The mad scientist lays the body of YuriBluflame on his table and with all necessary components, he pulls down the lever and powerful electricity courses through the body. When it's over, all is quiet. That was until his patient opened his eyes and sat up, the scientist shouting out to the heavens:
"He alive? He's Alive?! HE'S ALLLLLLLLLLLLLLIVE!"
Hey guys, I'm really sorry that I haven't updated in a long time. I started streaming back in January/February and had only become an affiliate early this month, so I've spent a lot of my time streaming. But I'm not going to stop writing this story, now or anytime soon, but now I've got a lot on my plate. Plus there's work and a lot of real life stuff, so there is a lot going on. I'm also writing my Supergirl fanfic as well, because I want to write some romance out and not being able to do that yet in this story was killing me. But there will be romance soon between Sakura and Hinata so don't worry about that, and hope it goes well for them.
But regardless, during the time, I want to thank everyone who are still enjoying this story and to the people who follow and favourite as well.
So with that said, let's begin shall we? :)
Like always, I apologise in advance for any grammar mistakes, repetitiveness and poor writing. And I also don't own Naruto or it's characters. I'm just using them for the story. And any OCs that you see in this story are mine.
Enjoy!
P.S. I wrote this in 1st person first, so if I left anything, I do apologise
The tension was high as Hinata watched on. The girl known as Kyūbi stood there on all fours, her teeth bared, and was growling at the man across from her, the translucent red 'shroud' surrounding the blonde, violently bubbling. The man called Kabuto, on the other hand, was calm, serene. He was staring into blood red eyes with a smirk on his now pale features. Even though the ravenette wasn't anywhere near them, she could still feel their intense heat from all the way from where she was laying, a cold sweat running down her back. However, with a violent roar coming out of the girl's throat, the tree branches and leaves started to rustle violently from the vibrations.
The blonde made the first move of the fight. Gathering the same swirling, dark energy in her right hand, the girl charged at Kabuto. Upon seeing the blonde's reckless, and repeatative, movement the former human slave reached into a pouch on his right thigh, drew out three, long needles and ignited them with the same blue aura that had surrounded the man's hand before. Then, he threw the three sharp objects at his target, but the blonde easily dodged them, swaying left and then right. The last one, Kyūbi spun herself around, her crimson eyes never leaving her opponent. When one foot landed on the ground, the girl leapt high into the air, cocking her attack back, and with another cry that could pierce someone's soul, gravity now doing it's work, she thrust her dark energy at Kabuto.
"Hmph," the snake eyed man grunted. He jumped out of the way, in the air, as Kyūbi's attack hit the spot where he had stood only a moment ago. Immediately, however, the girl went after him. The blonde was fast, but just as she was about to touch him, she disappeared from sight. Not even a second went by when she reappeared behind Kabuto, wrapping both of her arms and legs around his body, letting out another roar and flipping them both upside down. The young girl rotated them both, the pair spiralling down to earth, until they hit the grass and mud of the park. Another dust covered cloud was formed, shading the spot where they had plummeted, but the girl was the only one to emerge from within it.
Coming out from the top and landing just a few feet away from where Hinata was laying, the ravenette could hear the girl breath laboured breaths of exertion, her crimson gaze still lingering on the dust cloud, waiting. But then, all of a sudden, the cloud began to stretch towards Hinata and Kyūbi's direction, and in the next moment, a snake's head broke though, it's maw wide open, revealing two long, sharp teeth. Kyūbi didn't have time to move and the snake latched itself onto the blonde's shoulder. The girl screamed, and was lifted off of the ground, high into the sky before she was swung to the ground, hard, causing a crater from the impact.
It wasn't finished though. It again lifted the girl and swung her the other way, causing the same result. Finally, the snake appendage lifted the girl up one last time and threw her like a rag doll, Kyūbi's body bouncing once, twice, three times before hitting a tree and toppling it over. It was at that moment that Kabuto walked out, the dust dissipating behind him, the snake once again wrapping itself around his waist. He moved his neck, side to side, the sound of bones moving back into place being heard throughout the park.
"Don't you think we should stop this Kyūbi?" he asked. "I think we've played this little game long en-"
A hand grabbing his face stopped the man's sentence, before being forced to the ground. Kyūbi roared out a war cry, glaring at the pale man beneath her palm. Kabuto grasped the arm holding him down, but couldn't move because of the sheer power the girl possessed. The girl then cocked her other hand back, closing it into a tight fist. She thrust the threatening appendage forward, punching the man in the face. Hinata could feel the impact of the punch from where she was, shaking the ground like an earthquake. The blonde then lifted her other fist, the one that had been holding her opponent captive, and did the same thing, causing another tremor. She raised the first fist and punched again. And again. And again. Hinata slowly stood up and watched as the blonde haired girl pummelled the man she was on top of, his face slowly beginning to get crushed from the impact of each punch. And she didn't look like she was going to stop anytime soon.
"That's enough," she whispered, taking a step closer. Pain wracked her body from the beating she had endured, but she carried on regardless. "You can stop now. It's over."But Kyūbi just kept on punching, Kabuto's skull flattened beyond recognition. The raven haired girl was close to her now, and the sight was gruesome, bile threatening to escape her stomach. Knowing she had to do something however, Hinata made her way to blonde just as she lifted her fist to strike again. Hinata wrapped both of her arms around her own, but in the process, she could feel her arms begin to burn.
Clenching her jaw together to stop herself from crying out from the pain, the blonde's sharp, crimson orbs turned to look at the ravenette. The anger and rage that Hinata saw in those eyes were terrifying, but at the same time they were showing hurt. "It's over now," the Hyūga girl continued. "You don't need to fight anymore."
The angered look the blonde gave didn't go away, and for a second, Hinata thought that she was going to attack her too, not knowing or caring if she was friend or foe. Soon though, Kyūbi's eyes slowly shifted from red to sky blue and the red, translucent cloak that had covered her entire being, vanished. The blonde closed her eyes then, her body limp from exhaustion and was about to fall down, but Hinata caught the blonde in her arms. "Are you alright?" she asked, wondering if she could hear Hinata or not.
Thankfully, she opened her eyes, blinking them a few times. "What... happened?" the girl wondered, her ocean blue orbs turning to the skull crushed corpse near her feet. "Did I...?" The bile was really trying to get out in the open now, so instead of answering Hinata turned her away from the body and moved in the opposite direction.
"Let's get out of here," the raven haired girl suggested, making their way toward the entrance of the park.
"What about... your friend?" she asked.
"Don't worry. Sakura-chan will be fine."
She smiled at the girl, hoping that it would work. The blonde gave a small smile back but it all but vanished, including Hinata's, when they both heard a voice behind them, the blood in the ravenette's veins running cold in an instant.
"She might be alright, but you won't be."
Both of them turned their fearful gazes back to the dead body and in that moment, they saw something that made Hinata go one step closer to throwing up. The abdomen of Kabuto's dead body began to thrust out in different directions, first were hands, then a face. After the final thrust, one of the hands burst through, blood splashing everywhere in it's vicinity and the appendage was now stained with the colour red. The blood soaked hand went down and pressed on the dead body for support, before the other arm came out and did the same.
Soon, an upper body that was connected with the arms came out from within it until it all revealed itself. Stepping out from the corpse, snake eyes trained themselves on the two girls and with a smile, the man before them clenched both of his fists. As if there was an invisible wall behind him, the man slammed both of his fists behind him and in a second, all the blood and gore that was on his body, had disappeared.
"So," began Kabuto, "where were we?"
Letting out a war cry, Sakura lunged at Kimimaro and swung her scythe in a horizontal slash. But just like every attempt that she'd made, he dodged it nimbly, back flipping out of the way of the attack, until his feet landed flat on a tree's trunk and launching himself off. He spun round and around, like a hedgehog, and the pinkette raised her silver metal weapon to block her spinning foe. When he came in contact, sparks flew in every direction. Sakura gritted her teeth, not realising how heavy the attack was, and with a grunt she pushed herself away, jumping, and Kimimaro landed in the spot the demon girl had just occupied only a second ago.
Landing, Sakura breathed hard, facing her opponent who was inside a short dust covered loud. When it dispersed, it revealed Kimimaro in the middle of standing up, his eyes closed. Once vivid green eyes opened, they stared into my heterochromic orbs, still showing no sign of any emotion. Turning his body, so it was facing her direction, he got into a crouch once more and crossed his arms in front of him. Sakura stared at the man before her. Even with the speed of her demonic form, she couldn't get by the spiked defense he had given himself. When the pinkette had attacked with a diagonal strike following it by a curved swing, the white haired man would deflect it with his sharp, white palm and elbow additional appendage, countering Sakura with his own swift, fast movements.
"What's wrong, Haruno Sakura?" he asked in his monotone voice. "Have you finally given up?" Narrowing her eyes dangerously, Sakura glared at the man, feeling the anger in the pit of her stomach rising, and her blood boil. Without saying a word, or letting out a breath, the pinkette used her enhanced speed and charged herself directly in front of him. "How predictable," the man said, getting ready to counter whatever the girl was about to throw at him. Her first move was a feint, however, disappearing from his line of sight.
When she reappeared, it was on his side, but even then Sakura didn't stay for long, disappearing once more. She continued this movement, until all she left where afterimages of herself, hoping to distract Kimimaro from the demon girl's real goal. The white haired man's eyes were following each of her other selves, no doubt trying to figure out which one was the real pinkette. And that was when Sakura took her opening. While the afterimages carried on, she physically appeared behind him, her scythe at the ready to end it.
Or so she thought. Before Sakura knew what was happening, more of those white, spiked things, six in total, came out of his back and extended in length. Sakura's eyes widened when she felt their sharp tips pierce through her body; one each in her left and right clavicle, one in each of her legs and two in her abdomen. Closing her eyes, her face contorted in pain, Sakura began to cough out blood, a little dribbling down her chin.
"Like I said, you're predictable," Sakura was literally pinned in mid-air, so the girl had no choice but to listen to this man speak. Then, he retracted everything, including the ones that kept Sakura suspended in the air, causing her discomfort as she felt them pull out of her body. After that, Sakura started to fall, but not even before did she hit the ground, that Kimimaro jumped, spun in the air and crushed her chest with the sole of his open toed sandals, sending the girl flying into a tree and breaking it in half.
Sakura's body felt like lead at this point, and even more so when she tried to raise her head, hearing footsteps coming towards her. When she eventually did look up, vivid green eyes where staring coldly at her and in the end she knew she couldn't keep it up. Unwillingly, Sakura's demonic form dispersed, her school's uniform once again taking precedence. "I see you're too damaged to keep your form," Kimimaro said, informing the pinkette on something that was blatantly obvious to her. "How disappointing."
"Then... what are you waiting for?" she asked him, slowly feeling another bout of coughing coming along. "Finish it."
"There's no need kill you," he told her, making Sakura furrow her brows at him in confusion. "You are no longer a threat to the mission, which I will now go and complete." With those words out into the open, Kimimaro turned on his heel and began to walk away from her.
"Where... the hell are you... going?"
The white haired man took one more step before stopping. "My mission is to bring that girl, Kyūbi, back with us, by any means necessary. And if that friend of yours, Hyūga Hinata, gets in my way," he turned his head slightly, so that he was staring at the girl. "She will die."
With her eyes widening again, Sakura could hear and feel her heart beating heavily in her chest, hurting itself against her rib cage. Slowly, she cast her gaze downward, the bangs of her pink hair acting like a curtain, separating her view with his. Seeming satisfied that she wasn't saying anything anymore, Kimimaro started walking away again.
"...Predictable, you said?"
Hearing the pinkette's voice, her growl, Kimimaro again stopped in his tracks. Slowly, Sakura grabbed onto the stump of where the tree used to be and with difficulty, forced herself up. The girl gritted her teeth from the pain, ignoring the protest of her limbs.
"That's right," Kimimaro said, answering my rhetorical question. "During our fight, I've learned quite a few things about you, such as your strength and weaknesses. Even your fighting style." The white haired man turned his body around until he was once again facing Sakura. "All of them point to one basic thing; you're straight forward. You don't plan your attacks, just act on impulse. And what little strategy you do have, involves sneak attacks with the speed of that robed form of your's.
"In short, Haruno Sakura, everything you do is predictable as day."
"Is that so?"Sakura questioned, now standing tall, breathing laboured breaths. Fuck it. Even if she hadn't had her demonic form to help, she was still going to do it. With that thought, the pinkette tightened her hands into fists. "Then, Kimimaro, let me tell you about the mistake that you've just made."
The man let out a breath of pretend amusement. "A mistake I've made? Then by all means, tell me?"
"It's simple," she growled, lifting her head to glare at her enemy, the yellow demonic orb glowing brightly. Sakura could feel the power begin to flow through her, mixed with the hate she felt towards this man. "You should have never threatened Hinata!" As she let those words out, black flames suddenly engulfed her entire being. Once dissipated, Sakura was once again in her demonic form and in the next moment, those same flames covered her entire left arm. Amaterasu. Even just unleashing it for just about a second, she could hear the sound of her laughing in the back of the demon girl's mind.
Again, laboured breaths escaped through Sakura's lips. She could feel her legs trying to buckle in on themselves, but she tried with all her might to remain standing. "Interesting," said Kimimaro, his face impassive since the moment they met, but his tone did indicate that he wasn't expecting something like this. Spreading her feet apart, Sakura bent her knees slightly, getting ready to strike. There was a ghost of a smile coming from the white haired man's lips. "It seems that this is to be your last stand. Then I guess I shouldn't hold back either."
Having said that, Sakura could feel a shift in Kimimaro's presence, his body beginning to show signs of morphing. The appearance he took now, looked more like a dinosaur. His skin began to turn from white to dark grey, dark black sclera, yellow eye irises and six large, white spikes protruded out of his back, a long spiked tail and two dark black curved markings under his eyes - one under each eye and two as elongated eyebrows - one above each eye. When he opened his mouth to speak, behind his lips where sharp teeth.
"Ready, Haruno Sakura?" With a click of the pinkette's tongue, she went at the man with her final approach, cocking her arm back and lunging herself at Kimimaro. "You never learn do you? Hmph, so be it." Taking a stance, spikes began to grow out of the man's left arm, twisting and turning itself around the appendage like a cocoon. Soon, it became something like a lance. But the threatening looking weapon didn't stop Sakura from continuing her attack. Once she was close enough, Sakura thrust her left, flaming fist at the same time Kimimaro lunged his own weapon at the girl.
When the two connected, it was all up to strength at that point.
"Quite frankly, I'm beginning to get bored of this little game of ours," Kabuto said, but the smile was still plain on his face. Raising a pale, scaled hand, Kabuto snapped his fingers, and Hinata held the girl in her arms closer to herself. The raven haired girl knew she wasn't strong enough for anything that Kabuto was about to throw at them, but she was going to die trying. Suddenly, multiple puddles made of complete darkness surrounded the pair of girls, and out from within them were creatures from Hell. Clawed hands pierced through the veil of darkness, which in all shapes and sizes, as they attached themselves onto solid ground and pulled themselves up.
Once they came out and stood to their full height, there was nowhere to escape. Their maws dripped with saliva as they stared at Hinata and the blonde, their prey, and the raven haired girl couldn't move a muscle. "Keep the blonde girl alive," Hinata heard Kabuto say, her vision swimming with demons so she couldn't see the man himself. "But do whatever you want to the other."
With those commands, the demon's opened their mouths wider, as if they were smiling , and they were upon Hinata and the girl within seconds. She brought the blonde closer, wrapping her arms tightly around her and closed her eyes. But instead of the demons tearing the girls apart, Hinata heard the sound of cries and death gurgles, the air shifting from something slicing around. After another second, she slowly opened her eyes. All the demons that had surrounded them where now on the ground, dead, and in the middle of becoming mist. In the center of it all, and standing in front of us, was Sakura. She was breathing heavily, and Hinata's eyes widened when the ravenette saw how badly she looked.
She was in her demonic form, but the torso half of the robe had been near enough ripped to shreds, as if it had been blown away from a forceful impact, leaving the girl only in gauze that wrapped around her chest. She was covered in scrapes and gashes, blood coming out from a wound from her head which stopped just above her eyebrow and Hinata noticed that she was using her scythe as a crutch to keep herself upright. "Are you both alright?" Sakura asked, her head turning and her yellow, demonic eye staring at the ravenette with concern. The Hyūga girl's heart ached to see her worry about her and the blonde when she herself was badly wounded. Hinata still gave a nod, however, telling her the she and the blonde were fine.
"Haruno Sakura," Kabuto's voice carried over, causing the pinkette to bring her attention at the pale, scaled man. "It seems you have a habit at showing up at the last moment."
"Glad to disappoint you," glared Sakura, raising her weapon and pointing it at Kabuto. But the pink haired girl was exhausted and I could tell that holding up her scythe was taking at lot of her strength to do. The whited haired man also knew this, a victorious smile painting his lips. But the smile was gone when someone appeared suddenly next to him. It was the young man that had attacked us in the forest, but he seemed worst for ware himself; his entire left arm and some parts of his left side burned up to the point it was charred.
"What's wrong Kimimaro? Don't tell me she was too tough for you?"
"It seems I slightly underestimated her," Kimimaro responded, his gaze never leaving Sakura.
"Hmph," the bespectacled man grunted in response, adjusting his glasses, pushing them up with his middle finger. "Well it doesn't matter at the moment. She's weak right now so she won't be much of a threat." But as soon as he said that, something sharp flew in the air, and scraped Kabuto's cheek, crimson leaking from the wound. Suddenly, cherry blossom's began to flutter on the ground next to Sakura, and stood there was a blonde, pony tailed girl in a purple outfit. Seeing another friendly face, Hinata's body relaxed.
"She may not be a threat, but I certainly am," Ino said, glaring at the man with another kunai in hand, her sword, Masemune, in the other. The Yamanaka girl took a glance in the ravenette's direction, her eyes trained on the girl in her arms. Narrowing them slightly, a bad feeling now sitting in the pit of Hinata's stomach, she turned her focus back on the task at hand. "Looks like you've been through hell, Billboard Brow. If you want, you could sit on the sidelines while I deal with this?"
A smile came to the pinkette's lips. "Fat chance," she replied, regaining her composure. The demon girl swung her scythe to the side, gaining a second wind from Ino's pep talk. "Try to keep up, Ino-Pig." The blonde's lips curled upward, and with it she took a stance. But even seeing another person on their side, a Demon Hunter no less, didn't make the man-turned-snake falter. In fact, the smile on his face seemed to grow, his eyes showing pure amusement. The snake that was around his waist hissed, as if it also found all this funny.
"Just like bugs, you all climb out from the woodwork," Kabuto muttered loudly. "It doesn't matter to me how many of you there are, you'll all be crushed beneath my foot." Making a threat that would know doubt be kept, the pale skinned man took a step forward. But that was all he got up to before an arm shot out in front of him, blocking his path. That arm belonged to Kimimaro, standing by his side, and Kabuto glared at him menacingly, probably thinking why he would dare stop him.
"We don't have time," he reasoned. "Our mission failed and our master is waiting." Their eyes met. "And you know what happens when he's kept waiting."
Kabuto stared into vivid green eyes, and contemplated. After a while, the man closed his own and clicked his tongue in annoyance, but the smile still remained. With a "Hmph', Kabuto's skin quickly reverted to normal, once again taking a form of a human, the snake disintegrating away, and turned on his heel, walking away with Kimimaro following. As soon as Hinata saw the man leave, she was relieved. It finally meant that the fighting had come to a close and they could all rest and regroup.
But she knew. Hinata knew that this wouldn't end just yet.
"Hey!" It was Sakura that yelled out at them, and the Hyūga girl knew she would. The pinkette hated the fact that these guys where just turning the other cheek and walking away. That they where leaving without facing the consequences of their actions. Sakura couldn't just let that one go, and it was one of the things that Hinata loved about her. But at the same time it was also a curse and this time, the girl wished that she'd stop. The pink haired, demon girl was clearly injured from head to toe and could barely stand on her own two feet, and even they wouldn't deter her from her goal. "Where the hell do you think you're going?!" But the two men just ignored her cries, her shouts and that really irked Sakura. Glaring daggers into their backs, gritting her teeth and tightening her hold on her scythe, the pinkette charged at them and Hinata's cries at her name fell on deaf ears.
Closing in fast, Sakura jumped and dove at Kabuto, her weapon at the ready. But what Hinata saw next made her eyes grow wide, her heart practically stopping in her chest and the blood in her veins ran cold. Kabuto turned just in time for Sakura's scythe to slice down in an arc, but all the man had to do was step back a foot and the demon girl fell forward from the momentum of her swing. She was now in a bind, and with a sinister smirk, the white haired man's hand glowed blue and went at Sakura with a thrust. Hinata could only stare, watching as his hand pierced through Sakura's chest, and out from the back. The pinkette's eyes widened and saliva mixed with blood flew from her mouth. Her scythe all but disappeared from her grasp and her demonic form dispersed, leaving her in a torn up school uniform.
Pulling his hand out, Sakura fell like a puppet with it's strings cut. The next thing she knew, the ravenette's voice had gotten raw from her screaming Sakura's name, and with a final smile, Kabuto and Kimimaro left through a swirling pool of darkness, vanishing without a trace. Without thinking, Hinata released her hold of the girl and ran toward the girl she cared about more than the world and crouched by her side. Hinata rolled her onto her back, before raising her body enough so that she was in her arms. The Hyūga girl noticed that their was no stab wound, which should have been impossible, but at the moment she didn't care enough. Unfortunately, however, no matter how many times she called out her name, or shook her, Sakura wouldn't wake up. Her body was entirely still.
"-nata! Hinata!" With blurry vision from her tears, Hinata turned her sights up, Ino kneeling in front of the girl with a hand on her shoulder. That was when she finally noticed the sound of multiple sirens going off in the distant. "I informed the police about a disturbance before I came here, but we need to go. Now." Ino didn't wait for her to say anything back as she quickly took Sakura's arm and placed it around her shoulder. She grimaced when she realised how heavy the full weight of the pinkette was. "Oi," Ino was now regarding the young blonde girl who was staring at them. "If you don't want to be caught, give me a hand!" Blue eyes widened but the girl quickly nodded her head and rushed to hold onto the other side of the demon girl.
As Hinata watched them both go, with Sakura limp by their side, she had a sick feeling in the pit of her stomach.
Something was wrong with this. Really wrong.
Sitting on the very edge of a roof, on top of one of many abandoned building, Orichimaru had his eyes closed in meditation. Normally he wouldn't degrade himself to these kind of things, due to the fact he thought they were a waste of time and effort. He was a scientist, and he wouldn't believe in anything that didn't result in some sort of formula, or explaination. But unfortunately Orichimaru didn't have his lab. He was tempted to go and use one that was in this city, either taking over the minds of the weak mortals that reside within, and make them part of his experiments, or just killing them out right. However he don't want to draw attention to himself, not yet anyway. There was plenty of time to achieve his objectives, so for now he would have to make do with this stupid sitting position he found himself in.
A few minutes past, enjoying surrounded quiet, but soon, he opened his eyes, feeling two familiar presences coming from behind him, and when once he turned his head slightly to look from the corner of his eye, there was a swirling pool of darkness on the floor just a few feet away from the scientist. Knowing what it was, Orichimaru turned back around, his eyes trained on the light show that Konohagakure offered during the night.
"Orichimaru-sama," Kabuto, the snaked eyedman's most trusted second in command, and Kimimaro, his second best experiment, the first being the Kyūbi, called out to him in unison. They were no doubt bowing the knee to him, showing deep respect, and with a smirk gracing his lips, Orichimaru stood up from his perch and turned to greet them.
"Kabuto. Kimimaro," he said, then realised that they where short by one person. Which meant only one thing. "I see things didn't go well?" he asked bluntly.
"I'm sorry, Orichimaru-sama," apologised Kabuto, his head still lowered. "Everything was going smoothly as planned. That was until Haruno Sakura and her raven haired friend showed up. And then Kyūbi began to act up and attacked me. I fought the Kyūbi and Hyūga Hinata, while Kimimaro fought Haruno-san."
An amused hum came from their master's throat, his eyes then training themselves upon the Kaguya boy. "And how was she?"
"I had underestimated her," he said. "In the very last moment of our fight, she displayed incredible power of neverending black flame."
"Amaterasu," said Orichimaru, making the Kaguya boy look upon him with wide eyes. He could practically hear the cogs going on in his head, wondering what his master knew. He smiled at that. There were only a select few who knew who Haruno Sakura really was and where her power had come from. The Demon Lord was an obvious one that knew, after all he was the one that gave the order of silence, and of course his children knew too. And there was the head scientist. He closed his eyes once more, chuckling in his mind, remembering the past and how much it entertained him.
"I wouldn't worry about Haruno-san," When Orichimaru opened them again, he stared at his second in command subordinate. Raising a hand, Kabuto's glowed a blue hue and the head scientist instantly knew what he meant by those words.
It was time for the true fun to begin.
With what happened with Sakura and Orichimaru's plan, is this truly the beginning of the end? We can only find out as we go along. Once again, I'm sorry for the very (extremely) late update, but like I said, I'm not stopping this story, it's just not going to update like it used to be, so please bare with me.
Thank you so very much for reading as always and please leave a review and tell me anything that can help improve the story or my writing. Also constructive criticism is also very appreciated.
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