Chapter 8
Whilst Revan was in the Mist Village
"Has anyone seen Reaper anywhere?" Mei asked looking around the camp. Seeing as she didn't find him in his tent earlier.
"Sorry Lady Terumi, no one has seen any sign of Reaper since early this morning," a rebel said respectfully.
Mei frowned in annoyance, wondering where Reaper is on such an important day as today.
"Lady Terumi, we have to consider the possibility that Reaper has deserted us," Ao said annoyed that Reaper would desert them, on the morning of such an important battle.
Mei sighed dejectedly. "You might be right Ao. I find it very unlikely he was killed in an ambush, as Yagura has no one on his side that could kill Reaper apart from himself."
"What about the plan about luring Yagura away from the outpost, will we still continue the plan even without Reaper present?" Ao asked worriedly. Knowing their chances of beating Yagura have decreased drastically without Reaper.
"We have no choice, either way, the war ends today," Mei said heading for the command tent for final preparations.
'Is it because of the rapes that were committed by the rebels that you left us Reaper? Do you feel we deserve to die for our actions?' Ao asked himself walking beside Mei.
As soon as the preparations were completed Mei left the campsite with the commanders in charge of the army attacking the outpost. While she and a group of shinobi headed to the outpost to lure Yagura away.
'Ao is in charge while I'm gone, with him leading the army I have faith they will succeed in beating Yagura's forces,' Mei thought confidently.
"Water Style: Water Dragon Jutsu," a voice said. Out of know where a large water dragon appeared and killed some of Mei's men. Mei looking around for, who was attacking her, froze in slight fear seeing Yagura standing before her.
Yagura was short for his age. He has short messy, grey hair and pupiless eyes and a stitch under his left eye. His attire was a grey sleeveless shirt with short sleeved mesh armour. He was also holding a club with uneven sized hooks which had a green flower on the larger end.
"Did you really think, I wouldn't know of your plan to lure me into an ambush to kill me, Mei," Yagura said in monotone with a mocking tone to it. While Yagura was talking Mei noticed the Mist Shinobi were attacking her men, leaving her with no support to deal with Yagura.
"I was hoping you wouldn't know yes, and how did you find out about the plan anyway?" Mei asked angrily wondering if Reaper had betrayed her, by telling Yagura about the plan to kill him.
"One of your commanders came to me asking to be spared. He believed you were incapable of winning this war, so after he told me what your plans were I killed him, like the snivelling dog he was," Yagura said moving into a fighting position.
"If you think this will be an easy fight, then you're sadly mistaken," Mei said while mentally cursing that traitorous commander.
"You stand no chance Mei, you're outnumbered," Yagura said.
It was true Mei noticed she was heavily outnumbered. Her men had all been killed, but at least they managed to kill some of Yagura's men in return. So right now she was facing Yagura and a large amount of Mist shinobi, her chances of winning this fight were very slim.
"Even if I'm outnumbered, that won't stop me from trying to bring you to justice," Mei said more bravely then she actually felt.
"You will fail, and afterwards I will deal with your rebel army," Yagura said now annoyed by her bravado.
"Wind Style: Devastation," a distorted voice said. Out of the trees, a large blast of wind appeared and killed some of the Mist Shinobi and sent the rest of them flying away.
"Reaper," Mei said relieved, having recognised his voice. Mei then quickly engaged Yagura in a fight, so he wouldn't be able to help his subordinates.
Jumping out of the trees and in the direction of the Mist shinobi, Revan went through some hand signs.
"Earth Style: Earth Dragon," Revan said shooting a large mud dragon at the Mist Shinobi. The Mist Shinobi was still regaining their bearings thanks to the earlier attack. So they didn't see the mud dragon coming towards them and killing them instantly.
Revan then moved in between the rest of the Mist shinobi and then proceeded to easily slaughter them with punches, kunai and jutsus. He was killing them so gracefully Mei couldn't help but be memorised by what she was seeing. Mei quickly got rid of those thoughts, knowing this was no time for such things.
"You were saying something about being outnumbered Yagura," Mei said smugly dodging his attacks. She was happy that the tables had been turned around on him.
Yagura jumped away from Mei so he could get a good look at his new attacker. He immediately recognised Reaper from his outfit.
"So you're the bounty hunter that's been causing me so much trouble recently," Yagura said annoyed, keeping a close eye on Mei and Reaper.
"I am yes," Revan said landing next to Mei and watching Yagura intently. Ready for when he attacks them.
"If you help me kill Mei all will be forgiven, and I'll even pay you double the amount of money Mei has on her head for your assistance," Yagura said. Figuring a bounty hunter would do anything for money.
Mei was actually a bit uneasy hearing Yagura's offer. Knowing she wasn't one of Reapers favourite people at the moment. She subtly moved away from Reaper, on the off chance he takes Yagura's offer.
"Sadly I'll have to turn down your generous offer," Revan said mockingly.
"That's a shame to hear. I guess I'll have to kill the both you then," Yagura said before launching a blast of water out of his club at them.
Mei and Revan jumped in opposite directions to dodge the attack and went without delay through their own hand signs.
"Lava Release: Melting Apparition Technique," Mei said shooting out of her mouth a large acidic mudflow.
"Lightning Style: Lightning Dragon Jutsu," Revan said a few seconds after Mei. Creating a large dragon made of lightning and shooting towards Yagura.
Yagura jumped backwards out of the way of Mei's attack. A wise decision as the jutsu melted the ground Yagura had previously been standing on. The jutsu had also created a mist screen so Yagura couldn't see his opponents. Out of the mist came a lightning dragon, Yagura went through some hand signs knowing he couldn't dodge it in time.
"Wind Style: Typhoon," Yagura said. Creating a large gust of wind and making it collide with the lighting dragon cancelling both attacks.
Out of the mist screen came Mei who engaged him with taijutsu. Yagura was winning the fight as he expertly used his club to keep Mei on the defensive. From the side of the forest, Revan appeared, going for a kick that Yagura blocked with his club. This left a gap in his defences, that Mei used his punch him in the chest sending back a few metres.
"You two are powerful opponents. In my current state I have very little chance of defeating the both of you," Yagura said. Mei's eyes widened in realisation, understanding what he meant by that.
"Quickly move back," Mei said urgently to Reaper.
Revan not questioning Mei jumped backwards with her. He watched, as a red dense shroud of chakra appeared all over Yagura's body. The shroud also created a tail on Yagura's lower back.
"He's tapped into the power of the tailed beasts," Revan said understanding what Yagura was doing. The power Yagura is giving off is immense.
"Physical attacks are useless, that chakra shroud will just burn off your skin," Mei said knowing this fight just got that much harder. Revan grimaced hearing that, knowing he will have to stick to ninjutsu for the rest of the fight.
'I don't think this is a fight I can hold back, I might have to use my magic to win let alone survive,' Revan thought.
Before his very eyes, Yagura appeared in front of him and swiped upwards with his hand. Hitting his mask and sending him flying upwards into the air.
"Fire Style: Fireball Jutsu," Mei said shouting a fireball at Yagura who jumped to the side to dodge it. Knowing getting close to him would be suicide, Mei ran into the trees to lose him, with Yagura following closely behind her. Revan flipped in mid-air so he would land on his legs, and gave chase after Mei and Yagura.
Revan found the two of them fighting in a destroyed part of the forest. Mei was shooting lava techniques at Yagura who was dodging and responding with own water jutsus.
"Earth Style: Stone Column Spears," Revan said placing his hands on the ground, making several spears of earth come out of the ground and hit Yagura in the back. The spears sent Yagura flying forwards to Mei who was going through some hand signs.
"Boil Release: Skilled Mist Technique," Mei said releasing a cloud of mist from her mouth.
Yagura due to his momentum couldn't dodge the attack. The cloud of mist melted most of his club making it split into two pieces from the damage it took. The mist then penetrated his chakra shroud and badly melted most of Yagura's skin. With the shroud dissipating due to the damage Yagura had received. Mei then proceeded to brutally punch and kick Yagura for a few minutes, before finishing it off with a kick to his chest, sending him flying twenty metres backwards.
The only reason Yagura had survived that attack was that he was a jinchuriki. The tailed beast had already started healing him, with his skin only having minor burns now.
"You two have seriously started to piss me off," Yagura growled angrily. He then encased himself in a dark red bubble, which shot a beam of red chakra into the sky.
"Get ready, he's going to transform into his next jinchuriki form," Mei warned Revan.
Out of the bubble came a shell-like creature. The creature was standing on all four of its legs it had a large shell on its back, with spikes protruding from it. It also had three tails coming out of the back of it. The creature was also covered in a dark red layer of chakra. Revan had never felt something so foul before, its presence alone made you want to run from it and hide.
Yagura growled angrily at them before thrusting two of its feet into the ground. In front of Mei and Revan, two chakra arms appeared from the ground. Revan kicked Mei to the side, knowing she wouldn't have dodged the chakra arm otherwise in time.
This left Revan open to an attack, where the chakra arm slashed his face destroying part of his mask exposing his right eye and sending him flying backwards and colliding with a tree. Mei having recovered from being kicked went through some hand signs.
"Water Style: Super Shark Bomb Jutsu," Mie said shooting numerous water sharks at Yagura. Yagura dodged some of the water sharks while the others he let them hit his body, as they had no effect on him.
Yagura then started collecting chakra into a small ball in front of his mouth. Once he had collected enough chakra he swallowed the chakra ball.
"We need to get out of the way of that attack, otherwise we won't survive," Mei said knowing Yagura's next attack will be a tailed beast ball. Revan not seeing how they could dodge such an attack went through some hand signs and placed his hands on the ground.
"Earth Style: Stone Column Pillars," Revan said. Pillars made of earth appeared under Yagura and pushed his head upwards, just as he was about to open his mouth. This made Yagura release his tailed beast ball upwards and harmlessly explode hundreds of metres above them.
'Reaper,' Yagura thought furiously. If it wasn't because of Reaper he would have killed Mei by know. He knows can't take that much longer to deal with these two, as he needs to help his army wipe out the rebels.
Dealing Reaper the bigger threat, Yagura ran towards him fully intending on killing him as quickly as possible. Revan seeing Yagura running towards while growling angrily, made him realise he had pissed Yagura off.
Yagura running towards Revan sprouted five chakra arms out of his body and sent them towards Revan. Revan dodged four of the arms but he fifth hit him in the chest. Felling his armour dissolving from the attack, he quickly ripped it off leaving him topless. So right now he was wearing a damaged mask, sleeves, trousers and a grey cloak.
'I can't let him touch me ever again,' Revan thought knowing he will die if he does. Realising he can't hold back any longer if he wants to survive he drew his wand. He started firing numerous spells at Yagura who he jumped backwards to make a gap between them. The spells ranged from Stupefy to borderline Dark Arts spells.
'Reapers a wizard,' Mei thought in shock seeing Reaper cast spells with a wand.
Despite his best effort, the spells had no effect on Yagura, as they did no damage to his chakra shroud or if they did it was very minor. With Yagura focusing all of his attention on Revan, this forced him further away from Mei, meaning she couldn't help him in time if he needed it.
Revan jumped back to dodge a swipe from Yagura when six chakra arms come out of the ground surrounding him. Realising there was no way he could dodge all six of the chakra arm arms he looked around desperately for a way to escape. He saw Mei running towards him, but she wouldn't get here in time to help him.
Revan seeing those chakra arms heading towards him, he willed his magic to do something, when the unexpected occurred. He created a large wooden dragon that then wrapped around Yagura restraining him. The chakra arms completely disappeared and the chakra surrounding Yagura slowly started to disappear.
"You used Wood Release," Mei stated stunned landing next to Revan. To her knowledge only Hashirama Senju had ever possessed Wood Release so how did Reaper come to have that ability.
"I'm just surprised as you are," Revan responded surprised by the turn of events. 'How do you think I used Wood Release Mother?'
'Lady Ninniane did give you some of her powers, and she is the Goddess of nature, perhaps you got the ability from her,' Morgana replied. At the moment she was just happy that Revan was alive and not dead, to really think about where he got Wood Release from.
With the wooden dragon absorbing Yagura's chakra it wasn't long before he appeared as his normal self except he looked very weak, due to having his chakra drained from him. Revan knowing that any second the tide of the battle could change, he ran towards Yagura as fast as possible and pointed his wand at his chest.
"The man in the mask, watch out for his Sharingan," Yagura muttered weakly.
Revan took note of what he was saying. Perhaps there was some truth to the rumours, of Yagura being controlled by someone in the shadows. Even if it was true Yagura could go back under this persons control any second, it was better not to take any chances
"Avada Kedavra," Revan said as a green light left his wand instantly killing Yagura when it hit his chest.
"What was that spell?" Mei asked having never seen anything like it before.
"That was the Killing Curse; it causes instantaneous death when it hits a living person, by separating the soul from the body," Revan explained. Getting over the fact that was the first time he had used the Killing Curse and successfully as well.
'You had the magical reserves for the spell and you had the desire to kill him, that's all that's' needed to use the Killing Curse,' Morgana said softly. Knowing that killing with the Killing Curse is slightly different than killing any other way. As you don't see the life, leave your enemies eyes. One second their alive the next their dead as if they had never had a soul, to begin with.
"So you're a wizard then?" Mei asked shrewdly studying Reapers one eye that was visible. 'His eye is very beautiful.'
"I am yes, but I can't have such information public knowledge, so Stupefy," Revan said pointing his wand at Mei and before she could dodge, she was knocked unconscious by the spell.
'I take it you're going to modify her memories of the past few minutes then?' Morgana asked.
'That's correct, if it got out that I could use Wood Release, I would be hunted down to the ends of the Earth, and I'd rather that not happen if I can help it,' Revan replied casting spells on Mei to change her memories. Seeing as it only the two of them in the forest, he could take his time and make sure the memories feel natural to Mei.
'A smart idea, but after this, I believe it's best if we step up your training, you came very close to dying today, the only reason you didn't was that of luck,' Morgana said referring to his Wood Release.
'Does that mean you'll start teaching me the Dark Art's,' Revan said excitedly.
'Yes it does,' Morgana said smiling feeling Revan's excitement. 'But first, you need to deal with this war before you start learning anything.'
'You're right hopefully the rebels have taken the outpost. As I have no desire to stay with them after what they've done,' Revan said adding the finishing touches to Mei's memories.
In Mei's memories, it shows that her Boil Release was strong enough to burn away apart of the chakra shroud covering Yagura's chest. This gave Reaper the opportunity to have a mud spear go through his chest killing him.
To make sure the surroundings match up with Mei's memories he had the wooden dragon disappear and sent a mud spear through Yagura's chest. While Revan was changing the surrounding area, he noticed it was mostly destroyed from their fight. He added an eye colour charm to his exposed eye to make it brown. This way Mei won't recognise him on the off chance he meets her out of his outfit in the future. Revan then woke Mei up with a Rennervate who quickly looked around for Yagura. Her eyes landed on his dead boy that was a few feet away from her.
"It's finally over he's really dead," Mei said happily that the war can now end.
"Yes, he is," Revan said. Mei jumped having forgotten Reaper was standing right next to her.
"You scared the life out of me," Mei said resting a hand on her heart.
"Sorry about that," Revan replied insincerely.
"Thank you for the assistance today Reaper, without you I couldn't have defeated Yagura," Mei said honestly.
"You're welcome, I take you'll be heading to the outpost to see how the rebels have done?" Revan asked.
"You're not going to join me?" Mei asked frowning.
"I joined you to get back at Yagura and now I've accomplished that, I don't really see a reason to stick around anymore," Revan said, continuing the lie he said that allowed him to join the rebels.
"You were a major help to us, don't you want to take part in the festivities to celebrate our victory," Mei said trying to think of ways she could get Reaper to join the Mist Village.
"Not interested," Revan said firmly knowing what she was thinking. "But if you want to make it up to me, be a good leader Mei."
"I'll try," Mei responded. Not showing the surprise she was feeling. "You have very little love for Shinobi so why do you care if I'm a good leader or not?"
"Because your actions will affect the innocents of this country like the rapes you turned a blind eye to, and I'd rather not have something like that happen again!" Revan said. Mei turned away unable to look Reaper in the eye knowing her actions were unforgivable.
"Then help me become that leader then," Mei said turning back to Reaper.
"I have no desire to become a Shinobi Mei," Revan said frostily.
Mei sighed in defeat knowing Reaper will never join the Mist village. "So what will you do now?"
"Do what I did before joining you, carrying on hunting down bounties," Revan said casually.
"I know our relationship isn't the greatest, but I hope we meet again," Mei said picking up Yagura's body for proof she killed him.
"Don't worry we will, when I call in this favour for saving your life and killing Yagura," Revan said darkly. His tone warning her not to try anything funny, when he comes and collects that favour. Considering the only reason he helped Mei out was to have her in his debt.
"I look forward to that day," Mei said smirking at him before jumping away. Thinking off the next time they meet she might have a better chance of changing his mind of joining the Mist Village.
When Revan could no longer sense Mei, he summoned both parts of Yagura's club into his hands. He sealed the club into a sealing scroll. As he decided to keep Yagura's club as a trophy, as that was the toughest opponent he had ever faced. After making sure there was no one around with his sensing abilities Revan teleported away.
What Revan didn't realise was that someone that was undetectable to his sensing abilities, had watched his entire fight with Yagura. The person looked like a plant half of his body was white, while the other half was black. His eyes were yellow and had short green hair. Out of his sides emerged Venus flytrap-like extensions. He was wearing a black cloak with red clouds on it.
"That was interesting," the white half said. Looking at the spot Revan had just teleported away from.
"We better return and report this to Pain," The black half said. The creature then melted into the ground disappearing.
xxxxx
Before leaving The Land of Water Revan had one more place to visit, the village he had saved last month. Entering the village he looked around for the person he was looking for, before spotting her and heading towards her. Suki seeing Revan approaching her started to become nervous, wondering what a bounty hunter wants with her.
"Suki I presume?" Revan asked.
"Yes that's me, how can I help you bounty hunter?" Suki asked nervously.
"I thought you would like to know, the man that raped you last year is now dead," Revan stated bluntly.
Suki started crying tears of joy hearing this, while the onlookers let out gasps of surprise.
"How did he die?" Suki asked.
"I killed him when I came across him, trying to rape another woman," Revan responded.
"I'm glad to hear that piece of filth is dead," Suki exclaimed happily.
"I'm glad I could bring you peace," Revan said before walking off.
"THANK YOU," Suki shouted cheerfully whilst crying, whilst the other villagers were shouting their thanks for his deed. Bringing a smile to Revan's face, having never been thanked before for killing someone.
'That was a kind thing you did just then,' Morgana said. Proud of what her son had just done.
'She deserved to know what happened to her rapist, hopefully, she can now move on from her experience.' Revan replied.
'I think it will help to know her rapist was brought to justice, so where to know?' Morgana asked.
'I've had my fill of fighting for now, so after a couple days of rest, I'll teleport back to Great Britain,' Revan said only thinking of sleeping at the moment.
'A sound plan,' Morgana commented.
Leaf Village Hokage's office
"I take it you've heard the news Jiraiya?" Minato asked reading a Bingo Book.
"I have yes, the Mist civil war is over, it ended a couple of weeks ago from what my spies have told me," Jiraiya answered entering through the window. Jiraiya was a tall man with white spiky hair that was in a ponytail. He was wearing a green short kimono and matching pants.
"Is it true Mei killed Yagura in a one on one fight?" Minato asked.
"Yes, Mei managed to lure Yagura away from his army and kill him, even when he was using the power of the three tails," Jiraiya replied impressed. It's not every day a jinchuriki is killed, especially one that has control over their tailed beasts.
"Do you know what the Mist Village is doing right now?" Minato asked, wondering how this will affect the balance between the Great Five Villages.
"From what I've been able to gather their rebuilding at the moment," Jiraiya retorted leaning against the wall. "To help the village recover from the civil war, Mei has given a pardon to all of Yagura's men."
"I was hoping she wouldn't do that, as that would make her village weaker," Minato said sighing in disappointment.
"What can you do?" Jiraiya asked with a shrug of his shoulders. Minato then threw the Bingo book at Jiraiya which he easily caught.
"I take it you've already seen Reapers updated bounty?" Minato asked.
"I have yes, Reapers starting to turn some serious heads, it won't be long before the other villages try and recruit him," Jiraiya said looking at what the page said.
Name: Reaper (Real name unknown)
Age: 15- 18
Rank: Bounty Hunter
Threat Level: S-class
Affiliation: None
Abilities: Reaper is a ninjutsu specialist and is also extremely proficient in taijutsu. His genjutsu skills are unknown. Reaper is also extensively trained in magic having been seen using the Dark Arts in his fight with Yagura.
Other Information: His current appearance under his mask is unknown except he has brown eyes. Reaper is the first bounty hunter in history to achieve S-class. If Reaper should be spotted immediately flee unless you are backed up by a large number of shinobi.
Reaper took part in the Mist civil war due to unknown reasons. He has a poor relationship with Mei Terumi, that borderlines on hate for unidentified reasons. He survived a Kage level battle between Mei and Yagura so he shouldn't be underestimated. Reaper is also known to hate shinobi seeing them as killers that will perform any type of action for the right amount of money.
Bounty:
2,000,000 Ryo by Hidden Sound Village Dead or Alive
1,500,000 Ryo by Hidden Rain Village Dead
"Considering Reapers hates shinobi, I find it very unlikely any of the other villages will be successful in recruiting him," Minato replied.
"You're probably right, but the other villages might not take no for an answer," Jiraiya said.
"That's true, in that case, we wait till the other villagers have offered him a place, and when they start hunting him down for refusing their offer, we offer him a safe haven," Minato said.
"You really think he'll join us," Jiraiya said doubtfully.
"Even if he doesn't, at least being on good terms with him, will be beneficial for us," Minato said.
"I see your point," Jiraiya said rubbing his chin.
"Have you managed to discover anything about Reapers past?" Minato asked.
"No, the only thing of importance I found out was that he encountered Hidan and Kakuzu members of the Akatsuki a few years ago before he was S-class and managed to survive," Jiraiya said.
"The Akatsuki the organisation that's after the tailed beasts," Minato said deep in thought. "I want you to track Reaper down and see what he knows about the Akatsuki, since I very much doubt someone of his calibre wouldn't research the organisation after he was attacked by them."
"That will be difficult he's gone completely underground after the Mist civil war, there have been no sightings of him anywhere," Jiraiya said. He was annoyed and impressed at the same time that Reaper was able to hide from his spies so well.
"He'll resurface at some point until then we can wait," Minato said.
"And what about the fact that he can use magic as well, that certainly complicates things," Jiraiya said.
"That was surprising to read, seeing as very few people study magic and chakra. To my knowledge only Dumbledore, Voldemort and I have extensively studied both," Minato said having a good idea of who Reaper is.
The last time he saw Dumbledore he told him how Revan had killed a troll with an unknown jutsu. So it's clear Revan is still training in the use of chakra and quite powerful at it if what Dumbledore says is true.
The only thing that casts doubt on Revan being Reaper is his reaction to accidentally killing a Professor. Reaper had been active for a few years beforehand so surely Revan wouldn't have reacted the way he did if he was used to killing.
There's also the fact according to the Bingo book Reapers eyes are brown. Could Revan have used a charm to change his eye colour or is it a completely different person? He has no idea, but either way, Reaper warrants a close eye being kept on him.
"Anyway, I'm off to gather some inspiration for my next book," Jiraiya giggling perversely jumping out of the window.
Minato could only his head at his Master's actions, wondering if he'll ever stop peeping on women.
'If reaper is Revan, perhaps I can use Natsumi to forge a friendly relationship between him and the village, seeing as their friends it shouldn't be too difficult,' Minato said filling out some paperwork.
It never occurred to Minato that due to his non-existent relationship with Natsumi, because of his neglect of her. That Natsumi wouldn't want any part in his plan for Revan, in fact, she would warn Revan of Minato's plan instead of helping him.
xxxxx
For the last two weeks, Revan has been relaxing at his home, having to take a break from doing anything noteworthy. As he was processing what he saw during the war, now that he has time to do so. The exception to that was testing the powers of the Pig talisman.
The Pig talisman allowed Revan to shoot yellow heat beams from his eyes. The heat beams were so strong they could cut through trees, like a knife through butter. The talisman also allowed him to see in the dark clearly as if it was the day, and he could see someone even if they were invisible.
He's also having a few nightmares from what he saw during the war, but Morgana is helping him get through it. Before Revan left the Elemental Nations, he visited a bounty office and bought the latest Bingo book, and he wasn't happy with what it said about him.
Flashback
"How do they have so much information about me?" Revan fumed walking around his rented room at an inn.
'The only way they could have gotten this information is that they were watching your fight with Yagura,' Morgana replied.
Revan stopped walking and took a few deep breaths, to calm down. 'But how, I didn't sense anyone around, there was only Yagura, Mei and I in that forest for that fight.'
'There are only two options: the first that someone watched from afar, outside of your sensing range, which I find very unlikely seeing as they saw, your eye colour and they would need to be close to see that. The second option which I find most likely is they were nearby and watched the entire fight, but was somehow able to remain undetected to your sensing abilities,' Morgana said.
'The second option is the most likely, and whoever this person is, they most likely work for the Rain village. Seeing as the Rain village provided all of the information about me,' Revan said.
'You're probably right but I can't help but wonder, why they never mentioned your Wood Release, they would have seen you use it in your fight with Yagura, so why not mention it in the Bingo book?' Morgana responded.
'They clearly don't want anyone to know about it, but I can't think of a reason why. The bounty they posted wants me dead, so surely if they said I have Wood Release, more people would track me down due to the threat I pose,' Revan said.
'I have no idea what the Rain village is playing at, but we do know that you've attracted a lot of attention with your actions,' Morgana responded.
Revan thought back to when he was heading to a town and sensed some shinobi approaching, so he decided to hide as he didn't fancy a fight at the time. It was a good thing as well as it turned out they were Stone shinobi and were out looking for him trying to recruit him to their village.
'The great five villages don't like that there's an S-rank warrior walking around, that isn't affiliated with any of the villages,' Revan said.
The thing with shinobi is that if you aren't part of their village they fear your power. The villages clearly have the mentality if you're not with them your against them. He can see after refusing to join a village for a while, that he will be put in their Bingo book, as it's too dangerous according to them to just let him wander around.
'Well I suppose it's a good job you're heading back home, and won't have to deal with their recruitment efforts,' Morgana said.
'That's true,' Revan thought happily.
Flashback End
To get him out of his funk Morgana suggested he visit Daphne, seeing as he needs to take Morrigan off her hands anyways. So Revan teleported to Daphne's house, to see how his friend's summer has been so far.
'An impressive Manor, though the Malfoys Manor looked more impressive,' Revan thought walking up to the gate of the manor.
'The Malfoys are an older family, of course, their Manor is going to look better,' Morgana commented.
Revan knocked on the gate a few times and then waited patiently for someone to answer. After a few minutes had passed, Catherine Greengrass walked up to the gate smiling seeing who it was.
"Lord le Fey it's so good to see you again, how have you been?" Catherine asked happily opening the gate and giving Revan a hug.
"I've been good Mrs Greengrass, I thought I would pop around now that I'm back in Great Britain, and see how Daphne's doing, and take Morrigan off her hands," Revan said returning the hug smiling at her.
"I'm sure she'll be delighted to see you, she's upstairs in her room with Tracey, so I'm sure this will be a pleasant surprise for the both of them," Catherine said walking up to the Manor with Revan.
"That's good to hear, and how's your summer been so far Mrs Greengrass?" Revan asked politely,
"Not too bad, I've mostly been helping David with a major bill that's being discussed in the Wizengamot recently, so that's' taken up most of my time," Catherine said.
"What's the bill about?" Revan asked curiously.
"Arthur Weasley is proposing a muggle protection act and it's gained a lot of traction," Catherine said.
Revan's eyes went completely cold hearing about muggles, with his hate for them barely being constrained. Catherine wasn't surprised seeing Revan's reaction, having been told by Daphne how much Revan hates muggles.
'That look isn't the same, as the dislike the dark families have towards muggles. No this is hatred for them, what did the muggles do to you to make you hate them so much,' Catherine thought.
She remembered Daphne telling her the only one who has an idea why Revan hates muggle so much is Draco Malfoy, but he wasn't telling anyone no matter how much his friend's asked. As Draco knew if he did and he was right, he would lose Revan's trust and possibly make an enemy out of him.
"I see, is the muggle protection act likely to pass in the Wizengamot?" Revan asked so frostily Catherine barely refrained from flinching.
"With Dumbledore supporting the act it seems likely, and a lot of the light and grey factions see no problem with the act, it's really only the dark faction that has a problem with it," Catherine said.
"Who's the biggest opponent to the act?" Revan asked.
"Corban Yaxley is the biggest opponent against the act," Catherine said.
'He was rumoured to be part of Voldemort's inner circle,' Revan thought. "And when will the voting take place for the act?"
"Not till sometime next year, the bill still needs to gain more popularity before it can be put forwarded to vote on," Catherine explained.
"Revan," a voice said happily.
Looking to see who was coming down the stairs, he saw Daphne with Tracey behind her both smiling at him.
"It's good to see you two," Revan said smiling.
Tracey gave him a hug while Daphne shook his hand. This made him mentally chuckle as she really does live up to the title ice princess, as she never shows her emotions.
"Where have you been? the summers nearly over and school starts in a few weeks," Tracey said putting her hands on her hips and trying to look cross put the smile on her face ruined it.
"I've been travelling," Revan replied smiling. This annoyed Tracey as Revan was supposed to be intimidated by her look.
"I suppose you're going to tell us you've been here and there," Daphne said dryly.
"Daphne it's like you can read my mind," Revan said acting fake surprised.
"Oh knock it off you idiot," Daphne said with a smile.
Catherine smiled seeing the three of them getting along so well. "Do you want to stay for tea Lord le Fey? Tracey's already staying so it won't be any trouble."
"If you don't mind Mrs Greengrass, I would love to stay," Revan replied politely remembering his manners.
"Good, I'll call you three for tea later, now go off and have some fun," Catherine said making shooing signs with her hands.
"Come on Revan I'll show you were Morrigan is," Daphne said leading Revan towards her room.
'Hopefully spending time with his friends will help him get over whatever he saw,' Catherine thought. She recognised the look in his eyes when she first saw him at the gate. It was the look of someone who had seen something horrific and was mentally scared from it. She had seen that look a lot during the Blood war.
Entering Daphne's room Revan saw Morrigan standing on her windowsill.
"Morrigan it's good to see you. How have you been girl?" Revan asked. As he used his wand to transfigure his sleeve into a bracer, so Morrigan could land on his arm without hurting him.
"You have no idea how jealous I am of you, being to use magic during the summer," Tracey said with Daphne looking jealous as well.
"You only have to wait five years. It's not that long of a wait," Revan said teasingly while stroking Morrigan.
"Five years is way too long," Tracey said complaining, collapsing on Daphne's bed.
"Well, there's nothing else you can do but wait," Revan said.
The three of them talked for a few hours before Daphne gathered her courage and asked. "Are you alright Revan?" Seeing as he seemed a bit off from his usual self.
Revan didn't answer straight away instead he looked away from Tracey and Daphne.
"Why do you ask?" Revan asked monotone.
"Your eyes, they seem colder than the last time I saw you, did something happen to you?" Daphne asked worriedly.
"For the past month I've been in the Elemental Nations," Daphne and Tracey shared a look not surprised having figured that's where Revan had gone. "Whilst there I came across a civil war that was taking place between two factions of the Hidden Mist Village. I saw them commit numerous atrocities and every time I sleep I keep seeing them replayed in my mind," Revan said with tears gathering in his eyes.
Every time he sleeps he thinks of the massacres he saw and the rapes he would come across. Morgana was right the war did affect him and not in a positive way. He might have gotten stronger from all the fighting, but it did give him a few mental scars in the process.
Tracey and Daphne went up to him and gave him a hug. Revan grabbed them like they were a lifeline and started crying, explaining everything he saw as Tracey and Daphne comforted him. None of them noticed Daphne's parents quietly closing the bedroom door.
"That poor boy," Catherine said sadly. "No one should have seen the things he did at his age."
"War is never a pretty thing," David said thinking back to the things he saw during the Blood war. One particular memory was when he witnessed Voldemort easily slaughter countless Aurors. That memory truly cemented Voldemort as a monster in his mind.
"Should we leave them alone for the time being?" Catherine asked wondering what the best way to the help Revan was.
"Yes nothing helps more, then to have a shoulder to cry on," David said softly.
Once Revan had explained everything he saw during the Mist civil war, he fell asleep from mental exhaustion. Daphne and Tracey picked him up and put him on Daphne's bed so he could rest comfortably.
"I can't believe he saw all of that," Tracey said shaken by what she had been told.
"Shinobi really are disgusting people, not even Death Eaters would do what they did," Daphne said.
"I thought he went to the Elemental Nations to see Natsumi, I never expected he would see a civil war taking place," Tracey said.
"Tracey, did you get the feeling that Revan was excluding some things?" Daphne asked.
"I did yes, do you think he saw even worse things and didn't want to tell us to protect us," Tracey said.
"I could see Revan doing that," Daphne said smiling sadly at Revan. "Come on we better go and tell my parents, that Revan won't be able to have tea with us."
"What will you tell your parents, you know Revan's a very private person, he might not like you telling your parent his secrets," Tracey said.
"I'll think of something," Daphne said leaving her bedroom. This left only Revan and Morrigan in the bedroom, who was keeping a close eye on her owner wishing she could comfort him somehow.
When Revan woke up he noticed he was in a different room lying on a bed. Looking out of the window he saw it was the early hours of the morning.
'You fell asleep after telling Daphne and Tracey what you saw during the Mist civil war,' Morgana said softly.
'They must have put me in a spare bedroom when I fell asleep,' Revan thought leaving the room.
"Revan your up," a voice said joyfully.
Turing around Revan saw Astoria walking towards him smiling at him.
"Astoria it's good to see you again, look how tall you've gotten since I last saw you," Revan said smiling at her.
Astoria laughed happily hearing that. "I know right, it won't be long before Daphne is the smallest person in the family."
"When that does happen you can rub it in her face," Revan said heading down the stairs with her.
"I will and she's a big dummy for not telling me she was having a sleepover with you and Tracey," Astoria said pouting making her look adorable.
'Daphne's parents must have lied about the reason I was resting,' Revan thought grateful that they didn't tell Astoria the real reason. Entering the kitchen he saw Daphne, her parents and Tracey sitting at the table eating breakfast.
"Finally awake I see," Tracey said teasingly.
"You're lucky Thana isn't here seeing, as she misses her favourite cushion," Revan said making Tracey shut up.
"I've been meaning to ask, what you did with Thana while you were travelling," Daphne said.
"I left Thana at my house, so that way she could hunt in the nearby forest for food, as I couldn't leave her with anyone as Thana doesn't like strangers touching her," Revan said eating some toast. "I forgot to ask but has Morrigan been any trouble for you."
"No Morrigan was very well behaved, in fact, she took quite the liking to Astoria," Daphne said.
"It's true Morrigan was an excellent pet, I might get a raven instead of an owl now, when I go to Hogwarts," Astoria said excitedly bouncing in her seat.
"I sure if you're a good girl your parents will get a raven for you," Revan said chuckling ignoring the looks Daphne's parents were giving him for that suggestion.
After breakfast, Astoria went off to play while Revan had a discussion with Daphne's parents.
"We know what you witnessed to make you cry yesterday," Revan glared at Daphne and Tracey for betraying his trust. "Don't worry they didn't betray your trust, we overheard what you were saying yesterday," Catherine said.
"By the way thank you for letting me use your spare bedroom last night, and don't worry about what happened last night, it won't happen again it was a momentary weakness," Revan retorted.
"It's nothing to be ashamed about, it's only natural after what you saw," Catherine said softly.
Revan looked away embarrassed by the care he was being shown.
"Don't sweat it Revan, I'll only tease you about it every now and then," Tracey said trying to lighten the mood making Revan smile.
"If you do I'll get Thana to rest on you more frequently," Revan said. Tracey looked horrified hearing this.
"So we've decided that you'll be staying with us for the next week," Catherine said cutting in before they could begin their bantering.
"I'm fine Mrs Greengrass, I don't need to stay with anybody," Revan replied defensively.
"You need to be around other people, and you can't do that back at your empty house, now can you?" Catherine asked strongly not letting this go.
Revan and Catherine were having a staring contest, to see who would give in first. While everybody else just waited patiently, knowing Catherin would win as she always gets her way.
'I think you should stay with Daphne for a week, as spending time with your friend will help you get over what you saw,' Morgana said grateful to Catherine for coming up with this idea.
'Fine,' Revan said in defeat knowing better than to go against his Mother. "I'll stay for a week."
"Good first thing of business then, you need to head home and get enough clothes for a week and take Daphne and Tracey with you so they can help you get your things," Catherine ordered.
"Yes Mom," Revan said sarcastically.
"Well seeing as I'll be your Mother in law one day, I suppose it's only right that you call me that," Catherine said teasingly. Revan and Daphne blushed hearing this, while Tracey was laughing. Morgana and David weren't very amused by her teasing.
'Who does she think she is playing matchmaker with my child,' Morgana said fuming in anger.
'She was only teasing, me she didn't mean anything by it,' Revan said trying to calm Morgana down but failing.
"Come on Revan lets go," Daphne said grabbing his hand and dragging him towards the front door.
"Hey wait up lovebirds," Tracey said running to catch up with them.
Once it was only the two of them David said. "Really Mother in law, you had to go there."
"I still say they would make a cute couple," Catherine said crossing her arms defensively.
Standing outside the Greengrass Manor Daphne asked. "So how are we getting to your house are we taking the Knight Bus?"
"No I'm going to teleport us there, so both of you give me your hands," Revan said holding out his hands.
"If this ends badly, I'm going to blame you by the way," Daphne said grabbing his hand with Tracey doing the same.
Revan then teleported the three of them to the outside of his house. When they arrived Daphne and Tracey blinked in surprise.
"That was much more comfortable then side along Apparition," Tracey said having not experienced any discomfort what so ever.
"I agree with Tracey, you have got to teach us that," Daphne said.
"Sorry I can't it's a family secret," Revan said smirking.
"I hate you every time I Apparate in the future, I'm going to think how much more comfortable your method is, and constantly compare them," Tracey said annoyed.
"What can you do?" Revan asked rhetorically letting them into his house.
"A nice little house you have here Revan, if a bit dirty," Daphne said seeing all the dust everywhere.
"That's what happens when you don't clean your house in over a month," Revan said a little embarrassed they were seeing his house so dirty.
"You should buy a house elf, that way the next time you're on a long trip, it can clean your house for you while you're away," Tracey commented.
"That's not a bad idea Tracey, I'll look into buying a house elf the next time I'm in Diagon Alley," Revan said having never thought of that. "Have a look around if you want just don't go into the basement."
"Why what's in the basement?" Tracey asked as Daphne went to have a look around the house.
"That's where I perform my experiments, so there's a lot of volatile stuff down there," Revan said heading upstairs to get some clothes. He didn't want them to see the darker items he had in his possession that were in the basement. Once a few minutes had passed Revan came back down the stairs, though he wasn't carrying anything.
"Eh, Revan you do know you were supposed to collect some clothes to bring back with you right?" Tracey asked wondering if he was more out of it then she thought.
Revan gave Tracey an unimpressed look. "I know that Tracey, my clothes are in my trunk, which I shrunk down and put in my pocket."
"Oh," Tracey said before laughing sheepishly.
"Anyways I've got everything if you're ready to leave?" Revan asked double checking he had everything.
"Sure let's go and find Daphne then we can leave this dust pile," Tracey said teasingly. To prove her point she dragged her finger across a wall that was covered in dust.
"I see your point. I'll look into buying a house elf will that make you happy your Majesty?" Revan asked sarcastically.
"It's a start," Tracey said earning an eye roll from Revan.
They found Daphne in the living room nervously looking at Thana, who was sleeping comfortably on a couch. Thana had grown since the last time Revan had seen her, she was now a foot and a quarter long. Since Revan was in a funk for the past few weeks, he hadn't checked on Thana seeing as he could feel she was fine and happy hunting for food in the nearby forest.
"Bloody hell that's one big snake," Tracey said surprised.
"Thana's clearly had a growth spurt over the summer," Revan said walking up to Thana. §Wake up sleepy head§
Thana slowly came to, before raising her head in happiness seeing her Master.
§Master it is so good to see you, I've been so lonely without you for the past month§ Thana said happily.
§It's good to see you as well Thana§ Revan said while stroking her head.
"You do know it's considered rude to talk in another language, which other people can't understand in the same room," Daphne said taking some hesitant steps closer to Revan.
"I haven't seen Thana in over a month give me some slack," Revan responded letting Thana wrap herself around him under his robes.
"I take it you want to take Thana back with you?" Daphne asked.
"If it's no problem, it is your Manor after all," Revan said.
"As long as Thana stays out of sight, it shouldn't be a problem," Daphne said.
"Good, then let's head back," Revan said.
Once outside his house Revan made sure his ward defences were as strong as ever. So no one has the chance to sneak into his house and teleported everyone back to Greengrass Manor. During dinner that night Daphne asked a very interesting question.
"Since you're spending a week here, do you think you could teach me some jutsus?" Daphne asked as she was very interested in learning how to use chakra to fight.
"Jutsus what are those?" Astoria asked confused.
"Jutsus are what Shinobi call their techniques in the Elemental Nations," Revan explained.
"So Jutsus is another name for spells then?" Astoria asked excitedly.
"Yes, I suppose you could say that," Revan said smiling at Astoria's excitement.
"That's not fair Daphne gets a week of one of one training, while I have to wait till Hogwarts starts," Tracey said complaining.
"You're more than welcome to join us if you want. By the way, I presume you two have completed the chakra control exercise I gave you?" Revan asked.
"Yes I've mastered the leaf sticking exercise and tree walking," Daphne said proudly of herself.
"That's good to hear what about you Tracey?" Revan asked.
"The same and I even managed to master the exercise before Daphne," Tracey said sending Daphne a smug look making Daphne's eye twitch in irritation.
"I wouldn't be too proud of that, as that means you have a smaller chakra reserve then Daphne's. That's why you mastered the exercises so easily," Revan said smiling seeing Tracey's head drop in defeat.
"You were saying Tracey," Daphne said smugly.
"Shut up," Tracey muttered picking at her food depressed.
"Hey cheer up Tracey, it's possible to increase your magical reserves," Revan said.
"Really, how can I increase my magical reserves?" Tracey asked desperately.
"Magic is like a muscle the more you use it the larger your core will grow," Revan stated.
"And here I was hoping there was a quick and easy way to increase my core," Tracey said disappointedly.
Revan laughed seeing Tracey's disappointed face. "Sorry, there are no shortcuts to increasing your magical core."
"I'm surprised you know so much about magical theory, most boys your age are more interested in Quidditch," David said. Wondering where he got all this information from
"I'm not your average boy, and plus I'm not that interested in Quidditch," Revan responded sidestepping the question.
"What how can you not like Quidditch, it's the best thing in the entire world," Astoria exclaimed horrified by what she was hearing.
"I like flying 'especially with the Rooster talisman' but I just don't like Quidditch," Revan answered with a shrug of his shoulders.
"You're weird," Astoria said.
"Astoria apologise now that was rude!" Catherine ordered.
Revan waved it off. "It's fine she's not the first person to call me that, and she won't be the last."
"If you're sure," Catherine said unsurely.
"I am," Revan said with a nod of his head.
"By the way Lord le Fey, where did you learn to use chakra?" David asked.
"When I visited the Leaf Village a few years ago, the Hokage trained me for a week, along with his daughters," Revan said.
"Really the Hokage trained you personally, I'm surprised he did that," David said. He doubted Minato did it out of the goodness of his heart.
"Yes the Hokage was hoping to form a friendship between me and Naruko, but it failed, and I became friends with Natsumi instead," Revan said making David nod his head.
"So I presume you're well versed in how to use chakra then?" David asked.
"I am yes," Revan said.
"Then I look forward to seeing what you can do tomorrow then," David said very interested in seeing how chakra works.
"Sure that's no problem," Revan said.
"Can I come around tomorrow please, I don't want to miss out on being taught some jutsus," Tracey begged.
"I see no problem with you coming over tomorrow, just try not to cause too much damage," Catherine said the last part directed at Revan.
"Don't worry I won't," Revan said reassuringly.
So the next morning after breakfast Revan and Daphne were waiting in the back garden, for Tracey to appear.
"If she doesn't appear within the next few minutes we'll start without her," Daphne huffed impatiently, as she really wanted to start her training already. Daphne was also wearing some training clothes so she could move around easier.
"I'm here don't start without me," Tracey said running into the back garden.
"You're late!" Daphne said annoyed.
"Sorry I overslept, anyway let's get started," Tracey said clapping her hands together excitedly.
"Very well then, I hope you're ready this won't be easy," Revan said.
The first thing he did was show Daphne and Tracey hand signs, and explain how they're used to help mould your chakra so you can cast jutsus.
As soon as they had learnt all of the hand signs, Revan showed them basic jutsus like the Transformation Technique and Clone Technique. It didn't take long for them to learn it with Tracey being the first. He then went onto to taijutsu and taught them some basic forms. After that, he taught them how to throw kunai and shurikens. During their training, he noticed Daphne had a talent for ninjutsu while Tracey was better at taijutsu. This showed him where their speciality lies and what he can help them specialise in.
"Come on Revan, show us some awesome jutsus," Tracey said sitting on the ground taking a break.
"You need to learn the basics before you can learn the more advanced stuff," Revan replied while sparring with Daphne.
"You know you shouldn't take your eyes off me while were sparring," Daphne said annoyed wondering if he was looking down on her.
"Its fine there's no way you could land a punch on me," Revan said dismissively.
"Oh now you've done it," Tracey said.
Daphne became angry at this and started throwing more kicks and punches at him but this only made her sloppy. This allowed Revan to easily get between her defences and knock her onto the ground.
"I meant no insult, but I've been training for years while this is your first day, there's no possible way you can defeat me in a spar," Revan said softly holding his hand out to help her up.
Daphne took the hand gracefully. "Sorry for getting angry at you," Daphne said apologetically.
"Its fine, anyway why don't I show you what a battle between shinobi is like, to give you a better idea of how they fight," Revan said.
"How are you going to do that?" Tracey asked.
Revan went through some hand signs and said. "Earth Style: Shadow Clone," creating a clone out of the mud.
"Wow I had no idea you could create a clone of yourself," Tracey said amazed.
"This is one of the many things that chakra can do, so anyway I'll fight against my clone here, to give you an idea of how shinobi fight," Revan said as he and his mud clone move into position.
So for the next ten minutes, Revan and his mud clone fought a Chunin level battle throwing around jutsus and engaging in taijutsu. Daphne and Tracey were captivated by what they were seeing, having never seen anything like this before. Even Astoria and her parents had come outside to watch the fight. Once the spar was over Revan dismissed his clone, and approached the shocked onlookers.
"So what did you think?" Revan asked smugly.
"That was amazing, I can't wait to be able to fight like that," Tracey said.
"I'm sure if you put the effort in, you will be able to," Revan said encouragingly.
"How strong are you Revan? You don't even look winded from that spar" Daphne commented upon seeing him not out of breath in the slightest.
"I'm pretty strong, let's leave it at that shall we," Revan said.
"Fine, but one day I'll figure out how strong you are," Daphne responded crossing her arms.
Revan chuckled hearing this. "I'm sure one day you will, anyway let's get back to training."
By the end of the day, Daphne and Tracey were completely exhausted, but they had a happy grin on their faces, as they were glad they were getting stronger.
During dinner that night while Tracey went home, Astoria kept bugging Revan to train her as well. In view of the fact that Astoria wouldn't take no for answer, Revan compromised with her.
"Fine if you learn the basic chakra control exercises as Daphne did I'll train you," Revan said defeated. The only reason he said that, was because he knew Astoria wouldn't learn the exercises before he left, meaning he wouldn't have to train her.
"Thank you," Astoria said happily hugging him.
Revan glared at Daphne and her parents for finding this amusing and said unhappily. "It's not that funny."
"It really is," Daphne said giggling.
So for the rest of the week, he trained Daphne and Tracey when she could pop around, while Astoria practised the chakra control exercises in the corner of the back garden. During the training, Revan discovered Daphne had high chakra levels with an average control and her elemental affinity is water. Tracey had low chakra levels with a high control and her affinity is fire. Revan didn't bother testing Astoria as he wouldn't be training her over the school year.
Revan during the past week sent letters to all of his friends letting them know he was back in Great Britain. The morning of the last day Revan was staying at Daphne's, letters arrived for Daphne and him listing the items they needed for the second year of Hogwarts.
"Who's Gilderoy Lockhart?" Revan asked. Seeing as the list of books needed for the second year contained seven Lockhart books.
"You don't know who Gilderoy Lockhart is?" Catherine asked surprised.
"No should I?" Revan asked confused.
"Lockhart is a famous author, who has defeated numerous dark creatures. He's quite popular, I'm surprised you haven't heard of him," Catherine said.
"Really perhaps his books might be interesting then," Revan commented. Wondering if Lockhart was anything like the famous Auror Mad-Eye Moody. He was drawn out of his thoughts from a snort from David.
Seeing the questioning look Revan was giving him David elaborated. "Lockhart was a few years below Catherine and me at school, and from what I remember he was a fool who had a massive ego and thought the world of himself. So I very much doubt he did the things he says he did, in those books."
"Ignore him, David's never liked Lockhart after the one time he flirted with me in Hogwarts," Catherine said. Daphne and Astoria faces scrunched up not wanting to hear about someone flirting with their Mom.
"You know I'm right, you're just too polite to say anything," David responded annoyed.
"Well if I ever see him I can judge him for myself," Revan said quickly before they could start arguing.
"Can Revan join us when we go to Diagon Alley later?" Daphne asked.
"Sure he's more than welcome to if he wants to," Catherine said.
"If you don't mind, I would love to join you," Revan said not wanting to impose on them any longer then he has.
"It'll be no problem for us. So we'll head to Diagon Alley after breakfast so make sure you've all dressed appropriately," Catherine said though the last part was directed at Astoria.
"Don't worry I will," Astoria said knowing she puts on whatever clothes she finds first as she's too lazy to look for decent clothes.
As soon as everyone was ready they took the Floo to Diagon Alley. It took a few hours but Daphne and Revan bought everything they needed on their list, except for their books. So they headed to Flourish and Blotts to buy what they needed.
When they got to flourish and Blotts they saw it was extremely busy. The answer of why it was so busy was clear when they saw a sign saying Gilderoy Lockhart was doing autographs.
"Great he's here," David grumbled annoyed.
"We might as well go in, it saves us coming back another day for what we need," Catherine said pushing the children forward into the shop.
At the back of the store was a man with wavy blond hair and shiny teeth. He was wearing a flamboyant and flashy gold robe. He was signing autographs and smiling at some witches making them swoon.
"That's Lockhart," Revan said unimpressed. He could sense Lockhart's power and it was extremely weak. He has a below average sized magical core, and he could tell he's never trained a day in his life by the feel of his magic.
'There's no way he defeated numerous dark creature with how pitiful weak he is,' Morgana commented distastefully, having no patience for liars and show-offs.
'I agree with you,' Revan replied distastefully as his Mother.
"Revan," a voice said next to him.
Turing to see who was calling his name, he saw it was Draco.
"Draco it's good to see you, how has your summer been?" Revan asked as he was glad to see his friend.
"Not too bad, I even learnt all the chakra control exercise you gave me," Draco said the last proudly.
"That's good to hear, that means I can start teaching you the more advanced stuff when we start Hogwarts," Revan said.
Before Draco could respond Daphne cut him off. "I wouldn't get too excited Draco; Revan's been teaching me for the past week, so right now I know a few jutsus."
"What why have you been teaching Daphne, I thought you were going to wait till we all got back to Hogwarts," Draco said jealously.
"I'm staying at Daphne's, so it would have been rude to turn her down her request for training," Revan said.
"I suppose that makes sense," Draco said before turning to Daphne. "And don't get too much of a big head Daphne; it won't be long before I catch up with you."
"I very much doubt that," Daphne said dismissively.
Revan tuned out Daphne's and Draco's bickering knowing they'll be at it for a while, and instead went to say hello to Lucius and Narcissa.
"Mr and Mrs Malfoy a pleasure to see you as always," Revan said smiling pleasantly at them.
"The pleasures ours Lord le Fey," Lucius said nodding his head in greeting with Narcissa saying hello as well. "But I very much doubt you came over her just to say hello."
"Yes, I wanted to ask you some-" Revan said before a hand landed on his shoulder. Not recognising the magical signature of the person grabbing him. He knocked the hand off his shoulder and spun around the person who touched him, and he kicked the back of his legs forcing him to the ground and held his wand at his throat. This was all done in under a second.
"Lord le Fey you might want to let him go," Lucius said amused having enjoyed the show and wondering why Revan reacted so violently.
Looking to see who he forced to the ground he realised it was Lockhart. Not bothered by the fact that he had forced a celebrity to the ground and was holding a wand to his throat. He slowly withdrew his wand.
"You shouldn't grab people without their permission, Mr Lockhart, they might defend themselves without thinking," Revan said completely unapologetic for his actions.
"It's quite alright my boy think nothing of it, I've been in more scuffles then I can remember hunting down dark creatures," Gilderoy said charmingly to the room, making witches swoon. Though Revan could see the fear in his eyes he was trying to hide. No doubt he was shaken by what just happened
"You will address me as Lord le Fey, not boy Mr Lockhart!" Revan said frostily.
Gilderoy's smile became a bit strained, as he was slightly intimated by Revan before quickly shaking it off. "Of course Lord le Fey my apologies, I was just surprised that someone such as yourself was a fan of mine that I thought I would introduce myself to you."
"I'm not a fine of yours, I'd never even heard of you until this morning, when I received my Hogwarts letter," Revan responded bluntly. Disgusted by the idea of being a fan of Lockhart's, he can already tell he's a fool just by interacting with him for a few seconds.
There was an awkward silence in the shop as no one was sure what to say to that. While David covered up his laugh with a cough, which earned a disapproving look from his wife.
"There's no need to be shy Lord le Fey, there's nothing wrong with being a fan of mine," Gilderoy said trying to save face while trying to put his arm around Revan for a photo.
"If you try to put your arm around me I will break it," Revan said darkly. Gilderoy quickly retracted his arm as he could tell Revan wasn't joking.
"Haha," Gilderoy said laughing nervously. "Why don't I continue signing all of your books?" He then quickly headed to the back of the store to get away from Revan. There was an awkward silence for a second before witches quickly moved to get their books signed.
"Only you Revan, would terrify your new teacher," Draco said dryly.
"That fool should have never tried touching me, and what do you mean new teacher?" Revan said with dread.
"Exactly what I said, Lockhart's going to be the new Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher, he announced it earlier," Draco said.
Revan and Daphne looked at him in disbelief not believing that fool would be their new teacher.
"How can he teach Defence Against the Dark Arts, when he was put in place by a twelve year old boy," Daphne said.
"I have no idea what Dumbledore's thinking hiring that fool," Draco said.
"I presume it's because Lockhart was the only one to apply for the position," Lucius commented joining them with his wife.
"That's just wonderful," Daphne groaned.
Their attention was then grabbed by a fight that was happening at the front of the shop. Two men were throwing punches at each other. The first man was tall and thin with bright red hair and blue eyes. He saw Ron and the Weasley twins cheering him on so he must be their Father. The other man was tall and had hard blunt features. He had long bale blond hair that went to his lower back.
"Corban Yaxley and Arthur Weasley are the ones fighting, no doubt due to something Yaxley said," Lucius explained upon seeing the fight.
"I thought you would have joined Yaxley, he is an old friend of yours isn't he," David said snidely.
"That was a lifetime ago," Lucius replied not rising to the bait.
Hagrid quickly separated them and Yaxley left the store but not before putting something in the youngest Weasleys cauldron discreetly that only Revan noticed. Given that the show was over Revan, Daphne and Draco bought their books and left the shop. As they were leaving they were stopped by Ron Weasley.
"I knew you were a dark wizard hurting Lockhart like that," Ron said.
Revan looks at Ron with disinterest in his eyes. "I have no time for your petty jealousy Weasley now move along, I have better things to do than spend time in your company."
"What I'm not jealous of you," Ron said disbelievingly.
"I can see it in your eyes, your jealous of my wealth and power. Instead of being jealous why don't you try improving your situation, so you possess those things," Revan said. He could see the young Weasley girl looked very interested in his words.
"Apologise this instant young man, there's no need to be so rude," a large plump woman said.
"Your son was rude first calling me a dark wizard, so shouldn't he apologise first," Revan replied.
The plump woman's face reddened in anger. She clearly wasn't used to being spoken to in such a manner.
"That's the thing with blood traitors they possess no manners," Narcissa said snidely.
"I suppose I should expect no less from those that want to be closer to muggles, now move aside," Revan said.
"Now you listen here I don't know what your parents have been teaching you-" that was as far as the woman got before Revan unleashed his power mixed with killing intent on the Weasley family sending them to the floor.
"My parents are dead you ignorant cow, so I suggest you watch what you say to me in the future!" Revan said darkly walking between their bodies, with Narcissa looking very happy with the plump woman being put in her place.
The people in the store and street looked terrified of Revan, having never having seen a display of power like that before. Lockhart, in particular, was not looking forward to teaching Revan this semester.
"Sorry about that, the way that woman was speaking to me annoyed me," Revan said once they had left the main street.
"You don't need to apologise for that. Molly Weasley often gets on people's nerves by being overbearing and telling people how they should run their lives as if she knows best," Narcissa said smiling at Molly's recent humiliation.
"I take it she does that often then?" Revan asked.
"You have no idea," Narcissa said with David and Catherine nodding.
"It's been good seeing you again Draco, I'll see you on the train next week," Revan said shaking Draco's hand.
"You as well," Draco said.
"I must say I've enjoyed the entrainment you've provided today Lord le Fey," Lucius said smiling.
"I'll try to top it next time," Revan replied cheekily earning a chuckle from Lucius.
Narcissa then gave him a hug and instead of Revan just usually standing their awkwardly he returned her hug. Surprising Narcissa as this was the first time he had hugged her back. Narcissa looked to Catherine who mouthed she would explain later getting a nod from her. Once the Malfoys had left through the Floo, Revan left with Daphne and her family back to their Manor.
"How did you send the Weasleys to the ground anyway Revan?" Daphne asked.
"Simple I sent them my killing intent mixed with my magic to make it more potent, to send them to the ground as they couldn't deal with the images I was showing them," Revan said.
"Can anyone unleash their killing intent like you did?" Daphne asked.
"Only a powerful wizard or shinobi can do what I did," Revan replied.
"So I could eventually do what you did when I become strong enough?" Daphne asked.
"Yes, though it will take you a long time, till you reach my level," Revan retorted.
"You're the same age as me; surely you can't be that much stronger than me, can you?" Daphne asked doubtfully.
"Age means nothing in the shinobi world, you would do well to remember that," Revan said before turning towards David and Catherine. "Thank you for letting me stay with you for this past week, I have enjoyed myself immensely."
"You don't have to go, you can stay till Hogwarts begins if you want," Catherine said worried Revan wasn't fully over his nightmares.
"Thank you for the kind offer, but I have stuff I need to do," Revan said smiling at the care she was showing him.
"If you're sure then," Catherine said.
"I am yes," Revan said.
Once Revan had gathered all of his things, with Thana wrapped around him under his robes, and Morrigan already flying back to his house. He was standing by the gate of the Manor ready to leave.
"I'll see you in a week then," Daphne said giving him a hug.
"It's not that long so don't worry," Revan said.
"Fine but if you get into trouble I'm telling you I said so," Daphne said ending the hug.
Revan chuckled at that. "That's fair."
"If you need anything you can always come to us for help," Catherine said giving him a hug.
"I will if I have any trouble," Revan said returning the hug.
"Have a safe trip back," David said.
"Don't worry I will," Revan said walking through the gate and teleporting away.
"So that's his family magic you were on about Daphne?" David asked impressed a twelve year old could teleport so well.
"It is, and it's so much more comfortable then Apparition," Daphne said.
"Then you can tell me all about back in the Manor," David guiding his daughter back to the Manor.
For the last week of the summer, Revan trained in using his Wood Release and learning the Dark Arts from his Mother. He would enter his mindscape to practice the Dark Arts, and he took to them like a fish to water. The Wood Release, on the other hand, was more difficult to learn, but by the end of the week, he could perform a few jutsus.
Morgana also taught Revan a ritual, which would remove the list of spells he had casted with his wand. Since during the Mist civil war, he had used two of the unforgivable curses and if anyone found out, he would be sent straight to Azkaban for life.
Today was the day the second year of Hogwarts began, so Revan made sure he had everything he needed and headed to the platform. He then met up with his friends at the platform and got a compartment with them. While heading to Hogwarts he couldn't help but wonder what this year had in store for him.
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