Hey reader(s), so sorry for the delay of this update, super busy as always especially with the Thanksgiving, this coming Christmas, and New Years. Other than that, here is the update and hope you enjoy.
Amynila; I completely understand and I how it is being super distracted by things that either kept me away from things or I forget about it until at the last minute. Stuff like that happens all the time and who are we to ignore it.
ju-hkjv; Glad you liked it, thought I add some twist around the scene
Several miles away from the village…
An elderly man and a young boy are walking through the path, heading to they're destination, Konoha Leaf village,
"There should be a resting placing not too far from here nephew, we should rest there and continue the rest of our trip first thing in the morning," the man said, before his nephew spotted something down the hill, where there are many bushes, but notices a human body within them,
"Uncle, look down there," the nephew pointed out, his uncle looked over and saw it too. No doubt about there is a person down there,
"There's someone down there? You don't think…?" the nephew said,
"I'm gonna go check, you wait here," he said to his nephew before he head down the hill, carefully watching his step so he won't slip, and then reached over to the bushes, he looked at the body, and discovered a tall middle-aged man, with white spiky hair in a pony-tail, red lines under his eyes, wearing green pants and short shirt kimono with a red haori, and a horned forehead protector. The man came closer to the unconscious man enough to grab his waist, checking a pulse,
"He's alive, but he's not hurt or anything," he said, and then he soon noticed three plunged thorns on the man's hand, but the bushes don't even have thorns. He can however sense it's energy,
"He's been paralyzed," he stated,
"Uncle, what's wrong?" his nephew called out, he turned to him,
"This man needs help, we need to take him to the resting place immediately," he called out to his nephew, which made him come down the hill to help his uncle carry the unconscious man.
Forest…
Not too far away from the village, Ibate and Akalra walked through the forest and made it to the open area, where there awaits the emotionless children, Dujobe, Kilala, Myazo, Fuzca, and Uki, all freed from the Interrogation head-quarter will a little help from a certain stray cat.
Meow!
They all turned to the black cat that appeared from the tree, before it jumped to the ground and walked right to the center. Afterwards, yellow energy appeared once again as everyone stood and watched as the black cat begins to shift, soon the small size grew big, some bones crackle and snapped as the fur slowly vanish, revealing flesh skin of a human. By then, it stood up in two feet, the paws formed into hands and feet, and the tail disappear, and within that moment of transformation stood a nude man before them, their master, Akeeba, as he stood with a smile on his face. The Zukato brothers approached him with his attire, Myazo hands out his shirt, pants and shoes, while Fuzca hands out his cape, gloves, and hat. It took a few minutes for Akeeba to have himself dressed, not at all bothered by the children watching him, after he's finished, he first turned to the couple,
"Before we begin, I wanted to first welcome our newest member to the group," he said as he approached her,
"We are pleased to have you with us Ms. Akalra Auraka," he bowed to her,
"I'm pleased to be welcomed to the group, and I owe you my deepest gratitude upon your help," she said as she placed her hand on his, greeting each other,
"No thanks necessary, after all, it was Ibate who has chosen you out of many," he stated,
"And I in turn chose him," she said as she held onto Ibate's hand, Akeeba moved towards the center.
"Now then… while we're here" he said before he snapped his fingers, and boulder in a shape of a table appeared from the ground, everyone gathered around as Akeeba touched the boulder as the table soon formed a miniature version of the Konoha Leaf village,
"We will proceed further with the plan by seizing control of this village. Especially since Ibate was able to spread the 'flowers' and obtained many subordinates," Akeeba explained,
"Unfortunately, I cannot guarantee all will be obtained since it's only a matter of time when the humans will begin to notice and may try to intervene," Ibate stated explained,
"Not unless we prevent them from interfering," Myazo said,
"Many have families and love ones, which we can easily use for our advantage," Fuzca said,
"Such as the young children from the Academy, they could part of an addition to our new future," Kilala said while holding Uki's hand,
"Can't say the same about the animals, but then again we do need them to stock up food supplies," Dujobe said with his arms folded.
"There is a subjective matter that may need most troublesome throughout the plan," Akalra said, as she touched her bandage arm where she was injured,
"Due to an earlier unexpected encounter, I highly suggest a safety procedure in order prevent any further damaged upon us," she said,
"Does that include the Sensors and their whereabouts?" Uki asked while holding he doll. From that moment Akeeba clenched his fist and…
Punch!
Brutally punched the boulder table hard as it crumbled to pieces, the children appear unfazed by that sudden impact and his yellow energy flowing around him, stimulating his anger,
"How I despise those Sensors, always causing interference on everything, if it weren't for that incident, I could've vanquished all centuries ago," Akeeba growled as he nearly turned to his demonic form until…
Snap!
They all heard a sound and turned to a figure close by, Akeeba's yellow energy disappeared as he calmed down, the figure soon stepped forward, revealing to be an Anbu Blackops who just arrived and is one of Ibate's subordinate, Ibate approached him as the Anbu kneeled before his master.
"Report," Ibate said to him,
"We were able to track down the Sensors, they're located over by the waterfalls not too far from the village," the Anbu reported,
"Gather the others and have them meet me there. Don't do anything once I arrive to give the order," Ibate ordered him,
"Hai!" the Anbu said before he disappeared. Ibate returns to the others,
"The Sensor's whereabouts has been located, my subordinates and I will go over there to eliminate them before they'll try to intervene," Ibate said, Akeeba smiled and snickered,
"Excellent work Ibate, usually they would cover their tracks to prevent us from finding them, but you were able to succeed," he said,
"Not on my own," Ibate before he turned to his mate before he slowly held her close in his arm,
"You were right about that Uzumaki, he seemed quite useful in his own irrational way," he said to her,
"The only thing left is to convince him to join us, only then… we will seize control of Nine-Tailed Fox," Akalra said.
Cottage…
Naruto, Sasuke, Shino and Sin are sitting back at the living room as Sin's grandmother stood at the window, staring at the Anbus who are still there from the distance, not moving at all. Meanwhile, Sin is cleaning off the pollen off Naruto's jacket with a cloth,
"I'm really sorry," Sin turned to him as he has his head down, feeling ashamed,
"If I haven't went to confront him, this never would've happened," he said. Sin sighed silently as she continues cleaning the stain,
"Demons like him has their way to manipulate people, whether it's directly, indirectly, both, they'll get inside your head to either find your deepest desire to persuade you, or use something against you to provoke you; it doesn't really matter to them because they don't care either way," she said, before she looked at the jacket to make sure there is no blue left,
"Since none of them possess emotions, they developed the knowledge of it by stimulating inner thoughts and gather information from all over," she said before she returned Naruto's jacket back to him.
"Then how come this Deceiver is interested in Sakura, he's been referring her as his mate?" Sasuke asked,
"Wait, what!?" Naruto replied as this is the first time he heard about it,
"Because it's mating season, when a selected member of the group seeks out a mate, they choose them based on their human counterparts. And as you may have been aware already, the Deceiver has chosen your comrade as his mate," Sin explained,
"The hell," Naruto whispered as he did start out jealous when Kyro started dating Sakura, but now is beyond upset that he's planning to make her his; and not just dating her!
"Sin," Sin's grandmother said as she appeared to the living room,
"Bring the blankets and take the boys to the guestroom," she said,
"What?!" Shino replied,
"It's not safe to leave while they're still out there, it's best you three stay here for the night," Sin's grandmother said,
"I thought I came over to get information about that thug, not sleepover in some cottage," Sasuke is displeased,
"Unfortunately, due to the unexpected circumstance, we can't risk any of the subordinates to set foot in this place," Sin's grandmother said to him, the Sin stepped in,
"Unless… you were willing to give yourself to them, that way they'll take you away from here so that Naruto and Shino will leave here safely. Since, for what you said earlier, the Deceiver is after you most all, no?" she said while looking at Sasuke, who is now silent by her valid point, which annoys him.
Inner thoughts…
Kyro helped the injured Sakura walk quickly through the hall as they made it to the room, where Sakura saw the other trapped children, two girls and three boys, all resembled the emotionless children she met before, but all wearing worn out clothes and cuffed chains like her and Kyro; no doubt about they were trapped here for a long time.
"Khin, Khan, bring me the ointment and first-aid, she's been burnt," Kyro said to the twin brothers, Khin and Khan quickly split to get the medic supplies, she looked around the room as it does resemble an ordinary living room, except with no window, no furniture but rather cushions the two girls made for her to sit down. By the time Kyro assisted her to the seat, the twins came over with the supplies, Khin brought the first-aid kit as Khan brought the bottled ointment, Kyro poured the ointment onto a small rag to absorb it, then he approached to Sakura to intend her burnt arm,
"First you should know, once I apply this to your arm, it may sting a lot, so… I recommend you either hold your breath, hold on and squeeze Onginji's hand, or both, up to you," Kyro informed her as Onginji stood by with his hand held out to her, Sakura looked at Onginji, as he almost look exactly like Dujobe, except his eyes are teal-green and he appeared harmless. By then, Sakura slowly grabbed Onginji's hand, and signaled to Kyro that she is ready, and from that moment Kyro gently applied the rag onto Sakura burnt arm, Sakura grunted loudly by that painful sting while squeezing Onginji's hand tightly,
"It's going to be okay, we all dealt with this pain before," Onginji said. Sakura looked up to him, and noticed some bandages around his neck, and then looked at the other children, the twin brothers, who resembles Myazo and Fuzca but both have red-ginger hair and brown eyes, they have some bandages wrapped around on both their waists. Then looked at the tall girl, who resembles Kilala but has blonde hair and she isn't blind, she notice the bandages around both sides of her arms and one on her left ankle, and then looked the little girl who resembles Uki but has light-brunette hair, with only one bandage on her knee and elbow.
"That should do it," Kyro said after he finished with the ointment and now started to wrap around her with bandage, Sakura looked at him, and soon noticed a peek of bandages on his upper torso, and a small amount of blood stain on it,
"What happened to all of you?" she said as she appeared distraught for all of them.
Cottage…
Sin brought the blankets and have the boys sleep in the same room, Shino lays in the loveseat couch, while Sasuke and Naruto sleep on the floor, with sleeping mats all set up,
"My grandmother is going to keep an eye of the subordinates and she instructed me to take you three back to the village first thing in the morning," Sin said to them after she finished their sleeping preparation,
"You rest well, I'll see you in the morning, night," Sin said to them before she turned off the lights and leaves the room. While laying on the floor, Naruto turned his head to Sasuke,
"Hey Sasuke," he said, Sasuke didn't even bother to look at him as he grunted silently,
"What?" he replied,
"You said earlier about the Deceiver calling Sakura-chan his mate, how come he told you about it?" Naruto asked,
"The hell should I know, he's been calling her his mate ever since last week mission, and he considers me a threat," Sasuke explained, Naruto pondered his thought for a moment,
"I am however curious to know why you followed that red-haired girl after they told us to stay away from her?" Sasuke asked,
"I wanted to find out myself what made her so dangerous," Naruto answered, then Sasuke looked over at him,
"And did you found out?" he asked. Naruto appeared reluctant by his question, and then,
"Well… not exactly, the last thing I remember was talking to her and then ended up back in my apartment," he said,
"You should consider yourself lucky that's all you remembered," Shino said, Naruto turned to him,
"Although I never knew about that girl with red-hair, I could see why the Sensors warned you both to stay away from her," Shino said, still remembering how he witnessed her devouring that dog, but choose not to mention that to them.
"We should rest now, we need to be ready to head back to the village first thing in the morning," Shino said as he turned his body to the side to sleep, Sasuke did the same, though Naruto just lay on his back staring at the ceiling, his mind pondered his thought about Akalra, despite what he's been told about her and what she did to him earlier when that wild animal was wrecking the village, and yet… he can't get her out of his mind, even when she was in his mind; twice. He can't get over the way she looks at him, how she talks to him, or when her hand touched his face; no girl has ever done that to him before, nor has he ever felt this frightened and aroused altogether whenever he's near her,
"Why is she making me feel this way?" he thought to himself before he rested his eyes to finally slumbers through the night.
To be continued…
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