Chapter 30

For the last few hours, Revan and Scathach had been enjoying the sights the capital city had to offer. With Koyuki having publically announced that the two of them had helped her reclaim her throne from Doto, they were treated as heroes by the citizens of the city. Various vendors offered them discounts as thanks for freeing them from a brutal tyrant.

Scathach was used to such treatment since her subjects treated her the same way when she was Queen, as thanks for the prosperous lives they had under her rule. Revan had a bit of experience with hero worship thanks to him killing Naga, but it wasn't to this extent. Then again Britain had only feared Naga for several months, whereas the people here had lived under Doto's tyrannical rule for a decade. Resulting in the citizens of the Land of Snow having a good reason as to why their much happier compared to the wizard and witches of Britain.

After buying some discounted items and food, the two of them headed for the docks to say goodbye to Yugito and Samui.

"I hope you have a safe trip back to your village," Revan said politely standing in front of Yugito and Samui with their ship docked behind them.

"Me as well Lord le Fey, and thank you for everything you've done for Samui," Yugito said gratefully. Without Revan the burns to Samui back might have forced her to quit being a ninja, because the pain from the burns might have distracted her in a fight, getting her and her teammates killed.

"It was my pleasure," Revan said only doing it to manipulate her feelings towards him.

'What are you doing kitten? This is the last time you'll see ever him, you need to give him a kiss that he'll never forget, as thanks for healing your student,' Matatabi leered.

'Shut up,' Yugito thought furiously keeping her blush under control.

"All aboard," the ship's captain shouted.

"This is goodbye then Lord le Fey. I hope you enjoy the rest of your summer," Samui said coldly before boarding the ship.

"Thank you again for everything," Yugito said ignoring Matatabi's demands for her to kiss Revan.

"It was no trouble. The fights we got into were quite enjoyable after all," Scathach said grinning.

"I'm not surprised you enjoyed that part of the mission," Yugito deadpanned knowing Scathach was a bloodthirsty warrior.

"Nothing wrong with enjoying a good fight," Scathach said unabashedly.

"Anyway, I better go. Take care of yourselves," Yugito said walking up the ramp of the ship.

"We will," Revan said well aware Yugito will be reporting everything that had transpired during her mission to the Raikage. After all, someone who can defeat a tailed beast isn't someone she can't mention in her report. He can only hope his plan as least partially works, so he doesn't have to deal with another village desiring his power.

Once the ship had departed from the docks the two of them returned to looking around the city until nightfall, where they then returned to the palace for dinner with Koyuki.

Revan had noticed that before on the ship when they were filming, that when Scathach talked with Koyuki it was like talking to a complete stranger. But now while they certainly weren't friends, they were closer to each other. Later after dinner, Revan asked Scathach why she was closer to Koyuki all of a sudden, and she answered that she always liked brave people, and that's what Koyuki is now that she stood up to her uncle.

With Koyuki now possessing a backbone and emotions, Scathach now has an easier time getting along with her than before. He had to agree with her, as over the next couple of days they spent in the palace, he found that he didn't mind chatting with Koyuki thanks to her newfound personality.

It was their third day staying in the palace, and they were currently having lunch with Koyuki. With it just being the three of them, seeing as Koyuki didn't want to deal with the suck ups that were trying to earn her favour now that she was Daimyo.

Koyuki had an irritated expression on her face, "Why did I become Daimyo again?"

"You wanted to make your country a better place than it was under your Uncles rule," Scathach pointed out amused.

Koyuki huffed annoyed, "I know that, but I didn't realise I would have to deal with so many people trying to earn my favour, or so many marriage proposals all of a sudden."

"You've had marriage proposals already," Revan said only mildly surprised. Recalling what his Mother did to the poor unfortunate souls that requested her hand in marriage when she was Queen of Avalon. If he ever received any marriage offers he would follow his Mothers example, as that would discourage anyone from sending him any more marriage proposals.

"It hasn't even been a week since I became Daimyo, and I've already had over a hundred marriage offers," Koyuki said aggravated.

"Let me guess, most of those offers were from nobles," Scathach said. She was in a similar situation once, but she easily remedied the situation by saying she would only marry the person if she liked them, and they that defeated her in a duel. That quickly got rid of the very few suitors she had, as they knew they stood no chance against her in a fight.

"Yes, and most give the same bullshit reason in their offers, saying our marriage will stabilise the country. I'm no fool. It's obvious they want to marry me as they think it will make them the true ruler of the country instead of me, since as my husband I must follow his word," Koyuki snorted in ridicule. "Like I would ever let my husband walk over me."

It was only a week ago that Koyuki would have never stood up for herself like that, due to her lack of confidence in herself. He must say this was a vast improvement from before.

"Enough about those stupid nobles who think they can manipulate me. What about you two? Surely you've had marriage offers, what with your power and good looks," Koyuki said.

"I've never had a marriage offer in my entire life," Revan revealed, and he would like to keep it that way. Not wanting to deal with power hungry individuals. When he marries it will because of love, not politics.

"Really," Koyuki remarked surprised. "You're a Lord, very handsome, wealthy and powerful. How are women throwing not themselves at you?"

"In my country marriage proposals only take place between old families when negotiating a marriage between noble heirs. It's considered rude to just send a marriage offer to someone. I'm not saying it hasn't happened before, but it isn't done in polite society," Revan said.

In the modern magical world, magical contracts were only used by old families. Something he was thankful for as this meant he wouldn't be swamped by marriage offers. He was sure someone would end up eventually sending him a marriage offer, and making themselves look like a fool in the public's eyes. And when it does happen he'll make it clear to never to them, to never send another offer to him ever again.

"You're so lucky," Koyuki said looking at him with a jealous expression. "What about you Scathach? Have you ever had any marriage offers?"

"Only a few," Scathach admitted.

Revan looked surprised, "I would have thought you would have had plenty of marriage offers." He didn't have any romantic feelings towards Scathach, but that didn't mean he didn't notice how she had the looks of a Goddess and was the most beautiful woman in the world in his eyes.

Scathach smiled self-deprecatingly, "Not many men ever approached me with marriage offers."

Koyuki presumed most men were intimidated by her beauty and thought they stood no chance dating her, and so never tried.

'Creator we've found Aoi Rokusho. I'm sending you the memories of his location,' a clone said. A second later Revan received the memories from his clone of Aoi's location in the Land of Tea.

"If you would excuse me, ladies, I need to visit the bathroom," Revan said standing up knowing he needed to kill Aoi know before he could disappear.

"Of course take your time," Koyuki said before looking at Scathach. "So tell me..."

Revan didn't hear what Koyuki said as he headed for the bathroom. Once inside he checked there was no one in the cubicles, and that he was completely alone. When he was positive he was alone he changed into his Reaper outfit and sent a clone in his place to continue the meal with Koyuki. To prevent any suspicion arising.

Turning invisible he sneaked out of the bathroom and when he was outside the palace he turned visible and teleported to the Land of Tea. When he arrived he saw his clone standing right in front of him.

"Welcome creator. Aoi Rokusho is just across that bridge, and in the nearby village," the clone said pointing to a large bridge that covered a deep ravine.

Not wasting any time Revan ran across the bridge and arrived at the nearby village soon afterwards. While invisible he scouted the village where he came across Aoi talking to an old man on the outskirts of the village. Aoi seemed pleased by whatever they were talking about, and once their conversation was over, he departed the village in the direction of the bridge.

Once Aoi was safely away from the village, as that way no civilians would be caught in the crossfire of their fight. He slowly started closing the distance between them. Nearing the bridge Revan went through some hand signs and said, "Lightning Style: Lightning Dragon Jutsu."

Aoi managed to just avoid the lightning dragon by jumping onto the bridge, and at the same time activated the Sword of the Thunder God. Revan studied the sword and saw how a yellow blade emanated from the sword hilt. Due to the nature of the glowing yellow blade, he would say it was comprised of lightning chakra.

"Show yourself, coward," Aoi demanded looking around for his attacker.

Revan deciding it was pointless to continue hiding appeared at the edge of the bridge surprising Aoi with his appearance.

"To think I would attract the attention of the illustrious Reaper himself. I must say I'm flattered," Aoi said arrogantly.

"I've come for the bounty on your head Aoi," Revan said.

"I have the Sword of the Thunder God. There's no way you can defeat me in a fight," Aoi boasted.

"We shall see," Revan stated before running towards Aoi, and throwing several kunai at him. Aoi blocked the kunai with his sword, resulting in the kunai melting upon contact with the energy blade.

'So the energy blade is that powerful than,' Revan thought suspecting that the sword could cut through anything.

Revan formed one hand sign and said, "Wind Style: Devastation." Creating a massive blast of wind that was sent towards Aoi.

"Dam you," Aoi said barely managing to keep his feet attached to the bridge as it shook side to side.

Revan then launched himself at Aoi who tried to hit him with an upward slash of his sword, but he easily dodged it. Revan then raised his hand and sent a wandless Cutting Curse at Aoi, separating the hand that was holding the sword from his body.

"ARRRR," Aoi screamed in pain clutching his stump with his other hand, while Revan summoned the sword to his hand.

Revan held up the hilt of the sword and activated the sword by channelling chakra into it. He admired the blade of lightning chakra before looking at his first test subject to use the blade on.

"I'm going to bloody kill you," Aoi screeched holding a kunai in his remaining hand.

Too fast for Aoi to react Revan appeared behind him and slashed at his lower back cutting into his spine and making him a cripple in the process.

"What did you do to me?" Aoi asked fearfully not being able to feel his legs.

'This would be the perfect opportunity to test Death Predation on a human being,' Revan thought grabbing hold of Aoi's shoulder, and after making sure there was no one nearby teleported to a remote location.

"What jutsu was that?" Aoi questioned starting to feel the blood loss from losing a hand.

Revan ignored him and prepared to use a spell he had never used on a human being before. "Death Predation," Revan said creating black miasma around him that then spread in every direction for five feet.

The black mist killed everything in its path, and by the time spell was over nothing living remained. The surrounding grass and trees looked like they had been dead for years if not decades and Aoi's body looked like it had been decomposing for years. Oddly enough his clothes were in perfect condition, meaning the spell only worked on living things. That was something to remember.

While the Death Predation test went off without any complications, he was still going to experiment with the spell in the Shadow Realm in the near future. To see what else the spell was capable of. Revan then sealed away the sword and burnt down the surrounding area. To prevent anyone from investigating why there was a sudden patch of dead grass and trees in the middle of nowhere.

Hours later Revan was lying in his bed waiting for Scathach to finish in the bathroom, and get into her bed that was on the opposite side of the room. When they decided to stay longer in the palace Scathach used her favour from the bet to continue sleeping in his room. He originally wasn't going to allow it, but Scathach warned him she wouldn't teach someone that broke their word so easily. As a result, he was forced to allow her to sleep in the same room as him if he wanted to remain her student.

Scathach originally wanted her bed closer to his but he refused firmly. To make sure she didn't move her bed closer whilst he was asleep, he applied a Sticking Charm to her bed so she wouldn't be able to move it. She wasn't happy with his actions but having no desire to fight a losing battle, she accepted she wouldn't be sleeping next to him like on the ship.

"We need to decide if we're staying here until we need to go back to Britain, or departing in a few days so we can spend a bit more time travelling around the Elemental nations," Revan commented.

"I'm aware," Scathach said emerging from the bathroom wearing a pyjama top that hugged her chest showing off her lovely breasts, and pyjama shorts that highlighted her exquisite ass.

"What do you want to do then?" Revan asked noticing Scathach's state of dress as she got into bed, but didn't leer like most men.

"I think we should spend one more day here, before continuing our travels around the Elemental Nations," Scathach answered.

"That sounds like a reasonable plan," Revan said.

They then chatted away for the next ten minutes with Scathach telling him about Koyuki's plans for the country, such as once the generator is completed renaming the country to the Land of Spring. Feeling drowsy Revan called it a night.

"Goodnight Scathach," Revan said falling asleep.

"Night Revan," Scathach said closing her eyes with a smile on her face, enjoying Renan's presence even from the opposite side of the room. She never knew Shadowkahn were watching her for any ill intentions, as Revan still didn't trust her.

Koyuki was disappointed when they told her their plans but she accepted they couldn't stay for any longer, as they had things they needed to accomplish. Scathach knowing she might possibly never see Koyuki again spent most of her remaining day in the palace with Koyuki. Given that she enjoyed hanging out with Koyuki.

Revan did see Koyuki throughout the day but he also did his own thing, as he didn't fancy spending all his time with someone he considered an acquaintance. He did come across them having a girl talk one time, which made him immediately leave as he had no desire to find out what they were talking about.

It was the next day after breakfast that the three of them where standing in an empty courtyard saying their goodbyes.

"I'm sad to see you go. You've been wonderful guests," Koyuki said having enjoyed her time with the two of them, particularly Scathach.

"So am I, but we must be going," Scathach said having only four more days left in the Elemental Nations before they had to head back to Britain, as they needed to be back in time for the Quidditch World Cup.

Revan from his discussion with Morgana last night using the two way mirror had found out she had acquired tickets for the three of them to the Quidditch World Cup in the same box as the Minister himself. Morgana wanted to go as it would send a powerful message if he was in attendance with the Minister. He was only going because he wanted to see his friends after so long, even if it meant watching a boring Quidditch match. Scathach was coming along as she had never seen a Quidditch match before, and was very interested in seeing one.

He must admit he was surprised Morgana bought a ticket for Scathach but realised leaving her alone in their house wouldn't exactly making her think of them favourably when they were trying to learn rune magic from her.

"I hope you have a safe trip," Koyuki said.

"We will Daimyo Koyuki," Revan said before teleporting away with Scathach.

xxxxx

Yugito and Samui after knocking entered the Raikage's office. The office had windows at the back of the room that overlooked the village and had a large desk where the Raikage was currently sat. The Raikage had dark skin and a large muscular build, blonde hair, a small moustache and a goatee. He was wearing a white haori without a shirt underneath.

"Lord Raikage we have returned from our mission," Yugito announced.

Ay looked at Yugito intently. "Where are your two other students Karui and Omoi?"

"They died during the mission Lord Raikage," Yugito stated sadly with Samui clenching both of her hands in anger.

"WHAT! Tell me everything," Ay ordered as the mission shouldn't have been too difficult. That's why he allowed Yugito to go on the mission. As he couldn't allow one of the village's jinchuriki to be possibly killed on a high rank mission, and leave the village in a weakened position.

Yugito following Ay's order told him everything that took place during the mission. When Yugito was done explaining what happened Ay wasn't feeling particularly happy.

"You should have abandoned the mission when it became clear you were going to face an entire Hidden Village. They might have been a small Hidden Village, but they were still a threat to you," Ay said.

"What about the client? He threatened to make things difficult for the village," Yugito protested.

Ay snorted. "He was one man, and only a director at that. There wasn't much he could have done against us, and even if he did start kicking up a fuss we would have dealt with him." That he would have been assassinated went unsaid, but heard by everyone in the room.

"I'm sorry you lost two of your students, but I can't allow you to hunt down Deidara and Sasori at the moment," Ay said. He felt for them he really did, but the village comes first.

Samui looked furious. "Why can't we hunt them down?"

"Mind your tone Genin," Ay warned making Samui lower her head in submission. "As for why that's simple, Deidara and Sasori would kill you two easily in a fight. However, that doesn't mean I will allow them to get away with killing two loyal Cloud ninjas without consequences. Therefore I will be increasing the bounties on both of their heads to show them they can't get away with killing my ninjas, and expecting nothing to happen in return."

"Thank you Lord Raikage," Yugito said as it was better than nothing, though Samui didn't look happy.

"Now what you've told me about Lord le Fey is worrisome. The fact he could defeat you in your tailed beast form has completely changed the balance of power between the great five nations," Ay said not happy there is someone out there is capable of rendering their greatest weapons useless.

"He's not a ninja my Lord. He has no reason to get involved in the Hidden Villages affairs," Yugito said defending the person that saved Samui's life.

"You might be right Yugito, but how long will it be before he's dragged into our affairs by those who fear or desire his power. There is a reason Wood Style is revered and feared by so many," Ay said already knowing the Leaf's attempts to procure Revan for themselves have failed, and they won't be the last.

"As long as we leave him alone he won't become our enemy," Samui said confidently. She had studied Revan during their time together, and saw as long as you leave him alone he will do the same.

"You might be right Genin Samui. I guess I'll just have to wait a few months to see him in person, and get a read on him then to see what he really is like," Ay said not wanting to make an enemy of an S-class warrior that has Wood Style when there is no need.

Yugito was puzzled by what Ay meant. "What do you mean Lord Raikage?"

"That's right you had already left the village when we received the invitation to take part in the Grand Magical Tournament in Britain," Ay said before explaining the tournament to them.

"I presume my student will be taking part then," Yugito said secretly relieved Samui wouldn't be in any life threatening situations for several months after she had just lost two of her students.

Ay nodded. "The original plan was to have you travel to Hogwarts with your team so they could compete in the Chunin Exam part of the tournament. However that is unfortunately no longer an option, but Samui can still take part in the tournament that is legible for a single person."

"I will do my best," Samui said wondering if she will be competing against Revan in the tournament. If that was the case she knew without a doubt she would lose.

"The tournament is the perfect opportunity to show off the might of the village. That's way effect immediately Yugito you will no longer be taking any missions with your remaining student. Instead, you will be increasing Samui's training to improve her odds of winning her part of the tournament, and showing the world how strong our village really is," Ay ordered.

If the village could win at least two parts of the tournament as he plans on entering other teams in the Chunin exams, then people all over the world will know the Cloud Village is the strongest village in the world. And in the process, the Leaf Village will be knocked down from their pedestal of being the strongest village. Not that it should be difficult with their reputation currently being the lowest it has ever been in history.

"I'll take Samui to the hospital to get her back looked at, and if they give her the okay I'll begin her training immediately," Yugito said.

"Get to it then. The sooner you start her training, the better chance she has of winning her part of the tournament," Ay said impatiently.

"As you wish Lord Raikage," Yugito said bowing respectfully alongside Samui before departing to the hospital.

Ay turned around in his chair to look out at the village and imagined how prosperous the village could become if people all over the world knew how strong they really are thanks to the tournament.

While his plans for the tournament are all set, he needs to plan what to do about Revan. He easily defeated Yugito, and could possibly do the same to Bee. Despite what most thought about him isn't a muscle bound idiot, he is capable of thinking and learning from others mistakes. The Leaf's attempts to get Revan under their control have only failed and made him an enemy if his contacts in the ICW are correct.

He won't repeat the Leaf's mistakes. Unlike them, he won't attempt to get Revan under his control as he knows such attempts will fail. No, he plans on creating friendship between the two of them. From Yugito's report, it's clear Revan was fond of the two of them. If the way he helped them and healed Samui using that unknown medical technique was any indication

That's why he's going to subtly encourage Yugito and Samui to befriend Revan. He won't order them to find out Revan's secrets, because if Revan discovered what they were up to he could become an enemy of the village. He'll only encourage the two of them to hang out with Revan in their free time. So by the time the tournament is over, he'll see the two of them as friends, and by proxy have no desire to ever raise a hand against the village, because that's where his friends live.

It's a plan with great rewards and very little risks. Though that doesn't mean if Revan proves himself a threat he won't meet force with force. After all, he needs to think of the good of the village.

"Yes befriending Revan le Fey overtime with Yugito and Samui seems the perfect way to create a positive relationship between him and the village," Ay said grinning at his plan.

'Morgana will be very interested in this piece of information,' a Shadowkahn thought before disappearing.

xxxxx

It had been two days since the two of them had left Koyukuk's palace, and after travelling through the countryside of various countries, they were staying at an inn that was dozens of miles away from the Land of Waters borders.

The two of them were staying in separate rooms much to Scathach's displeasure, but Revan was firm about not sharing a room as he still didn't trust her. Not that he told her that, as that might undo the goodwill he's earned from her.

Revan had just finished talking to Morgana using the two way mirror to tell her where they are currently staying, and how they'll be back in two day's time. Morgana seemed pleased at that and told him she has plenty of things to tell him when he returns.

Not feeling tired Revan changed into his Reaper outfit, as he wanted to discreetly check the state of the Land of Water. Given that he hadn't been there since the Mist civil war. Leaving a clone in his place to prevent Scathach from getting suspicious in case he returns late, he left the room through the window while making sure no one sure him.

Revan turning invisible flew to the Land of Water and realised he wasn't too far from the village where he informed Suki that her rapist had been killed. Deciding his first visit should be there, he flew towards the village. When he was approaching the village he sensed a Chunin level shinobi fleeing the village while holding what he presumed was a toddler.

Floating above the village he could see the villagers were waking up in the middle of the night, and Suki crying for her child while being comforted by her friends. Seeing Suki's reaction it wasn't hard to figure out the shinobi had just abducted her child. Not standing for such a thing he flew towards the shinobi and caught up with him pretty easily. Appearing behind the shinobi he casted Imperio on him making him freeze in his tracks.

"Give me the child," Revan ordered holding his arms out.

The shinobi unable to resist the Imperius Curse handed over the toddler to Revan and stood there awaiting orders. Revan detecting a genjutsu on the child removed it, but luckily the child didn't wake up as he didn't want to deal with the tears of a toddler.

"Head to a location where no one will ever find your body, and slit your own throat," Revan commanded having no mercy for someone that would kidnap a child. Children were precious, and only a monster would deliberately hurt one.

The shinobi nodded before running off to follow his orders. Revan watched the Mist shinobi leave before moving towards the village at a sedate pace, as to not disturb the toddler in his arms. He arrived at the village twenty minutes later, and he saw everyone was now awake and looked angry. It didn't take long for some of the villagers to spot him holding the missing child.

"My child," Suki said crying tears of joy whilst she ran towards him and took her child out of his arms.

"I came across a Mist shinobi carrying a child, and seeing how he looked suspicious, I decided to investigate. And once I found out he had stolen your child I killed him, and came here to return your child to you," Revan explained.

Suki looked at him gratefully. "Thank you so much, Reaper."

"It is good to see you again Reaper," Shingen the village elder said approaching them, giving him a thankful smile.

"You as well Shingen," Revan said politely before getting serious. "Now can you explain to me why a Mist shinobi was kidnapping a toddler?"

Shingen and the villagers grimaced in disgust. "We should have this conversation indoors. No need for the little ones to hear what we're about to speak about," Shingen said motioning towards the children looking at Revan curiously.

"Lead the way then," Revan said noticing how the children were looking at him with eyes that were full of innocence. At their age, he had already lost his innocence thanks to how cruel the world is. He wondered if it would be the same for them as well in a short few years. As the Mist seems to be making immoral decisions that might end up affecting all the citizens of the Land of Water.

Shingen, Suki with her child, and Revan were in the elder's home so they could have their conversation without being disturbed

"Why is my child still asleep?" Suki asked concern holding her child in her arms.

"A genjutsu was placed on the child so he wouldn't wake up while being carried, and attract attention. However I removed it so the child will wake up soon," Revan said. The elder and Suki had no idea what a genjutsu was, but they were relieved there was no harm to the child.

"It seems I owe you a debt of gratitude that can never be repaid Reaper," Suki said.

"You owe me nothing, I only did the decent thing," Revan said waving off her thanks. "Now as to why I'm here, I want to know why your child was abducted."

Shingen gained a revolted and angry expression on his face. "We had heard rumours of children disappearing in the middle of the night throughout the Land of Water. At first, we thought the rumours were just that rumours, but then we heard more information to go along with the rumours. All the children kidnapped were born from rape."

"And all the rapists were Mist shinobi," Revan said sickened as he hated nothing more in the world than rapists.

Shingen sighed dejectedly, "Sadly you're correct."

Revan's opinion of Mei couldn't possibly get any lower. To think she would abduct children to induct them into her ninja forces. Mei was probably abducting at them a young age so that way they could be brainwashed into being loyal to the village, as that was all they would know having been raised in the village. They wouldn't think they would have a Mother out there somewhere in the world. No, they would think they were an orphan, and being taken care of by the village will only make them even more loyal to it.

Mei must be really desperate for Bloodline Limit users if she's resorting to such tactics, and the worst part is he knows her plan will work. In a few decades, she'll have a generation of Bloodline Limit users that are completely loyal to the village and by extension her.

"I would recommend moving to another country as soon as possible Suki. I might have stopped them this time but they will try again, and next time they might not be so gentle in doing so," Revan said.

Suki shot Revan a startled look. "The Land of Water is all I've ever known though."

"If you stay your child will be taken from you. What's more important to you staying where you feel comfortable or the welfare of your child?" Revan questioned sternly but kindly.

"My wellbeing of my child," Suki answered immediately.

"Then you know what you must do," Revan said.

"He's right Suki, you can't stay here," Shingen said softly.

Suki looked nervous. "Where should I go?"

"I know a place you'll be safe. So gather all your possessions, and I'll take you there," Revan said.

"I'll get right on that," Suki said anxiously.

An hour later Suki had all her important belongings in some suitcases and was saying her goodbyes to the villagers.

"I'll miss you so much," Suki said hugging an old woman while her child stood next to her looking confused by what was taking place.

Revan waited patiently for Suki to finish her goodbyes when he sensed three ninjas entering his sensing range. On the off chance more ninjas might come for the child, he stretched his sensing abilities as far as they could go. To be able to sense so far away he had to focus on nothing but sensing, as he couldn't afford to get distracted or else his sensing would fail. That is why he couldn't usually sense people fifteen miles away as he was focusing on other things. Several miles were fine, but any further he had to focus.

"I'll be back in a few minutes," Revan said before vanishing in a Body Flicker to the astonishment of the villagers.

"What do you thinks keeping Satoshi?" a Mist shinobi asked casually.

"Probably just having trouble finding the child he needs," another shinobi said. Not bothered by the fact they were kidnapping children. It was for the good of the village after all.

"You won't find Satoshi seeing as I killed him," Revan said appearing in front of the three Mist shinobi.

"What do you mean you killed him?" the leader of the squad asked nervously aware they stood no chance against Reaper. He survived a battle between Mei and Yagura when most people would have been killed in the crossfire if they were there.

"I found him stealing a child in the middle of the night. Such an appalling act deserves nothing but death," Revan said sending shivers down the Mist ninjas spines. "And I can't help but notice you seem to be friends with Satoshi, which means you were helping him in this endeavour."

The leader swallowed nervously. "You see-," That was as far as he got before he a kunai pierced his head between his eyes.

"Captain," his subordinate shouted shocked.

Revan roundhouse kicked one of the Mist shinobi in the head killing him, whilst at the same time drawing his wand and stunned the other shinobi. Using Legilimency on the shinobi he discovered his thoughts about Mei were correct. She was kidnapping children to improve the village's strength.

It did amuse him when he saw that Mei's position as Kage wasn't as secure as she would like. It turned out there was plenty of shinobi that were unhappy with her actions during the civil war. The only reason she hadn't been removed was that there was no one strong enough to replace her, and they needed to appear strong as they were still recovering from the civil war. Appearing weak would just invite people to attack or take advantage of them. This meant for the moment Mei was Kage, but how long that would last was up in the air.

Having read all the important information he needed Revan snapped the shinobi's neck, and returned back to the village. He reassured Suki everything was fine before walking with her and her son to the outside of the village. Once they were alone he placed a genjutsu on Suki and the child, so they wouldn't see him teleport them to the Land of Sea. He chose this location for them as it would be safe for them since there was no shinobi presence in the country here. That would want the child for his Bloodline Limit.

Once Suki was safe he teleported back to his room at the guesthouse he was staying in with Scathach. Lying in bed Revan's mind drifted to Mei and whether he should do something about her abducting children or not. If he did he would make an enemy of the Mist Village, as he imagined most of those in power agreed with Mei's actions.

Remembering Morgana's lessons about never rushing your plans or acting on your emotions as it will only backfire. He decided he would wait until he's back in Britain, and discuss with Morgana if he should do anything about the Mist Village.

The next morning Scathach was in his room eating breakfast as the food provided by the inn was appalling. So instead the both of them were eating the food he had stored in a seal as it was much more appetizing.

"We have to return to Britain tomorrow, so let's make today special," Scathach said enthusiastically while tearing into a croissant.

"There's not exactly much to do around here. So I don't see what we can do to make today special," Revan rebuked finishing his breakfast.

"Come one there's got to being something we can do together."

"I'll ask downstairs if there's anything to do around here," Revan said.

Subsequently, after breakfast, Revan went downstairs and asked if there was anything around here to do, but all there was some nearby islands that some people visited to see the sights. That would have been perfectly fine for Revan if he didn't notice the innkeeper acting unusual, whilst telling him the directions to the islands.

Reading the inn keeps mind he saw that a man in a black cloak would pay the innkeeper to direct people that he thought wouldn't be missed towards the islands. And from what he saw in the memories those people never did come back to the inn. Not showing he was distrustful he politely thanked the innkeeper and returned to his room where he then told Scathach everything.

"I wonder what this man in the black cloak wants with all those people," Scathach said thoughtfully tapping a finger against her chin.

"I have no idea, but I doubt it's for anything good," Revan said.

"Do you think Mei's ordering the kidnapping of these people?" Scathach said promising herself if she ever had the opportunity she would kill Mei for what she did during the Mist civil war, and for ordering the abduction of children.

"It's certainly a possibility. The only problem is I can't think why she would order the kidnapping of civilians. Given that I can't imagine what she would gain from such a thing," Revan said.

"Just because you can't think of a reason doesn't mean there isn't one," Scathach pointed out smoothly. "So are we going to investigate the island then?"

"I don't see why not," Revan answered seeing that the two of them could handle anything thrown at them.

"Then this should be an interesting experience," Scathach commented her eyes flashing with bloodlust as she expected a fight on the island.

"I imagine it will," Revan said knowing a fight was inevitable.

The two of them left the inn, but not before Revan left a clone to kill the innkeeper later in the day for all the innocent people he had made suffer. Following the directions the innkeeper had given them they walked a path that took them towards the sea. It didn't take them long to see the islands in the distance.

"I take it those are the islands the innkeeper told us about," Scathach commented.

"The islands match those from the inn keeper's memories," Revan confirmed.

The two of them followed the path given to them until they reached the beach, where they could see the islands were a few miles offshore.

"What now?" Scathach asked looking around.

"I presume the man in the black cloak or his subordinates would kidnap the people that arrived at the beach. However seeing how formidable we look, they might have thought they couldn't defeat us in a fight, and so left us alone," Revan suggested.

Scathach frowned. "Then that means these people have no morals and are cowards as well."

"Most likely," Revan commented.

"I can't stand cowards. They always expect others to help them, and then complain when they don't," Scathach said having turned away many people that wanted to be her student because they were cowards at heart.

'That sounds like most peasants to me,' Revan thought. "You still up for visiting the island."

"Of course," Scathach said wanting to kill the group of cowards that were kidnapping innocent people.

"The only problem is you can't walk on water like I can. Therefore how are we going to get you across the sea to the island?" Revan questioned.

Scathach smirked with her eyes laughing in delight. "I have an idea to fix that problem."

"What is it?" Revan asked not liking the look on her face.

"You'll see," Scathach said smiling.

'I can't believe I'm giving her a piggyback ride,' Revan thought carrying Scathach on his back while he walked across the sea to the nearest island.

The only reason he was carrying Scathach was that he didn't want whoever was on the island to know he was capable of flying, and conjuring a boat for Scathach would just make her an easy target. Scathach on the other hand was greatly enjoying Revan carrying her, as she found Revan's presence soothing.

That didn't mean she had let down her guard though, she was still aware of her surroundings and had her spear ready for any surprise attacks. It turned out her caution was well founded as when they were a hundred metres away from the island a large wave appeared heading towards them.

'Why am I not surprised I'm getting attacked,' Revan thought dryly jumping over the wave and throwing Scathach towards the beach so she could deal with the attackers that had gathered there.

Revan seeing a ninja on the beach separate from the other ninjas presumed he was the one responsible for the earlier attack, and so appeared in front of him and sent a Cutting Curse at him removing his head from his body. He then noticed on the ninja's headband a symbol of the Sound Village was engraved on it. Meaning the ones responsible for abducting people wasn't the Mist Village like he initially suspected, but the Sound Village. Why Sound ninjas would abduct civilians eluded him at the moment, but he would find out what their objective was.

Revan calmly walked across the beach towards Scathach who was taking her time dispatching the five Sound ninjas. He made a mental note to talk to Scathach about taking her time during a fight. While he understood her love of fighting, that doesn't mean she can take her time killing her opponents, when they have more important things to do.

"Finish them off Scathach. We have other things to be doing," Revan dictated knowing they still needed to investigate the island, and he didn't want to give any ninjas inside time to prepare any traps for them.

"Ruin my fun why don't you," Scathach complained twirling her spear around before in a flash all five Sound ninjas fell to the ground dead.

"Impressive fighting skills as always," Revan remarked having been able to follow Scathach's movements as she impaled all of the Sound ninja's hearts within seconds.

"Thank you," Scathach acknowledged enjoying the praise from her student. "Now let's go and kill the cowards hiding inside the island."

"With pleasure," Revan agreed.

Scathach and Revan following the Sound ninja's footsteps on the beach, found a nearby cave that seemed to go on for quite a while. Walking through the cave they prepared themselves for any ambushes, but no attacks came.

"Can you sense how many ninjas are inside the base?" Scathach asked keeping an eye out for any attacks.

"No, I can't sense anyone on the island. They must be able to hide from sensors somehow," Revan answered whilst pondering if he could detect anyone in Sage Mode, but knew now wasn't the best time to find out.

"Then it looks like we're doing this the old fashioned way. Storming an enemy base with no knowledge of the numbers you will end up facing," Scathach said enjoying the challenge this presented.

"You and your bloodlust," Revan commented almost fondly.

"Please we both know you aren't bothered by my bloodlust," Scathach teased.

"I neither confirm nor deny anything," Revan said smirking while walking around a corner and coming across a large metal door. "It looks like we found the entrance to their base."

"Shall we make an entrance," Scathach said gripping her spear with both hands, and bloodlust appearing in her eyes.

"We'll make it unforgettable," Revan said darkly drawing his wand and pointing it at the door.

On the other side of the door was a large room that leads into numerous corridors, and had seven Sound ninjas ready to fight the intruders.

"Get ready men," the Jounin commanded.

"Where the fuck is Kimimaro? We could use his help right now," a Sound ninja said frustrated.

"You're more than welcome to ask him for help yourself if you want," the Jounin said mockingly silencing the ninja who was well aware that was a death sentence.

Hearing a noise coming from the other side of the door all of the Sound ninjas focused on it readying themselves for an attack. They were prepared for anything when the door flew off its hinges covered in white fire striking the nearest ninja and killing him in the process. Before they could react a huge white fiery blast flew through the entrance, and upon contact with the floor it exploded outwards incinerating everyone in the room.

"That dealt with the rabble easily enough," Revan said entering the room, and not even giving a passing glance to the ashes of the men he had killed.

"While that was an impressive piece of magic, you could have left some of them alive for me to fight against," Scathach commented a bit annoyed.

"I'm sure you'll get your chance," Revan said while deciding which corridor to go down.

"We'll cover more ground if we split up. Hence I'll take this corridor, and you take that one," Scathach said before running down the left hand corridor.

Revan watched as Scathach ran down her corridor easily seeing through her plan. She wanted to have the opportunity to fight some Sound ninjas without him there to steal her kills, or forcing her to hurry up her fight. That way she could enjoy her fights for as long as she wanted.

Ignoring Scathach's bloodlust he went down the right hand corridor where he eventually found himself in a large room. The room was comprised of various tables that had a stack full of notes on them, and at the far end of the room standing by a table was a Sound ninja.

The Sound ninja slowly turned around and Revan saw he was wearing a lavender long sleeved shirt, black pants, traditional shinobi sandals, and a purple, rope-like belt tied around his waist. He also wore two red, tube-like hair ornaments one on either side of his head. Revan also saw he had a circular pattern of three curved lines at the base of his throat.

"Revan le Fey, I never expected the one to be attacking the base to be you," the Sound ninja said calmly, and like he was talking to an insect beneath his notice.

Revan ignored his tone knowing he was trying to get under his skin. "And you are?" As he could sense the ninja before him was high Jounin in power.

"I am Kimimaro a servant of my Master," Kimimaro said his tone calm except for when talking about his Master then it became reverent.

"And who is your Master?" Revan inquired.

"Lord Orochimaru," Kimimaro answered worshipfully.

Revan didn't show it but he was surprised by what he had just learnt. With what he knew of Orochimaru there is no way he wasn't the leader of the Sound Village. His pride wouldn't accept anything less. It would also explain why people had been abducted. As it would match what he had heard of Orochimaru conducting horrific experiments on people in his quest for knowledge.

"Is Orochimaru in this base at the moment?" Revan asked because if he was things had just become much more complicated and dangerous.

"Lord Orochimaru hasn't visited this site in several months. He merely dispatched me here to retrieve some notes for him," Kimimaro replied calmly while Revan wished he was closer so he could his read his mind to find out if he was telling the truth or not.

Aware of the possibility Kimimaro is lying and Scathach could be currently fighting Orochimaru Revan swiftly as possible flicked his wand sending a score of dark curses at Kimimaro. Kimimaro removed his arms from his shirt letting it resting around his waist, and grew large bones all over his body.

'Well that's certainly different,' Revan thought having never seen someone do that before.

Kimimaro then pressed his hands against the ground, and a wall of bones rose from the ground blocking the curses.

'He'll have to do better than that,' Revan thought sending a charm that turned the bone into stone, which was then easily destroyed by his curses.

Kimimaro rolled to the side out from behind his destroyed cover and shot bones from his body towards Revan who banished them back towards Kimimaro, who easily deflected them with the bones on his arms.

Revan sent a wave of fire towards Kimimaro who simply grew massive bones on his body to protect him from the fire and carried on running towards him. Seeing Kimimaro getting closer to him Revan sent a massive blast of lightning from his wand, that Kimimaro blocked by creating a massive bone shield on his right arm.

Kimimaro then engaged Revan in taijutsu fight forcing him to the back of the room. Revan grabbed Kimimaro's extended left arm ignoring the pain from the bones penetrating his hand, and threw him across the room.

Kimimaro flipped over in mid-air so his legs hit the wall causing cracks to form on the wall before jumping out of the way of the fire Revan sent towards him. Revan went to kick Kimimaro in the chest when black lines appeared on his skin, and Revan could sense his power had suddenly increased.

'I can only sense foul chakra coming from him now. Orochimaru must have done something to him to increase his power,' Revan thought.

Kimimaro moving faster than before managed to get pass Revan's defence, and tried stabbing him in the chest with a large bone extending from his hand. Revan twisted his body to the side and smashed the large bone into pieces with a powerful punch. Not perturbed Kimimaro clenched his body, and shot bones from every inch of his body that Revan stopped from hitting him using his telekinesis.

"Now die for my Lord," Kimimaro said calmly like he wasn't about to kill someone, changing his arm into a massive bone spike before aiming for Revan's head.

Revan blocked the attack with his right arm and followed up with a fort kick to Kimimaro's chest that sent him across the room.

Not stopping there Revan sent an overpowered Bone Breaking Curse at Kimimaro who created a bone shield on his other arm and blocked the spell with it. However, he was shocked when his bone shield was destroyed by the spell. Revan then moved around Kimimaro sending numerous Bone Breaking Curses at him, who tried to dodge them all but failed. Revan saw they were currently in a stalemate at the moment. As soon as he destroyed Kimimaro's bones with a Bone Breaking Curse he would simply regrow another one. At the pace they were currently going, whoever would win would be the one to last the longest.

Imagining Scathach fighting Orochimaru he decided to stop holding back, and so did Kimimaro if the way his skin started turning grey was any indication. Not wanting Kimimaro to move he shot a dark ice spell at his feet that encased them in ice, and was quickly expanding so it was now covering his legs as well. Kimimaro went to break the ice with his right arm when Revan unleashed yellow heat beams from his eyes.

Kimimaro seeing the yellow heat beams coming for him raised both of his arms in a defensive position and created a massive bone wall that looked stronger than the last one. However, Kimimaro's efforts were futile as the beams cut through the bone after several seconds, and pierced his chest.

Revan not paying the lifeless form of Kimimaro any thoughts whilst it was falling to the ground rushed out of the room to find Scathach. After passing numerous dead Sound ninja bodies on the ground, he eventually found Scathach standing by the entrance of a room.

"I'm glad to see Kimimaro was telling the truth about Orochimaru not being here," Revan said gratified while walking towards Scathach. "I am however surprised you're just standing here, and not looking for more Sound ninjas to kill…" he trailed off when he stood next to Scathach and saw the room was full of piles of dead bodies, which consisted of people of various ages.

'They're alive,' Revan thought surprised and sickened when he could see the evidence from experiments that had been conducted on them. He was especially horrified when he saw dozens of children looking at him with soulless eyes. Some were even missing limbs. He could feel bile rising in his throat from the state of the people in this room, particularly the children.

His heart broke when he saw a boy that could have only been five years old missing both of his hands lying under the body of what was most likely his dead parent, not moving in the slightest. He might be apathetic to the fate of strangers, but he would have to be a true monster to not feel anything at the fate these people suffered. Then again he always had a soft spot for children, thanks to his Mother being the Goddess of families.

"After killing off all the Sound ninjas, I thought I would see if I could find any of the people that had been abducted, and free them from this place," Scathach said calmly trying to contain the anger and disgust she was feeling from seeing the suffering these people went through.

"And you found them like this," Revan said softly. While he has no problem with torturing and killing one's enemies or those that deserve it, kidnapping innocent civilians to experiment on is too far. It's pure evil in his opinion.

"Yes one of the Sound ninjas I interrogated said they were preparing to move to another base soon, and it would have been too difficult to transport all the test subjects there, so they moved the people to this room to be disposed of," Scathach said clenching her hands in anger.

"This is sickening," Revan said revolted. The only reason he hadn't looked away because he had seen a lot of horrors during the Mist civil war, and so was used to seeing atrocities. Despite how much he wished he wasn't.

"Could you use the spell you used on me to restore my sanity on the people here to help them recover from what happened to them?" Scathach asked looking at him hopefully.

Revan grimaced. "No, I can't. You might have been insane, but you still had a mind that could be healed. The people in this room couldn't handle what was done to them, and so their minds completely shut down to protect themselves from what they were experiencing. Without a mind, the spell would have no effect on them. Meaning their current state is sadly permanent."

Scathach looked like she wanted to protest before she lowered her head in defeat. "I thought that might be the case, but I hoped you might have been able to do something for them," Scathach said sadly.

"I wish I could do something for them as well," Revan said. He might be apathetic but he always helps people in front of him if he can, as long as it doesn't cost him anything.

"This isn't living for them, it's hell," Scathach commented.

"I agree," Revan said aware where Scathach was going with this.

"We need to put them out of their misery," Scathach announced and was surprised by the lack of protest by Revan. "I don't want to do this. but it's a kindness for them."

"Don't worry I understand," Revan said reassuringly knowing many people would call them evil for killing them. However they would never understand they were freeing these people from a life of torment, and it was in fact a mercy kill. They couldn't even be called people anymore, just lifeless husks for Orochimaru to experiment on. Scathach was right in that regard the muggle world had become soft with their technology. They would have tried to heal these people, but death was the only solution for them.

"Do you want to put them of their misery or should I do it?" Scathach questioned not sure if Revan was capable of doing it.

"We'll do it together," Revan said as he was no coward. He wouldn't look away, and let Scathach do the deed by herself.

"Very well, on my mark," Scathach said appreciating her student was going to do this with her.

Scathach with her free hand drew a rune in mid-air that shot fire into the room, while Revan shot blue flames out of his wand that turned everything it came into contact with into ash. Revan and Scathach watched as the flame consumed the rooms. They never looked away even as the flames engulfed the children, as it would be a disservice to do so.

When the flames died down the two of them just stood there in silence not exchanging any words, after all, what could they say after what they just did to those people, even if it was a mercy. Several minutes passed before Revan broke the silence.

"Come on let's look around the base. There might be a map somewhere that has the location of Orochimaru's other bases," Revan said. If they could find a map, they could prevent people from suffering the same fate as those people did.

Scathach nodded and stayed close to Revan as the two of them searched the entire base for anything valuable, but all they found were notes on experiments that Orochimaru had conducted on the captured prisoners. He did find why he couldn't sense anyone in the base while looking through Orochimaru's notes and it was because of seals that were plastered on the walls of the base.

The seals were designed to interfere with any sensors, by making them only feel nature chakra in a designated area. This prevents any sensors from detecting someone, even if they were a few feet away from someone. This which would explain why the Leaf had such a hard time tracking down Orochimaru, as they couldn't even detect a nearby base of his if they even tried.

The seals weren't full proof Revan could tell that. As they were designed to draw in nature chakra from the surrounding air, but the seals were getting corrupted in the process if the foul chakra they were giving off was any indication. He did sense when he placed a hand on the seal a piece of chakra that belonged to someone and wasn't nature chakra like the rest of the seal.

Sadly he couldn't find any notes about the seals used by Orochimaru, meaning he couldn't find out how Orochimaru created such a complex seal. At least in the future, he knows to sense for a small piece of someone's chakra mixed with nature chakra, if he wants to find one of Orochimaru's bases.

"There's nothing of use anywhere in this base," Revan said annoyed. He promised to himself to kill Orochimaru if he ever encountered him. The notes he read showed a truly amoral person that could not be allowed to live.

"We should he back to the inn and kill the innkeeper for sending commoners here to suffer a fate worse than death," Scathach commented angrily.

"I created a clone when we left the inn this morning to kill the innkeeper when we were far enough away," Revan revealed.

"Good," Scathach said with a smile that promised only suffering for the recipient.

"This place should have never existed," Revan said appalled. "That's why once we're safely outside I'm going to burn this place to the ground."

"I approve, and it will infuriate Orochimaru I'm sure," Scathach said with a dark grin. "By the way, you still haven't explained who Orochimaru is to me."

"I will later, but first let's head outside for the show," Revan said leaving the base with Scathach.

Not wanting to leave any evidence behind on who might have attacked the base, since Revan didn't want to make an enemy of Orochimaru as he had enough of those at the moment. He moved the bodies from the beach to the cave and raised his wand casting Fiendfyre that he sent down the cave, and into the base destroying everything. For ten minutes Revan controlled the flames, and once he was sure everything was destroyed he banished the flames.

Revan then returned to the beach with Scathach and stood on a patch of grass as no footsteps would be left behind there. He then waved his hand and removed any signs of a disturbance from the beach. After checking there was no way for anyone to identify who had attacked the base, he placed his hand on Scathach's shoulder and teleported them to the Land of Woods.

Revan once they had arrived contacted his clone at the inn and filled it on everything that had happened at the island, and ordered him to also Obliviate everyone at the inn. That way if a Sound ninja investigated the surrounding area looking for the one responsible for destroying the base they would hear no mention of him and Scathach, who would be thought as the most likely suspects because of their power.

"I suppose seeing what was on that island has ruined the day for the both of us," Revan said no longer feeling the desire to explore.

"I had hoped to see new sights with you today, but I no longer have the desire to do so," Scathach said tiredly used to the horrors of the world. "I know what will help us after that ordeal though, partaking in the oldest tradition known to man."

"And what tradition is that?" Revan questioned.

"Why getting drunk to try and forget what you have just seen," Scathach answered.

"That doesn't sound helpful at all," Revan said since the memories would still be there the next day.

"No it isn't, but I need a drink after that," Scathach said her tone making it clear she was having one if he approved or not.

"Fine, I'll come with you. Seeing how you need someone to keep an eye on you to make sure you don't get into any trouble," Revan said lacking the usual teasing he would have used in his tone after what he just saw.

"You'll be drinking with me of course. Given that it's a tradition for a teacher and student to share a drink after a troubling day," Scathach said walking with Revan towards the nearest place that serves alcohol.

"The only problem with that is that I don't like the taste of alcohol, and I can't get drunk," Revan said.

"What you can't get drunk!" Scathach said surprised before realisation appeared on her face. "That's how you managed to beat me on the ship, isn't it. You didn't outlast me you simply never got drunk in the first place."

"Guilty as charged," Revan commented with a small smile.

"Ha, you're a devious one aren't you?" Scathach asked not really bothered by Revan tricking her.

"What can I say you're amusing when you're drunk," Revan said.

Scathach wrapped an arm around Revan's shoulder and leaned in close. "In that case, I'm getting as drunk as possible, and you can make sure I don't get into too much trouble."

Knowing Scathach needed to unwind after today Revan said. "That's no problem for me."

They eventually found a small town where they rented a room at a hotel and then went to a nearby bar where Scathach ended up buying the strongest alcoholic drinks they had. With how potent the drinks were it only took a few hours to get her drunk, despite the fact being a half demon it should have taken much longer. That just showed you how strong the drinks were, and how fast she was drinking them.

Late into the night once Scathach was completely smashed out of her head Revan took her back to the hotel. Revan guided Scathach to her bed, and once he pulled the covers over her he headed to his room.

'I hope I don't have any dreams about today,' Revan thought trying to be optimistic but was well aware he would despite his hopes.

The next morning Revan slowly woke up when he felt the sun's rays on his face. Yawning and getting out of bed he was glad he only had a few dreams about yesterday, as they were extremely unpleasant to have. Once he was changed he knocked on Scathach doors, but he received no answer.

'She's still asleep,' Revan thought sensing she was still in bed.

Revan unlocked the door and stepped into the room, where he saw Scathach was fast asleep. He dispelled the clones standing guard on the roof of the hotel as he no longer needed them. Walking up to Scathach he placed his hand on Scathach's shoulder and gently shook her awake.

"It's time to wake up Scathach," Revan said gently.

Scathach slowly stirred before she opened her eyes, and saw Revan standing above her shaking. She groaned before flipping the bed covers off her body showing she was still wearing her bodysuit and pulled Revan into the bed before he could react. Scathach then pulled the covers back over them and snuggled into Revan wanting to get comfortable.

"Let me go right now Scathach," Revan said annoyed not liking being grabbed so suddenly.

"Your very presence is very soothing to me did you know that?" Scathach inquired still part asleep while wrapping her arms and legs around Revan so tightly that escape was impossible for him.

Revan didn't care Scathach enjoyed his presence. He didn't like being grabbed like that. "Scathach-"

"I could have easily become like those people you know," Scathach interrupted. "How much longer could I have endured my time in the Shadow Realm before my mind regressed to that of an animal, or my mind completely collapsed like those poor people?"

Revan eyes softened now aware of why Scathach was so disturbed by yesterday's events. She saw a possibility of what she could have become if he hadn't rescued her.

"Scathach there is no way you could have become like them. You are far too strong both mentally and physically for that to ever happen," Revan said strongly.

"You really think so?" Scathach asked her eyes devoid of life showing she was still affected by her time in the Shadow Realm.

"You are my teacher, there's no way you would ever let yourself be easily defeated like that. Particularly by your own mind," Revan said smiling encouragingly.

Scathach smiled appreciating the faith Revan had in her. "If my student says so who am I to disagree with him."

Revan could see his words were affecting her when the light returned to her eyes. "I'm glad that's settled. Now can you release me," Revan said happy to help her, but he wanted his freedom back.

Scathach adopted a thoughtful look on her face. "You're far too comfortable to let go. So I'll believe I'll keep you here for the time being," Scathach said with a grin enjoying Revan's presence far too much to let him go.

"Scathach," Revan said warningly. If Scathach was a friend he wouldn't have minded as much, but she was still an acquaintance to him.

"You've seen war haven't you?" Scathach asked suddenly stopping Revan from what he was originally going to say.

"What makes you say that?" Revan asked not bothering to deny or confirm anything.

"I have fought in plenty of wars when I was Queen, and so I can recognise the look in your eyes from yesterday when you saw the bodies. It was the look of someone who had seen horrors before, and this was another to add to the list. And the only way you could have gotten those eyes was in a war where you see a lot of terrible things. If it was your first time seeing something like that you would have reacted much more strongly, no matter how well you control your emotions. Am I wrong," Scathach said.

"No, you're not. I've fought in a war, though it was only for a few months. You can't tell anyone that I did, as it would attract too much attention if it was ever revealed that I took part in a war," Revan said seeing no point in denying something that was obvious.

"I knew you weren't a boy like most people your age, but I never expected you to be so grown up," Scathach said.

"I haven't been a child in a very long time," Revan said as his childhood ended with the death of Stephanie.

"For most people, I would call them liars, but I know you're telling the truth. I can see it in your eyes, you've already seen a lot in your short time in this world," Scathach said softly.

"While that is true, I have managed to overcome whatever the world threw at me," Revan said. He didn't want to admit it, but he is only as strong as he is because of what he has suffered through.

"From what I can see you overcame those challenges magnificently, and became a stronger person because of it," Scathach commented.

"That I have, perhaps one day I'll tell you more about what I've faced in my life, but not today," Revan admitted seeing the possibility of becoming good friends with Scathach, and sharing more of his past with her. But that was a long way away.

"I look forward to that eventful day," Scathach said happy Revan will share more about himself eventually with her. She did like knowing more about her student after all.

Revan tried freeing himself from Scathach's grip, but she wouldn't let him go. "It's time to get out of bed Scathach. We do need to return to Britain at some point today."

"Do we have to? I'm very comfortable here," Scathach complained wanting to stay in bed with Revan. That's why she had brought up his eyes to distract him, so she could enjoy his body pressed against her for as long as possible.

"Yes we have to Scathach," Revan said finding the look on her face cute, and beautiful at the same time.

"Fine," Scathach said releasing Revan from his grip.

"Thank you," Revan said getting out of the bed. "Let's get some breakfast, and then we can decide what to do for the rest of the day before we need to head back to Britain."

'I would have rather stayed in bed with you than have some breakfast,' Scathach thought disappointedly missing his warmth already.

When they were full from breakfast the two of them left the town, and Revan having a notion of how to take Scathach's mind off from yesterday proposed an idea.

"You want to hunt down some bandits and kill them," Scathach said surprised by the random suggestion.

"I thought killing the scum of the world would help you release some of the hatred you have in you from yesterday," Revan said.

Scathach scratched her chin thinking the idea over before a bloodthirsty smile grew on her face. "I approve of your suggestion. I get to remove the filth of this world, and work some of my anger out of my system."

"Then I'll dispatch some of my clones to find some bandits, and once they do we can deal with them," Revan said darkly.

It was an hour later after having told Scathach everything he knew about the Sound Village and Orochimaru that this clones contacted him telling him they had found a bandit camp. Receiving the bandit's location he teleported himself and Scathach not too far from it. They then moved towards the bandit camp discreetly and jumped into the trees to get a better look at the camp. Where they saw the camp was comprised of thirty bandits.

"Do you wish to attack first Scathach?" Revan questioned quietly so as to not be overheard by the bandits.

"It would be my pleasure," Scathach answered with a bloodthirsty smile before jumping from the tree branch she was crouched on and throwing her spear impaling one bandit in the chest.

'She really does enjoy fighting,' Revan thought watching as Scathach took her time dealing with the bandits.

'Creator I have erased the memories of everyone that was at the inn, and have killed the innkeeper,' the clone he left at the inn said.

'Good, Orochimaru will never suspect us destroying his base, and that innkeeper got what he deserved for sending so many innocent to be experimented on,' Revan thought pleased while keeping an eye on Scathach killing the bandits.

'I thought the same creator,' the clone commented.

'You can dispel yourself now. Your job is completed,' Revan said.

'Yes creator,' the clone said before cutting the connection.

Having dispelled the clones from earlier that lead him to the bandit camp he realised he had no more clones in the Elemental Nations. With no more clones running about he had no one to pretend to be Reaper for him while he was in Hogwarts but was that still necessary he pondered. If no one has figured out he is really Reaper by now, they are unlikely to do so anytime soon.

He knows Minato wondered if he was Reaper, but dropped that line of thinking for the time being, and Kakashi suspects him to be Reaper but won't say anything for Natsumi's sake. Even if they came forward with their suspicions they couldn't prove anything, so he has nothing to be worried about except for rumours about him.

With Reaper being known for disappearing for months at a time, he sees no harm in not leaving any clones behind to act as Reaper. Not when he now has his Shadowkahn to gather information for him instead of his clones. It's not like the bounties the clones collected were of any importance anyway. That was just to keep up pretences. Mentally nodding he decided he wouldn't create any more clones to act as Reaper, as they just weren't needed for the time being. Noticing Scathach had just killed the last bandit he jumped down from the tree branch and landed next to her.

"Do you feel better now?" Revan asked looking around at all of the carnage. The ground was soaked in the blood of bandits. Not that he cared in the least though.

"I do. That was just what I needed to help clear my mind of my anger," Scathach rejoiced flicking the blood of her spear.

"I'm glad it did. Now let's move so I can remove any traces of our presence, and then return to Britain," Revan said walking out of the camp with Scathach.

"You're going to burn the camp down to the ground aren't you?" Scathach asked knowingly.

"It's an effective method of removing any evidence that we were here," Revan answered shooting fire from his wand that burnt down the camp.

"I can't argue with that," Scathach commented as she watched the camp be consumed in flames.

"Are you ready to go back to Britain?" Revan asked looking at Scathach.

"I am yes," Scathach said wishing they could travel together longer but knew that wasn't feasible. Despite wishing they were travelling longer she did have Revan's training to look forward to. She imagined teaching Revan will be an enjoyable experience for her.

"Then let's head back home," Revan stated teleporting both of them back to Britain.

End Chapter


With Revan returning to Britain the focus of the story will return to Hogwarts, especially with the Grand Magical Tournament starting soon. I look forward to showing you what I have planned during the Tournament.