Author Note: Hi everyone sorry for the long update, I have actually had this chapter half finished for over 3 weeks but due to funerals and me getting into school again on distance which means that I have to study at home made me unable to continue on it, also I had a friend from TNR visiting for 4 days so that also made me unable to work on this chapter.

Anyway in this chapter I introduce new peoples that are players from TNR, I will post information at the bottom of this chapter of who they are and so on, so that I do not spoil for you all ^^ some will notice at least one of the players asap.

Anyway please enjoy Chapter 21 and please review on this site. Even if you are not a member of it you can, and please spread the words of the story.

I would also want to thank all of those that have read this story so far, I have gotten over 6600 Hits and for that I'm thankful that you are bearing with me.

Sincere Rickard "Hanazawa" Palmqvist

For over a month he had now searched for Glaciers most wanted person, Through the depths of the darkest forests to the highest of mountains, Far from any civilian settlement his search had brought him, He hadn't rested for over a day and was now very tired when he found an old trail, somehow he continued down it and found a huge ruin of a temple, built in stone it showed that this solid building was very old and forgotten, thick fog surrounded the wet and humid grass plain that the building was on completely surrounded by the jungle that he had emerged from. He was happy to find some sort of shelter. He walked towards the entrance of the temple which was positioned within alley , it was big and the walls had many different symbols on it, all carved nicely into the stone as if it where a tale of the origin of this great temple. When he opened the great stone door he saw a strip of light emerging from the roof of the building lightning up the some parts of the great room that was behind the door, he noticed though something was quite odd, some torches was burning, all hanging in their respective place on the walls. In the middle was a statue of a man with serpents around him, he was sitting on his knees and his face was facing slightly upwards, as if he was looking at someone, this interpretation was also confirmed quickly because of the statue seemed to reach towards the same direction he was facing, But there was something odd though, two of the serpent statue parts was broken, as if their heads had crumbled when the sand of times had turned its never ending wheel and torn the stone to such a state, But no other part of the statue had as much as a small crack or hole.

Around the statue there was carved out lines going all around and into the statue in the end of those carved lines where seven pillars of stone a little higher than around four feet, with only a carved hole, the hole was made of some sort of gem, it was very light blue almost azure, he was sure he had seen that gem somewhere before but couldn't remember where, He inspected the room and the statue trying to find whoever it was that lived in here, he wasn't scared he was acting more calm than any other would have, he did have confident in his skills.

Maru proceeded through the room into a long hallway also had the strange carvings similar to the ones on the outside wall, still he walked calmly down the hallway and down the straight stairway to a another great door, he hesitated here for a while staring at the door, he was still as calm as ever but there was something inside of him not to take a single step inside the door, he tried to shake the uneasy feeling away and barely managed to do so, the feeling annoyed him because he didn't feel scared or frighten it just felt like a step into the room meant death, call it instinct of a warrior. But a real warrior confronts such a feeling, letting his instinct guide him. A warrior is nothing if he doesn't constantly put himself in such positions where he can raise above the weak and confront the strong, This was what Maru though, How he lived, to always be balancing on the tip of a sword, letting the tip remind him of the pain of living. One is either dead or delivers it. That was a real shinobi, a real warrior of the shadows.

He put his both hands onto the big door of stone, and with the strength in his arms he pushed it open as his feet's kept moving forward into the next room, and his instinct didn't fool him, ten concentrated eyes landed on him, all filled with an unspeakable blood lust, however even if they where rested on him, He just felt as if he was looked right through, their gaze was something else. Suddenly he got struck by sword, piercing the left side of his chest, the blood gushed out and he fell to the ground dead.

But he found himself untouched as if he fell for a genjutsu, different illusions of him dying followed, all that didn't take place in reality, neither did any off the shadows move, all was played out by his instinct telling him to get out of this room or the worst could happen.

His eyes had just drowned in one of the shadows, yet his desire for strength pursued him to continue forwards.

"be it awaiting death But I will not falter till I achieved what I need" Maru thought to himself, while constantly fighting off the creeping fear that slowly started to grow from within his torn and already twisted heart, searching it's way around it, gripping it and finally make him succumb to the never ending fear making him unable to even think other than that his room would be his resting place, his crypt and his tomb. A forgotten place where no one would ever find him...

He took a another step into room, overcoming the fear, he might be a sheep walking straight into a wolf den, but he would not give up without a fight. The group slowly observed the young mans overconfident trespassing, they where amused that he was unaffected by the atmosphere, one of the shadows, a slim build yet he was taller than the others nodded towards the smallest one that Maru saw was also very slim and the built was feminine, The one responded with calmly walking towards Maru showing no hesitation at all, and when he made himself ready, drawing his katana, having a firm grip on it and stood in a stance, she was gone for just a brief moment, his eyes scanned the room quickly of her presence and when they once again faced the group she was standing there on the tip of his sword, glaring right into his eyes, she was no longer clothed by the shadow but instead of the light, she wared nothing but a white cloth, that concealed her hands, His facial expression showed sign of confusion, mixed with something he couldn't understand, the feeling inside of him the hatred he once had, disappeared, vanished. He couldn't understand, he couldn't grasp this twisted reality, He became so shocked that he lost his grip, his balance and fell backwards towards the stone floor.

"Welcome home Maru-chan, I have been awaiting you" the girl said as she landed easily on her feet and walked towards him.

"How can this be! You are suppose to be dead, gone in the otherworld awaiting my revenge!" He screamed back towards her trying to fend her off as if she was a ghost of the past haunting him.

"I never died, My mission was comprehended and but one person found out, I staged it as if I died, I vanished, that was my destiny, it was the way it was suppose to be, just as we all knew that you would walk in here today on this very hour opposing your fear and finding what you have been searching for." She replied calmly.

"What the hell are you talking about! You should be dead, yet you are even older than what you should be! This Genjutsu is my end I will die here, yet I am not sad, I did get to see you one last time Siyah-chan and for that I am thankful to my reaper, to the one that soon will strike me down."

Out of nowhere a little bigger person comes flying...

"You Prick! Do not flirt with Siyah-chan that easily! I will never forgive you!" he says as his feet hits the chin of Maru sending him flying straight into the stone wall, cracking it on the impact. The Boy who now stands next to Siyah lifts his right hand showing of his victory.

"Yosh! That should have killed that pervy trespasser and thought him that no one speaks or get friendly with my Siyah-chan" He then faces her smiling happily as a sign he awaits praising, but instead what he sees is hell itself, burning eyes and a raging girl that sends him flying into the stone wall himself only to get his both hands nailed to it with kunais that penetrated his hands." She slowly walks towards the boy that is now nailed and starts making hand seals, as she still shows that she is going into pure rage.

"he-he....Siyah-chan....Hime... p-please calm down....I-it was a-a joke...." The boy answers with a dumbstruck grin as he understands that he now will get the biggest beating of his life....if it will survive it...

But from within the shadows the three that only observed now slowly walked towards the light while one voice Maru recognized could be heard echoing inside the room.

"Siyah...That is enough! And Kansei... is that a way to greet our new ally." the voice said as the person became visible when he walked into the lit place in the room.

"Gerard!" Maru said highly to himself.

"Indeed, Maru-kun , I have had high hopes for you and you have done great so far." Gerard answered as he walked up to Maru that was lying on the floor after the blow.

"you have been watching me?!" Maru responded a bit confused.

"Yes from the very beginning, from the day when you meet Siyah up until today, I have always known where you are and what you have done, And killing Takeo was but amusing to watch, Hilarious it was all that wrath, all that hate you possessed giving you enough strength to kill him. It was pure entertainment of the highest grade, such entertainment one only can dream of seeing, all those feelings, struggling towards each others and the passion it has as it beautifully gives birth to a new flower within a another soul.... simply marvelous!" He says as he smirks, while glares at Maru with an insane passion of chaos erupting within his deep dark eyes.

Siyah then Jumped Maru giving him a hug and kissed his forehead, standing over him with her slim body, Maru became paralyzed, Nothing made sense. She is suppose to be at least three to four years younger than him. Yet here she stood looking almost two years older, The question rose more and more from within him.

"How the hell can you look like you are around seventeen, Eighteen!?" He asked with a confused tone while blushing from the kiss she gave him.

She looked into his eyes with hers, They shined as if they never would have hurt a soul before, She then smiled beautifully towards him and her lips started to move, it was as if lightning struck him, when he heard the words it was as if he turned deaf, her lips just moved silently before him, Her words were.

"Because I am seventeen Maru-chan" she happily replied, while she smiled and tilted her head a bit and then embraced him as if he would be a teddy bear before she spoke again.

"Soon I will be a mama, and you a papa!" she then suddenly with out warning spouted to him, still with that happy and cute tone in her voice, smiling happily. Maru fainted all the information and shocks where to much for him.

"Hell yeah!!! Siyah-chan you killed him for me! You really love me" He responded to her as he jumped towards her with open arms trying to embrace her trying to express all off his love.

But her feet was lightning fast and Kansei just fell to the floor, also unconscious wearing a ridiculous smile, it looked as if the pain was happiness in some weird perverted way.

The two that had been standing concealed within the shadows made their appearance into the lit up parts.

One of them where a long man with brown hair, he was average built with broad shoulders.

"Gerard are we really going to have to rely on this girl and her words. And now we have a another pipsqueak to take care off...What is the point of taking this boy in! What good can he possibly do."

He said with a disgusted and disrespectfully tone towards Gerard, while he looked at Siyah who desperately tried to wake Maru up by continuously slapping his face, which had started to turn red and bruised due to the force in each slap.

The other one remained silent only analyzing the situation that had been granted until he finally spoke.

"I think what Gerard mean is that this Boy here know where one of the three last pendants are hidden and already have been in contact with one of them not to long ago, But Kagemiya this particularity one seems to be raised by you. I already have an apprentice as you know, and it is vital for you to have one if we are going to succeed, you do know that." He said with a monotonic voice towards Kagemiya without looking at him, his eyes where focused on Kansei who still was lying on the ground not moving an inch.

"That is ridiculous, why would I need a pip squeak? I have no use for a cockroach like him around me, I myself will just fall into such low standards as him if I would have to have him hanging around me, and if he hangs around me he will surely die slowly, You can have a second brat if you want, maybe they together are a quarter of an useful person, Quinton-San" Kagemiya Responded.

Quinton stared into Kagemiyas eyes as he spoke slowly.

"The truth is ugly, But you do know the reason why we need these apprentices...And when we have the pendants we need to move into the next phase, the waiting for the darkness to shine....These small kids missions starts then.... While preparations begins for the final act...." And with that said Quinton headed outside the temple with his apprentice Kansei leaving Gerard,Siyah,Maru and Kagemiya....

"It's time to retrieve the other two pendants, the last one in Glacier... will be a little more complicated, and that one I think we all need to participate in getting..." Gerard said with a rather amused but malicious tone.

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As Jubei and Scarz brought Mayumi and Hanazawa back, the four of them went directly towards into the Kages office. Jubei called for Khane and Anasya to come to the office along with Panama, However Panama was still asleep so they had to wait for him but also Anasya who did proceed to do the complex surgery, sure she had stated that it was a minor one at least for someone with her skills, but if any other person tried he would never again be able to perform Ninjutsu or use any chakra ever again.

Then the Glacier Council came into the tower as well, these four old persons sat down in the big conference room, While Scarz got everyone and those to come some green herbal tea, as they waited for the last two to arrive to the scene. But the council wasn't awaited and Jubei Directly looked into the one that usually was the kind of person that talked and gave people orders how things should be.

"I know why you are here, And I have decided that after much thoughts I will accept the proposal But under one condition, Mayumi will be taken out from the bingo book, Hanazawa will from now on be trained by Khane and me and Scarz And we will tell him the truth about his past, about who he really is and I will also help him achieve it, And since I now have accepted this position with the witness here the council will have no other options to agree to my conditions that I have stated before you." He looked at them from the middle end of the long table in the conference room, analyzing them as they started to talk to each others about this. To them this was a first time someone cornered them so much and under these circumstances, however they agreed that it might be for the best since Hanazawa had been kidnapped to Current, and a lot of other things resolving him had been weird... They knew a lot but not everything, however it seemed Jubei firmly knew about the stuff that happened around glacier even if he hadn't been in glacier for years or near it.

About three hours later Anasya and Panama came to the room, Panama was in a wheelchair annoyed as he rolled into the conference room helped by Anasya.

"Damn this I can walk...you make me feel like I'm a crippled good for nothing, For god sake let me at least have some pride left, you...you... damn old-ie!" As the last words rolled out his tongue he got struck in the head by something that felt like an blunt object, Anasya just smiled as her fist had hit Panamas head.

"You do know that I am the one that has fixed you, I can easily do the opposite..." She said still wearing her cute smile as she looked into his eyes, He became quiet and then just nodded towards her agreeing to being quiet and also stop his complaining.

"Sorry we are late Jubei-Sama." She said as she bowed towards him and sat down at the empty chair next to Khane, letting out a small smile towards him.

Everyone was silent for a while, until Hanazawa woke up from his slumber at the couch inside the room, he sat up and looked at all the people that created such an serious tension between them, he didn't recognize them at all, he just felt that he could trust them all, The silence ended with Jubei starting to talk.

"Many of you here have recently been going through a lot. And I guess you all still do not know the reason why everything is happening or who are behind all of this. Some of you think everything was Desus movement but he was trapped and used to act the way he did, The culprits are former Glacerians, all of them have something to do with this village. This group is extremely dangerous. And all of you know these individuals and even worked with them before. Their leader isn't confirmed or why they are acting this way, however I have gotten information of what they are looking for." he said as he paused and looked at Hanazawa.

"Hana could you come here and hold up that pendant so everyone can see it?" He then said.

Hanazawa did as he was told and went up next to Jubei and stood beside him lifting up the pendant that had been hanging around his neck for so many years without him knowing that it held such an mystery that people would go to the lengths of creating Civil wars and disorder to get their hands on it, or making him become kidnapped by an another village.

"Thank you Hana, that is enough.... Now everyone are wondering what this pendant is, that not even myself know what it is for more than it is extremely important to them to gather it, also I do know that there is seven in total scattered around the world in different villages, Shinobi as civilian ones, a another piece of information is that the one Hana have is mentioned in the hidden documents in this tower and that it holds some sort of danger to it. The text about it also has the name of all of the Pendants or rather the stones, it is Blood of Orochi... which also is mentioned in the ancient texts before any of the villages we know of, from the time that was Known as The Great War...." He was interrupted by one of the council members.

"That is preposterous, That is over four hundred years ago, and most of it has been lost after all the wars that has ravished the villages, it is totally illogical that these pendant have any significant meaning and even if they did we still do have one of them and it can easily be guarded by just locking this kid inside a holding cell in the deepest part of the prison." Jubei interrupted the ranting council member with an angry voice.

"Hanazawa will not be sent to an holding cell and even if we did put him inside it, it wouldn't do much One of them already escaped from the cell you are thinking of at an age even youger than Hanazawas, Do you all recall the black day fifteen years ago? When Gerard killed our kage after killing countless of our Chuunins, jounins and the participated in the Chuunin Exam? Surerly you all haven't forgotten that grim and sorrow full day?.

And Gerard is one of the three that managed to create a Civil war and have almost killed the cease treaty between us and Current, if Currents allies Shroud would follow them in a war this weakened village can say good bye, Do you understand the situation we are put in and those we are up against?!...." Jubei calmed down before he continued, but Khane and Anasya had froze after hearing that boys name....it had been fifteen years....Fifteen years after they saw the kage get killed before their eyes, and they knew that Khane and Anasya was targeted by the boy, or young man as he was now...Desu had died at the hands of a team mate only because he had been played bye the guy that swore he would show them all true terror, someone which heart was as black as coal...

Jubei then continued.

"The other two are also from Glacier. First is Quinton which was my student before he disappeared in the last war against Current. And I promise you he is to be taken serious, He showed greater progress than I ever seen in anyone, And he also holds that bloodline.... Then we have Kagemiya from the Kagemiya Clan that died out also in the last war. You all remember their shadow using Jutsus, The bloodline that got advantages in all types of offensive. May it be Genjutsu,Ninjutsu and the use of weapon or Taijutsu. Though he didn't seem strong he still has been training with them and I guess since Gerard has been inside this tower know far to much about stuff, not only that he also possesses the Destruction Orb Jutsu Desu made... and since he managed to destroy a block when he was around fifteen years ago I do not want to know what he is capable of now. So here comes our mission.

Scarz I want you to dispatch all Hunter nins around our borders to act as defense unit.

All of them even the Double Zero will act, Khane I want you to help me train Hanazawa so he at least can try defend himself if needed, Anasya should start teaching more of our medical ninjas more advanced medic techniques.

Mayu you will gather Information.... our priorities is to stabilize the situation at hand, after that we need to contact Current and try to save the treaty, But we also need allies so we need to look towards Shine and Konoki...

And Khane you will train him now, I have something I need to do so I will put you in charge until I comeback....

This is an order from Yondaime Aisukage.." He said as he smiled at the last sentence before everyone left the room to start their individual missions until Jubei cameback and fully embraced that he had become Glaciers new Kage.

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Characters who are they on tnr.

Kagemiya – ShadoClone

Quinton – Quinton345

Kansei – Skynet

Gerard – Gerard009

Siyah – NPC I made her XP doesn't exist... I think o-o

Maru – KuroNekoMaru (deleted acc on the game, stopped playing, but still reads the story.)