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Harold of Konoha
Chapter thirty-one: Anything goes (AKA when the Godzilla Threshold has been crossed)
A secret meeting at the Hokage office building over in Konohagakure was taking place one dark, cloudy day. Shinobi from Sunagakure and a few from Iwagakure, the two villages that are allied with Konoha against Kumogakure in the Fifth Great Ninja War, had come to discuss ongoing matters related to the war effort. Konoha shinobi, Suna shinobi and Iwa shinobi were talking amiably amongst themselves as their respective village leaders, as well as a few choice men picked by said village leaders, were having the secret meeting.
Lord Hokage Naruto Uzumaki, with his three advisors Sasuke Uchiha, Shikamaru Nara and Shino Aburame standing behind him, sat on one side of the circular table in the meeting room. Lord Kazekage Gaara, with his older brother Kankuro and two of their guards standing behind him, sat counterclockwise to Naruto at the table. Lady Tsuchikage Kurotsuchi, with three guards standing behind her, sat at the final spot at the table.
"Before we begin the usual discussions," Gaara began, "I believe that Kurotsuchi has some info she would like to share."
"Yeah, my boys found out some right terrifying info about one of the members of the council that is currently ruling Kumo," Kurotsuchi remarked in a concerned tone as one of her guards stepped forward, produced a small scroll from a weapons pouch on the back of his belt, and handed it over to Kurotsuchi. Handing the scroll over to Naruto, Kurotsuchi said, "You're the host this time, so I'll let you have the first look-see, my good man."
Opening the scroll, Naruto read the report on it, his eyes widening in shock and worry with each line he read. "Holy hell," Naruto muttered, "This isn't for real, right? Please tell me it isn't for real."
"Naruto?" Shino said in a confused and mildly worried tone, "What does the report say?"
Sighing as he set the scroll down, Naruto replied, "Apparently, one of the members of Kumo's current ruling council can now use the Edo Tensei." The instant Naruto said this, all of the Konoha and Suna natives became instantly alarmed.
"Great, now we're going to have to deal with Kumo-controlled Edo Tensei zombies?!" Shikamaru exclaimed, "That's the same problem that made the last great ninja war such a pain in the ass for us to deal with!"
"Not to mention the fact that Kumo itself had to deal with that problem, same as the other great villages," Sasuke pointed out, "Not only is Kumo being hypocritical, but they're also being nothing short of monsters."
Gaara, having gotten out a cell phone, made a call back to Suna. Once the call went through, he said, "Hello, Suna Mortician corps? This is Lord Kazekage Gaara. I want you to head to the Suna cemetery, dig up my sister's remains, and incinerate them until nothing but ashes remain." (1)
"This is bad, dudes," Kankuro began in a grim tone as he spoke to everyone else present, "Given that the Edo Tensei needs a living human sacrifice, anyone would fit the bill. Kumo can just use civilians as fodder to bring back some of history's strongest shinobi to throw at us, especially some key players from our own villages. I'm not all that big a fan of potentially having to face the likes of Granny Chiyo or Pakura." (2)
"They can resurrect previous kage title holders from our villages to throw at us," Shino pointed out, "Like Lord Third Tsuchikage, or Gaara's dad, or Naruto's dad."
"Naruto's pa was the Hokage?!" Kurotsuchi exclaimed, clearly shocked.
"Yeah," Naruto replied in a mildly somber tone, "The late Lord Fourth Hokage was my biological father."
"Biological father?" Kankuro repeated, sounding a little lost.
"We've recently learned that my in-laws are Naruto's adoptive parents," Shikamaru explained, "They successfully completed all the paperwork and were legally Naruto's parents ever since he was six. However, Naruto continued to live as if he was still without a family because the people working in the Konoha Adoption Agency are astronomically incompetent. We're still working on cleaning up that department."
"Naruto's the adopted son of one of the three biggest morons in the history of Konoha?" Gaara asked, looking mildly aghast.
"I know," Naruto replied in an understanding tone, "But despite what my dad and his friends usually get up to, they've been known to have results."
"…Like the Anything Goes Initiative?" Shino asked in an inquiring tone.
Naruto's eyes widened somewhat in response to what his Aburame advisor just said. However, after a few seconds, Naruto relented, sighing as he did so. To his fellow village leaders, Naruto said, "Gaara, Kurotsuchi, what I'm about to propose, while being without a doubt the single most insane thing I have ever done in my life, will also take care of the issue of Kumo having an Edo Tensei user before it becomes a serious problem."
During the history of the five great villages of the ninja world, the villages would often have severe problems, often times during wars against each other. Most of the time, the great ninja villages can handle these problems on their own, or at least with the help of another great village that's on friendly terms with them. However, sometimes a problem crops up that throws things so far out of control, that even the great villages are willing to resort to any plan that they can come up with just to end the problem that cropped up.
The 'Anything Goes Initiative' is one such plan. Created during the middle to tail-end of the Third Hokage's first tenure as the active Hokage, the Anything Goes Initiative carries a one-hundred percent success rate of eliminating the problem that it was sent out to eliminate, while also carrying a seventy-eight percent chance that the current Hokage, who is the only one who can order this plan to be carried out, will step down as Hokage out of shame. In fact, having ordered the use of the Anything Goes Initiative once during the tail-end of the Third Great Ninja War is part of the reason why the Third Hokage retired until the Fourth Hokage was killed. (3)
How the plan works is actually quite simple. The current Hokage at the time summons Harold Fisher, Inoichi Yamanaka and Tsume Inuzuka, tells them about the problem, and assigns them the mission of eliminating the problem while telling them that they can do whatever they want so long as it gets the job done (hence why the plan is called the Anything Goes Initiative). Given what Harold Fisher and his friends are capable of coming up with, giving them unlimited freedom on the job is a very risky move. Even Tsume being tempered by the presence of Kuromaru, her Ninkin, does nothing to hold her back if she's given the proper motivation (killing Momoshiki by crashing The Hanamaru into him being the main example here (4)).
When Harold and his friends appeared in Naruto's office after receiving summons from him to come over ASAP, they were at first confused as to why they were being summoned. "Dude, why does your son want to see us?" Harold asked Inoichi as the three seniors and one Ninkin walked through the door on the ground floor of the Hokage office building.
"Oh dude!" Inoichi exclaimed, "Naruto must have had his first sibling argument with Ino! I've always wanted to break up an argument between my children, but I could never do so since I only had one child!"
"I'm pretty sure that Ino and Lord Sixth can settle any arguments between themselves at this point, Inoichi," Kuromaru pointed out, "They're adults with their own children."
"…A man can dream, Kuromaru," Inoichi replied in a downcast tone. After Inoichi expressed his minor disappointment due to his hopes being dashed, Naruto walked into the office, with Sasuke, Shikamaru and Shino following close behind.
"I suppose why I've asked you all to come here on such short notice," Naruto began as he sat in his chair at his desk.
"Did you have your first sibling argument with Ino?" Inoichi asked.
Sighing, Naruto replied, "No, dad, Ino and I did not have an argument." Looking to the seniors as a whole, Naruto continued, "During the meeting I had with Gaara and Kurotsuchi earlier, I was informed by Kurotsuchi about the activities of one Senzin Heylin, a member of the council that currently rules Kumogakure."
"They're the bastards whose command issued the order to attack Sunagakure close to twenty years ago, thus kicking off the Fifth Great Ninja War," Tsume remarked, "Right?"
"Exactly," Naruto replied with a nod in the affirmative, "Anyway, Senzin is currently in the field, at a Kumo-controlled camp." Looking to the group as a whole, Naruto said, "Dad, Mr. Fisher, Mrs. Inuzuka, Kuromaru, I want the four of you to head to that camp, find Senzin, and kill him before he can put whatever plans he has into action."
"Ah, you wanna see your old man in action, do you?" Inoichi replied with an amused grin, "Well don't you worry, my boy. The boys and I will carry out this assassination by-the-book. Full stealth mode and everything."
"Actually, stealth isn't as necessary an element on this mission as you're painting it out to be," Shikamaru said to his father-in-law.
"…Hmm?" Inoichi replied in a mildly confused tone, "What do you mean, Shikamaru?"
"Time is pretty much limited here, dad," Naruto replied, "So doing things by the book isn't really much of an option here. For the sake of the alliance between Konoha, Suna and Iwa, we need Senzin Heylin dead, and we need him dead NOW. I don't care what you and your friends do, or how big of a mess you guys make in the process. Just kill Senzin." (5)
A dawning look of realization (with a mild amount of apprehension mixed in), Kuromaru said, "Lord Sixth…you're not saying that-"
"I am saying, Kuromaru," Naruto interrupted. Letting out a resigned sigh, Naruto said to Harold and his team, "Dad, Mr. Fisher, Mrs. Inuzuka, Kuromaru, the lot of you have my permission to, on this mission, do anything and everything that you can think of so long as Senzin Heylin is dead by the end."
"Woohoo!" Harold cheered as he pumped both fists into the air, "We get to cut loose again! This is going to be frigg'en sweet!"
"Lord Sixth, you're at least going to tell them to try to keep their antics to a minimum, right?" Kuromaru asked Naruto in a concerned tone.
"I was serious when I said that they can do anything and everything that they can think of so long as Senzin is dead by the time things are done," Naruto replied, "If any of their antics leads to that end, then I won't stop them."
"The boys and I will leave for the mission as soon as we're ready," Tsume said to Naruto as she gave him a salute, "Trust me, Lord Sixth. You won't regret this." (6)
"Well come on, boys," Inoichi said to his friends, "We got a mission to get ready for!" With the Yamanaka patriarch leading the way, the three seniors and one Ninkin left Naruto's office, leaving the Hokage alone with his advisors.
"…Well, I better start writing up a list of jonin I believe would make great candidates for the position of Hokage," Naruto remarked aloud as he opened a desk drawer to pull out a mechanical pencil and a spiral-bound notebook.
The Kumo-controlled camp where Senzin Heylin is rumored to be at is located in Oto, where one of the major battlefields of the ongoing Fifth Great Ninja War is located. No fighting was currently going on, but the very atmosphere suggested that the fighting could resume at any moment, given the right trigger. It was at a Konoha-Suna controlled camp on the other side of the battlefield where Harold and his friends made their appearance on the battlefield.
"'Sup, hoes?" Tsume said as she greeted two Suna shinobi and a Konoha shinobi when she and the others entered the commander's tent.
"Aren't you three a bit old to be fighting in the war?" the Konoha shinobi asked, eyeing Harold and company with a curious look.
"We were sent here by Lord Sixth himself," Harold replied.
"You mean Lord Hokage?" the Konoha shinobi asked as he pointed to the Konoha headbands being worn by Harold, Inoichi and Tsume. After the three seniors and one Ninkin all nodded in the affirmative, the Konoha shinobi asked, "Why would Lord Hokage send you guys here?"
"He asked us to eighty-six some dude at the Kumo camp named Senzin Heylin," Tsume explained.
"Ah yes, you're the group I was informed about," remarked one of the Suna shinobi, the only kunoichi of the three shinobi present who greeted Harold's group at the commander's tent. Gesturing for the older shinobi to follow her, the Suna kunoichi said as she went into the tent, "Please, follow me."
After they followed the Suna kunoichi into the tent, they were greeted by the sight of a grizzled-looking Konoha shinobi who looked to be, at most, in his mid-fifties. Seeing the older shinobi before him, the Konoha shinobi said as he raised an eyebrow in a mildly confused manner, "Who are you three supposed to be?"
"Sir, this is the team of Konoha shinobi that Lord Naruto said he was sending to the camp here," the Suna kunoichi explained as she faced the Konoha shinobi while gesturing to Harold and company, "You know, the team that was given the mission of assassinating Senzin Heylin."
Looking over Harold and company for a few seconds, the Konoha shinobi said to the Suna kunoichi in a mildly confused tone, "Aren't they a little old to be in active service?"
"Aren't you a little ugly to be in active service?" Tsume retorted.
"Well aren't you rude," the Konoha shinobi retorted, "Who are you three, by the way?"
"The FOUR of us are Harold, Inoichi, Tsume and Kuromaru," Tsume spat at the Konoha shinobi in an annoyed tone, "You frigg'en racist."
"Yeah, Tsume doesn't like it when someone doesn't refer to me as a separate but equal member of the team," Kuromaru said to the Konoha shinobi, "Just to give you a heads-up. But yeah, as your Suna assistant here said, Tsume, Harold, Inoichi and I were sent by the Sixth Hokage for the task of assassinating one Senzin Heylin."
"…Did that dog just talk?" the Konoha shinobi asked, starring at Kuromaru with an expression of total shock.
"Look, do you want us to kill that Senzin turd or not?" Harold asked as he picked up a guitar case and laid it on top of the table that everyone was standing around in the tent.
Looking at the case with a curious expression, the Konoha shinobi said, "What the hell is this supposed to be?"
"Only the single greatest artifact in the history of awesome and rock," Harold replied as he popped the case open to remove a most awesome-looking electric guitar. The guitar's body looked like a goat's skull viewed from the side, and the headstock looked like a billowing flame (the ends of the tuning keys also looked like little flames).
"Gentlemen, behold!" Harold said as he raised the guitar above his head with both hands, "Axeimum the Awesomeslayer!"
"…You're going to beat Senzin to death with an electric guitar?" the Konoha shinobi said in a confused, questioning tone.
"Axeimum the Awesomeslayer is no mere electric guitar, my good man," Harold explained, "It is without a doubt the single greatest weapon to have ever been forged."
"I'm going to have to agree with my commander here," the Suna kunoichi remarked, her tone clearly indicating that she was lost, "It's just a custom electric guitar, as far as I can tell."
"Clearly you have never heard of the legend of Axeimum the Awesomeslayer," Inoichi remarked as he gently shook his head.
"Commissioned by Knuckles the Echidna and forged by Tyrion Lannister using Thor's enchanted uru Warhammer Mjolnir as a blacksmith hammer," Harold began, "Axeimum the Awesomeslayer was created in the heart of an underwater volcano where Aquaman makes his home. Combining the wing bone of a male Valkyrie, the heart of a female Draugr, hairs from the head of a male yuki-onna, and one other material from a female of a male-only species of mythological origin, Tyrion Lannister made the awesome metal ingot that he forged into this mighty guitar."
"Axeimum the Awesomeslayer is a truly indestructible artifact," Inoichi said, "No conceivable method whatsoever is capable of causing and sort of damage to it or otherwise compromise its structural integrity." (7)
"If used as a weapon to beat someone with," Harold continued, "Axeimum the Awesomeslayer is capable of one-hit killing beings up to and including Superman. However, if Axeimum the Awesomeslayer is used as it is truly meant to be used-that is, as a musical instrument-it's true powers are then unleashed."
"When playing Axeimum the Awesomeslayer," Tsume explained, "You must actually play a song on it. Merely strumming the strings in and of themselves is far too dangerous. If you simply strum the strings, then a number of things will happen, depending on the number of strums."
"If you strum it one time," Harold began to list, "Then everyone in the world currently playing Guitar Hero will automatically get a perfect score playing 'Through the fire and flames' on legendary. Strum the strings two times, and every female nerd within a one-hundred-mile radius will orgasm."
"Why just the nerdy ones?" the Suna kunoichi asked.
"At the time that he had Axeimum the Awesomeslayer commissioned, Knuckles had a fetish for nerdy chicks," Harold explained, "Anywho, if you strum the strings three times, Cerberus will burst out of the depths of Hades and come to you, eager to serve as your steed for you to ride into battle upon."
"Finally," Inoichi said, "If you strum Axeimum the Awesomeslayer's strings four times, you enter god mode for five minutes."
"Luckily," Harold added, "If you wait at least one minute between strums, then the counter of epic dooms will reset."
"…Are you kidding me?" the Konoha shinobi replied as he gave the group of shinobi a deadpan look, "That's the biggest-"
"Are any of the kunoichi under your command nerds?" Harold interrupted.
"What?" the Konoha shinobi exclaimed more than asked, clearly flabbergasted.
"Then we're going straight to three strums," Harold said as he put the guitar strap of Axeimum the Awesomeslayer over his right shoulder. Holding the guitar properly so that he could play it, Harold strummed the strings three times.
After a few seconds passed with nothing happening, the Konoha shinobi said, "Well there you have it. There is-" The Konoha shinobi was cut off, however, when a loud rumbling resonated throughout the Konoha-Suna-Iwa campground. Suddenly, loud barking sounded throughout the camp, followed by numerous panicked shouting as people were very clearly getting out of the way of some large being that was practically stampeding towards the commander's tent.
Stopping a little short of the commander's tent, a trio of hellish voices shouted, "We have arrived and are eager to serve, master." Confused, the Konoha shinobi left the tent, with everyone inside following him. To the shock of everyone other than Harold, Inoichi and Tsume, Cerberus the three-headed guard dog of the underworld was standing in the camp.
Turning to face the Konoha shinobi, Harold said in a mildly teasing tone, "What were you going to say again?"
"I hope we're at least one-hundred miles from Konoha," Inoichi remarked aloud as he and his friends got onto Cerberus's back, "I'd hate for my daughter-in-law to orgasm."
Once Harold, Inoichi and Tsume were on Cerberus's back, Tsume looked down from Cerberus's back to look at Kuromaru. "You stay here to hold down the fort," Tsume instructed her Ninkin, "We'll need someone to represent our group here at the base."
"So, which way is the enemy camp?" Harold asked the Konoha shinobi.
Realizing that trying to question what was going on would not only be pointless but cost him a lot of sleep at night, the Konoha shinobi decided to just roll with it. "The enemy camp is in that direction over there," the Konoha shinobi replied as he pointed in the appropriate direction, "Just keep going straight."
"Who do you wish for us to kill, master?" the three heads of Cerberus all asked Harold, who was still holding Axeimum the Awesomeslayer.
"We're looking to find and kill some fat, surly turd by the name of Senzin Heylin," Harold explained, "If we head to the camp that was pointed out to us, we can find the son of a bitch."
"Umm, from all reports, Senzin Heylin isn't fat," the Suna kunoichi pointed out to Harold and company, "In fact, our spies confirmed that Senzin is actually somewhat underweight for an adult male human. Granted, Senzin is a surly turd either way, just not a fat one."
Sighing in a mildly frustrated manner, Harold said, "I don't care if he's skinnier than Inoichi's daughter or fatter than Choza's daughter-in-law. The point is that we have to find and kill that bastard."
"Way to kill the joke, bitch," Tsume spat in an annoyed tone as she and her friends rode off to the enemy camp on the back of Cerberus. After Harold and company disappeared over the horizon, Kuromaru turned to face the Suna kunoichi.
"…Yeah, even I have to admit that you kind of killed it," Kuromaru remarked.
Later, over at the Kumo shinobi camp, the Kumo shinobi that were present were going about their duties as they prepared for combat against their enemies. The commander of the Kumo shinobi base, a grizzled veteran similar to the one Konoha shinobi over at the other camp, was talking to a noticeably slim Kumo shinobi from Kumo's ruling council. "Is your plan ready to be carried out, Sir Senzin?" the Kumo shinobi said to the council member.
"Everything is ready, commander," Senzin Heylin replied in a calm yet confident tone, "Soon, those Konoha and Suna fools will be made to realize their foolish foolishness in foolishly opposing the might that is-"
Senzin was cut off when a number of Kumo shinobi in the camp started shouting in panic. "…The hell is all that about?" Senzin remarked aloud as he walked over to where the shouting was coming from, with the Kumo shinobi he was talking to following him.
…
Somewhere on the far side of the other half of the Kumo camp, Harold, and his group were causing all sorts of mayhem. Inoichi, with a kunai in each hand, leapt up and practically spun at the Kumo shinobi like a drill, killing many enemies before he landed out of his drill-like spinning. Tsume, having found a barrel of dynamite sticks, decided to take the dynamite sticks, light them, and toss them into the oncoming rush of Kumo shinobi, grinning with near madness as the dynamite sticks went off.
Harold, currently standing on Cerberus's back, was fighting a Kumo shinobi who was wielding a katana. The Kumo shinobi, who also stood on the back of the three-headed hell beast, was confused by the fact that, rather than use a katana himself, Harold was using an (admittedly awesome-looking) electric guitar to block and parry the katana blows. Even more confusing to the Kumo shinobi was the fact that the guitar wasn't taking any sort of damage to speak of from being used as a stand-in for an actual weapon.
As the three heads of Cerberus each grabbed a Kumo shinobi in their maws, Harold managed to block another blow while compromising the Kumo shinobi's balance. With a quick foot slam in the Kumo shinobi's stomach, Harold knocked him off of Cerberus's back. Looking around at the scenery, Harold let out an impressed-sounding whistle.
"Hot damn," Harold remarked aloud, "Won't all of this make for an awesome story for me and the bros to tell our grandchildren and their friends when we Hey what the hell is that?" Harold changed his line of thought midsentence when his eyes fell upon what looked like a three-barreled cannon of incredible size. Judging by the base that the cannon sat on, it was mobile.
"Hey Cerberus," Harold said, "You see that sick-ass cannon?" With each head dropping a dead Kumo shinobi from the mouths, the three-headed hell beast looked over and saw the cannon that Harold was pointing to. "Take me over there," Harold half ordered-half asked politely. Obeying his master dutifully, Cerberus dashed over to the giant cannon.
Upon reaching the cannon, Harold leapt off of Cerberus's back, landed on the platform of the mobile cannon, killed both Kumo shinobi that were manning the cannon, then turned to face the controls. "Let's see what this bad boy can do," Harold said as he experimented around with the controls. Getting the cannon to turn, Harold aimed the three barrels of the cannon at an area where a large number of Kumo shinobi were milling about in a panic.
Harold activated the cannon, firing a large beam of destructive energy at the group of Kumo shinobi it was aimed at. "Holy crap!" Harold exclaimed as the smoke cleared, showing that most if not all of the Kumo shinobi that were aimed at were killed, "The hell is something like this bad boy doing in Kumo hands?"
"Shall we destroy the cannon, master?" Cerberus asked.
Looking over the cannon's control panel, Harold saw that the cannon had enough power for one or two more shots. "…Meh, let's use this thing up on the Kumo shinobi before we wreck it," Harold replied, "No use looking a gift horse in-"
"What do you think you're doing?" a male voice cried out in anger, cutting Harold off. Suddenly, Senzin Heylin landed on the platform next to Harold. "I am Senzin Heylin, one of the members of the prestigious ruling council of the great village of Kumogakure," Senzin began, "How dare a mere Konoha shinobi like you-" Senzin was cut off when Cerberus's middle head bit down on Senzin and picked him up, shaking him around like a ragdoll until Senzin was dead.
"Make sure his head is good enough condition," Harold instructed his summoned familiar, "We need to prove that the son of a bitch is dead, after all." At Harold's instructions, Cerberus dropped the corpse of Senzin Heylin, allowing it to fall onto the ground unceremoniously in a crumpled heap. Seeing that Cerberus had obeyed, Harold said, "Thank you, my friend." Turning his attention back to the cannon's control panel, Harold said, "Now then, where were we? …Ah yes, we were going to turn this Kumo-controlled weapon against them."
Sometime later, Naruto and his advisors received a report confirming that Harold and his group had successfully killed Senzin Heylin. That very same report also carried an update about the possibility of Kumo-controlled Edo Tensei zombies. As it turned out, the person who wrote the report that Kurotsuchi showed to Naruto and Gaara had made a slight error. …And by slight, I mean astronomically massive.
In truth, Senzin Heylin did not gain the ability to use the Edo Tensei; rather, he merely made Kumo's Chakra Cannon a significantly greater threat. Granted, Harold wrecked the Chakra Cannon beyond usage and repair after using up all of its shots on the Kumo shinobi, but it still didn't change the fact that the situation had been severely misread.
"Well boys," Naruto remarked to Sasuke, Shikamaru and Shino, "All things considered, I think I'll be able to comfortably keep my position as Hokage. My dad and his friends weren't nearly as bad as I thought they were going to be."
"I'm still baffled at the fact that instead of dealing with Kumo-controlled Edo Tensei zombies, all that we had to worry about was Kumo's Chakra Cannon," Shikamaru remarked, "Granted, it has loads of destructive capabilities, but it has nowhere near the amount of phycological potency as what the Edo Tensei is capable of. I do not want to have to fight Asuma-sensei again." (8)
"So, Naruto," Sasuke began, "Where are Mr. Fisher and his friends now?" Looking at the report, Sasuke said, "I want to ask about the part of the report where Kiba's mother borrowed an electric guitar from Sakura's uncle and used said guitar to, and I can't believe this is actually written in an official report, 'enter god mode for five minutes'."
Sighing in a resigned tone, Naruto muttered, "I hope I never have to use the Anything Goes Initiative ever again."
END, CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE
Author's Notes:
1. Given what he had just heard, can anyone really blame Gaara for issuing such an order?
2. Pakura is that deceased Suna shinobi who can more or less turn people into mummies with spheres of heat. For reasons that escape me, Pakura is pretty much my favorite shinobi to have been revived in the Fourth Great Ninja War arc.
3. VERY few people are aware of the fact that the Anything Goes Initiative was used during the TGNW. In fact, very few people are even aware of the fact that the plan even exists.
4. And all that happened because Momoshiki cost Tsume the chance to win a royal butt load of money from a bet.
5. Killing the Edo Tensei user will not undo the Edo Tensei zombies that he/she made. However, due to what they read in the report, Naruto, Gaara and Kurotsuchi agreed that, in the long run, killing Senzin ASAP was the best course of action.
6. Yes, he will.
7. Anything you can think of that can break or otherwise compromise its structural integrity can and WILL fail to do so. Yes, even Raiden's Murasama blade will have no effect.
8. True story.
Hoo boy, it feels kind of good to get back to writing the adventures of Harold and company. Anywho, sorry for taking so long to finally update this story; I've been busy with other writings, classes, games, and various other things. Since I'm updating this story with four chapters (this one, chapter 32, chapter 33 and chapter 34) at once, I hope it makes up for the lack of activity on this story.