Disclaimer: I own the OCs in this fic, the rest is Masashi Kishomoto's. Sorry for any spelling mistakes.
Character age:
Akane, Itachi: 18
Naruto, Sasuke: 13
Shisui: 22
Kakashi: 27
"You swore on your brother's grave," he told me in a deep voice, and my mind went numb for a second. Right, Obito wasn't a kid anymore, he was an adult, like Kakashi, it was normal for his voice to have changed. "But I guess after spending years to cultivate your talent, you better show some skills." In the blink of an eye, a giant fireball was coming my way. It grazed the plateau above us and I countered it with my Big Waterfall Technique, a huge ball of water the size of his fireball spat out of my mouth. Vapor blinded me when the attacks collided and I used my sensing at the best of my abilities, teleporting on the lake behind us when he was in front of me.
My Hiraishin was faster than his teleportation, but he didn't need markers.
"Suiton: Water Dragon Bullet Technique!" My water dragon rose and I made another hand seal. "Hyōton: Freezing Technique!" The dragon froze and I ran to his head as I made him crash toward Obito.
"This won't work on me," he droned, disappearing in a swirl as the head of my dragon crashed in the wall. I was gone before it exploded in multiple shards of ice, safe two plateaus above.
I deflected a kunai with my own and watched him running to me. Fast, he was fast. I ducked to dodge his punch and tried to kick his ankles, but my leg went through them. My left eye twitched and we kept trading blows after blows, none of mine touching him. His sharingan saw through my taijutsu, I was holding up against him but the more the fight went on, the more he made me step back. My back collided with the wall. He grabbed a kunai, one of my kunai, and lowered it toward me.
I let chakra flow out of my feet, creating an explosive seal, and teleported to the huge rocky wall towering the lake before the kunai touched me. The seal exploded a second after.
Let's think here. I knew all along Obito had his mangekyou and it was a space-time jutsu. He could teleport, and now I knew he could let attacks go through him.
Thanks old Naruto and old Sasuke and old Kakashi for never going into details on the fights of the Fourth Shinobi War.
Obito tried to punch me, so it meant it would have collided with me. Therefore, his fist would have been solid. He needed to be solid to attack.
In other word, speed was the key.
I wasn't as fast as Minato!
"But you came up with the same conclusion. I managed to hit him with the Hiraishin and then the Rasengan."
"I don't have any close-range jutsu that compares with the Rasengan in term of raw power."
"You love your explosions, don't you? You can't make them without a surface, but..." The smoke vanished. Obito was still there, untouched. Even his mask was fine, bus his legs were still in the rubble caused by my explosion, that destroyed the plateau above.
"But I have my Ice Release and there's a lot of humidity in the air," I finished for him, a smirk flourishing at the corner of my lips. He hummed in the back of my mind in approval.
I needed to...he couldn't see me coming. I had to find a way to get him by surprise and use my rapidity. Slowly, he climbed on top of the rubble. My markers there were of no use anymore. Surprise...if he was sure to get me, he would be solid.
I had to trick him.
I widened my eyes when he made hands seals.
"Katon: Bomb Blast Dance!" A huge spiral of fire, way bigger than me, engulfed before I could do anything.
I brought my arms in front of me with a grimace, already feeling my skin heating up too much. I made hand seals myself.
"Hyōton: Blizzard Breath!" I spat a powerful snow and it was enough to beat his fire. Uchiha or not, elemental kekkai genkai usually beat random elemental jutsu. He got rid of the snow on his mask and I was sure he was smirking in satisfaction behind it.
"You can't mix it with explosive seals like Fubuki used to," he noticed, mocking me. "But it's not bad."
"Don't talk about him like you knew him," I replied coldly. Maybe I could get him to blow his own cover up. He didn't answer.
Let's think...I could try to seal his sharingan, but who knew what it would do to Yagura. Too risky.
"Katon: Phoenix Flower Jutsu!" Multiple fireballs came at me. I left the wall to jump on the highest plateau.
"Suiton: Water Shockwave!" All of the water of the lake rose to extinguish the fire and I directed it with my hand to submerge all of the lower plateaus. It did in a crashing sound.
Damn.
This fight was going nowhere except me using my chakra reserves way too fast trying to get him. I already spent half with the many Hiraishin I did and the jutsu I've used. They're chakra consuming, even with good chakra control.
"Hiding in the Mist Technique." Mist became thicker and I focused.
I felt him right away. The Sharingan...couldn't see in the mist, only the Byakugan could do that.
I went into Silent Killing mode, Minato's kunai in hand. I sneaked up behind him easily.
Too easily.
I went for the head, just for my hand to go through it. He turned around and punched me in the stomach. As he touched me, I had a thin wall of ice in front of my free hand and my explosive seal was already on it.
As I spat blood, the seal exploded.
I heard him grunt in pain.
Touched him.
Touched him but too much chakra spent.
"Nice," he complimented me. The explosion sent him the in the wall and said wall cracked under him. "Very nice Akane, very nice."
"Keep your flattery to yourself."
"In any case, maybe you should go back take care of your Kage, don't you think?" I frowned deeply at him casually showing the village with his hand. I looked at it at the corner of my eyes.
Black smoke. I gritted my teeth. It...I didn't know if I could keep up a fight with him any longer. Yagura needed to be put under control.
"Shit," I muttered under my breath, sprinting toward Kiri.
Alright, alright. Calm down Akane.
Find Yagura.
I had...to find Yagura.
"So now what's your plan Sasuke!? We shouldn't have left Haku and Suigetsu behind!" Naruto roared at Sasuke as they were running in the streets of Kiri.
"Are you stupid!? Don't you remember that two guys with the same cloaks tried to kidnap you!?" Sasuke shot back with anger. "We both got beaten like ants moron, we don't stand a chance!"
"And they do!?"
"Zabuza's there, isn't he!?" Sasuke felt the glare Naruto shot him, but ignored him. His shoulder was bleeding from a lighting that the guy standing with the guy with a scythe threw at them. Naruto wasn't better, his whole left sleeve burned, even if he had already healed from the burns. "We need to go to the hospital!"
"Why the hospital!?"
"Because it's one of the three buildings they're taking back immediately! We'll find people there!"
"Are you lost?"
The two genin stopped and looked at the child to their right. He seemed oddly calm, his pink eyes going back and forth between them. The big club on his back, where a green flower was just under the top, looked threatening.
"I see, you're from Konoha. You're helping the Resistance, right?" he asked them quietly, noticing Naruto's forehead protector.
"Yup!"
"You were talking about the hospital?"
"Yeah, it's where we..." Naruto stopped talking as Sasuke stretched out his arm in front of him, his sharingan spinning lazily in his eyes. "Sasuke?"
"Who are you?" The kid blinked and pointed himself with his finger.
"Me? I'm trying to help."
"No you're not, your chakra is weird. You're not helping us."
The kid's eyes went cold and he smirked. His pink pupils found Naruto.
"So...Uzumaki? You're Akane's brother?" Naruto opened his eyes wide.
"How...how do you know?" He sighed and placed the thing he was hiding in his back on his head. The genin both took a step back at the white and blue hat.
"You're Karatachi Yagura, the Fourth Mizukage. You're Akane's teacher," Sasuke breathed out. Automatically, the Cursed Mark spread to the Level One.
"Congratulation Uchiha, you found the good answer." He took his club, the bigger end toward them.
"Naruto...run!"
They did. They started running again, not knowing where they were going, Yagura closely behind.
"Shadow Clones Technique!" Naruto screamed, hundreds of Narutos appearing. "It should..."
They froze when they heard all of the clones popping at the same time. They turned around.
"What's that!?" Naruto asked, terrified at the pink branches which killed all of his clones at once.
"It looks like coral," Sasuke mumbled. He gulped and grabbed his sword firmly, lightning dancing around the blade.
It was a Kage.
They were against a Kage and Sasuke felt the same fear he felt against Orochimaru during the Chuunin Exams.
They were going to die.
"Let's make it quick," Yagura droned as red chakra engulfed him. When it disappeared, Yagura was no more. Instead, it was a human, with a lot of turtle characteristics, covered in chakra, three tails behind him. He slammed his hands on the ground and a black ball starting growing in front of his mouth.
"Naruto! Sasuke!" They heard their sensei's panicked voice, but the ball was already going at them full speed.
Water rose in front of them to form a shield, and as it froze a female silhouette landed between them and the attack. The ball reached the shield and it exploded, shards of ice flying around. Naruto grabbed Sasuke's shirt to make him duck a piece of ice flying toward his head.
When the smoke of the attack disappeared, the shield went back to being water.
"I swear to God brats, if you want to do something fun fine but let's stay away from deadly situation," the silhouette said.
"Nee-chan!" Naruto exclaimed in relief.
"I'd ask where Haku and Suigetsu are now the exits are blocked," she continued, sparing them a glance and narrowing her eyes at their state, "but I'm guessing the Akatsuki is around."
"Wait nee-chan you just got out of a fight?" Naruto asked her, seeing her exhaustion, how she was breathing heavily and how a small spot of her neck seemed to be burned.
"Yeah." She formed a cross with her fingers and a clone appeared next to her. Ignoring Naruto's awe in his eyes, the clone touched their shoulders. "Kakashi!"
"I have it!" Kakashi answered, his group still watching them. Akane nodded and in the blink of an eye Sasuke and Naruto were by their sensei's side. "You're in big troubles you two."
"You're hurt," Dai told them, already touching Sasuke's wound.
"Zabuza's group is fighting two guys with black cloaks and red clouds," the young Uchiha explained curtly.
"You haven't seen Shisui and Izumi?" his father asked him. Sasuke shook his head.
"We didn't stay long, as soon as I saw their cloaks I grabbed Naruto and left. It's the same organization than before."
They stopped their conversation when Mei spat lava out of her mouth above Akane and the Mizukage, who were exchanging blows with their weapons. Akane jumped out of it as it began to fall. Smoke rose from the jinchuriki when he was touched, but he got rid of it quickly and started running toward his student.
"Uzu, now!" Dai screamed at her.
"I know!" she screamed back, her last hands seal already done. Water rose once again in from of her in a circular shape. The water became a mirror and she grabbed the top to pull it down, another Yagura coming out of it to attack. "Suiton: Water Mirror Technique!"
I teleported to them and put one knee on the ground. Fuck, I was almost out of chakra already and would dig in my reserves seals soon.
"Long story short sensei, I sent this Tailed Beast Ball in the sea and the Uchiha got his hands on me." Everybody looked at me with wide eyes, including Fugaku and Itachi. "Definitely an Uchiha, I saw his sharingan and a lot of powerful Fire Jutsu. Mangekyou too." I used the humidity to freeze Yagura once he was done with his clone. "It gives him space-time abilities and I used too much chakra against him, too much Hiraishin in a short amount of time. I'm not sure Utakata-senpai will be enough as help."
"You need help with the barrier, clones require too much chakra." I nodded at her and pointed my thumb at Itachi, standing just behind me.
"Itachi, I need Itachi." Except for the Uchiha siblings, nobody found that weird. Sensei stared at him for a second, then at Fugaku-san who nodded.
"Itachi, go." Itachi nodded.
"Alright, we need to move. And this time, Sasuke and Naruto-kun, you're coming with us!" They left and with a deep breath, I got up. Yagura made my ice explode with his chakra.
"You have a plan?"
"I've been working on a plan for almost three years, it's just that my fight before...he made me spend too much chakra. I'll explain on the way, he's coming!" We both dodged Yagura spinning toward us. He exploded the wall of a house behind. "Okay, follow me!"
I started running, Itachi by my side. Yagura was hot on our heels, and as we made our way to the lower district, I made ice walls to slow him down. It was effective, but not that much.
"Okay, Itachi, I need your shurikenjutsu skills." I gave him a scroll in which there were some of my markers. "I have Hiraishin markers in it, I need you to place them in a circle around Yagura and I when I tell you to. Approximately...yeah, thirty to fifty meters apart should be good. Once this is done, your job is done and you flee." He peeked behind him.
"I could use my sharingan." I frowned and glared harshly at him.
"It's our Mizukage, our jinchuriki and our responsibility, and I won't let another Sharingan getting in his mind!" He kept a blank face, said sharingan spinning in his eyes. "You can't do anything without the Mangekyou anyway." He frowned.
"Hn."
"I have this under control, I just...I need your help for this part. Please?"
"I'm already here," he answered flatly, dismissing my politeness.
"AKANE!" Yagura roared behind us and I clicked my tongue in annoyance.
"Coming right up Yagura!"
"He controls his bijuu Akane," Itachi told me with urgency in his voice.
"You think I don't know that? How do you think he would punish me when I didn't meet his expectation? Right now it's nothing more than training for me. Konoha is the only village that treats its jinchuriki as it does, and if you had not noticed yet it's not Konoha here! War hasn't stopped for the past twenty to thirty years!" I barked at him violently. His face stayed cold, only his eyes took a harsher glint.
As we jumped from a roof to another, Yagura shot another Bijuu Bomb. Right at his moment, my sight was troubled and I almost missed the landing, if it wasn't for Itachi grabbing my arm and pulling me into hiding, behind some barrels.
"I get the situation, but you're too low on chakra to fight him!" Itachi finally hissed at me, glaring down on me. I bit back a snarky reply.
"You're right," I admitted. He kept glaring, but looked down at my right arm when I rolled up my sleeve.
"What are those?" he asked me quietly.
"Chakra seals, each of them contains an eighth of my regular reserves." I made the tiger seal with my left hand and used three of them. I sighed in relief when I felt my strengths going back to me. "I told you I had this." I stood up and grabbed his hand to make him run again, Yagura once again after us after searching for us. I was faster and more focus now. Good.
We reached the lower class district fast enough. It was already half destroyed, the poor quality of the buildings had not resisted the fights.
"Alright, you better make it quick Itachi, and make sure nobody disturbs my markers!" He nodded and he was gone in the blink of an eye.
I didn't have the time to make anything to protect myself that Yagura punched me in the back. I was thrown in the rests of a wall and was covered by pieces of concrete, blood dripping down my chin. Coral started to grow on me, restricting my movements. Before my hands were blocked, I turned them so that my palms faced nothing.
I stared at Yagura, charging once again another Bomb when coral reached my elbow. It was fine though because I felt it.
Utakata's senpai chakra was right above us. I raised my eyes as he appeared out of nowhere, his bubble broken. He sent many explosive bubbles to Yagura and made them explode at the same time.
"Need a hand with the coral?" he asked me when he landed in front of me.
"I'm good." Two explosive seals later and I could move. I got up and took off the remaining pieces of coral on me. "What took you so long?"
"What took you so long?" he shot back, tensing as the smoke was slowly disappearing. "I've been waiting." I twitched and walked up to him.
"It didn't occur to you I might have been held up and needed help!?" He shot me an annoyed look and scoffed.
"You can talk, obviously you didn't need that much help." The nerve he had that...handsome but still a jerk. From the corner of my eyes, I saw one of my kunai digging itself deeply in the ground behind Yagura. "How long for the barrier?"
"You'll know when it's time, for now..." With a roar of fury, Yagura fully turned into Isobu in front of us. "Let's buy time." He was huge. Just...there was no other word but huge. And Naruto fought seven out of nine bijuu during the war with Kakashi and Gai-san? With Obito against them too? It was insane.
I was fighting to keep my legs from shaking. I shook my head as Isobu let out a roar and I froze his arms. He shattered it easily and rolled into a ball.
"His shell is too thick," Utakata-senpai groaned next to me.
"Yeah, only his eye can hurt him, but now..." I grabbed senpai and teleported to one of my marker. "Right now it's too difficult to reach it, plus fighting him is not the main goal here." Isobu destroyed the wall of the mountain near the south entrance. There was still fire illuminating the night sky from where he was wreaking havoc earlier, and now he had a direct access to the sea. But...but I trusted Yagura to come back.
And he did, rolling toward us. I looked up when a crow cawed above us.
"A crow?" senpai muttered but I smirked, already going through hand seals. Thanks Itachi, just in time. I put a knee on the ground and slammed my hand on the wet concrete of the still intact road.
"Fuinjutsu: Adamantine Barrier!" My markers glowed blue and I thanked Itachi mentally. He made the zone big.
Chakra rose in the air to form a dome higher than Isobu. Now, we were locked in with the jinchuriki, blue chakra walls surrounding us. I raised my free hand in the tiger seal and made a shadow clone to keep the jutsu.
Haku taught me how to use only one hand for technique. It was useful.
"My turn now?"
"Yeah, good luck senpai." I teleported to another one of my marker as senpai started to make a diversion and occupy Isobu. Between him and I, he was the one with the quick healing and the most chakra. If he needed, Saiken could also come out.
The best way to entertain a bijuu...was another one.
I pulled out two scrolls from my back pouch, both bearing the Uzumaki crest on them. I rolled them out and wiped the blood from my chin with my thumb. I summoned the first sea lion, Oki, and then Umi. They were both gray, and had like a white cloak of them, the edges red. Most importantly, they both had the Uzumaki crest on their back.
"Sanbi!" Oki yelled in surprise. "That's the Sanbi Umi!"
"I know! Akane-san," Umi replied, turning her head to me, "shall we immobilize him?"
"Yeah, please guys. I'm counting on you. Need a lift?"
"The Sanbi!" Oki repeated. Umi hit her on the head and nodded to me. I closed my eyes, relying entirely on senpai to keep Isobu away, as I linked myself to Umi. Then...my marker, there!
"Hiraishin no Jutsu!" I exclaimed, Umi vanishing to appear behind Isobu. I did the same with Oki and realized senpai was already in Version 2.
Alright, time to speed up. Isobu was trying to get out of the barrier, and even if it had kept old Naruto and Kurama when they were going easy, I wasn't sure how long it would last.
Isobu growled as Adamantine Chains wrapped themselves around him, tackling him to the ground. I didn't waste time and ran to him. I climbed on top of his left tail and ran up to his head, canalizing chakra in my feet to keep standing as he tried to break free.
I reached his head. I pulled out Jiraya-san's seal out of my pouch, and a chakra storage seal. I put them on his head, activating the second one right away. I took it back before the red chakra destroyed it by overcharging it and activated Jiraya-san's seal. Isobu started to disappear to only leave Yagura, but I used the direct connection between the paper seal and Isobu's chakra to place my own Chakra Suppressing Seal to lock in Isobu's power.
I fell on my stomach once Isobu totally disappeared in a puff of smoke, like Yagura in front of me. I groaned in pain and, with trembling arms, got on all four. I was breathing heavily, like him. He got on one knee, his harsh but exhausted pink eyes on me.
"What...what did you do?"
"You can't...can't cheat anymore it's...between you and me..." I replied, trying to catch my breath. Utakata was back to his usual look, and my summons left once they deemed their job done. I activated two more chakra seals and got up, like him.
"It had to happen one day," he recognized, grabbing his club.
"Yeah. I'm your student, it's my job to put an end to your tyranny, Yagura." I teleported to Yagura thanks to the marker I placed on him months ago, grabbed him and teleported to the training grounds, where I fought Obito earlier.
I messed up the landing though. Yagura fell near the marker, but I fell too and slid a few meters away from him in a cloud of dust.
We were both exhausted. He used his bijuu too much. I...wouldn't last for long. I needed to break the genjutsu, and fast.
I focused a little bit of chakra in my left arm. I felt the marks heating up, reacting, and almost like a thread being developed between my arm and Yagura's seal.
"I'm sorry, but I'm done playing your games. I'm not planning on fighting you for long." I summoned Nuibari and ran to him.
My blade clashed with his weapon. We exchanged blow, him trying to throw spurt of water at me. I dodged them and let them crash in the ground, breaking it even more than it already was. We were done playing games, the attacks were brutal, ruthless and aiming at killing.
Yagura knocked Nuibari away, but I kept the wire in my hand. I slipped it around his club and teleported to my blade. With still the thread in my hand, I threw Nuibari in the wall. It disarmed him and I body flickered to his club and kicked it against the wall, far from us close to the lake.
Yagura's hand closed around my neck, threatening to crush my windpipe at any moment. He threw me in the ground and I couched up blood when the ground broke under my back, staining his cheek red.
"You're...gonna die!" he barked at me in fury. I was struggling to breath, my vision getting blurry by the second. In a desperate attempt, I put my left hand on his seal, covered by his clothes.
In the blink of an eye, I was back in Yagura's mindscap. His arms were crossed on his chest and his face more serious, like I was used to. Isobu was silent behind him.
However, unlike before, I could see a thin blue wall between us. My attention was caught by a crack on my right.
"It's the genjutsu," Yagura explained quickly. "Last time my seal was on the verge of breaking, the genjutsu was too weak to be seen. Now it's different. This is the only crack I managed to do on my side."
"You've done that for years? Just...trying to break a wall?" I whispered in anguish. My heart was aching.
"It doesn't matter Akane. Follow my lead and make sure to use your left arm."
"Yagura..." He closed his eyes.
"I know, I know, but I'm about to strangle you to death. We don't have time anymore."
I nodded weakly and went in front of the crack, like Yagura. I moved my foot back, gathering chakra in my left arm. It was easier than I thought, and purple chakra...no, the Shinigami Claw, like when I took Raiga's soul, appeared. With Yagura, his arm was covered by red chakra.
"One, two...three!" We both slammed our arms in the crack, shattering the wall in one go.
It drained me from my chakra and I was back to reality, Yagura's satisfied smile being the last thing I saw.
The first thing I saw was Yagura's wide eyes. He fell limply at my side and I took a deep breath, rubbing my neck. I would have his fingerprints on my neck, and it already hurt to swallow my own saliva.
For a few seconds, I could only make out the sounds of battle in Kiri in the distance, my own respiration, and Yagura's.
"Huh...it worked..." I opened my eyes wide and turned my head to Yagura, who was snickering weakly. "It feels good...to breath again."
"Ya..." I started in a hoarse voice, but I coughed and spat more blood.
"Yeah...but I'm dead...the way we broke the genjutsu...it...blew up my chakra system...it keeps...decreasing..." With a groan, I turned my body around to get on all four. I grabbed Yagura around his torso and crawled toward the wall. With a grunt of pain, I leaned him against it. "Good...mission accomplished Akane..." A tear ran down my cheek and he smiled softly, blood now dripping from his nose and mouth. "You...you look like...your mother like that..."
"I...sorry..." I managed to croak weakly. Sorry for not doing more, sorry for running away before, sorry for becoming your murderer.
We stayed in silence for another few seconds, until we heard someone running toward us. I blinked away my tears at the sight of Naoto's panicked face.
"Na...oto..." Yagura whispered with difficulty and his son stopped. His lips quivered.
"Dad?" I nodded, like Yagura, and Naoto literaly slid on his knees to us, hugging Yagura like there was no tomorrow. Which was true for the Yondaime. "Dad!"
"Sorry...I'm...sorry..."
"Don't speak, I can feel people com...there's someone else." I frowned and stood up. "Akane, you can't, not in your sta..." I pointed at Yagura, silently telling him to take care of him as I gathered my last strengths to sense the other.
I did.
Obito.
At the highest spot of this training ground.
Okay Akane, deep breath and run.
I grimaced when I moved my leg, my whole body screaming at me to stop, that I fought an Uchiha, a Kage, a jinchurki, a fucking bijuu, but no. I forced myself to run where Obito was, pushing the pain in a corner of my mind for me to deal with later.
When I reached the place, a cliff overlooking the village, there was no Obito. I slowed down and walked to the edge of the cliff, staring at Kiri with wide and hollow eyes.
It was on fire, smoke was everywhere. I could see broken buildings, the damages Isobu did. I could see the lights from the techniques the people fighting were using. An image of the Kaguya clan invading Kiri years ago flashed in my mind.
In front of me was a carnage. It was a war zone, everything I hated, everything that ever made me hate the shinobi system in the first place. Everything that kept me away from it.
Now? Now I was part of it. Now I caused it.
"Isn't that awful?" Obito's voice asked behind me. He stood a few meters behind me and if he was going to attack, I wouldn't be able to fight back. If he wanted to kill me...I was dead. Yet, I wasn't scared.
My eyes were glued to the death show in front of me.
"No matter the side, this is all shinobi know how to do. Death, fights...as long as the shinobi exist, there will be no peace." Where was he going with this? "You've known this since you were a child, where the war took everything from you. You saw your brother die in front of you. Don't you want to put an end to it? See your family happy again?" I finally stopped staring at Kiri, slowly turning around to look at him. "This is the reason I've spent time training you through Yagura. So that you could witness it by being inside the system, not a simple witness."
"What...do you want?"
"I want you to join me. You would be useful for my plan, more useful than these shinobi will ever think of you. I know your worth. Join me."
What?
Hey! Thanks for reading and leave a review to tell me what you thought about this chapter! Thanks to kankananime123, nevvy and NguyetMieu for the reviews. Akane's mother Akiko and Kushina were cousin, so they're both Uzumakis by birth and born in Uzushio. Ushio is half Uzumaki and half Yuki and was born in Kiri. So no, Ushio didn't teach Akiko seals, if anything she knows more about them than him :)
Bye!