Chapter 4
The Travel There
"Speaking"
"Thoughts"
"Demon/Zanpaktou/Inner Speaking"
"Demon/Zanpaktou/Inner Thoughts"
"Move/Ability Speaking"
"Move/Ability Thought"
Last Time: Last time on "Long Lost" Ayato and his new companion Konan were on the route to Konoha, where their boat was struck by a band of bandits led by Orochimaru's men, who attacked the boat In order to get the cargo on It. Thankfully for Ayato, Konan managed to stop that and save the people on the boat. Now they are on route towards Konoha.
(Story Continues)
Ayato and Konan witnessed the bandits along with their leader being taken to custody by some ANBU forces from Konoha who have been dispatched to deal with the situation.
Konan was In disguise thanks to her ability to use the Transformation Jutsu, which kept her looks but changed the colour of her eyes and hair to dark where the ANBU wouldn't recognise her.
"Well that takes care of those guys." Ayato Said, with his arms crossed and a Smirk that showed he had achieved victory. Ayato looked at Konan and Said, "Well the lifeboats managed to get us up to here, so I guess we're walking the rest of the way on foot, not that I don't mind or anything.".
Konan looked at the teen, and Said, "Maybe not, though I do have to say I don't know If this Is a good Idea to go to Konoha, I have to remind you that I am once a former member of the Akatsuki organisation so I'm not exactly their type.".
"Don't worry, I'll try and make sure they don't do anything to you, I promise." Ayato Said, with a Smile.
Konan couldn't help but Smile at Ayato's helpful advice.
They then took the trip there on foot, It was a long hoke around four days long until they could finally reach Konoha.
On the trip there Konan Asked, "Why were so keen saving those people back on the boat?".
"I wanted to." Ayato Replied.
"Truth be told If It was anybody, they leave with their own lives Intact, but you on the other hand refused to do that." Konan Said.
"Well… I haven't really said this to ANYONE but myself, and my aster Romero. You see ten years ago I was onboarding a ship, well I can't exactly explain It to you, but… I was a slave." Ayato Said.
"A slave, for the Celestial Dragon?!" Konan Said, Shockingly.
"No not them, but maybe someone far worse than those guys are, In fact she may have been the worst." Ayato Said. "Back where I was once us slaves had one rule and one rule only, that was to survive no matter what." Ayato Said.
"I'm sorry, I had no Idea." Konan Apologised.
"That's alright you didn't know." Ayato Said. "It's Just that I don't want anybody to get hurt, I don't want anyone I know and care to lose again, and I'm willing whatever It takes until I achieve that." Ayato Said.
Konan looked at Ayato's expression on his face, she could tell that his eyes were slightly sad, but he kept a Smile up also, trying to make himself at least a little happy, this was the expression Konan remember a friend of hers once had a long tie ago, and that friend was Nagato.
"Nagato." Konan Whispered, but Ayato heard It.
"What?" Ayato Said, with a Confused Expression on his face.
"Nothing, It was Juts nothing." Konan Said, with a slight Smile, trying to assure Ayato that she wasn't saying anything at all.
"By the was Konan-San, If you're a Shinobi who taught you, I mean you really are strong so I guess It has to be somebody really strong to teach you these things?" Ayato Asked.
"Oh, well It wasn't anybody special, I only gained these abilities through my own hard training that's all." Konan Said, but Ayato could tell she was hiding something, something that seemed to be rather emotional for the Shinobi.
He looked at the purple eyes of the Shinobi, while she looked at the brown Chocolate eyes of the teen who. Konan couldn't help but blush a little bit slightly gazing Into the teen's eyes, so Innocent, but pin beneath the surface as well. Ayato looked at Konan's eyes which had a similar meaning to them like his was too, she too understood pain, she too understood how It felt to lose the ones you hold close to you under unfair circumstances.
"I'm guessing you know how It feels too huh? I can tell through your eyes." Ayato Said.
"Maybe so, but the past to me Is Just the past, I know what you promised me but If Konoha does do anything towards me I will accept my punishment, I know what I did, and I'm willing to accept It." Konan Said.
"Well I'm not, I can see regret In your eyes as I said to you before, You don't Just die to make someone happy you have to work for It In order to do that." Ayato Said.
Gazing deeper Into Ayato's eyes Konan like the look of It no matter what, she liked It, a lot.
"You can see what my eyes say?" Konan Asked, slightly Shocked.
"Of course, after a while of travelling you can tell the emotions people's eyes have once you see them, It pays off." Ayato Replied.
"What do my eyes truly tell you?" Konan Said.
"They tell hurt, pain, anguish, pretty much everything I've been through. I can tell you've lost someone, someone Important to you. That's because I also lost people who were Important to me". Ayato Said.
"You know what loss feels?" Konan Asked, slightly Shocked and sorry.
"Yeah…. I never told this to anyone before but, when I was little, I witnessed someone….. Someone you never have to meet. She took everything I cared away from me, friends, family, loved ones, everything….. Then I spent a whole year on her ship as a slave. Her personal slave. It was the most terrifying and torturous year of my entire life, that was before some people came to save us but… Well I don't know about the others, I may be the only one that survived that day, or hopefully others followed all. So yeah, I kinda know how It feels to lose the ones you love the most." Ayato Replied, as he Smiled at Konan. "But… I'm still here, and hopefully I can never get to see that person again, I don't what I would do If SHE showed up again." Ayato Added.
"I'm….. So sorry to hear all of that, I truly am, It's never easy." Konan Apologised.
"No, but I never would've met master Romero." Ayato Said.
"Now that you speak of your master, I may have heard that name before?" Konan Said.
"Of course, you have, he's one of the Ten Wizard Saints. He's VERY powerful. Heck I barely could beat him." Ayato Said.
"I mainly heard stories of Romero himself but never about you?" Konan Said.
"Well I was never really referenced because I was busy training, though he did let me beat a couple of bandits, missing nins, dark guild members, pirates, more bandits, and perhaps a couple of mercenaries, and also a few low S Class mages from time to time." Ayato Explained. "This one time I was fighting a Chunin levelled Shinobi when I was ten. He was really strong! So powerful, but I managed to beat him with my Dragon Slayer Powers, It didn't take much but maybe around fifty percent of my strength to beat him, and this was during my masters battle with their leader who was a S Class Nuke Shinobi and his gang. Though my master was drunk at the time, so he went easy on them In order to make sure he didn't destroy the entire town… But he accidently blew seventy five percent of It. After that battle, he managed to sober up and drag me while running away from the towns people who were angry." Ayato Added.
"My! What a mentor you've had!" Konan Said.
"Yeah! And this one time he was making a bet, by gambling all the supplies we had at the time but lost them, so In order to make one final bet he kinda betted me on the table when I was Thirteen. He lost, like really bad, he accidently played that one card that told the Instructions on how to play." Ayato Said. "So, In order to get me back he made a deal that we would work for the guy to clean his house, make his meals, and wash his dishes until he married his fourth wife." Ayato Added.
"He sounds… Irresponsible." Konan Said. "There was a story one year ago about him I've heard, he was on the mountains training when he carelessly used what I believe were magic circles and destroyed the entire mountain, almost crushing a nearby town near him." Konan Said.
"Actually….. That was me." Ayato Said.
"WHAT!" Konan Yelled, In surprise.
"Well I was on the mountains at the time with him until I found In one of his spell books a magic enchantment called the Twelve Circle Destruction Enchantment which I thought was really cool! Until when I used It I accidently trigged the circles that day." Ayato Explained.
(Flashback Begins)
"Let's see what we got here shall we?" Ayato Said, as he snooped In his mentors belongings, trying to find snack to help his hungry tummy. "I'm so hungry!" Ayato Moaned. His mentor Romero was taking a nice relaxing time In a warm hot spring like bath In the forest In the mountains while Ayato was training, he grew hungry mid-way through. "AH HA!" Ayato Yelled, grabbing onto what appeared to be a book which he thought at first was a lunch box. "Oh no you're not food." Ayato Moaned, before a page that looked torn had slipped off the book and onto the ground where Ayato started to read It. "Twelve Circle Destruction" Ayato Said, with a curious face. "Let's try that." Ayato Said.
Meanwhile Romero had Just got dressed and walked towards Ayato, looking at him while the teen was standing up, with his fingers closed to one another with his first and second fingers closed In themselves, as he did some slashes with the two and began making a green magic circle on the ground. Form that point onwards he did the same fore the reaming eleven where he began making five circles which shrunk smaller and smaller up to his height, and four on each side of the pyramid sides perfectly at a ninety-degree angle form the ground hovering above It. The last three circles were that one formed In front of him and the other two by his shoulders where he then put his hands on them controlling the spell.
"Ayato what're you doing?" Romero Said, with slight Annoyance In his eyes. "Wait…. Don't tell me that's?" Romero Said, before Ayato began his spell.
"Now time to try this cool looking spell." Ayato Said, with a Smile on his face.
"WAIT DON'T USE THAT SELL YOU IDOT!" Romero Yelled, as he began running towards Ayato.
"NOW GO!" Ayato Yelled, as he then launched the spell, which shot a green coloured light beam Into the sky where then he started to control the direction of the beam with the circles he had on his hands.
"Ayato what are you!" Romero Exclaimed.
"Cool I can control It." Ayato Said.
"IDIOT, SEND THAT BEAM SOMEWHERE WHERE NO ONE CAN GET HURT IT HAS THE POWER OF AN ETHERION BLAST!" Romero Yelled.
"A WHAT?!" Ayato Exclaimed, In pure Shock. "Uhhh, okay…. I guess I'll send It towards the hill over there?" Ayato Said, as he shifted his hands which changed the direction of the beam again to send It towards the tip of the mountain going straight down towards It. After Ayato had sent It down he sighed In relief.
"Idiot do you know how much power that blast has. Sure It may not have the exact power of an Etherion which Is used as a miniature weapon to be used against such things like giant monster or Invading armies but never for personal use, luckily that beam went….. Straight….. Towards the… Mountain." Romero Said, as his voice began shrinking at the sudden realisation of what him and his student are In. "We are In so much trouble right now." He Said, before the magic circles began to turn red Indicating to Ayato that the beam had hit Its target.
Confusion began to Invade Ayato's face as the circles disappeared automatically, while then a rumble beneath his feet were felt.
"Uhhhhh, heh, heh, what's going on?" Ayato Asked, Nervously.
"I'LL TELL YOU WHAT'S GOING ON YOU JUST DESTROYED THIS MOUNTAIN AT IT'S CORE YOU DUMBASS!" Romero Replied, In Anger.
"WHAT?!" Ayato Exclaimed.
BOOM! The tip of the mountain crumbled as the debris started to slide down the mountain as It began breaking apart.
"RUN!" Romero Yelled, as both he and Ayato grabbed their bags and ran.
Later the rocks and boulders started to fall down the mountain towards a nearby town which building after building started to be crushed by the falling rocks. Luckily the towns people were In their underground bunkers after the mountain started to break apart. As soon as the mountain finally broke apart the towns people walked out of their bunkers unscaved, around more than half of their town was crush which Included the city hall as well.
They turned their heads to see Ayato and Romero walking down over the pile of rubble after they managed to get to a clear sight where the rocks wouldn't reach them.
"That was close." Ayato Said.
"Yeah, but don't think because we're still alive means you thinks you're not dead, not after what I'll deal with you In a minute you Idiot." Romero Said.
"HEY THAT'S THE WIZARD SAINT HIMSELF I BELIVVE HE'S THE ONE THAT DID THIS TO OUR TOWN!" A Civilian Shouted.
"YEAH I BET HE DID TOO!" Another Yelled.
"LOOK WHAT YOU DID TO OUR TOWN BUDDY WHO'S GOANNA PAY FOR THIS HUH!" Another Civilian Yelled.
"WAIT! WAIT! I didn't do anything! Not this at least It was my student I swear!" Romero Exclaimed.
"GET THEM!" THE town's people Yelled, as they charged towards them.
"RUN FOR IT!" Romero Yelled, as he grabbed Ayato's arm and dragged him while running away.
(Flashback Ends)
"So, after that the Magic Council kinda charged my mentor with destruction of private property. Since then I was forced to clean all of our clothing for six months and have my allowance reduced to make up for the money that Romero was for to pay for the town. Even since then I've kinda been a bit more careful to what new move or ability I use since then, but I had no Idea, that would happen." Ayato Finished.
"My! I had no Idea that you would be capable of such destruction." Konan Awed. "Wait! I may not know anything of such as magic or spells, but I do know that the spell you used was a high levelled spell, and you actually achieved It on your first time?" Konan Said, with slight Shock In her voice.
"Of course. I may be young, but I do know a lot about spells and magic. Heck! Even my master Romero told me a trick on how to use even the most complicated spells as quick as possible In an emergency situation, so I used those lesson to learn that spell really quickly but ever since then I've never used It at all again. I haven't really been fighting any super powerful opponents or monsters to use It yet though I was training a lot In the East so there weren't a lot of powerful opponents where I travelled through. That's why I'm changing my Journey through the West, I heard there's a lot of powerful people here." Ayato Said. "Like you for example, you stopped that boulder like It was nothing with Just the tips of your fingers and that's all. I've never seen anybody do that before. Never." Ayato Said, with slight Enthusiasm.
"Well as a S Class Nuke missing nin I have learnt my lessons from the strongest Shinobi themselves. To tell you the honest truth I once trained with a VERY powerful Shinobi, a Konoha Shinobi along with my teammates." Konan Said.
"Who were they?" Ayato Asked.
"Well…. My team will be referred later on, but I can tell you the name of my Sensei at the time. His name was Jiraya, and he Is currently one of the legendary three Sannin." Konan Replied.
"Ohhhhh! A Sannin, I heard they are really powerful, I can't wait to challenge them." Ayato Said, with more Enthusiasm.
"I would reconsider my decision If I were you. You see Ayato, the Sannin were once Konoha's most powerful team that no Shinobi could ever go against themselves, units after units of Shinobi tried but not one had succeeded. To be honest the three Sannins have been falling downhill." Konan Said. "Only two of them remain. Orochimaru, the name you heard back on the boat was once a Konoha Shinobi himself, a powerful at that, he was once a contender for the title of Hokage. However, his rival the "Yellow Flash" himself was chosen after a fight they had on Konoha that reached throughout the other Shinobi Nations." Konan Began. "Many years ago, one day Orochimaru was tired of his rival never giving up on his path to becoming Hokage, so the fire Daimyo himself had referred to a match between the two. They both agreed and chose a location. This location was picked far from Konoha In order to prevent themselves form destroying the leaf village, a small Island off the coast where It was decided to be their battle grounds, there were no animal life to worry about either. The fight took Twenty-Four Hours before It ended the next morning, an entire day of constant none-stop fighting was held that obliterated the Island from existence, never to be seen again." Konan Finished. "Ever since that day Orochimaru had planned a long-time vengeance against Konoha for giving the title of Hokage to his rival Instead, making his rival known as the Fourth Hokage." Konan Said. "However, as Orochimaru began his plans to wreck revenge of Konoha his former mentor caught word of his actions and was said that he Infiltrated his student's home and found him doing Illegal experimentations on Innocent Shinobi, he Immediately ran after that never to be seen again until Three years ago. Back then during one of the many Chunin Exams In Konoha that's held every six months he attacked, disguised as the Kazekage In order to Infiltrate Konoha and order Sand's forces to attack the village, while at the same time using the One Tailed Beast to be his primary weapon of attack. His plan I heard was almost achieved before the Third Hokage sacrificed himself, by sealing the Chakra In his student's arms never to be used again, while also a team of Genins defeated the One Tailed Beast and prevented the destruction of Konoha." Konan Explained.
"You know I think I've heard of that story before, I hard In a market, It was big news." Ayato Commented.
"Shortly after the passing of the Third Hokage himself It was given to Jiraya who remained as the only Sannin In Konoha. However, he refused to accept the title and Instead It was to be given to Tsunadae Senju. But she left Konoha almost Three Decades ago In order to neglect the village after It was said she lost loved ones which turned her to depression. The story goes that Jiraya and the Nine Tailed Jinchuriki himself both travelled for a month to recover Tsunadae Senju and bring her back to the Leaf village, at the same exact time Orochimaru too was looking for his former teammate In order to have his arm replenished with Chakra." Konan Added. "It Is said that shortly after Jiraya found Tsunadae the next day she and Orochimaru fought on the outskirts of a Hidden village. It took the power of both Sannins to defeat Orochimaru, even though at the time he didn't have the use of his hands anymore. Shortly after they defeated him Tsunadae agreed to return to Konoha." Konan explained.
"Wow! I heard the story was crazy but It's even crazier when you hear It on detail, there are a lot of powerful people here!" Ayato Said. "Wait! So why did the Nine Tailed Jinchuriki left?" Ayato Said, Confusingly.
"The story goes like this, the Nine Tailed Jinchuriki was blamed over the Kyuubi attack that happened around Sixteen years ago In Konoha. He was Just a child I heard and was abused for years and for years by the villagers of Konoha. Shortly after Tsunadae was made the Fifth Hokage, the Nine Tailed Jinchuriki left the Leaf Village to Join forces with Orochimaru. Most likely due to the abuse he was paid for. Even the Elite Jounin and ANBU and a small group of Genins Including Jiraya and Tsunadae themselves couldn't stop him, even the current Kazekage and his siblings couldn't do much to help before Orochimaru claimed him. Over the sightings of Orochimaru over the past Two and a Half years now had shown he had managed to regain his Chakra In his arms, thanks to the Nine Tailed Jinchuriki's help for using his Demon Chakra to heal his new leader's wound that were Inflicted during the battle against the Third Hokage." Konan Explained.
"Wow this Jinchuriki-Guy sounds really tough! What was his name again?" Ayato Said.
"His name was Naruto Uzumaki Namikaze. Former leaf Shinobi. And former Genin." Konan Said. "As I heard the Council In Konoha, mainly most of the Civilian Council are attempting to update his Bingo Book page from "Alive" to "Dead". However, Tsunadae Senju seems to refuse to allow that order to happen." Konan Said. "Ever since the day he left Orochimaru had appeared to be getting more and more powerful over the past years. Around six months after the defection of the Nine Tailed Jinchuriki, Orochimaru somehow managed to overpower all of the members of the Akatsuki, I have never seen power like that before In my life, It was so great, so huge…. One of the names of my teammates was….. Nagato. Otherwise known as Pain of the Akatsuki. He saw the power Orochimaru held, that even our true leader couldn't defeat." Konan Said. "After Orochimaru torn the entire base apart all of the other member of the Akatsuki left, going their separate ways, I on the other hand remained behind, trapped with Orochimaru. That was before Nagato came and saved me, using every Jutsu he had In his arsenal, even the Pain clones he had, he used them all to save me, and pushed me outside and told me to keep running…. It didn't take long at all before Orochimaru killed my teammate after I ran away." Konan Said, as she soon stopped In her tracks, with a sad expression on her face. "When I was young, me and my teammates had a mission, the name of my other teammate was… Yahiko. One day we were on a mission, I was captured and threatened with my life If Nagato didn't kill Yahiko, my mentor Jiraya was never there to aid us, help us, he Just let us go. Nagato refused to kill Yahiko, before Yahiko ran towards Nagato's blade, his Kunai, allowing his heart to be pierced before Nagato could react. Yahiko gave up his life to save me, and now Nagato gave his life up to save me too." Konan Said, as tears started to drop form her cheeks.
"No, I know why you wouldn't want to come now. Everything that ever bad happened to you or your teammates you blamed them on yourself, right?" Ayato Asked.
Konan Nodded, before Replied, "Yes, that Is what happens to people around me. Those I hold the closest to me die.".
"You know…. I used to blame myself too. When she… Her… Came to me, she took everything I had away from me, everything. I blamed myself because I though If I had the strength that I do today then….. Then perhaps no one could've gotten hurt or worse that day." Ayato Said, as he walked up to Konan, wiping a tear form her eyes. "But my mentor Romero Said this to me once. We cannot always dwell on the past, but we can make up for It for the future. Those are the word she used." Ayato Said. "Except… Those were from a novel he once read, but he took as his saying." Ayato Said. "Look. What I'm trying to say Is that we always have regrets but no matter how much we regret them we can never return what happened back In the past ever. We can only continue moving forward and that's It, that's the road I'm taking….. Maybe It'll work for you." Ayato Said.
Konan was rather slightly stunned with her eyes telling the story to Ayato, those purple eyes that finally told Ayato that Konan understood what he was saying, and the eyes that told him she gets It now. The once pain she saw In Ayato's eyes were calm and determination, like all the pain In the world was transferred to him but didn't even lay a singles scratch upon reaching his body. The eyes of a boy that once felt tremendous pain and anguish were completely gone, replaced by this warm welcoming felling he had In them.
What made Konan slightly uncomfortable was the fact that Ayato's face was literally up to hers, even though Ayato was slightly shorter than Konan his face still made close contact upon hers, with her mouth close to his and the urge In her gut and heart telling her to react, even her heartbeats could be heard form the Inside of her body.
Ayato had no Idea what he was doing being so close to Konan like this, It felt too much, but for some reason he liked It a lot. Even though he thought It'd might've freaked Konan a bit which Ayato rather not do to the beautiful Shinobi.
Realising what he was doing he back away slightly looking at Konan with slight embarrassed eyes.
"Ehhh." Konan Gasped, waking back to the world of reality.
"Sorry, I didn't mean to get weird with you like that." Ayato Apologised, as he scratched the back of his head with slight embarrassment In his voice.
"It's….. It's alright. To be honest I preferred If you did that again. I Just felt like there was a little bit of comfort near you." Konan Said, reassuring to Ayato that It was alright for him to do that again.
Ayato slightly felt his heart skip a few beats after hearing that Konan referred that It was alright with her, since he had no Idea how to react to It he simply nodded Just for her sake. Ayato's eyes were once upon Konan but now they left her entire body to look to his right at nowhere Important, trying to neglect all the Immediate thoughts he had In his head.
Konan only had this specific feeling with two people In her life. Her once crush Yahiko, and her second crush Nagato, both she was very close to at the time but for some reason she has this feeling for the third time around Ayato.
The awkward silence filled the space between the two, as of right now they were In a rumble with their thoughts.
Travelling with Romero, Ayato's mentor told him about women and what he liked about them. The curves, the body, the breasts, the face, the sizes, and pretty much all of other perverted talks that Romero told Ayato as a way to teach him something while Ayato would usually recover from the Injuries he gained form training. Of course, Ayato scratched that, and all those perverted talks his mentor gave him as an excuse for no training while he was recovering, but those thoughts had gotten to his head which Ayato had no Idea If he should be happy, embarrassed, ashamed, astonished, or Just plain stupid, or any other emotions at all In this situation. Ayato knew who Konan was, but that didn't stop him from his thoughts on her, especially the fact that her pale milky skin fits her perfectly like It was the right colour for the right person, her tight Kimono dress Just barley covering her belly button, and barley stopping anyone from seeing the size of her breasts as though If It were skin. And her face wasn't something to neglect either, even for anyone else to get one look at that face could keep them trapped forever In a look of stun at Konan's beauty, along with her purple hair with that paper flower she had on top finished off head beautiful head as a topping for her.
Konan couldn't help but get the exact same thoughts towards Ayato, she had only been travelling with the teen for three days and already she started to feel like she was falling for him. His brown chocolate hair fits those eyes he had which were also brown chocolate, filled with warmth and comfort. She had seen him once getting change when she saw his athletic build (Author's Note: Think about Ayato having a similar build to Naruto In Shippuden), mainly It was only his upper body when she saw him after he had put his pants on, and even that thought remained Inside the Kunoichi's head up to even this point. What made Ayato more attractive for Konan was the heart he had, possessing a welcoming and helpful heart as though the many evil of the world couldn't taint It a rare trait very few people on the planet possesses. And everytime he smiled It felt like all the wrong doings the planet had to offer didn't phase Ayato even one bit, no matter how harsh his training was It didn't phase him at all, even all the dark pasts and history the earth had It didn't even affect him like It would do to most people another rare trait Ayato has.
In the terms of reality, they stood still only for around ten seconds, but those ten seconds felt like If It were an eternity of time, as though as every millisecond passed was a thousand years for the two, If they were In a magical spell of slow motion.
Ayato slightly gasped, which he felt he never did In a lifetime, at the purple haired Kunoichi realising what they were doing was pretty weird and decided to tell Konan about It, as he Said, "I think we should get going… Konoha Isn't goanna carry Itself to us.".
"Konan too snapped back to reality after hearing what Ayato had said to her, and Said, "You're right, I'm sorry I was Just lost In my thoughts, let's keep going.".
With those words Said the two began their pace back to where they were going.
"I guess Konoha Is still always huh." Ayato Said.
Konan simply nodded her head In agreement, keeping her own Iconic look on her face while she battled her thoughts, as she Thought, "What was I thinking? This boy Is helping me, but he Isn't like Nagato or Yahiko. Remember Konan Remember.". Konan looked at the back of Ayato's hair and kept herself In a deep thought. "Though…. His heart Is a lot like Yahiko's used to be, kind, helpful, and even reckless, like If he was Yahiko reborn In a new skin yet….. He seems to have Nagato's past, the loss of a family, the pain of those he care the most, that was all Nagato's past he had to live with, a past that haunted him for years and for years even when we grew up together, yet Ayato seems like his past doesn't bother him not even the slightest." Konan Thought, before she stopped for the second time after feeling a slight movement form behind them. "WATCH OUT!" Konan Yelled, as she pushed Ayato away, as a Katana literally went flying past them, scrapping the skin off of the Kunoichi. "ARGHHHHH!" Konan Yelled, In pain.
"KONAN!" Ayato Yelled, while getting off from the ground Itself, and looking at her right shoulder which was bleeding a lot. Ayato cringed his teeth In anger and sadness as he looked at the direction where the Katan came from and Yelled, "WHO DID THIS! YOU'RE GOANNA PAY!".
A second Katan was launched, this time from a different direction that was coming straight towards Konan's face. Konan gasped as she saw the Katana going at high speed like nothing she had ever seen before. Inches from her face Konan thought this was the end, before Ayato moved In front of the Kunoichi so fast she barely noticed he was there and grabbed the handle of the Katana, that was only a centimetre away form the Kunoichi's face.
"Huh!" Konan Gasped.
"Konan are you okay?!" Ayato Exclaimed, In worry.
"Yes… I'm okay." Konan Said.
Ayato grabbed the other side of the Katana and broke It In half and looked around himself while Yelling, "COME SHOW YOURSELF YOU COWARD!".
"Sure thing." A voice Said. Ayato and Konan turned around to what appeared to be a mud puddle slowly rising up to Konan's height, forming Itself a human body coloured In mud, before the original colour returned. A Man In his late twenties with fair skin wearing what appeared to be a gentleman suit with a top hat red tie and black clothing with white button shirt with white gloves, and dark eyes and blond neatly cut hair, looked at the two. "I'm afraid my partner forgot his manners, I do apologise for his rudeness. My name Is Sir Davidson, but you may call me David or Dave, whatever suits you best." The man now known as Dave Said.
"Who's this Dave-Guy?" Ayato Asked Konan with a questioning look, as he looked down at the Kunoichi who was using her own Chakra to heal her wounds.
"Ayato don't underestimate him!" Konan Replied, as she stood up from the ground, holding her arm with a serous fighting face one. "He may not look much, but I can tell you he's one of the Navy's most wanted man." Konan Began. "His name his Davidson, Davidson the "Escape Artist". HE escaped more than Seventy-Four times from sixteen different high levelled prisons form Marine HQs all around the Grandline, he uses exactly the same power you do, Magic, and he uses It to escape, along with his partner!" Konan Warned.
"Ahhh, yes that remind me, come on Shinpachi time to show yourself like the lad told you too." Dave Said, as he lifted his top hat and dropped It back on his head as a apologetic manner. "I am sorry miss, please excuse the rudeness of my friend here." He Said, as a figure Jumped behind Dave.
"Fine, I wanted to play a little Hide and Go die while trying to seek for me, but you always get In the way." Shinpachi Said, as he got up form landing seething one of his Katanas from his waist. Shinpachi had fair skin and looked to be Eighteen having crystal eyes and shark like teeth, he wore a grey light camouflage sweater with dark patterns on all over It with grey pants and dark Shinobi shoes, he had silver spiky messy hair. He had a bag full of Katanas on his back being supported by series of different bandages that held them, with one Katana each on each side of his hips to reach, he looked rather emotionless but sounded annoyed.
"Come one Shinpachi you should know that we should Introduce ourselves before doing anything else." Dave Said, with a Smirk on his face.
"Who's this guy then?" Ayato Asked, with a slightly more serious look this time.
"That's Shinpachi, "Thousand Swords", he uses water-based Chakra and Lightning based Chakra, It Is said his opponent's blood are his favourite drink." Konan Replied, after she had finally managed to heal her wound, with some slight blood over her arm.
"Come on Its not fair! I mean look at this, the pretty lady seems to have a lot of good blood In her but the kid doesn't seem to have nearly enough to satisfy my taste buds! It's not worth the effort to fight them you know?!" An Annoyed Shinpachi Moaned.
"Ahhhhhh yes! But this I what Orochimaru-Sama ordered us to do, gather the supplies from the ship and eliminate anyone who dares to disturb us. Unfortunately, we were a little slow on the path after group of Cloud Shinobi got In our way, which took a toll on our time table which was why we could never accomplish our mission. However, as I hear the two of you were the ones that foiled our siege and destroyed the weapon shipments, for that we cannot return back to base otherwise we'll be punished for our failure." Dave Said, with a Smirk on his face.
"Your men were goanna kill Innocent civilians what were we supposed to do?" Ayato Said, with slight Anger In his voice.
"Just let them kill them, besides It's only a few civilians, there's a lot more of them being born everyday It's simply the circle of life they say." Dave Said.
"Well I ain't the type to simply let you do whatever you wanna do to people however you feel like. Besides I don't care If you filed your mission or not It's not my fault and I'm not feeling sorry for this Orochimaru man at all." Ayato Said.
"I's be careful If I were you, Orochimaru-Sama has to be a lot more powerful than anybody you'll ever see upon, heck even the "Commanders" think twice, no, three times before challenging him." Shinpachi Said.
To explain this over the course of time ever since Naruto restored Orochimaru's hands he gathers a large army and force that even Commanders were needed.
"I don't care even If It's a Navy Admiral himself were here." Ayato Said. "You hurt Konan, I'm not goanna forgive you for that and I ain't the type of person either who lets you do whatever you want to my friends, that Includes Konan as well so get ready." Ayato Said.
"It's best Ayato that we should keep our eyes tight on them, they may not look much but they are very powerful people that we should consider a danger." Konan Warned.
"Yeah I know, but they're no where near as string as I am, this'll be a synch Just you watch." Ayato Said.
Konan looked at Ayato.
And then suddenly she felt his Magic Aura rise exponentially, his outer body lines started to glow bright red with Magic, along with a circle of Chakra blue rising from his feet, and black electricity showing his Haki, which surprised the paper Kunoichi a lot. Even Dave and Shinpachi were rather surprised at Ayato's power of strength, however this only added to the craving for blood for Shinpachi.
"I think this kid got a lot of good blood I can drink!" With that Said Shinpachi lunged towards Ayato, pointing his Katanas towards Ayato. "INIFINITE SWORD STYLE: SWORD RAIN!" Shinpachi Yelled.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! Ayato watched as his opponent's Katanas flown off of his pack and towards the air where then he could see the true form of the Katanas. All the Katanas were the exact same, having a silver coloured lining on the blade of the swords each a medium-sized blade with a rectangular light silver base covered In bandages, the guard on the Katanas were silver as well with a shark like picture Imprinted on the swords.
Ayato closed his eyes as the Katanas started to rain down upon Ayato. Not opening his eyes Ayato grew a cocky Smirk, and with that his feet slowly shifted from side to side, as the Katanas rained down upon him. To Konan's and Shinpachi's amazement Ayato dodged each blade by Just simply moving his own two feet on the ground, turning his body In the process, the only person who wasn't surprised was Dave.
Soon the Katanas seized raining from the sky, all the bandages form the Katanas connected to Shinpachi, who was still high In the air from Jumping.
"H-HOW! HOW DID YOU DODGE ALL THOSE BLADES?!" Shinpachi Exclaimed, In disbelief.
"That's because the kid obviously has something called Observation Haki, a certain ability that allow someone to see Into the future seconds ahead of the other, knowing the move before It's even thought of." Dave Explained, as Ayato opened his eyes, still having his Smug look on. "Depending how fast you can use Observation Haki I highly doubt any fast moves or attacks will give you the time to dodge when using that technique." Dave Said. "Mud Magic: Earth Sphere." Dave Said, as he held his right arm pointing It towards Ayato, as yellow bright Magic circles appeared from his palm. Immediately before Ayato could react he was completely surrounded by mud earth walls which closed over his head forming a giant dome over him. "Execution." Dave Said, as his dome then grew spikes Immediately from the outside and Inside.
"AYATO!" Konan Yelled, as she realised that Ayato could've been struck by one of those spikes.
Dave then let his hand down and Smirked, thought It wasn't a victorious Smirk he Just had a Smirk that Said something like he was testing something. And It proved real when the dome broke apart, revealing Ayato with his arms crossed and his legs braced In front of his body which his body was covered In a dark purple coating that protected him from the attack.
"Just as I suspected, usually a Haki user would know both types of Haki, Observation Haki and Armament Haki, a Haki that allows the user to protect his or her body from attacks, some say It's like wearing Invisible armour." As Dave finished his speech, Ayato returned back to his original colours and allowed his Armament Haki to shrink In his body. "However, I doubt you have Conquerors Haki, If you did I doubt either me or Shinpachi would be standing awake still even If you would be supressing It we would still sense It." Dave Said.
"No, I don't have that type of Haki, but I do have the other two." Ayato Confirmed.
"IF IT TAKES TIME FOR YOU TO USE YOUR OBSERVATION HAKI, THEN THESE NEXT ATTACK WILL IMPOSSIBLE FOR YOU TO PREDICT!" Shinpachi Yelled, as he landed on the ground and charged Ayato holding two Katanas In his arms. "INIFNITE SWORD STYLE: ONE HUNDRED SWORD ATTACK!" Shinpachi Yelled, as he then Jumped on the hilts of his swords, Jumping from hilt to hilt heading towards Ayato. Ayato saw the speed Shinpachi was heading In and Immediately reacted.
Ayato reached form the scroll on his back and summoned his bow as he Shouted, "MAGIC BOW!".
CLANG! Shinpachi's swords landed against Ayato's bow, as Shinpachi's feet were resting on the hilts of his Katanas that were near Ayato. Squeezing his foot through his shoe Shinpachi used his toes to grab a nearby Katana stuck on the ground and used It too strike Ayato. Ayato gasped, before kicking the sword that Shinpachi's other foot was resting on, capsizing the Swordsman which made him miss his shot against Ayato, which barely cut some of Ayato's hairs off. Kneeling forward Ayato saw some of his hair fell on the ground as the few strands landed right In front of his face on the ground.
"LUCKY!" Shinpachi Yelled, as he then used the sword his foot was resting on before Ayato knocked It over to take a swipe against him.
CLANG! Ayato used his bow to block the strike once again before Shinpachi landed on the ground with his hands, and with Incredible force and power he then launched himself, so he faces Ayato's back and swiped It cutting some of his Jumper and Shirt off, while a few drops of blood left Just from barley surviving Shinpachi's attack.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Ayato Yelled, as his eyes wide open while reaching for his back to calm the pain down. "BASTARD!" Ayato Yelled, as he pulled the string from his bow. "ENERGY ACCPET: FIRE ARROWS!" Ayato Yelled, as he released his arrows towards Shinpachi.
"WATER STYLE: WATER SHARK BOMB JUTSU!" Shinpachi Yelled, as he released from his mouth a large Shark made of water which evaporated the arrows.
"Th-That's Kisame's Jutsu, how did know It only Kisame knows that Jutsu along with a former student of his?" Konan Exclaimed.
"To answer your question, he had two students before he left the Akatsuki, so my friend here knows that Jutsu because Kisame was the one that taught him how to use It." Dave Explained.
"He knows because he was Kisame's student… Then why didn't he ever tell us he had another student?" Konan Said, In disbelief.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Shinpachi Yelled, as he clashed his Katan against Ayato. CLANG!
Ayato grabbed a hold of a Katana near him ripping the bandage off and using one of Shinpachi's Katanas against him.
"I like the look of this Katana, but I don't feel like It's my type." Ayato Said.
"For someone who uses a Bow I'm surprised you know a little swordsmanship, after wielding the "Shark's Blade" like It was your own weapon." Shinpachi Added.
"I've been training with some practice swords. I even thought up some moves of one, until I get my own sword I'll stick to my Bow and fists." Ayato Said.
CLANG! Ayato and Shinpachi clashed their blades once again, which sent them meters from each other skiing one their feet against the hard dirt ground below their feet, scraping the Said ground showing the distance they were apart.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Ayato and Shinpachi Yelled, as they once again charged each other with their blades prepared.
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Ayato Is reading a scroll while Shinpachi Is sneaking behind him with his blade In his hands ready to strike him, once he got close enough to Ayato, Shinpachi then raised his sword about swipe It at Ayato.
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After attempting to swipe Ayato with his sword, Shinpachi was laying on the ground with a large lump on his head after Ayato hit him, observing Shinpachi's sword before tossing It away.
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CLANG! CLANG CLANG CLANG CLANG! Ayato and Shinpachi kept swaying the Katanas at each other, with Shinpachi now using his feet to hold two Katanas walking on them like stilts to get a higher advantage against Ayato. Using only one sword Ayato kept swinging It at Shinpachi, blocking every attack Shinpachi kept hitting him with his Katanas.
"PAPER STYLE: PAPER ARROW!" Konan Yelled, as she raised her right arm holding her elbow with her left arm, which then her right arm formed Into paper slips shooting towards Dave, who was Just standing there holding on to his top hat.
BWRAM! Was the slightly disgusting sound of mud from Dave's body after Konan shot through his chest fell on the ground, as It happened Dave simply gave a Smirk which showed Konan that her paper style arts had nothing against his mud.
"I should tell you, Just like you Konan, I too am made out of something other than bones and muscles, my magic Is called Mud Magic which doesn't only allow me to control mud from the ground or my body but also It can turn my body Into mud, Just like your paper turns you Into paper." Dave Explained.
"I should've known, for someone with a Two-Hundred Million Berry bounty that escaped the toughest of prisons you had to somehow sneak past the guards without getting caught." Konan Said.
"True, and my friend Shinpachi has a One-Hundred and Fifty Million Berry bounty on him. We became partners when I was escaping my fourth prison and seen the skills, he had which was why I chose Shinpachi since he too has a sort of Jutsu that turns his body Into something similar like ours, water." Dave Explained.
"So, In other word Shinpachi Is your match." Konan Said.
"Exactly." Dave Confirmed.
"You were told to capture the weapons and the shipment on that ship, but I believe that you had an ulterior motive also." Konan Said, as the papers form her right arm started to form back to her original self. "I didn't expect people like you to come get us, with such strength I can only theorise one thing and one thing only that you're here….. Me." Konan Said. "Taking Into account that me and Nagato both helped our once true leader to for the Akatsuki that makes me the oldest member of the organisation, maybe the very first to Join." Konan Said, with a slight suspicious expression on her face.
"Hmmmmmm. Why Indeed true milady. Since the Akatsuki now belongs to Orochimaru-Sama, that means all Information In the Akatsuki have been kept by Orochimaru, even the deepest of secrets that only Orochimaru-Sama found out four people ever had that Information, only these four were ever trusted with this Information….. That'll be you, Nagato, the true Akatsuki leader, and this fellow named Zetsu ever knew this Information, the others didn't." Dave Said. "You see, Orochimaru annihilated Zetsu, he also took care of ending Nagato's life, and even though he overpowered the true leader of the Akatsuki that didn't mean he didn't get away using a Jutsu that transported him somewhere else, but I highly doubt he'll come back anytime soon, the only former member of the Akatsuki who knows this Information that got away was you. Truth be told I'm rather surprised a highly ranked Shinobi such as yourself even bothered to travel with a kid like him, especially If you're the killer of the "Hidden Rain Village", the one who killed the Daimyo, and the Shinobi of the Rain Village." Dave Finished.
Konan slightly flinched when Dave mentioned Nagato's name In the list, which made her rather angry at him. Also, the part where he mentioned about the Rain Village, she grew guilty. Even though the Village Hidden In the Rain wasn't exactly the most favourable village In the Shinobi Nations considering their methods of terrorisation and forcing most of the population Into the Shinobi program with their lives and their abuse against their allies It was still considered wrong to destroy the entire village, even If the Kage and the Daimyo were nothing more but cowards who hid In the dark petrified of their enemy sacrificing their Shinobi lives ahead of their own, that was how Konan and Nagato got their reputation as a couple of S Class Nuke Shinobi.
"I have a very regrettable past I know, I did a lot of things I'm not proud of, even If I was forced to do them." Konan Stated.
"Yet you did, as far as I know, Orochimaru-Sama's prized worker Is part of the exact same Clan as Nagato Is." Dave Said.
"What are you talking about?" Konan Said, In a Confused expression.
"Tell me." Dave Started. "What was the last name of Nagato?" Dave Asked.
"Nagato told me and Yahiko a long time ago he didn't have a last name, he told us his parents died when he was Just a baby." Konan Replied.
"Or did he? Hasn't It ever occurred to you that Just maybe, maybe, he lied to you. That he did something he wasn't proud of, something Orochimaru-Sama saw before Nagato became a Shinobi." Dave Said. "Orochimaru-Sama told me something personally, something that very few of us rarely get the opportunity to get, some Important Information that he'd rather share with me, and not my partner Shinpachi, maybe It was something for all the trouble he put you through before he kills you." Dave Said. Konan clenched her fists while her facial expression showing both Shock and a Serious face while sweating from the upcoming relation. For her entire life, Konan knew Nagato Just as much as she did with Yahiko. "Nagato's last name Is….. Uzumaki. Nagato Uzumaki, the uncle of Naruto Uzumaki Namikaze." Dave Said.
"What?!" Konan Exclaimed Silently, her eyes wide opened, and her lips giving a shocked expression.
"Orochimaru-Sama told me to tell you as a departure gift before he kills you, he thought It was the least you deserved." Dave Said. "A long time ago, near the conclusion to the Third Great Shinobi War, Orochimaru-Sama when he was still a member of Konoha had led a team through an abandoned village. It was said that the village was once attacked by enemy Shinobi leaving very few survivors but were told to be Shinobi under disguise. He led the team under orders to check every living survivor before deciding on their fate, however there were only ONE family living In that village, a family that seemed to be packing to leave for Konoha for a new life. Once the Shinobi entered their house, they grew with shock at the couple packing their bags full of Kunais and Katanas since they possessed some skills of a Shinobi, of course during that time It wasn't exactly uncommon for anyone to hold weapons, It was very common as a procedure for protection. When they saw the weapons, they however acted Irrational, the war turned many people like that, they panicked and killed Nagato's parents at first sight, they barley lifted a finger on them, as I was told. When Nagato came out and saw what they did, the Leaf Shinobi Immediately recognise their mistake, and apologised. However, as a child they would see It differently, a child usually acts differently at a young age, and using his Immense Chakra, and his Clans Jutsus he killed the Jounin, and Chunin levelled Shinobi on the spot. It wasn't before Orochimaru-Sama arrived, with Nagato already left, and brought the corpse to the Yakamanas to check their memories and showed what happened." Dave Explained.
Konan's bottom lip trembled, and she was saddened of the news she was given. "Nagato… I had no Idea." Konan Said.
"Yet, despite the fact It was Konoha that attacked him he was made Into a Leaf Shinobi, temporarily." Dave Said. "Orochimaru-Sama also told me that Kushina Uzumaki was Nagato's cousin, which makes Naruto his Nephew, yet another half blooded Uzumaki who was also abused most of his life due to Konoha's mistakes again." Dave Said. "All these years, you've chased after the Jinchurikis, and one of them were Nagato's Nephew, who Orochimaru found out while under Infiltration of the organisation that Nagato was purposely lying to the Akatsuki to give his Cousin's son the chance to grow strong enough to beat him, so he wouldn't kill the one person that was closely resembled to Kushina." Dave Said. "If you still care for Nagato, then I guess this'll help you. Orochimaru-Sama had already exploited everything Naruto had, and believe his time Is up, he told me If you do survive long enough then he'll give you the chance to save Naruto before he decides what else he wants to do with him. Naruto's location for the next four weeks Is South West from the Village Hidden In the Leaves, Konoha, and he's located at the "Valley Of Small Canyons" a small forest canyon area that Orochimaru-Sama secretly built a base to observe Konoha at a slightly closer distance, one he doesn't need anymore." Dave Said, as he noticed Konan's expression changing more and more. Konan's tough stare, and her emotionless face suddenly disappeared, replaced by her own opposite look of sadness, confusion, and grief that not only did Nagato lose his parents and lied to her for all these years, but he also kept her In the dark about his own Nephew, suddenly she lost all concentration In her fight, and he legs gave away allowing her to fall to the ground on her knees, while panting crazily.
"Nagato…. No." Konan Said, knowing very well her situation with Nagato. Back then Nagato or Konan couldn't take an entire country down themselves, which was why they turned to the true leader of the Akatsuki for help, as long as they helped him organise the Akatsuki then he would help them, If they were to betray him either of them, then the one who betrays him would die. Nagato kept Konan In the dark so In case If the true leader ever found out about his scheme and his plans, then only Nagato would pay for his life and not Konan.
Dave had his hand behind his back In like a greeting gentlemen stance, but behind Dave's hand he has small Magic circles formed, twisting and turning his hand and fingers while putting a spell on. "Orochimaru-Sama had told me If I told her the truth It would break her, hurting her, making her lose all focus on the battle ahead of her, now, Is my chance to kill her." Dave Thought, with a Smirk, a Smug one too. "EARTH MAGIC: EARTH SPIKE!" Dave Yelled, as circle appeared behind Konan, ready to kill her with a earth spike.
Konan's head tilted downwards, and her hair covered her eyes with darkness, showing only her nose and mouth. "I can tell everything you've said was the truth, but…" Konan Said, as a large spikey mud earth made spike headed straight towards Konan's back, Inches from her back now. "I WON'T LET YOU GET THE BETTER OF ME IN THIS FIGHT!" Konan Yelled, as she turned around, with her lower body and everything up to her neck turned Into nothing but paper slips which allowed the earth spike to miss her completely. Her head and hair also turned Into paper slips, which then reformed behind Dave. "PAPER STYLE: PAPER BOMB SHOOT!" Konan Yelled, as she pointed arms the exact same way from her earlier attack against Dave.
Dave Gasped, before he opened a hole In his chest which allowed the long stream of paper slips pass him. They both Exclaimed when they saw that the paper slips were heading straight towards a mountain.
BOOM! A large explosion covered one part of the mountain.
"Uhhhhh." Ayato and Shinpachi Said, as their eyes widen like kitten eyes and were wide opened. (Author's Note: Think about the times When In "Fairy Tail" the characters got shocked.)
From the mountain they saw the trees knocked down one by one, since It was far they couldn't hear a thing coming from them, until when they were getting closer and closer the trees falling down started to get louder and louder, revealing a large mud slide heading straight towards the group the size of Tsunami.
"Oh no." Konan Said.
"WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT!" Ayato and Shinpachi Exclaimed.
Once Konan's body formed back to her original self, Ayato, Shinpachi and her all ran away form the Incoming muddy tide, except for Dave, who kept his formal posture not reacting at all to the Incoming muddy tide. Ayato and Konan ran faster than Shinpachi, who ran Just towards around Dave's location before the tide caught up and buried the two up.
"RUN! RUN! RUN! RUN! RUN! RUN! RUN! RUN! RUN! RUN! RUN! RUN! RUN! RUN! RUN! RUN! RUN! RUN! RUN! RUN! RUN! RUN! RUN! RUN! RUN! RUN! RUN! RUN! RUN! RUN! RUN! RUN!" Ayato Yelled, continually while at the same time running as fast as he can form the tide.
"PAPER WING JUTSU!" Konan Yelled, as papers formed behind her body Into wings, before she flew up before the tide could bury her. "That was close." Konan Said, as she looked down on the tide burying everything on Its path. She couldn't help but feel as though she had forgotten something, once It hit her she saw Ayato, who was near a cliff by the sea, who stopped at the edge.
"OH CRAP!" Ayato Said, as he looked down to see at the edge were high sharp rocks. "Come on! Come on! Come on! Come on! Come on!" Ayato Panted, doing gestures on his hands as If he was controlling the waves to reach high enough to cushion his fall from the sharp and pointy rock. However, the waves couldn't reach even half way through the rocks, high enough to cushion Ayato's fall, Ayato Said, "Ah Damn It!". Ayato looked back, as he saw the giant-sized muddy Tsunami heading straight for him, before he could Say, "NOT GOOD!".
Ayato crossed his arms In front of his face, believing he could stop the mud slide with his strength. Suddenly he felt someone grab his armpits, and his legs were released from the ground as he felt the wind against his face pushing hard. He opened his eyes to see Konan holding on tight to him while flying high In the air, Just enough time before the mud slide could've reached, falling down the steep long cliff he was once at.
"Close call." Konan Said, as she held Ayato close to her In a hug.
Ayato was still holding onto Shinpachi's Katana, before throwing It away.
"Not the sword I'm looking for." Ayato Said.
Konan positioned Ayato to her back, so he held her back tightly while she flew away from their current location.
"Now that's over, I believe we should head to Konoha now." Konan Said.
"Agreed." Ayato Said.
Author's Note: HELLO MY READERS! I know while again, but If you were following my other stories like "Straw Hat Or Nine Tailed Fox Choose Wiseley", "Trying To Move On", "Fairy Worlds" and "Naruto Uzumaki Mitarashi", then you know I was a little busy since you could see the slight mass upload. I've uploaded like five chapters of my stories. Two chapters of "Straw Hat Or Nine Tailed Fox Choose Wiseley", one chapter of "Trying To Move On", one chapter of "Fairy Worlds, and one chapter of "Naruto Uzumaki Mitarashi". I call It "Upload Tsunami", I'll do this time to time, but nit all the time, uploading different chapters of different stories while taking one month off and making a deadline for the uploading to happen, for an entire month since I uploaded stories like "Long Lost" and "Fairy Worlds" I spent that time making those five chapters.
I also decided to do something similar to a story I found called "Between The Lines" a "Fairy Tail" fanfic, where It's Just short chapters but long stories.
I also will do one shot from time to time and make an "Announcement" story where It's not really a story to be honest with you, It's actually goanna be like a update catalogue where I'll tell you what's happening and when I'm thinking of uploading something so there.
I hope you enjoyed.
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