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Snippet: "We have some thing to explain to you about our leader, if you would hear it, Jack?" Gai said, only to see the soft expression Jack had to turn slightly serious and he nodded towards hearing it, before looking towards them carefully.

Chapter: 10

Jack looked at the green clad shinobi with a serious, blank expression waiting for anything they may throw at him. Kakashi suddenly rested a hand on gai's shoulder seeming to ease some tension and surprise him, but jack did lessen his stare at the two and ask, "Could you lead me to where your leader's office is?" he asks, trying to find a easy way for them to go about the tension without thinking he'd go against them.

Kakashi nodded towards him and spoke, "Yea... lets..." he then turned to his friend who was trying to bring a smile, but had it only come off as strained and give off a slight tense feeling to it. They ended up leading Jack to the center building where they were at not too long ago, and said "this is also where the hokage's office is, its a different level in the building." they said, only to start going up the building to the office near the end.

Jack slowly entered, only to see an empty seat with a hat resting on the desk, "There was a hokage, or leader as you word it... But, we are searching for a replacement." Kakashi stated, while watching Jack look around and his expression change to a grim look, one that could be thought either grief or anger. Jack could not help feeling what he did towards what happened, they lost their leader from war and still dealing with the pain of loss, while the war is still raging.

Jack felt like he was meeting a home similar to his own; his own home missing a leader because the evil, known as Aku, attacked and made it so he could not get back there without revenge on the evil spirit, while this town at least seems prosperous, only missing a leader so far. But what else will it miss in the future if the war does not stop, and the evil Aku is not ridden of? Jack felt his hands tighten into fists, only to take deep breathes before turning towards the two shinobi again. "you okay friend?" Gai asks, concern laced in his voice and present on his face to anyone.

Jack nodded stiffly, from thinking back to Aku when he was happy only thinking about the present moment. Jack could not help following behind the two shinobi as his mind seemed to linger, while his hand slowly hovered towards the handle of his sword. ~ Back at Aku's tower-like castle, where the evil spirit made his home and resides, most of the inside was in a flame design and the shadow of the flame-like designed home was small niches where Jack sometimes hid from Aku to hear information. Jack jumped from Aku's sharp claw-like hands that were reaching out for him...~ Jack shook his head and felt weak at the knees as he had some memories surface of him fighting Aku. Only to hurry after the two shinobi, although once he reached them they looked rather concerned, "You look rather pale, Jack, are you okay?" Gai asks concerned, while Kakashi looked over at Jack carefully.

Jack also wondered after a moment, thinking back to the metallic creatures which came from the oceans around the Elemental countries, 'Is Aku sending creatures after me?' he wondered, when actually something else was occurring. In Aku's lair where the mechanical beings are created, there were many small robots with the residue of Aku's inky being mixed with the oily blood they hold. Although Aku is not around they actually continue his work by creating robots and dropping enough Aku residue mixed oil into each mechanical creature, while the small amount expands to work through each robot like a piece of dough that has risen or expanded, or water that finds more gradually to become bigger. The robots gradually make more and more robots, while there are other robots already operating with the desire to attack Jack, or to repair, or to create more of themselves.

Back to Jack, who was laid in his hotel room on a bed with Might Gai and Kakashi exploring the room out of curiosity on what their new friend would take or save, while also trying to let him rest from how white and the mere expression on Jack's face. "Do you know what Jack was thinking about?" Gai asks gently, while Kakashi merely shrugged while looking around and mumbles, "He won't tell us anything, unless we find it." Then Kakashi looked up at Gai and asks, "Did anything show up as Jack did, or did anything odd occur?" He asks, thinking 'besides for your odd ways that is at least a little normal.' Might Gai could only think that Neji may have mentioned that Jack was rather strange, and now, it makes him more eager to find out why and how he is strange.

Jack could not sleep well, as he was stuck in a dream filled with his sworn enemy, Aku. ~ Aku pins Jack against many different people who were coming after him, some were carrying axes, some were carrying swords, and others just tried to grab and hold him for the weapon wielders to attack. Clinging to his sword he swung at every open place that showed skin, or the rotting flesh that seemed to be falling off there. Jack rushed from one place to another only to see zombie after zombie, not really paying much attention besides for the rotting flesh that seemed to come off each following attacker... ~ Jack shifting around in his bed slightly, trying to run from the zombies within his mind.

Jack was stuck in his dream feeling like it was happening right at the moment, trying to physically grab hold of his sword with his hands... ~ while in the dream Jack started to get surrounded, holding his sword tightly and stopping when they were slowly circling him, only to jump up and spin around holding the sword's blade down to cut the wooden staff that each zombie held in its hands, before he ran off again... ~ realizing his sword was not nearby, in real life... ~ The sword that was in his hands disappeared and he quickly started to run around and away from all the zombies after him... ~ Jack was shifting and struggling with the dream-like trauma of fighting dead beings.

(Needed to at least clear up some things like the reason for the robot creature previously and try to guide the story along)