Hello everyone, first things first. I am sorry to say that this will not show ANY of the Chunin exams, it will be the last chapter before the Chunin Exams officially begins. Nothing really important to say besides just letting you read on.

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Fire Country-April-Thursday-7:48 AM

Black Death was jumping between the tree branches that crossed his path while holding the former Suna ninja: Pakura. While at first, he said he was taking her to Konoha but after giving it some thought, the young man had decided not to. For one, the Hokage would be too suspicious about her arriving when she is injured like this and would no doubt want to know about himself. So the new plan was heading to the hidden safehouse that his creator had crafted for a number of reasons, and he wasn't that far from it. After a few minutes of jumping across trees, the bounty hunter landed on the ground, right in front of a rock wall.

Black Death traced his hands along the surface of the wall with Pakura looking at him with confusion evident in her eyes but he ignored the stare in favor of finding what he was looking for. Which he did by grabbing a piece of rock that jutted out a bit, and he turned it only to reveal a hidden entrance slowly raising itself up. Getting in quick, Black Death closed the hidden door fast so no one would notice what had happened. Once that was done he channeled fire chakra to his fingers and ignited the lamps that were inside. Once there was enough illumination from the lamps, Black Death went to a hallway that leads to more doorways, he walked passed a few but turned right on the last room in that direction.

The room they were in was white, with what looked to be medical supplied on one side of the room, with a bed on the other side except the bed had only a white blanket and was only meant for one person. The shield-wielding young man laid down the former jounin and placed a hand on the kunai in her leg, indirectly causing her pain and making her glare at him. She groaned when Yami had ripped out the weapon, but once he placed a hand over the quickly bleeding wound she felt the odd sensation of her leg wound being healed, not with time but by her savior's power. Inwardly, Pakura groaned but not die to pain but more of a headache since it's confirmed now that her rescuer knew Medical Ninjutsu. That only made him more dangerous since he is powerful enough to fight others while having medical abilities, which only Tsunade Senju achieved that with her physical prowess and Creation Rebirth.

Her musing was put to an end when she saw that the man was done healing her so she looked at the wound only to witness no mark at the area of the wound, not even a scar! With that done, Black Death walked out of the room, obviously to some other area of the place. Which was why she was currently rushing after him, right after affirming that she would no longer feel pain while walking. She walked out of the medical room and watched as the Black Death entered a different room, and she followed after hurriedly so as to not possibly lose him. Once she caught up with him, the room that they were in possessed multiple weapons ranging from simple kunai to hammers, so it was quite easy to guess that this must be the Weapons Room.

The helmet-wearing man walked to one of the many display cases in the room except this one housed three katana's with one over each other. Yami opened the case and held the katana at the top and once it was out in the open it poofed with smoke, concealing whatever it was. A moment later the smoke was cleared and a young man with black hair, equally black eyes, a blue shirt, and grey pants with blue shinobi sandals was revealed to her. She didn't get to ask who the person was since it poofed away without a moment's notice.

She figured it put after a few seconds and in that time both of them had moved to another room with a more Living Room setting but it oddly had a circle on the ceiling but she did not think that much of it. "That was a clone too, wasn't it." It wasn't that much of a question than it was a statement. She received a nod to the question and an explantation.

"That clone will alert my creator and he will undoubtedly be heading towards our location now. Once he arrives, I will dispel and he will help you out. Until then, *Backs up into a chair behind him and sits on it while gesturing for Pakura to do the same beside him.* we talk." Once the woman sat down, the bodysuit wearing man took off his visor revealing his cold black eyes, he then took off his mask revealing the same face that she had witnessed from the clone in the weapons room.

"I'll start first, I am Yami Uchiha of Konoha, now you" he revealed.

The first words out of her mouth were, "Your just a teenager?!"

She had heard about the Patriarch of the Uchiha Clan, her village talked about the teen that proved worthy to be a Clan head at such a young age. Though most of the talks about him from Suna were not about him being the Patriarch, more of how Konoha would benefit from him and hopefully Suna since things between the villages at the moment were tense. The more powerful Fire Country had been acquiring more missions that were SUPPOSED to be delivered to Suna but due to their alliance, half of Suna's missions go to Konoha while Konoha sends its natural grown resources to Suna. It was the best offer they could get from the Third Hokage and it wasn't exactly helping their economy due to Suna being in the desert and also being the weakest of the Great Five Villages. The village had hoped to set a marriage contract between the two to get a better alliance and help their standing.

She was able to get a hold of this information due to being in a high position before being betrayed. That thought was what prompted her next question, "What will I be doing for you?"

Yami looked up in thought, she wouldn't be able to go with him to Konoha, so how would they stay in contact with each other. *Ding* Yami's eyes widened only a small bit and he looked toward the corridor of doors and back at Pakura "I will be training you." stated the Uchiha.

"You're training me? What makes you think I need your training, I already am an A-Rank kunoichi." argued Pakura with her pride being smarted by his words. But she was unprepared for Yami to get up and land a palm strike on her stomach making her go flying to the wall and land on her posterior, after that she immediately directed her hands to the damaged area, moaning in pain.

Yami walked to the downed woman and spoke "Do you see, I could take you down just by doing that. Your little fight back at Kiri, S-Ranks could do that with ease without even getting cut and you would have died had I not arrived."

After a few seconds, Pakura ascended from the ground with a calm expression most likely took the time to review her early battle and the outcome of it. While she indeed had taken down multiple enemies, she was still having difficulty as she kept fighting, so it most likely would be a good idea to accept the Uchiha's offer for training since she would only receive benefits from it.

But she still had a question, "Why do you want to train me?"

An answer came quick "You have potential but also because you would be helpful for some plans that I have for the future, but you would have to be strong enough yo handle the challenges ahead. So tell me, will you train with me?"

She didn't need to take a few seconds since she already did not have that many options, besides he was giving her a choice. She nodded to him and he nodded back, glad to not have this situation go sideways.

"What do you have planned?" asked Pakura wanting to be able to be ready for the event Yami had planned.

He shook his head though and replied "No, you don't need to know right now. When you are prepared then you will know."

Begrudgingly accepted the answer, and brought up another question, "Why are you a bounty hunter when the original isn't?" She wasn't trying to be nosy or anything but she did want to learn about her new "Leader".

"Before we begin with that, you must deal with the one connection you seem to have with your previous village. Your Headband" stated Yami.

Pakura had actually forgotten about the only thing left that signifies her allegiance to Suna, she took it off her head and stared at the hourglass symbol on the headband. Once she stared at it with pride, when she had been hailed as Hero of Suna by stopping Iwa's plans against the village, she had worked her best to help the village with anything it needed. But now with the betrayal by her village, it should be easy to cut the only tie between them, to do so though would be to erase years of service that she had been in for the sand village.

Yami looked at her conflicted features and spoke again, "You can't do it, can you?"

Pakura turned to him with fury in her eyes, "Could you cut away all of the dedication that you would have for your village? Could you erase the memories of the place you once believed would back you up no matter what?" She didn't expect his reply though.

"Yes." Yami replied briefly.

Pakura didn't believe his words for even a second, so she scoffed and rolled her eyes and said, "Sure, you say that now when your village hasn't even turned on you, and don't lie. My village has heard of how Konoha completely adores the last two loyal Uchiha, you must be showered with such love."

*Crack*

She looked to the source of the noise and looked down, only to see Yami's knuckles extremely clenched to the point where they had cracked, she completely forgot that she was speaking to someone that could kill her in a mere moment.

Thankfully Yami only talked and didn't fight, "You really think that do you? First of all, Konoha doesn't love us, all they care about is the power that we bring to their village. They treat their own jincuuriki as if she was a criminal, ostracizing her and overpricing the woman at shops and restaurants. Thanks to being a shinobi she didn't need to deal with those problems anymore but they should not have happened to begin with. Secondly, the village has already turned on me and my family, the moment they harmed one of us, emotionally or not, they showed me how much we mattered to them. Lastly, I do not care about how much Konoha 'loves' us, they don't matter to me. I care for the people close to me and that is it. Do you understand?"

The Scorch Release user wordlessly nodded at the newly acquired information and decided that she may have been out of line and apologized, "I'm sorry, I didn't-"

Yami cut her off by saying, "Of course you didn't know, how could you? You don't know me, all you know is what your village told you, my friend suffered their ostracizing of her, she had to be alone for a few years for an unjust reason. I will never forgive Konoha for what they did."

The Uchiha was silent for a few moments before continuing, "But we're off-topic, back to our previous conversation, the memories you have of Suna and all of what you did for them...let them go, if they do not care for you enough to remember your great deeds, then they do not deserve you. Forget them, like they did you but do not forget what they did to you. So, will you cut your tie with them, or will I have to bring you back to Suna only for you to be betrayed again when they decide to give you back to Kiri and all of this time was just a waste? The choice is yours."

Pakura thought for a few seconds before she eventually went to grab for kunai in her left holster only to find that it was gone. She then remembered that she had lost both of her kunai on that mission and she had not prepared well for it. Unexpectedly though, her companion took out a kunai and gave it to her and she used it to make a slash in the symbol signifying that she no longer followed her former village.

She turned her head back to the Uchiha when she heard him speak again, "While you can hate those in charge like the Kazekage and the council of Suna, do not hate the people since they had nothing to do with it."

She nodded to him at that before her eyes went wide, and she whispered with sorrow in her voice "My Parents, they are still in Suna. I need to get them out of there!" She hastily got up before Yami placed his arm on her shoulder and sat her back down. She looked at him now with rage and was about give a retort before his eyes grew cold and made her lose her breath, she felt as if her entire being was frozen at the mere sight of his eyes. But then she felt all of the aggression she had fade away.

Yami looked at Pakura in her brown eyes and said "You would not be able to sneak into a Shinobi village-while you are already supposed to be dead-and take your parents with you alone. But leave it to me, I already have a few spies in Suna so I will be able to get them out no problem." The Scorch Release user nodded to him, grateful for his help.

Yami then spoke up again, "Now, since you have cut off the last bond between you and Suna, I think it is time I tell you things that you might want to know. So just ask and I might answer depending on the question."

Pakura thought quietly and repeated the question she had asked before, "Why are you a bounty hunter when the original is not?"

Yami felt no problems from answering the question, "Since he had sent multiple clones out into the shinobi nations, there are some of us that establish ourselves as powerful people to get others to focus on us or the things that we do. While that happens, Yami will be at less attention than the others, allowing him to execute plans of his own and having a great chance of not being suspected even though he could defeat any attacker."

Pakura processed the information, it seemed as if the Uchiha was one of the paranoid kind if he had that planned just so he would not be found out by anyone. The difference between him and many others though was that he at least did not get paranoid over everything and only made sure to have plans for the right situations. She then got onto another topic of conversation, "You told me before that you would train me, what will you teach me that I currently do not know?"

Their conversation was put on hold when light shined down from the middle of the room and a figure jumped down from the hole in the ceiling while landing in a crouch. The orange-haired woman was about to attack but stopped when her companion placed a hand on her shoulder, halting her advancement. Once the unknown had stood up, the light that was shining had illuminated his appearance and allowed for both to see who it was.

Pakura had wide eyes and spoke "Your Yami Uchiha, the real one."

The Uchiha wore a grey shirt with no sleeves and grey shorts with black shinobi sandals, although both articles of clothing currently had a few rips in them exposing parts of his body her and his clone. Yami wondered why she was blushing up a storm until his clone had kindly pointed to his clothes and he looked down to see the damage. With his EMS appearing the holes in the clothes, as well as any missing parts were shrouded in a blue aura with green for the outline and within a couple of seconds, the clothing was repaired.

Then the one Pakura had been talking to, burst into smoke with the purple shield falling to the ground before it got caught by the near-adult in front of her and he took out a scroll and sealed it away. His eyes were a bit glazed over for a moment but they cleared and he looked at her with a little smile and he spoke for the first time of being here, "Of course I am Yami Uchiha! Have you heard of any other Uchiha with my name?!"

"No." was her reply.

"Good. Now I heard you had a question thanks to my clone." said the Uchiha.

Pakura nodded, and so Yami began, "Well the first thing I will be training you on is your speed, stamina, strength and chakra reserves for what I have planned."

Pakura's expression was incredulous and she exclaimed, "That's all your training me in?!"

Yami shook his head at her and explained, "No, this is to get you at a level that can handle what I will teach you."

Pakura crossed her arms with doubt in her eyes, "And what is this great thing that you will be teaching me." she said with sarcasm.

The Uchiha picked up on the sarcasm and ignored it since she would start listening once he demonstrated what she would be learning. He spoke to her, "I will be teaching you how to better handle your Scorch Release."

The woman widened her eyes a bit, "You have Scorch Release as well?"

He smirked and continued, "Yeah, and you have barely begun to scratch at the power that Scorch Release is able to provide. You have your spheres explode, allowing for them to cover large areas and keep them in a shape that is easy to control, but you are not using them to their full potential."

This was demonstrated when Yami held out his left hand and wind formed in his hand before an aqua-colored flame ran up along the wind and a sword of blue fire was formed in Yami's hand. Pakura looked at the fire in awe, she had never gotten her technique to be of the same heat as Yami's and she hadn't shaped it differently due to the concentration that is needed.

So she looked at the one to teach her and said, "Thank you for doing this for me, especially for dealing with my attitude."

Yami only shook his head with a smile and spoke, "We all have to deal with our problems at some point, but please excuse me I must do something." Yami walked to the hallway and went down the hall. Pakura followed after him and she saw as he went to a door, pink energy shrouded his hand and he placed it against the door at the end of the hallway. Next, he opened the door and there was a living room that had three women in it currently and each of them was looking at herself and Yami.

Yami waved his hand at them and said, "Looks like we have another addition to our family!"

The woman with raven hair replied to his statement, "Already? You just introduced Nihila to us yesterday."

Yami had a confused expression then replied, "What, what do you mea-ohhhhh, I get it. No, I did not romance her I only saved her from being killed by those bloodline haters in Kiri." He finished his sentence in a growl since he was very angry with the Fourth Miziukage and those that followed him. He would be lying if he said he didn't enjoy killing them for what they had done against people that had special abilities more than just chakra.

The girls all had understanding looks and Satsuki apologized for the assumption but the male Uchiha waved it off not having a problem with it, after all she was in the right since he had not told them the reason he left when he did. After Yami embraced them and gave each of his loves a passionate kiss, the women started to make their way to the Scorch Release user to talk to her and all four made their way into the base in Fire country while Yami stayed inside his house with a smirk on his face. He knew the moment he introduced Pakura that they would want to talk to one each other to get a feel for each other so he stayed out of their way and let them.

At that moment he rubbed his arms unable to resist because of the pain coursing through them, this was something he had to deal with ever since acquiring the Blades of Chaos. As S had said, the chains in his arms never lessened in the pain they gave him but all he could do was bear it and try to ignore the chains burning in his arms. That has worked for a while until he learned that if he absorbed negative emotions or Negativity in general, the chains would burn hotter than before. Luckily he wasn't a normal shinobi or the chains would have long burnt through the arms they were bound to. It seemed that what S had said about the blades getting stronger when they were powered by his Negativity was right but he didn't know that they would also be a hindrance to him.

But he knew he would have to deal with it until he kills that damn Uchiha that killed his parents, once that is done they would be released from his arms. But for now, they would remain. He was brought out of his reverie by Naruko waving him in to cook dinner. Shaking his head, Yami followed inside to cook for all five of them.

Three Months Later-July-9:21 AM-Konoha

The few months that went by had passed in the blink of an eye to Yami, there wasn't really anything worthwhile besides him training Pakura and a few missions here and there, along with dates with his girls happening in between. But back to his training with Pakura, it was rocky at first but over time as she got used to them, she did much better in her training since she would trust him a lot more. She now was able to create weapons from her ability, not only that but she was able to get them to a higher heat that was represented by a bright orange color. Her Taijutsu was in the low Sannin levels now, having previously been Mid Anbu for her hand to hand combat rank, she also had increased her chakra reserves to Mid Anbu, her speed had also increased with it just below Sannin level. Her strength was something that had increased too since she was now able to cause a small crater in the ground but if she added chakra there would be a mini earthquake happening.

She had also been able to improve upon her control over her chakra reserves, which had helped her save more chakra in her Scorch Release attacks. Apparently, when Yami had started teaching her, he found out that Pakura herself was unknowingly using more chakra then necessary in her usage of Scorch Release and while it had not been that much of a problem for the former Suna kunoichi before, it now was. If she would be facing powerful opponents, she would need to have as many advantages as possible and so she did under Yami's tutelage.

At the moment though, we find our MC laying in bed with his loves all around him, Naruko was laying on his right side while wrapping her arms around him in an embrace, an action mirrored by Satsuki on the male Uchiha's left side. Nihila though was quite comfortable laying directly on top of Yami's body using him as a pillow, she wasn't sleeping but merely enjoying the position she is in. She had woken up a few minutes ago due to being shaken by Yami moving around in his sleep, while it may have been subtle enough for both Naruko and Satsuki not to notice, she did. While both Yami and herself had connected their souls together, she could not bear witness to his dreams, only reconnecting their souls together again would allow her to see his dreams but she wasn't going to wake him up to find out. Not only that but it would be a invasion of his privacy so she wouldn't do it. A voice stopped her thoughts in their tracks,

"Hikari..." came from below her.

A confused look was shown on Nihila's face, she had never heard of this Hikari before since she had been here and Yami had never mentioned having another lover besides them. So who was this unknown woman?

Yami's Dream

Yami yet again found himself in a strange dream except for this time, Yami could see the person and he was shocked to see that it was himself! But he was older, he also looked a little bit different. Instead of the coal-black eyes, he possesses now, he had crimson eyes. The older Yami also wasn't training alone.

The older version of Yami blocked a hit from the woman before him. His blood was pumping, adrenaline was coursing through his veins increasing his excitement and sweat was evident on his skin. Yami was currently exchanging his fists with a woman with snow white hair that fell to her upper back but currently it was in a ponytail so it didn't spread around. The woman was repeatedly blocking each of Yami's kicks before he ducked under a punch and he threw out his leg and nailed her in the gut sending her away from his current position. The man pressed on his advantage and was able to connect three consecutive strikes to her face before she was able to grab his right arm and placed it behind his back then dislocate it gaining a grunt of pain from his lips.

The man twisted, ripping his arm from her grasp and kicking her again in the gut with his right ankle, he reset the limb but before he could continue further, the woman across from him raised her hand signifying she was done and relaxed. Yami walked forward as the woman stood up, once he got close she placed both of her hands onto the older Yami's cheeks and began to kiss him with passion. That was before the scene was replaced with him holding the woman again, except this time she was dying. The last thing he saw before his vision went black, was of both the older him and the woman sharing one last kiss before she died and of the older Yami placing his forehead against his loves own with tears streaming down his face. Before he saw no more, Yami heard a voice say "Seek me out, when you are ready."

The Real World

Yami awoke with a bit of a start that Nihila definitely felt but not only that, her eyes widened a bit. Yami was confused by his dragon mates' expression and was about to voice his concern when she wiped a finger on his cheek and showed him that it was wet. With a whiff of its scent, he knew what it was, it was tears, HIS tears. He wiped the back of his fist on his other cheek and indeed there were tears there too, it seemed that dream had more of an impact on him than he thought.

The female dragon wiped the rest of the tears away with her hand and placed her other hand on Yami's cheek and spoke with worry in her voice, "Are you okay my love?"

Yami only kept his gazing into her eyes, before he gave a small smile and replied "Yeah, I'm fine. Just had a bit of a nightmare."

Nihila deadpanned at him and spoke to him again, "Yami, you have not had a nightmare in months so do not lie to me. Not only that but you were crying, how the hell to do you smile after crying, even if it was in your sleep. Don't you remember how you were able to take away some of the girl's pain when they were hurt and you were able to bear some of that pain? Please, let us help you too."

Yami was confused at the plural word until he looked to his sides and saw that both Satsuki and Naruko were looking at him with worry evident in their eyes. So he sighed, knowing that he was not going to be able to get out of this situation, well he could...except that he would have to erase their memories of this encounter but he would never want to do that. With no hesitation, Yami spoke of his dream in detail to the women beside him, each of them was listening with rapt attention, not willing to interrupt him in favor of listening to the full story. Once he was finished with the story, each of his girls just looked at him but it was Satsuki that broke the silence, "Do you know who the woman was?"

Yami answered her with no moments in between, "No, that's what is strange. I don't know her and yet I had such a strong reaction to her death. Not only that but she seemed to have a romantic relationship with me or whoever that was in the dream." He had not felt such sorrow before except when his parents had died, but this had felt as if it was worse than that. The only thing he knew of what it could be is it is connected to the broken seal on him that S told him about and with how emotional he felt after just one memory of that woman, he knew that there was a lot more he would have to go through.

He was brought out of thoughts by Naruko shaking, he looked into her concerned eyes and heard her say, "If this happens to you again, tell us. Don't face this alone, it is always best to face something with others than alone." After a few moments, Yami nodded to her. Now satisfied, Naruko separated from the male Uchiha and got up with all of them following her out of the room, Yami immediately went to the kitchen while Naruko went to the bathroom, Nihila got out of the close to breathe in the nice morning air and Satsuki opened the door to the dojo to start her katas.

Today the winds of change have been busy and some things will never be the same.

Yeah, I know there were supposed to know fillers but I have been busy recently with a family reunion and was not able to get to the exams but the next actually is. So I apologize to all of you for that, the next chapter WILL feature the first and second exam but do not expect it next Saturday since I most likely will be working on that for quite a bit. It will be on A Saturday but for now, I do not know if I will get it done this week for the plans I have for it. But I will see you then.

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Ps: Happy Late Halloween

Posted On 11-2-19