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Ryuu sighed as he landed in front of the village gate. Fu had yet to stir, and he was still wearing Tobi. On the bright side, they hadn't seen Zetsu since he had put him under a genjutsu a day ago. The chunin at the gate shouted for him to stop instantly and Tobi opened his head.

"Ryuu!?" Kotetsu shouted. "Jesus! You're alive! What the hell happened to you?"

Ryuu shook his head, walking past them before using the Body Flicker Technique to get to the Hokage's office. He carefully pushed the door open with his foot and Tsunade looked up at him from the report she had been reading, the other teams from the Chunin Exams standing there as well, staring at Ryuu and Fu in shock.

"You...you're alive?" Tayuya breathed. "You're alive!" She ran over, throwing her arms around Ryuu, sobbing before looking down at Fu, seeing the burns and the partially healed and bandaged stab wounds. "What happened?"

"I need to...put her down," Ryuu said, barely able to stay on his feet any longer, the effects of trying to do too much before rehab, even with Tobi attached to him, starting to catch up.

Tayuya took her instantly and carried her to Tsunade's desk, setting her down, Tsunade beginning to tend to her wounds instantly, along with Sakura and Ino. As they did, Tobi began to unravel from Ryuu, reforming in time to catch him and gently set him on the floor, everyone staring at them.

"Did I lose the prosthetics?" Ryuu asked.

"No," Tobi said, sounding almost like he had before the Genjutsu now. "But using me for that long is hard one your body. Plus you never recovered from the poison, and your chakra never fully recovered from the fight."

Ryuu nodded and sighed, turning his head to watch the other three Medical Ninja work. After a few more minutes, they all stepped back, sighing.

"We're done," Tsunade said, turning to him. "Now, what the fuck is that thing, and what happened to you?"

"We fought two Akatsuki Members, Kakuzu and Hidan," Ryuu said. "Hidan was able to inflict wounds on others by ingesting their blood and using his own blood to form a seal on the ground. Once inside of it, he inflicts the wounds on himself, and the same wounds are reflected on whoever's blood he ingests."

"And he doesn't die?" Tsunade asked.

"Oh Hidan's immortal," Tobi said. "That's why he's partnered with Kakuzu. Kakuzu can't die as long as he still has one of his five hearts functioning, so in the event of a hard fight, he has a habit of stealing his partners' hearts."

"Are you serious?" Tenten asked.

"He is," Ryuu nodded. "I took his head off, but he was alive later on when I rescued Fu."

"He uses a really scary jutsu called Earth Grudge," Tobi said. "It lets him stitch his body back together when he's wounded. He hearts are the things that matter. He has five."

"Four of them are in the masks he keeps on his back until he forms them masses of cords that are like puppets but that fire extremely powerful elemental jutsus, one element a mask," Ryuu said. "The heart in his own body is harder to hit, because he can move it around inside of himself."

"They sound like monsters," Choji said.

"Try fighting them," Ryuu said. "I assume everyone in this room knows about Fu's secret?"

Everyone nodded.

"Fu fought Hidan using the power of her Tailed Beast as a solid cloak of chakra, but Hidan managed to get her blood with his three-bladed scythe," Ryuu said. "Then he got in his seal and stabbed himself, and Fu was wounded too. I managed to get him out of the seal and used one of Kakuzu's attacks to break it. Then, Fu transformed into Chomei, the Seven-tails, fully, trying to use a blast of raw chakra that looked like a massive purple ball."

"Tailed Beast Ball," Tsunade said. "The most powerful attack a Tailed Beast can use."

"Yeah, that," Ryuu said. "Anyway, before she could, Hidan made himself another seal and stabbed himself two more times. The Tailed Beast Ball exploded and threw us all. It also burned Fu, and made her turn back to normal. I tried to get to her, to get away, and I decapitated Kakuzu on the way, but his cord puppets blasted me at point blank range."

"And that made your body look like that?" Kiba asked.

"When I found Ryuu, the right side of his body from the shoulder down had been blown off completely," Tobi said. "I managed to save him by attaching Hashirama Cells to that side of his body, like half a body's worth of prosthetics."

"So...you did what?" Lee asked.

"Hashirama Cells?" Tsunade asked, walking over.

"It's what I'm made out of," Tobi said. "And Zetsu. We're like...clones made from Hashirama Senju's DNA. Or bodies are capable of being grafted onto some people as prosthetics. Ryuu was lucky enough to be one of them."

"Why are they shriveled?" Tsunade asked.

"He has to go through rehabilitation," Tobi said. "He'd be doing it now, but we had to save Fu first, so I let him use my body."

"Why are you helping us?" Tsunade asked.

"Because Ryuu's my best friend," Tobi said.

Everyone stared at him.

"Okay," Tsunade finally sighed. "Since half of his body is now what you're made out of, is there anything we should know?"

"He doesn't need to eat or drink to survive anymore," Tobi said. "That stuff would just become chakra if he did. Because of that, he doesn't have to pee or poo either."

"Wait, he doesn't have to poop?" Kiba asked. "Bull shit. All humans pee and poop."

"Not him," Tobi said.

"Alright then," Tsunade sighed. "Ryuu, I'm putting Kabuto in charge of your rehab, again."

"I want Tobi there too," Ryuu said. "In case the Akatsuki shows up for Fu. Zetsu might. He was chasing us all the way back, until I put him under a Genjutsu."

"Oh Genjutsu doesn't work on Zetsu," Tobi said. "He was called off by Lord Pein."

"Who?" Ryuu asked.

"The pretend leader of the Akatsuki," Tobi said.

"Alright, you're going to stay and tell me everything you know about the Akatsuki," Tsunade said. "After that, you'll help Kabuto rehab Ryuu."

Tobi nodded. Tsunade dismissed everyone and Lee picked up Ryuu while Tayuya picked up Fu. Then, they left, using the rooftops to get to Ryuu's house without too many people noticing. Once there, they carried them inside, Tayuya leading Lee to Ryuu and Fu's bedroom, setting them on the bed, careful to put Fu on Ryuu's left side. Then, Lee left, Kabuto arriving a few minutes later, finding that Ryuu had passed out.

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