Chapter 23 - Soul Collecting

Lunis and the others walked down the road. They kept talking about some things and also joked with each other.

Even Tazuna was a bit better, a bit. They left Konoha for about half an hour and the sun was still shining. The birds were chirping, while the water is splashing. It was very hot and yet somehow enjoyable.

No one except Lunis noticed something. The moment they left, there were two people following them. Lunis of course already saw them and was a bit bothered. He thought about what he should with them and... Well even if the kids will fight them it's too annoying. So he decided to kill them off.

The two Shinobi were currently hiding behind a few trees and before they knew it something pierced right trough their hearts. It was black, a shadow? Yes it was Lunis using his Shadow Manipulation.

"H-How!!! Blurghh!" The first one said weakly while falling on his knees.

"Wh, who did this! Klerghh!" The other Shinobi exclaimed while spurting out blood. Without much struggle both of them died.

Lunis just grinned, he seemed to enjoy killing them. It was something that he did without knowing. At first it wasn't there but because of the Saiyan Bloodline a bit of Evil invaded him. The normal Saiyan weren't as peace loving as Goku, but very evil and ferocious warriors. The Saiyan race was a race that survived by killing and stealing. Lunis is also like them but at a much small scale. Lunis just kinda enjoyed fighting and killing off enemies but he also loved his families and friends.

"Why are you grinning?"

"It's nothing! Just enjoying the sun."

They kept heading towards their goal.

...

The following days they spent were pretty much boring. That was the time when the Shinobi noticed someone, no there were two people on the road ahead. They were Zabuza and Haku.

Naruto had already met with Haku but thought that he was a girl. So he didn't recognize him now.

Haku also wore a mask, while Zabuza was just clad in bandages and most of his face wasn't viewable.

Both of them didn't say very much and just attacked them, Zabuta drew his sword one of the seven mist swords. Haku just used his Ice release and made a few needles.

"Sasuke cover me!" shouted Naruto while defending himself from Haku.

"You don't have to tell me!" answered a pissed Sasuke while trying to kick Haku from behind.

Lunis just kept smiling while doing nothing. Zabuza was pretty much near and then used his Mist jutsu to cover the area up. He wanted ȧssassinate Lunis in the silence.

Lunis kept glancing at the kids that were fighting from time to time because he didn't want to show them what he would do now. After confirming Lunis used his Demon mode and a mark appeared on his forehead. It looked very sinister and evil.

Zabuza got goosebumps when he saw this strange mark appearing and was greatly affected by the pressure emitted from it.

'Not good!' he thought.

Lunis just used a casual swing of his hand and then few black orbs floated near him. These orbs were the energy from the Demon mode that he compressed inside a ball.

He fired the energy against the terrified Zabuza who couldn't react in time and got hit.

Booooom!

The explosion caused by the energy blasted the whole mist away and one could see the people inside. The three Genin also glanced inside and saw one man, with big holes inside his body laying down. Before they could even react, the masked Shinobi shouted.

"ZABUZAAAA!!!" Haku quickly dashed to the corpse of the man and tears streamed down his face which was covered by the mask.

He tried to catch Zabuza's soul and use it. He was pretty much sure that he could make familiars with his ability so he decided to try it once. Lunis muttered under his breath

"Soul Release - Reaper's hands" It was a new jutsu invented by him, it could catch souls and store them inside them. It was very useful and pretty cool.

So Lunis caught Zabuza's soul with a mistake and stored it. Well he couldn't really make a familiar here with so many eyes watching.

"You BASTAAAARD!"

Lunis was in deep thoughts and even forgot about Haku. He could be considered stupid to forget his enemies on the battlefield but what could he do? Considered with Lunis, Haku was an ant and because of that Lunis didn't even consider him as opponent.

Haku took of his mask and shouted at Lunis. He looked miserable, like he lost all hope but he was also full of rage. He was angry because Lunis killed Zabuza. Haku readied his Ice Release and just when he was about to release it he got interrupted by a voice behind his back.

"That's dangerous you know! It would be bad if someone other than me is hit by that."

Haku got scared like a little bunny meeting the wolf. Haku saw the Skill gap between them but didn't want to give up.

Lunis wasn't in the mood to play, so he just cut of Haku's head with his hand and collected his soul. Normally kids would be freaked out but not Shinobi kids! They were happy and got excited because it looked cool. Naruto was just a little down that he couldn't somehow keep them alive and make them good again.

The group continued walking to the Land of waves.

...

They got there pretty early and were delighted that they could relax a bit more.

The group of Lunis and the kids got to stay in a house from a boy named Inari and his mother, Tsunami. Inari was Tazuna's grandson.

They were both very kind people but the boy seemed a little bit sad and distant. Naruto of course didn't like that so he went to Inari. Then he introduced himself but somehow they ended up fighting. The time they weren't guarding Tazuna, they either trained or tried to get closer to Inari.

All of them made great progress in training and Lunis was very satisfied with that. He also enjoyed the scenery while walking around the village. It was a small village where almost everyone knew each other. The whole village was like a big family.

Of course even if he did almost nothing here, Lunis also knew the true enemy of Tazuna, Gato!

Gato was... well some kind of bad guy. He did many things, like plundering and killing innocent people.

Lunis was extremely pissed at Gato's behavior but decided to wait a bit and let the kids take care of it. Lunis already killed both Zabuza and Haku so he had pretty much free time because Gato and his group was a bunch of weaklings. Even the kids could handle them without a problem.

Lunis just watched the bunch of weaklings while signaling the Genin to fight them.

After a bit of fighting the kids were tired and got almost hit by one gangster.

Lunis interfered and killed the one attacking with a tiny bit of energy. They were amazed at Lunis and the Genin again and thanked them repeatedly.

They were all very happy because they got to live in peace again.

"Thank you!!!"

"We won't forget you!"

"Our saviors!"

They all shouted many different things but in the end they all held the same meaning. The group was also thanked by Tazuna and his family, Tsunami and Inari. It was very early in the morning so Lunis' group got ready to leave the land of the waves.

The bridge was also finished and they named it the Konoha bridge.