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Death Meister

Prologue:

Hermione nodded and said absolute conviction and sincerity, "A benevolent but curious advanced alien race found you before I could and ran a series of experiments on you and in return you asked them keep the Deathly Hollows safe. When they accepted they used a Magiscience beyond my ability to understand to graft three experimental technologies that they invented on the spot after learning what the Deathly Hollows did to simulate them albeit not perfectly."

Artemis looked at her blankly for a moment before shrugging and said with a breath of relief, "Well at least I know that the Deathly Hollows are safe then, I would love to see any wizard try to get onto a advanced alien ship capable of creating technology that simulate the Deathly Hollows instantly."

Hermione nodded smiling in agreement while on the inside she was continuously banging her head on a conveniently placed steel table muttering about delusional idiots. Just outside the stone room all the House Elf's had gathered when their master had awakened, they each glanced at each other nervously not quite exactly sure what to make of what they just saw. The head House Elf glanced around at his extended family incredulously before he harshly whispered with exasperation, "Obviouslys wes didn'ts heres that and no ones heres rememberds that!"

The other House Elf's nodded hurriedly and scampered away to do their jobs while some actually went as far as to obligate themselves in their haste to forget what they obviously weren't supposed to hear.

Chapter Three: The Bothersome Nature of Immortality

Artemis awoke fully conscious and hyperaware, a state that was actually quite normal for her. She was still in her armor, for some reason she hadn't been able to get it off. It was as if it was bound to her with a permanent sticking charm and no matter what she did it wouldn't come off. Even though it had only been a day since her mind was finally healed she had recovered as much as she was ever going to get already; as disturbing as the concept was she was actually used to having her mind broken. It was the damage to her soul that was now causing the most problems, but she wasn't a stranger to that either, the people who tried to kill her had been very inventive after all. Still nothing she had ever experienced previous to the Shinigami had ever possessed the sheer might to sunder her soul to this extent and trying to recover was bitch.

Still relying on the soul to heal itself was stupid to the extreme, if the Shinigami hadn't sutured her soul closed then it would have still been as badly damaged as it was then now. As it was the damage left over had affected her magic in a way that she hadn't expected. She could actually feel phantom pain in her magic which reflected the pain in her soul, something so profound that when she first it she was dumbstruck even with her vast experience. The pain wasn't unbearable and nor was it even physical, it was more a spiritual and emotional pain than anything else but she had plenty of experience with those forms of pains and so wasn't concerned. What did concern her was that she could still feel the damage that connected her conscious mind to her soul. An effect normally only ever observed and recorded with the creation of a Horcrux.

The only theory both she and Hermione had been able to come up with was that was that the spirit now bound within her soul was soul-bound to her. It was a bond stronger than any friendship, any comradeship, or marriage that went beyond mere physical existence. It had been discovered in the twentieth century by an aspiring Arch-mage. It was an extremely personal, intimate, and sacred bond that was looked upon with awe and reverence. The love and trust the bond helped strengthen could allow both the bonded people achieve feats of magic that had previously only been witnessed by Artemis herself. It also ensured that the love between the bonded pair would carry on to the next life making them what amounted to magical soul mates.

So it was understandable that when Artemis found out she literally entered a rage cold that which burned with its passion and was of an intensity which the bards of old sang of. She actually had to increase her Soul of Ice spell by several magnitudes to stop her magic from tearing the world asunder, the hate was so strong. She came to hate the Shinigami with a fanatical zeal that even hardcore religious zealots would find disturbing. However even this hatred paled in comparison to the venoms hatred she harbored for the soul that had bonded to her. The reason for this hatred was that even if the soul had no choice in a bond of this magnitude it was still tantamount to the most fiendish and cruel form of rape. The bond would continuously try to compel her to develop the same feelings it was created to strengthen and the only defense against that was to hate every quality that the soul residing within her represented. In this way, if there was enough hatred then it was possible to hold off the effects for as long as the hate remained. It wasn't a method she ever wanted to employ but for this one thing she would make an exception.

With a weary grunt Artemis got out of her temporary but otherwise comfy bed and stretched, moaning in satisfaction as her bones popped back into place. The only permanent damage the Shinigami's attack on her soul had caused was a temporary instability in her magic and a small loss of control which she could easily train back; she had to admit that she got off much lighter then she usually did when something drastic happened in her life. However that just made her all the more paranoid for something even worse happening. Although some would argue that it wasn't paranoia when the phenomenon was a proven fact that was even imbedded in the laws of physics as Newton's Third Law.

It was as she had that particular thought crossed her mind that the phenomenon that was Newton's law came into play again in the form of nature's call. Artemis realized belatedly that she had to use the rest room but also realized that she couldn't remove her armor or robe which actually made her panic slightly. In the end Artemis could only sigh dejectedly already knowing what she would have to do but dreading to have to do it. Artemis focused her inner energies to her Brow (Ajna) chakra in preparation to open her 'third eye'.

This inadvertently activated the Deathly Hollow embedded in her skull although she had momentarily forgotten that it was the activation switch. Still with the activation of her 'third eye' she gained clairvoyance and was able to 'see' with intricate and nauseating detail into herself and her surroundings, an act which was disconcerting to the extreme. Still once she had found and targeted the waste she was able to vanish the accumulated waste deep in the earth. The act itself caused a nauseating feeling in her gut that even after all this time she never got over or grew accustomed to.

Shivering slightly Artemis decided that she really had to do something about her armor and robe. The problem she faced was that her armor had been spelled and charmed with a unique matrix of advanced magic. This granted her armor a quasi-sentience nature that allowed it to adapt and overcome any perceived attempt to harm its wearer or disenchant or weaken the various spells and charms. On top of that was an extremely complex and highly intricate matrix of wards that reinforced this with a form of magical firewall. The quasi-sentient nature of her armor's innate magic could interact with this ward matrix to provide the most efficient and effective defense and offense in the case of a determined enemy. She had built it to be able to resist someone of her caliber after all so she hadn't been playing around.

Still Artemis knew that if she obsessed over it then it would actually take her longer to find a solution, so with a reluctant sigh she focused her attention on something else. It was far too early in the morning to deal with something as tedious as her armor anyway. So instead she went through her morning cardio routine and moved onto the advanced exercises once she was limber enough. It was kind of awkward in her armor but since it was built for full maneuverability she quickly adapted. Unlike other Witch's and Wizards she knew the benefits of a fit body beyond sports even though most wizards and witch's were too lazy to put in the hard work otherwise. Beyond that there was even a kind of magic that she had created that revolved around the Martial Arts, internal energy and blood flow and circulation. Although the original form used chi instead of magic she was able to convert her magic into a close enough approximation to chi to create an entirely new form of magic known as Body Magic. It was actually because of this new mage craft that she wore Tabi Boots; they helped the blood circulation which was vital to help her converted magic tune itself to her body, like chi the converted magic relied on blood flow to circulate throughout the body.

Artemis had since discovered that the strength gained through this new form of magic increased all of her physical abilities by however much converted magic she used to enhance her body. She could literally shatter boulders with a flick of her fingers or hurtle entire hills into the stratosphere with casual ease with less magic than it took to cast a relatively strong Petronius. However this magic was anything but easy and was in fact incredibly dangerous to even attempt to learn. Just trying to convert enough magic into magical chi was neigh impossible for the average mage. The conversion rate from magic to chi magic was one-hundred magical units to a single chi magic unit. Even the strongest magicals fresh out of magical school only had around a hundred magical units making it an obsolete branch of mage-craft for anyone under the age sixty. Only people like Minerva McGonagall who had around 15,000 magic units would ever be able to make use of even a moderate form of Body magic. People like Dumbledore and Tom Riddle who had close to 100,000 units of magic each would be the only ones strong enough to utilize Body magic effectively to anything resembling mastery. On top of that even an experienced user could easily self destruct using this magic if they made the slightest mistake in the conversion process; or if they didn't have a healthy level of blood circulation, which was about as foreign a concept to wizard-kind as the logic of a wizard was to a muggle's.

So despite the fact that Artemis would have gained recognition for creating and introducing another form of mage craft into the magical world; she deemed it too dangerous with more of a probability of being used for evil far than being used for good. The fact that she didn't want the recognition in the first place just made her choice that much easier. The only one Artemis even mentioned it to with an offer to teach was Hermione. She had obviously declined stating in no uncertain tones that she was Witch and a scholar and was content the way she was and had no reason to risk her life learning a form of magic she wasn't ever likely to use.

Artemis forced herself out of her reminiscence as she finished her advanced exercises and moved onto her cool down exercises. It was only when those were done as well did Artemis finally cast a few well placed Scourgify charms since she couldn't get out of her armor to take a shower before finishing with a few with a powerful and continuous air freshener charm. It was only then that she finally walked out of her room and began to make her way to what Hermione had designated the Command Room which was actually the living room.

As she made her she began to think about a charm that she wanted to create a few centuries ago that if done properly would produce a giant fireball. She got the idea from playing an online fantasy game of all things a few centuries ago that had a 'standard' set of beginning spells such as Fireball and Water bolt. She had then realized with a start that there actually weren't charms for such spells and had thus rushed off to create them…only to be distracted a few hours later when a war broke out literally in front of her house. It turned out to be the world governments attempt to try and kill her with a surprise attack, that time they were trying their first mass attack. Apparently they were hoping to kill her with sheer numbers, why they actually thought any amount of numbers would change anything she still didn't understand. She felt a small tingle at the base of her neck but dismissed it as nothing even as a strange feeling overcame her. She noted absently that her hands were making strange hand signs, a practice she knew Shinto Priestess practiced for exercising demons. She could only stare at her hands dumbly as they continued their strange movements and for a moment was distracted from her thoughts of spell creation. Instantly her hands ceased their strange movement and once more came to rest at her side.

As Artemis tried to figure out if she was suffering from brain or nerve damage she sensed the chakra was beginning to twist and contort within her body flowing down to her hands even as it began taking on a corrosive element. Normally she wouldn't have been able to sense such complex variations in her chakra pathways seeing as she only became aware of them a day ago and at most could only barely sense the chakra pathways were there. It was only thanks to the converted magical 'chi' that she constantly kept circulating with her blood that allowed her to have a sort of internal sense that allowed her to feel such alterations.

Artemis sensed the corrosive vermilion chakra gathering in the palms of both her hands even as the air in the corridor was sucked into the spiraling balls and promptly ignited creating what amounted to small but intense contained flaming typhoons. Artemis struggled to simply control them; the fireballs themselves seemed to be self contained. That meant she didn't need to split her focus between that and simply trying to keep the mini-flaming typhoons from touching her hands. She didn't know it but she was actually utilizing, while practicing, the highest form of Shape Manipulation and Nature Transformation, the two highest forms of chakra control that together created the foundation of all ninjutsu.

It was only thanks to her nearly forty centuries of magical manipulation and understanding of the dynamics and physics of the natural world that allowed her to finally gain control of the flaming balls of chakra for a few precious seconds. Having already memorized the feeling of chakra Artemis, applied the basics of Wandless magic and her Intent magic to bring out and rapidly spin several spirals of chakra. She focused them in the palms of her hands under and halfway around the miniature fireballs. She did this in such a way that exerted a precise and intense burst of thrust on the small contained typhoons that sent them hurtling into the wall at nearly the speed of sound.

Since she was just walking down the spiral corridor of the towers whose walls were several dozen feet thick and made of corrosion resistant steel, Artemis thought the fireballs wouldn't cause that much damage. Unfortunately she didn't know that not only was she using a ridiculous amount of chakra but that she was using the yin chakra that once belonged to the Kyūbi. Thus the chakra was a multitude of factors 'heavier' and more potent than normal chakra would have been. If that wasn't enough there was also the fact that the chakra had fire nature properties added to it that made the chakra hot enough to instantly Titanium into slag. The result was a jutsu that could easily be classified as an S Rank assassination technique. The steel walls of the tower didn't stand a chance.

Before Artemis could even register what happened the world erupted in flame even as she was slammed into the opposite wall with enough force and kinetic energy to actually make the enchantments built into her armor falter slightly. If she didn't have on her armor the only thing left of her would have been a shadow burnt into the steel until her magic recreated her body. As it was she was dazed from the bright flash and the almighty thunderclap of the intense explosion.

When she finally reoriented herself after a few seconds she realized that she was in the ocean looking up into the twilight of the morning sky. With a frown she lifted her head up and saw that she had been thrown clear through the steel wall and nearly three-hundred meters out to sea. Even from this far out Artemis could see that the towers top two floors were simply gone while most of the remaining five floors had clearly been ballooned and were melting before her eyes. She heard and felt a splash a few hundred feet away and knew without looking that it was most likely a part of the missing two floors of the tower. Artemis decided that she didn't want to deal with this right now and closed her eyes and let her head fall back onto the water with a wet 'plop'. She numbly noted that she had left her hat back in her room. As if her thoughts had summoned it she felt it fall and bop her on the head. At that point she wisely decided not to tempt the universe again and stopped thinking.

Artemis sensed more than heard Hermione's wrath-like figure form a few feet beside her and knew without looking she was trying vainly to think of something to say. Finally it seemed that she settled on something and asked rather delicately, "What happened?"

Artemis opened a single eye and glanced at her to see that she looked curious, pensive, and amused all in one. Deciding that it wouldn't hurt to say Artemis sighed deeply before she launched rather dully into her explanation. "I was thinking about how to create a fire ball spell from that online fantasy game I played a few centuries ago and felt a weird tingle at the base of my neck. Next thing I knew I entered this trance-like state similar to a scar induced vision and my hands are making these strange hand seals similar to what Shinto priestess use. When I focused on them the trance ended and the energy produced from chakra pathways began to contort in a series of patterns similar to some of the Celtic Knot I studied some time ago. At the same time the chakra took on what I guess was a corrosive quality."

Here Artemis sighed and if not for the fact that she didn't want to move she would palmed her face for her stupidity. "Next thing I know the energy focuses into my palms to form contained flaming typhoons. I was just barely able to control them long enough to reverse engineer the process that created them to form spinning spirals of energy. With those I was able to create a substantial amount of force but I'm afraid that in my hurried state of mind I forgot to take into account what would happen when those 'fireballs' impacted the wall. The result is obvious, now if you don't mind I want to pretend that I died and am floating on the river of Lethe in Hades, Greek mythology."

With that said she firmly closed her single open eye and pointedly turned away from her. Artemis could sense Hermione was about to ask something but she cut her off without even opening her eyes. "No, just…at least let me pretend until the sun is up, I don't want to have to deal with this crap so early in the morning."

Hermione could sense the pure weariness in Artemis's voice and sighed silently before fading away to fix the tower. She considered simply transfiguring a whole new tower all together; the current one at this point was little more than a pile of slag. Luckily none of the house Elf's had been in the tower during Artemis's little accident. She had been in need of them to help stabilize the various cracks in the wards in the property hidden inside Artemis's soul. She made a note to give them an amulet enchanted with a Protego Ultimo in case there was another incident like this and she didn't have all the House Elf's with her.

XXXxxx…Two Hours Later…xxxXXX

For two hours Artemis simply lay on the water with her mind blank, it was a coping mechanism that helped keep her sane. At night she didn't sleep, she could stay up for an entire week without sleep easily and during those sleepless she would simply blank her mind and lay still. It was during this time that she unleashed everything she bottled up in the day and let her magic express her emotion so that she wouldn't be bothered by them while keeping them calm with her Soul of Ice. It was during this time that she could pretend that she was dead and was resting in peaceful oblivion. Without this she would long since become detached from her morality as she slowly lost her mind to insanity and the madness that was constantly seeking to consume her. She knew that there was a very real danger that if she lost herself to her grief then she would become the type of monster that she had spent nearly her whole existence trying to destroy.

It was only that thought that kept her going now a day and was one of the main reasons why she constructed the Pensive Construct that called itself Hermione. She had created it originally to act as a moral anchor and to keep her from falling to the madness. However she could admit to herself that with every passing decade her will was beginning to fail and her resolve began to crumble. It would have been so easy to simply silence everything and drift forever in the vacuum of space among the ruined remnants of the world…she wouldn't be able to do this for much longer.

Sunlight shined from the sky and she noticed belatedly that the sun had risen, it was probably somewhere around seven or eight in the morning. With a sigh Artemis slowly lifted herself from the water while picking up her hat from beside her and put it on. Then bottling up all her dark thoughts and secreting them away in the blackest depths of her mind Artemis greeted the day with a bright smile, even as her dark thoughts festered in the depths of her psyche.

Hermione's ethereal form materialized a few feet ahead of her and for a moment studied her intently but Artemis simply smiled brightly at her and waved at her enthusiastically. For a moment Hermione's eyes were troubled but then she grinned back and asked with a mischievous tone, "So I hear that you are now officially a living Horcrux again, do you think that had something to do with your 'incident' this morning?"

Artemis nodded with a thoughtful look on her face as she actually let herself think about it clearly for the first time. "I'm pretty sure that whatever happened occurred because I was thinking about a way to create a 'fireball' spell that can actually be called an honest to god fireball. I am guessing that the wired tingle on the back of my neck was caused by the foreign information implanted in my mind by the Shinigami, activating. However I most probably interrupted the process by refocusing my attention on the seals my hands were going through. I got lucky and figured out how to complete the 'spell' but was stupid enough to aim it at a wall right in front of me."

Hermione nodded with a thoughtful frown before she snapped her fingers as an idea struck her. "If that was the case then it would be very simple to repeat it, just think of creating the same spell and this time don't interrupt."

Artemis nodded having already arrived at the same conclusion herself; still she cleared her mind and focused on creating the same fireball. Instantly Artemis felt the tingle on the back of her neck as her hands went through the seals. This time Artemis noticed that the chakra energy was being channeled into her hands as the seals were being made. She was very careful to keep her mind blank to ensure that she didn't interrupt this time.

Her hands finished with a flourish as she felt her chakra contorting and twisting in the same pattern she observed before. However this time there were a few new contortions added that formed an intricate Celtic knot. She sensed more than felt the chakra grain the corrosive nature as the vermilion energy gathered in the palms of her hands in the form of spiraling balls that immediately ignited. To her surprise she felt the same spirals of chakra she herself had formed to launch the spiraling balls and grinned devilishly. She pointed her hands out to the ocean and launched the 'fireballs' with enough force to push her back several feet on the water.

Both Artemis and Hermione watched as the twin fireballs raced off at nearly the speed of sound before gravity angled them down and made them impact the ocean a few miles away. The moment they impacted both of them exploded in a blast of blinding light that for a moment shone as bright as the rising sun. As they both gained their sight back they were hit with the concussion wave of the explosion which lifted Artemis off her feet but passed through Hermione's ghostly figure harmlessly. When the light finally cleared they were able to see a series of small tsunami's being formed by the water rushing in to fill the massive impact points, each easily half a mile wide in diameter. To a normal civilian such power would have been incomprehensible terrifying while to a ninja it would have been an immediate indicator of a higher tier Jinchūriki in a high tailed state. However to Artemis and Hermione such power was considered subpar if not kind of pathetic, after all compared to a power great enough to encompass the earth something of this magnitude wouldn't even warrant attention besides initial curiosity.

Hermione nodded in satisfaction as her theory had been proven correct and opened the door for a literally thousands of others. However she started with the basics and asked, "Can you recreate this attack without aid?"

Artemis nodded easily, with as much experience as she had with energy manipulation all she needed to know was how to get access to the source. After that she could figure out the rest through experimentation to learn the rules and trial and error to create spells. Having experienced the needed patterns and oscillations twice now and having learned how to tap into the source ensured that she would be able to replicate the effects without fail. It was one of the few good things about living for so long. Not only did she have vast wealth of experience to draw on but also an intuition that was frightening in its clarity and profoundly disturbing in its precision.

With an ease of someone who had done this a million times she effortlessly molded her chakra into the proper shape and gave it its corrosive element and in a second had two more swirling typhoons of flame. However this time instead of throwing them she slowly and gradually reabsorbed them, seeing what worked and what didn't until they were both gone.

Hermione nodded in satisfaction and decided to get started with the Horcrux problem since Artemis had this problem practically solved. So far the only known methods to a Horcrux was Basilisk venom, the Killing Curse, Fiendfyre, the Sword of Godric Gryffindor which absorbed Basilisk venom, or to destroy the container beyond repair. The problem with Basilisk venom, and the Sword of Godric Gryffindor was that they could only be used on physical objects and the Horcrux was inside Artemis's soul. The problem with the Killing Curse was that Artemis's soul would shield it since it could no longer affect her soul. The problem with Fiendfyre was that it was a cursed fire and as long as Artemis couldn't get off her armor it wouldn't even be able to singe her hair. Finally nothing could actually destroy Artemis beyond repair anymore since her magic would simply recreate her body from any surrounding material or from magic itself. A side effect of that was Artemis's current appearance and so she was understandably leery of letting anything destroy her body that completely again.

So in summary the only thing that even had the most remote chance of working was Fiendfyre and even then it would only destroy the physical body. So unless they found a new way to destroy a Horcrux hidden inside a virtually indestructible soul they were basically stuck with it. All this thought took place in a fraction of second.

Hermione decided that this particular topic was closed until further study and information could be obtained and moved onto the next problem which was Artemis's detraining mental health. It was slow and gradual and Artemis was fighting it with a ferocity and viciousness that could shame wild enraged tigers. Yet it was a battle of attrition and the fact was that Artemis would eventually tire and fail while her enemy was eternally patient and tireless. The outcome as it was now was inevitable…however human kind had long since speculated what could be done to preserve one's mind and morality in the case one achieved immortality. It also just so happened that she had the sum total of all humanity at her fingertips. However she couldn't afford be careless, the theories on what should be done ranged from one extreme to the other and she didn't want to lead her friend down a dark path that she wouldn't be able to leave. She had to think on this deeply and without interruption or any external influences. Even then that was just the beginning and wouldn't even bring her close to an answer without much more in-depth and extremely careful consideration.

Artemis seemed to be following her exact train of thought, if not infinitely more slower. Hermione eventually nodded to herself, having come up with the most suitable plan to meet her long term goals. However before she could speak Artemis spoke before her. "You know we are on an alien world with alien life and I have always had a certain wonder lust…I was wondering if you wouldn't mind terribly if I went out to explore this new land and learn their customs and arts. If I'm lucky then I could even learn how these people utilize their spells and if they are more advanced than our generation of magicals."

Hermione looked her friend in the eyes with a touch of Legilimency felt herself breath easily when she saw that Artemis understood her plan and accepted it. Hermione didn't commit on it but instead nodded brightly and added as if to entice her further, "You could even help these people develop their societies if you want to. Just be sure to remember that this is an alien society so tolerance and an open mind are a must. I suggest that you not directly interfere with anything too big unless it is to protect yourself. Otherwise just try not to make any big waves."

Artemis smirked but didn't respond in a positive or a negative as she began to walk away. There was nothing that she needed to pack; everything she would ever need was in her bottomless bags tied to her battle skirt that covered her robe. It was early in the morning and the perfect time to get a move on. She would be able to Apparate to the nearest continent in a single leap since her eagle eyes could see it from here.

The only thing she needed was her staff and she didn't even really need that, but it proved to be an awesome walking stick. Beside it was her ideology that it was better to have too much fire power than not enough. So with a flick of her wrist she easily summoned her staff from the destroyed tower and noted with satisfaction that it didn't so much as have a dent or a particle of soot on it. The staff had just as much if not more protections on it then her armor and was even sentient to an extent.

With a crack of displaced air signaling apparition Artemis vanished from the remote island and wouldn't return again for hundreds of years. Artemis already had a solid idea on what Hermione was attempting to do and as her creator knew the amount of time Hermione would need to herself. However as she arrived on the peninsula of one of the two main land masses she couldn't help but tremble with excitement at all the lore and spell craft she could learn here. However she was quite rudely interrupted from her thoughts of acquiring knowledge when some sort of knife was deflected by the wards on her armor. By the trajectory she easily calculated that it had been aimed for her right eye in particular and had come at her from the tree line a few dozen meters ahead.

Because Artemis had yet to disable her mage sight and in turn the Resurrection Stone embedded in her skull. She was easily able to see through the trees and spot her would be attacker and his friends as well as their relatively miniscule level of chakra in comparison to her own. Her attacker turned out to be quite a little fellow, only standing at around 5ft 6in and wearing an outfit that wouldn't have been out of place in an old 90's ninja movie. Artemis simply raised an eyebrow at the dumbstruck ninja and his companions with only a small amount of annoyance. "You know, throwing sharp objects at people is considered very rude. You could poke someone's eye out with that little thing."

The strange ninja and his companions didn't respond and instead scattered to try and confuse her. They were fast little buggers and would have easily confused your average wizard but to Artemis they all might as well have been wearing bright neon orange cloths with lighted signs broadcasting their location. They might have had relatively little chakra but compared to everything around them they were much brighter. Still Artemis wasn't in the mood to play their little game, she wanted to explore and learn, not get in a fight with children. With a casual wave of her staff all the ninja trying to circle her were teleported a few hundred feet out to see while she Apparated into a clearing a few miles ahead that she saw with her mage sight. She noticed that she wasn't far off from a small port settlement of some kind and grinned before casually walking towards it.

If Artemis had even bothered to wonder why those ninja had attacked instead of being focused on exploring and learning she might have looked into a mirror and saw the reason. Her mage-sight and the activation of the Resurrection Stone had changed her incandescent green eyes into black pits that seemed to absorb the light around them. The only indication of a form of iris being the small pinpricks of bloody red light that gave off a hellish glow. The fact that only chakra-adapts could see the phenomenon simply being bad luck since Hermione couldn't warn her of it. Even then she probably wouldn't have realized that the Bijū's Yin chakra, which was the darker half of the Kyūbi's chakra; was radiating killing intent and a sense of madness like it was going out of style.

So as she walked with purpose towards the port village humming a delightful tune, the villagers and ninja alike sensed the monstrous killing intent slowly and ominously coming towards them. She wouldn't realize that a call was going out even as she walked for aid from other small and large shinobi villages. She didn't realize that she would soon become as infamous in the Elemental Nations as she was back on her own world as she whistled a disturbingly disquieting to pass the time. After all what was the point of exploring if you didn't take the time to enjoy the sights and smell the land?

AN: Hey Ragdain here, well the story is now moving on quite nicely. If you are wondering why Artemis and Hermione aren't showing more concern for all the stuff happening then remember this. Artemis is nearly forty centuries old and has already gone through practically every form of hardship know to mankind and is actually quite used to it to the point of seemingly apathy. The pensive construct may have Hermione's memories and the sum total of all knowledge of humankind but she us still basically an artificial intelligence. If she has the information and resources to fix a current problem then she will without hesitation but if she doesn't then she will put the problem to the side until more information or resources can be obtained. Her world view is governed by logic and it would be illogical to worry about something that you can nothing about…so she won't.

As for people who are wondering when in the Naruto time line Artemis is at, logic would dictate that it would be somewhere in the future. However the Shinigami's realm exists outside the flow of time and time itself is a meaningless concept there. Because Artemis's body passed through the Shinigami's realm and left behind the mind and magic at the same moment the Shinigami returned from Minato's summoning; the body was able to fall into a random time stream while the mind and magic stayed there for the Shinigami to find just after it had reaped Minato's and the Kyūbi's souls. This created a link for both mind and magic to follow to the same timeline the body wound up in.

Now for people who are scratching their heads at the scene where the implanted knowledge allowing Artemis to form a fire element Rasengan…that is something that you'll either have to figure out on your own or wait until the next chapter to find out.

Finally and lastly for those wondering about the effects of the Soul-Bond, it essentially strengthens the love and trust between two people. Of course the two people will still have to work to keep their relationship prospering. However at the point where a bond is capable of forming the relationship between the two people can pretty much withstand any force, be it man, nature, or god. As for the bonds ability to allow bond mates to perform feats of magic on a scale that only Artemis reached…consider it similar the concept of Meister's and Weapons from the Soul Eater anime. Only instead of amplifying a soul wave length the bond amplifies magical resonance between the bonded pair. This allows them to increase the strength of their magic by entire magnitudes while in high emotional states. However even then the bonded par would only be strong enough to fight Artemis on even ground when she is only using wandless magic, but even then that is quite a feat.

Well that is about it, if you have any questions or don't get something then you can ask in a review or PM me. I would hope that you review anyway just to tell what you thought of this chapter just so that I am better able to get a read on how this story unfolds. After all, while the main reason I write is for my own enjoyment I also like to entertain my readers.

This is Ragdain, Signing off.