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Alfred and Matthew travel farther into the tunnel, not bothered in the least that their entrance behind them disappeared. Humming a tune, the amber haired American zips around with his speed, easily running across the wall and ceiling. Matthew merely shakes his head at his brother, a small smile on his face as he "accidentally" summons an item that will trip Alfred. The pale blond laughs when Alfred doesn't avoid the cement block in time and face plants against the ground. Alfred picks himself up, pouting as his nose begins to bleed from the sheer force of the impact.

"Don't look at me like that." Matthew walks over and kneels beside the sitting American, summoning up a handkerchief to cover the golden-wheat blond's nose. "Oh, it's broken."

"You don't say," Alfred squawks out as Matthew pinches his nose. He winces at the small lightening jab of pain before sighing. "Fine, I get it. I'll calm down."

The Canadian hums, mumbling to himself as he blinks and sees Alfred's skeleton composition inside his body. He moves his hands away to get a look at the cartilage of Al's nose that broke, the muscles and tissues appearing of the bones. "Don't move," he orders as he takes the other's nose, snapping back into place. Once that's all settled, he blinks and his eyes are back to normal. "There."

Alfred whines a little and feels his nose. Pouting, he feels his fingers conjure up a light blue light which melds with the skin of his nose. He feels the chakra strings mend his broken nose and push the healing process so it's completely fine after a minute. Once he's done, he stands back up and sighs.

These two hidden abilities are ones they rarely use. Matthew can change his vision into whatever kind he wants by blinking and Alfred can use the chakra flow in his body as extensions or ways to heal himself quickly. The American usually boasts about becoming a ninja like Naruto, but deflates the instant his brother refutes the possibility. They both could be great ninjas with their abilities but it's hard enough living as super-humans. So they don't brag about these powers and use them very rarely.

"There's no scar, right?" Alfred asks as he lightly presses his fingers around the area that broke.

Matthew hums as he inspects his brother's nose when the other pulls his fingers away. "Nope. No scar."

"Good." He nods and is about to continue on, avoiding the cinder block, but hears some rushing feet from the way they came. He glares, moving into a battle ready stance. "Someone's coming."

"What?" Matt blinks, turning his thermal eyes on as he goes behind his brother. He watches a small red-orange dot from down the tunnel quickly become larger. It's a familiar figure so he smiles and relaxes, blinking to inactivate his thermal eyes. "It's okay, Al." He lays a gentle, soothing hand on his brother's shoulder before stepping forward again. Alfred almost objects but relaxes as soon as he sees a familiar white bear come into view and pounce on his brother. "Kumakichi!"

Alfred sighs, standing tall as he watches Matthew nuzzles his face into the polar bear's fur. "Geez, Kuma. Didn't even know you followed us in."

Beady black eyes merely glance over the American, causing the golden blond to twitch with slight irritation. Kumajiro licks Matthew's face, opening his small muzzle to speak, which only sounds like bear gibberish to Alfred. "This tunnel is not good," the bear states. "It gives a bad feeling."

Matt blinks as he processes that. "Are you sure, Kuma? I don't think it's so bad."

"It's made of magic." Kuma sniffs the air. "Once was fine but now covered with bad magic."

The Canadian doesn't understand the latter part and shrugs the concern away. He turns to his brother, bear still in his arms, and translates. "Kuma doesn't like the tunnel. Says it gives off a bad feeling."

"Well, that's interesting." Al stuffs his hands in his pockets. "We didn't get any bad feelings before coming in, so it should be fine."

Matthew gives his brother that but ponders over other facts. "But Al, animals are more sensitive than us humans. Even super-humans aren't that sensitive, so we wouldn't have felt anything anyway." Al huffs a little at his brother's response, disliking how Matt always tops him at smarts. "I think we should be careful from here on out. We have been walking for what seems like hours."

"Yeah, yeah. Whatever." The American turns and puts his hands behind his head as he continued to walk.

"W-wait! Don't get too far ahead!" Fearing that they might lose each other if they get any long distance between them, Matt quickly goes to his brother's side. "I don't want us to get separated." He states quietly as they walked on.

"Don't worry. The only way I could lose you is if you turned invisible." Alfred laughs, smiling reassuringly. "Just stick by my side, bro, and we won't separate easily." Just as he says this, a fork appears before them in the tunnel. The two gaze into each continuing stretch and look at each other.

"I think we should go-" they both start.

"-Left." Alfred states.

"-Right." Matt speaks simultaneously.

They stare at each other before chuckling a bit. "Come on, Matt, I feel like we should go left."

"And I feel like we should go right."

"We're not going to get anywhere if we bicker about it, so let's just go left."

"I agree, but I still feel like we should take the right path." Matt tries to stay serious but couldn't help chuckle at the small pun he made. "Al, I really think we should go right. I'm usually better at deciding things for us."

"Oh yeah? Well, maybe this time you're wrong." Al huffs childishly, pouting as he crosses his arms. "Left feels like the best choice so I'm going left." He begins walking that way before his brother could say anything.

"Al, wait!" Matthew tries to follow to pull him back, but once Alfred passes the left threshold, the tunnel starts shaking. "Alfred!" Debris and rocks fall from the ceiling and Matthew can't reach his brother in time; the rocks fall so fast that they instantly block up the left tunnel. "Alfred!" Matthew shouts through coughs.

"Mattie!" Alfred coughs, turning around and trying to move the rocks away. "Mattie, are you okay over there?!"

"I'm okay! What about you?!" Matt stands, holding his polar bear friend closer to his chest.

Grunting, Alfred moves three big boulders only for more to fall down and take their place. "I'm fine, but these damn rocks keep coming! I... I guess we have no choice but to continue on these separate paths!"

"B-but..." Matthew shakes a little at the idea of being separated. Sure, he has Kumajiro, but the brothers have never been separated before. Not like this. "I'm not good at being alone!" Matthew isn't a person that deals with loneliness well. He's not entirely scared of the world – uncertain of the unknown maybe but not scared – but he just doesn't feel safe.

"You'll do fine, bro! I have faith in you!" Al smiles, sighing as he puts his hands back in his pockets. "We might meet up at the end of the tunnel somehow, so don't worry too much."

"O... Okay." Matt nods, gazing at the right path. "I'll be going down the right path then."

"All right, Mattie. Meet you at the exit!" Alfred stands, waiting to hear his brother go before walking down the rest of the left path.

Matt stares at the rubble, sighing as he slowly walks past the right threshold. Once he does, another cave in happens to block his way out. He jumps, frowning as he knew that would happen. Gazing at his blocked exit for a few more minutes, he soon turns and continues walking through the tunnel without his brother.

Alfred hears and feels the right tunnel close up as well. He shivers, gaining a feeling that this tunnel has a mind of its own, like it planned to separate them from the start. Exhaling, he turns and walks along the left path.


Note: So out of the new updates, chapter 6-9 are probably going to be nearly exactly the same as the old versions and shorter. Right now, I'm going to be a lazy shit and not change much of them until I really want to. Compared to the new chapter 1-5, these next few are probably a little lame. Then we hit chapter 10 and it gets good again.

This is not beta-ed so there might be mistakes.

Ciao: I hope you enjoyed the update, lovelies! Thanks for reading! R&R.