Chapter 18: Journey to Kiri

Chapter 18: Journey to Kiri

Five days later:

I looked at the pot before me. I was walking around the market district on my way back from dinner four days ago when I spotted it. It was specially treated, so it won't crack if someone drops it, and it also had some cement mixed into it. The moment I looked at it I knew it was perfect.

A perfect container for Orochimaru's spirit. I began working on it then and there, placing seals on it that were each A rank and above. It would serve as containment seal for a single soul.

I made it so that it's walls acted like chakra lines like that in a human body. So if I put a soul into it, it would produce chakra that would travel along the walls, powering the pot's protections that kept it sealed shut. It was basically a cycle of fuckery for the soul sucked inside.

It took me four days of hard work to perfect this thing, and hopefully it was all worth it. It was around ten in the morning, perfect. I made a clone and it immediately took off, running towards the hospital to talk to the head daughter about the procedure. If I'm going to do this I'll need professional help.

I yawned as I left my room, finding Misu sitting at the kitchen table, already making breakfast.

"You didn't have to make that grandma Uzumaki," I said as I poured myself a cup of coffee, "you know I like cooking."

"It's the least I can do dear after you let me stay here free of rent," she smiled. She looked inside, the room to my workshop was left open, giving her a clear line of sight to the pot, "is it ready?"

"Yup. could you take a look?" I asked.

"Of course," she put away the vegetables she was cutting and went inside. She picked up the pot ad looked at it, humming as she examined the seal matrix, "it should work. I see no flaws in it...none at all. I must say, while you may not be an Uzumaki, you sure do the talent of a grand seal master.

I smiled, "thanks. I just hope it's enough to help Anko."

"Do you really care for this girl that much?" Misu asked with a smly smile.

I smiled back, "she's really hot."

"So all a girl has to do to make you stay up all night for four days in a row is shove your head between her cleavage?"

I shrugged, "pretty much. Oh, and I guess I felt like it was the right thing to do."

"You are...an odd shinobi Yami."

"Is that bad?"

Misu smiled, "kindness is never a bad thing."

Just then the clone popped, it had talked to the doctor and gained his permission. If I wanted I could have examining room for the next two hours. I immediately made another clone that went for the Hokage to gain his permission and when it popped I was ready to move.

The Hokage agreed, but only under the condition that a doctor and nurse be on standby to make sure nothing goes wrong. I decided to go a step further and ask him for the help of Genma and the Hokage Gaurd Platoon, the only other decent seal masters in this village.

The three agreed, though it was difficult at first. And now we were ready. Misu agreed to go ahead and set everything up in the hospital, so now it was left to me to find Anko.

I used my chakra sensory skills and located her easily, she was eating dango in her favorite shop. Duh.

I landed before her and smiled, "you keep eating dango like that and your perfect figure will go down the drain."

"Please," Anko snorted, "they day I become fat is the day pigs fly."

I smiled, "you know...I wouldn't mind if you got a little chubby, just gives me more to play with."

Anko smirked, "I knew you had a fat fetish."

"It's called a boob fetish Anko," I snorted rolling my eyes, "and the only reason I'll find you hot when you get fat is because you would still be the hottest woman in Konoha," I groaned, "which is sadder than you would expect."

"Relax kid, I told you, give it time, you'll find someone," she winked.

"Right...anyway, the flirting was nice, but that's not why I'm here," I smiled.

"And why are you here?" she asked.

I smiled, "I think I can get rid of you seal, permanently."

Anko's eyes widened as she immediately got to her feet, "how?"

"I made a vessel to contain his soul, so if we just transfer it into that, you'll be snake free," I smiled.

Anko looked serious as she nodded, "right. What do I have to do?"

"Take my hand," I offered it to her. She took it without question. I closed my eyes and flashed us over to the hospital room which had already been set up.

"Ah, you're here, good," Misu said as she finished drawing containment seals all around the room that all radiated from the bed in the middle of the room. And attached to the upper left corner was the pot I had made, its lid open.

The doctor and nurse were standing in one corner, I walked up to them and told them what the procedure was going to do, and what they should be looking for.

"So what do I have to do?" Anko asked as she removed her jacket and put it aside.

"Lay down, face up and relax, we'll take care of everything," I told her just as the door opened up and the Hokage gaurd platoon walked in.

"Sorry we're late," Genma said with a node as he looked at Anko, "hey Anko, looking sexy as ever."

"You know it," Anko smirked, "and I'm about to get a whole lot sexier once I get this tattoo removed."

I smiled, "well then that would make it the most complex tattoo removal operation in history," I then guided the platoon members to their potions. They had their hands on the ground channeling their chakra to maintain the barrier around Anko, to make sure Orochimaru's spirit doesn't escape.

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.

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 Updated from novelb(i)n.c(o)m

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?"

'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?!"

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."

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.

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?"

"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.

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% EARTH- 100%

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."