Hello everyone, I'm back and fully recovered Now the funeral has happened, I feel very good, sad but good. First I wanna thanks to all of ya'll for the positive messages you've sent me. By this I will say that I am currently busy working on the other stories. So here is the latest chapter.
Hope you all enjoy it.
Morning;
The sun came as it shined over the small village that lay on the island. Inside it, was the hut of the Fairy Tail members who were about to wake up.
"Gnaaaw!"
Lucy yawned as she was the first to sit upright of the three wizards. Of course, she was the only one to actually put effort on waking up. Gray, Natsu, and Happy still were sleeping like roses.
The same couldn't be said for Lucy who had bags under her eyes and she had a tick mark on her head. If you wanted to know why she looked like she didn't have enough sleep? That's because of the snoring of her teammates who sounded like monsters taking a nap.
A frown appeared on her face while she stared at them.
"Hey, missy."
Lucy quirked when she heard that, she first thought it was Happy but when she turned around she saw that it was Kōsuke, the small red toad she met in an early occurrence.
The small toad reaches its small hand out with a little folded up piece of paper in it "This is from Naruto."
"Oh, okay…." Lucy accepted it and opened it up "Thanks by the way-"
"And for your information, I can talk," Kōsuke said crossing his arms "I still remember the 'it' comment."
Lucy's face suddenly turned red after hearing that. She then suddenly remembers it and that thought never came up.
"I-I-I apologize for that comment." The celestial mage said with sincerity.
Kōsuke only smiled at her "That's no problem. I'm not the guy who likes to keep a grudge, see ya." The small toad poofed away in smoke.
Lucy turned to her teammates and she wasn't surprised they slept through the conversation, so she opened the note and starts reading it.
I'm waiting for you guys at the abandoned Moon Temple, just keep going north and you will notice it.
Just make sure you all come as quick as you can, time is running out.
Naruto
"Time is running out?" Lucy asked confused after reading the note. Does he have knowledge of what the mission was about?
When the team first talked to the villagers they were astonished by what they were seeing. All the villagers were under some kind of spell that caused their human bodies to turn either their legs or arms or even their whole bodies into demons.
After listening to the village elder, he believed that the moon was the cause of all of it. mainly because the moon had the color of a purple shade over their island and that forced them into these unwanted transformations. Even though it sounded crazy, the results were already horrifying to hear that some of those who couldn't handle these painful transformations anymore were forced to be put down indefinitely, including the village elder' son.
It was horrible to hear such a thing, but when the elder pulled out a picture of his son, she recognized the man in an instance. It was the same fisherman who brought them over here to this island.
There was more to this mystery then there was on the quest, no doubt in her mind. They'll have to figure out what it was.
But first, she had to wake up her teammates. She looked outside, seeing that it was morning.
The perfect timing.
Later
"For the last time Natsu, there's no way we can destroy the moon!"
Only twenty minutes after leaving the village, Natsu and Gray already were in a heated argument on what to do now with the mission.
"But we have to find a way to fix those people up?" Natsu said throwing his hands behind his back "We cannot just give up and leave, that will only reflect badly on Fairy Tail's reputation."
"I'm not saying we should quit, flame for brains, I just say we cannot destroy the moon!"
"Who are you calling flame for brains-"
"Guys, stop arguing. The lady said frustratingly."
The two turned around, with Happy just carelessly flying above them and Lucy being inside one of her celestial mages, which to be clear is that it was a walking clock named Horologium.
Lucy spoke out something but couldn't be heard so the walking clock said "We need to focus and find that temple where Naruto is waiting for us. The lady stated sternly." Horologium said repeating the words of his mistress.
"But where do you think we should begin? It's a big island."
"YAAAAAAAAA!"
the two Fairy Tail mages stopped their tracks and got into battle formation while Lucy screamed yelling.
"Ahhhhh, what was that yelling? She screamed loudly." Horologium stated in a calm demeanor.
"YAAAAAAAAA!"
"Let's go find out what it is!" Natsu said as he started running for the screeching with the others following him soon after.
"Hey, wait for me. Said the lady frightened." Horologium said repeating his master's words while following close behind them on his own pace.
Before they knew it, from the bushes appeared an enormous blue rat wearing a corset was running away in tears with her back covered in bruises and cuts, going down the hill right towards the sea.
This left the female celestial wizard in shock inside the clock until Horologium disappeared away and left Lucy on the floor, landing on her butt.
"What was that all about?"
"Ey Lucy, come on!" Happy said flying by commenting "Get off your lazy but and move."
Lucy became pissed after hearing that and got up quickly and started chasing after Happy "Come back here cat!"
Naruto was just rolling up a sealing scroll he just used, putting the man in a strong rope with a seal on it to prevent the prisoner or anyone to touch it as a written kanji was written on it across the rope covered smuggler.
"Let's hope nobody is stupid enough to touch you…" The written seal started to vanish away, leaving no tracks.
Even though it took a few moments, the seal started showing sparks of electricity, giving away that the trap seal was working. Naruto has been working on the art of sealing jutsu ever since he left the Hidden Leaf Village and learning about his heritage.
After finding out that the Uzumakis were renowned for their skills and perfection in the art of sealing jutsu he decided that he wanted to learn more about it. not slacking off, he knew that his abilities were still unknown to many of his fellow guildmates, all except for a handful of people like Gramps, the Magic council and few others.
He puts the scroll away in his coat "Now, that's settled."
"Naruto!"
He turns around to see Gray, Natsu and Happy appearing from the woods and running towards him.
"I wonder where you guys would arrive." He saw that someone was missing "Say, where's Lucy?"
"I'M HERE!"
They turned around to see that out from the bushes came Lucy, tripping over and face planting, badly.
"….." Naruto sweat dropped "Okay, you okay?"
Happy reached out to Lucy saying "Come on Lucy! You're being lazy."
Lucy pissed off stood up and ranted "Who're you calling lazy! I'm the one who woke you up! Told you about the message and got us in the right direction!"
"Okay, okay." Naruto tried to calm her down "We appreciate what you've done Lucy. No need to be angry."
Lucy calmed down as she listened to him, glad someone acknowledged her effort.
"Hey, Naruto, who's this guy?" Naruto turned around to see Natsu crouching down to the tied up prisoner. Happy landed on his head and poked a few times on his forehead.
Lucy saw he was in bad shape "Is he-"
"No, he's still alive." Naruto interrupted "Just somebody who I found in a tunnel."
"Tunnel?" Gray asked "What tunnel?"
"I'll show you, follow me," Naruto said as he started to walk towards the temple, leaving the prisoner on his own. They asked if it was such a good idea but Naruto assured them that they don't need to worry about it.
Naruto stopped and pointed out "Here it is." Right in front of them was a huge opening in the floor, with what looked like a bottomless pit.
"I went down to that hole, and it seems like it is connected to a network of tunnels that are going throughout the island." Naruto said, "but most of them lead to the mountains." He left out the tunnel that would go directly to the hidden shipyard of the smugglers, to not compromise the mission.
Gray stared at the pit "Are you sure it's safe, I don't want to be buried alive."
"From what I saw, they look pretty decent. So you've got nothing to worry about….unless you are claustrophobic." Naruto answered to Gray as suddenly they were pushed aside by Natsu who jumped above the pit.
"Who cares?! LET'S GO!" He exclaimed as he went into the pit, with full excitement for adventure.
"AYE!" Happy joined in as he flew down after his best friend. Gray followed suit by jumping after them, leaving Lucy and Naruto the only one left.
Predictably Lucy protested "Nuh-uh, I'm not jumping in that pit in a million years!"
"Come on, I ain't that deep." Naruto said trying to convince her "You want to help those villagers get cured of their demon state, right? So just jump, nothing will happen."
"I don't know…." Lucy said crossing her arms, she then remembered something and turned back "Wait, how do you know how those villagers look like?!"
Naruto began to scratch his head as he had to come up with something and luckily he did "Well, I actually asked one of my summonings to keep an eye on you."
"Huh?"
Naruto reaches his hand behind Lucy's ear but then he pulls it back, showing that in his hand was small yellow toad wearing a small blue fabric jacket resting in his hand. Munching on a candy bar. The small toad noticed the blonde girl and smiled at her, greeting in his innocent voice.
"Hello. My name is Gamatatsu."
Lucy blinked a couple of times before reacting;
"AHHHHH!" jumping backward "NOT ANOTHER ONE!"
"Hey, he's got a name you know." Naruto responded back in defense of his small friend before pointing out "Aaaand you're in the middle of the pit."
Lucy quickly looked down and started to fall down screaming her lungs out cussing Naruto out that it was his fault until she landed on something.
and that something was Natsu's groaning as he became a pillow for the blonde Celestial mage.
"Lucy….how much do you weight?..."
"YOU DON'T ASK ME THAT!"
Gamatatsu turned to Naruto and asked, "Did I do something wrong?"
"No Gamatatsu, she's just not used yet to talking toads yet, just give her some time." Naruto said to reassure to the small buddy but saw he was feeling sad "Hey, if we get out from this island I will buy you some snacks, that okay with you?"
Gamatatsu grew a smile on his face and threw his hand up "Yay!" before he disappeared in a pole of smoke. After that, Naruto jumped into the pit, following his friends. Just when a person entered the temple. The person had blue spikey hair, sharp teeth and a bandaged covered sword to his back with glasses
With Naruto
Naruto landed on his feet to the ground. He then looked up and thought he heard something.
Meanwhile, Lucy got off of Natsu and began bickering against Happy for calling her fat which turned into a shouting match.
Naruto, on the other hand, sensed something, he puts his hand down on the floor and started to concentrate on his surroundings and soon he started to feel the energy around the island.
'Hmmm, I sense there are more than three active chakra users on this island. Me, Tayuya and that Kiri nin and a couple of others, possibly more rogue ninjas, maybe some of Gato's former henchmen. Whatever the number, I need to make sure the others don't find out. Or this could get really ugly. Especially that the amount of chakra these unknown shinobi have are no doubt above mid chunin level, that's way too much to handle if we come across them as a team.' Naruto thought it out, it was already a great risk of compromising the mission with Natsu and the others on the island. Let alone that most of these shinobi possible have no trouble in killing them, so he took a decision that was for the best.
He turns to the Fairy Tail mages "We'll split up."
They all stopped their arguing amongst each other and stared at him.
"Huh?"
Naruto pointed out both sides of the tunnel "The tunnel goes both ways, the one on the left leads directly to the mountain, there is where you're all going that way, making your way to the top." He said walking passed them and going for the tunnel to the right.
"Okay, what about you?" Gray asked him "Who's going with you?"
"No one, I'm going by myself. Gray, you'll be leading the team."
"SAY WHAT!" Natsu protested "Why do you let him be team leader, he can't even keep his clothes on!"
"Shut it, fire brain!"
"Up yours, ice moron!" The two strong wizards were at each other again.
"Enough!" Naruto ordered them "Gray, keep your clothes on and lead the team, Natsu you-"
"Screw that! I'm going!" Natsu said grinning as he went to the left tunnel and got Happy following him "Let's explore, Happy!"
"Aye!" the cat flew after him. Gaining irritating ticks from Gray.
"Wait up moron!" the ice user yelled going after them. With soon followed Lucy going last. Leaving Naruto alone to let him go on his own route as he turned to the other side of the tunnel. If he had stayed longer he would've noticed that a shadow was descending from the top.
Sprinting through the tunnels, Naruto made his way quickly to where Tayuya was supposed to rendezvous with him.
But he'd been slowing down lately as he had sensed something ever since he entered these tunnels. Now that he was on his own and far away from his guildmates, he now assumed it was now the time to deal with his pursuer.
"Let's end this." Naruto's hand reached into his pouch and pulls out a couple of items he would need to use before jumping up into the ceiling, hiding into the darkness.
His pursuer stopped his tracks and started looking around, hoping to find a clue to where he was.
*Click!*
"Huh!?" the pursuer turned around and quickly took out his blade. Then in front of him, something was falling from above the air.
It was a safety lamp that shattered into the ground and exploded.
The mysterious man flinched by jumping back into the darkness in hope to conceal his identity, but he didn't notice that Naruto landed behind him.
"Wrong move buddy."
The assailant tried to turn around but got kicked in the face by Naruto before he jumped off again, just when he tried to slash him with his blade.
Naruto landed again behind the unidentified swordsman and kicked the guy in both his legs, making the guy.
"Ugh!" the guy dropped to his knees. Naruto didn't listen to his response before essentially kicking the guy across the area, into the wall that he landed his back against with.
The guy dropped his sword, disarming him and giving Naruto the chance to incapacitate him. From out of his hand, Naruto summoned four kunais and threw them at the swordless swordsman.
He hit the sleeves of the arms and legs, trapping him. He then appeared in front of him with a small paper in his hand which he pushed on the guy's chest. After that he grabbed the assailant by the throat and forced his head up, starting to suffocate him a little.
"Ugh! Urgh! P-please stop!"
A light of fire appeared behind them, it was Tayuya carrying a safety lamp that was lit and came across the fighting
"The fuck is going on here?" She said as she shed the light over to them and saw it.
Naruto was holding onto someone he had in a tough position. Also, she'd noticed something was laying on the ground.
"W-Wha- why is my Chakra numb?!" The guy said trying to channel his chakra but was unable to do.
"Look down on your chest."
The guy looked down and saw the paper on his chest had a kanji written on which read 'To suppress'
"T-This is a-"
"I've put a Chakra-Suppressing Seal on you, making you fatigued now that I've blocked all of your chakra." The shinobi now was cornered and had nowhere to go. Without even seeing the man's face, Naruto could already feel he was in a state of panic.
Tayuya then looked down to what was in front of her feet and picked it by the handle, the sword had bandages covering it but the shape of it gave away its identity "Hey….I recognize this sword…."
Naruto kept his grip on the guy's throat and asked "What is it Tayuya?"
"This is the Hiramekarei, one of the famous swords wielded by the Seven Swordsmen of the Mist." Tayuya now shot up to him "This guy must be one of them!"
Naruto turned to the shinobi and asked his friend "Give me some light."
Tayuya did that and raised the safety lamp up, the light shinned upwards and revealed the face of the swordsman. It surprised them that when they saw his face he was almost their age. His short, tufty blue hair and dark eyes and shark pointed teeth and black-rimmed glasses. He wears square, black-rimmed glasses connected to ear protectors, a blue pin-striped shirt and camouflage pattern pants.
"Identify yourself." Naruto asked while releasing KI to intimidate him, he had not used it in a long time but now he took no chances "And you better not lie to me."
The blue-haired shinobi hesitated for a moment
"Speak up!"
"M-My name is Chōjūrō!" He quickly responded as he felt the grip grow tighter "I'm a jonin from the Village Hidden in the Mist." The now identified Chōjūrō revealed his name, rank, and village.
Tayuya raised her eyebrow "Aren't you still called the Bloody Mist village? And aren't you sick Kiri ninja still in a killing spree going after bloodline shinobi?"
"No, we don't call ourselves by that name!" Chōjūrō shouted out with some anger out of the defense of his village "We dropped that cursed name after the Fifth Mizukage Mei Terumī took office!" he explained that the civil war had ended in his country a little over a year ago and now a new Mizukage had taken power and brought peace again to the village and all over the Land of Water with the support of the Daimyō and her faction of followers who were loyal to her.
From as far Naruto and Tayuya know, if they would compare the intel of this guy and the smuggler they had interrogated earlier then at least the numbers of enemy threats should be at least between fifty to seventy.
'Hmm, did the smuggler lied to us? Nah, we didn't specifically ask how many shinobi were there. If this moron is telling the truth, we may be going into a shitstorm full of skilled killers. Huh, lucky that Naruto made the fucker turn into an asexual." Tayuya grinned when she told Naruto that he may have put too much pressure on the guy's private parts….
Naruto noticed the scratch through the guy's headband and asked him "If you're a shinobi of the Hidden Mist, why do you have a scratch through your headband?"
"I'm undercover-"
"He's lying!" Tayuya stated.
"I swear I'm not!" Chōjūrō spoke out trying to convince them "I'm on a mission to infiltrate a group of rogue Mist shinobi. Who are on this island here stockpiling a large sums of weapons. Please, don't kill me…" Naruto didn't see this guy was a big threat since he'd been honest, so he released him.
Chōjūrō took the chance to breath when he was removed from the wall.
"Alright, now, explain everything to us. We're not the enemy here."
The blue-haired swordsman took deep breaths and looked at them "Why didn't you just kill me?"
"Because, you obviously have more information about this supposed 'smuggler's ring' that we're knowing of. And now you told us it also harbors rogue ninja we want to know more….Also, I sense no bad vibes from you. So assume you're legit." Naruto explained his reasons for putting a little bit of faith in this guy.
For some reason, Chōjūrō sighed in relief. Not knowing he was standing in front of two other infamous rogue shinobi's themselves.
Tayuya on the hand didn't let her guard down and said openly "Shithead here may be putting little words for you, but I don't. so speak up."
Chōjūrō's shyness kicked in for a moment after the redhead's comment and then started explaining how he infiltrated a group of twenty rogue Kiri shinobi who were working with some smugglers in moving a large stock of explosives to a safe place for them to store it all up.
"This is a highly dangerous infiltration mission," Tayuya said to the Kiri ninja "surely you must have a partner or something all this time with you."
"I was with my partner, but….." Chōjūrō looked down and felt ashamed to even mention what to his partner.
Naruto saw the look on his face "He got killed?"
Chōjūrō just shook his head "No, he got captured. Cornered when they found out we were undercover."
Nodding to his answer "Okay, just one more question. you said they were smuggling to this island right, Anything else that was different that was brought here?"
"Well, we didn't actually plan on it. but the leader of the smuggler's ring had been given a large sum of cash for some strange people in robes and masks who wanted to be brought to this island. Most of them wore the same mask. Saying they wanted to revive a guy named 'Zeref' or something."
Naruto and Tayuya became stiff when they heard that. The name was no stranger to them, especially to Naruto who had already come across one of Zeref's creations "Did they tell you where they were going?"
"No," Chōjūrō said before saying "but we know where they were going, ever since they arrived on this island, they are on the top of the mountain, doing some kind of creepy ritual they do every night."
Naruto kept listening and giving questions "Did they brought something with them?"
"Yes, under the escort of different people, they were bringing something massive with them. I don't know what it is but it's obviously bigger than that rat that was pushing it," Chōjūrō said still weirded out by that big rat in odd clothing, how was that intimidating anyway? "but it was very cold, and I sensed it was alive but not in a position to respond." Naruto nodded and turned to Tayuya before turning back to the Kiri shinobi.
He'd taken his decision "Okay, seems like a change of plans, Tayuya."
Chōjūrō didn't know what to respond "You mean-"
Naruto helped him up and removed the paper from his chest before patting his shoulder "We're going to help you out to save your friend. If that's okay with you."
"….Yes! I mean, yes of course but are you sure?" The two walked passed him as he kept asking him "T-These are very strong people, their leader is a former ANBU black ops unit leader."
"Oh don't worry," Naruto smirked as he picked up the Hiramekarei and threw it to Chōjūrō for him to catch it.
"Because we also got some tricks on our sleeves."
With the others
"Why, WHY IS IT HERE!" Gray yelled demanding the thing that was standing in front of him, the very thing he and the others came across was a relic from his painful and stressful past.
There in front of them stood the frozen solid Deliora, a monster Gray had witnessed destroying villages up in the northern continent. It a beast that stood higher than any monster he had encountered in his entire life and a powerful creature that could destroy anything in its path with such ease.
Gray's teeth were clutching as the rage inside of him was boiling up, why was it here? Who brought it here? And who dared to disrespect the last wished of his master?
Lucy asked her friend concerned "Gray, you know what it is?"
"It…is…"
"Please, calm down."
Gray then spoke upon staring at the top where its head was supposed to be "It's the Demon of Disaster, Deliora."
Natsu somehow misheard him and repeated "Demon of Cabbage?
"Disaster." Happy corrected him.
"It's exactly the way it was before." Gray then demanded questions out of pure anger "What the hell is going on?"
Before anyone could answer to his questions they heard footsteps and quickly went to hiding behind some rocks nearby. And once they were hiding, from their hiding spots they saw two figures appear from the cave where they came from.
"I heard voices from here, I thought I did."
One was a tall guy who wore nothing but pants and had a dog like an appearance with brown hair, dog ears and a spiked collar around his neck. The other guy was a shorter guy with blue spikey hair that went up and wore a green outfit and looked rather calm.
"Man its midday, I'm sleepy." The dog person said yawning.
The blue-haired guy said unfazed "Toby, you basked in the Moon Drip, didn't you? You have ears, and all."
Toby seemed pissed off shouted "I didn't bask it! it's a fashion statement you jerk!"
"Knock it off I was just teasing you, don't have to be mean about it." the blue-haired dude said as they stopped right at the spot the Fairy Tail guy's stood for a moment.
Lucy started to whisper to herself "Moon Drip, is that what the name of the curse is?" then she saw another shadow appear and hide back again.
"Yuka, Toby."
The two wizards turned around to see their friend, a female with pink hair in piggy tails and blue eyes in a black dress with boots walk over to them.
"I've got bad news. Something terrible has happened."
"What now, Sherry."
"Angelica has been attacked," Sherry said in a dramatic tone "her face is covered in cuts and her body has burn marks all over her soft fur." Said in a saddened tone.
"It's only a rat, maybe it got itself into a pit or something."
"She's not a rat," Sherry spoke out in her defense "she's a brave hunter prowling through the jungles to defend us. She's love!"
This left the Fairy Tail wizards who were in hiding dumbfounded and a comment slipped out of Lucy's mouth.
"I don't know who these people are but talk about a bunch of weirdos. Especially the chick with the pet rat."
"I don't think they're from the island, they don't smell that anyway," Natsu stated reeking a different scent from them and his nose doesn't lie.
"And it doesn't seem they're cursed like the villagers." Happy added the fact they all looked normal, to a degree at least.
"You say there is a possible intruder? What makes you say that?" This caused them to hide as the three kept talking.
"Angelica informed me that her attacker was a blonde man, wearing a mask was seen outside the temple, with one of the smugglers who went missing." Sherry said, "Before the brute abused Angelica and beat her like a dog."
Happy was not amused by the remark and came out to his defense "Like anyone likes rats, Naruto is the most animal friend I know." Happy was quickly pulled down by Natsu before they could spot them.
Sherry turned back to her comrades "We need to find him and exterminate him with any other intruders before master Reitei finds out."
Yuka smirked nodding "You're right." While Toby barked yes, strangely.
"If they've seen Deliora. We absolutely must take them out. That's in the name of…Love!"
"Don't you mean death?" Toby asked until they heard something from the tunnel.
"What was that?" Yuka said turning around "Let's check it out." They all three started running for the cave, being tricked by Happy and Natsu who just threw a couple of pebbles to distract them.
They both slapped hands "Way to go." Natsu smirked at his buddy while Gray was too focused on the frozen demon that was there.
Lucy turned to the cave and wondered "Do you think they were talking about Naruto? They say the pet rat only saw him."
"Don't worry about Naruto." Natsu said grinning "Believe me those morons won't stand a chance against him."
Happy then asked a curious question "I do wonder, where is he?"
Meanwhile
Naruto, Tayuya, and Chōjūrō were hiding behind some rocks and were spying on their target;
The hidden smuggler's cave that was turned into a medium-sized dock, with two ships already there and hundreds of crates being placed on the ground. With the smugglers taking the cargo off the ships and placing them to the cargo bay. There were also some tents where they could sleep and some barrels containing alcohol for the partying after receiving good pay. Also in the middle of those tents were three wooden polls set up.
Patrolling around were indeed rogue shinobi, many of whom were wearing the old chunin and jonin uniforms that were worn in the time when the village was known as 'The Bloody Mist'. With some of them even wearing the masks from the infamous Hunter Nin Division. Giving away that some of them were ex-ANBU.
"This is a damn full-scale operation." Tayuya said shocked "This must've been taking at least months to set this all up."
Naruto could only agree with Tayuya, this was no small scale one time smuggle route. No, this was a permanent one.
Chōjūrō, on the other hand, was looking around, trying to find his partner and hoping nothing bad had happened to h-
CRASH!
A crate had been accidentally dropped to the ground and its cargo was all over the ground. The cargo was numerous explosives tags.
The guy who dropped it was seen sweating as he saw one of the rogue ninja's approaching him, he had his mask on so the smuggler couldn't see if he was angry.
"No, no, it was an accident!"
The shinobi unsheathed his blade and was about to punish this man for his clumsiness.
"No pleas-" the smuggler pleaded.
"That's enough!"
The shinobi and smuggler turned around and saw a person who may be the leader of the operation, as he was wearing a mask with horns.
"Who's the dork with the stupid mask?" Tayuya questioned, finding it a stupid disguise.
"That is the leader of the wizard group," Chōjūrō said explaining to the two "he paid for the big shipment and a lot of his people to be shipped here. He goes by the name Reitei."
"Reitei…" Naruto narrowed his eye at this Reitei, wanting to see what this guy was going to do about the fuckup of the smuggler.
Reitei approaches the two while gaining the attention of everyone else "No need to kill him, let him pay for the damages he has caused with his paycheck."
After hearing this, the blade-wielding ninja was first going to ignore him and cut this guy in two "This isn't your problem, boy. He screwed up, he pays for it."
The masked man stood still while he kept staring at the rogue chunin as he waited for his next move.
"But if you pay his collateral damages, I will promise I won't even touch a hair on his head." The masked nin said with a chuckle.
Reitei was now in the center of the attention as a person walked up to him from behind, this man was wearing a standard Kiri Jonin uniform and just had short hair with a ponytail tied up. A big grin on his face and a sleazy look in his eyes. His scratched out Kiri headband was on his shoulder.
"Chōjūrō, who's that guy?"
"He's Kenji Sotoki. A real piece of work." Chōjūrō said with a growl "This guy is no pushover. He was an ANBU commander who was the head of the Hunter-Nin Division in the civil war. He's a ruthless bastard who did the most despicable things you could imagine."
"He was ANBU?" Tayuya was stunned by how the guy looks "He looks like he's our age."
"Believe me, this guy was a true monster back in the Hidden Mist. He was one of the first to attack and kill many of his own comrades he found out or suspected were Gekkei Genkai users. The crimes this guy did in the civil war are the reason why he and his followers have turned their back to the fifth Mizukage and gone rogue." Chōjūrō said thinking back of the reports he read about Kenji, the things he was comfortable doing to anyone who had a bloodline were perhaps the most disturbing stuff he had ever read….
Kenji chuckled at the masked Reitei and said "Please, my offer only stands for a moment…."
"…..Fine." conflicting feelings could be felt from the Reitei guy as he turned around and started walking "I'm going back to the mountain. Just don't do something stupid."
Naruto watched how this masked guy named Reitei was leaving the scene unfazed, but some disturbances were sensed from him as it didn't go unnoticed by the three young shinobi.
"I don't sense any killing vibes from that guy," Tayuya said, "Most likely a wizard."
"Yeah, I thought that too." Chōjūrō agrees with her "I'm more concerned about the ex-Kiri nin then I'm concerned about those guys."
"Maybe it would help to keep track on your shinobi so you don't have the highest rate of desertion in all of the Shinobi continent." Tayuya pointed out to this guy.
"W-What has that have to do with anything."
"NOOOOO!" The three turned back to who screamed and they were horrified by what they saw.
The smuggler was beheaded on the spot, with his head sliced off in one slash by Kenji who had the indecency to chuckle at the corpse before turning to his comrades who were left unfazed.
"What? I said I didn't touch a single hair on his hair, see not a hair." Kenji said while tapping his feet at the guy's head before his toe touches the hair of the head of the frightened smuggler. For the other criminals, they didn't seem to show much sympathy.
"Oh, now I touched it."
Tayuya was too shocked for words, okay she may have some dark thoughts and could maybe, just maybe fit in this guy's feet. But damn the guy was a sick fuck.
Chōjūrō gritted his teeth "That bastard…."
Naruto kept staring, his face didn't seem to fade in a different emotion as he started to pinpoint his targets for causing as much damage and chaos as possible.
"I'm bored….Hey, go get our prisoners, let's have some fun!"
Some cheering was heard among the crowd as from out of the tents, a man with binders covering his eyes was being dragged towards the wooden polls in the middle of the camping site.
a middle-aged man with blue hair which is styled in a moussed-up manner. He was blinded against the wooden polls as a small crowd of rogue shinobi was surrounding them and making snickering comments.
"What the hell are they doing?" Tayuya whispered before turning to the blue-haired swordsman "What kind of sick fucks does your village get?"
"I-I don't know, Kenji is-"
Naruto ignored the bickering as he was slowly removing a scroll out of his coat and rolling it out….
Kenji walked over to the man and snickered "Hehehehe, out of all the shinobi who I have fought, I'm surprised but also honored to meet you again." He removers the binders "Ao-Sensei."
The man revealed to be Ao was wearing an eyepatch over his right eye and he was angered "Kenji, don't you dare call me your sensei. You've lost that respect when you betrayed the village."
"Hehehe, come on. What about all the missions we had done together? All the time we'd spend together?"
"That was before you went out and started killing our own comrades!" Ao shouted at him "When you were on a killing spree against all bloodline users with your band of scum!"
"Those bloodline freaks had to be put in their place. Just like Kaguya Clan who'd thought it was a good idea to rebel against the Bloody Mist."
"You murdered children! Kids! INFANTS!" Ao yelled in outrage against his former student "Your bloodlust cost us good shinobi, loyal shinobi who fled or had to hide! It's only thanks to Lady Terumi that those purges finally stopped and put an end to your bloodshed."
"Oh, but that won't last for long." Kenji said pointing around "Look around you, with the help of those who stayed loyal to me and with the resources we have gathered. We will go back to our home village, remove that cunt! And restore the reputation of the Village Hidden in the Mist back to the Bloody Mist!" Kenji said revealing his plot, gaining some roars of approval from his comrades who were still loyal to him.
'So we got a coup plot on our hands….great, I just was sent here to stop a smuggling ring and now I found out I'm in the middle of a dispute that can cause a crisis on an international level.' Naruto thought 'Agh, what the heck, let's get this over with.'
"And this will just be the beginning." Kenji said chuckling while walking around Ao "I know my former teammate of a demon is on this island too, with a bloodline user also." Ao eyes widened after hearing that, just what Kenji wanted to see.
"Get her over here!"
A feminine scream was heard as a woman, with only pants with her chest only covered in binders with wavy blonde hair was being dragged by one of the mask-wearing Kiri shinobi.
She was thrown to the ground as her back was exposed, showing her vein exposing orb on her back that looked hideous.
Kenji unsheathed his blade and held it over the girl's neck "I wonder what would happen if he'd found out his student was on the verge of being beheaded for the mortal sin of being a bloodline user." He raised it up "LET'S FIND OUT!"
Ao pleaded "KENJI, DON'T!"
The girl screamed out in tears "PLEASE HELP ME! ANYONE!"
As the blade was coming down on her, time suddenly felt going slower. Like time itself went into slow motion mode when three explosives tags were already thrown.
All three hit its targets:
The barrels of alcohol;
The open crate filled with explosives tags;
And the biggest ship of the smugglers.
And yet, before they all exploded, a bubble was seen flowing through the air above the tents. That bubble belonged to the pipe of the man who wore a blue kimono that had earlier eavesdropped on Naruto and Tayuya in the tunnels. He now was hiding in the shadows, waiting for the right moment to save his student.
The bubble then popped, making a loud and non-expecting explosion. Causing the battles of Galuna island to begin.
Between Wizards and Wizards as well between Shinobi and Shinobi.
BOOM!
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