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'Thoughts'
"Bijuu speech"
"Dialogue"
*SFX*
"techniques"
It was the middle of the afternoon. The sun high in the sky as its bright light shined down across the meadow and everything else. Naruto took in a deep breath of air as he was allowed to freely roam outside for the first time in days.
"Aaahh..." Naruto breathed out. He gave a toothy grin. "Yosh! Time to get back to training!" Naruto yelled out excitedly as the rest of his group soon arrived behind him.
"To let you know, our next expedition will be a month from now. So prepare yourselves," Levi said to everyone. "Moreover, Erwin has told me to inform you that he wants you four to join the Scouting Legion on a temporary term, seeing your four want to go home as well."
The shinobis thought about this for awhile before agreeing. They would have time to think how to get home while at the same time help humanity on their quest of recapturing what they lost from the titans. Sure, why not?
"Alright.. Good... I'll inform Erwin right away," as Levi turned to leave. "Please, once more, do not do anything too drastic."
As soon as Levi was out of view, Naruto stuck his tongue out in his direction blowing a raspberry. "Baka Heichou! Hmph! 'Do not do anything too drastic'" Naruto mocked. Since yesterday, Naruto started to dislike the captain as his moody demeanor simply got on Naruto's nerves. Trying to act all cool and stuff, making him look more like an idiot. Reminded him too much like... Sasuke... However, only that the captain cared more... Naruto soon felt a slap in the back of his head.
"Don't you dare bad mouth the captain!" Petra reprimanded him like a child. Naruto pouted as he tended to the stinging pain on his head now. Kakashi shrugged in exasperation as he approached Naruto.
"Well, I suppose it's back to the old grind," Kakashi said as he referred to training. Naruto's eyes perked up as he leapt from his position and into the open field.
"Alright then! Let's go!" Naruto yelled as he ran ahead of everyone else.
"I'll keep an eye on the fool yo," Killer Bee said before taking off as well leaving Kakashi, Gai, and the rest of Levi's squad.
"HAHA Kakashi my eternal rival! What challenge shall we do today!? You are one point ahead of me in the total amount of the challenges!" Gai exclaimed loudly as he continued to rant on something about Youth and more nonsense.
Levi's squad simply looked on at this man. 'What the hell is up with him?' They all wondered as they soon felt bad for Kakashi seeing what he has to put up with every so often. However, all attention was soon diverted as Hanji just arrived.
"Hello everyone! Eren!" Hanji also exclaimed in excitement. What's up with her as well?
"Hello squad leader Hanji," Gunter replied to her. "Is there something you need?"
Her eyes lit up. "Yes. Yes. I'm going to have to borrow Eren and his titan powers," she said practically drooling at the thought of her experiments.
"Come along now!" She said jovially as she grabbed Eren by the hand and dragged him elsewhere. The rest of the squad followed her as they stood to keep watch over Eren.
"Ah. Maybe next time Gai. We should follow suit and go along with them," Kakashi said pointing his thumb at their general direction. "YOSH!" Gai replied loudly as they followed the group.
XXX
Naruto and Bee made their way to an open meadow where no inhabitants lived as they sought to begin their training. However, Naruto abruptly stopped confusing Killer Bee.
"That's it! I got it!" Naruto exclaimed loudly as a lightbulb lit up in his head.
"What is it ya fool?" Killer Bee asked.
"I got a way to get back home! The toad sages could reverse summon us!" Naruto saidly excited as he bit his finger drawing some blood.
"Kuchiyose no Jutsu!"
A large puff of smoke exploded out from the meadow revealing a Ginormous Toad almost the size of the wall, wielding a sheathed Tanto while smoking a giant cigarette.
"Ummm... and you are?" Naruto questioned wondering why he hasn't summoned Gamabunta.
"It's me Naruto.." The toad said.
...!
"Gamakichi!?" Naruto asked rather bewildered.
"Surprised?" The toad said haughtily.
"Surprised is an understatement! And I thought Akamaru's growth spurt was shocking!"
"Well it's not my fault you humans grow so slowly," he said. "Well watcha need?"
"Gamakichi, how come the Toad Sages realized I wasn't gone?" Naruto questioned.
"Eh? You were gone? Last time we checked for your chakra signature was eight hours ago," as Gamakichi revealed this shocking revelation.
"Eight hours!? We were stuck here for Four days!" Naruto yelled. "You gotta convince the elders to Reverse Summon us!" Naruto pleaded.
"Hmm... Alright but you know how slow they are up on these kinds of things," he said reminded Naruto of the Toad Elder and his forgetfulness.
"Aahhhhh! We're gonna be stuck here for years at this rate!" Naruto cried out frantically.
"But since you're my friend... I suppose I can put in a word and speed things up a bit..." Gamakichi said.
Naruto sighed in relief.
"However, the process will still take a week or so tops. You'll probably still be stuck here for over a month or two," Gamakichi added.
Naruto frowned. "But you know we have a war going on. We don't have time. Madara will stop at nothing to rule the world."
"Yeah yeah... But news says that Madara guy disappeared from the battle field a little while ago according to our sources."
This made Naruto uncomfortable knowing Madara was hiding under the radar and can strike at any moment. He sighed. "Alright.. Thanks for you help... I'll keep summoning you every so often," as Naruto dismissed Gamakichi and went back to Killer Bee.
"Lost in time, and all I can do is make up some Rhymes! Konoyarô Bakayarô!" Bee rapped after hearing the entire conversation.
"Heh. Bee. Might as well make use of your time to prepare yourself and Naruto. Knowing Madara, it is unsettling the he suddenly disappeared and went off the radar like that. It is a possibility he will look for us.." Gyuuki Grimly said.
"I agree for once." A new voice said. "My idiot of a host should begin to perfect his Tailed Beast state knowing we have only transformed once, lasting only for minutes," Said Kurama as he subconsciously connected himself telepathically to Gyuuki and Bee.
"No need to say another word," Naruto grinned as he activated his Kyuubi Chakra Cloak.
"!?"
Naruto's face widened in surprise as he stared off into the distance past Wall Rose.
"What's wrong?" Bee asked.
"This chakra... I can feel it... So familiar... It can't be..." Naruto muttered.
"Whose?"
...
...
Not a single word was said as the Shinobis raced their way past the wall in into the horizon.
XXX
Today was another day for the Cannon-Maintenence crew and Garrisons as they stood idly on top on Wall Rose keeping an eye out for any trouble. Recently since early this morning, roars of a monster was heard from off the distance. Many suspected it be a titan but it felt more unsettling and different than the others.
Suddenly a yellow flash whizzed by along with a white one.
"Pardon me! Outta of the way dattebayo!" A new voice yelled.
One of the Garrisons recognized the Shinobis as he quickly ran from his spot to them. However, it was already too late as the two jumped off the wall and into the horizon.
"Get back here you two! It's not safe!" The man yelled, baffled that these two were crossing into titan territory. Not that he would be worried for them but rather who is going to report all of this...
XXX
Itachi was blood lusted for the first time in years. Knowing he was in a world he was unfamiliar with, no way to get back home, what reason has have left to exist for? This was much harder on him than he first anticipated he thought as he slash a Titan apart with his Totsuka Blade.
For just about the entire night he was traveling, he rampaged with his Susano'o as it let out its feral battle cry slicing many titans apart. Another perk of Edo Tensei... Access to an unlimited amount of chakra, a relentless amount of Stamina, and to ignore the requirements of daily living such as sleep. Itachi was truly a killing machine as he finished off two more titans from behind.
Itachi had no clue where they were all coming from but they were great in numbers however. They somehow feel... Attracted... To him as he flared his Susano'o.
One four-meter class titan approached from behind and got lucky as it sunk its teeth into Itachi's Susano'o's skeletal hand. Its teeth simply shattered apart however as it didn't even crack the Ethreal warrior's hand as it was promptly swatted away and smash into the ground with its head.
Itachi studied these monsters intently as they seemed to just heal up whatever wounds they receive, even going far as regenerating lost limbs and such as he watched the titan in front of him regenerate its recently smash head. Once more he brought down Susano'o's fist onto the titan, smashing its entire body from the waist up. It finally ceased to move as its corpse started to dematerialse into the air.
'That makes 259...' Itachi thought memorizing the number of monsters he had killed. The hordes were endless he thought as he wandered aimlessly through the forests in Wall Maria. What interested him most about these titans were those that were abnormal among the rest. They looked normal however but their behavior was abstract compared to its other fellows. Itachi passed a few of those in the forest while scanning the area with his Sharingan. One leapt at him with great speed as if it was a frog while another hid timidly behind a tree as if it was shy. It was very abnormal compared to the other titans that would either walk or run at least. But these however were unpredictable in their actions.
'I pity the ones who have to face the horrors of these beings...' Itachi thought.
XXX
"Oi. Brat."
"What?" Naruto replied to Kurama.
"This is taking a bit long getting to where you want to go.." Kurama said. "Speed up things by going full Bijuu Transformation. At least get some more practice in a place where no one else can see you."
Naruto smirked. "Alright!" As he clasped his palms together, golden energy erupted from his body and transformed into a Giant golden fox.
Bee, knowing he wouldn't be able to catch up to Naruto in his transformation merely clung onto the Kyuubi's back as it dashed towards their destination at a much quicker pace.
"Aww yeah! Full speed ahead!" Bee said happily seeing his teachings finally paid off in helping Naruto as they all dashed into the horizon.
XXX
Itachi himself was having no trouble fending off these monsters with his Susano'o as he simply slashed them in vertical halves or decapitating them. A few actually got back up from the onslaught but was quickly finished off by being absorbed into Itachi's Totsuka blade. Already, three more titans emerged from the trees as they slowly made their way to Itachi as he readied himself once more. Blood was spattered all over his Susano'o as it simply evaporated as all titan blood does. The titans were about to be within striking range until...
"!?"
"This feeling... No... It's chakra!" Itachi exclaimed to himself as he felt an immediate surge not too far away.
He however wasn't the only one to notice this as titans also had a reaction to it turning the direction he was also facing. For a brief moment, a glint of some sort was seen in their eyes as they turned leaving Itachi and made a mad dash to that direction.
...
"It can't be..." Itachi muttered before taking off as well at his top speed.
XXX
"What the fu-" Naruto was about to yell out before a fifteen-meter class titan jumped onto him, clinging onto his right Kyuubi arm. Quickly, Naruto ripped the titan off and crushed it in his palm and throwing away its remains into the air.
"Naruto!" Bee yelled pointing off into the distance.
Naruto followed where his finger pointed as his eyes widened in surprise. A entire horde of titans were making a mad dash to where he was. However, something seemed to be in the middle of the horde as it was swatting away titans left and right. The mysterious being finally made its way up in front as it glowed orange-red, wielding an Ethreal shield and sword. It was Itachi.
"Itachi!" Naruto yelled as he made his way to the swarm of titans determined to help out his friend.
"Naruto?!" Itachi yelled in surprise as he jumped high into the air landing on Naruto's Kyuubi head. The trio soon departed back to Wall Rose at full speed once more, leaving the titans a considerable distance away. Naruto's Kyuubi form started to dematerialize as they saw a glimpse of the huge wall.
"We can't alarm the locals for now, we will have to run the rest of the way guys," Naruto said apologetically knowing the titans will catch up eventually at this rate. The first one was already sprinting its way closer to their position and catching up.
"There's the wall! Let's climb it quick!" Yelled Naruto as he transferred Chakra to his feet, speeding away from the titans once more,
XXX
"Hey... Guys... Do you hear that?" One Garrison squad leader said to his friends as he heard a mysterious rumbling. He put his head to the table to hear the vibrations.
This man was a squad leader and had recently survived the incident that happened in the Trost district. He fought valiantly against the titans and against all odds, he was lucky to be alive after that.
A good percentage of his squad died making him one of the few men to return alive. However, things still weren't looking up to him. He had reoccurring nightmares of seeing his comrades fall at the hands of the titans, being gobbled up in a bloody mess. He would wake up screaming his heart out everynight reliving these nightmares. Ones close to him offered help but he blatantly refused them saying he is a soldier and won't break so easily.
Recently since the rumors of spies and titans within the walls sprouted, he had been getting more and more paranoid.
Not to mention mysterious men who came out of nowhere and started pulling magic tricks left and right. Not that he wasn't appreciative of them for helping but he was rather under a lot of pressure and stress since then. Being a squad leader and have recently promoted entailed endless work for him. Paranoia began to take over him few days back as he began to distrust his surroundings and lived in fear. Stages of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder was beginning to show.
*rumble*rumble*rumble*
"What the... I only heard this kind of noise and only once..." He said to his friends. "A swarm of them are approaching the wall.." He said as he barged out of his office door and used his 3D maneuver gear to scale the wall.
He arrived to the top where other soldiers were staring at the horizon.
"What's the situation?" He asked staring at one random soldier with his red, baggy eyes. He was really stressed now.
"Titans are approaching our vicinity at a surpassingly fast pace, sir."
The squad leader grimaced for a moment before barking out another order.
"Man the cannons!" He yelled. "Prepare to fire!"
The soldiers hurried to their battle stations as they loaded round after round into the heavy artillery. They fixed their sights on the horizon just waiting for them to come. A good minute passed by until they were finally in target range.
"Fire!" The Squad leader yelled.
*BOOM*BOOM*BOOM*
Loud thundering sounds of cannon fire filled the premises as heavy balls of metal explosives ripped rough the titans killing many of them. Little did they know, titans weren't the only ones down there.
XXX
The trio were quickly making their way to the wall when a quiet whistling sound came towards them. Suddenly something exploded next to Itachi.
*BOOM*
Itachi's arm was shredded by the time Naruto saw what happened. The men on the wall was firing upon them and the titans.
"Naruto, worry about yourself for now. I'm still an Edo Tensei. I won't die," Itachi reminded him of his conditional his arm started to regenerate.
Naruto nodded in response as he made his safety a priority as well, making sure he wasn't hit by a stray artillery round.
The explosives did slow them down a bit as they were running, but they managed to pass by with little difficulty as they finally reached the wall with titans in tow. They began to scale the wall by chakra applied their feet, sticking to its vertical surface.
XXX
"We need some more ammo!" Barked one soldier loading a cannon.
"I'm on it!" Replied another as he bolted down the portable cannon's tracks back to the loading station. However, unfortunately, one bolt was loose that day and tripped him as he was making his run.
"Oh shit!" He cried out unable to keep his balance as he tripped over and rolled over the edge, falling down to the other side of the wall. Quickly, he tried to activate his 3D maneuver gear so hang steady on the wall to stop his free fall.
*Click*Click*
"What!?"
His eyes widened in horror discovering his gear just jammed on him. His fall must've sprung a loose part, jamming the intricate device. He realized he was going to die here and now. Even if he did survive the fall, he would be left alone, eaten by the titans as they were beginning to crowd against the tall walls. He closed his eyes ready to accept his fate.
This has happened on occasions to a few soldiers here and then. He was just one of the unlucky ones. His friends could only watch, alarmed that he wasn't using his gear to bring himself back up. A few jumped off to save him but weren't fast enough to keep a safe distance away from the titans and rescue him at the same time using their functioning 3D gear.
...
The man felt a firm grasp wrapping around his body, as he assumed it was a titan. He winced as he closed his eyes tighter predicting his bloody death... Nothing came however...
"Hey! Open your eyes!"
The man did so as he wondered what happened and why he wasn't dead yet. 'Who said that?' He wondered. He looked around to see he was on top of the wall again, only that his comrades were watching in horror. But for what reason?
He tired to move his limbs to discover they were still immobilized. He took a good look around and saw a glowing red hand, grasping his body. He gasped as he tried to wriggle out, now panicked. However, the giant hand released its grip on him as it unceremoniously dropped him down onto the wall. He landed with a thud as the ground knocked the wind out of him a bit.
"Ugh..." He took a look back to see three figures standing at the edge of the wall. One had a red cloak and raven hair. While other two, he recognized in the discription in the news paper as Killer Bee and Naruto. What really surprised him was what was behind them three.
A humanoid beast that gave off a red and orangey aura as it stood about 10-meters tall. Its eyes glowing yellow, four giant arms just hanging loosely on its side. It beared a great resemblance to a titan but was actually a bit more intimidating...
Suddenly, it started to disperse in the air as it simply disappeared.
Everyone stood baffled, thinking the newcomer was a titan shifter like Eren.
The squad leader was shaking at the spot, eyeing Itachi with great anger and fear. He saw what had happened. The man conjured up the titan like beast when he was scaling the wall, catching the falling man in the process. It didn't matter what he had done, but rather he just simply existed. That was enough reason for the fearful Squad leader to take action.
'Another titan shifter...' He thought fearfully. 'None of them can be trusted! They are the reason why everyone is hiding in fear, trapped like caged birds! They are traitors to humanity!'
His paranoia was getting the better of him once more. His heart rate increased to a rapid pace as he began to sweat. He drew something from his holster.
"Stop right there!" He yelled out, pointing a musket at Itachi. Everyone gasped at his actions as they tried to calm him down. "Don't you dare fucking move!"
Itachi calmly closed his eyes and stepped forward.
"I said stop! I'm warning you!" The Squad Leader yelled out once more as Itachi got closer.
The Shinobi's sandals clacked at every step as he grew closer. The man's paranoia and fear was already at a high level. His breathing became erratic as his hand started shaking, unable to properly hold the musket still as he now used both hands to keep it steady.
"AAHHHHH!" He cried out.
*POP*
The musket discharged its metal round into the Raven haired ninja. Everything became silent. Soldiers shocked by their Squad Leader's actions, while the other shinobis calmly just watched.
Itachi's head rocked back at the Musket Ball ripped through his cranium, creating a decent sized hole. He did not fall however, as the entry hole started to close up, Edo Tensei started taking its effect.
"Sorry to disappoint but..." He gazed deeply into the man's eyes with his glowing red ones. "I'm already dead..." Itachi laced a simple Genjutsu on him.
The man pupils dilated as he fell slumped on the floor, unconcious. His comrades rushed to him, to investigate what was wrong with him.
"No need to panic," the raven haired ninja said. "I simply helped ease his mental state. He had been suffering for quite a bit."
Everyone looked at the Squad Leader's face as it showed to be much more peaceful and relaxed. He wasn't making any sudden outbursts or yelps in his sleep any longer. The second in command took stead in his place. "Alright, transport him to the infirmary," he ordered as soldiers took out a stretcher, gingerly placing him onto it and sending him off.
The cannon squads had just finished off the remaining titans, leaving only a smaller and more dispersed group seeing they won't pose to much of a problem. Everything was pretty much back to normal now. Soldiers patrolling the walls, conversing, cleaning. Only the three shinobis stood out in all this commotion as they noticed a new figure was leaning on a cannon, not too far by. It was a rather short man with black hair that parted on the right side of his head, combed over on each side.
"Didn't I say not to do anything to drastic...?" He said rather coldly. "You caused another commotion with those cannon fire.."
Naruto grinned goofily as he realized it was Captain Levi. "We had a good reason to," Pointing at Itachi who was behind him.
Levi stared at Itachi who did the same thing back. Their gazes met as they tried to read each other.
...
Silence reigned for a few seconds before Levi spoke up.
"Hmph... Whatever. Just another thing for me to report to Erwin.." He said turning away from the group. "Let's go. Hanji is waiting for us..." He used his 3D gear and brought himself down from the wall and onto his horse. The shinobis jumped off the wall and landed softly as they followed Levi who was now speeding away on his horse.
XXX
"Ahh... They should be here any time now..." Hanji said rather anxiously, wanting to start the experiment right away.
Kakashi stared at this woman, analyzing her motives, appearance, and personality. 'Lets see here... Obsessed with titans... No particular interest in other hobbies... And obviously dosen't wash her hair often..' Kakashi grimaced every time he went near her. The smell was rather bothersome considering he had a nose almost the equivalent of a dog.
Gai was conversing with the rest of Levi's squad about the power of youth and how it would make you much stronger, ten-fold. They looked at the Green-clad Ninja with disbelief. 'So much energy in such an old guy...' They thought thinking Gai was past him prime. They were so wrong.
The door suddenly opened as Levi popped in. "We've all arrived."
Naruto ran through the door up to his exasperated Sensei panting. "Kakashi Sensei! Guess who we found!" He said while dragging the masked cyclops of a Shinobi out the door much to his displeasure. However, as he stepped outside, his eyes widened in surprise. Never in a million years, he'd think he would ever see that man again.
"Hello Kakashi-San."
"Hello Itachi-Kun..."
Everyone began to step outside wondering what was going on. Gai's youthfulness suddenly dropped into a more serious tone. "My friends, stay back! This man is dangerous!" He warned everyone as he got into his combat stance.
"No Gai. He is our Ally now.." Kakashi said making Gai's face perk up in both bewilderment and relief.
Everyone was confused on what was going on. Did they miss a memo or something?
Eren stared at the Raven haired man. Something felt familiar about him as he poked around his memories.
'Ah! He frighteningly looks somewhat similar to Mikasa...' He thought, contemplating whether there were more of him.
'Who is this bastard?' Oluo thought as he kept a Levi like face.
'Must be one of them...' Both Gunter and Eld thought.
'He actually looks kinda hot~ no no no!' Petra thought as she blushed knowing she can't imagine such things. After all, she does admire a certain Captain.
Kakashi approached Itachi as he put a hand on his shoulder leading him away from the group. "We hav much to discuss..." He said. "We'll be back in time for the experiment.." He said to Hanji as she nodded in response. Everyone went back inside to discuss their plans.
XXX
"I have come up with a method that shall allow us to beat you to half to death without killing you.." Levi said nonchalantly.
"Huh?" Eren said rather confused.
Levi began to write on a nearby chalkboard. "I said previously that the only way to stop you in your titan form was to kill you.." As he drew a diagram on the Titan neck anatomy on the board. "But with this method, you can just get away with serious injuries," as he finished the diagram.
"It will be tricky though, as it requires extremely refined skills to execute," as he explained further that they needed to cut off a slap of meat from the titan's neck to remove him. "We'll end up chopping off your hands and feet in the process though."
Both Eren and Naruto faulted at this suggestion. "W-wait a moment, please."
"No big deal, you'll grow them back like a damn lizard or something," he replied. "Gross..."
The group discussed their plan further as it was decided Hanji would be conducting the experiments plans.
"Don't worry Eren, if there's something you don't know, then learn it. There's plenty of what we can learn risking our lives for," she said.
XXX
"So... That's what happened," Itachi muttered after listening to Kakashi's well summarized explanation on what has happened and more information about this world.
"Yeah... No doubt, they'll be looking for us..." Kakashi replied rather seriously.
Both began to grow with concern with the existence of Madara in this world.
"It's bad enough Madara threw our world into turmoil... We can't let his hatred spread here... They have their own problems at hand... Madara will just become their end instead," said Kakashi with Itachi agreeing. Both will have to keep a more watchful eye around now for the omen to come. They needed to leave as soon as possible to keep their new friends safe. But for now, they shall remain quiet, unwanting to instill panic of a threat greater than the titans. They soon went back and returned to their group, arriving on time for the experiment as they saw Eren being lowered into an emptying well.
"When I'm ready, I'll give you a smoke signal to begin!" Hanji yelled into the well at Eren.
"What you do next is up to you!"
"Understood!" Eren yelled back.
The group walked away from the well at a fair distance, as Hanji popped a smoke signal into the air.
"The signal!" Eren said to himself as he saw it fly into the sky.
XXX
"You two had your nice little catching up?" Levi asked boredly as Kakashi and Itachi arrived on scene.
"Just a few matters discussed. Nothing more," Kakashi replied earning a 'Hn' from Levi.
Moments have passed since the signal was launched as nothing transpired.
"Maybe he didn't see the signal?" Hanji said wondering what was wrong.
"He saw it.." Insisted Levi. "We can't be certain if something happened there or not."
The group made their way back to the well. "Eren! The experiment is to be suspended for the time being!" Hanji yelled out. "Did you manage something?" She asked before her expression turned into surprise, peering down the well.
"Hanji-San.. It seems I can't turn into a titan," Eren said, blood running down from his self-inflicted wounds and mouth. The group lowered the ladder down and brought Eren back up onto the surface where they tended to his up healing hand wound and took a tea break.
Tables were set up for each individual groups. One for the Shinobis and the other for Levi's squad, as they all sat with a cup of coffee or tea. Itachi eyed his drink intently, deciding whether to drink it or not despite his Edo Tensei form. He was mostly contemplating whether he will ingest it or will it just run through his body and drip to the floor seeing that he is a zombie technically. Decisions.. Decisions...
Eren stared at his now bandaged hand.
"Your self-inflicted wound when you bit your hand still hasn't closed up yet?" Levi asked.
"No.." Eren replied.
"If you lose your ability to turn into a titan, the ambition to plug the breach in wall Maria, riding on it, will also go down the fucking drain," Levi said coldly. "I'm ordering you: Do something about it."
"Yes, sir..." Eren said back as the Captain turned away drinking his coffee with Petra in tow as they began conversing.
"Hey, don't feel so down.." Eld said.
"B-but..."
"Ah well, it just means you're more human than we thought," now piped up Oluo.
"It is much better this way than losing your life because of all this rush... It isn't all in vain."
"Yeah... You can never be too cautious..." Gunter said.
Eren was baffled.
'Why is that the senpais don't feel disappointed about my failure?' Eren thought. 'Even though they know me losing the ability to turn into a titan spells big trouble for everyone?' As Eren picked up his tea spoon. He winced at a sharp pain in his hand as he dropped the spoon. "Ow.."
"Are you okay..?" Eld asked concerned.
"Yeah I'm fine..." Eren replied as he began to reach for his fallen spoon which lied on the ground.
On the other table an arms length reach away, Itachi noticed this and decided to be courteous.
"Allow me," he said as he bent down for the spoon as well.
"No it's fine, I got it."
Too late, Itachi already grasped the spoon in his hand. A split second before, Eren darted forward as fast he can to reach it before the Raven haired ninja could, having the desire to reach it before him.
*CRACKSH!*
A beam of yellow lightning shot down from the sky onto Eren as his table was completely blown away along with Gunter, Oluo, and Eld. The ninjas jumped away in time to avoid most of the blast with the exception of Itachi who stood his ground. Smoke filled the air around as no one could see. Petra and Levi's eyes widened at the prospect, not expecting this to happen at such a time.
The smoke finally cleared as other Scouting Members wondered what happened. Everyone's eyes widened in shock. The first thing to gain attention was Eren as his arm was stuck in a mass of titan meat that formed half a small ribcage and a gigantic arm. The way it was posed however was as if it was trying to reach or grab away something. However, the second figure was just as mysterious and shocking as it was never seen before. A skeletal arm that gave off a red glowing aura was holding Eren's titan arm by the wrist, holding it back.
Eren struggled even more to pull out his immobilized arm. "Why!? Why now!?" He yelled. He looked around to see Levi in front of him back turned, facing the crowd. The shinobis joined Levi as well as they formed a defensive line around Eren. Itachi remained, holding his titan arm in place with his skeletal arm. "Whoa, are you a titan shifter too?" Eren asked.
Itachi shook his head.
"Everyone, calm down..." Levi said trying to ease everyone up from their panic. All eyes looked upon Eren. They all bore the same look. One full of hatred and fear. Their blades gave a flash as they held them in a deadly fashion.
Almost immediately, his comrades turned their views of him and began to barrage him with questions of his faith to humanity.
"I said calm down..." Levi said once more to the entire crowd.
Just then, footsteps were heard as it revealed to be Hanji and her subordinates coming out from the forest, wondering what was with all the commotion.
"What's going on!? What was that sound!?"
Hanji eyes lighted up in excitement as she viewed what was in front of her.
"WHOOOOAAA! Oh YEEESSS!" She cheered, jumping for joy. She ran towards Eren.
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Eren who was getting real annoyed, was still being hammered by his Senpais as they continued to question his loyalty.
"Will everyone just shut up for a minute!?" He yelled. Everyone grimaced.
Out of the blue, Gunter then was shoved to the side as Hanji bolted to Eren with a crazed look.
"Eren! Can I touch that arm of yours!?"
"W-wait a momen~"
"CAN I!? YOU'LL LET ME RIGHT!? I'LL JUST TOUCH IT! THAT'S ALL, I PROMISE!"
Everyone looked at her as if she was crazy as she began to probe the arm everywhere.
"WOAAHHH! It's hot! That arm! Skinless yet so Hot!" She jumped back in both pain and excitement, flinging both hands in the air.
"Squad Leader, you're too reckless for your own good!" Said one soldier.
Then she finally took notice of Itachi's Susano'o. Her interest peaked once more as she jumped from her spot and lunged at his Skeletal like arms.
"Ehhh!? I've never seen a titan structure like this before! Are you a titan shifter too?!" She investigated excitedly.
"No," he promptly said before dispersing his Susano'o, letting Hanji falling flat on the floor as she turned to him disappointed.
Eren who has been trying to pull his arm out of the mass of the titan structure, finally did it as he tumbled back, falling flat on the floor as well. The titan part started to evaporate and disappear.
"NOOO! Eren! Why did you have to go and do that!?" Hanji cried out in horror, seeing her chance at some research disappear. "There was so much I wanted to re~"
She stopped talking, as she finally took notice of a small object, held in the titans fingers. A tea spoon.
Hours had finally come to past as everything was cleaned up and everyone else returned to the barracks for some rest. The group returned to their castle base.
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Elemental Nations:
"Fu fu fu fu... Out of all people, I never expected you to be the one to revive me... Sasuke-Kun.." As Orochimaru dragged himself out of a snake, produced from Anko via curse mark. They all began to hold a little conversation concerning the war which Orochimaru stated he wanted no part of.
Sasuke, pulling the secret scroll from his pocket, handed it to Orochimaru.
"What do you want to see them for..?" He asked.
"I don't know everything... I want to hear it from them..." Sasuke replied.
"Know everything?... Oh but you're still but a child. You don't need to know such things.."
"Wrong.." He retorted, remembering Itachi's departure into another realm, seeing he couldn't do anything.
"I'm no child... I can't be one anymore..." He said as he questioned his actions from the beginning and what route he really should've taken. He wasn't exactly dotting on revenge itself but he wanted to know everything first before making his decision.
"Hmmm... Fine. I'll assist you. Follow me." Orochimaru said.
"Where to?"
"Fu fu fu... A place you know well.." He ominously chuckled. "Come, let's go."