Author's notes;Just to clarify, when you see something {written like this} it means it's basically a flashback.

After the next day dawned, several hundred foot soldiers and samurai came to capture the pirates and lead them to Satsuma, where they'd be judged for their actions. Their attitude against the pirates was anything but kind.

Some of the foot soldiers spat them to their faces, others horribly beat them till they fainted, samurais ordered the pirates to strip themselves and hand over everything valuable they possessed. They even forced some of them to eat sand and whoever refused was stomped on sand by the foot soldiers.

The innocent folk that were captives to the pirates were definitely relieved that their lifes were saved, yet they felt somewhat afraid of them getting the same treatment with the pirates. Since most of the captives lived in the war-stricken land, it was clear to them that the Phoenix country didn't recruit the most morally good people.

Hayato, though disgusted by the "professional" army's actions against them, knew that they surely had a reason to behave like this. The pirate's attritions against civilian population was not forgotten neither by him nor by the army.

He was sitting a bit further with the woman laid down by his side, who was just waking up.

Woman's POV

~I didn't know whether I was dead or alive. I knew that I was laid down.My body wouldn't listen to my will and stayed still,yet I could open and close my eyes, but barely .

Gradually regaining my senses, I could feel the a cold breeze on my neck and I could also smell the saltiness in the air . I opened my eyes fully and gazed at the the sea. It is truly beautiful early in the morning. As I enjoyed the serenity of the environment, a voice was heard from behind me. I didn't recognize at first because I was still dizzy as fuck.

"So you are finally awake..."

I managed to get up and turned around. It seems that the voice came from this dumbass, metallic son of a bitch that I fought.However, he didn't have all those metallic parts in him like when I first saw him in the ship. He was sitting on a log and there was a fading campfire between us.

"I'd advise you to sit down. The wound on your head is not something to take lightly. You might get dizzy and faint again. " he spoke calmly.Tch! He's irritating me!

"Seriously? You pounded the shit out of me and now you are worried about my head. Pff, get lost bumass!" I replied frustrated but my sight started to blur and then I sat down on the sand as he advised me . He then laughed...what a prick!

"May I ask a question or two?" he asked and I nodded.

"Firstly, what's your name? Mine's is Hayato."

"T-Tomoko..."I answered reluctantly.

" Nice to meet you then, Tomoko."he said and he offered me his hand . I didn't gave mine of course. He gathered his hand awkwardly.

"Anyway, let's not lose any time and head to the next question...Why?" he asked.

What did he mean. What did he mean by "Why". Couldn't he be more specific?

"Don't give me this clueless expression to me. The dead children in the river. The pillaged village. The crucified people. Why?"he asked again more seriously.

What should I answer now? The truth? Make up a stupid lie maybe?

" I fucking like dead bodies. Decapitated bodies, burned bodies, rotten bodies. It's a kind of fetish. "I answered.Definitely not the best answer I could give.

He stared at me with a weird expression on his face, like he was questioning his own existence. Then, he finally spoke out.

"You could've just answered the question seriously."

I didn't know whether I should tell him the truth. I was kinda hesitant.

"What are you going to win from this situation."he asked. "Your chakra is severely exhausted. You can't do anything and you won't lose anything if you tell me the truth. Besides, you will make it easier for both of us."

When he said those words I understood that he wasn't a bad man, contrary to the picture of him that I got during the battle. If he truly was a bad man he would have chopped a finger or two of mine to make me spit it all out.

Perhaps he feels empathy for the dead people, but what's the reason? He doesn't even know who those people were, yet he was furious about what happened to them. Maybe he is just a wimp.

"Very well..." I breathed out. ~

"You'd be surprised if I told you that royal blood runs through my veins. I was the first daughter of the Daimyo of the Yakushima island..." Tomoko explained.

Hayato searched the Yakushima island on the map in his HUD. It was a a fairly small island near the ex Water country. It's name was different back then.

"But,my father was an individual with no sense in his mind. He was expecting a son, so he could raise him to become a fine warrior and a worthy succesor to the throne. I guess you can imagine his disappointment when he learned that the newborn was going to be a girl."she continued.

"To be honest,he never showed me any fatherly love.In his eyes I was an 'unlucky shot' . Not only that, he blamed my mother for me being a girl.Sometimes when he got drunk he used to physically and sexualy abuse her. He saw her only as a birth machine. I was around 7 years old when the second child of my father was born."she said and paused for a bit.

" But, my mum was definitely the unluckiest person in the world. The second child might had been a boy but he also happened to be disabled.That's when my father became utterly furious. I remember him calling her a useless bitch, spawn of the devil and many other stuff. My mother felt his wrath to her bone. I felt helpless. It was like none was at my side. And then... "she paused again and cleared her throat.

" My powers started to manifestate when I only 9 years old. I remember me running from a someone in the woods. I reached the sea and kept running from something. I realized that I was subconsciously running on water. Crazy right? So yeah, I managed to escape from that guy. I think he was a shopkeeper from whom I stole an apple if I remember correctly. "

Hayato noticed how her vulgar speech and bitchy attitude changed.

"I tried to keep my powers hidden since I didn't want to someone weaponize me against anyone. I did succeed hiding my powers almost perfectly. Almost..." she paused, cleared her throat again and restarted speaking.

"At that time, there were rumors that the senate of Yakushima conspired against my father in order to overthrow him and establish a more democratic regime. You know, he wasn't the best at managing the economy of the country which caused severe poverty and thus a mounting unrest. The senate took advantage of the people's rage and took them by their side. Of course, civil war didn't start immediately since most of the army was at my father's side. The senate had little to no power.

I was around 10 when tensions between the two factions started to rise at a point were civil war was imminent. Eventually, war broke out. I remember lying down on my bed when one of the senators came to the palace and announced war against my father. He became extremely anxious and so was I.His time had finally fucking came.

At the same day, late in the night as I was sleeping and a loud noise woke me up. I ignored it at first but then I heard footsteps and hid myself unter the blanket. I could hear the footsteps coming closer to me. Then, I felt a hand touching my head,radiating a "warmth" I've never felt before... "she paused again, scratched her head like she was trying to remember something and continued.

"I remember someone speaking to me with a soothing voice and asking me to come out of my blanket...

{ Little Tomoko, terrified by the sound, hid herself under the blanket and held her breath. She felt a hand touching her head, radiating a warmth that she had never felt before, neither by her father nor by her mother.

"Come out little princess. There is nothing to be afraid of." a soothing male voice spoke.

Tomoko then, cautiously raised her blanket in order to see his appearance. She was striked by his attire!

He wore a hooded, sleeveless white surcoat and a purple robe underneath, decorated with golden magatamas and stripes. He also wore purple pants, white greaves and a weird type of shoe,which were upturned at the toes.

Finally his face was covered by a metallic mask and three small horns sprouted from his forehead, pale in color.It was clear that this man was not human.

"You know, people with royal blood are primary targets for the rebels. You are not safe here." the man warned her.

He then extended his arm and opened his pale palm, which was wrapped with a golden thread. Suddenly, blue fire was lit on his palm.

"You recognize this fire don't you? This is chakra, the life force that exists in every human.You can do amazing things with this power.However,humans behaved greedily in the past and were stripped away by the ability to control chakra." he said and closed his palm, extinguishing the fire.

Tomoko of course recognized this peculiar fire. It is the same flame that her feet emitted when walking on water.

" It appears that you are different. It appears that you were grunted the ability to shape and transform chakra however you please.I've been watching you from an early age and I've been also been amazed by your talent. Even though you've never been taught by anyone, you walk on water like it's a solid object. "the man said.

" But similarly to every skill, you need training in order to utilize this power to it's fullest potential.They say that those who can shape chakra can shape the world as well."he paused a bit and kneeled to the height of her bed.

" So what do you say?Will you come with me to learn the ways of chakra? "he offered.

" This man! He is definitely my guardian angel! " thought Tomoko, full of enthusiasm. She then nodded in agreement.Even with royal blood, it's the only time she felt a bit special.

" Good."he exclaimed.

" Know that while you will be training with me, a horrible civil war will strike this island. The so called 'senate' doesn't want democracy, they just fulfill the interests of an other country that is interested in the island's ores.

Even if the civil war somewhen ends, this country's army will march through the scorched land and take over it.I'm afraid to say that there is no 'good' or 'bad' guy in this situation. There is nothing that you can do. "he warned her once again.

"With the power that you are going to achieve you will be able to rebuild from scratch the island."the man continued.

Tomoko's excitement slowly faded, knowing that she is currently powerless to change this island's fate.She would work to the fullest though in order to master the ways chakra and rebuild what will be lost.

"Shall we go?" he asked and she nodded for a second time and they instantly teleported to an other dimension. It was night there and three moons decorated the sky. There was almost nothing around them but dried trees.

"This is where our training will begin." he said to her.

Tomoko, kinda terrified, understood that they were not on Earth right now. She looked around her with her eyes widened in shock.

"Th-This is not paradise." she conceived.

She then found the courage to ask him something.

"Uhm mister? What is your name?"Tomoko asked hesitantly.

He chuckled a bit at first, noticing her shyness,but he eventually answered.

"My name is Omoikane. Nice to meet you, little Tomoko."}

"... and yeah, that's how things pretty much were." Tomoko finally finished explaining.

Hayato, with his eyes widened in shock and his hands covering his mouth, was utterly frozen from fear. This woman was trained by an Otsutsuki! That explains her exceptionally great talent in ninjutsu and kenjutsu. She could even keep up with one of his clones! However, it was clear to him that Tomoko lacked experience.Hayato thought that he should ask a question or two about this man.

He admired her memory as well, being able to remember so many things that occurred several years before. Omoikane was her mentor's name. Hayato memorized this name.

"This guy,Omoikane.Tell me something about him. Anything you know." he asked. as he prepared a few dozen more of questions.

Tomoko's didn't respond immediately and thought for a bit.

"Hmmm look. I ain't playing with you but except from the fact that he was hella strong, I know nothing about him. He was the biggest introvert I've ever seen!" she finally replied.

Hayato obviously didn't fall for this and he understood that Tomoko was probably hiding something. Nonetheless, he wouldn't abandon his try to get information about this Omoikane. Hayato thought that maybe Aki knew something about him. He then shifted the conversation's topic back to the first one.

"Cool story indeed, but you didn't tell me the reason of all those attritions." he said,trying to appear calmer and less pressing.

" Jeez just wait a bit, you prick! The story doesn't end here!"she sighed.

"Did ya know my father's army eventually joined the senate? And also that the only country that sent help to my father was the motherfucking Phoenix country? Did ya know that the Phoenix country was a trading partner of the Yakushima island. The island has shit tons of ores. Gold, iron, amethyst, bronze and silver. All of those ores were exported in the Phoenix country through ports, which I regularly pillaged.

Of course the Phoenix Daimyo would side with my father,since he didn't wanna lose his precious trading partner. Do you know how many golden coins did the Phoenix country paid for the ores. Enough money to transform the whole island into a heaven on earth. Yet, do you know how my father utilized all this money? He invested them in the army, the palace and in fucking ship behind me. "she said and pointed at the huge ship.

"Every resident was talking about the atrocities that the Phoenix army committed. After the war that finished just a year ago, Yakushima island became nothing but ruins and eventually the army of a neighboring country that supported the senate and the rebels, invaded it and annexed it.

So what Im doing is giving the Phoenix country a taste of its own medicine. This why I thought I could enforce the Daimyo to bribe me to get away from his lands. With those money I could rebuild Yakushima, after I invade it of course. "she finally said.

Hayato didn't say nothing and awkward silence followed after Tomoko finished her words.Hayato gazed at her with disgust and he spoke.

"Well...madam, what can I say. Horrifically murdering people just to enforce the Daimyo to pay you is... not the best thing you can do. But seriously, who am I to lecture you?" he said and got up from the log that he was sitting on.

"Just wanna tell you that you are a fucking cunt." Hayato said sarcastically.

"Yet your vulgar speech funnily reminds me of a person very close to me. Heheh!" he chuckled.

Tomoko stared at him a bit confused, not because of his statement but because she wanted to ask him something about a thing he had noticed on his attire.

"That... cloth with a shattered metallic piece on it... around your neck. What is it?" she asked curiously.

Surprised by her question, Hayato didn't reply for a bit.

"Oh! Heh! That you say?The headband? " he said awkwardly.

"Well... I guess every person has something precious to cherish. Even this shattered headband."

"But... It's broken! What value has a shattered piece of metal?" Tomoko asked.

Hayato scratched his head and started thinking of something.

"Well... I guess it's not the material that makes the headband valuable. It's the essence and the ideals of it!" Hayato answered with a smile.

"W-what kind of ideals does a piece of metal has?" Tomoko once again asked bewildered.

"The ideals of this 'piece of metal' differ from person to person that bear this headband basi-"

"What's YOUR ideal then?" she cut him off.

Hayato was short of surprised by her question. However, the eager expression on his face changed into a more wistful one. It was like he was disturbed by something.

"MY ideal eh?" Hayato muttered.

"Peculiarly, I didn't have an ideal when I started doing this profession. No, no. Actually this is not it... I always had this ideal. I had just... forgotten it!And thus, something poked hard on my shoulder and remind me that this ideal resided within me from a long time ago. This 'poke' unfortunately costed me my human body "Hayato finished and slightly tapped his head, making a metallic sound.

"This ideal was to fight against corruption and punish it, since because of corruption I suffered at an early age.And because I didn't follow this ideal with haste , everyone suffered. And even you, Tomoko." he said and let off a huge sigh.

Tomoko stared at him even more confused now. What is the thing that made him forget this" ideal"?How did him getting away from this "ideal" made everyone and her suffer? She decided to remain silent.

Suddenly then a samurai approached them and reminded Hayato, who shifted his expression back again to his normal one, that they should had left by now. The man in armor ordered Tomoko to get up and so did she.

"Don't do any weird shit."Hayato warned her as the samurai handcuffed her. He observed something odd in these handcuffs. There were seals on them!

"Hey who gave you those handcuffs?" Hayato asked the armored man curiously.

"Akira-san from Satsuma sir!" he responded immediately.

Those seals soon affected Tomoko heavily.

"My chakra! I... I can't control it." she thought panicked.

Hayato activated his Sharingan for a fraction of a second and noted the effects of the jutsu-altered handcuffs in Tomoko's chakra pathway system.

"Why didn't Aki give me cool shit like that!Well, it doesn't matter cause I got cooler shit than those handcuffs!" Hayato thought kinda irritated .

All of the soldiers and samurais had already went into formation and were ready to march to Satsuma. Hayato, since he was very excited about the information that were about to get shared with him, decides that they shouldn't waste any time and join the rest of the troops and head back.

Tomoko on the other hand obviously didn't share the same excitement with Hayato, for she was about to be judged by her actions. One thing was sure, that her death was a few days away.