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"Alright, so we four can cover this half of the festival. Let's split up and keep an eye on things," Kakashi said.

I gave him a hesitant look.

He patted my head, "Its a small little town, I won't be far."

"Okay, but-" I got cut off by my stomach making itself known.

Kakashi chuckled, "Seems like someone's hungry."

"Kyoko, let's get something to eat," Sasuke told me.

"But the mission," I argued.

Naruto's stomach grumbled as well. He laughed sheepishly.

"Maybe we should go eat," Naruto said.

"We need to look like we're attending the festival, we can go get food while watching over things," Sasuke told me, gently grabbing my wrist.

"I'll call out to you three if needed," Kakashi told us, "Report anything suspicious."

I nodded, letting Sasuke pull me away, Naruto leading us to the food stalls.

~.~

We sat ourselves at a bench.

Sasuke handed me some yakisoba while he had takoyaki.

Naruto... had a lot of food.

The atmosphere was awkward.

'... how can this become not awkward?' I sighed, peaking over at Sasuke.

He wasn't in too bad of shape. Some band aids here and there, but he mainly got bruised. He didn't really get cut or anything.

Doesn't mean I still don't feel bad.

I took a bite of my yakisoba, and immediately gasped.

It was too hot for consumption.

"Shit," I cursed.

"Wait for it to cool down first, stupid, " Sasuke told me.

"I didn't think it would be that hot, " I whined, my tongue slightly burned.

"You're usually more careful, " Naruto told me.

"Here, " Sasuke used his chopsticks to pick some of the noodles up.

I noticed his bandaged hand, immediately feeling guilty.

He blew on the noodles to cool it down before holding it in front of me.

Sasuke gave me a look, "Hurry up and open your mouth. "

I did as told and let him feed me.

"There, now continue to do that, " he said.

"I know how to eat, " I told him.

"Could've fooled me, " Sasuke joked.

"Oh shush, like you haven't burned your tongue before," I pouted.

A slight chuckle escaped his mouth.

"Oi! What are you doing, Sasuke?!" Naruto questioned.

"I was just helping her eat, since she forgot how to," Sasuke said.

"Shut up, " I sighed, "The portions are quite small for the price we paid."

"Hey, hey, wanna try some yakitori?" Naruto asked, holding a chicken skewer in front of me.

"Oh, uh sure," I said.

"Say ah," Naruto said with a grin, "Don't worry, it's not hot."

"..." I simply opened my mouth and let him feed me, "...is this a team thing?" I asked, kinda referring to the bell challenge when we fed Naruto.

"I have some chicken karaage," Sasuke offered.

"I can grab it myself," I said before he could feed me again.

That is, if he decided to.

I picked up a piece of the fried chicken and ate it.

"Here's some ikayaki," Naruto said, holding up some cut up, grilled squid.

"Guys, I'm gonna be stuffed! You're feeding me like I can eat as much as Choji," I told them, "Or you," I said specifically to Naruto, who gave me a cheeky smile.

We continued to eat in silence. I knew that not speaking about the incidence wouldn't help the awkwardness between me and Sasuke.

I'm pretty sure Naruto was oblivious to the tension.

If I wanted to bring it up, I couldn't with Naruto here.

As if he has heard my mind, Naruto excused himself.

"I'm gonna quickly use the bathroom," Naruto told us.

"Okay," I said.

I was going to offer to watch his food, but he had eaten it all already.

'How the hell..?'

Once Naruto had left, the awkwardness settled in even more.

Nervously fiddling with my chopsticks, I thought what what I could say.

"It's okay, Kyoko," Sasuke told me.

I looked at him with a questionable look.

"I know where you came from before coming to the Leaf Village," he said, "Not your origin. I knew that you had come from an orphanage. Well, that you ran away from one."

"Oh..." I said.

"I heard about it when..." he sighed, "When Kakashi had asked Itachi to look after you. He was told that you were the girl who ran from the orphanage, that you were lucky to leave. Apparently something happened there once you left, and it killed everyone."

"A-Ah...is that so?" I said nervously.

"It must of triggered you somehow, and you just acted on it," Sasuke said.

I let out a breath of relief, 'I'm glad that's what he thought it was.'

'I know that wasn't the case, but I don't know how to go about it,' Sasuke thought.

"My only question, why did you decide to go there?" He asked.

"Uh...I wanted to face my fear," I lied.

"I see," Sasuke said.

I looked over at his hand. I put my chopsticks down and gently grabbed it. I started healing it, although it wasn't much. A little was better than nothing at all.

"Hey, you aren't suppose to heal," Sasuke told me.

"...is it any better?" I asked, ignoring him.

"Better, but I'm keeping this bandage on," he told me.

"Am I suppose to be offended?" I asked.

"If you're gonna let yourself be offended," he shrugged.

"Jerk."

"Priss."

"Prick."

"Witch."

I gasped sarcastically, "Witch? Better take that back."

"Or what? You'll turn me into a frog?" Sasuke dared.

"Not only will I turn you into a frog, I'll hand you over to Sakura and Ino telling them one of their kisses will break the spell," I told him.

A moment of silence before we laughed.

"You wouldn't hand me over like that," he told me.

"Oh? I wouldn't be so sure about that," I warned, "Don't cross me."

"Tch, your little tough girl act doesn't work on me, " Sasuke said, "We all know you're nice. "

"Yeah, yeah, whatever you say," I stuck my tongue out.

"I'm back~" Naruto exclaimed, running over.

"Welcome back," I said to him.

"Hurry up and finish eating, we gotta watch over the others," Sasuke said, having finished his food. "Eh? You guys eat so fast," I said, shoving the rest of the yakisoba into my mouth.

"You just eat slow," Naruto told me.

"Don't gang up and pick on me," I sighed, "If only your team work was like this in training and battle instead of stuff like this."

~.~

We went around the festival together, the atmosphere lighter and pretty much normal now.

We kept our eyes out for any suspicious behaviour.

We eventually walked past Sakura and Ino.

"Don't come running, " I said in my ear piece, "We gotta pretend we don't know each other, remember? So you can't come pouncing on Sasuke."

"W-Who said we were gonna do that?" Ino stuttered.

Seeing them pout, struggling to not run over made me laugh a little.

"Why run to Sasuke? You could've ran up to me too," Naruto said.

"As if," Sakura said.

"Not a chance," Ino said.

I turned to hide a laugh, seeing Naruto's expression.

"Anything suspicious yet, guys?" Kakashi asked.

"Nothing from our side," Shikamaru said.

"Not that I've seen," Choji said.

"Nothing here," Sasuke said.

"Nothing, believe it," Naruto said.

"I haven't seen anything happen to any of the other civilian girls yet," I said.

"Yeah, nothing has happened to us yet," Sakura said.

"Probably cause I'm walking around with you," Ino said to Sakura, "No one wants a girl with that big of a forehead."

"Well, no one wants a girl with a pig nose!" Sakura said back, "They saw you with me and said nope!" "Billboard brow!"

"Ino pig!"

I could only hear Sasuke and Naruto, but I felt the other guys groan while the fight that was happening. "You guys are causing a scene..." Choji said, "Maybe they shouldn't have gone around the festival together."

I thought for a moment.

"Wait," I said in the ear piece, "Your right!"

"Huh?"

"You agree that Sakura's appearance scaring them off?" Ino questioned.

"She agrees that you're the one scaring them off!" Sakura told her.

"No, ugh. You're both pretty. Now shut up and don't cause a scene with your arguing," I sighed, "Anyways, Choji made a good point Have you heard of safety in numbers?"

"You think they should split up?" Sasuke asked.

"Yeah, but not only that, the festival is quite crowded," I pointed out, "If they plan to sneakily pick off girls, one by one, it's hard to do so with an audience."

"So if they separated and went to more secluded areas," Shikamaru thought.

"We may be able to find our target," I concluded.

"Look at this smart team," Asuma praised, "Alright, Sakura, Ino, start going in the opposite direction of each other and find a more secluded area. We'll follow behind you."

"My team, follow behind Sakura. Asuma's team, follow Ino," Kakashi said.

"Got it."

Me, Naruto and Sasuke started tailing Sakura. Not too close, but not too far. We started going through a fairly crowded area.

"Kyoko, stay close," Sasuke said, noticing that I was beginning to fall behind.

"I'm trying," I said, but it was much easier said than done.

I started getting pushed away with the crowd.

"H-Hey, guys!" I shouted.

"Huh?" Naruto turned.

"Kyoko!" They both shouted, reaching their hands out.

'This is dramatic,' I nearly laughed.

I was too far to grab their hands.

"It's fine! I'll find you guys again, just keep an eye on Sakura," I said in my earpiece.

Once I got out of the sea of people, I stood to the side to breath.

"Jeez," I frowned, "For a small town, they have quite a number of people."

I sat on a bench catching my breath.

'Should I wait for the crowd to die down? Or find another way around? Maybe I should go towards Ino instead?' I thought, 'No I was asked to look after Sakura with Sasuke and Naruto. But with Naruto and Sasuke with her, I doubt she'd be in trouble. Not to mention having Kakashi right behind them.'

I sighed, 'The same goes for Ino. Her team has her back.'

"What's a pretty little thing like you doing alone?"

I was so deep in my thoughts, I didn't notice a person approaching me.

I looked up.

He was big.

He was as tall as Kakashi, and very built.

I felt a sense of danger. I wasn't sure if I should say anything or not.

"I was right, a pretty face underneath that rice hat," he said with a smirk.

I stayed silent.

"Whats wrong? A little shy?" He asked.

I narrowed my eyes at him.

"Whats with the scary look? I ain't gonna bite," he told me.

'Oh, but I might.'

My eyes slightly widened from the voice.

'When did you decide to join the party?' I asked the demon inside me.

'Hmmm since you were left alone,' Fuzen said, 'You seem to be in a bit of trouble. Need some help?'

'As if I need your help,' I told it, 'I can do this myself.'

'No one's around, I can rip this guy to shreds,' they tried to convince me.

"Come, I'll take you around the festival."

He made a quick move to grab my hand, but was swatted away by another.

"Don't touch her."

It was Shikamaru.

He stood in front of me.

"Oi, go bother someone else. I'm trying-"

"You're in the wrong here," Shikamaru cut him off, "You went up to a girl who was alone, obviously wants nothing to do with you, and you try to force her to go with you? You're more than double her age."

"Get outta here before you regret it," the guy said, cracking his knuckles.

Shikamaru gently took my wrist, still facing the guy.

"Let's go, " he simply said, tugging me along.

"Hey! Get back here!" Shikamaru ignored him.

"Shika, I can take him," I told him.

"Yeah, I know you can," he replied, "But you can't do that during this mission."

I frowned.

"He's still following us, if he's able to grab you, scream," Shikamaru told me

"...huh?"

Before I could question him, the guy grabbed my arm.

I turned to the stranger and screamed...a very unnatural scream.

I didn't need to turn around to see the unimpressed look from Shikamaru.

"Let go!" I shouted, trying to rip my arm away.

He had a good grip.

"What the hell are you doing?" Shikamaru questioned.

"What's going on?"

"What is that guy doing to that poor girl?"

"What a scary looking man."

I realized Shikamaru wanted me to make a scene.

People were close enough to notice.

The stranger hesitated, not knowing what to do.

I ripped my hand away, and Shikamaru pulled me behind him.

"...tch, whatever," the man said, "Your bitch is ugly anyway."

With that, he left. We both let out a breath of relief.

"You good?" Shikamaru asked.

"Yeah, I could've taken care of this on my own," I told him, crossing my arms.

"Without fighting him?" He asked.

"Kick him in the groin and run away," I said, "A normal girl could do that if they had the chance."

"Are you guys okay?" We turned to see Choji coming over, "Shikamaru saw you were being encounter by that man. But it looks like the situation escalated."

I nodded, "I'm kinda surprised."

"Hey, aren't you suppose to be watching Sakura?" Shikamaru asked.

"I was, but the crowed was so packed and I got separated from my team, "I was gonna go around but that happened."

"Kyoko, where are you?" I heard Kakashi's voice in the earpiece.

He sounded a little panicked.

"She's with Shikamaru and Choji," Asuma said.

"Sorry, I got separated," I said, "But me and Shikamaru had an interaction with a very sketchy dude."

"We were heading towards Ino when I noticed someone approaching Kyoko," Shikamaru said, "Things got a little heated but we were able to get away."

"Hey guys, I have someone following me, and it's not Sasuke or Naruto," Sakura said.

"Same here," Ino said, "Asuma, you're watching me, right?"

"Got my eye on you, " Asuma confirmed.

"Alright, we'll head over," I said.

"Might as well come with us," Shikamaru said, "It'll take too long for you to get to Sakura."

"Right," I nodded.

We followed Ino from a distance.

Sure enough, a sketchy guy was tailing her.

Me, Shikamaru, and Choji concealed ourselves around the two.

He had started talking to her. Ino had started nervously flirting with the man, who was taking it all in.

"Ino," Shikamaru sighed in a bit of disappointment.

"Alright," we heard Asuma's voice, "For both teams, the moment he tries to grab you or turn you into a direction away from the festival, you-"

The man suddenly hit Ino's neck and she collapsed.

"Shit!" I cursed, almost giving away my position.

"Sakura collapsed!" I heard Naruto say.

"Same thing happened to Ino," Shikamaru said.

"Capture them, now!" Kakashi told us.

I emerged from my hiding place and immediately ran towards the guy.

"What the-" I threw a punch at his face, which he quickly dodged.

I threw my hat at him, using that chance to grab Ino and put space between me and the guy.

"Another girl?" I heard him say.

"Tch," I clicked my tongue in annoyance.

I laid Ino down. Having her behind me, I put up a fighting stance.

"There's been a misunderstanding, she wasn't feeling well. We went to a more secluded area and she fainted," the man tried to reason with.

"There's a few things I hate," I said, "One of the big things I hate, are liars," I sighed, "Man, you think your slick but you have no idea who you're messing with, do you?"

He smirked, "You're smarter than you look."

He ran at me. I readied my hidden dagger that was in my sleeve. Before his fist made contact to me, he froze.

"...w-what the hell?" He said.

I let out a chuckle.

"Like I said, you have no idea who you're messing with," I told him.

I looked passed him to see Shikamaru, his shadow connected to this guy's.

"Nice job, Shika!" I told him.

"Ninjas? Fuck!" The man cursed.

"You got me worried, he was really close to hitting Kyoko," Choji said.

He was at Ino's side.

"Tie him up," I told Choji, "I'll check over Ino."

"You guys didn't even need me to interfere," Asuma said, emerging from the trees.

"He wasn't too hard to handle" I said as I sat Ino up, "How about the other team? Is Sakura okay?"

"Sakura's fine, we captured the man over here," I heard Kakashi say.

I let out a breath of relief.

"Knowing they want to capture them for trafficking, there's no way that they're poisoned," I said, "Check Sakura's neck, and check the guy's pocket, I think they injected something into them."

Asuma, once our guy got tied up, searched him.

Ino was visibly fine, but her eyes were half opened.

"Ino," I said softly.

Slowly, her eyes moved to look at me.

'Shes conscious?'

"Ino, are you conscious? Blink for me," I said.

She blinked.

"She wasn't knocked out, she's still awake," I told the team.

"What?"

Shikamaru and Choji quickly came over.

"Don't crowd around her," I said, "She must've been paralyzed."

"That explains what these are," Asuma said, holding out these little vials with needles.

"Such a small amount, yet it was so strong," I said.

I looked over at Ino.

Grabbing her hand, I gave a light squeeze, "Can you try to do that? Squeeze my hand," I told her.

She was able to give a light squeeze, but it was barely anything.

"It might be a while til it wears off," I told her.

"...d-damn," she weakly said.

"There's no need to waste any energy," I told her, patting her head, "Rest up, you did well."

"So, you've captured me. That doesn't stop the operation," the man told us.

I handed Ino over to Shikamaru.

"You won't get anything outta me," The man said.

"Mr. Tough guy, huh?" I asked, walking over to the man, "I mean, if you think keeping this whole thing a secret is worth more than your life. We can just lock you up," I shrugged, "Or," I pulled out my dagger, "I could accidentally slice your neck. Oops."

"If only you were as scary as you were pretty," The man said.

I frowned.

"...this is why I said no to makeup," I said to Ino.

"Leave the interrogation for me and Kakashi," Asuma told me.

"Ino is paralyzed, what about Sakura?" I asked.

"Seems like they did the same thing," Sasuke said.

"I see..." I hummed.

We decided to regroup and see if having two Jounin would convince the two men to start talking.

We had them both tied to a tree.

The rest of us watched over the two girls.

"What do they have to loose? It's not like we're gonna let them go whether or not they say anything," I said.

"Maybe they have too much pride," Shikamaru said.

I chuckled, "Pride isn't worth your life."

Looking at his left arm, I noticed it was heavily bandaged.

"..." I bit my lip.

I felt Ino try to move.

"What's up?" I asked.

"...t-teeth," Ino muttered out.

"Hmm? What about my teeth?" I asked.

I grabbed a kunai and used it as a mirror.

Me biting my lip resulted in getting some lipstick on my teeth.

"...whoops," I said, rubbing it off, "You had to say something about it, huh?" I chuckled.

"You bite your lip a lot," Shikamaru told me.

"Aha, it's a bad habit," I said, glancing at his arm.

His eyes followed mine.

"Oh, uh...I..." Shikamaru tried to make an excuse.

"It's a deep one, isn't it?" I asked.

"It's not that bad," Shikamaru tried to convince me.

"Gimmie your arm," I said, gently grabbing it.

Concentrating on my chakra control, I started healing his arm.

'It's worse than Sasuke.'

"You sure you can do this?" Shikamaru asked.

"Not if you distract me," I said.

The moment I felt myself loosing control, I stopped.

"That's all I can do," I said, "Is that any better?"

Shikamaru tested his arm, "Yeah, actually."

"Good," I said, "Now...learn to bandage yourself better."

"Hey, this is the best I could do," Shikamaru told me.

"Kyoko," Kakashi called out.

"Ah, shit," I cursed.

"What?" Shikamaru asked.

"Kakashi told me not to do any healing. He wants me to practice chakra control more," I said.

"Come here for a moment," Kakashi told me.

I glanced at the others before walking over to Kakashi.

We went to the side, away from everyone else.

"First," He started, gently hitting my head, "No healing. We'll do more training on chakra control when we get back."

"Okay, okay, I'm sorry," I told him.

"Now, I know you can look through your memories with your Jikangan, but can you look through other people's memories?" Kakashi asked.

"Uh...I haven't tried," I told him, "Maybe?"

"Do you want to try?" He asked.

"What? Why all of a sudden?" I asked, "You can't tell me that you haven't gotten anything out of them, right?"

"Well, I've had some thoughts about what you could do with your Jikangan, and I thought that this would be a good opportunity to try," Kakashi told me.

I thought for a moment, "...is this gonna be like Genjutsu?"

"I think its similar to the Yamanaka's Jutsu," Kakashi told me, "But not entirely. Or maybe it's similar to the Sharingan."

I glanced over at the two men. They were being loud and obnoxious. Annoying the hell outta Asuma, getting on the rest of the Team's nerves as well.

I didn't think that Kakashi and Asuma couldn't get them to talk, but like Kakashi said, this is a good opportunity. And if it worked, we could might be able to figure things out faster.

"Alright," I said.

We walked over to the two men.

"You gonna trade a girl to get some information?" The one me and Shikamaru captured asked, "Trade one to save a hundred, I'm willing to do that."

Kakashi simply hit the back of his head. I didn't wanna deal with this guy. I went to the other one to see if I had better luck. Unfortunately, they're both disgusting.

"So, you two are trying to see if getting a pretty girl here will make us talk?" He asked, "If she starts striping, that might entice me."

"You think I'm pretty, do you?" I asked, holding on the brim on my rice hat that hid my eyes from him.

"I'll make a better judgment if I get to see the rest of your face," he told me.

'Ugh...'

"Alright, tell me honestly," I said, lifting my hat a little, activating my Jikangan, "Look into my eyes."

I held a hand symbol, "Time Jutsu: Memory of the Past."

~.~

The man Kyoko was talking to had stopped talking. He looked as if he was in a trance.

"What did she do?" Asuma asked.

"We'll find out later," Kakashi shrugged.

"Hey! What's that bitch doing?!" The other man questioned.

Kakashi looked over, "Well, if this doesn't succeed, I can work on him to see if he'll start talking." "Sure," Asuma said, "You need to do more than hit the back of the head. Knock all the thoughts he had about Kyoko."

~.~

Kyoko's team mates watched as Kyoko stood in front of one of the men. All of a sudden, he had stopped talking.

"...what's going on?" Naruto asked, getting up to walk over.

Sasuke stopped him, "Don't."

"What? Come on, aren't you curious to?" Naruto asked.

"It looks important, we shouldn't bug her," Choji said.

"You can ask her about it later," Shikamaru said, "For now, we wait."

Choji glanced over at Kakashi, "Kakashi looks like he's gonna-"

He got cut off when Kakashi punched the other man.

"...is this his tactic to get him to talk?" Naruto asked.

"I think its more about how he talked about Kyoko..." Shikamaru said, "I guess that's one way to pass the time."

~.~

I opened my eyes.

Looking around, I wasn't in the same place anymore.

No, I'm still in the same place, just...different setting.

I saw the festival.

"Hmm..." I noticed the man who I was talking to a moment ago.

He was looking around, glancing at girls, mentally taking notes of them.

'This is his memory,' I thought, 'How do I go to the memory of where their hideout is?'

'I can help with that~'

'Not a chance, ' I told them.

'Come on, you're doing this without a clue of what to do!' Fuzen told me, 'I'm surprised you made it this far.'

'That I went into his memory? I kinda thought I would be able to do this. I just never had the chance to try it,' I said, 'But hey, if I was able to do that on my own, then I can figure this out on my own. Scram.' 'Suit yourself, call me if you need me,' Fuzen said.

I rolled my eyes.

'Now then...' I thought for a moment, 'So I want to get into his other memories, but I can't just rewind this. And even if I could, I wouldn't want to, it'll take too long.'

I sighed, 'I need to get into his mental or psychologicalpart of his mind.'

Holding a generic hand sign, I said the word that felt right, "Time Jutsu: Mindscape."

Something pulled me out of this memory. I find myself in a hallway, with cells lining the walls. In between each cell was a picture frame.

"What the hell did I do?" I questioned, looking around.

In front of me was a picture of the festival.

Then it clicked, "These are memories!" I started looking around.

They weren't labelled so I wasn't sure which one was which.

"Ugh! I can't go into each one!" I groaned.

'Wow, I don't even think my first guess would be Mindscape.'

"I don't recall me asking for you, " I told Fuzen.

'I didn't think you'd find yourself in the base of the mind already,' Fuzen said.

"Well it's not like there's an easier way to pin point anything," I said.

'Well...' Fuzen started.

I sighed, "Well what?"

'Whoa, I'm not giving you any information,' Fuzen said, 'Not until we strike a deal.'

"No, I don't trust you, " I said.

'Are you sure? Tick tock~ ' Fuzen sang, 'Its only a matter of time.'

"No. I'm smarter than to trust you. There's no way I could trust you," I told it, "You'll take over my mind and body when given the chance. I'm not giving you any chances."

'Suit yourself,' Fuzen shrugged, 'Can't wait to see the disappointed faces when you get back with no information.'

I wandered around slowly. Trying to figure out if there was a way to pin point something.

"Is there an index?" I wondered, "Man...why is it so hard to find information about my clan?! If it wasn't, I'd probably know what to do right about now!"

I was frustrated.

"I can't possibly go through each and every memory just to find information. There must be an easier way," I said.

I started looking around. I soon found I could just pop my head into a memory and skim it.

Able to play it faster. It cut some time but not by a lot. I realized that these were galleries of main events. So not all of them were gonna be about the hideout.

Some of them...I didn't need to see.

"...these guys better be locked away for a long time," I said, after quickly leaving a memory, "The shit they do to innocent girls."

I was cautious with the rest of the memories now, not wanting to see anymore of that.

"This is taking forever," I groaned.

I took notice of the memories. At the bottom of each frame, there was a date. These events happened close together. The festival and the memory of him capturing his first girl and...having his way with her.

"If that was the first girl he captured...then maybe he was recently recruited. Maybe even one of the first to be hired," I said, "And if that's the case, that mill might just be their first and only base. As well as this might be the start of a trafficking operation and we could put an end to this one."

I went a little further down and popped my head into a memory. It looked to be him in a group with a handful of guys. They were seated, facing a stage.

I decided to full on jump into this memory, it seemed important.

It wasn't long til a man in a suit walked on stage.

"Hello, gentlemen," he started, "I'd like to first thank you for coming. All of you are here for the a similar reason. And that reason? To make money? Have young women to do everything and anything you want? Maybe even both! Sometimes us men just want to have fun, just the sex! No need to be tied down into a relationship. Go home to a nagging wife from a long day of work. I rather come home to a young women, have her please me after I come home."

I was disgusted by how this guy was talking.

"Of course, that perfect women isn't real. Instead we'll make them. Capture, make them succumb to our will. Even if they don't, sometimes the one that play hard to get are the ones that are the most fun," the man said.

'...these guys are sick,' I thought in disgust.

"Our services will also be opened to outsiders. To sell so they can have one of their own, or just to have a night with one of the girls! We'll make enough money to live comfortably! Not to mention, fuck as many chicks before they're sold off!" The man exclaimed, causing an uproar, "We start here, at this mill. The first place? The little town by here. They've got more than enough young beauties for each of us."

'It's only a start of an operation! We can stop this!' I thought, 'This mill is their only base! Thankfully. I don't know what I would or could do if this was one of many.'

I did a bit more digging before leaving the Mindscape.

~.~

I blinked. I was facing the guy who we had tied to the tree.

He was in some sort of daze. I took the chance and punched him square in the face.

"You guys are sick bastards!" I told him, "The amount of shit I saw in there. You're pathetic."

"Kyoko! You're back."

I turned to see Kakashi, standing over the other guy who we tied up...who's also now incredibly beaten. "...what happened here?" I asked.

"I may have gotten a bit carried away," Kakashi chuckled, "Anyway, what did you do? Did you find anything out?"

"I was able to enter his memories, but I'm still figuring things out," I said, "But I found out some useful information."

~.~

Thanks for reading~

Signing off,

Bluebird