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I DO NOT OWN NARUTO OR AVATAR THE LAST AIRBENDER OR THEIR SUCCESSORS IN ANY SHAPE OR CAPACITY. I ONLY OWN MY FICTITIOUS OC'S.
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Glossary: Scene breaks will be denoted by a line of X's
"Speech"
'Thoughts'
"Demonic or summons speech"
'Demonic or summons thoughts'
Jutsus shall be rendered in Japanese or English depending on which they are. For example, I will not be saying Almighty Push, I will be saying Shinra Tensei, or Rasengan instead of Spiraling Sphere. However instead of Raiton: Gian I will be saying Lightning Style: False Darkness
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"Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity." - Hippocrates
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I do apologize for the shorter chapters these past few posts. I will be making an active push to try and keep the chapters around the eight thousand to seven thousand range. I wanted to take a good chunk of this chapter to build upon Itachis character and who he is, so here you go. Till the epilogue,
~Ardent Chronicler
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Itachi winced, the cream felt like acid on his skin, and the woman applying it was not so gentle either.
"Oh stop being such a baby, you have extensive burns to your torso. If you do not stop moving I will remove the jutsu numbing the pain and you will feel the full brunt of your burns."
Itachi sighed looking down at his torso, he didn't think the explosives had been that strong, but he was littered with second and third degree burns all across his torso and legs. These would scar, but his mind was not on his own wounds, they were on his fiance, his mother, the village. He was worried about what it would take to come back from this, this was the worst damage Konoha had ever taken. The craters could be filled, the monument fixed, but the death, he would bet over ninety percent of the population had been eliminated and some were still dying. Right now if even Amegakure decided to attack he couldn't guarantee their victory. His thoughts drifted to his fiance, she had been in rough shape, enclosed in rubble, her arm was clearly broken. Until Tsunade was awake there was nothing that could be done for some of the worst cases he had seen at the triage center. He was about to get up and leave when a cold hand slapped him upside his head.
"I'm not done, where do you think you're going?"
"I thought you were done."
"With the burns, you have two broken fingers and your shoulder is dislocated. I need to set them."
Itachi groaned and looked to his right arm, and sure enough his pinky and ring finger were crooked and swollen. He had a hard time trying to move the arm so he quit but this nurse, he hated her. She grabbed his fingers and snapped them into place before placing them in a stint, then she grabbed his arm by his tricep and placed a hand on his back. She pulled his arm up and out and shoved on his back and a loud pop filled the air. Itachi cursed and he gave the woman a look that could kill.
"Relax, you probably won't see me again, I am Lord Thirds personal nurse."
Itachi watched the woman stalk off towards more of the patients in the area. They had finally set up stone tents made from Doton jutsu, that managed to keep the heat and the sun from their skin. He looked over the area, a square mile filled with hurt or dying people, nurses running everywhere, the stench is what turned his stomach. The smell of blood, waste, and sickness filled his nose and he turned away. He did see someone he knew treating patients and he stood walking over to where she was treating a child with a broken leg.
"Yugao?" Itachi watched the purple haired woman turn to him her hands never leaving the child's leg.
"Itachi? Dear god, are you ok?"
"Yeah, I should be fine in a few weeks, some burns and broken fingers."
"I see, well, what's up?"
"Do you know where they have mother and Izumi?"
"Oh, they are in the Stone tent that has the ANBU guarding it. Be Careful though, it is rough in there. Most of the people in there are clan heads, important figures, and clan heirs. Even Lord Hokages family are in there being treated."
"What about Sakura? Is she ok?"
"Oh, yeah, Sakuras unconscious but she is alright. She managed to beat a Chunin all on her own, whatever you have been teaching her, it's working."
Itachi thanked Yugao and departed from her company, the journey to the edge of the stone tent had been arduous and was a job just dredging his feet along the ground. He had seen the Third War, he had seen the battles and the dead bodies, but this was its own special type of hell. These were the people he grew up with, he saw grow up, he worked with, he protected. These were his people, and they were in agony and crying out in despair. He felt something prod the bottom of his sandal and he looked to his feet, the orange dirt had been stained red, he saw a small part of a square sticking up from the ground. He grabbed its edge and pulled it from the ground, it was a picture frame. He looked at its back and saw it was broken, he tore the rest of the backing off and pulled the slip of paper from the frame. The words on the back echoed in his mind.
'Kotarou's first day at the academy. 8/09.'
Itachi gritted his teeth, looking at the front, it was a family photo, taken yesterday. A Shinobi man stood to the left, a Kunoichi to the right and between them was a five year old child, a small boy. The child looked so happy, his face beaming with the brightest smile he had ever seen. Itachi cursed and put the photo into his pocket, his Sharingan activating as he looked over the crowd of people. He wanted to remember this, the cry of his people, their agony, so that he wouldn't forget what he fought for in this war. He would make the enemy pay dearly. He left the tent and looked around, he leapt from the roof top of one tent to the other, it took him nearly ten minutes but he found the one he was looking for, it was crawling with ANBU Black Ops. He knew they had to be the Black Ops due to wearing the full body cloak with their mask. These were the men who were brought in and they never left, they all died being Black Ops. Itachi landed in front of the tent and was about to be stopped until they saw who it was.
"Go on in sir, the Uchiha head and your fiance are to the right and at the end of the row."
Itachi walked inside, this place seemed to be less maintained, considering nearly every person had been taken care of there were only a few medical staff still here taking care of the wounded. Itachi began walking, hugging his right wall and he saw her. Izumi had her eyes closed a nurse by her bedside dabbing her forehead and neck with a washcloth. Itachi came to a stop at the edge of the bed and he could see she wasn't asleep, her eyes were cracked open, she was awake. He motioned to the nurse and took her place gently cleaning the exposed skin of his fiance.
"'Tachi?"
"Hey 'Zumi, how are you feeling?"
"I hurt, everywhere, I'm so tired too. What happened?"
"You were at home, there was an explosion and we had been invaded by Iwa. We're safe now, you're safe now." Itachi leaned down and kissed Izumis forehead trying to comfort her but she began to cry.
"I, I was so scared. I couldn't see anything, my arm as trapped and it hurt so bad."
Itachi hugged her gently as to not exacerbate her injuries further. ITachi gently began to stroke the back of her head.
"It'll be ok Izumi, it will, we will be ok." Itachi began to gently clean her arms and legs, lifting her shirt he cleaned her bruised torso, her hisses of pain made his heart clench everytime. Placing the wash bin and cloth to the ground he sat there and smiled down to her.
"It seems we will be having to build a home, just like we dreamed. Tell me, what would you like it to look like?" Itachi smiled taking her hand into his and the two conversed for what seemed like hours before Itachi heard his name being called.
"Itachi! There you are, we had been looking for you. You were never taken to this tent when we had them set up."
Itachi smiled to Minato and nodded to him.
"It was Shisui, we faced Deidara of Iwa and I had been injured. He took me to the closest triage facility and dropped me off. How long was I gone?"
"I don't know, but you need to come with me. We have to start planning the rebuilding and we need your assistance." Minato saw Izumi and his smile fell, he couldn't afford to worry about Inora or Kai right now, he took Itachi's hand and vanished with a flash appearing inside of another stone tent, this one more rectangular than box like. He saw the long table of stone and the seats surrounding it, Minato motioned for him to sit at the end next to him. Itachi saw the Fire Lord and gave him a deep bow before taking his seat. They were soon joined by an injured but alive Shikaku, Ibiki, and Danzo.
"Thank you all for coming here, we need to speak of repairs and how we are going to be handling this now." Ozai looked to the men, he had not agreed for Itachi to be here, but being the next Hokage he had to be here so he could gain the experience.
"Of course Lord Ozai, we are here to serve." Danzo bowed his head to the Fire Lord.
"Keep your ass kissing to yourself Danzo." Shikaku sighed.
"Quiet you Nara." Danzo looked furious.
"Both of you, be quiet, or I will dismiss you. Now is not the time for petty bickering, so silence yourselves or I will do it for you." Minato has had enough of the bickering, the fighting, this was about the future of their village, not the egos of two men.
"Thank you Minato, now, we need to get down to business. How much funds were stored off site for Konoha?"
Ibiki pulled a folder from his trench coat and slid it to the Fire Lord.
"Approximately five percent of revenue for the last fifty years. Some of the Ninja populace that are expired and some civilians funds are being drawn and used due to their deaths. With all of the funds we would be sittin on approximately fifty-three million gold pieces."
"That is not enough to rebuild the village, it might be a start though. We need to pull our favors, we need timber and iron to begin rebuilding."
"We are covered on timber sir, our asset Codenamed Tenzo, will be able to provide all the housing needed but it will be a slow process." Danzo seemed smug about this for some reason.
"I thought Tenzo was in the village?"
"No sir, Tenzo has been on an extended mission since this morning to Hoshigakure. Though he should be on his way back now if he felt the explosions." Minato rubbed his temple, the headache was annoying.
"I see, and we will need to institute a draft on the civilian populus to rebuild the military. Konohagakure is open and weak, we need to put up a brave front. Tell me, what is the status on the populus?"
Shikaku sighed as he laid his head on his arms on the table and mumbled something.
"You are the Jonin Commander and a respected member of the council, sit up and talk like a man."
"I said, we have lost ninety-two percent of all life in Konoha. Confirmed by our sensors that are still alive, we have next to no ninja, even Takigakure could take us on. Our Civilian populus is next to nothing, and nearly all of the children are dead. We have so few Jonin we are going to have to draft Genin to take B-ranks, Chunin for A-ranks, and save Jonin for the difficult and even more so A-ranks and S-ranks. We just don't have the manpower."
Itachi was getting frustrated, power, that was all these men were talking about. He knew they had to save face, he knew they needed to appear strong so they won't be attacked again but Itachi had it. He reached into his pocket and fished the picture from it, he slammed his hand on the table.
"I am sick and tired of this bullshit. We need to stop focusing on the military. Our PEOPLE are dying, or are in agony. Children are dead, mothers lost their babies, babies their mothers. Our people are agonizing over where they will live, how will they live. We have no food, no shelter, no water other than what we can make with jutsu! Are you all so heartless as to forget the people? You speak of military and power, of rebuilding, but right now our people need us more than that. They are giving up, they are losing us and we are willing to give them up? For what? A power play? No." Itachi slid the picture forward and it sat in the middle of the table, blood stained it, but the boy was visible.
"That is our goal, our Kings. We are a nation of people who serve, but without the people what are we? This is what we are, we die, we fight, we hurt so they can live, they don't have to fight, so they won't be hurt. Are we going to lose sight of that in all of this? Save the petty Game bullshit for later, for now, we need to focus on the one thing that matters, our hope." Itachi breathed heavily, he didn't know why he burst out like that, he just had enough of the political bullshit. He sat down and he covered his face with his hands. Minato had looked proud, Ozai was blank ad normal, Danzo infuriated, but Ibiki had seemed content.
"How dare you speak like that in here! Minato I demand you remove this pest from this room immediately."
"He will do no such thing Danzo, and you forget your place. He is the Hokages successor, and Minato is the Hokage. Only I can call him by his name, another outburst of yours and you will be put down like a dog." Ozai was soaking in the boys words, he spoke with a heart and passion he had not seen before, was this that Will of Fire his father told him about? Ozai nodded and looked ITachi in the eye.
"I am pleased you care for the people, but you must see that for now this is the correct move. Is it right? No, it is not right to do, but it must be done. If we do not show face and play The Game with the other villages then we leave ourselves open and inviting an attack. You will make a good leader, and an even better Hokage. You have earned my respect Itachi Uchiha."
Minato looked to Itachi and slapped him on the back with a grin, though soon enough the council began to go back to their droning about funds, rebuilding, military, and housing. Though since Itachis outburst, things seemed easier for him to join into, and he began to be thankful for his position.
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Naruto rubbed the back of his head, he was aching so bad, but he had to sit up. He felt a weight next to his head and turned to see Yin sleeping, swaddled in his mother's turtleneck sweater. Naruto turned on his side and watched the baby breathing, his finger slipping into her hand he felt her squeeze. She was safe, his little sister was safe.
"You're awake!" Zarehya stood from the ground and softly began to stroke Narutos hair, his messy and blood caked hair.
"What happened?"
"You used the Kyuubis power, and you almost lost control."
Naruto cursed, he looked at Yin, what if he couldn't control this power in the future? He had to learn how to control it so he would never hurt another person. He saw his moms bandaged wrist and he blinked.
"How did you get hurt?"
"Oh this? It's a scratch, nothing to worry about Naru. I need to go talk with your father, do you want me to bring Yin?"
"No, I would like her to stay, she's soothing." Naruto smiled looking to his sister, his eyes seemed lost, far away. He laid there for what felt like hours before he felt a hand on his neck. Turning his head he saw Lin, Ty's sister.
"Hey, how're you feeling?"
"My head hurts, extremely badly. What's going on?"
"Lady Tsunade woke up, she is treating a few patients but she won't make it over to this side till she has worked through most other patients. Tell me, do you still feel nauseous? Dizzy?"
"Yeah, but it feels better than before hand."
"Good, it means you're healing, Ty is okay. She managed to hold off several ninja herself before a woman came to help her."
"Who helped her?"
"Some woman named Ame, I've never heard of her, but apparently Ty owes her life to this kunoichi."
Naruto nodded before Lin stood to leave.
"Can she move?"
"Yeah, she's actually unharmed outside of a busted lip and a few bruises. Want me to get her for you?"
"Please." Naruto watched her leave before he sat up in the cot, gently lifting Yin he held her in his arms, the sleeping baby almost seemed angelic. He rocked gently until he felt a weight settle in at the foot of his cot. He smiled to Ty and he took in her appearance, her ripped shirt and torn sweatpants. He gently handed her Yin while he shed his tunic and his Turtleneck, sliding the tunic back over his torso he took Yin back and handed Ty his turtleneck.
"Here, your shirt is torn in some pretty bad places, you might want to use that instead." Naruto smiled to Ty before she shed her white shirt and pulled his turtleneck on. She laid down, her head in his lap, Naruto began to rub her scalp.
"I heard you fought someone tough."
"I heard you fought off a dozen ninja."
"Well, it was more like six or seven, then this woman named Ame came and helped me finish them. She was so cool, fluid and graceful but her hits were strong. If it wasn't for her I would be dead."
"Then I'll have to thank her personally. Yeah I fought a strange girl, she could spit molten rock and she was fast. I almost killed her though, but mother intervened before I could."
"That's good, I wouldn't want you to have to kill anyone unless you had to." Ty took Yin from Naruto and removed Zarehyas shirt, she laid Yin on her chest and gently rubbed the child's back. Yin was blissfully asleep. Naruto leaned down and kissed Ty, he was afraid she would have been dead, but she was alive and well enough. He pulled back from her lips and smiled looking into her eyes.
"When everything is done, I want you to come and live with me. After this attack the royals will undoubtedly be going home with their father, so I will have a home of my own. I want you to share it with me."
Ty Lee blushed, she hadn't even considered where they were going to live, or how they were going to have a new home but it was going to happen. She nodded and smiled so widely it hurt.
"I will, of course I will. I would have it no other way." Ty Lee reached a hand up and caressed his cheek before there was an cough that interrupted them.
"Sis, I love you, but I need to check on your boyfriend again. I think I see a blood trail on his neck."
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Zarehya sighed, she sat down against the back wall of the makeshift rectangle and leaned her head against her husband.
"What's wrong my love?"
"It's Naruto, I am worried. You didn't see it Muy, he didn't recognize me. It took me touching him for him to calm down. He even attacked me." Zarehya looked down and rubbed the bandages covering the claw wound she sustained from the Chakra claws. It burned, like fire beneath her skin, a poison that couldn't be removed by just any medic.
"He stopped though, that is a good sign. It means he can be reached if he goes too far, though with his training that should not be a problem. Don't worry yourself too much my love, everything will be fine."
Zarehya wrapped her arms around Muy's arm and buried her face into his shoulder. She was stronger than this, she knew, but her hormones were working against her, she thought she lost her baby boy, and seeing him like that, it tore her barrier down. She cried into his shoulder baring her heart on her sleeve like she used to before she was married. She felt her husbands lips on the crown of her head. She liked to play the strong character to the people she led, to the politicians, even now she should have a strong facade on, but she couldn't she was terrified for her children.
"It'll be ok red, it'll be ok. They are ok, they are fine. You are fine, they are strong, like their mother." Muy closed his eyes taking in her scent, he hated seeing his wife like this, she was so strong, but when she was fragile, it was like handling a porcelain doll. One wrong move and she could fall apart.
"The village is in shambles, right now Lord Ozai is meeting with the officials who could be there. It seems like everything is going to be going swiftly, from what I can gather the plan is for Earth style Jutsu to fill the crater, and then someone named Tenzo is going to be building housing for people."
"That sounds like a good move, get people settled in before the main project begins. Though they won't have to build much, the village is going to be so much smaller than before."
"That it will be, though that just means it is more hidden. It'll be strategic, but at the same time safer for Naruto, don't you think?"
Zarehya nodded and sat up, she wiped her eyes clean with her hands. She leaned back against his shoulder and a thought crossed her mind.
"With this Zuko, Azula, and Mai are going to go home. There is no way Ozai would leave them open for attack like we have been."
"That is true, it would be safer for them to return. That is the same train of thought I had, though Ozai has always been strange in his thoughts."
Zarehya stood and brushed her pants off and smiled down to her husband.
"I'm gonna go get Yin, it's almost time for dinner for her."
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Ame was laid back on the ground, her hand over her lower abdomen as she unconsciously rubbed the spot. She turned her head to the left hearing a zap and saw Minato standing there, he sat down on the ground next to her. Minato looked rough, covered in dirt, some burn marks, blood, his eyes seemed to look like he hadn't slept.
"Ame."
"Minato."
"How did you survive the explosion? You were bound and in the hospital."
Ame sighed, sitting up on her elbows her hair fell over her throat framing her pale face.
"I have the Mangekyou, one of the techniques happens to be one called Susanoo. It summons an ethereal warrior to protect you or fight for you, and in my case its abilities are defensive. I was bathing when the seals broke, I dressed and had just been about to tell the ANBU when the light hit and I acted on impulse. My Susanoo's shell covered me and protected me, I used it to dig through the rubble and when I emerged I saw Miss Lee and I helped her out. That's it."
Minato nodded, he sat down next to her and sighed deeply, the teenager was a pain in his ass, but she used to be so kind.
"What happened to you?"
"Hm?"
"You used to be so kind, and shy. You were always strong, but you were such a sweet little girl. What happened to you?"
"Madara happened."
Minato cut his eyes to her.
"What do you mean?"
"It was on that mission I vanished from. I was taken by a man with red hair, and a woman with blue. When I woke up I was in some sort of cavern, with a man in a chair. He spoke to me even though it sounded like a whisper. He was Madara Uchiha, somehow the statue kept him alive, and he commanded his lackey to kidnap me. I was stuck in that cavern, for four years, Madara whispering in my ear, his lackeys training me, even he gave me instruction. One night he cut my eyes out of my head, he did something to them and when I woke up, I had the mangekyou. I was so scared, I ran, nothing could stop me. I managed to reach Konoha but when I tried to tell the gate guards who I was they didn't believe me. So I became bitter, I made a plan, steal the Yondaimes seed and I would train the child to take my power. It seemed so rational, make a weapon with my body, train it to be a god, nothing would be able to stop me or hurt me again. I never want to be that weak again, to be trapt with my great-grandfather, stuck with those lackeys, trapt beneath the weight of my fears. I just want to be free, raise this child, and have a home. I am sorry for what I did, and I can never make it up to you or your family, but I want to stay here."
"Even after the attack?"
"Even after the attack."
"Then stay, I won't bind you, I wont disturb you, but you have to tread lightly. I will have one ANBU watching you at all times, and in the future if you prove to be a non-combatant, the ANBU might suddenly vanish."
"Thank you Minato."
"Don't thank me, our deal still stands. He will not learn of you two, nor your situation."
"I know."
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Ty Lee sat u and n the end of the cot, holding baby Yin to her chest gently bouncing her. She was forced to sit up by none other than Tsunade of the Sannin who finally made her way over to Naruto.
"Damn kid, you are roughed up, you're lucky the foxes heals you to this extent."
"What do you mean?"
"Chakra exhaustion, a severe concussion, fractured skull, quite a few first and second degree burns, and your femur was fractured. Now all I have to heal is the concussion and the skull."
Naruto felt her soothing chakra on his scalp, he sighed as he felt his headache leave, the ache in his head had been tormenting him all through the night and into this morning. He looked up to the blonde woman, he knew she was old, but she looked so young.
"You know, in this lighting, you look like Minato."
Tsunade's eyes widened, she looked down to Naruto and she sighed.
"He hasn't told you has he?"
"What do you mean?"
"He's mine, mine and my old lover Dans. We had a plan when we were together should he die, and after a decade of being depressed I activated our plan. It worked, and I had Minato, so you are my grandchild Naruto, mine and Dans. You look just like him, but, you're paler and have red hair like your mother. You have Kushina's eyes too, her beautiful violet eyes. Though you and your dad look like Dan, so much so it's scary. Though, you got my nose, it's kinda funny, that even though you never knew till now, I left my mark on you."
Naruto took all of that in and he nodded, it wasn't that he wasn't happy, it's just he didn't know how to treat a grandparent. Kushina's parents and Zarehyas were long dead. Muys died before Zarehya got married, and Jiraiya was missing from his life so his father's teacher was not a figure for him. He rubbed the back of his head gently and looked up to her.
"What do you want me to call you? I've never had a grandparent before."
"Just call me grandma, or grandmother, or even keep calling me Tsunade. It is your life Naruto, you lie it your way." Tsunade had watched Naruto since his arrival, she watched his arrival, he was a little uptight, he never strayed from his rules, but then he opened up. The mission to wave he left a boy and came back a Shinobi, he was a different person. Then with Ty Lee, this girl changed her grandson for the better and she loved her all the more for it, she was proud of her. Tsunade kissed Naruto's forehead and then kissed Ty Lee's forehead.
"You two need to relax for now, no fighting or busling around, just enjoy your time together." Tsunade smiled and left the two teens alone, Tsunade had finally told him and she felt all the better for it.
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Pain, it was all she could feel, her eyes were blurry. She felt like a freight train hit her, she blinked a few times and when her vision cleared she saw Tsunade above her.
"Hey you, just relax. You're gonna be alright, both of you."
"Tsunade? What, what is going on? Where's Kai?"
"Stop moving around so much, I'm trying to heal you. You got hit hard, I don't know what hit you. Now, don't raise your heart rate too much for now, you need to stay calm. I am healing an artery that got damaged in your leg." Tsunade smiled to her, but her mind drifted to the boy, taken to a private tent where two Hyuuga were working with him.
"You didn't answer me, where is my baby?"
Tsunade sighed, she didn't know how to tell her in a way to keep her heart rate down, she remained silent as she continued to mend the tissues and drain the excess build up of blood. She looked over to Inora and sighed deeply.
"Kai is, not in good shape. He took hard hit, I managed to heal his body, but somehow he absorbed some of the demonic Chakra the two jinchuriki put off. It's tearing up his chakra system the longer it stays there. Right now I have to Hyuugas sealing off the Chakra to Kai's arm, then I will extract the chakra. It will be painful and his arm may sustain some tissue damage, but if we dont his life will be in danger."
Inoras head fell and she buried her face into her hands, she began to cry. She tried to stand and while Tsunade tried to keep her in the cot Inora shoved against her.
"No, NO, I have to see him. I have to see him!"
Tsunades hand glowed blue and she tapped Inoras forehead, laying her body back onto the ground. She sighed.
"I'm sorry, but you cant interfere, if you do, he could die."
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Tell me what you thought about the chapter, I had a whole scene planned out of Sasuke getting a "chat" from OZai, but I felt that was out of context. I may save that paragraph for a later date Till next time,
~Ardent Chronicler
