Back in the coliseum Simon, Tanza, Lisa, Shia, Kachu, Nina, and Nikita continued to look at a large sphere of light that had engulfed Timothy and Han when Timothy touched him. The ball of light had since floated above the coliseum and had stayed there. Shia had since sent Misty, Brock, John, Isabel and Isabela to see if there any injured people around.

"What's going on up there?" asked Lisa

"Timothy's just talking with Markus and probably Han as well." replied Tanza

"Why is he talking to them?" asked Simon

"I'm sure that because Markus is a Jinchuriki he had a hard and lonely childhood. Am i right?" asked Tanza

"Yea. I did what i could for him, but people always criticized him for what he was." nodded Simon

"I kinda figured that...Timothy knows how he feels and can identify with what he was going through. And with Han...well he knows how the Chakra Beast feel about be sealed away." explained Tanza

"What's going on?" asked Ash

"Chu...Pika...Pi." said Pikachu

Everybody turned around and saw that Ash and Pikachu had finally waken up and were now sitting up.

"Pikachu?" asked Kachu

"So how do you feel?" asked Shia

"Kinda sore, but otherwise i'm alright. What about you Pikachu?" asked Ash

"Pika...Pi." said Pikachu

Ash rubbed his aching neck when he suddenly looked up and saw the large sphere of light.

"What is that?" asked Ash as he walked up to the stand railing.

"Chu?" wondered Pikachu

"It's just Timothy." replied Shia

"Timothy...wait where's Markus?" asked Ash

"Don't worry...Timothy is taking care of him." replied Tanza

All of a sudden there was a large gust of wind coming from the large sphere of light causing everybody to look up. The sphere began to float toward the ground and land in the center of the arena before it started to fade. When the light finally faded they saw Timothy and Markus standing in the center of the arena. Everybody jumped from the stands and ran toward them with Simon running up to Markus.

"I'm glad your ok." smiled Simon

"Yea...i'm fine." nodded Markus smiling.

Simon looked at Markus shocked as he hadn't seen his brother smile in a long time. As he looked at him he couldn't put his finger on it, but he could feel that something about his brother had changed.

"Hay Simon, Lisa...i'm sorry about the way that I've been acting toward you two. Can you ever forgive me?" asked Markus

"I never held it against you." replied Simon

"Thanks bro." smiled Markus before looking over at Lisa.

"Don't worry I've never held it against and never will." replied Lisa as she hugged Markus.

"Thank you both." nodded Markus as he hugged Lisa back.

"So it seems like everything went ok." replied Shia

"Yea." nodded Timothy

"Pika." said Kachu as he jumped onto Timothy's shoulder.

Markus turned around and looked at Ash and Pikachu, before walking up to them and holding out his hand.

"Your strong...how about the next time we fight it's not to the death?" asked Markus smiling.

Ash looked at Markus and from him he now sensed a faint happiness, though he could still feel the rage he once felt.

"Alright then...next time we'll fight for fun." agreed Ash smiling.

Markus then turned around and walked back up to Timothy and stared at him for a second.

"Thank you Timothy...because of you now i feel as if there so much more that i can do." smiled Markus

"No problem...sometimes it takes the help of others to help you see what you've been missing." shrugged Timothy

"Well i'm not sure what I've been missing out on, but i'm going to find out." nodded Markus

"Specking of which what do you plan on doing after this?" asked Deoku

"I don't know...i might do a little traveling. There is somebody that i used to know that i wanna find.." replied Markus

"I see." smiled Timothy

"You mean Isao." stated Simon as he put his hand on Markus's shoulder.

"Yea." nodded Markus

"Who's that?" asked Lisa

"Isao Tamura...she was a girl that used to hang around our home." said Simon

"What happened to her?" asked Deoku

"Well when her parents found out that she was hanging around with Markus they banned her from ever seeing him again. This didn't stop her thought cause she took every chance she got to visit him...somehow her parent found out and then they move out of the village." explained Simon

"And i haven't seen her since. I was devastated when i found out and it only drove me farther into the darkness, but thanks to you Timothy i feel like taking a new path." smiled Markus

"Every man has his own destiny. The only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him." nodded Timothy

"I'm going to see where this path leads me." nodded Markus

"Well first up...even though your friends now you all did attack the Hidden Shadow. I could imprison you all for that." noted Shia

Lisa and Simon looked at Markus who looked back at Timothy who nodded his head before looking back at Shia.

"But we could use all the help we can get to repair the village." smiled Shia

"We'll be happy to help." agreed Simon

Just then a thought enter Simon mind which he since earlier causing him to turn toward Shia.

"Hay Shia can i ask you a question?" asked Simon

"Sure." nodded Shia

"Earlier i sensed that you were fighting against Ikiru...am i right?" asked Simon

"Yea." nodded Shia

"Well what happened to him?" asked Simon

"Yea i was wondering that to. After that explosion he ran off." agreed Deoku

"I don't think he's going to get far." assured Shia

""Why is that?" asked Deoku

"Well before he used that technique of his i struck him in the chest. When i did that i injected some of my Snake Chakra into him." smiled Shia

"Snake Chakra...what's that?" asked Markus

"How did that stop him?" asked Deoku

"I'll explain it to you later Markus, but to put it simply Deoku i told you before that even though the Snake Cloak was fast and not strong. I also told you that it contained a special ability. To make up for its lack of power the chakra of the Snake Cloak is also like poison." explained Timothy

"Cool...i didn't know that." said Deoku

"Yea...it eats away at the targets chakra and if enough is injected it can kill. I injected Ikiru with just enough to eat away the rest of his chakra. So if my theory was correct he should've ran out of chakra by now and now he is probably trying to find a way out of the village on foot." concluded Shia

"I see...so he's probably still in the village." said Deoku

"Right." nodded Shia

All of a sudden Misty, Brock, John, Isabel, Isabela, Micheal, Violet, and Kacy appeared beside them.

"Hay Ash, Pikachu your both ok." smiled Misty as she ran up to Ash and Pikachu an hugged them.

"Pika...Pi." nodded Pikachu

"Yea were fine." assured Ash as he hugged Misty back and blushed a bit in the process.

"So it seems that we missed the rest of the action." sighed Micheal

"Yea, but it wasn't much left going on after y'all left." shrugged Timothy

"So what's going to happen to them?" asked Violet as she pointed to Markus, Lisa and Simon.

"Don't worry about them...from this point on their allies of the Hidden Shadow." noted Timothy

"You've got to be kidding me!" shouted Kacy

"Seriously...i mean they did just attack the village.!" agreed Micheal

"And not only that, but they tried to kill us as well." nodded Violet

"I know how you all feel, but Markus has apologized for what he has done." replied Timothy

"For what he's done i think an apology is nowhere near what he needs to do." snarled Violet

"I don't think that i can trust or forgive them for what they've done." stated Micheal shaking his head.

"Me neither." agreed Kacy

"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. You must learn to forgive in order to move on. I've forgiven them and even Ash and Shia has." noted Timothy

"I'm sorry for everything we've put you all through. Even if you' can't forgive us now i hope that one day you can." replied Markus

Micheal, Kacy and Violet looked at each other for a few minutes before a group of shadow anbu appeared around them.

"Lady Shia your ok?" asked One of the anbu walking up to Shia.

"I'm fine...tell me what is the current situation in the village?" asked Shia

"The clan leaders and others are sweeping the village for any sand shinobi that is left. Many of the sand shinobi that haven't been killed have either fled or have been captured." reported The anbu

"Have there been any sightings of Ikiru Suna?" asked Shia

"No ma'am." reported The anbu

"Which means he might be hiding somewhere if he's still here. Alright everybody let's go see if we can track down Ikiru. Simon, Markus, Lisa i'm sure that you don't have a problem with that?" asked Shia

"No ma'am." They said

"Well let's get going...we'll also see whats going to need be repaired." ordered Shia

"Right!" They all said as they jumped the wall of the coliseum and made their way through Venom Forest

To Be Continued...