Skyfall007: **The viewer stumbles into the room to see writer hiding inside a fortress made from plush dolls of Toshiro, Kakashi, Gin, Zabuza, Kiba, and Shino *Before you kill me listen. Yes viewers (that is if I have any left), I know that you all hate me for posting just now but I have no excuse. ^-^ But, yeah! That's why I haven't updated.

Gruffard: I like the direction your going. But for some reason... This chapter seemed a little less polished. I recommend not to have author notes mid chapter, but I hope you continue! Thanks for the read!

skyfall: I typed this chapter from scratch without the use of my handy-dandy notebook because this is more of a filler than part of the storyline until I can get back to the trio's 'rise to power' as I like to call it. Also I typed a bit of this story here and their during the past month-and-a-half so if it doesn't flow as well as my previous two chapters that's because my writing style tweaks a bit here and there when I'm not looking. The author's note was meant to be at the end but I missed it when I was checking my doc.

skyfall: Hey people, review! I need to know what I need to fix in my fic. Constructive criticism is approved unless it's done rudely. Vote for my poll I will take it down within a week of posting this chapter and replace it with my next poll. I have been really busy with divorce. In the last chapter, we all saw the darker side of Shiki and I will continue to show it into the first half of the chapter. Ah, and concerning if anyone is concerned that Shiki will become "god-like," don't worry her abilities come with a price.

skyfall: Time for the disclaimer! *Author walks over to the Wheel of All Things Random… and Cruel and spins it until it stops and a cloud of smoke appears* I wonder which poor sap I pulled out this time around? *Cloud of smoke clears to reveal…*
Jiraya: Hey! Where am I and why am I in a cage?! I was in the middle of some important research!
skyfall:*From behind a bunker* You are to do my disclaimer and you can leave… try to peep while you're here and I will order the Gotei 13 to murder you!
Jiraya: skyfall doesn't own Naruto, Bleach, any fics she used for reference, or her writers' block. She only owns her OC introduced in this chapter. Her older brother owns her writers' block by giving her Mass Effect 3 for Christmas.
skyfall: Scram!*He disappears in a puff of smoke*

skyfall: Onwards my readers! The story is within sight!

After Shiki and Toshiro left Momo, who still had heat waves emanating from her grabbed a branch and lit it on fire before burning everything down in sight.

'It's times like these that Shiki's mask and walls crumble down on her, and in response she either shuts down, withdraws from everyone, or she goes into a blood haze. Individually, all three responses are usually easily fixed by Toshiro and me, but she had all of them at the same time and this has never happened before. It only took Toshiro this time to calm her, but I'm more concerned about the aftermath of this whole fiasco. That's the closest I've ever seen her come to snapping. Hell, if Toshiro wasn't here she would've hunted down the bastards that killed Granny and killed them without remorse.

But, when I think about it she got all stone-faced when she saw Granny, like she does every year on September 7th for the whole day. She said that it's because the person she held closest to her heart died on that very day and she always never spoke more than fifteen words on that specific day of that year.'

She kept in mind to be careful with Granny and buried her under the willow tree in the backyard. By the time she finished it was the next day. The grave marker was a picture of Toshiro, Shiki, Granny, and herself. Toshiro was unwillingly giving Shiki a piggyback ride and was scowling at her while she had a triumphant look on her face like she'd won some sort of bet, which she had. Momo was standing in the far left, arms crossed, rolling her eyes at her friends with a grin on her face that said, 'You guys, are idiots. But that's what I love about you.' Granny stood in between the future couple and Momo.

The bet had been to see who could outlast the other. Shiki couldn't eat sushi or ramen while Toshiro couldn't scowl or gel up his hair. Toshiro cracked after the second day of the second week because he needed to get his hair out of his face. Since he lost, he was Shiki's personal slave for four months. Meaning he carried her everywhere on his back. The looks the soon-to-be-couple got were hilarious, especially whenever she told Toshiro to carry her to the store and keep holding her until they went home. The store clerk just gave them an incredulous look when Momo put the basket down and Toshiro walked up to the cash register while carrying her and stood there as she pulled out Gama-chan and paid the amount due.

Momo shook her head when she thought of Toshiro's reaction when Shiki told him that his four month servitude period was over. He started jumping up and down in the air shouting some incoherent mumbo-jumbo that sounded like 'Thank God it's over!'

*Flashback no jutsu Shiki POV*

"Shiki, I know I should have told you sooner, but I thought you weren't ready to know yet," the Sandaime said as he sat in his chair.

"Bullshit! I should have known why people were trying to kill me because of a demon that attacked us for unknown causes. For all we know someone could've been controlling it! I should've been told as soon as I could talk! But no, you had to listen to your advisory civilian council like this is a democracy! Get this senile hokage, this is a dictatorship! If you don't tell me who my mother was at least I will gladly hand in my hiate and leave this shithole I call home and go to the daimyo and ask him! From what he's said to me he knew my parents very well and won't mind telling me about my mom!"

"Shiki your mother was Uzumaki Kushina the Akai Chishio no Habanero." He said albeit reluctantly. She turned and muttered loud enough for only him to hear, "I will never forgive you, Hokage-sama."

*Flashback no jutsu Kai (End Shiki POV)

Knock knock.

"Go… five… more… minutes."

Knock knock.

"Go… away…"

Knock knock.

"Go the fuck away."

Knock knock.

"Fuck off."

Knock kn-

"THAT'S IT!" Shiki got up and slammed the door open, fist primed and ready to deck the idiot who was harassing her when she realized who it was.

He was older and a lot taller and a lot more developed than she remembered, wearing a familiar hiate and a beaded leather necklace. His hands were behind his neck much like what Shiki used to do when she was younger with a foxy grin on his face.

"Konohamaru…" Shiki dropped her fist and just stood there in wide-eyed amazement at the now eighteen year old man in front of her.

"No, it can't be you," She raised her trembling hand to cup his cheek for a moment and then dropped it and leaned on the door frame; her face stony, eyes unreadable due to her bangs covering them, "You were never supposed to even fight in the war. Sasuke said that if I surrendered that he would stop the war and spare Konoha."

Konohamaru took a step forward and wrapped his arms around her and said, "I knew that you loved him but he never once loved you the same way that I loved you. He kept blazing forward with the war, but now in revenge against the ones who had made your life miserable. The Fourth Shinobi War kept going on for six more years when it all ended when Moegi, Udon, and I finally killed him. I dealt the final blow with your Rasengan. I died afterwards from extreme chakra exhaustion. But it was worth it."

Then two people stepped from the shadows. Toshiro and Momo. They had never seen Shiki this horrified in the six years they had known her.

"We found him over by where we used to live asking around for you. So we brought him over to see you." Momo said quietly. Shiki pulled away and wordlessly beckoned them in. She shut the door and and leaned on it slowly slinking down to the floor like all the world's troubles were pushing her down and she had given up the fight.

"We're from the Shinobi realm." Shiki muttered.

"What?" Toshiro said as if he couldn't believe what he just heard.

"I'm not from the same realm as you guys. Me and Konohamaru are from the new realm that's why all of the taichos were fighting over me I'm the first shinobi shinigami."

"I was also a jinchuuriki, a human sacrifice, for the Kyuubi no Kitsune.