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Warning #1: Characters may sometimes be OOC. You have been warned.
Note #1: Be prepared for another long one.
Lost
Chapter 13
Previously on Lost...
A second after walking into the shadow Naruto walked out of another shadow. He found himself in a wheat field, one that didn't look like it was doing so well, but a wheat field nonetheless.
'That sure is a lotta wheat...only thing missing is the chocolate and the koala...' Naruto mentally said.
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Naruto was just outside the capital of Komugi no Kuni, around him were acres upon acres of wheat fields, most of which had seen better days, they looked as if they had been allowed to grow and rot on their own. Naruto was half expecting to be jumped by some monster hiding in the wheat field, which none did, fortunately.
Before doing anything else Naruto created some Kage Bushin, and had them all scour the country side, or at least the area around the capital. Naruto wanted to know what the geography looked like, as well as the nature that the country had. He wanted to know if the country had any agricultural problems, but seeing all the wheat, he doubted that the country could have any food shortages.
Some of his clones poofed and sent him what they had found. Based on the results of the basic recon mission he had sent his clones on, there were a few small farms that littered the area around the capital, but there wasn't a single soul in any of them, be it human or animal.
Naruto then instructed the remaining clones to disguise themselves into mercenaries, and had them go into the capital by any means nescessary to find out the situation inside the city. Naruto had a feeling that there was something that really differentiated the country from the others of the nine.
Naruto still needed to find out what were the reasons as to why Komugi would choose to go to war, or choose to continue to go to war with the other nations. There had to be some reason, unless they just had nothing better to do with their time, which wasn't likely to be the case.
Naruto decided to do some scouting of his own and travelled across the land for around seven days. On the seventh day Naruto realized that although the country had some natural resources, had lots of fields worth of wheat and other agricultural plants, none of them seemed to be being used or cared for, at least the ones that Naruto had come across.
Naruto moved around within the country, hopping from shadow to shadow. In the other countries the reason as to why travel took such a short time, instead of what normally would be somewhat long journeys, was that Naruto used his ability to slightly manipulate time. This little ability made travel a whole lot faster. He estimated that if he did not use his ability, getting to where he was at the moment, or reaching the level of progress that he was at would have taken longer than one year and eight months. Due to this time manipulation Naruto had grown older than he was supposed to be, both physically and mentally, not that his mentality could really get any farther, he was already very mature.
The clones that had infiltrated the capital city had learned that it was more or less devoid of people. They had learned that most of the populace had opted to become soldiers and were all stationed along the border, they had taken their families with them. There had always been an overabundance of food in the country, practically more than enough to feed more than one country, so one of the country's past daimyou's had decided that he wanted to share the wealth, not exactly share, but conquer the other eight lands, then share the wealth. For the success of conquering all the lands, the daimyou offered high salaries for anyone that wished to join the army. This high salary was what attracted most of the country's farmers. Without farmers to tend to the crops, the crops were left to their own devices. A farmer and his family did not get much for their crops due to the overabundance of it. What crops were grown were grown by the border near all fighting. What farmers existed also were near the border. The excess from these farms were secretly sold on the black market to fund the war. The daimyou, his family, and a few nobles were the only ones left in the capital, which was defended by around ten samurai clans.
The clones found this out by pretending to have come from lands beyond the war, and were interested in the rather generous leader and his plans for his country. The daimyou, a rather vain individual, believing that his war that his ancestor started was still the right way to go, had explained everything to the clone.
Only the borders really saw much bloodshed, only the lands over in those parts were poisoned by the blood of hundred and thousands. But the rest of the land of the country still experienced or underwent some form of decay, this was due to nothing and nobody paying them any mind or importance. The daimyou did not enjoy wasted resources, so he had all measure of things done to the fields, most of these things allowed only preexisting crops to grow, but nothing new asides from weeds. The crops and the weeds sapped out the nutrients in the soil, which in some cases visibly showed the decay. The daimyou did not want to sell the wheat to the black market for more gold, due to the facvt that he knew that his country's crops would be used to feed the armies of his enemies.
Ever since almost all of the farmers had dropped their plows and taken up swords, the price for living had shot up in the country, further giving an importance to gold. Farmers were not given the gold of what they had grown, they were only given enough supplies to survive and continue providing for those that had gold. The high salaries of the soldiers were used to pay for their lives, and continued health of their families. Every generation of such a strange practice caused each generation to grow weaker for some reason, and the daimyou was too caught up in his crusade to spread the wealth to do anything about it.
With this dilemna at hand Naruto couldn't really think of anyway for him to manipulate the daimyou into forming an alliance with the other countries. If he attacked the border lands it wouldn't be any different from the other eight lands attacking, which was a very common occurrence. If he attack the wheat fields the daimyou wouldn't really care all that much. If he attacked the capital and didn't really take anything or anyone, that would catch the daimyou's attention, but attention that he didn't really want. If he somehow caused a strike to happen due to the high prices of commodities, or due to unavailability of food, the daimyou would just have those people killed and just raise salaries again.
Two weeks after arriving in Komugi no Kuni Naruto decided that wandering around wasn't doing him any good, so he built a base in the only barren wasteland in the country that he could find. For him it would take just a week to get to the capital, but any one else that wasn't on his side it would take at least a month. His distance from one of the borders, specifically the border to what would be his next destination was over three months away even for him, but to regular people, it would take twice as long or more to get there.
His base was built on cracked earth, possibly at one point in time it had been a lake bed, but due to the evidence of past existence of dead wheat fields it was a great possibility that the water was sucked up by all the plant life, and when the plant life had exhausted their water supply they too died.
Naruto really didn't have to worry much about the land around his base, he had a world's worth of food and other things, people included, well more like clones. He sent some clones out to see if there was anyone out in the rest of the country who was trying to make a living out of farming. If they found any they would be offered a much more meaningful life or existence, it was up to the clones how they would be recruited as long as they were recruited.
Then one day two weeks after the base was built, Naruto recalled that one of the officers in his armies was a former farmer of Komugi. He was the Flight Commander of Nasu's Dragon Corps, Kuraku Yuji. That person would be best suited to being in charge of the Komugi base, since he was more familiar with the country than Naruto was. No matter how many clones Naruto spammed, they would still not be able to compare to an actual native.
So he sent for some dragons, then had Yuji sent over as well. Once Yuji arrived on his dragon, Naruto informed him of the present situation, or lack thereof.
Even with the arrival of Yuji, and the successful recruitment of some other locals, Naruto still couldn't come up with anything. That was until he heard some of the farmers talking.
After seeing the dragons, looked upon them in awe, then they told one another, as well as some of the clones about the myths surrounding dragons that they knew of. Most of the myths were about how dragons would terrorize farms by burning crops then demand maiden as sacrifices in order for them to stop burning the fields. Seeing the dragons, the farmers believed that those myths were actually real, although the descriptions of the dragon in the stories were different from what Naruto's dragons looked like.
After hearing such things, Naruto remembered some of the things that he had learend and somehow not bothered to look over for ideas. His studies in mythology apparently would help him, sort of at least they would have if he had thought of his plan before hearing the farmers tell their tales.
When Yuji decided to ask Naruto about the dragons on behalf of the farmers, Naruto told him that they were the cousins of the native dragons of the lands that they lived in. Naruto said that his dragons were the descendents of one of Ryo-Wo's western cousins. When asked how he knew that, Naruto explained that he had met the Dragon King at one point in time. That little tidbit would in the future become known as one of the theories as to how Naruto lived for so long.
Naruto's plan consisted of having Yuji and the dragons terrorize the farms by burning the crops. This would cause the daimyou to have to form an alliance with Nasu who was aware of someone using the same dragons. But Naruto would not implement his plan until after he had gotten his toehold in the remaining three countries.
Naruto informed Yuji of his plan, and that he would contact him the moment that it was to be implemented. His focus for the time being would be to train any new recruits or soldiers send his way in how to handle the dragons. Kumogi and Nasu would be Naruto's dragon bases. He had thought of using SandFish in Tenshi ni Kuni, but decided not to due to the problems that they would cause for his army, that and it was a really bad idea.
One week later Yuji had under his command a flight of one hundred dragons and their riders. The other bases had sent over some people that were interested in riding dragons, or just flying. Dragons, though more tempermental than rocs, were easier to handle. Attacking from a dragon's back was also easier, especially with the special crossbows and their special bolts. Naruto's mage clones had managed to find a way to mass produce elemental crossbow bolts that could be used by regular human riders.
Naruto's forces in Naiya, Nasu, Tetsu, Sakura, Tenshi, and Kumogi were not doing anything other than training, they were ordered to prepare for the mass attacks that Naruto had planned for the future. Due to some of the things that Naruto's forces had done, the bases were able to recruit even more people. Some of them were even able to locate and convince some wandering, misplaced, and nomadic clans and families to join in.
Naruto, being satisfied with Yuji's progress decided tha it was time to leave Kumogi for the next country, Sakana no Kuni, a country where fish farms were supposed to be found almost everywhere, it was also a country with many lakes.
Naruto left the base by sinking into the soil outside the base. While he was slowly sinking into the earth, water started to flow out of the spot that he was going into. This water caused the cracked earth to moisten and become muddy. Once Naruto was fully submerged in the earth, the base had a moat surrounding it.
Yuji was left to wonder how he had done that, since he had never actually witnessed Naruto do something like that before. So he decided to contact the other bases and ask around. The only ones that had actually seen Naruto do something like that were Tamotsu's group and Tsukiko. Tamotsu witnessed Naruto walk into a shadow, while Tsukiko and Yoshiko experienced something like it when Naruto and them escaped the pit in Tetsu.
A few minutes after merging with the earth Naruto found himself shooting through the surface of one of the lakes that dotted the Sakana countryside. Why did he shoot through the surface when he could have just melded with the water or something like that. Simple, because for some reason, the water was just too polluted for him to want to merge with it. He floated on top of the lake surface and looked around. As far as normal eyes could see was water, murky black water, that smelled of waste and death.
As he walked on the water surface he noticed that there was something aside from dead fish floating in it. There were bodies, bodies of the dead. Naruto quickly recognized a mystery that needed to be solved.
'Why are there so many corpses here? Why were they dumped here in stead of buried? What could have caused these people to have died?' Naruto wondered.
All of the bodies that Naruto had encountered were the bodies of men and boys. There was not a single body of a woman in the water.
'Maybe I've wondered into the country where the Amazons are in or have conquered or something...' Naruto wondered again.
He quickly made his way to the shore of the lake, no longer having the ability to stomach the sight of so many dead.
On the shore of the lake there was a small fishing village, it wasn't as deserted as he expected it to be. After drying himself, he walked into the village to investigate the phenomenon of people willingly living in a place so close to so many deaths.
Instead of asking around, Naruto decided to observe the people from the safety of the rooftops, by transforming himself into a tabby cat.
One of the things he noticed was that there were a lot of cats, but most of them were sickly and of poor health, which was probably due to eating dead fish. The people, as Naruto observed looked just as sickly. Most of the populace were men, very few women could be seen walking around, the only ones that made their presence known in the village were old women.
Naruto observed a bit longer for roughly a whole week, until an event that shed some light as to why there were dead bodies in the water.
At the end of the week of Naruto's observation, a caravan from somewhere else in the country arrived with wagon loads of cadavers. Due to the bloating of the bodies in the water, Naruto failed to notice that all the bodies were actually of people that had died of poor health.
He walked over to where the bodies were being brought, then he watched and listened to what the people were saying. Naruto heard mutters or whispers of things being said.
"From the waters you came, now you return," were the things being said to the bodies as they were being thrown in the water.
After staying in the village for anoter week, Naruto pondered those words. He noticed while he was musing that the people ate fish, fish, and only fish, be they fish that were caught living, or plucked out of the water dead. It was no wonder so many were sick and diseased. Their source of sustenance was the polluted lake itself. Naruto needn't have wondered if that was the case with the rest of the country, since the wagon drivers looked like they suffered from sickness or poisoning themselves.
Naruto was able to figure out what the people meant by what they said. In some places it is believed that seafood, or in this case fish, causes more boys to be born than girls, therefore the dead men and boys were returned to where they came from, most likely deadl women and girls were the ones returned to the earth.
Naruto's next dilemna was that if there were so many men dying, how could the country afford to stay in a war that had lasted for centuries. Naruto needed to do more research, that is why he decided to leave the village and follow the caravan back to where it came from. Along the way Naruto noticed that there was a lack of any other animal life. It was entirely possible for the people to have exhausted their land fauna a long time ago which caused the animals to have all gone extinct in that part of the world. No new animals would go to the the country and willingly live in it due to the stench of death that the land and water had.
Since Naruto didn't know where the caravan was going, he could not use his time manipulation ability. The caravan took three months to get to where it was going, which was the capital of Sakana no Kuni.
It was a hustling and bustling city filled with life, sort of. The people that were walking around were all sickly. Naruto wondered if the daimyou was just as sickly as the rest of the population. He wasn't. The daimyou was a healthy individual, the other nobles were all healthy people. It seemed that long ago the ruling class of Sakana no Kuni had realized that the dead lakes were a source of death and not life, so they had been buying food from the black market and leaving the rest of the population to their healthlessness.
While walking around the city in his feline form Naruto was able to find and infiltrate the city's military facility, which not surprisingly surrounded the daimyou's castle and the compounds of the noble clans. They were the barrier between the commoners and the elite, they were the middle ground.
While Naruto did his little spy mission, he noticed that the soldiers also looked to be healthy, even though they were eating fish that obviously came from one of the dead lakes. Naruto wondered what it was that the men took that made them as healthy as a horse desptie their obvious food poison diet.
So Naruto decided to further look into things by creating kage bushins in feline form to scout out the rest of the military facility along side him. This spy operation, yielded much success after a few short hours.
Naruto's little operation discovered that Sakana no Kuni used a version of Hero Water to keep the troops healthy enough for battle, unlike Hero Water this version did not give inhuman strength and abilities, it just made the drinkers healthy no matter what they ate, but due to how much poison their bodies consumed the poison eventually overrode the effects of the water. After a soldier started to dsplay signs of unhealthiness, they were made to drink the water again. After having to drink the water nine times their bodies would grow slightly immune to the effects of the water, on the tenth time that the soldier drank the water or even before that they would find themselves in the cold embrace of death.
Naruto didn't need to know why the government didn't mind losing many people almost weekly to death and disease, because it was obvious to anyone with eyes and ears, the country was filled with people, the birth rate was just as high as te death rate. Naruto wanting to know what the exact statitics were looked for a records office or archives, and found out that the birth to death ratio was four to one. Four births for every death. Naruto realized that even though it was hghly possble for fish and seafood kinds of food to give the male gender a higher chance of being born, there was no way normal fish could also give rise to such a high birth rates. For one thing the deadly food wouldn't be able to give enough energy for anyone to go at it like rabbits, and second the food would also not give children the nutrients they needed to grow up and survive.
When Naruto thought of that last part, he realized that he had not actually seen one child in the whole time that he had spent in Sakana, none in the village, none in the other places that his three months of walking had passed by, and none in the city except for the children of the nobles. Where then were all the children.
The bodies of the young boys that he had seen in the lake were those of boys in their teen. There wasn't a single child floating around in some lake in the country. So where were all the children, that was something that Naruto would find out.
Naruto wouldn't be able to do any more investigating on his own, so he decided to build his base and get his army into the country, more people equals more chances of finding the missing children, it also means that solving the mystery of how there can be an over population with all the dead fish and polluted water lying around the countryside.
So Naruto plopped his base in the middle of a lake, he built it underwater by becoming the water, even though it was polluted it was a job that he just had to do. Becoming the water was better than having to go swimming. The base from the outside looked like a series of bubbles that littered the lake bed and were interconnected with one another with some tubes. Just to make his base fit, Naruto made the lake deeper and had to add a lot more water as to not show that it had gotten deeper and to hide his base of operations more.
Since his base was underwater he got to use his supercrocs. These crocs of his were all geetically altered in such a way that they were made to be stronger, faster, and able to eat literally anything. The acids in their guts could digest a diamond should they ever eat one. Somehow their guts could extract nutrients and the like from even that.
Once Naruto got his crocs, he set them loose into the lake to do clean up for him, he made sure that they left the surface of the lake alone, in order for it to retain the illusion that it was still filled with the dead. Once the water a few feet below the surface was cleaned up of rotting corpses and dead fish, Naruto created a magic based barrier that separated the lower half of the lake's water from the upper death filled half. In his side, Naruto imported some of his fish, so that the lake would have a bit more life in it.
Naruto's base finished construction one week after his arrival at the capital, his spy operation not even taking up the whole day. It took a whole week because, for one thing it was underwater, another thing was that it took the crocs some time to clean the water, and lastly when the base was completed Naruto still had to decided where things would go, it was a relatively big base after all. The lake, if one were to look at a cross section of it would see that it was shaped like an hour glass. Literally half of the water was dead, while the other half was filled with life.
From his new base of operations, his only base of operations in Sakana, which was located in the lake that he had first popped out of, he sent out squads of clones to search the entire country for the whereabouts of the children. Even with all the snooping, Naruto was unable to find hide nor hair of any of the children, or even any mothers or expecting mothers for that matter.
After a whole months of failure, Naruto decided that the situation called for some drastic measures, he would send out disguised clones to actually interview the populace, he knew that there was a big possibility that very few people would know where and what Naruto was looking for was located, but Naruto believed that there was a possibility that at least one clone would get a clue.
While his clones would be doing that, Naruto would be doing what he loved to do since Sakura no Kuni. He'd go visit the daimyou, or at least try to, that is if he could find an actual reason to.
'Damn...I don't have a reason to go! I need a valid one else...nah wont think about that...maybe...nah don't need another daughter right now...a son would just be creepy in its own way...what to do...what to do...' were the thoughts that were flowing through Naruto's mind.
After consulting with some kage bushin, which didn't help since those were exact replicas of him, he decided to just go with his gut feelings. So Naruto shadow walked his way back to the capital.
Instead of walking out of a shadow in the city proper, he walked out of a shadow inside the castle itself, unluckily for him it was in a locked closet. But just as he was about to go back into the shadow, the closet doors were opened, and his ears ended up ringing.
Next thing he knew it he was lying in a bed with some one leaning over him wiping nonexisting sweat of his brow. He realized that it was a girl, probably the one that had found him in the closet. She had a wide forhead, a small heart shaped face, a sharp chin, and curvaceous lips. She had green eyes, and suprisingly long bubblegum pink hair.
Naruto let his eyes travel up and down her body just to see what kind of figure she had, being in a somewhat delusional state, Naruto allowed his sight to be that of the wind, so that he could see beyond her clothes and what they were hiding. A few seconds of peeping later, Naruto had a nosebleed, which was noticed by the girl, who immediately thought that he was even more sick, health wise, and made him take some awfully tasting medicine. She then said somethings to make him feel at ease, or at least tried to.
Naruto had subconsciously altered his appearance, he made himself look younger, probably as young as the girl or rather young woman that was tending to him. If Naruko was his female tribute to his kind of kitsune past, his current form was the male version, complete with ebony black hair.
Later that same day, Naruto decided that being treated like a sick person was just too much for him. Enough was enough, so he got out of bed, but before he could take one step, he was tackled by the young woman that was trying her best to make him healthy, which wasn't really needed since it was nearly impossible for Naruto to get sick, poisoned, drugged, or even drunk. They ended up lying on the bed, with the girl on top of him.
Naruto decided then and there that he would 'play god' and make himself a son, just like Naruko, except the process would be taken out of time since Naruto more or less knew how to do it in real time. So that's how it was, Naruto slipped into the shadows, and left his son to do all the work.
'I hope this works...' he thought, as went back to base.
His made up plan had better work, cause he really didn't want to have to make another one, just to kidnap someone from the castle like he was originally going to do.
Back with the two people in bed.
"Uh..." the girl couldn't think of anything to say once she noticed the position she was in.
"Eh..." Naruto's son said, "Uhm...c-could you please get off me?"
Realizing the compromising position she was in, she quickly got off of him.
"Y-you shouldn't get out of bed! You're not well! What kind of a person hides in a closet anyway?"
"What kind of person assumes that someone else is sick for just being in a closet?"
"You collapsed, what else was I supposed to think? Hmm?"
"Ah...eh...I dunno."
"See, so its not my fault that I thought that you were sick. What kind of a person hides in a closet anyway?"
"Well, not me. It was an accident really. Otou-sama, was trying to send me to the daimyou's courtroom, but I guess he misjudged the distance or something."
"Huh? How?"
"Oh, magic of course! Don't you know what that is?"
"Of course I know what magic is, its a bunch of tricks and illusions, but I guess that would explain how you got into my closet. Why were you supposed to speak to the daimyou anyway?"
"Otou-sama wanted me to ask him where all the children were, he hasn't seen any in the country."
"Oh, you're not from here are you? So where are you from? Naiya? Nasu? Sakura? Tenshi? Where?" she asked him excitedly.
"Uhm...you wouldn't have heard of the place. Otou-sama has been traveling the nine lands looking for somewhere to settle in, or something like that."
"Oh, you still haven't answered my question. Where are you from?"
"Hi no Kuni. Its quite far from here."
"I've never heard of it. So you've been in more places that the nine? That's wonderful! Can you tell me anything about the other countries? Please? The only thing I know is that there's a war."
"Sure, but um, can you tell me where all the children are?"
"Tell me first, then you'll find out."
Alright, alright, you know you sound like Otou-sama's sensei."
"Huh? How's that?"
"He used to tell him things, and leave some parts out, but when otou-sama asked him what those things are, he always said that he'd tell otou-sama when he died, and asked him if he wanted to find out."
"Oh, well I'm not threatening to kill you you know."
"Yeah, uhm, are you just going to stand there?"
"No," she said, then she sat down beside him on the bed.
"I don't really want to ruin your mood or anything, but I've really not seen very nice things from the other countries. Naiya works very closely with the slave trade, Nasu does that too, Tetsu, well Tetsu is not somewhere I want to be in again the way it is now, that country is far too barbaric and cannibalistic for my tastes. Sakura is the most beautiful place I've ever seen in my life, its countryside is filled with sakura trees, but in its underbelly lies a monster of hate and torture. Tenshi's people literally look like tenshi, but on the otherhand they are devils in disguise. While Komugi is very wasteful of its natural resources and of its people."
"That's really bad. Do you know anything about the resistance movements in the country? I've heard a bit about them, but nothing really in depth."
"I know about them, why?"
"Cause even though I'm supposed to marry the daimyou, I'm a member of Sakana no Kuni's rebel forces. I'm a spy. Aren't you glad you met me?"
Shock and surprise literally make themselves known on his face, afterwhich, he realized that he was caught in a trap. Either the girl with him really was a member of some rebel organization, or she was trying to see if he was and was going to report him to her fiance. So just like his father, he went with what his instincts were telling him to do.
"Hehe, well I'm not a part of any rebel organization like you are."
"I'm not going to tell anyone if you are. C'mon, tell me the truth please? I know you wont tell anyone what I just said, cause if you do its the chopping block for you."
"I'm really not part of a rebel group. That's the honest to goodness truth."
"Aw, and I thought I wasn't alone in here..."
"Alone? What do you mean alone?"
"I thought you were a spy too, and were trying to find some information or something. You know I really do know where those children you want to know about are."
"No matter what you say, it wont change the fact that I'm not part of any rebel group."
"Then what are you!?"
"No need to shout."
"Well..."
"Fine, fine...I'm Rosuto Naruto, son of Rosuto Juushu. Otou-sama really wants me to find those kids, to see if they are being mistreated in any fashion. If they are, well, I'm sure you've at least heard of the events in the other countries."
"W-wha?! No way! You'r tou-san's the guy behind all of that?!"
"Y-yeah...why's it so surprising?"
"It's just that the people I work with have been trying to contact him. We really could use your help, and I really don't want to have to marry the daimyou. You see, originally I was supposed to seduce the daimyou, who practices polygamy, and get him to make a healthier health plan, for the country, like stop his war."
"Why is Sakana at war with the other lands anyway?"
"We've got far too many people as it is, the war has been going on for centuries since we've needed more land to put everyone in."
"So, about those kids?"
"Oh, right, well there's this big lake, that's got an island in the middle of it. Its a human breeding facility, all healthy women are brought there, and well, the country has been making babies like rabbit for the longest time. Everyone there is treated as cattle. After a woman pops out a baby she is forced into making a new one. Their given the best medical treatments and stuff that the country can provide, but all the people there are treated like animals. Most of the soldiers that the country has is made up of people from that facility and a few other scattered all over Sakana."
"So is everyone trained from birth to follow some sort of religion or principal belief or something?"
"Well, from an early age, we are taught that men come from the waters, and there they shall return. Which is why men aren't buried in the earth but left in the lakes. While women are creatures of the earth, and therefore are buried in the earth. But I have a suspicion that some officials and nobles have sold the bodies to Tetsu."
"That's a lot of information. You've given me."
"Yes, well, you're part of the group that's planning to liberate the nine lands, aren't you?"
"How's you know about that?!"
"People talk, and its kind of logical with the way things have been going on lately."
"So, what now?"
"Now? You get out of here and tell that tou-san of your's."
"No need. He already knows."
"HOW?! I just told you."
"Ever heard of magic?"
"You said that already."
"Well its not that, Otou-sama is telepathic."
"What does that mean?"
"He can read minds."
"Oh."
"So why didn't he just do that with the daimyou?"
"Its complicated."
"Oh, so, now what?" she asked.
"Well, seeing as you don't want to be left in here, I could take you with me when I leave," he suggested.
"If you do that, the daimyou will know that there's a rebel movement. It might endanger my friends."
"Nothing's easy nowadays is it, well then I guess I'll just have to come back for you later" he said as he stoofd up and walked back to the closet.
"Wait!" she said, "I haven't told you my name yet."
"I thought you didn't want me to know your name."
"My name is Musha Emiko, my older brother is the head of the rebels."
"It was nice to meet you Emiko-chan," he said as he walked into the shadow, literally like father like son.
He exited from the shadow of his father. Who was standing in front of one hundred crocs, and two hundred clones in scuba gear.
"So, you've given me a name, and taken mine, hmm."
"Hai, otou-sama, you need one. Plus out clan name can be Juushuu if you want. Ya'know, so it stands out and stuff."
"Fine. From now on I am Rosuto Juushu of the Juushu clan." Naruto, the original one, announced both verbally and to ALL his clones, and those clones that had become real people had lost the connection, the other clones would have to inform them.
"So, what's the plan, otou-sama?"
"Naval warfare," Juushu said then daced his naval force, "Prepare the ballistas, mount them on the crocs, and prepare to move out."
"HAI!" the army shouted, the crocs bellowed in affirmation.
By the end of the day, the same day that the son was 'born', Naruto's army had made its way, via the water, to the lake surrounding the breeding facility, the one closest to the capital, the main one.
He stood on top of the snout of one of the crocs that was peaking just barely out of the surface of the lake. Being unable to find any real weaknessess, as well as not knowing if attacking the walls would be a good thing Naruto's sight became the wind's sight, and he saw that there was nothing in the building, but he notice something unusual, on the shore there were wagon tracks leading away from the lake. There also appeared to have been a battle that had occurred possibly the day before.
It looked as if the information that Emiko had given to Naruto was a bit flawed, in the sense that she didn't know that her organization planned on attacking the facility or had attacked the facility.
Juushu, then had Naruto fetch his girlfriend from the castle.
"Go, fetch that girl of yours, we need more info."
"Hai," was the response.
A few minutes later an explosion was seen and heard. Juushu looked in the direction of the capital and saw that a large cloud of smoke was rising into the sky.
'That idiot! Maybe I shouldn't have given him so much of my prankster side!' Juushuu regreted.
"All of you, return to base, immediately!" Juushu shouted to his troops.
"I'll wait for that idiot."
"Hai!" they all said, then using their teleportation devices all left, as they arrived at base the devices disintegrated since they were all just a one time thing.
A few minutes later Juushu could hear the footsteps of a person running on water, while at the same time he could also hear the scream of a young women. Looking back at the direction of the capital, he saw his son Naruto carrying said young woman in his arms. A few seconds later he was splashed in the face with some of the polluted water.
"Otou-sama! I'm back! I got her too! So..now what?" he said while he adjusted his hold on the girl who had just moments ago fainted.
"We go back to base..then you tell me exactly what you did to the capital."
"Hai...gomen tou-san."
"Let's go," Juushu said as he walked into the rays of the setting sun, Naruto following after him.
When they got back to base Juushu led Naruto to their sleeping quarters so that Naruto could put Emiko in a bed for her to lie in instead of in his arms.
"So...otou-sama, why are we sharing a room?"
"So that you don't do anything that I will regret."
"Wha?! But I'll be the one doing the deed, not that I'll actually do the deed, but..."
"Naruto."
"Hai?"
"Shut up. You can have the other bed."
"Arigato tou-san, but where are you going to sleep?"
"..."
"Otou-sama?" Naruto said, then he noticed that his father had already fallen asleep while leaning against the wall.
"Whoa...he fell asleep on the wall...might as well get some rest as well...I have a feeling that tomorrow is going to be very hectic," he said as he lay down on the other bed in the room, leaving his father sleeping against a wall.
Dawn the next day, Naruto woke up to the sight of his father no longer being in the room and Emiko sleeping in his bed. But before he could leave the bed, the door to the room openned to reveal Juushu.
"So I take it you slept well, considering that she transferred to your bed half way through the night."
"This is isn't what it looks like tou-san, I swear!"
"If you say so, so when we meet her brother I'll tel him you raped his sister in her sleep."
"But I said that this isn't what it looks like!"
"What it looks like is that she is sleeping with her clothes on, and you with your clothes on."
"Oh. Then we'll stick to what it looks like then."
"Wake her up, and change your clothes, the both of you. I need you in scuba gear, and her at least in a wet suit. Got it?" Juushu asked.
"Hai," Naruto, his son, answered.
"Good. I'll meet you at the supercroc enclousure," Juushu said as he left the room.
Naruto got out of bed and tried to shake Emiko awake, to no avail, the girl just wouldn't wake up. So he decided to use a different tactic, he spat out a stream of cold water on her. That got her to immediately wake up.
"T-t-that w-w-was c-c-cold."
"Here's a towel," Naruto threw her a towel which landed on her head, "The shower's in the room over there, I'll put out something for you to wear, then we'll both go to where otou-sama is."
"O-ok. Uhm...Naruto-kun?"
"Hai, Emiko-chan?"
"Where am I?"
"Right now, you're in me and otou-sama's room. We're in our Sakana base of operations found at the bottom of one of Sakana's lakes."
"We're underwater? Sugoi!"
"Go take a shower and change already. I think otou-sama wants us there fast."
"Hai...ano...can you um..help me...I don't know how to use the shower here...that is...I don't know what a shower is..."
"Ahh...uh...sure, just don't tell your brother...otou-sama already warned me..."
"H-hai!"
When the duo finally made their way to where Juushu was, the saw neither hide nor hair of him. But they did see the over one hundred crocs that littered the place, while the staff were running around flinging all sorts of things at them. It was feeding pandemonium in there. There were a few divers on the side lounging around eating breakfast. But there was no Juushu.
"Hey! What are you two standing around there for?" called out one of the divers, "Get over here and have some grub!"
So the duo went over to them and grabbed some food and they too watched the feeding frenzy, not that any of the feeders were in any real danger.
"So, have any of you see otou-sama?" Naruto asked them.
"Nope, haven't seen him yet. But we were told to get here all suited and ready to go at a moment's notice. How bout you two? He tell you anything?" one of the divers said.
"Nah, he just told us to get dressed, and get over here quick."
"Get dressed?! You mean the two of you..were caught by him?!" another diver said.
"Hey, cool down, Naruto-sama is Juushu-sama's son, its ok. So chill," another one of the divers said.
The pandemonium of the feeding frenzy suddenly stopped as the crocs sensed the presence of a frightening predator. The clones that were feeding them cleaned up the uneaten food then walked off. While the divers all stood at attention, Naruto doing the same thing.
"Emiko," Naruto whispered, "Stand up, otou-sama is coming."
"Hai," she whispered back before standing up, not used to the wet suit.
Once Juushu stood infront of the assembled divers and crocs, he started to give out his orders.
"We shall commence the rescue mission in a few hours. I've sent for reinforcements, which will be arriving shortly. Information has just reached us that Musha Toru is being held in a holding facility that is located near one of the country's breeding facilities. Mucha Toru is the leader of Sakana's only rebel organization, and I intend to recruit him. You're job is to get him and all innocents out of those facilities. Once you return here, we will follow standard operating proceedures. The coordinates for the facilities have already be inputed into the teleportation gates, they are all primed and ready for use. Level the facilities and get all the good guys out. Sakana's nobility know that there will be a rescue operation, but they do not know by who. Is that understood?"
"HAI!" all the divers answered, while the crocs bellowed that they did too.
"Naruto, Emiko stay, everyone else, MOVE OUT!"
The army personnel burst into motion, a number of the staff were fitting the armor of the crocs on, while the divers all checked their gear. The teleportation team, which was made up of mage clones in scuba gear were preparing the teleportation rods that would be used to form the temporary teleportation gate. Once the crocs had their armor on, they were each fitted with a ballista. Its bolts were also strapped onto the crocs' backs. Each croc was given a diamond to eat to give them an energy boost. Once all the men, women, and crocs were prepared they made their way to the gates, ready for battle.
"Naruto, Emiko, I'm leaving you two in charge of welcoming the new arrivals."
"Hai," the two answered.
"Make sure to give a positive first impression. You will be the commanding officers in my absence."
"Otou-sama, where will you be going?"
"I will be looking for someone in the capital. You fouled up but weren't caught due to this person. His name is Tabou Tama, a descendant of the bastard line of the royal clan."
"Oh. So is he going to be your commander for this base?"
"No. I shall be leaving you here to be one of three leaders, and shall be taking Tama with me to Nairan no Kuni."
"Who will be the other two?" Naruto asked.
"Musha Emiko and Musha Toru."
After saying that Juushu transformed before their eyes into a little girl that resembled his Oiroke no Jutsu form wearing a light pink kimono, then burst into butterflies, which disappeared almost as soon as they had disappeared.
"Your otou-sama, can really do magic."
"Yeah. So let's get to the gate room."
"Okay. I'm used to greeting people since Onii-san taught me how and stuff, Onee-san too."
"Onee-san?"
"Uhm, Onii-san's wife, my sister-in-law, she's the daughter of the third son of the youngest brother of the daimyou. The daimyou's younger brother is also in the rebel organization, he's our backer, I hope he didn't get caught."
"Oh, so that why that guy didn't care when I said I was going to kidnap you."
"Yup."
Juushu had reached the place where he was to meet up with Tama. He, in chibi-female form, walked up to him. His brown hair reached his upper back and was tied in a loose ponytail. He appeared sickly, but he had been able to take out a few soldiers all on his own. He was actually a pretty good theif that had been stealing food from the nobles. He was one of those rare cases of people that were born outside of the controlled breeding facilities. He had a pair of kind eyes that looked fondly at the little girl that had walked up to him.
"Onii-san, there was an onii-san that said to tell you that he wanted to thank you for stalling for another onii-san."
"Thank you for telling me, can you show me where he was?"Tama asked the little girl.
"Hai," the little girl answered enthusiastically, then led him to a shaded area.
"So where is this other onii-san now?"
In the blink of an eye the little girl had vanished only to be replaced by Juushu.
"Right here."
"You! Where'd you come from? Where's the little girl?"
"That isn't important right now. I'm pressed for time as it is. The short of it is that I need your help in establishing a base in Nairan no Kuni. As well as command it while I go to the last of the nine to establish another base there. So are you willing to come help me cause some chaos?" Juushu asked.
"I see. I've heard of your exploits in the other countries. They're onto you, I've heard talk that Sakana might ally with the rest to be rid of you. But they'll only band together if Nairan and Sekihin are bothered by you."
"I know. So how about it? Will you join me?"
"If you can convince Musha Toru to join you, I will join you."
"Come with me then, to my underwater base. He is being rescued as we speak."
The seek, rescue, and destroy mission was a complete success. The only thing that had yet to happen was for Musha Toru to join Juushu's group.
Upon seeing Juushu with Tama in tow, Toru moved toward him.
"So are you really the head of this whole operation?" Toru asked.
"I am."
"And you want me to head your base here with my sister and that guy who calls himself your son?"
"I do."
"Why?"
"You want to solve the country's problems. So do I. Since I need to go to some other places. I need people who are aware of the situation to lead my armies to victory. I also need people worthy of my trust. And for you to get arrested and subjected to the things that you were. I am willing to place my trust in you. My instincts have rarely, if ever, been wrong."
"If you say so," Toru then faced his sister and gave her a thumbs up, then faced Juushu, "I'm in."
The two then shook each other's hands. That was it.
"So, Tama? He's one of mine now. Are you?" Juushu asked Tama once Toru returned to his sister's side.
"I'm your man."
"Good. No time to waste. Let's go."
"Go? Now? How? We just got here. We have to rest for the jouney ahead. It'll take at least half a year to reach the border, then another half year to reach the twin capitals of the Land of Civil Wars."
"No problem, I'll get us there today."
"How do you plan on doing that?"
"You'll see. All you have to do is trust me," Juushu said as he walked away heading for one of the crocs that had made it's way back into the gate room.
"Hey! You still haven't explained how we got here!"
"Just follow me so we can get to Nairan already!" Juushu shouted as he was swallowed whole by the croc.
"He was just eaten by that thing!!" Tama shouted.
"Dear Kami! Someone save him!" Toru shouted.
"This can't be happening!" Emiko shouted.
"Toru, just follow him already. He's probably wondering why you're still here," Naruto said.
"What?!" the three others shouted. While the other people in the room just stared at them, these other people being clones.
"What do you mean follow him? I'm going to die too if that thing eats me!" Tama shouted at Naruto.
"How can you act so indifferent, your father just got eaten alive by that thing!" Emiko shouted at Naruto.
"By your reaction, I'd say that this is a normal thing...isn't it Naruto?" Toru asked.
"Yep, he's been doing stunts like that often. The first one was when he walked into a shadow. Being eaten by one of the crocs isn't something to worry about."
"So, how am I going to go about this?" Tama asked, "I'm not him."
"Simple..." Naruto said, the second after that Tama found himself screaming while the croc ate swollowed him alive.
"So...who's up for lunch?" Naruto asked like there was nothing wrong in the world, like he had not just somehow fed Tama to a croc.
"Y-y-you monster!" Toru and Emiko shouted while they pointed at Naruto.
"Hey big guy," Naruto spoke to the croc, "Pick up those two and bring 'em to the mess hall, the human one not yours, kay?"
To which the croc bobbed its head up and down then made its way over to the two frightened siblings, opened its jaw and bit them in a gentle way then dragged their unconscious carcases to the mess hall.
'Hehe...nice...'
The next thing Tama realized was that he wasn't being swallowed by some large thing, he'd never seen a crocodile in his life, but being eaten alive by something that had many little knifes for teeth was not on his 'to do list' in life. Instead of finding himself in the gut of some large semi-aquatic animal, he found himself falling from a great height, it looked like he had just popped up in the sky and was falling at supposedly breakneck speeds back to earth. He prayed to all the Kami that he knew of and some that were so just made up that they didn't even exist. He saw his rather short life pass before his very eyes, he even saw the weird man in black eating popcorn in his office watching him as he fell. When he decided to turn around and face his doom like a man, his fall had ended, and he found himself screaming his head off like a banshee beside Juushu who was sticking his fingers in his ears to block out the dreadful sound.
"Are you done yet?" Juushu asked having become fed up with all the screaming.
"Aaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhh" was the reply.
So Juushu slammed his fist onto Tama's head silencing him instantly.
"Thank you, I think I needed that," Tama said once he had composed himself.
"Your welcome, next time just jump right in. Those things wont kill you, unless I want them to."
"That's very reasurring. Your son is crazy by the way. I don't know how he did it."
"I know. I'm his father after all."
"So...uhm...now what?"
"Now we lounge around until someone finds us. Personally I think that this whole civil war bit is just a fight between two brothers that escalated and included the entire country, and the only reason as to why the country is at war with the other countries is that the country just wants to be left alone and destroy itself from the inside," Juushu pondered aloud.
"Err....you hit the nail right on the head there Juushu-sama."
"Figures...so....it really is basically just a country suffering from an internal and an external war. Which makes most of the populace the suffering people that we are to save, and due to their numbers, we can't possibly take them all in."
"Wow, you assessed the situation quite fast, I thought that it would have taken us a week or something."
"Well our base of operation here in Nairan no Kuni will take the rest of the week to complete. Once that has been done, I am going to have my army kidnap some people. One of them being the bastard grandchild of the double daimyous."
"What will that accomplish, sir?"
"Oh, that will accomplish my acquisition of another commander for the last base of operations. The kid is actually a friend of mine, I accidentally met him, while I was searching for Toru. He actually looks like Toru, average height, medium build, brown hair, wears purple shirts and grey pants most of the time, does not dress traditionally like most of the other people I've met, one example being you who is wearing a kimono and hakama combination. The only difference between Toru and this grandchild of the double daimyous in that his eyes are well...Toru has green eyes...while this kid's got one red eye and one white eye."
"So what's the kid's name?"
"Noufu Kira is his name. I rolled time back a bit for myself so that I could get to know him a little bit better and gain his trust. So don't be surprised if he calls me uncle."
"Y-you can roll back time?"
"You know you don't really need to believe me, but since you are working for and with me, you might want to keep an open mind."
"I....fine....what ever! The sky is pink! The oceans are orange! That bird is black, and that zombie is blue!" Tama did a double take, then pointed a shaking finger at the zombie, "ZOMBIE!!! KILL IT JUUSHU!! KILL IT!!!"
"Hello Zombie-san!" Juushu said as he waved and the zombie waved back, "Do you have a message from sensei?"
It nodded its head slowly.
"What did he want you to tell me?"
"Kyonshi-kami-sama says you take too long...get on with lesson already..." the zombie said.
"Anything else zombie-san?"
"You have popcorn....Kyonshi-kami-sama no have coz of dat guy," the zombie said and pointed at Tama.
"Sure," Juushu then took out a scroll and handed it to the zombie, which after receiving the scroll bowed and turned to ash, "Well?"
"OKAA-SAMA!!!!!" Tama screamed his lungs out.
"Don't scream so loud, you're lungs might fly out," Juushu then saw something fly out of Tama's mouth, "Too late, there they go!"
Tama blinked twice not knowing how he was still alive, and how that had happened. His lungs really did fly out of his mouth.
"Now Tama, if you want your lungs back, you have to promise me that you wont scream or attract attention to yourself, ok?," Juushu asked, "Just nod if you understand."
Tama nodded.
"Now promise," Juushu instructed, "Just nod your head if you promise not to attract attention to yourself."
Tama nodded again.
"That was so scary Juushu-sama...so..so..so scary..." Tama said almost in tears.
"If you start crying your eyeballs'll pop out."
That stopped Tama from showing anymore emotion.
"Tama, just follow me. We're going to look for somewhere to construct the base. Okay?" Juushu said.
"..."
"Well?"
"Nothing else if gonna fly off, right?" Tama asked.
"Depends. Just follow me around. Don't worry, no one will see us."
"If you say so."
"I do, now come on."
The two men walked around the almost desolate countryside. There were trees, some animals, some more trees, a few rottng corpses that the two decided to bury then more on, more trees, a battle, a camp site, an orange book that looked out of place, some more trees, then after five days of searching, the two men were back at the spot that they had arrived.
"This is the perfect, spot. Its got the space, the farness from civilization. The lack of any one who can find us. Its perfect. What do you think Tama?"
"You know what I think? I think you're really bored and just want me to go insane. That's what I think. So listen, just build the base, send out some recruiters, find that kid of yours, then go to Sekihin no Kuni. I have a feeling that you really want to go to war with the nine lands. I know I do. I know that you've got more than enough troops to take on all nine at the same time. So just go piss off the nineth country. Just go get that kid so that we can start this thing."
"You really want me to say that if you continue saying what you're saying your arms will fall off, don't you?"
"N-n-no. Its just that the only way to help this country is to go to war with it and stop the senseless fighting already. I know that the people of this country are sick of all the fighting. The common people of the other countries are just waiting for you to give the go signal for the major attacks to happen. I'm with you. So, go do your thing. I'll relay the message."
"If you say so. Don't screw up Tama."
After Juushu said that, he walked into the winds, and found himself in the room of his 'nephew'.
"Hey gaki. How ya been?" Juushu asked him.
"Alright uncle. So when are we leaving? You know all this war is getting pretty tiring, and my friends in Sekihin are waiting for us to get there."
"I know Kira, I know. Its been more than two years already. We'll just pass by Tama, he's the guy I'm leaving in charge here. I still need to get a base for him set up."
"If you say so uncle."
Juushu then put a hand on Kira's shoulder and they shimmered to the spot where he had left Tama. Tama was just sitting on a nearby log waiting for him to return.
Juushu upon arrival formed his temporary gate, then he informed the General clone on the otherside to send out ten thousand clones. Along with five thousand cavalry, horses this time. He also ordered the General to send out to the rest of the bases reinforcements as well as at least a thousand of the othere creatures to all bases. It was nearly time for Juushu to claim the nine lands. It was taking too long. It was a good thing that the remaining two lands were simpler than the other seven, else Juushu's campaign would start during the thousandth year anniversary of the war of the nine lands, and not end with it.
Juushu also had the General clone inform Yuji to commence the plan for Komugi no Kuni. Yuji was tasked with burning the crops using the dragons, in full view of the Komugi military.
Once all the clones had made their presence known, Juushu used one of his seldom used powers to just create the base. His imagination did wonders. The thing ended up looking like a walled castle town.
"Tama, once you've got enough troops, I want you to start harrassing the locals. Make sure that they know its not just some rebel group. I want the war to end exactly on the day of the thousandth anniversary. Got it?"
"Hai!"
"Let's go Kira."
Juushu said as he led Kira into a dense fog that had appeared out of nowhere. The duo exited on a grassy plain. It was just outside the capital of Sekihin no Kuni. The land was suffering from poverty, extreme poverty. The only ones that didn't appear to suffer were the soldiers in the army and the nobility. The country had a small revolutionary group that was led by Kira, that began around five years prior. Kira was five at the time, but he was already very charismatic, little did anyone know that even at that time he was already working for and with Juushu. Due to traveling backwards through time, Juushu had already set up his toe hold in Sekihin, he had also managed to recruit some troops from the common citizens, as well as from the nobility, even some of the royals wanted change to occur. Through Kira they had chosen Juushu to lead them into a new age of peace. Kira had promised the people of Sekihin no Kuni a thousand years of peace. All they had to do was side with him, and his uncle. All the members of Juushu's Sekihin group had met with Kira. They all knew him and trusted him.
On the day that Juushu had arrived with Kira, would be the start of Juushu's campaign. He planned to have the nine lands attack his fortress city, which had come to be known as Juushu Oujou, while he personally went to the capitals of the nine lands and slew their daimyous. All those greedy and selfish people would then be judged by the people that they had oppressed. Some of the people would have to be reeducated and reintroduced into society, some ancient beliefs would have to be eradicated, but that was progress. If peace was to be obtained, then the people would have to accept progress. Juushu promised a thousand years of peace. He would not break that promise.
"So, Kira, where do you want your base?" Juushu asked his second favorite commander.
"I want it one month's trek north of our position."
"You got it gaki."
Suddenly the two of them found themselves at precisely that location. Around the spot that they had appeared at, there were dozens of tents that littered the grassy ground.
"You had them prepare in advance I see."
"I did. Its better this way, no? We get to start right away, get the ball rolling and all that."
"Above ground, underground, or like Tama?"
"Like Tama."
Juushu focused his energies into the land around him. With a rather large audience around him, he had to make a very impressive first impression. An aura grew visible around his form, first blue, then gold, then rainbow, then nothing. But it was during the nothing that the people around him could feel a weight so heavy that some found it difficult to move, and some had difficulty standing. Infron of them and around them a city started to take form. Wooden houses started to emerge from the ground. In the center of it all, a castle arose. Higher and higher the castle went, until it was seven storys tall. There was only one wall, and it wasaround the castle keep. The city was open and welcoming to anyone who wished to join it.
"Uncle, the troops?" Kira asked.
"They're already in the keep, awaiting your orders."
"Arigato, uncle."
"Don't do anything until I give the go ahead."
"Hai."
Juushu then walks away, just walks, no melting into the shadows, no becoming the wind, melting into the earth, no bursting into butterflies, nothing special. Because, what could top creating something out of seemingly nothing.
After Juushu vanished from the sight of the last person at the base a man casually walked up to Kira.
"That was your uncle?"
"Yes, is there a problem?"
"No...its just that we expected him to like vanish into the wind or something like that.."
"After seeing him create this city for us to use as our base of operations, you expected him to do something like that?"
"Well, it would have been really cool."
"I suppose."
"So...when do things start to heat up for us Kira-sama?"
"As soon as he gives the go signal. Find everyone a home or something. I'm going to the castle and finding myself a room on the first floor."
"But, you're our commander, the top floor should go to you."
"Fine. I'll take the top, and one room at the bottom. I hate heights."
While Juushu was walking, he opened up a telepathic channel that connected him to all his commanders, both clone and human.
"After all preparations are complete, you are free to commence. I'm giving everyone the green light. I repeat, I'm giving everyone the green light" Juushu said over he metal link.
Then he opened a mental link with Touken, Hyakume, and Dorotabo.
"You guys can go home now. I've got everything under control here. Just call me if you need me or something."
After saying that, he felt his three friends transcend through the boundaries between world and went back home to report to Kyonshi and watch Juushu's progrees.
'I really hope they can get those armies to attack home...' Juushu thought as he continued his time warping trek back to Juushu Oujou.
To be continued...
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one last thing...sorry I rushed it a bit, I was running out of ideas...