Chapter 37: Memories of the Rejects

"Huh… Medusa-sensei?" a young brunette healer inquired with a worried voice.

"Yes Mist-chan?" a raven haired woman with white skin and impressive bust responded.

"Is Valkyrie-san alright? She has been like that for about an hour now." Mist pointed out at the sight of Valkyrie.

At this the female Orochimaru turned her swiveling chair from her desk to look at the Gel Pod where the Uzumaki was in being healed. The woman had a neutral expression but her lips kept moving without sound. But Medusa could make out things "Who could they have sex?" or "How could she bear his hell spawn?" and other things that were much more incoherent or insulting. It made her chuckle considering that she had once asked herself the same questions until she finally discovered just how she was really born.

"Well, dear, the brain is a funny thing. Sometimes, it just stops working right when you've seen through a bad scene." Medusa commented and got back to analyzing the data in her computer monitor. 'Damn, Naruko's body was far more damaged by the virus and the Curse Seal that I had predicted. I'll have to start making a vaccine if I want her to life for more than an hour outside the pod. Yet her power output is incredible and she's just standing there.' she contemplated and started typing different formulas at see what would help the Uzumaki. 'I got to admit it was lucky that Naruko and Fū were able to take down Freya before she could destroy all of this tech. Makes my job much easier but I'll have to destroy a few things. The woman was unscrupulous when it came to using humans as experiments. Heh, Dad would've probably loved working her that's for sure.'

"Hey Medusa-sensei?" Mist called again unknowing that she was interrupting the woman's work. In her defense she had no idea what that woman was doing or what was it she was using. Then again this room held more technology she had ever seen in her life. Even the doors to the room opened by themselves!

"Yes dear?" the doctor inquired with turning towards the girl. Already 50 of her possible vaccines had being made complete failures because of extremely low percentage of success. Nope make that 55 and counting. 'Damn, Naruko's body is more unstable than I thought. I'll have to wait until it calms down before I can proceed with more test.'

"Are your parents' bad people? I mean sure you threw those maids at us to take Valkyrie-san after the battle ended. But it was to put her in this Gel Pod so she could be healed and no one was hurt by it only push to the side or sedated. Plus you were kind enough to start healing everyone close to death right after Valkyrie-san was safely inside the pod." the young girl inquired. At this the older woman sighed and turned her head towards the younger female with a pain filled expression.

"I'm not kind Mist-chan. In fact I'm part of the reason this war is still happening." the woman gratefully confess to the girl.

"How can you be responsible for the Eternal War continuing?"

"I made a lot of mistakes while I was young. Mistakes that cost the lives of many innocent people later on." Medusa responded while grabbing her necklace tenderly with a sorrowful expression. "But I hope to change that if I can."

Before the curious healer could give anymore questions a slightly pissed off Mjoll entered the room through the screeching sliding door.

"How's partner doing? Gamakichi-kun was really worried about her before he had to leave back to the summon world due to lack of chakra." the questioned was directed at Mist. For some reason the girl could not understand after the griffin woman learned about Medusa's family she refuse to been look at the woman let alone speak with the doctor.

"She's conscious and the communication system in the breathing mask is working just fine. But right now her brain crashed from the revelation of just whose daughter I am." Medusa answered. All she got was a displeasured grunt as a response while the summon move to stand in front of the Uzumaki with Mist. It made the raven head smirk a little since she could really didn't blame the summon. Her father did tend to make a lot of enemies after all.

However now that the princess of a lost kingdom was finally up and not trying to strangle her they could start doing a few things. But first she needed a few more people to be present here.

"Mist-chan, could you bring Roy Mustang, Alex Armstrong, Titania and Nalu Waves? I rather have all of the important leaders in the same room." Ducky asked but the girl in question look worried. "What's wrong Mist-chan?" she asked and the girl looked between her and the automatic sliding door for a few seconds before speaking.

"Armstrong-sama and Nalu-sama are guarding the Būji and the wolf woman." Mist remarked.

Medusa raised an eyebrow at that. Then she remembered that in the confusion battle, Naruko screaming, that maids trying to retrieve the whiskered women and a small fight that started to retrieve the Uzumaki Fū and Celina had tried to escape. Regretfully for them Roy, Armstrong, Nalu, Titaina and Mjoll all acted quickly to stop the severely weakened Būji from taking flight.

Now the beast was having a nice rest on the ground with several boulders on its back, neck, legs, wings and tail. Not to mention that each boulder had Demon Sealing tags thanks to Mjoll having a few on hand due to Naruko making them for personal usage. Also the giant beetle now sported a few burn on its shell and on some of its wings. Celina on the other hand was sitting nicely on a chair chained and cuffed while inside a stone cell filled water up to her neck.

Truly Mjoll had developed or already had a somewhat sadistic nature when it came to protecting her summoner. Even so Medusa waved her hand as if dismissing Mist fears of the Nanabi attacking.

"Just tell them to come here and bring Celina-chan with them. But make sure you mention I send you or else Fū-chan and Nanabi-sama while think it's a trap. Last thing we need right now is a angered jinchūriki/Būji attacking us to protect its mate. I'm pretty sure that Nanabi and Fū have already healed enough to try another escape and waiting for the right time attack so it's not best to provoke them." the eyed woman ordered much to the girl's displeasure.

"H-H-Hai" Mist responded and moved to search for the people in question. 'Just my luck! I have to look for the only people that could possible help fight against the demon that could destroy this castle in one attack! But maybe she could be friendly… I mean Valkyrie-san doesn't smile at anyone let alone laugh but she certainly doesn't go around killing people for pleasure. So maybe…' the girl continued to rant mentally as she left.

As the girl left the Medic Bay Medusa turned her chair to see Mjoll still looking at the Uzumaki. The griffin woman still had her right wing bandaged but other than that she was healthy. Nevertheless the blond only show more concern when Naruko closed her eyes as if trying to digest the motion that there existed a child born from Orochimaru and Tsunade.

Sighing, Medusa pushed her spinning chair to make its wheels towards the summon. She managed to stop right before hitting the glass which of lots of practice. Then she spun around to see Naruko besides Mjoll. But as she stopped the spin she heard a snapping noice which fallowed by her breast becoming heavier as gravity took control of them. It made her laugh nervously.

"Hehe, I guess mom must go through the same problems huh?" she commented taking off another ruined bra much to her displeasure. Disappointedly even the embarrassing subject proved unless against the tension between both of them. This made her sigh and look at the Uzumaki.

'Naruko Uzumaki… *sigh* The world has truly not been kind to you my dear.' Medusa thought as she saw the teenager's naked body.

To her eyes the Uzumaki princess was the true in carnation of a goddess of war. She could not deny the beauty in that body. From the almost delicate features presented in the females face to the hard muscles that compromise the female's arms and legs. To her those well defined muscles that showed a woman that knew how to take care of her body yet also knew how to stay feminine while doing so. Even the female's solid six pack abs was firm yet added to her beauty. (1)

But what truly caught Medusa's eye were all the scars that littered through the female's body. On the front she could see a few cuts on the breasts and abdomens. But the most promenade cuts were the two on the upper part of the left one that form of an X. Clearly those were from the jinchūriki had been torture in Valka Village before her son.

But beside those cuts there were others scars one would expect to get from trying to survive alone in the woods. Hell Medusa noticed a very nasty bite mark on Naruko's left side that match that of a wolf's bite alongside slashes reminiscent of bear claws on the female's right tight.

As the doctor continued to look at the body she noticed the news scars that covered the whiskered woman's body. These were black veins started from the left side of the female's neck covered the entire left shoulder and the left side of the Uzumaki's face. To Medusa these ones brought a little personal shame since she knew her part in that.

However the worst scar of them all was the one right between the two ample breasts just a little below were the necklace of the First Hokage's Necklaces lazily floated in the water.

It was a scar that in the center it was a twisted mess flesh that appeared to had been drilled and ripped apart repeatedly. Then the outside that twisted flesh sphere were scars that looked like uncontrolled lightning bolts had been burned into the females flesh. The same scar that had an identical twist on the back of the female's back.

It was a scar right over the female's heart which marked Naruko Uzumaki the Jinchūriki of the Kyūbi no Yoko from Konohagakure's death.

It was the same scar that marked the moment Sasuke Uchiha killed his teammate with his Chidori.

"*sigh* She's beautiful isn't she?" Medusa finally said with a sad expression. Mjoll on the other hand grunted in displeasure at first.

"Stop eye raping my partner." the blond woman with war paint demanded but refuse to even look at the raven head.

"Aren't you doing the same?" the doctor inquired with a raised eyebrow. At this the other woman visibly fought with herself so as not to bite of the other's head off. Hence the blond chose to her arms below her bust and frown before she responded.

"Naruko Uzumaki is the champion of the griffins. She is the knight and hero of our Queen. Hence I, Mjoll the Lioness, serve as her ever faithful mount and partner in every battle she would ever face or will be in. Mine is a sacred vow of loyalty and kinship that will not be solid by a paramours venture. I am my partner's blade should hers run dull and shield should hers break fro here to eternity. Even should she die before me I will stay to protect that which she holds dear." the human-griffin explain with determination and conviction as she looked directly at her partner.

"That is very noble of you." the raven head female remarked with awe clear in her voice. For her it was the first time hearing someone actually speak with such straightness, determination, sincerity and soul devotion when it came to a vow. It was almost like she had found the last diamond in the world. Mjoll of the other hand scoffed at the awe but at the same swelled with pride with some pride.

"Unlike you human's we summons know how to uphold promises." the humanoid summon remarked.

Medusa upon hearing that flinched and instinctively grabbed the crystal necklace around her neck. Mjoll took a lone glaze at the accessory and her own yellow eyes widen in surprise. She recognized that necklace! But that could only mean-

"Medusa-san?" Naruko called out and unknowingly stopping anything her summon was about to do. None the less the woman in questioned let go of the necklace, turned and raised her head towards the one that called her. She found Naruko looking at both of them with only her right blue eye opened. "Was your conception consensual or not?" the Uzumaki inquired to which the doctor responded with a negative shake of the head.

"It was neither of those nor did mother ever know I existed. But that's enough for now." the white skinned woman responded with a playful smile and snapped her fingers on her left hand. In response the metal clamps holding Naruko's arms and neck let go so she could float freely inside the ovule shape tank. "I'll tell you my life story when your generals get here."

"I understand." Naruko nodded with a small frown. Noticing this, Medusa put on a more caring smile.

"Don't worry I may had been born in less than natural circumstances but I'm still more human than daddy. Well at least in the moral department." Ducky commented with a small chuckle. "But anyway, do you want me to make the glass shield less visible so that everyone that comes inside here will see you in your birthday suit?"

"You can do that?" Naruko asked. Her response can in the form of lights appearing and covering Medusa's left arm that from a glove like image. The doctor then hit a few places in the arm and swiped it over the glass. Next thing she knew the glass shined for a brief moment but nothing else change for her perspective. Though Mjoll's raised eyebrow and low whistle did indicate that the job was done.

"I have to admit. I didn't think humans still had Omni-tools. (2)" Mjoll commented.

"Omni-what?" Naruko questioned in total and utter confusing. Medusa just chuckled as she pushed her swivel chair back to her desk with the computer and once more stop before hitting it.

"It's something like computer for your hand but right now I can only use it like a remote control and data collector for a few things. From what my employer said when they gave it me was that in the previews generation they along with their sibling created them bases on a very old video game they both liked." the woman stop and turned on the device to start hitting keys on it.

"Regretfully the person that gave it to me felt like it was for the best to let me figure out how to use it. Worst yet they locked most of the functions this tool can do. I've been working on the thing for the last 5 years and only unlocked about 50% of its potential. Yet that's only things like a digital clock with an alarm, stop watch, receive data from any computer a sync with it, able hack to remote control a few low tech machines and other things that let me analyze some materials in almost seconds." the woman explained with a soured expression as she looked the Omni-tool. Mjoll chuckled with a satisfied smirk. Naruko remained as confuse as ever.

"Okay let me get this straight. In your hand you hold something that does more things than even the most advance lab in the Elemental Nations can do… and your telling me that's only half of its potential?!" the Valkyrie questioned in some desperation because she could not believe such a thing could exist. Hell she didn't know it was possible to have computers small enough to fit in some ones palm. Mjoll on the other hands chuckled beside her which in turn made her glare at the summon. "What's so funny?"

"What's funny is that our doctor there only has the civilian default setting on that thing. From what I remember from the history classes the Omni-tool could be used for military purpose. One of them was making holographic robots that could shoot lightning, fire or missiles while creating shield for the user." the summon said much to the surprise of both woman and the total annoyance of the one owning the device. "But if you ask me we summons are better off living without the much tech. It puts too much stress on the person for always wanting to live at 1000miles per second. My generation grew up in a almost medieval setting and we live much more peaceful lives than humans do."

"Okay that enough! No more talking until everyone gets here!" Medusa ordered in frustration. She then proceeded to work on the Omni-tool as if it had insulted her intelligence repeatedly. Mjoll and Naruko looked at each other when they saw this and smirk at the snake woman's frustration.

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[During the talk in the Medic Bay]

It had taken a few moments and getting lost once through the castle but she was finally out of the gates.

"Thanks again for guiding me out maid-san." the young brunette told to the maid who had helped her. The maid in question simply nodded but said nothing. 'Just like all the others. *sigh* About the only one that speaks is that Head Maid and even she has the same soulless expression they all share. Come to think of it she's also the only one that has hair. I wonder why all the others have shave heads.' the girl thought as she walked towards her goal. In short time she reached the ground holding the giant rhinoceros beetle demon and its wolf mate.

"Hello everyone!" she called out to the people she had been asked to bring back. After they responded she went on to explain that Valkyrie had woken up, how she reacted upon seeing the doctor and about the doctor herself wanting them to be there for an explanation.

"Medusa-san wants us to be there so she can inform us on what the hell happened to Valkyrie, huh. It would really help since I want to ask a few things to our leader considering the information Martel told you received during your team's infiltration." Roy contemplated.

"I want to ask her a few things myself. But what do we do with them?" Titania added and everyone turned to look at the two captives. Nanabi was being held by boulders with seals. However Celina was in a Stone & Water Cell that is square in shape with its sides close up to the woman's neck. From the neck up the stone transformed into a series of stone bars that connected 2ft up the sitting female to from a cage. Also said bars were covered in jagged stone spikes.

"If Medusa-sama wants me it's probably because of my Blessing Seal to help explain the one Valkyrie has." Celina commented while inwardly cursing her own stupidity.

You see after the fight had ended she had tried to make Fū escape even when the jinchūriki tried to warn her that they couldn't do to her own exhaustion. However it was too late since the wolf branded had already knocked out at least 10 men to get towards her lover. This anticlimactically ended in their current positions as prisoners.

"What do you mean by Blessing Seal?" Armstrong asked to the half-wolf woman.

"It's the thing I have in my neck. It's a mark that gives me a great power boost for a time. Both Fū-chan and myself think that what Valkyrie has is a damaged version of it or something along those lines."

"Damage?" Titania inquired and Celina looked like she shrugged.

"Neither of us really knows how it works so that's as much as we could come up with." raven haired female said with some annoyance. Nalu scoffed at this and voiced her displeasure.

"I don't know about any of you but I'm not about to trust two people whose bounties are well known and wanted in Sea Heart." the leader of the current of the Sea Guard remarked from her sitting position on the ground while leaning against the cell.

"Not everyone is lucky enough to be born with a rich parents princess." the blue eyed wolf-branded backed with irritation

"What was that?!" the tanned beauty roared as she bolted up and glared at one of the three most hated women in her country.

"YOU HEARD ME GOOPY!"

"WOLF-SULT!"

"SALT SUCK!"

"MOON BITCH!"

"SEA-SLUG!"

"ENOUGH!" the rhinoceros beetle screeched at the two.

Of course considering its size plus that the people were pretty much in front of its head everyone not tied was blown away by the strong voice. Not to mention left deaf for a couple of minutes and especially so for Celina who had the most sensitive ears. Regretfully this also had the added effect of alerting every possible soldier in the area that the giant demon was wake.

Accordingly everyone that wasn't affected by the screeched place themselves into attack position. Of course great fear ran through them when the boulders keeping the beast in place started to shine red and then slowly exploded one by one. After that many thought they would die when the creature's wings roses it to its full stature.

"Nalu-san and Celina-chan both of you stop this! I promise my sister in fate that I would protect her dream to bring peace to this land for her should she died and even if she isn't dead I think that's a noble cause I would like to be part of! So just end this fighting now or I'll get out of this body and spank both of your bare asses with a Lightning Whip!" the jinchūriki inside of the Nanabi ordered much to the surprise of everyone. Much more surprising was when the creature remained floating and did nothing. They all still jumped when the women inside the cell screamed in indignation at the beast after some time had passed.

"But we were fighting for our freedom dammit! Fū we don't need to fight for humans! No human has ever done anything for us so why should we?!"

"What about the women on the slavers' ship? You were the only half-breed there yet they followed your lead and protected you without a second thought during the fight. Or is it that you forgot?" the beetle's voice asked and it cut somewhat deep. It was deep enough that the wolf-branded sigh as she lost most of her rage.

"Fine I'll help you but I'm kicking your ass if we get in trouble!"

"Don't we always?" the Nanabi questioned with humor.

"Exactly!" Celina proclaimed with a smirk on her face and seemingly forgetting their position. Roy was quick to remind them.

"That's all good and dandy but both of you are still criminals in the eyes of Sea Heart considering your past actions. Plus how the hell are you going to help? Unless you turn back into a human I don't think that's possible!" Roy questioned once he had gotten up from the ground. His response can in the form of the beast lowering itself to the ground again and the orange light inside the helmet turning off. Shortly after that they saw two human arms waving at them.

"A little help here! I'm more of the fragile speedster type!" Fū cheekily called out from between the helmet's visor bars much to Celina's embarrassment.

Armstrong was the one to take up the challenge with a hardy laugh. Therefore he climbed the beast head and broke her out of the accidental prison with a display of strength which showed that his muscle weren't just for show. Yet before Fū could ask for a high five from the giant she found her left wrist cuffed. In confusion she turned and found Nalu savagely smirking at her.

'Well this feels familiar.' the green mint haired female thought with a raised eyebrow. But then again she did kind of had a history with the current leader of the Sea Guard. You know that kind of friendly friendship a law enforcer officer had with the criminal that always managed to escape them. "I thought we we're friends." the cuffed female commented with a pout. Nalu just scoffed.

"This Valkyrie along with her team trusts you and you help take down Freya but I sure as hell am not going to trust you." the aquamarine haired female announce.

"Geez! You're acting as if I stole your boyfriend." Fū complained with a cute pout.

All she got was Nalu keeping a straight face as the woman stabbed her ass with the trident. Instinctively the jinchūriki yelp and jump off her Bijū's head in pain while grabbing her butt. This made her made her fall straight towards the spike bars of Celina's cell. However she was spared the impalement as the water in the cell exploded upwards to capture both Celina and herself in a water bubble. But they didn't have to worry about oxygen as the sphere smashed into the ground and left them in the muddy ground completely wet and somewhat humiliated.

"Deep sea bitch." both of the women cursed out while spiting water.

"Hehe, Valkyrie-san sure knows who to meet interesting people doesn't she?" Mist giggled besides Titania from the place they had been blown away before.

"She certainly does seem to attract a lot of attention." Tatania remarked. But she somehow just knew that her life was about to take a turn towards the weird thanks to meeting the woman know as Valkyrie. Worst part was that she also knew she was already too deep in the rabbit hole. 'I just pray to the Maker that I can survive the fox that's sure to be at the end of the tunnel.' the red head implored to the Marker. She wasn't very religious but if she could get ambush by flesh eating animated corpses, meet and witness a fight between two Bijū holders plus a woman that could shoot colossal chakra blast for her hands in only a span of a few hours who was to say that things won't get any weirder form here on out?

Yeah a little praying for her sanity definitely felt good right now.

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[Medical Bay]

"When the hell did are they getting here? I'm getting sick and tired of waiting to know how the hell you came to be." Mjoll complained while sat besides Naruko's Gel Pod.

Naruko herself nodded at the motion but remained silent since trying to think of how she could get her hands on an Omni-tool. That thing looked like it would be very useful later on. But then again she really didn't know who was Medusa's previews employer or what it truly cost Medusa getting her hands on the extremely advance technology. Plus she was starting to scare herself from think of all the possible weapons and attacks she could make bases on that one tool.

"I told you that they'll be back any moment now." Medusa responded to Mjoll while tinkering with the computer since she had given up on hacking the Omni-tool for today. Then as if answering her call the sliding door to the Medic Bay screeched open and let the people she wanted to meet in. She also noticed that along the way here Ike and Elsy had joined up with Roy, Armstrong, Titania, Nalu, Fū, Celina and Mist. Not that it really mattered to her as they arranged themselves around different part of the room but all of them facing the doctor but also keeping Naruko in view.

"You may all be wondering why I gather you here on this fine evening." the doctor announce with a bit of flare.

"Cut the theatrics and get down to business. Who the hell are you, why are you here and why should we really trust you?" Mjoll promptly shoot down the daughter of two Sannin. But before they could speak anymore Roy chose to add his own thoughts.

"As much as I like to know that I believe Valkyrie-san here owns us an explanation." the Flame Alchemist remarked with a small glare while looking at the woman inside a machine he had never seen before.

"What do you want to know Roy?" Valkyrie questioned and was shot a 'You know what we want' look by everyone except Mjoll and Medusa. The former rolled her eyes while the latter gave a small smirk. "Fine but can you keep this between us and probably Martel and Masaru?"

"Only if it doesn't mean that my people died a meaningless death." Roy answered her with a daring glare and cross arms.

"No death is meaningless just instrumental for a cause." Medusa commented from her swivel chair. Valkyrie nodded at that.

"Thank you for that but Roy is right. I did lie to them about why I am/was fighting this war." the white haired female confessed.

"And the reason for it was?" the man asked with a somewhat impatient tone to his voice.

"I wanted revenge." was the simple response that woman gave. This confession was followed by a silence that proved how shocking the revelation actually was to the people in the room. Nonetheless the woman in the tank continued the story without a care of what they thought of her. What would happen next would happen because her emotions were already getting the better of her as she shook in grief, pain and hatred.

"I wanted revenge against the warlord named Saken how you uses were about to fight. I wanted revenge because he ordered the murder of my husband Mashiro because my love though it was wrong to kill old people for not having money to pay his incredulous taxes. His men came to Valka Village, my home village, to look for my husband. They found me nursing my first born alongside another mother.

Their leader blasted her head apart with a glove that send chakra blast. Then the bastard pointed his weapon at my baby boy's head. I… I forgot everything! I was trained in a shinobi village, I was taught to kill from the age of seven and I was taught who to fight by a freaking legend! Yet I froze up in terror long enough for one of the men to take my child from my arms.

Then they took him hostage and told me that if I didn't do as I was told they would kill my baby boy. So I did and they lead me to the middle of the village. There they stripped me naked and tied both of my arms to a separate posts. After that for the next two hours the bastards took pleasure in seeing me getting cut by their blades, whips and being burned by their torches. I was beaten bloodied and left my back scared for the rest of my life. All the while I remained conscious because one of the men had his sword to my son's trout.

Then when my husband got there they bound his limp one by one to a different horse. There leader then ordered the mounted men to run. I saw my husband being ripped and his last words to me were "I love you and I set you free." right before he was ripped apart. Then there leader said "Kill the child."

The man holding my son hostage smirked and raised his foot. The last thing I remember that day was his foot landing on the head my son. Ken'ichi was only one month old at the time and would've being one year old come this August.

So your question about wanting me to say who am I?

I would say I'm nothing but a broken woman who grieves for the lost of her only really family. I'm someone that realized she lost her purpose in life but is willing to help people if the need should arise. My name is Naruko Uzumaki the jinchūriki of the Kyūbi no Yoko born in Konohagakure. I'm the woman that was killed by her first love and friend. I am here on Gaia because I witness with my own eyes my village throwing a festival because my friend had murdered me. All the while probably not realizing that they were celebrating the murder of the 12 year old and that said 12 year old had been watching them.

So yes I'm not a native of Gaia but I've been affected by the war myself and I want to do something about. As such if you would please lend me your help if you still want to. If not you can go as I won your favors under false pretenses."

Once she finished her confession she closed her eye, remained silent and let the people in the room look for their know conclusions. She had already told most of it to Mjoll when they were inside her mindscape. The griffin had commented how she thought that Naruko was being a fool but decided to stay with her because she would need someone to bring reason. So she knew her summon would stay would her.

The same she could say for Fū because for some strange reason during the small first bump they shared during the battle they connected. They could not understand how or why but in that small moment they experience each other's life from birth to that moment without a single pause. It had been overwhelming, but at the same time it forged a connecting between them that neither though possible. They felt like they were now real family; like they were sister in all but blood. Therefore Naruko also knew that Fū would stand beside her which in turn would bring Celina.

But other than that she didn't know of the other's reactions. She did save Roy and Riza but she doubted it wouldn't be enough to ask them to abandon everything. Even from that start she had doubted they would just up and abandon their country for her. The same went for Alex and his wife Martel since they were only there because of Roy and Riza. Then there was Titania, Ike and Mist.

Those three were only with her because she had promised to pay for their services as mercenaries. She had yet to pay them a single coin so they could up and leave at any moment. Plus Titania was under strict rules to protect the only two children her boss had. This meant that continuingly fighting for the Valkyrie would only make her job much harder. She didn't even want to think of what the laguz would think of her considering the pack/clan mentality she had noticed they had from the small interactions she shared with them during the travels.

About the only people she could think right now that could stay with her were Elsy and Masaru. The former had joined her by free will and willing abandoned any life she had live but knew the girl could come to resent her. Then the latter was won by cheating and to tell the truth she didn't want a slave or hold that over the man forever since it could breed a seed of discord and hatred later on.

Thus the silent in the room remained after her confession. The only disturbance was the occasional sound of Medusa's fingers hitting the keyboards as she worked on something. But one thing was clear for summoner and summoned this even had broken alliances. Only time would tell if the broken bridge could be rebuilt.

"V-V-Valkyrie-sama…" Elsy's small trembling voice cut through the silence. At this everyone turned to see the girl looking like she was about to cry but holding it in with all her will.

"Yes Elsy-chan?" Naruko responded and looked at the girl that practical worshiped her.

"When you… When you killed the leader of the bandits controlling my home village… Did you do it because you wanted people to join you in your desire for revenge or because it was the right to do?" the young brunette questioned but everyone could see the girl begging for an answer with her honey colored eyes. Naruko could only sigh because she truly did not know if her answer would break the girl.

"To tell you the truth I did it because his men attacked me first. Your village was the first one I arrived at after training during fall and almost all of winter after I killed Saken. My plan had been to do a few jobs, get some fame and slowly built up my army. Then I was attack so fought back. It just so happened that those bastards stood for everything I hated."

"W-W-What if they had not attacked you?"

"I would've probably waited until I knew what was really happening and then attack. That would've of probably meant some of the woman would have been raped to death including you." Naruko answered and closes her eye again. She didn't need to see the girl's face. Her ears could hear the sound of footsteps running and the door screeching opened through the tank she was in. She also heard another set of footsteps follow the girl's. 'It's probably Mist that followed her. Those two back quick friends do to been the same age.'

"You did a real number on the poor girl. But then again we jinchūriki aren't known for being gifted with great social skills." Fū commented with an awkward chuckle. Said chuckle was accompanied by a depressing one from the whiskered Uzumaki who opened her right eye to look at the second caramel skin female.

"Heh, you're one to talk. You had to kill your two teammates and your sensei to escape the Elemental Nations." the white haired female accused in an almost playful tone.

Yet what was said hit everyone since it gave them a very disturbing image of the seemingly innocent looking green mint haired girl. Celina was surprise because she could not understand how the woman inside the tank could know such well kept secret. She herself had only learned of that only a few days ago after Nanabi-sama had established a small mental link between them. Fū on the other hand just giggle behind her cuffed hands.

"And don't forget Taki's Governing Council. Those old son of bitches were the real reason I turned out as lovely, smart, strong and beautiful as I am right now." the girl proclaimed and stroke the sexiest pose she could give with the handcuffs on.

Almost everyone saw her as if she had gone insane. Naruko smirked behind the breathing mask. Mjoll just rolled her yellow eyes at the lunacy between the two jinchūriki and knowing more would surly come. Still it was her that brought the meeting back on track.

"Okay now that the two major rejects in this room told their stories it's your time snake freak." the griffin woman ordered to glass wearing doctor. Said doctor spun her chair with reluctance to be able to see everyone and sighed.

"Fine but take a sit this one is going to be long…"

~Memory Monologue Start~

The first thing I ever remembered was walking up inside a tank with a group of men in white lab coats looking at me. My little body felt safe inside the tank and I actually called it mother during the time I was inside of it. The tank taught me many things, I saw many things and learned many things. Yet I knew that things I saw, experience and remember inside the tank where not my own.

Those memories were from my father and mother, Orochimaru the White Snake and Tsunade Senjū the Slug Princess both members of the Legendary Sanin respectively. I also learned my real propose in life while inside the tank. I was supposes to become the new vessel for my father's soul so he could live forever. I was born with the sole propose of becoming someone's doll.

But I was okay with it because it meant that I had something to live for.

Then one day the scientists in the laboratory decided to take me out of the tank and like a newborn child I cried for losing contact with a mother. But it didn't last long as they covered wet naked body with towels. It was then that I meet my father.

Orochimaru, he was a man that many feared, a man with a genius mind and great ambition. His was an intellect that came maybe once every 50 generations at the very least. He had both mental ability and physical fortitude to achieve things many thought impossible at his time. Be it biology or technology he was the one you wanted to look for.

But there was something that my-his memories did not show me about. That was that he was not a man that liked to wait for things he thought were perfect. It was his impatience that drove him to start the incredibly inhuman and borderline psychotic experiments. He wanted results and he got them no matter what it cost the people around him.

It was also the reason he created me and would later try to kill me.

He knew that as a human his life and time on earth was finite. Thus he created a two stage plane to ensure he would survive even against the Shinigami. The first part was to create a jutsu which would transfer not only his mind but his soul into a body there by escaping ageing and the time limit that can with it. The second part of the plan was to make the perfect vessel for him.

The first part he completed by using especially crafted and places seal plus a modified version of the Yamanaka's Mind Transfer Jutsu. The second part of the plan was simpler for him. He just needed to make a clone of himself. For this he "borrowed" 100 different donated egg cells from hospitals all over the Elemental Nations. Those 100 eggs were then implanted with his seed and each egg was grown separately in tanks.

Out of the 100 only 75 were successfully fertilize. Out of the 75 only 35 survive the first trimester. Out of the 35 only 10 survive the full pregnancy and matured into babies. Out of those 10 only 3 matured to the age of 6 through the rapid ageing process of the tanks. Out of those 3 toddlers only 1 survive the last year of experiments.

That last one was me. I was the lucky child that was born from the egg of Tsunade and sperm of Orochimaru. I was the only successful "clone" in that experiment. Yet even I turned out a failure after everything that happened.

The first indication was that for some unknown reason my eyesight was very poor no matter what they tried. Thus the reason as to why I'm wearing glass right now. The second indication was that no matter how many time I was put in a life or death situation my body would almost always lock in fear whether I want it to or not. The third and final indication was that while my chakra reserves were already at the same level as one would expect from a jinchūriki at the age of 8 my stamina was next to none. Something that I still battle with today although it gotten better since I can fight for at least a full minute before my body start begging me to spot.

About the only things I was able to do were the experiments. Whether it was biological or technological I was at good as my father. Then to their surprise I also develop a medical knowledge that reviled Tsunade's at that time. But to their utter disappointment while I know the theory behind her Super Strength Technique I can't produces it myself. Thankfully they forgot to ask me to teach it which I probably could if given the chance.

Thus it came to no surprise to me that I was scheduled for termination by my "10th" birthday. Thankfully by that time I was already well aware of their intentions and was able to escape the night before they were going to kill me. A few weeks later I found out that this was during the same times my father started making more experiments against Konohagakure as a kind of retribution for the village choosing Minato Namikaze as the Yodaime Hokage instead of him. This was also during the time he started creating the Curse Seals.

Thankfully for me I had the idea on how to make them since it was taught to me by father while he was still trying to work out how he could possibly place it in a human. I was also able to locate many of his bases and infiltrate them without problem to get some more information on his latest experiments. Heh, It was really funny considering that I was being hunted by his men and his bases were only equipped with almost no security unless father was there.

Yet for the next 3 years after my escape I lived the life of a nomad; living from place to place and never staying in the same place to long. During that time I managed to get through the day by either hunting with traps or stealing from places. But I can say that during that time I could've explored at least 25% of each country. I even managed to get my hands on a very rare treasure map that later I learned lead to one of the two Uzumaki Memory Chest. An impressive fit considering all of the countries were at war with one another. Particularly more so after the federation made of Kumo, Iwa and Kiri all but exterminated to Uzumaki Clan. But through it all one thing was for sure and that was that I didn't run out of dead bodies to do experiments; medical or otherwise.

But as time went on I got tired of the Elemental Nations and in the coasts of the west I kept hearing tales of a world beyond the Ocean's water. Consequently on my 13th birthday I decided to take one of the boats headed to that wonders land in the west.

As my luck would have it the ship was attack by a sea serpent. If you asked me that was most likely a summon sent to the cargo ship I had hidden in. Nonetheless the ship was destroyed and for the next 2 months I was shipped wreaked on the only life boat that survived the attack with only my backpack as my only comfort.

During that time I survive form the rations on my backpack. Yet even they only lasted me for the first 5 days. The remaining time I had nothing to eat or except the rare seagull I was able to take down and sea water. Worst yet was that during all of that time I was able to catch a fish only once and even then I lost it to the seagulls.

Then one day afternoon I woke up to see land just a little over the horizon. It was like a miracle to me when I saw it. So with reckless abandon I push my tired body to push the life boat to shore. I didn't care that my body was killing me, I didn't care that it was 25 miles to reach the shore and I didn't care that my tiny body was already at its limits. I had convinced myself that the Devil himself was on my side because Kami had long since shown me that he hated me. Thus I kept pushing myself until way into the night when I finally reach the shore.

I got out of the boat with my backpack and slowly took each step on the wet sand like it was my last with my head down almost not believing I made it. Yet each one felt like a small victory for me until my feet touched dry sand. Then I finally truly looked up and saw palm trees with coconuts. The view look beautiful, almost poetic the way the Moon's light hit their leaves while the cold breeze of the night's air flew around us and the sound of the ocean in the background.

Then just like that my body gave up and I collapse on the sand like puppet without strings. I didn't feel any pain at all but it was more like my body was made of lead. I couldn't feel anything nor move anything so a just stay there and accepted my dead. I didn't even cry at the unfairness of everything the cold air cares me.

But that was not my end as about an hour later I heard footsteps on the sand accompanied by the clang of metal. I knew that however it was they were coming from my left but I couldn't even lift my right pinky finger let alone move my head. Then the person stopped over me and flipped me onto my back with his foot.

There I saw a man on about 7'10'' in height, clad in black demonic armor that glowed red at the conjunctions, a black tattered cape with red underline waves in the wind and long white spiky hair like Jiraiya. But it was his face although mostly his crimson eyes that capture my attentions most of all. His eyes spoke of a man with confidence, power and authority. To me he was proof that the devil was real and he was standing before me in my final hour. Then he spoke…

"My name is Nobunaga and named the Immortal Demon King by the people of Gaia. My dear child and if you wish to live serve me until you outlive your use." he told me in a voice that made even my small body burn with want. Then he extended right hand. I looked at the gauntlet cover hand that resembled a demon's claw for a full minute.

I used my remaining power to raise my right hand and grab his hand.

That day I finally sold my soul to the Devil.

It was at that moment that for the next 7 years that the weapon's technology in Hell's Domain increase by my own hand. It was at the moment that the Curse Seals and their more evolved and purer forms the Blessing Seals started to appear in the Black Market as power boost.

And it was at that moment that the Miles Inferno became thousands upon thousands of super soldiers through my own biological engineering.

~Memory Monologue End~

"Thankfully 5 years ago I was able to finally escape with the help of the group known as Anonymous. But by that time my sins were already as great if not more so than my fathers'. Yet I'm here to help you Naruko Uzumaki for I and Anonymous see great things in you. So hope you ready for a long partnership Naruko-sama." Medusa finished her story with a smile reminiscent of one Kakashi would do.

In the wake of her story she left a room field of people in complete and utter silence.

Next Time: The warriors now rest from the battle but questions arise and alliances are broken.

Story Facts:

(1)

Think of the physic of the women in Mortal Kombat like Mileena if you want a better visual of Naruko's physic.

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