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Zale lied down in the hospital his stomach bandaged, Kurumi sitting by his bed reading a book he was utterly bored and in pain. "You couldn't have healed me to the point where I didn't need to be in the hospital?" Zale asked not taking his eyes off of the ceiling.
"I could have, but then we couldn't have spent all of this quality time together." Kurumi said sarcastically turning the page of her book. "You know some people might find a day of doing nothing rather relaxing compared to bursting veins because of having to focus so hard."
"What are you reading?" Zale asked deciding to ignore that comment because she was right.
"This great book called Icha Icha make out paradise it has some great ideas in it?" Kurumi said a smile gracing her lips as well as a perverted giggle leaving her mouth. "Come to think of it as the future emperor of the world shouldn't you have like some kind of backup like an heir or something?"
"Sex is something I'll save for later." Zale said reaching over to the table that held a glass of water. "You're much too eager for that specific part of this relationship."
"Oh come on you made these I assume you want to use them." Kurumi said hugging her breasts and squeezing them almost visible through her shirt, but Zale refused to look. "Besides I'm a ten thousand year old demon, and I haven't gotten laid in over three hundred years."
"Aw is the sexy seductress losing her young Gevity?" Zale chuckling as she pouted furiously about to claw his eyes out. "When did the doctors say that I could leave?" She didn't respond. "So now you're not talking to me, that's fine we can sit here in silence."
They did for a few hours the sound of Kurumi turning the page the only noise in the room, and eventually the soothing noise rocked him off to sleep.
Dream
"But mother, I don't want to leave you and father." a little boy not six years old with sky blue hair, purple eyes, dark skin, white teeth, wearing a burlap sack, and bandages to cover his worn feet. "Please I swear I'll work harder, just don't let them take me."
"Here are the ten gold pieces." the soldier wearing camouflage pants, a black shirt, and a rifle over his shoulder said grabbing the small boy by his arm and tossing him in the back of a truck. "Keep quiet back there, we're going to be at the base in a few days if you're nice and set then you'll get fed."
"Please, MOM DAD, DON'T LET THEM TAKE ME!" He yelled out, throwing his body against the wooden door hoping to break it down and run as fast as he possibly could.
"Have a good life Zale." His supposed mother said waving his father smiling at the small amount he had traded his only son for. "I cannot believe that useless boy brought in so much."
"Times are hard they need all the workers they can take." Zale's father said walking into the home.
Zale lied in the little space for days waiting, trembling in fear wondering what they would do to him sobbing silently. A few days later the door of his truck cell opened and they grabbed him by his arm quickly forcing him out into a lineup of kids varying from kids his age, younger, and older. "Alright maggots, your parents have all given you to us because you're all worthless. We paid good money for you brats so get to work!" a large man said.
They were led off to a small tent where they worked with dangerous material called uranium which dangerously hurt one of them a day. All through that Zale didn't shed a tear even as the stuff severely messed up and burned his skin. He refused to give them the satisfaction of him shedding tears he knew that crying wouldn't do anything.
It didn't seem like any one would ever see themselves out of there again they spent a year working in that tent only about ten kids left sweat poring off of them the guards outside messing with the manipulation ability. "This is stupid, we do all of this work with so much risk and they take all of the abilities we should do something." Zale said running a hand through his hair which was now bleached white.
"Don't talk like that Zale you know what they did to the last people that talked about trying to escape." A girl with black hair named Suzie whispered to him.
"What's the difference, we'll die from the poisoning soon enough! I'd rather die fighting then roll over and take it like a dog!" Zale yelled out in fury throwing down the uranium in anger his dull purple eyes glowing with energy that he didn't feel.
"Hey what's going on in there?" a guard asked rushing into the tent in his hands were a flame that he was more than happy to use something he had proven many times over they all had the horrible scars to prove that. "Get back to work right now you little brats!"
Zale looked at the man a terrible frown spread across his face well it was closer to a show of hate, rage, and destructive force; he threw one of the yellow cakes at the man who fell back a radiation welt already spreading on his head. "I won't let any of you keep me locked up any more!" Zale yelled out mimicking the movements that he had seen the guards do.
From his hands shot fire and his other captives looked at him shocked, how had someone exposed to no testing just odd radiation and a lot of it develop manipulation. "Zale what have you been doing?" Cole whose original hair color black which was now red asked watching the boy he thought he knew completely obliterate the tent.
"I've been making sure that we'll see the world without chains again!" Zale yelled angrily his body burning the feeling of all that radiation being forced to the surface to create a new being a new stage in human evolution the thing that the few humans that survived had been trying to accomplish for a long time.
All the members of the small village slave or not turned their heads toward the tent where all the slaves feared going, and all the scientists loved to get new bodies to dissect from. It was a bright light a beam originating from that tent, and the scientist with guards of course ran toward the tent pens and notes at the ready.
"You think you can do this to people just to further your own agenda, we aren't things to be bought and sold, we're not items, man or woman we're still people!" Zale yelled out a smile spread across his face as they started pulling out tranquilizer guns. They shot many times all of them hit, but he never stopped. "What I am the super soldier you've been trying for shouldn't you be happy. Instead you're trying to tranquilize me?
Cole and Suzie watched their friend tear down guard after guard without even trying, they wondered was their freedom worth this yes, yes it was. "Come on we did everything he has, we can do it too!" Cole yelled out copying Zale's movements as best he could and to his pleasure just like Zale he lit up.
The others soon followed suit, all of them tearing down the people that made their lives miserable, and setting the slaves free. "You've always been friends, and I'd really like it if you could stick by my side while we conquer this world and bring peace to this world together." Zale said his signature criminally insane smile spreading on his face.
They grew the same smiles they seemed to be equally insane matching him as the slaves that the camp had bought running for their old homes.
So it happened they ran through different areas that were against them bringing horror and carnage to any area that dared to stand against them. They were soldiers in their own army showing emotion only with each other, and never knowing the comfort of a true romance or a gift. Zale was the face of all that horror, he was the story that the few veterans that survived told the rookies, that monster that hid in your closet at night just beyond the light of your lamp; but always dancing in your peripheral vision.
This went on for six more years until they were known only as the ten devils that had a twisted face of judgment, the reason the wars stopped. No one wanted to feel their wrath in their village, and they felt that their mission was complete they had stopped war. People saw their faces as law and no one dared defy it.
That is until that day the day that war began again that the peace they had brought came crumbling down because one idiotic person believed that their vision of justice was free will, little did they know that there could be no true justice without at least a little fear.
Zale sat in a luscious chair that he had dug up some time ago, what he heard was not pleasing it was wet thumps of bodies hitting the floor and the sounds of an incredibly confident person walking or strutting even through his area his area. The metal door crumpled and shot off its hinges revealing a person with bleach white hair to match his own. "I'm taking you down top devil, I'm just as evolved as you are here, and I'm going to take you down." The boy said confidently and Zale looked behind him.
"You killed them; you killed the people that I was enslaved with. The only people that I remotely cared about. I'll kill you where you stand!" Zale roared out allowing his anger to over take him ignoring the one rule he had followed through all of these years. "I have almost become the emperor of the world I killed thousands of other manipulators, and you will be no different."
Unfortunately it was not to be, the mighty Zale was defeated with a simple last move that was absolutely lucky that it worked at all. A simple weak wave of the arm was all it took to finish off the last of the devils and the world to topple into chaos once again the young hero never expected it.
Zale woke up shocked sweat poring off of him, it was dark outside, Kurumi was sleeping next to him, and he remembered the elite warrior life that he used to live the terrible end and the terrible destruction his hard sought after empire had turned to. All because of that stupid little boy that wanted to play hero, boy did he love to watch that boy become horrified at the chaos he caused even as a spirit.
Still it made him tear up a bit recalling the horrified faces of his sort of friends their bodies pierced and their souls moving on while he stayed on this earth determined to accomplish his dream no matter how long he had to wait. He looked at Kurumi's sleeping face her head dropped onto his chest, and Zale smiled hugging her to himself liking that he had something to keep him here.
'It almost makes it worth it to know I have her here with me.' Zale thought to himself wrapping his other arm around her, and she unconsciously snuggled into his chest a smile on her face and Zale hugged her even tighter just to make sure she was there.
To this day that hero still haunted him, but no longer would he hate the boy he would forgive him because without him he wouldn't have this empress or that Ayame girl sure he barely knew her, but she was still kind to him genuinely even the other devils only joined him out of fear.
The next day
Kurumi woke up with a sneeze because of her hair tickling her nose. She looked up at Zale who smiled at her she knew he was dreaming last night, but this wasn't what she expected. "That was such a good fox nap." She said purring slightly as she stretched.
"I thought you were a fox not a cat." Zale said and she growled at him. "Let's do something today Kurumi something that'll be fun."
ROOT headquarters
Danzo looked through his own crystal ball one that he had "found" one day when the Hokage was out, and he smiled as he looked at Naruto who held that girl like a life line. "I have found a weakness in the seemingly unbreakable boy. I sent Orochimaru after the boy and he somehow lived through it, there seems to be someone up there looking after him." Danzo smiled walking away from the crystal ball liking this new information. "I will get the secrets of the Kyuubi as well as that new manipulation ability."
With Zale and Kurumi
Who walked in on the scene was the perverted hermit who looked at the two of them inches away from kissing before he took out a note pad and giggled. "Oh kid you have a lot of game." Jiraiya said happily his hands making a groping motion. "Go in for the squeeze kid."
"You know that might not be such a bad idea." Kurumi said into his ear, and Jiraiya giggled again. Instead of doing anything Zale sat up Kurumi hugging his shoulders. "We were about to have some real fun, but then someone had to come and interrupt it.
Outside the door Hinata gave a thumb up to Hanabi who smiled before they snuck away.
"Oh come on kid you have to do it now she gave you the thumbs up for it." Jiraiya said, but Zale just gave him a blank look that said "what the hell do you want?" "Alright we're going to need to leave Konoha in a little bit in order to be able to bring the next Hokage since the old man decided to retire ever since Orochimaru teme's attack."
"What was the story with that any way?" Zale asked who hadn't heard the whole thing.
"I don't know Orochimaru came up with a jutsu that brought back the dead, but they weren't enough to take down four kages so we won and Sarutobi sensei decided it was time to hand up the hat and enjoy the rest of his old man life reading my books." Jiraiya said revealing a copy of his book and seeing one on the table. "Oh I see you've heard of my work."
"Not me, her." Zale said pointing to Kurumi who raised her eyebrows suggestively.
"Kid where did you find this girl, cause I got to go there." Jiraiya said. "Any way we're going off to find the slug princess, the legendary sucker, the only sage still in existence."
"You're a sage you take the position I'm tired." Zale said flopping back into bed,
"No way, being stuck in an office all day is not for me. Stuck doing all of that paperwork, not being able to peek at woman in the hot springs as I please it would be hell." Jiraiya said smiling and striking a stupid pose. "Tsunade being the legendary sucker is sure to be easy to trick into coming back and taking the position. It's likely going to be in a gambling town."
"Oh I want to go." Kurumi said raising her hand and smiling a blush on her face. "I love gambling towns, sake, bad decisions, good looking girls, and hot springs."
"You mean good looking guys." Jiraiya corrected.
"Nope I'm bisexual." Kurumi said Jiraiya falling over blood rocketing from his nose, as well as drool from his mouth. She turned toward Zale who was slightly shocked. "Gives you some ideas doesn't it?"
Zale this time did shoot back with a nose bleed a smile on his face one that he couldn't stop no matter how many perverted fantasies he tried to force away.
Later
6:00 AM
"Alright then gaki's let's head out." Jiraiya said walking away early in the morning only to see them not following him. "Okay what's the problem?"
"Kurumi not used to being up so early." Kurumi said clinging off of Zale who made no comment. "I want to be carried.
They set off just like that with Zale carrying Kurumi and Jiraiya too happy too early in the morning. "You are too happy you know that." Zale said catching up with the old man.
"What's not to be happy about, we're going to a big town full of hot girls that just love to flash guys when they're drunk off their asses." Jiraiya said making grabbing motions with his hands. "Which is pretty much every night my little buddy."
"You're both filthy perverts." Zale said walking ahead of Jiraiya. "If anyone asks I don't know you."
"Oh but kid you were going to be the little brat that I used to score." Jiraiya said anime tears rushing down his eyes.
"Don't know you and that's final." Zale said picking up the pace of his walking Kurumi yipping happily.
Review everyone I command it