Chapter 10
I groaned as I sat up
I was in the familiar area that I kept reappearing to in my world I sat up groggily, I looked around but it looked like I was the only one here
"Angin" I said as I looked at the clock tower that wasn't moving "Why am I here without anyone else?"
"Because the Akatsuki have taken the demon inside of Kasai, and plan to take Raikou's as well"
"How are we going to do any good here then?" I asked
"I overheard the Akatsuki members talking about a girl that used to be in the Akatsuki by the name of Konan, she blew up her room and they believe that she went back to her world, your world. I want you to find her"
"Okay" I said as I got up and headed to the library, walking around the cars that once were speeding down the streets and looking in awe at the frozen streets of Tokyo. Once in the library I grabbed a computer and attempted to write Konan's name in the search bar. "Angin, you are going to need to speed up time for me to do research" I said and in an instant the world was going at normal speed. I again typed in Konan's name. I got some hits in Russia, but nothing seemed legit.
"She had the power to control metal, and there was talk of a dimensional travel machine she was building" Angin added
I typed in dimension travel and an article popped up as a hit, curious I clicked the link and noted it needed a password to see the article. I typed in random things and luckily it allowed me to view the article, which read:
"On January 12, 2011 an explosion at the main building of the Kodachi Company occurred at 7:30. Luckily no one was in the building but it has been noted that there was a dimension travel machine in the building, and it was the thing that blew up the building and it is believed to not be a terrorist attack…"
I looked at the picture that came with the article and sighed, the machine did not set off the explosion for the entire building was leveled. I went to the Kodacahi Company's website and looked up employees. Most of the other links were off limits to the public, but the employees had yet to be.
'The company probably believes it is a terrorist attack and will fix the website soon to protect their employees' I thought as I looked at the date it was last updated, which was a year ago. I looked at the pictures and came across a picture of a girl who looked older than me but easily the youngest in the company, Cobalt Ravencroft. I looked at another article that the site had that stated that Cobalt had disappeared.
Making another tab I typed Cobalt Konan metal and another hit in Russia occurred, curious now I clicked the link stating that a young metal genius had arrived in Anadyr and had already created something that made the company she had joined stock increase dramatically. I clicked on the pictures of the employees and noticed a blue haired girl with blue eyes and a lip ring, she looked familiar and I switched to the other tab. The two were identical. I switched to the other tab once more and wrote down the address to the girl, before everything went quiet; I looked around to see everything was frozen in time. I walked out of the library
"I slowed down time so it is half of the other world's time, you need to find her"
"Okay" I said as I took off running. Once to the edge of Honshu, which took about an hour in real world time slowed down I looked at the ocean "How am I going to cross this?" I asked
"Run on it" Angin replied "You have chakra now, so run on the water"
"Okay" I said, using chakra to keep me from falling in the water I stepped into the ocean, since I had never done this before I was frightened, and sank into the ocean a few times before I finally got used to it to start a slow jog, and once used to that a full on run, and once comfortable with that a run with added chakra to my feet to have my strides become longer.
Another hour in real time, even though it took about a day by running because of the slowed down time, I had arrived on the shores of Hokkaido. I was tired for running for a day in this slowed down time and once in Hakodate I sat and grabbed peoples food, eating to my heart's content. I wondered through town and wondered in a hotel where housekeeping was entering and slid inside before taking a nap.
I was done with my nap in about 15 minutes in real time and went off running once more until I hit the ocean on the other side of Hokkaido and dashed above the ocean, heading along the Kunli Islands and heading up finally into Russia, the Kamchatka Peninsula, which took another hour and a half real time. I stopped briefly for food, taking a plate of food off of a tray a waitress was holding and sat and ate it in a town I guessed was Petropavlovsk Kamchatskiy. I gathered food from the outdoor market after putting the now empty plate of food on the tray before running further north until I hit the Kolyma Mountains, where I then had to hike. Munching on the food I had gathered I made my way through the mountains as the temperature dropped until I finally hit Anadyr. I looked for the street I had wrote down and found the building. I entered and went to the main desk, going behind it and rifled through papers until I got to Cobalt's alias' name, Konan Pavlov. She was to be found on the second floor in room number 218. I walked up the steps and entered the room and found the girl that I was looking for, easily three of four years older than me behind a desk working intently on her next latest project.
"How do we get her to enter the slower time frame Angin?"
"Touch her" And so I did
She jumped from the touch and brought up her hands defensively
"Кто вы и что вы хочет?"
"What?" I said in Japanese. She tilted her head
"Who are you?" She said in fluent Japanese
"My name is Kaze"
"What do you want?"
"I need your help Cobalt" I said. She looked at me as if I were weird
"My name is not Cobalt"
"Of course not, you changed your name most likely when you were with the Akatsuki and renamed yourself Konan" Her jaw slacked
"How do you know this?"
"I am a Jinchuuriki, and I just came from that world"
"That is impossible; I destroyed the dimensional travel machine"
"So it was you who destroyed the Kodachi Company's building"
"Er… ah" She said in shock
"I need your help" She snapped out of her mild shock
"Why?"
"Because you used to be a member of the Akatsuki and the world you left is now in shambles and nearly in a constant war"
"Why would I go with you" She asked. I blanked
"Tell her that she can go back to pranking the Akatsuki" Angin said in my head
"You can go back to mercilessly pranking the Akatsuki and exploding things" I said, adding the explosions as an afterthought.
"How do you know about that?" Cobalt asked "If you are truly a Jinchuuriki than how would you know about the pranks I pulled on the Akatsuki members.
"My Jinchuuriki and I were separated and I got him back, he was listening to the conversations of the Akatsuki while we were separated." I said truthfully
"Oh" Cobalt said as she slumped down in her chair
"I know it is hard to grasp but I can prove it"
"How"
"Look at your watch, notice how the seconds have stopped working you are frozen in time, because time has slowed to half of the world that you left" She stared at her watch in shock before looking at another one of her clocks
"How are you doing this?"
"My Jinchuuriki" I said "Now that you believe me will you help my friends and I stop this war?"
"Okay, but I need to create some things"
"What things"
"Weapons, bombs, if what you say is true about this war I will need to make these things for back up… then we go shopping"
And with that Cobalt went to work creating smoke bombs out of some weird chemicals, when questioned she answered
"It was a prank I pulled while in the Akatsuki that I remodeled, make a shopping list and add gas masks to it." I raised an eyebrow at this but did as she asked. "What is your primary?"
"Air" I answered
"Do you like wearing boots?"
"Yeah why"
"An idea for an invention," She said as she got to work on some technology before stopping. "Come on" she said as we walked out of her room and into the city, heading towards an outdoor market place. "Find some boots you like" She said as she looked around, grabbing articles of clothing and trying them on, and placing some in a basket. Meanwhile I was trying on boots before spotting a pair of black boots that stopped directly below the knee, I found my size in the back and tried them on, loving them instantly
"I found the ones I like" I yelled to Cobalt
"Good now find gloves and choose an outfit" I raised an eyebrow at her statement
"Why?"
"Because time has stopped and some clothes from the other world will shock your opponents, and make it sexy, you are a kunoichi after all" She yelled back
I did as she said, finding some black gloves, a short black top that looked like it was wrapped around the person who wears it and stops below the breasts, and some short jean short paired with fishnet and a knee length black jacket made out of jean. I twirled around in my outfit and Cobalt applauded
"That looks nice on you. Hand me the boots and get something, anything made out of metal, and lots of it, and while you are out grab some food that would be good for the road." I nodded and took off the boots and handed them to her as she went off to her office, and I put back on my ninja sandals and grabbed a basket to find weapons and metal items. At a weapon stall I jumped the counter and emptied the glass case filling the basket instantly. I dropped it and went in search of food. I found a stall where they sold energy bars and grabbed as many as I could hold before dumping them in a basket and finding some instant ramen, and some M.R.E.s . Once the basket was full I went back to the first basket and thankful for my new training with Gai and Rock Lee, was able to carry both baskets to Cobalt's office. Once there I saw she was building the technology she had created before we went shopping into the bottom of the boot and was currently giving the finishing touches on one of the boots. I gently put the baskets on the ground
"Can you go get about three duffels from the market Kaze?"
"Sure" I said as I left the building once more to go find what Cobalt what she wanted. I came back once I found them.
"Can you fill those smoke bombs in an equal amount in each of the duffels?"
"Sure" I said, doing what the inventor asked as she finished the second boot.
"Finished" She said and when I looked at her she threw me the boots. I caught them effortlessly
"Now let me see your gloves" With that I took off my gloves and let her transform them into another weapon
After finishing the placements of the smoke bombs I continued with the food and the weapons.
"Don't bother putting food into one of them, just place the metal" She said. This statement made my head tilt
"Why?"
"My body cannot handle food because of my mother's experiment, my food as been replaced with metal"
"Ah" I said as I took out the food stuffs of one of the duffels and placed it in the other two, and took some of the weapons out of the two duffels with the food and placed them into the one without.
"Here" Cobalt said and threw me the now finished gloves
"So what do these things do?" I asked
"The boots will float without using chakra, and the gloves will turn into claws, for an added weapon" She said, not looking up from her work. I put on the boots and then put the gloves on and tested them out
"This is awesome!" I said happily, swiping the air with the claws while floating. Cobalt smiled, still not looking up from her work. I landed on the ground and walked over to her desk "What are you making?"
"Explosives" She said "Land mines to be exact" She added
"Oh" I said, "Anything I can do to help?"
"Nope, just sit tight almost done"
Cobalt was a master inventor, it did not take her long to create things and modify them if she had created them before, which she had with all the things she had created in front of me.
"There, ten land mines ought to do it, if not I can make more" She said and I gingerly placed them evenly into the duffels
"Ready?" I said to both Angin and Cobalt
"Yep, how are we getting there?"
'Good question, Angin?'
"You just need to touch her"
"By touch" I said as we both gathered the duffels, me grabbing two easily in one hand and we grabbed each other's hands
"Then let's go" Angin said to me, as Cobalt and I were transported to the world we both knew, to aid the side who wanted peace. The nauseating feeling of traveling through time and dimension hit us both as we appeared on a hill behind the enemy lines, and their warriors. We both ducked in unison
"So what's the plan?" I asked
"My plan, this was your idea"
"You are older" She sighed at my antics
"How about we use the element of surprise" Cobalt said, grinning evilly, causing me to grin mischiviously as well
"This is going to be fun"