'It's no use to look around on the castle grounds' since Rick knows for a fact that she would stay here as long as the Avatar was here.' He summed up in his head.

The blonde heads down a hallway before he catches a glimpse of Princess Mai rounds a corner.

"Excuse me, have you seen Ms. Natalie lately? I've been looking for her all over the place but I can't seem to find her." She approaches him in a cautious manner since he had yet to get to know her.

"No, I have not princess. I apologize that I couldn't be of any help to you." Minato conveys with honesty.

"It's strange because I would've thought that if you soldiers wanted to take a break, you would head back to your quarters to relax. I guess I'm extremely mistaken." Mai expresses her opinion.

'That's it!'

'How could I have not known that that is where she could possibly be.' The young male realizes to himself after an epiphany from what she tells her.

"I'm sorry princess but I am in a hurry to find someone, so excuse my rudeness." The knight was genuinely apologizing to her with a bow before taking off.

'I swear guys are…so weird sometimes.' The princess ultimately deems to herself after she processes what Minato says to her.

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"Why are you after me?" Natalie abruptly inquires to the man once again. She did not receive an answer from the strange figure that stood in front of her.

The male shifted forward in the chair so he pushed his seat outward and rose to his feet in the process. "It seems as if you sent off some type of signal that warned us. We did not want you to lose control."

'Lose control…did they make me in to a monster?' She was wondering after hearing the male's statement.

"When your body is under some kind of stress or harm, we pick it up. We observed that your anger began to raise to the red factor. We don't want that to happen…again." He explains in a rough answer.

"So wait…are you telling me that you can locate me by my emotional signals?" The raven haired woman was querying him in disbelief after hearing what he was telling her.

"Not only that but we do a lot of other things that I am not inclined to tell you about. Besides, seeing is believing correct?" He was challenging her suggesting that she should follow him.

The solider was finding herself rising to her feet with curiosity driving the whole way as a small fear factor playing in her thoughts.

"Trust me…once you see what I am about to show you then you will believe." He told her before he seized the door's handle and opened it.

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Eva gently rubs Aikka's head when she hears him hum softly to himself. It was the exact same melody from the Noursaia Priest Water Fountain.

'I wonder what's going on with Natalie…'

She releases a heavy sigh before she feels a couple of kicks against her stomach. It was a little more painful than the first months she had those problems.

"It seems as if they are ready to come out, aren't they?" He was joking after feeling the kicking against his cheek.

His wife painfully winces and claims, "You can say that again! But they don't have to kick so hard."

The woman feels her husband's laughter vibrates against her very swollen stomach, "It is okay you three, your time has not come yet. You don't want to come too early and cause complications, now do you?"

The raven haired woman with crimson tips suddenly was at ease after she heard what he said, "I swear if I didn't have you. They would be kicking the crap out of my butt."

The young man smiled to himself after he listened to his wife's statement. "They're just extremely excited to see the world that they will be born in to, that's all."

"If you say so…I am ready for them too so they will stop kicking me as if I was a ball or something." The queen complains towards her husband.

"Besides, it has been a little to quiet for my taste. I miss Natalie…" Eva was murmuring before lying back on the bedpost in an upright position.

"You're right. If it goes on any further then I will ask Rick what's going on."

"So try not to worry too much about them okay?" Aikka reassured his wife when he felt her hand rubbing his head.

"Sure." She answered her husband's question with finality in her tone.

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Natalie discovered that the hallway she was being led down was darker than the first tine. For some odd reason, she could still visibly 'see' her way through it.

"You shouldn't be too surprised if you can visually see your way through this hall. Your other senses are actively working to make up for the lost of sight." The man's voice chimed in before he guided her to the bright light.

She ventures out to a large area that was barren, except for a couple of deep scratches etch along the way and black marks on the wall.

"Would you like to take a guess at what happened in this room?" The male popped the question before he halted at the plexi-glass that served as a viewing area.

Her green eyes skirted around the scene as a small black box materialized on her retina. '20% gunpowder reside left over…dents made by light machine guns with a 5.66 mm. '

"You use this room to test explosions or maybe…" The raven haired woman stopped in her observation once the answer hit her.

"You use this room to test combat abilities with weapons." The solider answers her own question with confidence in her tone. Her sights were then looking over to observe the male was nodding his head.

Without warning or speaking, he was rotating in the opposite direction and ambling down the hallway.

'For some reason…there is something I can't quite put my finger on….' The captain assumed to herself when she continued to follow the man in front of her.

"Try not to dwell on certain things too long. Just observe with your eyes." The male advises after he notes the expression on her face.

'She wouldn't be able to remember anyway, no matter how hard she tries. Maybe I can experiment with how far she can tap into her subconscious for those memories.' He thought to himself before he faced his sight back forward.

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'I can't believe it! Why couldn't I think about that in the first place?' Minato deemed to himself.

He easily weaved in and out of the crowded marketplace while his sword repeatedly slapped against his leg.

"Excuse me sir," He says while he proceeds to his destination. The blonde silently knew that time was possibly against him.

'Why did you have to run away from your problems? That isn't something good to do for someone like her.' The young man assumes to himself before he realizes that he was in the pathway of a vendor and their cart.

The knight squats then jumps out of the way to avoid the possible collision. 'Are you the kind of person who can wear strength yet don't have any at all?'

The male reflected back to the time when he first encountered Natalie before he even arrived at King Aikka's palace.

"Where are we going Master Namikaze?" A smaller version of Minato curiously asks his master while he closely trails alongside him.

"We're going to visit a dear friend of mine. I think you will like him once you meet him." He was explaining to his young disciple while trekking down a woody forest path.

The little boy stared at his master with a weird expression on his face when he heard his answer. His obsidian eyes behold a small circular wooden house on a raised wooden platform for its foundation.

'It looks like a clubhouse! It's so cool!' Minato yells to himself after he notes the house and its peculiar structure.

"It seems as if you're impressed already. How about we go ahead and meet my friend? I'm sure he's expecting our arrival by now." The blonde listens to his master while they venture up the slight steep hill to the house.

Minato quickly grew excited from the thought. He could not wait to see who his master's friend was that lived in such an amazing house.

His master casually knocks on the door while he was off in his own world. "Hello there, you must be Minato. You know Namikaze has been writing about you a lot in his letters to me."

A male with long black hair and black sunglasses stood at the door while he stared at Minato, "Minato...remember to be polite when someone is talking to you."

His disciple instantly snapped out of his daze when he managed to respond, "Oh hello, how are you?"

Rick could not help but laugh at the little boy's action, "I am fine. Come inside, I want you to meet someone too."

Namikaze was taking the first steps inside while Minato was following in behind him, "You can bring them out now and place them on the table."

"Um, Master who is he talking to?" The young boy curiously posed to his master, who simply did not respond to the question.

The boy trailed in behind the older man with long black hair in what he assumed was the living room.

Rick was leading them to a living room before showing them where to sit. "It's good to see you moving around. I'm surprised you told me that you acquired a disciple along the way."

Minato was well aware that they were talking about him and was ultimately deciding to stay out of the conversation. "I couldn't help it!"

"The brat showed incredible resolve even when faced against someone with a much higher power than his."

The raven haired male's sights were now on the young boy to the left of his old friend, "You must have quite the spirit within in you to take on Namikaze! I don't know if that's a good or bad thing."

"I have the snacks you requested for father." A young girl with long black hair and green eyes soon spoke after she appeared in their field of vision.

"So this must be Natalie that you told me so much about? She's quite adorable Rick!" Namikaze voiced after the young girl entered their sights with a silver tray in her hands.

Minato was totally awe struck the instant he watched the girl placed the tray, which held snacks and drinks, on the surface of the wooden table.

"Yes, it may seem so. Natalie, I would like for you to meet a good friend of mine. His name is Namikaze and he's going to be staying over for quite a while so our training must be on hold for the moment." He informs his daughter.

"I understand. Do you want me to prepare the guest room?" She robotically questions her father with a blank expression on her face.

Rick's eyes cut over to Minato before he visibly glances over at his old companion. They purposely nodded their heads in sync.

"Natalie," He calls for his daughter's attention, "Could you show Minato around the house and outside?"

The young blonde automatically froze once she peered at him with her blank green eyes, "I have no other choice. It isn't like I'll be able to start my training anytime soon.

'That was the first time that I met her…' He was reminiscing before crossing the borders assuring him that he was heading in the right location.

'Although you may not have known it…but I made a promise that I am going to keep…'

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"Does anything that you see look familiar to you?" The male asked her. He critically observed her actions and responses to see if he could gauge her feelings or thought process.

"A little but everything isn't all together…it seems as if there's a image that I just can't put together." She replies to his question before she sees that he stops in front of her.

"This facility is still in use. Certain military branches use it for training purposes but I think you figured that out too."

"Am I right to assume that you wish to know what else is wrong?" The male posed after he heard Natalie's statement.

The raven haired woman briefly paused before she grilled, "Where are we exactly?"

"I'm sorry but I cannot answer that question for you. But I do have a suggestion for you though." He told her.

"How about you just figure it out yourself? After all, you're the one with all of the questions here and I am just the one with limited answers."

"Or more like the problem that I cannot solve…who exactly are you?" The young woman picks his brains once the idea dons on her.

"Let's just say, I am but a mere shadow from this place than a human being." The man divulged no more to her after that, which left her in a deeper fog.

'Why can't I place my finger on it about this place? It is familiar but it's just a blur to me now.' The captain thought since she was frustrated from not being able to figure out what happen.

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'It really seems as if I'm not missed at all ' Jordan thought to himself with his eyes toward the sky.

'Well there's no point in being depressed about it.' He concluded before he sat up so that his upper body was off of the ground.

'At least, my plan is still in action.'

'That means now all I have to do is be patient and soon…Natalie will be mine and no one else's.' His resolve grew with his statement.

The Avatar rose to his feet, pushed himself off from the ground and made his way towards the sky. 'Now I know what I must do know.'

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Author's Notes:

06.25.17 Major editing revision