LIES, LOVE AND BETRAYAL
Greetings from the Void!
I'm rather impressed and yet confused lol, this fic is making a killing in the faves and alerts department. Even on two c2's. Yet only 6 reviews :p puzzling. Well I hope you lot enjoy this chapter. This ones a pretty long one but it leads to an event that is of great importance.
I also snuck an old school reference into this chapter. Its kinda subtle but I hope someone catches it!
Chapter 3: New Bonds
The sun had begun to float its way down over the horizon. Night was soon to come. Naruko and Fū walked along a long path that lead through the forests of Yu no Kuni. They had left Attakawa village after their fight, not wanting to cause more trouble. They hardly noticed the time pass by due to their conversations.
"...and so that is just about everything that has happened to me in the 13 years I've been alive and how I ended up at Attakawa." Naruko sighed as she slouched over some. She turned to the other girl, "Now its your turn."
Fū walked with her hands behind her head, a sympathetic look on her face, "Yeah... I'd say that is a pretty messed up life..." She commented, "Unfortunately, I can top that..."
"Lets hear it."
"Unlike you I've only been out of my village for a few weeks. My life started out kinda bad, got a bit better then took a nose dive... a nose dive that hasn't stopped."
-FLASHBACK-
A loud smack echoed out and a 4 year old Fū was sent into the side of a cliff not far outside of Takigakure. She looked up at the group of much older kids through one eye. Her other eye bruised and swollen shut. Blood dripped from her forehead and lip. The group of five kids all had to be at least 12 or older.
"W-why... why are you h-hurting me?" Fū asked as tears poured from her eyes. She didn't know why she bothered asking this question anymore though.
"Because we can. No one in the village cares about you." The boy that seemed to lead the group declared. He was also the only one brandishing a newly obtained Takigakure forehead protector. "And you're practice for my taijutsu."
"Yeah my mom says shes a demon!" the only girl in the group of five said.
Fū weakly pushed herself to her feet, using the rock face behind her as a brace, "I didn't... do anything." she replied meekly.
"Yeah you did! You have that nasty snot colored hair!" The older girl laughed, this in turn incited the chorus of laughter from her friends. Fū's tears became stronger and she began to walk away along the wall.
"Yeah and she has creepy eyes too! Maybe she really IS a demon!" the lead boy shouted as he ran up to the limping girl and delivered a swift and harsh kick to her side, compacting her into the wall before she fell to the ground.
The boy grabbed a fist full of Fū's hair and pulled her to her feet. Fū shrieked in pain, her tears flowing uncontrollably. The boy readied a fist and swung it at her.
The young girl flinched but felt no pain. She opened her eye and saw an adult holding the boys wrist, "Kaku! Stop this immediately!"
"R-Renzou-sama... y-you're back?!" Kaku winced in pain and released Fū who dropped to her hands and knees and scurried a few feet away.
The man known as Renzou, yanked the boys wrist into a chicken wing before tossing him like a rag doll. Kaku landed on his back and slid up to the feet of his friends, "Get back to the village, now!" the man demanded.
"Y-Yes, sir!" They replied fearfully and ran back to the village.
Renzou sighed and turned to the cowering Fū, "Are you okay?" He asked as he walked up to her.
Fū scooted back in caution. She had just learned not to trust people she knew... let alone ones she didn't. Renzou crouched down next to her and slowly reached his hand out to the girl. She flinched in fear and covered her small frame as best she could.
"Its okay, little one, I'm not gonna hurt you... My name is Kuken Renzou..." He said softly, "I can't believe, that in my absence, the village has dropped so low as to let this kind of treatment go on."
"Y-you're lying... everyone who says they wont hurt me, hurts me."
The man sighed again and quickly scooped the young child up in his arms, she awaited the pain of being dropped, thrown or strangled. But her fears were not realized as the man gently cradled her on his way back to the village. After a few moments she began to feel at piece in this mans arms. Safe almost. To her, something was different about this man.
Despite this slight comfort she was still crying and felt as though something bad was gonna happen, like it always did. Her body was shaking heavily in his arms.
"Don't worry little one, we'll get you patched up and tell your parents." He said.
"I... don't have parents..." she bit her lower lip.
"An orphan? Unfortunate..." He said, "Do you know what happened to them?"
Fū merely shook her head, "Poor thing." Renzou said.
A few days had passed and Fū had been staying with Renzou at his home. Fū had started to trust him but was still world-wary of just about everyone and thing.
The two sat at the table and ate their dinner when a knock came at the door. Renzou stood up and answered the door. Another man not much older than himself stood on the other side.
"Renzou, its good to see you back from your extended mission to Kusagakure... I would have visited sooner had I not been negotiating a trade agreement with the wave country representatives. How many years has it been? Five? Six almost?"
"Long enough for our village to suffer, Jinko." Renzou replied. "Come in" he directed his guest.
Once inside the man named Jinko slid his sandals off and entered the living and dining area, noticing Fū eating her dinner at the table, "What is that street urchin doing in your home?" he asked with a pang of disgust in his voice.
Fū's heart sank at the comment. Renzou was the only one who had shown her prolonged kindness, now she was worried that Jinko, a man she had a number of dealings with in the past, would try to ruin that.
"Her name is Fū and she is not an 'urchin'... she's a human being, no less important than you or I" Renzou retorted.
"Well whatever, now that your back home I relieve myself as your replacement. You are hereby reinstated as the village's Minister of External Affairs." Jinko said, "This job sucks. I don't know why you chose it."
"Because our village needed an open minded individual to conduct our relations with other villages and countries." Renzou replied, "My 6 years in Kusagakure have solidified our relationship with them. They will support us in any way we request. I have promised them that we would do the same for them."
"Impressive, and their country's daimyou supports this?" Jinko asked. He promptly received a nod.
"However despite this success I see our village has fallen to the point of allowing brutal treatment of its orphan children." He glared at Jinko.
"It can't be helped... She was the first success..." Jinko implied.
"The first success in what?" Renzou questioned with a bit of anger behind his voice.
"Ahh yes, you were gone so its not surprising you don't know. That girl was born, a bastard child, to a whore of a mother who died in child birth. So we took it upon ourselves to attempt the sealing on her. On the day of her birth That girl was made into the first jinchuuriki our village has successfully sealed the shichibi into." Jinko explained.
"They managed to succeed finally?!" Renzou was shocked to say the least.
Fū, who had been listening intently, began to tear up. She didn't know what they were talking about but she knew for sure that now Renzou would hate her.
"Yes. I oversaw the sealing myself." Jinko said, "and until we can prove that she can be trusted with that power we will show no leniency."
"You ignorant fools!" Renzou shouted, this caused the young girl to flinch in her seat. "You expect her to harbor trust towards you, yet you allow her to be treated like dirt? The only thing that will accomplish is making her resent us all. And with the power of the Shichibi she could easily turn that resentment into a weapon against us! You want her trust and loyalty? Then start treating her like a human being! Not like a stray rabid dog."
"It's impossible to change peoples opinions of her. When shichibi was sealed into her there was an unfortunate side-effect. She immediately transformed into the Shichibi and though it only had a fraction of its true power it nearly laid the village to waste before we managed to subdue it with several lost lives and allot of our hero water." Jinko explained, "It was a mistake to ever assume humans could harness a bijuu's power. They are too strong, vile and corrupt. That incident made me lose Hikari and Inoue. I won't forgive that demon."
"I'm sorry to hear about your wife and daughter but they died because you all were fools. That girl is not responsible for their deaths. You have only yourselves and the shichibi to blame for that. We had the beast sealed away were it could do no harm but the village still tried to make a jinchuuriki. Then they blame the innocent child, whose life they ruined, for it's destruction." Renzou said.
Jinko grabbed Renzou by the collar and pulled him closer, "Don't you DARE say such things! Hikari was my wife and your friend!"
Renzou swatted Jinko's hand away and glared at him, "Yes she was. And I will always honor and remember her as such. But I warned the village elders! I pleaded with them! On my knee's! To never try sealing the Shichibi into a human again. Each attempt was met with disaster. We were not ready! We are the only minor hidden village to have a Bijuu. Sure, the five great nations had better skilled fuuinjutsu users, so they could properly seal a Bijuu into a human. But even they cannot presume to control such a power or the person who wields it."
"You speak as though you know this by experience..." Jinko replied.
"Yes. I do. In my time in the grass country I met a jinchuuriki. A missing-nin from Iwagakure. He was called Yoton no Roshi. He had apparently just abandoned his village. Then ten Iwa tracker-nins hunted him down to a village in the grass country where I was staying. I saw this jinchuuriki slaughter every. Single. One of them. He melted them down with the lava element, leaving nothing but smoldering fossils. He never even had to move. He then continued about his business as if nothing had happened."
"That's Iwa's own fault for not knowing how to control him." Jinko said.
"And the same kind of thing could happen with Fū if you continue to treat her like that."
"I will stave my hatred for her... but I cannot control the people or their hearts." Jinko said before slipping his sandals back on. "I'm going to go report to the counsel that I've officially returned your position to you." He said before opening the door. Before he stepped out he turned back to Renzou, "Be careful old friend, you're treading on on unstable waters." With that he exited the house and closed the door.
Renzou turned to see that Fū was no longer at the table, "Fū-chan..." He called out as he walked towards her room. He pulled the door open and looked in to see the young girl with her face buried in her pillow, crying.
Renzou sat down on the edge of her bed and put his hand on her back, "Little one?"
Fū sat up and faced him, tears streaming, "Renzou-nii... whats the Shichibi? And why do people hate me because of it?"
"That's... complicated, little one. I don't know if you would understand." Renzou said.
"I want to try though..." she replied as she wiped away her tears.
Renzou looked up at the ceiling, he conceded to her, knowing it was probably the best way to avoid her becoming a threat to the village. "Okay... well to understand what the Shichibi is you have to know what the Bijuu are..." he started.
-END FLASHBACK-
"So he explained to me what the Bijuu were and told me everything he knew about Chōmei. Which wasn't much mind you. The specific details about each individual Bijuu are shrouded in myth and superstition." Fū explained.
"Renzou seems nice. So what happened next?" Naruko asked, her curiosity peeking.
"Well nothing too spectacular for the next 4 years. Other than the occasional villager or ninja trying to kill me. That lead to Renzou teaching me the basics of being a ninja. Being a jounin he had quite the bit to teach. Thanks to him I entered the villages academy at age six and graduated at age eight. I was so happy... He was so proud of me..." Fū smiled as she reminisced, then the smile was overcome by a look of sorrow.
"Whats wrong?" Naruko asked noticing her new friends demeanor.
"A few days after I graduated, Renzou-nii finally got some time off duty and he was gonna take me to go get dinner to celebrate... that's when my life took that nose dive I mentioned to you."
"What happened?" Naruko was almost afraid to ask the question.
"Put simply we got jumped by some shinobi that were afraid of the fact that I became a ninja. I'm not gonna get into the details because it hurts too much... but Renzou sacrificed himself to protect me that night. He managed to kill or fight off half of them but its my fault he's dead. When I saw him die I blacked out and woke up sometime later surrounded by their dead bodies and in the middle of a fire that had started burning the village down. A fire I caused. Found out later that was the first time I ever tapped into Chōmei's power. After that, the people stopped trying to kill me but their hatred only grew deeper. I never connected with anyone again after Renzou died."
Naruko looked down in sorrow. Fū's story was oddly reminiscent of her own incident with Iruka and Mizuki, "I know that kind of pain..." She said. "But I never wanted to leave my home. And when I find out who that masked man is, I'm going to make him suffer for killing Sakura and taking away everything I ever cared about."
"Well revenge in that regard is something I can get behind. But how in the hell do you plan on finding him? We don't exactly have the resources of our villages."
Naruko's eye twitched and she blushed a bit before scratching the back of her head, "Yeah well... umm... I haven't exactly thought that far ahead. Right now I'm more focused on training and finding a means of surviving." Naruko explained.
"Well if you mean a form of income, I only have one idea." Fū said.
"We're not stealing it" Naruko quickly retorted.
Fū flicked the younger girl in the side of the head, "Not what I was gonna suggest. And that's always gonna have to be an option whether we like it or not."
"Well then what was your suggestion?"
"We can go talk to the guy I was intending to sell your necklace to. He might be able to hook us up with some work. or if not, maybe some leads for work."
"Who is he and where can we find him?"
"His name is Kuja." The mint-haired girl answered before pointing to her 3 o'clock position at some mountains in the distance, "See those mountains? He lives up there. When I was on my genin team we had several mission to protect his caravans or to make trades with him. He has a large network of suppliers from all over the continent."
"Sounds like our best bet, I guess we should hurry then, let go!" Naruko said before she started dashing forwards. Fū merely chuckled, "Her forgetfulness is cute..."
Fū sprouted four wings from her lower back and lifted herself off the ground before flying up behind Naruko and hooking her arms under the blonds to lift her up off the ground, "Hey-whoa!" Naruko barked in shock.
"You already forgot I can just fly us there didn't you?" she giggled.
Naruko blushed and crossed her arms as she dangled in mid air, "...maybe..."
"Well enjoy the ride, its gonna be a fast one!" The mint-haired girl declared before taking off even faster and higher towards the mountains.
Naruko had to say, she was impressed with her new companions speed. This would make traveling so much easier... for her at least. However Fū seemed unphased by the extra weight. Little did Naruko know that its was because Fū could carry three times her own weight easily with the strength of four wings and unbridled natural strength. This, of course being a side effect of having a 7 tailed rhino beetle demon being sealed in her.
"Wow... this is awesome!" Naruko cheered.
Fū smirked, "Newbie flier..." she chuckled.
"Hey, flying isn't exactly a common shinobi skill!" Naruko retorted.
"Really? I've heard that Iwa's Tsuchikage can fly. Without wings no less." Fū commented.
"What sense does that make?! He's the Tsuchikage, shouldn't he like use earth style or something?"
Fū almost dropped Naruko in the sudden spurt of laughter that hit her. Honestly, to her, that was one of the most hilariously stupid comments a person had ever uttered, "Ahahahaha, are you serious? answer me this does your Hokage only use fire style?"
"Well, no... she's actually an over powered medic..." Naruko replied. "But the Sandaime Hokage was said to have know over thousand jutsu. And apparently the Yondaime Hokage was the fastest shinobi who ever lived. Some even argue he was the most powerful shinobi who ever lived."
"Then there you go, a village kage is generally just the strongest shinobi in the village regardless of their idividual talents. You seem to know a fair bit about the Yondaime Hokage though."
"Well... to be honest... He's kind of my idol. The history about our Hokage's was pretty much the only thing in class I paid attention to." Naruko sighed and looked down at the ground passing below her, "I wanted so badly to be the Hokage and prove I wasn't what people said I was."
"Admirable dream, but you can't just give up like that..."
"How can a rogue ninja become the Hokage?!" Naruko said, "No, I have a new dream now... to find out who that man is, why he killed Sakura and why he framed me. Then I'm gonna make him pay and I'll clear my name. Maybe then I can go home and try to be Hokage... if they ever trust me again."
"That's the spirit, Twerp. I'll tell you something that Renzou told me once, 'You have to have hope. Prove to yourself and others what you are. Because what you are can change the world. And if you have hope, then you will burn with the brightest flame and eventually others will be drawn to your light and warmth.' We kinda have to set the example for others." Fū said. Naruko hung on every word. Almost quite literally since she didn't want to plummet to her death. "If we, who are called monsters, have any hope that we can lead them to a better future, then that's what we should do."
"That's pretty deep... Renzou said all that?" Naruko asked.
"Well that is just my own interpretation." The mint-haired girl said, "We're here by the way."
The girl flew down and gently landed before retracting her wings. They stood before a fairly large house with smithy attached to its side.
Fū lead Naruko to the front door and pushed it open. The inside was revealed to be set up in a weapon shop-like fashion.
"Kuja-san! You have customers!" Fū shouted.
The chair behind the counter spun around from its workbench desk and revealed a man in his late 40's. He wore small glasses over his eyes and a graying beard. His blacksmith attire and apron were covered in the dirty signs of his labor.
He looked at the young girls and raised an eyebrow, "You again eh? and you brought a new friend I see..." He said with a rather displeased tone, "What do you want? Takigakure's shipment isn't due to go out for another 3 weeks. I told your village counsel that! I've been having difficulties as of late."
"That's not why we're here, you old ass. We aren't affiliated with our villages anymore. What we are here for is work. And you said you had some difficulties so I'm guessing we're in the right place at the right time."
"Hhmm... Well I was considering requesting for shinobi to aid me." Kuja pondered, "Very well. My problem is that allot of my shipments of materials have been attacked. Five convoy's have gone missing in the mountains that boarder Yu no Kuni and Shimo no Kuni. Shimo no Kuni(1) provides a large amount of my smithing materials. If I can't get those materials I can't make equipment, if I can't make equipment-"
"-You can't make money. Alright, we will find out what it is and stop it. For about twenty five thousand ryo." Fū interrupted him.
His right eye twitched, "Isn't that a bit pricey?"
"Ha, any of the major villages would count this as a potential B or A ranked mission. Which they would want at least thirty thousand ryo for."
"Very well... a small price to pay if it keeps me in business. However you will only get five thousand of it now. The rest when you return... If you return. I need you to rendezvous at a small mining village on the boarder of Shimo, called Koori village, you know the place, you've done this before. They have a caravan of supplies I need you to ensure that it makes her in one piece while also discerning what happen to the rest of my stuff. Preferably putting a stop to it." Kuja explained.
"Alright, That was easy!" Naruko said, "Let's go kick some tail!" She punched her palm eagerly.
Kuja rummaged around under the counter for a moment before sitting back up and tossing a small pouch of money to Fū, "There is your advance pay. Don't disappoint me."
"Ha! Just you watch." Naruko said.
"We'll be back before ya know it." Fū added. She wasn't concerned about any danger. Her and her blond friend were jinchuuriki after all.
The duo departed Kuja's shop and Fū quickly sprouted her wings and lifted Naruko up and took off northward towards Shimo no Kuni.
"So, you know where we are going?" Naruko asked.
"Yeah, already escorted one caravan for him from there a year or so back. Just hang on tight!" Fū ordered and she boosted her speed to maximum.
Despite the time of night, they weren't phased. They were eager to get the job done and get paid. It was about 3 in the morning by the time they arrived at the village and Fū landed.
It was quiet as a sleeping village should be. The duo quickly found their way to an Inn and rented a room. Much to their discomfort the only one not rented by miners was a room with a single bed. They sucked it up, decided to sleep and then meet up with the caravan at dawn.
Sure enough as the sun started poking out over the horizon, Fū's eye's fluttered open as the sunlight hit them. She yawned and then looked over her body to see Naruko's arm draped over her side. The mint-haired girl blushed slightly at the sight of the sleeping girl.
"Cute... but questionably awkward." Fū then gently removed the girls arm from around her body and sat up out of the bed to stretch.
She turned back to the sleeping blond and picked up a pillow before tossing it Naruko, who released a groan.
"Wake up Twerp. We got work to do!" She said rather loudly.
Naruko pulled the pillow off her head and sat on her knees while she rubbed her eyes, "Do we have to..?"
"Yes!"
Naruko groaned and got out of bed. They both re-dressed in what few clothes they took off and departed the inn.
Fū lead the blond through the streets of the village. The murky sky above indicated bad whether on the way. So they hurried to the mining office.
They opened the door and entered. A man sat at his desk going through some piles of paperwork. He looked up at the duo, "The hell are you two? What are you doing here?"
"I'm hurt, you don't recognize me, Nakuri?"
"Ahh... yes, the green haired kunoichi with a spunky attitude. What are you doing here?"
"Kuja-san sent us to solve your missing caravan problem."
"It's about damn time he did something. Just yesterday I heard of a rumor that's been passing around. I think it pertains to our problem." Nakuri replied
"What's the rumor?" Naruko asked.
"Apparently there's been reports of man that wields the god-like power of beasts and is one with them. Some reports write him off as traveler, others write him off as spirit, other say he's not even real. But all the supposed sightings of this man have been directly in the route my caravans have to take to get through the mountains in Yu no Kuni. So if you're here to help I suggest you start in the mountains on Yu no Kuni's side of the boarder." Nakuri explained.
"Alright I guess we're going to back-track a bit." Fū said, "You ready?" She turned to Naruko, who nodded.
With that they departed. Of course Fū flew them back, following the path the caravans would take. So quickly passed back into Yu no Kuni.
Naruko looked up at the girl carrying her, "You think that the man he was talking about is real?"
"Maybe. If he is real, he may very well be a jinchuuriki. God-like power of the beasts huh?"
"Could it be that Toshi guy you mentioned from Renzou's past?"
"T-Toshi? You mean Yoton no Roshi? Maybe. Who knows? It may just be a myth. Here's a village now, we can ask around." Fū said as she brought them down to the village that sat by the road.
They quickly began an inquiry to the people of the small village. Most of what they had to offer in information was the same. Many claimed to see him, some claimed to have only caught a glance. Others say he stalks lone travelers along the road. Some even said he's helped some travelers on the road.
After a few hours, the only thing they were able to garner was the exact area in which he supposedly was. Near a section of the road that lead across the side of the mountain about half way to its peek.
So the duo immediately traveled the short distance to the designated area.
Upon landing in the road the two began to search the areas around themselves.
They ascended the side of the mountain, keeping a wary eye in all directions. Their attention was brought further up the mountain side by a small explosion that echoed out from above.
Naruko and Fūexchanged worried glances, "Well that's something worth looking into." The mint-haired one said before they both took off towards the rising pillar of smoke.
As they ran through the trees that covered the area, they heard noises that were only made by that of a heated battle. A few screams echoed out just before the limp body of a shinobi blasted through the branch of a tree ahead of them. Then the noises stopped.
The duo came to a stop as the body rolled up to their feet. The shinobi was an Iwa ANBU, decked in full attire for said position.
Naruko knelt down next to the shinobi and put her fingers on his throat, "He's a goner..." Naruko said.
"Someone or something is beating the shit out of Iwa ANBU. I for one, am curious to find out whats going on." Fū remarked before they continued forward and up the mountain.
They reached a slightly level plateau section of the mountain side only to see 4 other ANBU laying, scattered about.
One ANBU lay next to a rock, a red armored foot pinning his head to the ground. That foot was connected to a man in heavy red, almost samurai like plate-armor that covered him from head to toe. A strange pack-like object hung from his back. His armor extended all the way up to the bottom half of his face, covering it up. Aside from his red armor, he also wore a red kasa(2) on his head that seemed to be composed of the same material as his armor. White cloth hung from the kasa covering the sides and back of his head and he wore a black sleeveless gi over his armor.
The the red-clad man sat on the rock, comfortably holding the wounded ANBU's head down with his foot. Without even looking at the girls the man was aware of them, "Even more come fight a hopeless battle? When will Ohnoki learn? I just want to be left alone." he sighed before turning to the girls, revealing his dull brown eyes.
"We aren't with these ANBU." Fū answered him.
"If you aren't with them, then go about your own business."
"Except, I think you, are our business. We were hired by a merchant whose caravans have gone missing in this area."
"I don't care what your reasons are. Despite these ANBU's efforts, I thought I managed to avoid being framed for those attacks. These ANBU are responsible for that. They were trying to draw me out by pinning the blame on me. Now whether you believe me or not, I suggest you return to where you came from." The man lifted his foot off the ANBU and grabbed him by the hair to lift his head up, "I want you to take a message to Ohnoki; Iwa's ignorant fear drove me from the village and into the wild, and if he sends anymore shinobi after me I will bring the fury of the wild back to Iwa." He said before letting the mans head go and standing up.
"We can't just return. You should hear us out." Naruko said.
"If you leave me be, there will be no further conflict. However... if you pursue me, I will fight you... and I will kill you." He said before steam starting pouring from the edges and joints of his armor. The steam swirled around him consuming him. The steam faded quickly and the man was gone.
"Well this might be a little tougher than I expected..." Fū said, crossing her arms.
"Maybe we can get him to listen." Naruko commented.
"I doubt it... He seems pretty set in his ways." Fū replied.
"Well, I'm going to try. He's another person pushed out of his home. Whether he's Jinchuuriki or not we kind of have an obligation." Naruko said before she began running up the mountain once again.
The mint-haired girl smirked, "I like her spirit, something about her makes me feel happier"
"Little larva, I believe you should know, that man was in fact a jinchuuriki. I felt a Bijuu's chakra after that explosion and again just now when he vanished." The motherly voice of the Shichibi chimed in finally.
"Great and I'm sure you can't tell which Bijuu either... At least we outnumber him, right?"
"That is not likely to help. He is much older. He could not only have more experience but he could have greater power then you two, having had more years of training... Tread carefully."
Fū nodded and followed after Naruko.
Little did they realize a Venus flytrap-like bulb protrude from one of the trees they were near. It opened up revealing the face of a man inside. One side of his face black and the other, white. "Interesting... He was right. Everything is going according to plan." the man said before vanishing back into the tree.
NEXT CHAPTER:
Fū and Naruko confront the new Jinchuuriki.
How will the conflict effect their lives?
1.)Shimo no Kuni; Frost Country. Not to be confused with Yuki no Kuni(snow country) from the first Naruto Movie.
2.)Kasa; conical straw hats.
Okay I hope you enjoyed the chapter! Can anyone guess what the reference I made in the chapter was? Lets hear your ideas!
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'Til next time, this Damiad, Signing off from the Void!