Welcome to the fourth of what I hope is many chapters for this story.

All in all, the reception to chapter 3 was average and that's fine by me, we ARE still in the beginning of setting up the characters and plot points.

Personal Chapter Review:

We also start Obito's tenure as a cop, for as much of it we see, and this arc, I'm predicting, will go from 10 to 13 chapters before we hit the next one.

I've come to a startling conclusion that if these were the actual first three chapters of a book, it'd be considered too slow, slow burn be damned.

So I'm going to be picking up the pace a bit since we've established enough support to make my next few moves.

Also, I'm sorry for the delays.

P.S. I've been looking for well over a week, how many officers does a specific division of law enforcement hire every year/6 months?

~NRK~

She stared out at the decrepit landscape she'd called her home for the past millennia. Dark red, purple, and black bleed into and from everything.

A vapid plain with no life on it.

No animals.

No plant life of worth to the world.

No people.

None that she hadn't brought onto this isle herself.

"Mistress~" she heard behind her, turning to the voice to address one of her "brought people".

Tyrian Callows, he'd been an addition she wasn't sure how to feel about.

Tyrian was odd in his utter reverence to her, not unwelcomed of course, but still baffling on a fundamental level.

She wasn't sure how Grimm destroying a village had brought him to her side but she wasn't complaining. He'd been a valuable asset for over a decade and only continued to present himself to her whims.

"Yes?"

"Are you sure about the girl still?" he said, long facial features twisting into a slight grimace at the mentioning of their other recent add-on.

"Yes. I thought you were unbothered by Cinder's presence?" she asked, yet Tyrian's eyes went wide and he bowed lower.

"I mean nothing by it, my Queen!" he proclaimed, face close to the ground. "It's just…" he trailed off but she knew what he meant.

Cinder was younger than the rest of them by a fair margin. She'd not killed anyone of notable worth. Even more, she'd gone out of her way and brought two more into the fold.

A bold move for one who she'd taken under her wing but it was of no difference. Cinder knew her place and wanted everything that Salem could offer.

Easy to control.

"I can understand why you might be a little bit skeptical," with a wave of her hand Tyrian stood and saluted her. "But it's expected. Cinder is simply testing the reach of her new abilities."

She paused for a moment before her lips tilted.

It was one of the most beautiful things Tyrian had ever had the grace of seeing.

"And of the Maiden?"

"With time, last we heard she was traveling around Sanus, so locating her will be of utmost importance once Cinder is done in Vale." Salem turned to the glass panes, looking out at the lands below before focusing further.

Further in the direction of Vale.

'Even without the Relics, why have you returned?'

Cinder would report everything once she returned.

"Have you honestly not noticed Tyrian? About how Cinder goes about doing things?" she chuckled, turning back to her windows.

"She's doing everything to be like me."

~NRK~

He turned on the bed, eyes slowly opening before he began to get up.

Obito 'Uchiha' Midoriya sat up from his sleeping grave and slowly extricated himself from it.

'I wonder what I'll have before work.' he thought as he finished getting his morning routine out of the way and found himself in his kitchen.

He closed the door to the fridge, arms full of tomatoes, eggs, and cheese.

"An omelet will suffice."

He set himself up and went to work, his mind wandering as he began to cook away the morning.

He flipped over the omelet and placed it on a paper plate.

He eyed the clock.

He had an hour to go down to the station.

He'd need to move apartments, nice as this one was, he wouldn't live off his father's money.

He'd get his own apartment come the end of the month.

Finishing up his meal, he turned to his uniform.

He put on the light blue dress shirt and rolled the sleeves up to his biceps, putting on the black slacks. He reached around and connected the suspenders to his front.

Police standard shoes, he put them on at the entrance.

Time to get to work.

~NRK~

She stared at the floor as the giant mechanical Grimm reset back to its resting position, eyes to the floor as she realized how bad this had gone.

"I'm sure you all will learn from 's mistakes as a lesson in planning, on the fly strategic thinking, and comrade placement."

She could barely hear the instructor as the rest of her "team" picked themselves up from the ground.

"Coco, what the fuckkkkssssss," a male teammate hissed as he hit the floor again, glaring at her. "I thought you were supposed to be hot shit."

"What happened?!"

Her 'team' was removed from the arena before being replaced by another.

She'd quickly excused herself, running down the hallway to the nearest bathroom.

'Okay… how are things really going?' was a question she asked herself but she frowned when she already knew the answer.

'I suck.'

And it showed, especially with these last two days of Teamwork and Strategy classes she'd signed up for.

Coordination against groups, large Grimm, and strategic environment advantage.

She grabbed her head.

All fucking FAILURES! What the hell was even going on?!

"Hey, Coe! What the crap happened out there?"

Coco sighed.

~NRK~

Ochre was waiting for him at the doors to the police station.

"Good morning Midoriya," they shook hands. "Since I'm the one who brought you specifically, I'll be the one showing you around with some of the other cadets," she said, leading him through the sliding doors.

When he stepped into his place of work for the foreseeable future, he came face to face with many coworkers he'd be working with in the future.

"H-Hey, um?" Obito turned to the side, where a familiar Faunus cadet greeted him with a shaky smile. Obito raised a brow before nodding to him.

"Good morning," he said leaving the cadet a bit surprised before he smiled.

Brown skin, red eyes, and dark brown hair that curled around his forehead. The young male was possibly 18 or 19, depending and he was built lean and about Obito's own height making him about 5'6.

Wearing the same blue officer uniform as himself, to Obito, he cut an average figure. Like most Faunus, he probably excelled in some physical specialty. Seeing his arms, Obito assumed that he worked well in hand-to-hand.

Zeroing in on the back of his hands, he saw some scarring around his wrists he couldn't help but feel looked familiar.

"Um, yeah… Thanks by the way., for your help back then," the Faunus said, extending a hand. "Oh, right, my name is Marrone Celeste."

The adopted Midoriya grasped the offered hand with his own and shook it.

"Pleased to make your acquaintance."


He fell in line with the other cadets as they were shown all the specifics of the Vale Western Police Department or VWPD for short.

They passed the Crime Lab, Drug Squad, Criminal Investigations, Serious Organized Crime Agency(SOCA), and many more.

They'd been briefed on it beforehand but many of the new officers looked around at it all.

Standing next to Marrone, Obito took it all in before catching the expression on the Faunus's face when they passed SOCA.

Marrone's eyes narrowed before he looked all over the room.

The Faunus had done this before when they'd passed Criminal Investigations and the Crime Lab.

Coming to a stop where they'd all began, there was a new face at the lobby area.

A gruff looking older gentleman. Dark orange, combed back hair, with a single strand falling between his brown eyes, wrinkles danced across peach skin.

A tan dress shirt, with a dark brown suit with the front of the jacket open, Ochre brought the recruits over to the now staring man.

"Adel?" he blinked a few times before sighing and pinching the space between his eyes.

"I see sleep isn't your friend again, detective Gordon."

"Cram it, kid." he blinked his eyes a few more times behind his square glasses and groaned. "My wife is gonna kill me."

"Better her than work." Ochre replied with a slight smile.

James Gordon was a very respectable man in her eyes. Stern, disciplined, strict, and most of all…

"Oh, good morning Ms. Adel."

Married.

Ochre's eye twitch as Gordon's lips turned into a smile. Turning to the side, she and the new personnel found herself facing a newcomer.

Obito's eyes went wide.

The tan-skinned man smiled gently at them as he looked at the recruits. Dark hair was tied into a ponytail with the edges of it sloping to his left. A tattoo actually sat on the bridge of his nose, surprising some the recruits.

He was wearing the male version of the uniform Ochre was wearing, with dark slacks instead of her skirt and his long sleeve, dark blue dress shirt had its long sleeves rolled up to the midpoint of his forearm.

'Fuck, it's Iruka.'

And wasn't this a wonderful development! Though this left him with a sense of unease.

Who else was "here"?

"Iruka, I thought you were taking off time since you finished teaching this semester." Ochre said, body rigid much to her chagrin.

James seemed beyond amused.

"I wanted to ask if anyone needed anything done before I took the day off."

"Quite," she answered, arms at her sides with her hands tapping her skirt.

Damn him!

"Speaking of, Adel here," James grinned at her look of utter shock. "Is showing off some new recruits. I'm sure she could use some help with handling their grouping."

"Might need to spend some time over the week to fully sort them out."

He'd be six feet under if Ochre could will her eyes to do it.

"Really?" Iruka Umino looked surprised but he smiled again. "I can help, starting tomorrow."

He grinned and Ochre's chest was close to bursting.

There were two similar thoughts in the room.

'Why did it have to be Iruka?'


They stood in a line, all 21 of them as Ochre, Iruka, and a set of other cops, spoke to each other in a corner away.

Obito watched them with fierce intensity, waiting for that one moment where Iruka gave him a Thousand Yard Stare.

It never came but he was prepared for it.

Finished in the corner, they all came for them.

"So, since we're shockingly short on Field Training Officers (FTO) today," Ochre stressed, looking at a couple of empty desks. "We'll be taking you in groups of three."

At this admission, the cadets blinked before returning to their standing positions.

"Midoriya, Celeste, Carmel, you're with me."

Stepping forward, Obito caught eyes with Marrone who grinned and another Faunus woman who looked at him with sparkles in her eyes.

He sighed as she spoke.

"As of today, you'll be recognized as Team 7."

Of course, they were.


He sat behind the wheel as they turned the corner before he came to a stop at Bakers street.

"Alright Midoriya, Celeste you're next." Ochre said, looking down at her clipboard.

"On it," Marrone replied with a smirk before switching places with Obito.

The adopted Branwen tucked himself into the back and they took off with the male Faunus at the wheel.

He looked outside the window before feeling a tap on his shoulder.

He turned to the female Faunus in the vehicle.

Blonde with two dog ears of the same color, pale skin, pink eyes, and a more round face. She wore the short sleeved version of the uniform dress shirt, revealing slender arms with scarring near the elbow.

It probably went up to her bicep as well, also calling his attention to her left dog ear where he could see another scar.

It all took a second but she stared at him before slightly pulling on her sleeves.

"Yes?" he looked her in the eye. A dash of color ran along her cheeks before smiling at him.

"It's nice to meet you!" she smiled brightly at him, hand out to which he shook."I'm Liza Carmel, and can I just say it's an honor to work with you?" the stars returned to her eyes and he frowned.

"I'm not following."

"You were the most impressive person in the Academy." Liza's ears stood at attention. "The perfect grade, the best at hand-to-hand, weaponry, law and code!" she listed off, causing him to stare at her. "And you're one of the most polite people at the Academy! Humans that stand up for us are kinda." she seesawed her hand.

He understood but was all the more bemused by it.

What was so great about all of that? He'd done nothing that stood out to him..

That couldn't possibly be all of it, right?

He saw her stop talking and just stared for a moment. She sat there, looking back at him with stars in her eyes.

"..."

"..."

'... Oh, Kami she's being serious.' he figured out.

'Come on Uchiha, just accept it. Nothing wrong with taking the gratitude.'

"...Right, thank you?"

Liza nodded her head furiously.

"Alright you crazy kids, we're stopping." Obito rolled his eyes at Marrone as the young man smirked at him.

Great, he had a playful streak. This was going to go well.

Turning to the front of the vehicle, both adopted Midoriya and Carmel noticed they'd stopped at a corner.

"Switch up."


With Ochre back in the driver's seat, the three of them watched the world outside pass them by before a sound from the front caused the new officers to pay attention.

It was another car, broken down on the side of the road, flagging the police car with a waving hand out the driver's window.

Coming to a stop with a frown, Ochre and her trainees stepped out of the police car.

Ochre walked up to the front of the broken down vehicle, peering into the driver seat before her frown became more prominent.

"OCCHIE!" a voice exclaimed as Ochre squeezed the bridge of her nose.

"Huh?" Marrone said, his eyes wide as Liza looked on with a tilt of her head and Obito raised a brow.

"Uuuggh," Ochre groaned before she glared at the driver sit. "Larry, why is it always you?"

"Oh come on, Occhie!" this "Larry" said from his car. "I need you in my time of need. DOn't leave me hanging man!"

Ochre let out a sigh, expression dropping.

"Larry" let out a whoop before exiting his vehicle.

Larry was a little bit taller than himself, Obito thought, with possibly four to five years older than himself.

Brown hair that went up in a large soft spike, the rest resting on the sides of his head, Larry looked on with happiness in his brown eyes.

An orange jacket, white shirt with talking heads on it, and khaki pants leading into white shoes finished off his ensemble.

He looked remarkably unreliable.

"Larry, what'd you get into now?" Ochre said, looking at his unmoving vehicle.

"Occhie! Don't be like that!" Larry scratched the back of his head with a grumble.

Ochre gave him a skeptical look before Larry shook his head vehemently.

"Look, I was just going through taking my car to fixers, right? And all of a sudden, CLONK, CHROOM, KAPOW, and my car's totaled!" Larry cried as he looked at his baby. "We've been through so much together!"

Marrone snickered. "I like him already."

"Isn't it weird that knows someone like him?" Liza commented, getting a grunt of confirmation from Obito while Marrone just nodded.

"What's THAT supposed to mean?!" Larry yelled, causing Liza to hide behind her male partners.

"A-Ah ha… apologies!" receiving his forgiveness seemed to be easy as Larry's face went from enraged to laid-back, a goofy smile on his face.

"Ah, no problem. Occhie does seem pretty high class." Coming up to him, they met eye to eye with Larry who gave them all a look over.

"Wait… we had new recruits?!"

"Yes, we did." Ochre flatly responded.

Larry looked at the two Faunus and human before swaggering on up to Liza.

"Welcome to the police force newbies! I'm your senior officer Larry Aqua Butz."

Marrone barely held in his snort.

"Larry!"

"Right, I forgot."

The next twenty minutes found the trio of new officers audience to Larry, called the tow truck, arguing with the guy driving the said truck over the price, and flailing as Ochre began choking him.

Thirty mins later in total and Larry was prepared to leave.

"Oh right!" he exclaimed, causing Ochre, Liza, and Marrone, to jump before he shot into the back of his car.

He quickly retrieved four rolled up pieces of paper from the back of his car, yelling with the tow truck driver and quickly rushing over to Ochre's group.

"Here, one for each of ya," he smiled as he passed them out. "I've got buddies in the history department of the city and they gave me these free invites for the first to come in," he grinned.

"If you've been noticing, I've got y bud on someone of the billboards."

'Oobleck?' what a weird companion for a historian/archeologist but it wasn't his business.

"I'll see you guys later!" he said, leaving with the truck.


He walked to the front desk, adjusting his dark hoodie before reaching the receptionist.

A bland looking woman with black eyes and neat brown hair.

She looked at him with contempt before scoffing.

"How may I help you," she droned, eyes squinting at him causing the adopted Midoriya to roll his eyes.

"I'm looking for my little cousin." he pulled out a small photo of a small girl with short black hair and green eyes. "I heard she was staying here. Her name's Meltia, Meltia Jr. to be more specific."

She looked at him for a moment.

"She is supposed in room 314."

Sighing, the woman turned to the phone near the back before making a call.

Several moments later, she ended the call before annoyingly answering his request.

"Room 314," she dropped it in his palm. "Good luck."

She'd gone back to her station, looking the same.

He nodded before walking down the left corridor beside her and stopped in front of the elevator.

He took a left and went up the stairs before exiting on the fourth flight.

'413, 413, ah here it is.'

He pushed in the key and stopped. He hummed for a moment before knocking on the doors lower frame before opening it entirely and quickly shutting it closed.

"Hey Red-Eye, what's up?" he heard before he took off his hoodie, revealing the purple shirt underneath.

After he hung it up by the door, Obito turned to see both Melanie and Miltia on one of the two large beds in the room.

In matching t-shirts and sweats, white and red for Melanie and Miltia respectively, they laid on the bed before turning their heads at his entrance.

"Hello, Junior's here I'd assume?" Obito said before taking a seat near the bed, ignoring Melanie's patting hand on the bed beside her.

Huffing, she tilted her head to the windows where they could see the other tower of the hotel.

"He's out talking to Roman two floors up in the other tower," Melanie shrugged before looking at her Scroll again.

Obito nodded before he turned the chair to the windows and waited.

'I'm not sure how to go about this.' he couldn't help but think.

The normal course of action was for him to perform reconnaissance and deal with this as he'd done with so many gangs in the past.

He'd run the Akatsuki, a world-renowned organization, and that put into perspective this whole situation.

This was gang-related and that made this more complicated.

It was obvious that the moment he decided to attack the IronSights Gang and took them down he'd be dealing with Junior's problems.

Him taking down IronSights would mean that other gangs knew about "him" via the Red Axe Gang.

It'd be too coincidental for him to take them out now.

His presence in the underworld needed to stay unnoticed.

"-ye, Red-Eye!" he blinked before turning to Miltia.

The red-clothed twin looked at him worryingly before shaking her head.

"Junior's on his way up with Roman," she told him, right as a familiar set of knocks hit the door and the person outside opened it, all eyes on the entrance.

Junior walked in with a set of normal glasses, a long sleeve blue shirt and dark pants with brown dress shoes.

Obito frowned as he looked at Junior, his eyes going red before his dark silver pools returned.

So it was some sort of illusionary Semblance. A worrisome thing if you weren't paying attention.

Turning away from the door, Junior waited before the sound of shattering glass reached his ears, before Roman Torchwick and his little partner 'Neo' appeared near the corridor.

Looking to his girls he gestured to the windows.

"Lock those down, it's time to figure this shit out."


They'd sued the beds as seating.

Junior and the Malachite Twins on one with Roman and Neo on the other.

Obito saw fit to bring his chair in between both, his back to the windows.

"Before we began, I've got another guy joining us." Junior tapped in a couple of numbers on the phone on the nightstand in between the beds before pushing the speaker button.

Several rings later, a man's voice picked up from the speakers.

-"...Blue in earnest, we deal in plateau, fields and swamps."-

"Keep it simple, I'm trying to purchase some blue grass. Low to the floor, and doesn't grow up to high."

- "I'm assuming this is Junior?"-

"Yeah, it's me," Junior confirmed, those around him leaning forward as the chat began.

-"So from what we discussed before, I've been able to dig up some of the info from one of Mice."- The sound of flipping papers came from the phone.

-"Hmm."-

"What's up?"

-"Okay, so from what I'm looking at, one of the Mice was approached by some guy. Above average height guy in a white hoodie."- The group nodded. -"Yeah, a real piece of work, no real emotion and guy gave some… interesting information."- The man over the phone hesitated.

"Come on, continue!" Melanie exclaimed.

-"Fine, fine! Listen, the way it went down"- the man on the line sighed. - "They gave us information on groups of purple wearing guys gathering in weird places, alright! Real good info for us, since it doesn't just incriminate any gangs directly." -

Junior grinned. "That's the group." he looked to Obito. "It's time to get some sur-"

-"Junior!"- the Red Axe Gang leader startled at the shout.

-"Listen, this is a bit unprofessional of me but for the sake of business..."- he cleared his throat. -"I'm advising against trying to take this to them."-

Roman's eyes narrowed. "Sorry buddy, but that's not exactly something we can wait around on."

-"Roman TORCHWICK?! Junior?! What's actually going on over there?"-

"Let's call it a multi-party inclusion and leave it at that, huh?"

- "... This can't possibly be good… tsk, whatever, what you need to do? Figure these guys out." -


He hid in the shadows on the roof of a nearby bakery. The building was rundown, broken walls, cracked glass windows, and eroded brick.

Obito looked down at his bare black cloak, the image of red clouds overlaying on it before he blinked and they were gone.

He sighed, 'to dawn this mask again.'

Over the hidden man's face was a mask, dark red in color with several spirals zoning in on his left eye and in his left ear was a mini-mic for contacting and receiving information from Junior.

He crouched behind a ventilation shaft, eying the space on the street down below.

This was one of the three spots that IronSights apparently began gathering at for the past half year.

The plan was to have him and Neo, Roman's silent companion, scope out the areas and see what was actually going on.

From the intel they'd received, this should afford them some kind of idea on what the hell was going on.

Steps echoed in the empty streets, so he realized he wouldn't be waiting long.

From his place on the rooftop of the bakery, he saw a small group of the IronSights.

Purple hoods and cloaks, as it were, and he noticed that, of the five of them, one had a different type.

Darker in color, with gold embroidery of a dragon on the back. Light purple lines spread down to each of the limbs of her cloak and her cloak cuffs were white.

His eyes went red, Sharingan activating, and they went wide.

The skeleton, unlike the one from before, was modified.

It was a darker purple, and unlike the one from before its body was smaller and more feminine.

It was like looking at a shadow, as it moved as the cloaked woman did, its claw-like hands still and resting at its sides.

The form it took was worrying. A large tailbone that extended at least two meters from the body that seemed to connect at the lower back of the woman. The skeleton's head was more narrow, going from head to jaw.

And the horns on its head curled befor-

He dragged his body back into the shadows as the skeleton turned its head in his direction. Eyes widened as he heard the woman stop talking.

"Hmm," he heard as the "CLACK" of her shoes echoed in the abandoned streets as a rumble of whispers filled the air.

"Hmmm, it seems we have company."

Obito cursed as his Sharingan sprung to life before he heard a third voice.

"You bitch! You think you can run into Red Axe territory and get away with it?!"

Obito cursed again.

"Oh? Are you here to offer yourselves up to-"

"Oh my God, shut the fuck up!"

The hidden teen moved towards the back of the bakery before sliding down a ladder and sticking to the corner of the building.

He peeked around the corner, catching sight of the group behind the woman in darker clothing.

He couldn't see their faces and, strangely enough, he didn't see any of the skeletons that the woman from the night before and the darker dressed one had.

He dashed pass behind the group, no one turning their heads to him as he did, save for one.

That skeleton again. He was feeling a sense of unease every time he looked at that thing. The fact that it could seemingly sense him but not the woman who wielded it set off alarms in his head.

He crept around the back of the group, arriving up top the empty store behind them.

There was a buzz in his ear as he tapped on the earpiece.

"What's going on, Red-Eye?"

"Junior, we have a problem," he responded before filling him in on the current situation.

Junior cursed over the connection. -Fucking dumbasses! Congrats, you're not the FIRST one to give me more bad news right now. -

The former Uchiha frowned.

"What do you-" "AAAAAARRHGG!"

A scream cut him off before he slipped to the edge of the rooftop before his eyes narrowed.

The man, pressed against the wall, screamed bloody murder as the woman strangled him, one arm to his neck as the other pressed against his stomach.

The cloaked woman frowned, "How fortunate, you're compatibility is passable."

She dropped him to the floor, the man spazzing about as purple vein-like lines ran about his body.

"Know that you will be a small part in a grander purpose," she said before looking around her.

Obito's eyes narrowed before the hairs on his neck stood on end. He leaped to the side, turning to see that damn skeleton behind him.

Silent, stealthy, and quick.

Just great.

He pulled a dark-colored knife from the confines of his cloak's sleeve and held it up to his chest.

Its head tilted, almost as if checking him over, before it fell, its shoulders slumping as it did.

That purple aura didn't seem to die down but it grew-!

"Fufufu, I didn't expect there to be another here." Obito heard behind him, causing him to blur across the roof where they stood to several rooftops away.

He landed on the edge of the taller building's roof, cloak settling a second later, staring at the two beings below.

'What was going on?' the Former ninja thought, eyes narrowed as a snarl formed upon his lips.

None of what had just happened made sense. No one in this world should have the ability to sneak up on him.

At least, not without a semblance. Was that what this was? A Semblance?

He brought out his 'Madara'.

"Who are you?" the cloaked woman heard, the hair on her neck stood up and she took a step back before stopping.

Red eyes looked down at the woman who froze for a moment before she… bowed?

"I apologize," she brought her head back up before she began to remove her hood.

At first, he'd thought she'd been a Faunus before realizing those 'horns' were hair resting on the sides of her head. Dark silver locks, caramel colored skin, a tall but slender build, all covered by a cloak.

Her eyes were what caught his attention.

Red, pupil-less, eyes with a black outer ring to the eyes. Different compared to the other one from the night before.

Perhaps there were levels? Pretty obvious comparing the brute-like skeleton from before to this feminine one.

Speaking of, the one before him began to walk towards his direction again before stopping at the outreaching arm from the now frowning woman.

"Contain yourself," she narrowed her eyes at the skeleton that stood stock still. "You'll do well to remember your place."

The skeleton's aura diminished before it took a few steps back.

Obito's right eyebrow rose.

'Perhaps it's not a usable puppet like I thought.' he had assumed it was moving to the user's will but that wasn't the case apparently.

Good information to have.

The woman recomposed herself, coughing into her hand once before looking at the mask with a smile.

Obito raised an eyebrow.

"A-As I was saying, I didn't mean to startle you." she bowed again. "I simply wasn't expecting someone of your caliber and potential," she said before holding a hand up.

His eyes went wide as dark purple and black energy spun to life in her palm before it dispersed, leaving a dark purple card in her hand.

She flicked the card in his direction, the former ninja catching it.

Turning it over, out of the corner of his eye, he noted the splayed out gold film-like tapestry on the card's back before he turned it over and saw those lines coalescing into a skeleton-esque skull in the center.

His eyes burned a hole into the little placard, Sharingan catching every inch of it before he looked back to the woman.

"To understand your place in this world, simply tap the badge on the from and swipe across the back," she gave him a look. "People like us are the only ones capable of doing so."

She curtsied at him, her hood putting itself back on, before raising a hand to the still skeleton to her side.

Its eyes glowed red before shifting to purple as its rib cage expanded before bursting open. A small shining light sparked from within its chest.

The woman gave him a smile before walking into the skeleton's rib embrace.

It snapped close with a crack like a whip. The skeleton's chest shrunk before it began to fade.

"We'll keep in touch, young man."

Obito's eyes widened as the skeleton faded away.

His teeth clenched as he looked at the card again.

Its eyes glowed and he quickly tucked it into a seal on his wrist.

This wasn't good.

They weren't a gang.

They were an organization.

He looked to the streets and found it void of people. Both the woman's and Junior's.

~NRK~

Negrandle's eyes shot open.

How had he lost contact?!

~NRK~

And with that, we end the chapter on a mysterious note~ OOOOOOOOOoooooooohhhhhh~

Sorry about getting this out basically a quarter of the year later but I think I figured out that this story NEEDS to be outlined per chapter for me to make any progress as well as I'm trying to learn SAP.

Computer Guy stuff, so, my bad.

That said, I've already begun to outline Chapter 6 and I've updated the Summary to reflect how this story's character use is gonna be like.

Not much to say here but that we're into Obito's Cop Ventures Part 1.

Part 2 happens post time skip, which is basically canon which is about fourteen chapters away if I do this right.

Alright, good luck and Sorry.

~NRK Out~