-AN-

Here we are post exams. Which means recovering, rebuilding, and a new mission. When does our little explosion expert catch a break.

-Update-

Sorry ya'll, first update was the wrong story, here we are with the real thing!

-Story Start-

The the village hidden in the leaves, a new day was upon them. While damage from the invasion had been kept to a minimum there was still damage all the same. Which meant rebuilding and recovery efforts were needed. This also meant for the genin and chunin, very few missions outside of the village at this time. Only the few jonin that could be spared would be taking patrols or long term missions, to continue to project strength to the rest of the elemental nations. Not that at the moment they had so much of the problem of appearing weak. As word of the invasion reached the far reaches of the continent, news that the village had taken on a unified Sound/Sand group and come out with little to no casualties was enough to make every other nation a little weary. A few of the more cautious and able to send out spies, would tell tales of a massive crater of glass and felled trees. A river had already punctured it's side, and some of the locals projected a new lake would be filled before the year was up.

None of the intrigue or increased infamy of the leaf village however mattered to the majority of the ninja at the moment. Most of all a certain blonde explosives expert. While they had time to mourn for the third and bury him it would never be enough as far as the boy was concerned. More than his own connection to the aged leader, having to watch Konohamaru break down during the ceremony had not done Naruto any favors. Much for the simple fact that part of Naruto blamed himself.

He could duplicate himself neigh unlimited amounts of time, and somehow he couldn't help his leader at all? That was cutting him pretty deep lately.

But several visits with Ino-hime and Hinata-chan had helped him slowly but surely. Ino-hime was good about reminding him that even as talented as he was, he was still a genin. The fact that Naruto could even land a hit against the elder and much more experienced nuke-nin was a major feat in and of itself. Plus, Naruto had protected most of the village, something that the hokage would have been proud of. Hinata-chan was happy to be a quiet spot for him to just relax and not have to do anything. She let him vent and rave, tearing apart the training ground in a rage the first time they had gotten some downtime from recovery missions. But she didn't judge, didn't try to tell him what he was feeling was wrong. Only letting him know that she was there to support him, to help him if needed, or to just be a peaceful space. He didn't know he could do peaceful, but lately he had really needed it.

Today was turning out a bit different however with team 7, though they were gearing up to go to the hokage tower for mission assignments, it was a grim Jiraiya that intruded into their morning meeting. "Yo!"

Kakashi-sensei was nodding to the older more experience ninja, "What can we do for you Jiraiya-sama?"

Jiraiya pointed at Naruto, "I need the kid for a little while, got a mission for him." While he couldn't get into details with the other kiddies here, Kakashi at least caught on that this was something urgent.

Kakashi nodded and turned to his team, "Well, looks like plans are changing for today. If Naruto's needed, I suggest you both get some rest too. We have been pushing pretty hard lately." None of the other teammates mentioned that it was mostly for Naruto's sake, but they nodded all the same. "And Naruto, my current order is still in effect. You have at least 2 more days before you can go back to training with your clones." Kakashi wasn't sure what sort of fatigue Naruto could still be recovering from, but they wanted to be sure that he didn't push himself at all just in case.

Dutifully Naruto nodded before turning and walking away with Jiraiya, quiet and staring blankly ahead. Together they walked through the training grounds and then into the village proper, where Jiraiya finally started to talk, "We have a mission from the council. Gonna be gone for a week at least. Do you need to pack?"

Naruto shook himself more awake, a mission might be just what he needed, "No I'm good. I always keep a scroll on me with travel supplies." Checking his pants, pouches, and jacket to make sure he had all of his scrolls while adjusting the bandage sling for Kubikiribocho which was now covered at it's forward tip with bandages as well, Naruto decided he was good enough to go. "What's the mission?"

Jiraiya angled them for the main gate, "Going to be looking for an old teammate of mine. The last of the legendary three, Tsunade. She a legendary healer, something the village could use right now." There was another reason as well, but the old sage figured he would give Naruto a little more time before bringing that up.

Naruto nodded and focused ahead while trying to imagine some woman as old as the pervy sage. Admittedly what he envisioned wasn't all the flattering, until the pervert handed over a picture. The young looking pretty blonde was not what he was expecting. "That's your teammate? She's like, at least half your age."

Jiraiya snorted as he took the picture back, "She uses a few different techniques in order to appear younger, so don't let that fool you. She's as old and as talented as me." Pausing to let that sink in and deciding the boy really needed some cheering up, he decided to work on his next present a little early. "In the meantime I've got something for you. A new technique. Something the fourth cooked up, think you're ready?"

Naruto regained some energy, looking up to the sage with stars in his eyes, "Something the fourth made? What is it, does it go boom?"

Rolling his eyes as they made their way from the village proper and hit the road, this kid and explosions. "Maybe one day. See when the fourth finished it, he admitted that it actually still had some more work to put into it. So who knows, you have some talent, maybe you'll be able to finish it where he couldn't." So saying the toad sage took to the trees, knowing that Naruto would follow along. After a few minutes of dashing along the tree cover they came to a small clearing where Jiraiya landed to stand next to a boulder. Naruto touched down not even a breath later and tilted his head, waiting for the older man to show him whatever it was he wanted to teach him. Jiraiya held up a hand where after a moment of concentration chakra began to shift and form into a glowing blue ball and spinning life energy. "This is the rasengan, and it was probably one of the fourth's more notable techniques." Yeah the man used the hiraishin to great effect, but he didn't create it. That honor went to Tobirama. Jiraiya hefted the ball of spinning chakra with a grin, "But don't let the look of it fool you!" Turning and thrusting his hand into the boulder he reduced it to rubble within a moment.

Naruto however was already next to him, examining the wreckage and bouncing in place, "How does it have so much damage potential? Can you make it bigger? Smaller? Can you throw it?"

Jiraiya leaned away from the suddenly excited boy, "Uhhh, in order. It's a swirling mass of dense chakra, so dense that it'll grind through just about anything it comes into contact with. I'm sure you could make it both bigger and smaller, which would increase and decrease it's damage potential. And I've never thought of trying to throw it, but I suppose if you could maintain the shape from a distance then yeah you could throw it."

Naruto's mind was already racing however. The pervert had said that it was incomplete, which meant there was probably more they could do with it. Never mind making it bigger, could he add explosive seals to it somehow? He made up his mind in an instant, "I'm in, how do we start?"

Laughing and knowing that the kid was already thinking way to far ahead, the toad sage unsealed a bag of water balloons and handed them over, "First you have to pop those. Only, you have to use your chakra to do so. Think about what you saw with the technique and use that. You'll get no more hints from me until you pop a balloon. And remember, Kakashi warned you about using clones."

Nodding and accepting the bag from Jiraiya, they were off back towards the road to continue their trek. From there Naruto began to practice with spinning his chakra this way and that, and coming up with nothing for his efforts. And this continued for a solid hour of their walk before he finally decided he needed to bounce ideas off of someone, and since the pervert wasn't going to help, well. A familiar seal was made and two more Naruto's formed next to him.

"Again, clone usage."

Naruto nodded, "I'm not overdoing it, just two, and just to bounce ideas back and forth, nothing more." Seeing the sage frown at him for a minute before slowly nodding and looking forward, Naruto turned to his clones, "What could I be doing different, I'm spinning it, but something doesn't look right." Naruto started again, the balloon becoming a disc or stretching in odd ways.

Clone 1 crossed it's arms, "Well that doesn't look like much of a ball does it?"

Clone 2 nodded, "Yeah yeah, you're making disc, not a ball. How do we make a ball?"

Naruto frowned at that since that was the obvious thing. His chakra wasn't making a ball at all, so how did he do that? Playing with his chakra in the ball for a bit, small ripples formed along with the disc while his clones watched closely.

"Wait do that again!"

Naruto looked over again at his clone, "Do what?"

Clone 2 pointed at the ball, "Whatever you did to make the ripples. It was starting to look more ball like."

Naruto nodded and started again, first spinning his chakra and then adding chakra at different times. The ball rippled and lost some of the flat shape, but didn't pop at all.

Clone 1 was frowning even more, "Wait. For our atomizer bomb, part of making it is compressing everything into a tight ball right?"

Naruto nodded, "Yeah, we compress it along a 3 dimensional-" Right! Making a ball with spinning chakra would mean spinning all that chakra around a rotating axis, much like the bomb they had made. Kushina's notes saved the day again!

Jiraiya mentally began making plans. While he didn't have much of an idea where Tsunade may be, he did know that her normal vices were probably their best bet. That meant drinking and gambling. And while drink could be found anywhere, gambling would be easier to narrow down. Especially when Tsunade herself had so many debts to her name. Jiraiya gave thanks that if he didn't have his spy network then tracking down the woman would probably be an impossibility. Deciding that at this rate they would probably have to bunker down in the next town over for the night, Jiraiya turned to the boy to at least keep him in the loop about his plans. And then he got a face full of water for his trouble.

Chuckling and scratching his neck, Naruto too was soaked. "Uh, I did it?"

Not believing this bullshit, Jiraiya pointed at the boy, "Do it again!" Watching the boy pull a water balloon and concentrate, after a few seconds of work the balloon rippled, expanded, and popped. Wiping his face clean of yet more water, Jiraiya groaned. Leave it to the kid to get it down so fast. Guess all that chakra control was good for something. "Keep practicing on the rest of the bag, your goal for now is to increase your speed." Muttering and cursing under his breath at the unfairness of youth, Jiraiya led the way. He just knew this wasn't going to end well for him.

-b-

Back in the village it was a confused but determined Hinata making her way to the Yamanaka flower shop. Hands in her jacket pockets, one was closed around a scroll she had been given not even a full 3 hours ago. She had wanted to find Naruto first but his teammates had alerted her that he was sent out on a long term mission. Which once she had calmed down some was probably for the best. After the exams and the invasion she had temporarily forgotten about her personal project of looking into the Uzumaki clan. Forgotten so much in fact that when a courier ninja showed up for her at the Hyuuga clan estate with a sealed scroll and a letter she had no idea what to make of it at first. Now however after reading both, she wasn't sure what to think and since she had only brought this up with one other person, she was going to get another opinion.

Ino looked up from her book on plants and their common uses as the door opened with a bell chime, "Welcome to the-oh. Hey Hinata, what's up?" Hinata was looking around and seemed to relax when no one was present. This seemed like something serious to Ino, so she closed her book and gave her friend and rival her full attention.

Hinata finally came up to the counter and pulled out the scroll she had been given, "Do you remember when I mentioned that I was looking into the history of the Uzumaki clan? How there was missing records for something like 150 years?" At Ino's nod the girl went on, "I forgot before the exams I put in a request for anything related to Uzumaki Kushina. I was sure it would be denied or at least told nothing was there. But-" Taking a deep breath and saying a prayer for the departed, she moved one. "With the third gone, it seems someone in records is approving requests for pretty much anything right now."

Ino's eyebrows rose dramatically, "Well that's not sketchy at all."

Hinata agreed, "But we benefit. I received this scroll. It details not only who Kushina was, but where she came from, what happened to all of her assets upon her death, and who was left of her family." Now looking Ino in the eye, the normally quiet girl was grim, "That includes her son, Naruto."

If Ino's eyebrows could raise even more they would probably fly off her face, "Okay. So we know Naruto's mom. That's a good thing right?" She wasn't seeing what had Hinata so worried right away.

It was here that Hinata's face took on a nervous fret and she began to play with her fingers, "Some things I noticed however. One, why not tell Naruto about his mother in the first place? Two, all of her assets? They were supposed to be left to Naruto and yet as far as we know nothing was ever left to Naruto intentionally. Yes Naruto has a few books and scrolls after finding them in the library. But what if he never had visited? Would they have stayed there? Three, more than the scrolls and books, there were financial assets as well, all of which had been labeled as liquidated. Why? She had a son, wouldn't the council know that her child would need or want those things in the future?"

Ino held up a hand, "Wait wait, back up, you're saying the council is involved in this?"

Hinata lowered her voice unconsciously as she nodded, "Of course they're involved. They're the only one's who could make these decisions at the time." Rolling open the scroll for Ino to see, it was this part that told her something more was going on, "Look at the dates when all of the measures calling for either liquidation or removal of her assets were approved."

Ino frowned now as she followed the other girls finger, "Oct 10th. Why does that sound familiar…." Trailing off, there were two pieces of information that stuck with her. "The Kyuubi attack."

Hinata nodded, "And coincidentally Naruto's birthday."

Ino stepped back with a thumb nail in her mouth as she began to worry over it and the problem growing in her head, she felt like something was missing. "So Naruto's mom apparently dies during the attack Just after giving birth to him. And all of the Uzumaki clan possessions get repossessed and then sold off or distributed by the council. Naruto is put, what, in an orphanage and isn't ever told about his family or heritage. And he for sure isn't given anything. We know the council made those decisions. But we don't fully understand why."

"I figured of anyone who might be willing to help me puzzle this out it was you." Hinata could trust her rival at least when it came to helping their mutual crush.

Ino nodded now, "After everything Naruto absolutely needs a win." While she had noticed the general feelings from the villagers about Naruto were improving, there was still something, off, about them. Again as if there was something that was missing.

Hinata moved a finger along the scroll, pointing at another line that held the woman's various titles, "This was something that caught my attention as well, I don't know what it means yet, but it feels important."

Ino looked down again, "Jinchuriki? Power of human sacrifice? What kind of title is that?"

Hinata shrugged and rolled up the scroll, tucking it back into her open jacket, "I don't know, but I haven't been able to find anything about it at all. Do you have some free time later to go over everything with me? Maybe we can have some information for Naruto when he get's back?"

Ino thought it over for all of a second, "For Naruto, yeah I can help you out." Shaking herself and feeling like something cold just ran down her spine, the blonde looked over Hinata's shoulder. No Hyuuga watchers today it seemed. "You have any idea where Naruto went? Could give us an idea of how long we have."

Hinata shook her head as outside they both watched several anbu fly by overhead, "No clue. But since they said it was a long term mission we probably have at least a week." Hinata didn't hear any alarms, so it must not have been an emergency.

Ino went back to open her book, "Cool, so we have time to work through a council level conspiracy. Think I should try asking my dad anything?"

Hinata thought it over before deciding she couldn't make that call for the girl, "I know my father, and he would be distrustful of me doing this. He already doesn't want me as a clan head, preferring my sister. You know your dad better. Remember you'd be asking him about information we probably aren't supposed to have."

Ino sighed, "You're probably right there. I'll leave dad alone for now. Oh, maybe we can ask Sasuke. Sakura mentioned something about him supposed to have council duties, or at least council level access. Maybe he can get us more?"

"It's worth the effort, plus he's Naruto's teammate, he might be willing to help out." They had bonded well since becoming team 7.

"Okay, when I close up come back and we can go over things in my room. We can hunt down Sasuke tomorrow and plan more."

Hinata took that as her cue to leave and did so, waving goodbye to Ino as she did. She felt like she was still missing something major, though it was just out of her reach. Every hidden village had it's skeletons, but Hinata felt like she was pulling at a big one. As she looked up to the sky, she hoped that Naruto was doing well where ever he was.

-b-

Naruto however was in a great mood while he and his sensei walked through the first village of their trip. He had burst all of the water balloons to Jiraiya's satisfaction, and had been given a bag of rubber balls to start the next phase. Though had been told not to attempt it at all until tomorrow once they were back on the road. Something about not freaking out normal people in the village or something. Ninja were supposed to be stealthy, the elder nin had advised. Naruto could do stealthy. Sometimes. If he wanted.

Jiraiya however had just finished checking them into their hotel for the night and was handing Naruto the room key, "You go on and get settled, I'll be back in a bit. Gotta go check on some of my informants."

Naruto rolled his eyes, "You mean go and pick up on hookers. Why're you such a pervert!"

Cackling at seeing the down boy finally showing some normal spirit and sage waved over his shoulder, "Just you wait boy, you'll understand one day!" Taking off and getting lost in the crowd, Naruto was left walking into the hotel and up to their room.

"Of all the dirty pervs. First the sandaime, then Kakashi-sensei, and now pervy-sage. Can't I have just one normal sensei?" Wondering however if Jiji counted, but then also remembering that he had Iruka as a sensei as well. He let himself into the assigned room and closed the door behind him. Figuring that he was alone in the room and no perverts to tell him no, he could at least get some training in. Before he could do that however there was a knock at the door. "You forget something old man?" Returning to the door and opening it he was met with red clouds, "Eh?" Looking up there was a man with blue skin and shark like teeth, while another who looked like an older more moody Sasuke.

Itachi was looking down at the boy, "Naruto-kun, would you be good and come with us? I'd like to keep things peaceful."

"Aw com'on Itachi, let me cut off a leg or two, he won't run then."

This was Itachi? Sasuke's older brother and the guy that killed his whole clan? What the hell did they want with him? "What for? I didn't know Sasuke's brother was into guys."

Kisame snorted, "Oh man, wait, hold on." Slapping Itachi on the shoulder and shaking him he could barely hold in his laughter, "Is that why I never see you try to get laid?"

Naruto went to close the door, "Yeah sorry, I'm into cute girls, but I'm sure you'll find someone!" There was no way he was fighting Sasuke's older brother, at least not without his team.

Foot blowing the door off of it's hinges, Itachi frowned, "We're not here for you. But we are here for the Kyuubi. So come along." Here his eyes formed into a mature set of the sharingan, "Or things will be unpleasant."

"Itachi! I'll kill you!" From down the hall, Sasuke was already running towards them, a chidori blossoming in his hand.

Seeing the man distracted, Naruto was already mid swing with the Kubikiribocho. He'd ask Sasuke why he was here later, he would be helping with his vengeance now.

"Oop!" Kisame leaned in and brought his own weapon around, blocking Naruto from getting to Itachi, "You're a little early for a big weapon like that!" His eyes widened as the bandages on the end of the weapon sizzled.

"How's shrapnel taste?" The last half meter of the weapon exploded, sending fire and red hot metal in the direction of the legendary swordsman and the clan killer. Kisame was caught by surprise but was able to block most of any of the damage, however the blast sent him through the wall and out of the building through the next room over. Itachi had slightly more time to react due to his doujutsu being active, however he still had to retreat further down the hall. More space and time to prepare though for when Sasuke burst through the cloud of smoke trailing lightning it took no effort to grab his brother and break his wrist.

"Still so weak, little brother." Gearing up to drop Sasuke into his genjutsu, he had to lean away as a clone burst forward trying to grab him. He idly noted the ring of seals around it's wrist.

Another clone was pulling Sasuke back while the real Naruto was coming out of the room with a shorter damage sword, "It's a little tight for a fight in here."

Sasuke groaned, "Not much of a choice."

Kisame burst back into the hallway, sword high and a grin splitting his face, "So the little punk has some bite! Let's shave off a limb or two, see how long that lasts!" The blade came down. Naruto did his best to bring his own blade up to block the attack, but was instantly driven to a knee even after bracing the blade with his other hand. Groaning with the strain, he noted that Kisame was only using one hand. "Hahahah, com'on! Com'on! I heard you were hot shit! Blowing up one of the biju and what not! Where are your fancy bombs now?"

Suddenly the walls began to take on a pink fleshy tinge, the sticky surface sucking them all down somewhat. From where the hallway led to the lobby, a sprinting Jiraiya could be seen.

Itachi frowned and stood straight, "Come Kisame, we can't win this now."

"It was just getting good too." Frowning but turning to leave with his partner, he moved first.

"I'll be coming for you Itachi!" Sasuke was livid and wanted to keep fighting but already the damage to his wrist had cleared up his judgement somewhat. His brother had little to no problem handling him, and Naruto wouldn't be able to back him up. That was a bad combination.

Itachi frowned, "Don't worry, maybe when he learns the truth you both will be coming to me on your own." And then they were gone, followed by the toad sage around a corner.

Naruto sighed and sat on the fleshy floor, broken and now cracked sword laying next to him, "Well, that happened."

Sasuke nodded and pulled his wrist to his chest, "Any idea what he meant by that?"

Naruto hesitated, thinking on whether he should tell his friend about his burden or not. In the end he decided he would, but together with the whole team. "I think so. I'll get back to you on that when I get back to the village." He had forgotten that he hadn't told his team about the Kyuubi. Considering though that it was relatively recently that he found he could trust them however, he hoped he could be forgiven. Sasuke did tell him about his family and goals, so maybe Naruto should trust him as well. Around them the halls returned to normal, the pink flesh receding with the return of Naruto's mentor.

Looking down at the boy with a knocked out woman over his shoulder, the toad sage sighed, "Can't you stay out of trouble for like, 10 minutes?"

Naruto leaned back on his hands while Sasuke sat against the wall next to him, "I don't know, can you not be a pervert for 10 minutes?"

"You brat I-"

"Dynamic Entry!" A green and orange blur swept through the window and into the hall, kicking the toad sage and rescuing the woman from his shoulder. While the sage went tumbling out of the hole Naruto had made, the revealed Might Guy was grinning and looking down to the surprised boys. "You're safe now, I'll deal with the intruders and-" In a flash, Jiraiya was back.

"You idiot! It's me! Jiraiya!"

"Oh." Looking between the toad sage and the woman over his shoulder, the bowl cut wearing man frowned, "Why do you have a knocked out woman with you?"

"That's….er…"

"Like I said, don't be a pervert for like 10 minutes." Hearing a crunch of glass behind them, Sakura was panting and climbing through the broken window. "Hey the gangs all here."

"I'm….never…traveling, with Gai-sensei, ever again." Trying her hardest to catch her breath, she fell to her knees between the two boys, "Who's hurt?" She hugged them both in relief however, glad to see them in one piece.

Waving the girl off with a smile Naruto relaxed all the same, "We're fine Sakura-urk." The arm around his neck tightened painfully, cutting off his precious blood supply, "Sasuke, Sasuke's hurt!" He was free and could breath! Precious air!

"Traitor!" Sakura set upon him to check on his injuries and with a lecture. About running off without backup and barely a plan. If she hadn't seen him she never would have called one of the sensei's to help.

Ignoring the kids and getting weird dejavu, Jiraiya turned to Gai, "Can you get the other kiddies back home? Naruto and I need to complete our mission. Which for now means we need to move hotels."

Gai nodded as he set the woman on the bed in the less destroyed room and motioned to Sasuke and Sakura, "Alright, you two are with me! Naruto-kun is with his mentor."

Sakura was bandaging Sasuke's wrist while they both stood, "Itachi got to Kakashi-sensei. He's alive, but he's under a powerful genjutsu." Sasuke was angry that his brother had hurt someone else close to him and had tried to take one of his friends. But there wasn't much more he could do now.

Naruto nodded and bumped his rival's shoulder, "Don't worry, apparently we're off to go find a legendary healer. So we'll have sensei all better when we return." Unsaid was how long it would take, but both of his teammates knew that if Naruto said he was going to get it done, it'd get done.

Jiraiya sighed and grabbed his protege, "Let's go, before I end up with a whole troop of you brats." Getting the finger for his trouble, he physically threw Naruto out of the whole he made in the wall, "We'll be back asap!" And with that both master and apprentice were gone.

Sakura worried as she finished her self imposed task, "Should we be worried?" She heard cursing in the distance and just knew the blonde wouldn't let that toss go.

Sasuke let Gai herd them away before the locals started getting to curious, "It's Naruto." They both heard a distant explosion.

"So be worried?"

"Only if you can see the explosion."

-AN-

The drama begins to unfold! Hinata starts to uncover a mystery surrounding the Uzumaki and all of their holdings. Was it the council alone, or did they have some help? Only time will tell.

-OMAKE-

Deidara was a man who considered himself an artist above all things. Yes he was a nuke-nin, yes he had blown his old village to bits at least once, and yes he had offered his services to anyone who would allow him to show off his art. And of course, pay him. He first and foremost he was an artist. And an artist was always looking for new inspiration! Sasori couldn't understand, that heathen claiming the ultimate in art was the eternity of a moment. Locking his work in one form, everlasting, forever.

He didn't get it.

Art was meant to live, to be large and impactful for one beautiful shining moment! To fill your heart and mind with an inspiration to continue to create new works even greater than the last. Why waste time making something stay the same forever, that grew stale. There was always something new to explore, and today Deidara stood on the edge of something so inspiring he nearly wept.

It was a glass crater, hundreds of meters in diameter, and the bottom was slowly filling in with water. Under the water the glass reflected sunlight in a thousand different ways creating a light show that dazzled the onlooker. But it was as he dropped to his knees that he realized just what had made this great crater. This wasn't the power of a rampaging biju like Itachi had said. No. This was a truly impressive explosion, a human work. He could see the signs as he looked. The bent trees, the turned and molten earth. He could see etchings of seals in the glass itself, remnants of the formula that had helped create this. Far to degraded to recreate it, but evidence none the less. And he wouldn't want to recreate it anyway! This was proof, proof that humans could match the very gods themselves!

"Are…are you crying?" Sasori's voice was full of disgust.

"They're manly tears in appreciation of true art! You wouldn't understand."

Sasori looked at the crater, analyzing and coming to a not so different conclusion to the kneeling man next to him. "It's a moment frozen in time. This crater will be here for decades, maybe centuries. For a man to make this, it's is appreciable artwork."

"Don't compare it to your useless trash! This is a leftover of probably the greatest artful moment in history! All I have to look at are these pieces. I have to find this artist, I have to see them work."

"You're broken."

"Says the man who cut off his co-"

This argument would continue for a while.