to give

up, the sound of metal clashing metal clearly heard from even here.

They were slaughtering each other, fighting like monsters, out for

blood.

"We need to move," 1 ordered, "Yami, how many can you hit."

I took out my chakra metal trench knives from my inventory and

channeled wind chakra into it causing them to glow with a blue aura, "I

can get them all to stop fighting, either by removing an arm or disabling

them."

"What?! No! Yami you can't possible fight in that! You'll die!" Yukiko

cried out.

"Oh, looks like someone's got a girlfriend," 5 snickered.

I sighed, "Yuki, I'll be fine, I told you didn't I? I'm a ninja," I grinned, "it's

what I do."

"But-"

"We don't' have time for this," 1 spoke, "5, 6 and everyone under them

move out to the South, 2, 3, 4 and everyone under them move to the

North with Zabuza and I, we'll surround them!"

"Yes sir!" we nodded as the boat slowly docked.

"Alright Flash, show us what you got," 1 nodded at me.

I threw off my cloak and jumped onto dry land. My hands moved like a

blur, ending with the final seal for what is quickly becoming my favorite

jutsu "Swift Release: Speed up times 10!" And the moment my feet

touched the ground, I vanished in a blur.

The battle field was a nightmare, people's guts spilling out, their blood

baptising the ground like holy water on a baby. And I swear I would

have thrown up in my mouth if I hadn't have Gamer's mind pushing me

forward.

There were at least a hundred people here, all chunin level or higher. I

couldn't afford being nice, I couldn't spare their lives. But...I could try.

I charged at the first Kiri ninja, moving behind his distracted form to cut

off his arms, both of them. I didn't bother sticking around to see how

much damage I had down or if he was still alive.

I just kept going.

I slashed with the wind enhanced chakra trench knives, cleaving them

apart, if not maintaining them. If nothing else, I distracted them, just

long enough for their opponents to kill them.

I moved towards the South side, as that's where the Kiri ninjas came

from. Cut into their ankles, legs, arms and sometime even eyes. They

were all quick to fall, blood staining my hands and cloak.

"You bastard!" I turned to see a Kiri ninja moving just as fast as I was.

He was a jonin, his level 68. He was merciless in his attacks, trying to

stab my throat with a kunai. I dodged, I was impressed, for him to keep

up with me at this level? It was impressive. But he was still slightly

sluggish, meaning I could end this easily.

"Enough," I used a trench knife to trap his kunai hand for one moment

before tackling him with my shoulder, pushing him back. He came

charging right back at me, but the moment he wasted, was enough for

me to use my second jutsu of the day, "Swift Release: Speed up times

100!"

He couldn't even see me then.

This jutsu used to take a lot out of me. It used to be almost impossible

to maintain. But that was before I leveled up with 300 CHA and 250

CC. That gave a regeneration rate of 105% every 30 seconds, allowing

me to produce 2000 CP every ten seconds. Meaning I didn't even have

to sweat it.

The man's arms flew off his body. I couldn't kill him because even

beheading wouldn't result in his death if his HP wasn't zero, thanks to

the game's logic. So I had to settle for maiming the man.

And then I moved to the rest of the Kiri ninjas. They were coming

through a valley pass, slowly horrified looks came upon their faces.

They looked over my shoulder and I saw what they saw. A trail of

bodies, so fresh the blood spilt hadn't even touched the ground yet. I

had killed so many...so many people….no, I can't do it anymore. I'm not

a monster...maybe this will convince them to give up.

Chapter 202

I made five shadow clones, each with 200 CP, they all moved around

the ninja's in the valley, surrounding them, making the seals for Scorch

Release: Dragon's Breath jutsu. And then, I canceled my Swift release

jutsu.

They all gasped as to them it seemed like I just killed half their ranks

and stopped before them, arms covered in blood. I looked at them with

cold looks, I could feel the fear, the rage.

I held up my fingers and pointed at my clones, they were cautious as a

few turned to see them, the more cautious of them never left my eyes.

"They can kill you all in less than a second," I spoke, "it wouldn't even

take them long to do that. It would be over," I snapped my fingers, "like

that."

"M-monster!" a Kiri ninja cried out.

"I didn't aim to kill a single person behind me," I looked over, seeing

most of the resistance fighter stop their fight the moment their

opponent was delimbed it hurt, taking them down instead of killing

them, "I don't like killing. But….if you force me too, I won't hesitate.

So...I'll give you one choice. Surrender," I let my guilt build up in the

form of a lone tear as I spoke in a quavering voice, "please. Just...don't

make me do this."

The head of the small army looked at me, his face aghast as he looked

at the tears rolling down my face. Was he wondering why a ninja cried?

Or could he not believe a monster could feel remorse.

Slowly, they looked at each other, and they dropped their weapons,

putting their hands up into the air.

"Don't resist," I told them as my clones came down and began sealing

them, making most of them drop down unconscious, while a few of the

stronger ones resisted it enough to stay on their feet.

"That was..." I turned and saw my team behind me, the resistance

fighters behind them. One had spoken, he spoke again with a shaking

voice, "a-are you alright Yami?"

"Yeah...I'm fine," I walked away, ignoring their looks, I couldn't stand to

see the sight of battle anymore.

Ping!

You have spared 42 enemies! Gain +42 PP and 42 points!

Ping!

You have killed 120 enemies!

Average: 2,560 EXP

Total EXP gained from kills: 307,200 EXP!

Ping!

You have leveled up!

Yami, Protector of Hono

Level- 45 (302,1000/70,100)

HP- 9,550/9,550 (+20)

SP- 5,050/5,050

CP- 6,625/6,625

CONTROL- 100%

FIRE- 100% WIND- 100% LIGHTNING- 100%

SCORCH- 100% SWIFT- 100%

POWER- 100%

Allegiance- Konoha

STR- 150 (+5)

VIT- 100

DEX- 100

INT- 100 (+2)

CHA- 300

CC- 250

LUC- 100 (+5)

Ping!

Conditions have been meet: Fire 100% control, Lightning 100%

control. Would you like to unlock a keki genkai!

FIRE + LIGHTNING = PLASMA

Or unlock another element?

Earth

Water

I can't deal with this damn new elements anymore. I'll stick to the

basics. I'm in Kiri right? I could use some water jutsus. So I selected

water.

Ping!

You have leveled up!

Yami, Protector of Hono

Level- 45 (302,1000/70,100)

HP- 10,100/10,100 (+20)

SP- 5,325/5,325

CP- 7,450/7,450

CONTROL- 100%

FIRE- 100% WIND- 100% LIGHTNING- 100% WATER- 60%

…..

Wait, I have a 60% control rate?! What the fuck?!

Ping!

You have leveled up!

My water control rate had risen to 100%, I gained even more options!

WIND + LIGHTNING + WATER = FORCE

FIRE + LIGHTNING = PLASMA

FIRE + WATER = BOIL

WIND + WATER = ICE

WATER + LIGHTNING = STORM

Or unlock another element?

Earth

I chose Earth, might as well unlock all of them;

Ping!

You have leveled up!

Ping!

You have leveled up!

And just like that, Earth release became 100%. And this time, since I

unlocked all of the basic elements, I got a whole list of kekkai genkais,

and kekai toutas

WIND + LIGHTNING + WATER = FORCE

LIGHTNING + EARTH + WATER = GRAVITY

EARTH + FIRE + WATER = LIFE

FIRE + EARTH + WIND = DUST

FIRE + LIGHTNING = PLASMA

FIRE + WATER = BOIL

WIND + WATER = ICE

WATER + LIGHTNING = STORM

EARTH + FIRE = LAVA

EARTH + WIND = MAGNET

EARTH + WATER = WOOD

EARTH + LIGHTNING = EXPLOSION

I sighed, might as well go with something familiar...like wood release.

Ping!

You have leveled up!

Yami, Protector of Hono

Level- 49 (12,7000/77,400)

HP- 11,750/11,750 (+20)

SP- 5,850/5,850

CP- 9,925/9,925

CONTROL- 100%

FIRE- 100% WIND- 100% LIGHTNING- 100% WATER- 100% EARTH100%

SCORCH- 100% SWIFT- 100% WOOD- 60%

POWER- 100%

Allegiance- Konoha

STR- 150 (+5)

VIT- 100

DEX- 100

INT- 100 (+2)

CHA- 300

CC- 250

LUC- 100 (+5)

Points- 72

Perk Points- 431

I sighed, I need a lot of time to process all of this. For now I dismissed

the status message and turned around and sat on a boulder, looking at

the gathering of the masked Konoha ninjas and the resistance fighters.

"Now! Make way!" three jonin level ninja came down, the resistance

fighters giving him plenty of space. He looked at us, all of us, before his

eyes landed on Zabuza, "lord Z-zabuza?! What are you doing here?!"

"I'm here to help Kiri, like I've been sworn to do," Zabuza said putting

his blade away, it was stained with blood, guess he got a few people in

huh?

"A-and these men?" the jonin, Wagyu, asked.

"They are from Konoha," Zabuza motioned to 1, "he's in charge of

them. I spoke with the Hokage, he has agreed to help us fight back.

They are on our side against the Mizukage."

"Konoha is willing to fight for us?!"

"Woah! Those tree huggers aren't half bad!"

The people began to whisper to each other, before Wagyu silenced

them with a glare. With all of them silent he turned to 1, "how many

men did you bring?"

"31," he replied.

"That won't be enough," Wagyu replied with a snarl.

"Will it?" 1 looked over his shoulder at me, I gave a neutral mask, I

wasn't in the mood.

"What is he?" a Kiri ninja asked, his voice shaking, "he just killed them

all! Like they were nothing! We couldn't even see him! Even lord

Fitoruma! The fastest jonin of Kiri couldn't stop him!"

Everyone turned to me, the Konoha ninjas moving around me

protectively. "It's fine," I pushed 4 and 5 aside to step before them, "my

name is Yami, I'm a ninja of Konoha, the Second Flash. And all you

have to know, is that my team and I are going to make sure this war

stops. For good. And that's a promise."

Chapter 203: Suppon Nabe

"So in exchange for you help, the new Mizukage we place will have to

agree to a peace treaty with Konoha?" Wagyu asked with a raised

eyebrow.

1 nodded, "that is correct."

"And why exactly is that?" another resistance fighter asked as he

leaned down on the table we all gathered behind.

After the battle was over the captured ninjas were put into the dungeon

of the fortress the resistance used. The fort was cracking apart, but

luckily a few ninjas knew Earth release and could fix up the whole

place quickly. Damn, I really need to learn some Earth Release jutsu.

"Konoha needs more allies," 1 explained, "we would like it if we weren't

threatened with war every decade or so. Hence, an alliance with Kiri

can discourage the more moron of people from attacking us."

"Will this mean we're allied with your allies as well?" Wagyu asked.

1 shrugged, "it's not for me to say, nor your too decided. I'm assuming

you aren't the leader of the resistance, yes?"

Wagyu raised an eyebrow, "and why do you think that is?"

"Because you would be far away from the battle if you were," 2

explained, "a Kage is a leader, you act more like a general."

The rebels looked at each other, clearly looking uncomfortable at the

idea of showing their cards. They spoke to each other in hushed tones,

whatever, I had other shit to do. I opened my status and looked at all

the points I had.

I had 72, I needed use them;

STR- 162 (+5)

VIT- 110

DEX- 110

INT- 110 (+2)

CHA- 330

CC- 250

LUC- 100 (+5)

Points- 0

And then I opened my perk list to see what I could buy.

Snake Catcher- +10% more damage dealt to snake lovers

(Conditions to unlock- Gain over -60 REP with a snake love.) Cost5 PP

U c h i h a G e n j u t s u - G e n j u t s u 1 0 % m o r e l i k e l y t o

succeed(Conditions to unlock- Gain over 60 REP with an Uchiha.)

Cost- 20 PP

Hm, I think I got that one from Itachi. I see, even though he respected

me, I didn't know that until I met him, meaning I could have unlocked

some perk without knowing!

Shark killer- +10% more damage dealt to members of the

Hoshigaki clan (Conditions to unlock- Gain over -60 REP with a

member of the Hoshigaki clan) Cost- 5 PP

A General's Orders- Unlocks party EXP share system! (Conditions

to unlock- Gain over 80 REP with a general of an army) Cost- 50

PP

Okay, this one I definitely must have gotten from the general of the

Hono army, there's no other way about it.

(Kisame) Eternal rival- Gain a second sense when it comes to the

presence of Kisame Hoshigaki. (Conditions to unlock- Gain -100

REP with Kisame Hoshigaki) Cost- 5 PP

ANBU Stealth- -20% chance towards getting caught while

sneaking around. (Conditions to unlock- Gain 100 REP) Cost- 20

PP

Okay, not much to go on, but whatever, I want them all! So I spent 105

PP and got all of them listed into my perk list.

There, not bad. I then returned to the argument the two sides were

having, it was honestly boring watching these old men argue about

whether they could trust us or not, honestly, it was. I didn't even pay

attention after the fifth time the resistance fighters asked us if we were

Kiri spies, these fools.

"So who's leading the rebels?" Zabuza asked, "is it one of the seven

swordsman?"

Wagyu shook his head, "no. It's Mei Terumi, the heiress of the Terumi

clan."

Zabuza's eyes widened, "M-Mei?! She's leading you all?!"

"You know her?" I asked, alerting everyone to the fact that I was

actually present in the room.

Zabuza turned and nodded, "yeah. She's….scary. Se once threatened

to melt...a sensitive area of my body off."

"That's because you cheated on her with someone ninja from Kumo," a

jonin resistance fighter said causing everyone to chuckle while Zabuza

growled threateningly at the man.

"Where is Mei Terumi now?" 1 asked.

"In Sky island," Wagyu replied, "she's currently getting ready to lead an

attack on Lightning island...we were actually supposed to go join her.

We expected out stronghold to fall but, well, thanks to..." he looked at

me.

"Yami," I supplied.

He nodded, "right...well, thanks to your incredibly powerful genin over

there we managed to survive. This will change our plans a little, but for

the better. We already set a message to Mei about all of you, I'm sure

she'll want to meet up."

"He's not a genin," Zabuza put in, "he's a jonin."

"A-a jonin?!" they all looked at me in surprise.

"I suppose that would make sense," Wagyu, the only one who didn't

overreact, "someone that powerful can't be a chunin, it would be an

insult to his skills. You tree hugger sure are lucky, but you better be

careful, wasn't the last prodigy you had a clan killer?"

"I'm not Itachi Uchiha," I snapped, "nor will I ever be him."

"From what I saw you do today kid, I highly doubt that," a chunin

resistance fighter put in.

I looked at him, "how many people did I kill?" I asked knowing the

answer.

"A hundred," he shrugged.

"A hundred a twenty, exactly," I corrected him, "and while I did kill so

many, I spared the lives of 42 people. And got at least two hundred

more of the Kiri ninjas in the clearing to surrender without another drop

spilt. If I was Itachi Uchiha, I would have killed them without question."

"And by being so lenient with your blade we now have another

problem," Wagyu sighed, "the dungeons are full. We have fifty percent

of all our men keeping tabs on the prisoners, they're more of a

hindrance than anything else. It would be quicker to kill them."

Chapter 204

A young looking genin level resistance fighter looked horrified-but we

can't! They're our allies! It's not their fault they have to obey the

Mizukage's orders!"

"-Shut up kid," a chunin snapped, "what would rather do? Spare them

so that they can come back and kill us again?!"

"No but-"

"It's us or them kid, it's that simple," Wagyu sighed, "I wish we didn't do

this but...it has to be done."

I didn't like it, I didn't spare their lives only for another execution! I...I

have to do something! But what can I do? If only I can store them away

for sometime until they can decide what to do with them later! But I

can't under a storage scroll, it's not designed to store a living being! But

what about….my inventory!

Ping!

Quest Alert!

Find a way to spare their lives!

Rewards:

10,000 EXP!

Failure:

Nothing

Do you accept?

Y/N?

I selected yes and spoke up, "I think I have a solution."

"Oh? And what is it?" they asked turning to me.

"Give me ten minutes," I activated Swift release speed up times 10 and

vanished out of the fort, rushing into the forest next to the fort, looking

for a live creature to test on. Quickly I found a rabbit I could use.

I grabbed it and canceled my jutsu, immediately the little mamale tried

to escape, but I had it's ears in a vice, it couldn't even move. I opened

my inventory and put it inside. I waited five minutes, until I was sure it

would be dead because of the lack of oxygen and took it out.

Immediately it began to try and escape again. I dropped the rabbit and

watched it run away. I gave chase with my normal speed, watching as

it tried to run away. It's brain activity was normal, doesn't look like the

status like nature it was in inside my inventory effected it in any way.

I grinned before I flash back into the for, I left a marker right where I

was standing. I appeared in the war room once again, startling

everyone.

"What the-how did you do that?!" a chunin growled.

"I can take care of your prisoner problem without killing them," I

informed them, "they'll be unharmed and they won't take up any of your

time."

"How?" Wagyu asked.

"I have a special storage seal," I explained, "I can't give you any

details, but it allows me to store a human life, putting them under a

form of temporal status, for them it will be like time stopped. Is this

good enough?"

Lie successful!

The young resistance fighter nodded frantically while the others

whispered amongst themselves before agreeing as well. Finally all

eyes on Wagyu who kept glaring at me. Finally he sighed and nodded,

"it's fine. Come with me, I'll show you to the dungeons."

We all followed him, I guess they were curious about my new 'seal'. We

went two floors and there in cells filled to the brim were over two

hundred captured Kiri ninjas. The injured had been patched up as best

as they could. Obviously the resistance didn't want to waste medicine

on these people.

Wagyu motioned a gaurd to open the door and pull a prisoner out. He

was pushed towards me, he looked scared, he couldn't even meet my

eyes. I pushed his shoulders and put my arms behind his knees,

carrying him up. The man looked confused as to why I was carrying

him like a bride, even the people behind me snickered.

I ignored them all and opened my inventory, tossing the man inside.

The people gasped as the man vanished into nothing.

"You bastard!" a capture jonin cried out, "can't you at least give us a

proper execution?! You have to have this monster do it?!"

"Where did he go?" Wagyu asked.

"I told you," I looked at man, "he's in status."

"Can you bring him back?" 1 asked curiously.

I nodded as I reached into the inventory and pulled him out.

Immediately he began to flinch as he looked around, "w-what was

that?"

"What did you see?" Wagyu asked moving before the flinching man.

"I...did I go somewhere?" the prisoner asked.

"He didn't experience time moving at all," I told them, "it's a new seal I

developed to store away injured people, keeping them alive until we

can reach a medic."

"Or give you the ability to transport entire armies by yourself," Zabuza

hissed, "you just keep getting more and more dangerous kid."

"I'm going to be the shadow of the future Hokage one day," I smirked,

"so you better not piss me off."

"The future Hokage?" 8 asked, "who?"

I turned to her and smiled, "Naruto Uzumaki."

"Ha!" 5 chuckled, "the day that kid becomes the Hokage is the day I'll

become a cat lover!"

I shrugged, "I look forward to that. Now, shall I continue? Or what?"

"C-continue," Wagyu said worried as he stepped back.

It took me five hours to put them all away. Yes, four freaking hours. It

took a minute to put away each person, yes a full minute, and that's if

they were cooperating. It took three men to restrain a person and ring

them to me. It was honestly a pain in the ass, but it had to be done.