Hey all here's the next chapter, we're taking a step away from Naruto's adventure to see what exactly happened with Jezebel and Alistair. I AM WARNING EVERYONE RIGHT NOW, the last bit of the chapter takes a VERY dark turn.
You have been warned.
Other than that, I hope you enjoyed so Chojuro, please do the disclaimer.
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Chapter 14 A Fight in the Past Pt 1
Time jump six months ago.
The flash of the blade on steel rang throughout the field as two figures clashed in the center. One, an average looking youth with light blond hair, and green eyes. The other a lady not much older than him, fairly busty with orange hair and blue eyes, wielding wicked looking claws. Her weapons clashed with his kunai as they both backflipped away. It had been a few days since Matsuya decided to test Jezebel, and Hagame had been cleared by medical staff and was eager to get back in fighting shape. Jezebel had discarded her tattered clothes in favor of the Mist ninja uniform, matching Hagame.
They both stared at each other before both going through their own series of hand signs. Jezebel finished first and did a very cat-like flip forward, slamming her palms on the ground "Lightning Style: Arcing Drill!" Where her hands had touched the ground lighting leaped forward into the air before arcing into the field and appearing right beneath Hagame in a sweeping pincer-like motion.
Hagame jumped into the air, avoiding the attack and finishing his hand signs and threw four shurikens at Jezebel "Water style: Wolf Fang Bullet!" The shuriken started absorbing water from the air in their paths until they formed an amorphous blob that shaped themselves into the visage of a wolf with its jaw open ready to bite.
Jezebel grinned and stretched her hands out, running straight towards the attack, physically slashing through the first shuriken, deflecting the second, sidestepping the third and ducking under the fourth, never breaking stride as she quickly closed the distance between her and Hagame, but had she turned back she would have seen the two she didn't touch had cracked the earth. When she was close enough, she jumped herself and brought her claws in an X motion to slash at Hagame.
He grunted and pulled out a short sword, blocking her attack. A shadow fell over the two of them, and Jezebel kicked Hagame away as a distorted orange mass vaguely shaped like a closed fist slammed in the gap Jezebel created. When the fist missed, it started receding quickly into the outstretched hand of Matsuya, before a shadow formed over him.
Looking up, he saw a dark cloud had formed maybe fight feet above him, his eyes flicked over to Hagame who was grinning and then he saw a second Hagame behind a nearby tree who shouted "Secret Art: Wolf Fang Drizzle!"
'Right, Hagame had made some water clones some minutes ago,' Matsuya thought to himself.
His hands went up as a half-dome of amber started forming as from the cloud, many wolf fang kunai had started slamming into his amber shield. Hagame's cheer was short-lived as he was hit in the stomach being knocked to the ground, and he found Jezebel's claws an inch from his throat "don't get distracted, Hagame."
Hagame smiled sheepishly "It looks like you got me, Jezebel-senpai."
Jezebel leaned closed to Hagame's face patting his cheek, "it's fine Hagame, I actually need you to do me a favor."
The smile on her face was almost TOO sweet for Hagame's liking, "um yeah what can I-"
"FLY" Jezebel shouted as she grabbed him by his vest, using chakra to boost her as she jumped up to avoid an amber fist that had been heading her way, and then using chakra again to send Hagame rocketing towards Matsuya.
"Ahhhhhh."
Taken off guard, Matsuya quickly brought his amber fist back and turned into an open palm to catch Hagame, but Jezebel had used that opening to go into a flying kick. Matsuya barely managed to bring up his other hand to find Jezebel by her ankle, only for Jezebel to bring her other foot around and connect with Matsuya's chin, sending him skidding backward.
As he stopped, he gently laid Hagame on the ground and wiped away a spot of blood from his busted lip, but he was grinning nonetheless. "Good shot Jezebel-chan, but that was a cheap trick otherwise."
Jezebel landed softly "and our enemies won't hesitate to use cheap tricks and dirty tactics, either Matsuya."
Matsuya held up his hand "fair enough Jezebel, but I say we call it a day, for now, can't have Hagame opening up his wounds. This was supposed to be light contact sparring, remember?" He gave a light glare at Hagame, who chuckled.
"Sorry, Matsuya-senpai, I couldn't resist it."
"Yeah, just don't push yourself too hard, ok? You've only been cleared for light sparring and exercise; that being said, a good job on the surprise attack at the end there, I completely forgot about your water bunshin." His eyes scanned the sky as best he could with the ever-present fog. They had been sparring for about an hour give or take, the sun had just met its peak in the sky and would soon be setting. He wanted to go home, but a hawk had just landed in the middle of the training ground, a scroll attached to its claws.
'Oh great, and here I thought I would have a peaceful afternoon. Let's see what Mei-sama has in store for us today.' He quickly walked over to join Jezebel, who was staring at the Hawk, and it was staring at her. "Right you don't know, this is our messenger Hawk, Tupar, Mei-sama sends him when she can't find anyone, and it looks like she has a mission for us. Alright," he bent down and quickly untied the scroll, "let's see what we have here."
"Matsuya scouts report a two-man team sent by the purist may be saboteurs and advanced recon, seem to be heading here get rid of them quickly, one has a giant blade and has already taken out several scouts and all civilians they've come across, dispatching team Alpha to assist you, proceeded with caution. Last seen coming from the northwest heading towards Hoshiken no Kiri."
He rolled the scroll up; if this blade user was taking out scouts, he was not to be taken lightly. "Hagame head back, I know you're gonna wanna come with us, but Mei-sama has dispatched team Alpha to assist us in this mission, which means this is not a fight you need to take part of in your current state. Speaking of the mission, Jezebel, we've got a two-man cell heading this way, taking out any rebellion ninja they come across, you've got your go-bag, right?"
Jezebel nodded and pointed her head over too their supplies "yeah, I've got it, sorry Hagame see you when we get back ok?"
Hagame smiled "that's fine, I don't want to get in anyone's way, you two stay safe ok?"
Jezebel liked Hagame, not in any romantic sort of way, but like a friend. He was only a few years older than she was, well as far as she knew. At best summarization, she was maybe twenty or twenty-one, Hagame was twenty-three, Matsuya was the oldest at twenty-six. She walked over to the tree, grabbing a backpack that had essential survival equipment as well as some medical supplies, Matsuya right behind her as Hagame headed back to town.
"So Matsuya, whose team Alpha? They some big shots in this army of ours?"
"You could say that Jezebel, team Alpha, consists of two members, Chojuro, who is young granted, but he was handpicked to go into training to join the Seven Deadly Swordsman of the Mist, so he's no pushover. The other is Ao, he's an old-timer, but he's experienced, he trained the Mist Anbu in tactics and combat scenarios and was even part of the hunting corps before he retired. He also happens to be my sensei, so this should be fun."
The duo had been traveling for a few hours, the moon now hanging in a crescent sickle. The silence between the two had started to annoy Jezebel for the sheer fact she was so bored. She'd love to be on the lookout for enemy shinobi, but she still had yet to learn how to navigate the Mist that gave the country its name. "So Matsuya, I have a question for you, you don't know me, or who I used to be, yet you put a lot of trust in me. Why?"
"Well Jezebel, it mostly hinges on the fact you saved me, despite only having known me for no more than twenty minutes. Taking what could have been a lethal blow meant for me." Matsuya shrugged his shoulders, "I doubt you would have done it had you known the consequences, but it doesn't change the fact of what you did."
"Ok, but what if I was a bad person? What if in my previous life I was a purist?"
Matusya shook his head, "you're too strong; if you were a purist, we would've known about you as a potential threat. Besides, it wouldn't have mattered to me."
Jezebel looked at Matsuya like he was a madman "you're telling me if I had been a purist who suddenly decided to switch sides you would have trusted me?"
"No, but I would have given you the chance to earn my trust, everyone deserves a chance to prove they can do good because I truly believe that anyone can do as much good as they can bad. As weird as this is going to sound, I'm glad you came to Kiri, so we could be friends."
Jezebel crossed her arms and looked away with a huff "I guess, but if you wanna be an idiot who gets stabbed in the back because of your ideals don't come crawling to me." She looked away obviously ignoring the comment he made about them being friends. Matsuya laughed loudly, startling Jezebel and she growled, "And what's funny, idiot?"
"Sorry," he said wiping a tear from his eye "it's just if someone manages to stab me in the back, I don't know how much crawling I'll be able to do."
Jezebel huffed and looked away "whatever weirdo" several seconds of silence would have followed but Jezebel didn't want that to happen so she asked the first thing that came to her mind "so...do you think I'll ever get my memories back?"
Matsuya sighed "I'm not going to lie and say it's impossible because I don't know how Hitsugaya's jutsu works, but at the same time I've never heard of anyone recovering their lost memories after taking an attack from him either. But at this point does it even matter?"
Jezebel looked confused "I'm not following you?"
"Let's say you were a spy from Iwa for example. Your mission was to travel to Kiri to assess the situation here and leave. You get your memories back, do you leave us to continue your mission?"
"Well if there was someone important in my life maybe" Jezebel's mind wandered over to the last four days, which she helped rebuild and refurbish Mozuken no Kiri, how she worked at a nursing station tending to wounded ninja and civilian listening tot heir stories about their friends and family and even befriending a young girl who had been orphaned by the war. "But no I don't think I would abandon these people. Besides who would watch your back in the next ambush if I left?"
Matsuya feigned wincing "ohh low blow Jezebel, low blow indeed" suddenly he stopped and stood up straight scanning the treeline in front of them. A rustling from the bushes on their right caused Matsuya to back a step, rotating to the left, he backflipped as a blue-haired youth slammed into the ground wielding an awkwardly shaped blade sheathed in bandages.
Jezebel growled and was about to leap forward when Matsuya suddenly appeared in front of him and grabbed him by the arm and threw him over and behind Jezebel to her surprise. But even greater he had thrown the boy into the path of an orange blob that had been heading straight at her while her back was turned.
The boy hit the orange blob and was flown into and then subsequently stuck to a hanging tree upside down, his blade clattering to the ground uselessly. Jezebel growled flexing her claws, she was about to jump at the boy but Matsuya grabbed her shoulders and shook his head and whistled a sharp tune. "Nice one Chojuro, but next time do keep in mind Ao-sensei taught me in sensory techniques. Speaking of" he turned away from the now identified Chojuro to the treeline behind them "come out Ao-sensei, your little ambush failed."
Jezebel heard clapping before a middle-aged man came out of the brush, he was wearing a basic Mist uniform but more interestingly was the eyepatch covering his right eye and the two tags he wore as earrings. "Good Matsuya, I am glad to see that you haven't gotten rusty."
Matsuya chuckled "well with a war going on and all I haven't had as much time to slack off as I'd like, plus Mei-sama likes keeping me on my toes." Ao made a hand sign and the substance sticking Chojuro to the tree dissolved and he fell to the ground. He turned a narrow gaze to Jezebel.
"And who is this Matusya, she has...interesting chakra?" Jezebel felt violated for some reason, and she certainly didn't like being sized up by this old man.
"This," he said smiling putting an arm around "is my friend Jezebel. She's going to be accompanying us on this mission."
Chojuro got up rubbing his head "hi, I'm Chojuro nice to meet you."
Jezebel nodded "likewise."
"How strong is she Matsuya, our target is not someone we need to be taking a rookie too."
"Hey, asshole-"
Matsuya raised a hand to calm Jezebel "sorry for his attitude Jezebel, he's like that when he's on a high priority mission or meeting new people in general. Just get to know him, I'm sure you two will get along just fine. And to answer your question I'm pretty sure at her strongest she could give Chojuro a run for his money."
His eyes got narrower "what do you mean at her strongest Matsuya?"
"She saved me from a hit by the 'Deleter' Hitusgaya and lost her memories because of it. I've been training her trying to see what she can do and boy is she a fast learner."
"Your words do not fill me with confidence Matsuya."
Matusya smiled "just give her a chance Ao-sensei, you'll see, she's plenty strong."
Jezebel had enough "ok you two, am I going to get a say in this? I am right here you know?!"
Ao walked stiffly past her "there will be time for that later Jezebel-san; right now we need to focus on our mission."
A tick mark grew on her forehead, she opened her mouth to say something but a look from Matsuya quelled any outburst and she huffed "fine then, care to fill us in on any info you have about our targets?"
"Right" Chojuro spoke up "as you know we're hunting two men, one of them seems to be a low ranking grunt so he's not an issue but his companion shows great mastery wielding a giant sword, every member of the resistance he's come across he's killed both mercilessly and effortlessly. Not to mention the civilian casualties... it's been a butcher fest, to say the least."
"He's right" Ao jumped in "this man is going by the name Alistair, and..."
The rest of his words faded away as the name Alistair began bouncing around and echoing in Jezebel's head. She knew that name somehow. It was familiar to her, so did she know the man? And he was a purist? 'Oh shit what if I was supposed to actually join them instead of the rebellion?'
"...if we keep up a steady pace we should run into him and his companion in a matter of hours; he seems to be making a beeline straight for us. Hopefully, he's been worn down or injured by our fallen compatriots."
"Right, Ao-sensei I'll be running point so let's do a diamond formation you're a better sensory ninja than me, so you scout them out and I'll pick them up if they decide to attack from behind, Jezebel on the right and Chojuro on the left. That seem fair?"
All four ninja nodded jumping into their designated spots, running down a worn, misty path. While they were running Matsuya spared a glance at Jezebel, he had seen her face when Ao said Alistair's name, she recognized it, but was equally confused at the revelation. Maybe there was a chance at learning her past after all.
Alistair was having so much fun, he swung his sword to the right, a man's arm went flying. He swiped to his left, he eviscerated some random kid. He swung up a woman was cut in half and he swung down leaving a small crater and people started fleeing for their lives. "Hahahaha I haven't felt this exhilarated in ages!"
He was just wasting time at the moment, Mozuken no Kiri was only a few hours away, and frankly, he had gotten bored by the tenuous walk it took to get this far. This massacre was just a bit of fun for him because he planned to sneak into Mozuken, find Jezebel's dumbass and then... he paused mid-swing to stare down the road.
Speaking of her was that her chakra he felt coming this way? Yes! Yes, it was! He grinned 'what a stroke of luck, but I do sense three others with her, they may be a problem if Jezebel has genuinely lost her memories. He turned to stare at the body of the poor purist who had escorted him this far, once he objected to the slaughter he had quickly been dealt with. 'Welp looks like I'm doing this by myself.'
He placed his feet shoulder length apart and channeling wind chakra into his blade with a mighty roar and an even mightier swing green wind energy leaped forward from his sword down the street and into the open treeline. "Fūton: Tsuki kama kakkitekina (Wind Style: Moon Sickle Breakthrough) when the jutsu hit everything in a twenty-foot radius got completely shredded into nothing.
"Come on out," he said loudly "I can sense your chakra, you morons." nothing but silence was his answer as four shadows leaped into the city, but behind the stores and houses that surrounded Alistair. 'So they're going to try and attack me from all sides huh?' He brought his blade up to defend his front as he screamed to the sides "WELL BRING IT THEN!"
Repeating his actions earlier he grabbed the hilt of his sword with both hands. He swung it around in a spinning motion "Fūton: Ōkī Tsuki kama kakkitekina (Wind Style: Greater Moon Sickle Breakthrough)" Making a perfect ring around him a band of green wind chakra leaped from his blade. Like the trees previously, all the buildings near Alistair was cut by thousands of small sickles, bringing down a two-story house and two shops to nothing but rubble.
Alistair looked around to the streets over and saw no one. He turned to bring the flat end of his blade to block a sizeable orange-colored fist, which pushed him back slightly. His eyes skipped to his right where he saw motion, an older man had just finished hand signs and a massive water dragon was rocketing his way. The movement to his left signified a sword wielder was charging him, and he sensed Jezebel rushing him from behind.
He quickly followed the orange hand to the man it was extending from, he saw the look in Matsuya's eyes. If Jezebel had honestly forgotten her memories then she didn't realize her full potential and powers, so this man was the biggest threat. Deciding quickly he used his blade to push the arm to his right, into the path of the Chojuro.
He then quickly slammed his blade into the ground on his left side "Doton: Doheki!" A massive wall of mud and minerals rose to meet the charging water dragon as he backflipped over Jezebel, who had gone into a leaping kick. He grinned as his body became parallel with hers. Yup, that was Jezebel alright. He grabbed her by her hair midflight and spun and tossed her into the air, his stomach inflating slightly.
"Fūton: Renkūdan!" Three spheres of air left his mouth, aimed at the still rising Jezebel who growled and flipped herself around so her stomach was facing the earth. Looking into the fanged grin of the maniac before her a spark of something came to her mind. She shook her head, now wasn't the time to get distracted.
She channeled lightning chakra in her claws and brought them in a cross shape as the first bullet clashed with her nails, pushing her further into the air. Then the second fought and the third, by the time she managed to block all three she was high in the air, so far that she could see the entirety of the small town of just under two hundred.
'That should keep her busy for a bit, now' he turned his attention just in time, blocking a swing from Chojuro. 'Hmm, wait do I know this kid?' Something about him seemed awfully familiar to Alistair. 'Blue hair...glasses' he traded a few blows with Chojuro, before pushing him away 'and that blade is the famed Hirmekarei.'
Alistair grimaced, backstepping ad Matsuya jumped in, and he did an excellent job holding him off while watching Chojuro, who started channeling chakra into his sword. "Oy kid," he said after successfully kicking "you wouldn't happen to be affiliated with those damned bloody swordsman would you?" He brought his blade up and rested it on his shoulder as Ao went and picked Matusya up.
This caught Chojuro off guard, the Seven Swordsman were very selective and secretive of who joined their ranks, and the only people who did know where them, the Mizukage and anyone lucky enough to be tested. "How do you know that? Have we met before?"
Alistair grinned "it was a long time ago kid, and I looked a bit different but does the name Alistair von Ryke sound familiar?"
Chojuro's eyes shot open, as he stepped back visibly showing his fear, which got the attention of Ao and Matsuya who paused to look on at the scene. "That's not possible, you look nothing like him, and I watched Raiga-sama cut him down."
"Just outside of Kiri no Sogen, you, Raiga, Zabuza and Fuguki cornered me and beat me to an inch of my life. I remember it, back then you didn't have Hiramekarei, you had a simple chakra katana." He laughed at Chojuro's terror "and I am glad to say that bastard Raiga didn't finish me off properly."
Alistair felt the hairs on the back of his neck stand up, and he started looking around 'ration ninjutsu? But where?' Matusya and Ao hadn't done any hand signs and Chojuro was too scared so...
"Forbidden arts: Lightning Style: Blood Born Drill!"
'Jezebel!' He looked up and he saw a massive red tornado basically shooting straight at him at high speeds 'I forgot about her!' He was bringing his blade to defend himself when an amber orb grabbed his wrist and it was forced down, he was going to use his other hand but it had been caught by an orange rubber-like substance forcing him to drop his blade.
His form took on a red shade as Jezebel crashed into him, an explosion of dust, dirt, and debris flying into the air as he roared in pain before suddenly being silenced in Jezebel's massive attack. Jezebel backflipped out of the smoke cloud, going to a knee. There were fresh scratch marks on her arm bleeding crimson as she started to try and catch her breath.
Matsuya ran over to Jezebel to help her up "whoah there firecracker, where did that come from? That was amazing!"
"Thanks...huff...huff...it just came to me, like muscle memory or...huff..something. Pretty rough landing though." She winced and sat on both her knees "think I might have sprained something."
"Hehehehe that was an impressive jutsu Jezebel"
"What?" Matusya exclaimed.
"How did he survive?" Said Ao.
When the smoke cleared Alistair was in the middle of a rather big crater, reddish-brown chitin like armor that was severely cracked in several places covered his body, he was bleeding out of any skin that was showing, and he was laying down struggling to get to his feet. "Had I not activated my Akuma Konchū no Yoroi (Demonic Insect Armor) that probably would have killed me."
Ao and Matsuya wasted no time, as amber sprouted from his hands and rubber from Ao, Alistair was soon encased first in said rubber than a dome of Amber. "Yeah, yeah you got me. Question is what are you going to do now?"
Jezebel and kicked the shattered remains of Alistair's sword away "how do I know you? Because I recognize your face but I just don't-"
"You don't know me, do you?" Alistair interrupted, he sighed and shook his head "fair enough, I was warned this happened and I-" Jezebel walked forward and grabbed Alistair by what little of his collar she could.
Growling she all but barked out "Who am I? And how do I know you!?" Alistair stared her down. With her mind wiped she would never believe she was a demon, sent into an alternate timeline to kill a kid by the Shinigami of all things.
Placing his words carefully he said "you never told me much about your personal life, so there's not much I can tell you about that, we were assassins, hired by someone on the Iwa ninja council to take out a target in Konoha"
Matsuya chuckled "pretty close huh Jezebel?"
Jezebel gave Matsuya a pointed stare "continue."
"What we weren't told was our target was the Jinchuuriki of Konoha, to cut it short we failed and had to flee. We decide to hide in this blasted war. We got separated, and I'm guessing your new comrades can explain the rest to you."
Jezebel's arms went limp. She was a rogue ninja? An assassin? Suddenly Alistair's arm shot out of the amber and grabbed Jezebel by her throat, squeezing hard, she started gasping. The three men went for their own attack but Alistair called out "eh, eh, eh one move and I snap her neck."
Matsuya growled. How had he broken out of his amber in his weakened state? Looking closer to where Alistair's hand was sticking out he saw a smooth circle had been cut. 'Wind chakra? But how? I would have sensed it.'
Jezebel's vision started to go dark, she was frantically clawing at Alistair's wrist but he wouldn't let go. In a matter of seconds her arms, and body went limp entirely. "Jezebel!" Matsuya fell to the ground "don't you hurt her!"
With a roar wind chakra exploded surrounded Alistair's body, shattering his bindings. Jezebel getting scratched in the process. "Now if you'll excuse us-" Two orange fists came out of the earth, catching Alistair in his chin, forcing him to let go of Jezebel, as he was flown backward in the air.
Matsuya grinned as the hands bent downwards to follow Alistair who righted himself "Doton: Doryūheki!" A wall of earth had met and clashed with Matsuya's technique, he saw Chojuro grab Jezebel and jump back away from the conflict.
'So it's me and those two now, I can get behind that. My blades trashed but I can always get a new one.' He dodged left as a rubber blob flew past him. 'That old man's sticky techniques are going to be a problem.'
Before anything else happened, the three fighters heard clapping and looked down the streets, Matsuya noticed all the color drain from Alistair's face. "Y-y-you? THEY LET YOU OUT?!"
Matsuya and Ao were staring at an averaged size person, wearing a long green coat and a dark green fox shaped mask. They got into fighting stances "friend of yours?"
The figure laughed "I wouldn't say we're friends exactly but it's good to know my reputation proceeds me. For those who don't know, you won't get to know my full name but you may call me En-En." He finished saying that with a graceful bow. And to answer your statement...Alibaba was it? No, no Altair? No, that's not it either" En-En shook his head "doesn't matter, I'll learn it later, they didn't let me out, I escaped and you're going to help me."
Matsuya blinked and En-En was just gone. "Now this won't do I was going to recruit you, but your memories are gone." Matsuya turned and there he was standing over an unconscious Jezebel and near a terrified looking Chojuro.
"Leave her alone!" Matsuya jumped towards En-En. He landed bringing his fist and hitting En-En in the back fo his head. En-En showed no physical sign of being caught, he turned around to stare at Matsuya. "Ya know, I only let you hit me because I thought there might be some oomph behind it. Sadly I am disappointed, but oh well what can I expect of a mortal right?"
Before Matsuya could answer him, En-En grabbed his wrist and flung him, sending him flying past Ao, past Alistair right into and through a tree. He turned back to Jezebel "it would be to much work to take her with me, but it would add a little chaos if I fix her!" He placed one finger on her forehead and a ring of white energy traveled from his finger joint INTO her head.
Matsuya watched his world change as he hit the ground. He couldn't move, and he was slowly starting to lose what little sight had survived the concussion. Once darkness had utterly taken him he couldn't hear anything for a second, and then his senses were returned to him, the first thing he noticed was... The smell of flowers?
En-En looked over to Chojuro" if Alilbabis is to be useful to me then he's going to need a new weapon." He reached down and picked up Hiwamekare "mind if I take this? Normally I would just kill you for it but that would take to much energy to be fun." Chojuro could not physically answer En-En, his body was shaking "No? Cool thanks."
He was gone again this time he was next to Alistair. "Come on Aikiedo, we got places to fuck up and things to rearrange, but to add chaos further into the equation" he turned to Ao "Oi! You, you're part of the rebellion faction?" Ao nodded "Good in three days the Mizukage is gonna invade that little village of yours, Mozuken. Have fun with that, byyyyyyeeeee" he finished in a sing-song voice before grabbing Alistair and vanishing with him.
Ao looked around for a minute before turning to Chojuro who had slumped to his knees "hey make sure he didn't kill that girl, I'm going to get Matsuya." Walking over, it disturbed Ao how much strength it took to pull him out of the ground. Picking him up he walked over to Chojuro who was checking up on Jezebel. "How is she?"
"Physically she seems fine Ao-san, she's breathing. What about Matsuya-san?"
Ao passed his form a glance "he'll live."
"Ao-san I'm so sorry, he was right there, but just couldn't do anything and I froze and-"
"It's fine Chojuro our opponent took on all four of us without hesitation but the moment that En-En appeared he was visibly scared. I honestly doubt you could have done anything to him even if you wanted to. He's gone now so let's focus on what we can do. Tell me about Alistair."
"Right, he was a rouge jonin from Suna came to Kiri and started making trouble along with the border villages. We were sent to take care of him, but back then he looked completely different and didn't use a sword, and he didn't show any proficiency with elemental ninjutsu and to make matters more confusing he was a lot older back then. We all thought Raiga-san had killed him, obviously, we were wrong."
"Well, what was doesn't matter now. We need to get back to Mozuken if En-En was being serious about the purist they need to be warned."
Jezebel opened her eyes to find she was in a dark house. She heard a woman scream "Run Rozu, run!" She bolted up and could hear the sound of the woman screaming. She was just getting up when a young girl opened the door and rushed in.
"Hey, are you alright? What's going on and where am I?" The girl gave Jezebel no answer, in fact, she didn't even acknowledge Jezebel's presence as she quickly hid under the bed. "Hey, I'm talking to you!"
She heard footsteps and the door opened again, this time two older men walked in wearing ski masks. "Now where did you go little girl? I was going to play with your mama for a little bit, but she got herself killed."
Jezebel growled, "like I'll let you hurt her!" She lunged forward but got tripped up as she went through the man. 'What the hell?'
She looked back as she heard a yelp, one of them had found the little girl "gotcha."
She knew what was going to happen next and tears came to her eyes "stop this" she screamed but it was like the two men couldn't hear her.
One of them started digging through the room "if you're going to have your fun be quick about it, we don't have long Alistair."
Jezebel looked up "Alistair? What the hell?" She jumped, again and again, she went through him. "NO" she screamed as her vision changed and she was looking through the little girl's eyes. "Stop!" Her voice was going horse as her tiny fists pummeled into the man's chest.
His only response was to grin "yes, please go on! I love it when they scream and fight, makes life so much more fun."
Sometime later
Jezebel sat in silence, all feeling had left her body. The men had left hours ago, but it didn't matter as she blankly stared at the ceiling. She couldn't feel any part of her body, and her tears had long since run out hours ago. She heard the sounds of multiple footsteps and felt someone pick her up. Maybe they would finish her off hopefully, all she could feel was pain. Nothing but pain.
"What the hell happened here? Hey, can you hear me? Hey? Damn shes unresponsive. You two get her to the hospital as fast as possible! The rest of you figure out where the culprits went!"
Jezebel said nothing as she was carried off, learning for the first time in her young life how cruel the world could be.
And that is that, tell me what you thought ok? I did warn you about the dark part not much else to say see you next time, also sorry for the reupload forgot to credit my new beta reader, Ploytoid, go check out one of his stories like Secrets of a fox. If you noticed something different it's because of his advice and grammerly. Anyways have a good time
Ja Ne!