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Speaking/Thoughts
The newly formed and official starting army of the Uzumaki Empire sat down in an old fashion dango shop near the land of sea trying to plan their next move. "We don't have too much money, so we have to focus on that." Zale said the others immediately agreeing. "Where's Kurumi gone to now?"
"I think they went back up to the room." Satsuki answered and Zale nodded.
Behind them two men from the Land of Sea were silently discussing. "The problem with the demon is getting worse and worse; we need to hire those Konoha ninja to help to take care of them. The problem is that with all of the money that's already been stolen we can't afford an A class mission as well as the traveling expenses that they'll charge us." one of them most likely a samurai said.
They looked at each other and nodded. Zale turned to look at them as casually as he could. "Hello I couldn't help, but overhear your problem. We can help you with your problem, and since we're already here you won't need to spend money on travel." Zale said, and they looked amongst each other. "We'll take the pay after the job is completed successfully."
"Well I guess it can't hurt to let the kid have a try, and it'll give us at least some protection until we can scrape together enough money for the Konoha job." he said and Zale nodded standing up and using the last of the money to pay for their meal. "What qualifies you to do this job anyway?"
"All you need to know is that we're more than capable of doing what you need, and I hope that when we're done we can rely on the land of sea in the foreseeable future." Gaara said Shiki cooing in agreement, and petting his hair probably the only one in the world that could get away with that. "Come on we need to find a boat."
"I'll take care of that just get Kurumi." Zale said leaving the dango shop intent to make a boat out of some material that he would find out in the nearby forest. A few minutes later they were standing at the beach with several small boats that could accommodate no more than two at a time.
"What do you think you're doing?" an old man with his own boat asked them almost terrified. "Don't you know about the legends? If you go sailing at night then you're sure to be spirited away by the demon island."
"That might actually help us with our job." Gaara said getting into one of the boats Shiki crawling in behind him. "Tell us what you know about the islands old man." It was an order on Gaara's part and the man was startled by how much authority he spoke with.
"Well there are four islands the Mother Island, Jiro, Taro and Demon Island. No one's ever come back from Demon Island before, and no one dares to sail at night in fear of being taken by that island's evil magic. I advise you against it." the old man said before walking off.
"Nothing but some local legend, come on Kira!" Chrome yelled at the fire Manipulator who stood still as a statue on the shore. "Oh man, don't tell me that you're actually scared of that stupid story."
"Of course I'm not you metal head, I've just never been good around water." Kira growled back at him and Chrome burst into laughter even drawing a chuckle from Gaara who had a smirk on his face. "Come on Zale back me up water's never been my element, and large masses of it like this make me uncomfortable."
"We all have problems, Gaara's scared of heights." Shiki said earning a growl from the red head, and she laughed it off. "Besides you need to come with us to finish the mission."
"I'll find my own way onto the island and preferably on where there isn't the chance that I'll be stolen away by some kind of demon." Kira said immediately regretting his choice of words because of the horrifying aura that Shiki and Kurumi emitted.
"Do you have a problem with demons?!" they hissed together ready to claw his eyes out only stopped by the boats starting to move toward the main island.
"Can't you just make me a pair of wings?" Kira yelled to the disappearing boats.
"We already started on our journey!" Zale yelled back.
"What about Kira?" Aria asked Zale who was directing the water current. "It's not wise to leave him on his own, how do we know he's not going to run?"
"Kira may not be smart tact wise, but he'll never let fear get in the way of his fight. He'll find his own way onto the island if only to spite us." Zale said and they spent the rest of the soothing boat ride in silence moving into the darkness.
Kira scowled watching the sun rise from his position atop a cliff that he had found. "I haven't mastered walking on water, and my chakra control sucks so I'm am going to need to find a boat that I'm sure isn't going to sink." Kira said hopping to his feet, his eyes scanning the horizon.
He didn't expect a sharp blow to the back of the head in the shape of a small black flying bird. "God damn it!" he yelled as he plummeted down the cliff colliding face first onto a sharp rock barely avoiding anything lethal, and sinking like a stone to the bottom of the ocean. 'Is this how I die?' His eyes drifted closed and he could feel the darkness sink in.
A small figure swimming under water saw the body at the bottom of the ocean, and without a moment's hesitation tossed him over her shoulder. She swam to the top of the water quickly filling her own lungs before filling Kira's. She dragged him atop of the shore, and treated the wounds on his face to the best of her ability. 'It's all up to god whether he wakes up or not.' she thought to herself preparing a broth in a large boiling pot.
-One Day Later-
It was a dark night rain pouring down upon a small village leaving all of the occupants soaked staring at the boy in front of them all his hands bound. "Do you have any last requests?" a man holding a useless torch asked.
"Would it matter if I did?" the boy asked him kicked in the back and forced to his knees.
"What a smart demon child." the man said stroking his soaked beard. "Today we gather to rid our village of the sin that has been cast upon it. "You have eaten our crops, decimated the land, and have burned down countless huts destroying many lives. You will now be punished for your crimes. The one that brought you into this world will be the one to remove you from it."
"Mother." the frail boy breathed watching as a women wrapped in holy robes, and holding a polished katana that could split a hair.
"WHY?" she screamed to the heavens at the top of her voice her frail body racked with sobs. "Why was I cursed with this demon as a son, what did you do to my real birth demon spawn, did you drag him down to hell in your place? Today you will stop haunting me with those eyes." She raised the katana above her head with a steady hand, and brought it down.
Kira's eyes snapped shut waiting for a blow that wouldn't come for him. "So this is what I came here to find?" a voice said and everyone turned to see a boy with a black blanket over his shoulder and a metal plate on his face. The blade Kira's mother had been holding was twisted at an odd angle. "I've come for the boy born of hell's fire."
"What do you want with the demon?" his mother asked trembling with anger a glare directed at him.
"Well you see us demons need to stick together." Chrome answered with what everyone assumed was a smile on his hidden face.
"Another has dared take a step in our village strike him down where he stands." the leading man called pulling another blade from his robes his followers doing the same, and charging at Chrome who didn't flinch. Not one of the blades pierced his skin instead bending at odd angles as if the metal itself refused to pierce his skin.
"They're your opponents aren't they?" Chrome asked at the still chained Kira who nodded. "Then burn them, and raze them because I'm not here to fight your battles I'm here to show you the path."
"But the rain is soaking my skin, I can't make any fire." Kira answered shaking his head.
"If you let a little thing like rain get in your way then I promise you you'll have no place in the new world, use your anger, and let it burn hotter than the sun." Chrome said and everything the villagers had ever done to Kira came to the center of his mind forcing his rage to show externally.
He rose from his kneeling position his legs no longer felt tired, and the villagers looked at him with fear in their eyes. "I'll kill you all!" Kira yelled pulling on his bindings hard and they snapped like they were made from string. Steam started coming off of his body at mass rates, and he screamed. Blue fire came from his skin destroying many villagers and most of the village. A few dozen were left, and Kira collapsed.
Chrome smiled beneath his mask walking over to the unconscious Kira. He looked back at the cowering villagers who took a few steps back, and among them Kira's mother stepped forward or shoved to be more accurate. "You wouldn't kill me would you, I'm the boy's mother." she said horrified as he walked closer to her trembling figure. "I cared for him, and fed him, you demons must have some sense of chivalry to those you are indebted to."
"You're right we do, but that is not the reason I spare you and your pathetic village. It's because among you lies true power that my kind will harness, and trust me there is nowhere in the world you can hide, so it would be best to stay here and rebuild. If any more like this one are born or have control such as him I will return, and claim them, so treat them properly." Chrome said walking off.
Kira woke with a head ach and doused in sweat as if he had just stood in the rain that had almost been the only witness to his murder. "It was that dream again, no matter how much time has passed I can't get over the fact that it's really over." Kira said to himself his hands clenching tightly. "Wait a second where am I?"
"Are you up?" a girl asked walking inside to see him. "Why, you've had a fever for the last day, and everything I've done has only seemed to make it worse."
"Fever?" Kira asked putting a hand to his wrapped forehead to find it was incredibly warm for a normal person, but for him it was normal. "No that's my natural body temperature, but if you don't mind me asking where am I, and how did I get here?"
"I was out diving and I saw you at the bottom, you nearly drowned." the girl said simply. "I brought you here, and treated that wound as best I could, and it has healed with very surprising speed, but it seems to have left a scar."
"A scar?" Kira asked looking around for a reflective surface and finding it in a pot of cold broth. He looked, and sure enough there were two diagonal marks running from the top of his eye to his bottom right jaw. "I don't need a scar along with everything else."
"Yes well we don't always get what we want." she said with a look of what seemed to be anger that Kira didn't understand.
"That's true most people don't." Kira said examining the scar closely before his hand glowed bright red. He pressed his hand to the deep scars, and when he removed it a few seconds later the scars were gone with no trace of where they went.
"How did you do that?" the dark eyes girl asked him running over and examining his hand then his face. "It isn't a henge it's the real deal." she breathed running a finger over the healed flesh.
Her question was legitimate, but Kira didn't know whether to answer or not it was unlikely that this girl would actually believe him. "Why do you need to know?" he asked pulling away from the girl who suddenly realized what she had done and stood facing away from him.
"That thing that you just did would it work on deeper more disfigured scars, or perhaps mutations?" she asked him with a solid voice.
"Well scars are easy to fix, but I'm not sure about mutations." Kira said and he saw her slouch seemingly disappointed. "I would need to see what you're talking about before I could confirm anything though."
"Alright, but promise that you won't call me demon, or anything of the sort." she said to him bringing a bandage on her arm to her mouth. She took in her breath dramatically, and bit down on it the knot holding it together immediately unraveling. "Can you tell from that?"
"Uh hold on." Kira said not at all disgusted by the sight he had been born on fire, and he had seen a picture of that spectacle. "This is out of my range." The girl immediately went to re-bandage her arm and hide her disfigurements, but stopped when Kira spoke again. "But my friend may be able to help with it."
"Then as repayment for saving your life you'll have to take me to his friend and have him heal Me." she said commandingly and Kira sweat dropped.
"That might not be the best idea." Kira said and she turned her head to the side to know why. "He's not the kind of guy that would do anything for anybody, if you want him to heal you then you have to have something of value. Can you offer some kind of surface that might be useful to him? He's planning on making an army, and giving out good deeds isn't how he's going to go about it."
"I saved one of his owns life, isn't that enough?" she demanded, and he shook his head. "I have something that I'm sure any leader of any starting army would want. Take me to him and I'll show him, and I'll be your ally if you need help in a fight."
"Alright, but I don't really know where they are, so we're going to have to go into the village." Kira said and after some coaxing she agreed and gave him his name. "Get your walking shoes on Isaribi it's going to be a long day."