The Mad Sage Of Uzushio, #TheMadSageOfUzushio , A Naruto Fan Fiction, Chapter 25: Interrogating The Demons Of Empire! Jinn For The Win! Urusai! Baca Oni!
The Mad Sage Of Uzushio, #TheMadSageOfUzushio , A Naruto Fan Fiction, Chapter 25: Interrogating The Demons Of Empire! Jinn For The Win! Urusai! Baca Oni!
Chapter 25
Interrogating The Demons Of Empire!
Jinn For The Win! Urusai! Baca Oni!
As other shinobi chase down and interrogate demons in the far away Sky Lantern Flotilla of Jupiter, acting hokage Inozuka Kiba stands on top of the administration building with his half-brother Taketori Hoki, having a somewhat personal conversation with a squad of four anbu black ops shinobi. The squad consists of four shinobi, three men in black with various stylized anbu animal masks, white clay or plaster masks, painted sparingly with an animal theme. They are all dressed in standard anbu dark gray flak jacket vests, and dark gray forearm guards, with a sword strapped to their back. The lone kunoichi of the group wears the light tan cloak of the jonin among the anbu, with a anbu cat mask on the inside of the hood of her cloak, and black rope sandals with black split-toed socks on her feet. Kiba franticly pleads with the kunoichi while his little brother tries to suppress an awkward smirk.
Inozuka Kiba:
Come on Tamaki!… I know you’re working!… I’m working too!… I’m the acting hokage!… But this can’t wait!…
Tamaki:
Don’t use my name while I’m in my work cloths!… Technically… you’re not even supposed to know that I’m in the anbu… I only told you because we’re living together… and I didn’t want there to be any secrets between us…
Inozuka Kiba:
I happen to know that it’s well within the regs to inform a spouse or significant other… And it’s not like I can’t tell your scent… Even before you told me I had seen you around Konoha in uniform and recognized your scent… It’s not like you could have kept it from me…
Tamaki:
Well… You do have a point… You probably couldn’t hide it from me either… But you can’t just take advantage of being the acting hokage to commandeer some personal time with me in the middle of a crisis!… We’re still tracking down mercenaries and pirates from the attack on Konoha!…
Inozuka Kiba:
Wakata!… But this can’t wait!… Recent revelations about my own family history have me concerned about repeating my father’s mistakes with you…
Tamaki:
Mistakes!?!… What mistakes?…
Inozuka Kiba:
I know about the baby!… I’ve known for a little while now… probably almost as soon as you knew… I could tell…
Tamaki:
Yeah… That figures… But I only just found out for sure myself… I’ve been putting it off… in denial… Because then I knew that I would have to stop working… So I was putting it off… It was confirmed last week…
Other Anbu:
Last week?… That’s still within regs… But it’s pushing it!…
Other Other Anbu:
Not telling your squad mates is beyond pushing it!… Baca neko!…
Tamaki:
Sumimasen… You’re right… I’ll step down… But only after this crisis is over!… You can’t expect me to just quit in the middle of a crisis!… Satisfied?…
Inozuka Kiba:
Iie!… That’s not enough!… Because it’s not just about you stepping down… It’s about me stepping up!…
Kiba steps closure to Tamaki, then falls to one knee, and grasps her hand in his. Then Tamaki forgets herself and her previous words and pulls back her hood and removes her mask with her other hand, reveal a beautiful young woman, with long straight brown hair tied into bun with her bangs loose.
Tamaki:
Hai!…
Inozuka Kiba:
But I…
Tamaki:
Hai!…
Inozuka Kiba:
Can’t I at least ask?…
Tamaki:
Hai!…
Inozuka Kiba:
Will you marry me?…
Tamaki:
Hai!!!…
Kiba shoots up off the ground and excitedly bear hugs his pregnant fiancee. But then he catches a whiff of something strange, and notices this at the wrong time.
Inozuka Kiba:
Wait… Do you smell that?… something weird?… but familiar somehow?…
Tamaki:
Well that’s rude!… You don’t have to mention it just now!… You did just squeeze me rather tightly… These things happen!… It’s not like I haven’t opted for discretion in the past for the sake of romance when you’ve let one loose!…
Inozuka Kiba:
Iie… Take a whiff for yourself… That’s something else… It smells like…
Tamaki:
Matatabi!?!… But not Matatabi… It has to be Matatabi!… But it can’t be!… It’s definitely Matatabi… But it’s like it’s become human!… and female!…
Inozuka Kiba:
Matatabi!?!… The two tails!?!… Female!?!… I didn’t even know that the tailed beasts had genders… I thought they were supposed to be some sort of chakra avatars… beings of pure chakra or something…
Tamaki:
I don’t know what to tell you… But I know Matatabi’s scent… And it’s definitely Matatabi’s scent… But it’s different… I can’t explain it… I can only tell you what it smells like to me… What does it smell like to you?…
Inozuka Kiba:
To me?… I don’t know… It just smells like some weird cat person… neither human nor cat… And I can’t explain it either… We have to check it out… If Matatabi were here…. there would be a massive disturbance and commotion… perhaps even a panicked riot… But there’s nothing… We have to track down that scent!…
Tamaki:
Hai!…
Other Anbu:
Yosh!…
Tamaki replaces her mask and hood, and the group rushes off on the trail of the scent in the general direction of Konoha’s main gate. As they do so, a beautiful human looking young woman with long wavy light blue hair, chalk white skin, and blue cat’s eyes, makes her way to the main gate. She wears nothing but a white long sleeve kimono with blue flowers and blue trim, tied around her waist with a blue sash. Two blue fur covered tails peak out from the bottom of her kimono, and twitch with nervous excitement, as she walks on the balls of her bare feet towards the gate, wide eyed and smiling.
She walks through the gate, and past the guard shack by the entrance, without a clue or a care about checking in. The guards show some curious concern, but they decide to let hidden security tail her and observe her. Kiba and the others rush past them on the trees and rooftops overhead, speeding off in the other direction, not knowing what they were looking for, or what she looks like. The scent quickly grows cold for Kiba and Tamaki, so they double back to pick up the scent again, as the blue haired mystery maiden makes her way through Konoha, seemingly following a scent of her own.
Kiba’s group catch up to the security tailing the mystery maiden, just as she arrives at the door of Kiba’s old sensei, Yuhi Kurenai, while her daughter Sarutobi Mirai and her new boyfriend Uzumaki Yuntaro are busy chasing after demons in the Sky Lantern Flotilla. Kiba notices two blue furred tails sticking out from the bottom of the mystery maiden’s kimono, and he points out the two tails to Tamaki.
Inozuka Kiba:
Two tails!?!…
Tamaki:
Matatabi!?!…
The mystery maiden hears them from behind her as she approaches the door, and they all duck out of sight when she turns around to see who it was. Yuhi Kurenai answers the door, and greets the young woman.
Yuhi Kurenai:
Konichiwa… How may I help you?… miss?…
Mystery Maiden:
Matatabidesu… I am looking for my good friend Yuntaro… Uzumaki Yuntaro…
Yuhi Kurenai:
I’m… afraid that I don’t have anyone here by that name… Matatabichan… Are you sure that he is supposed to be here?… How do you know this Uzumaki Yuntaro?…
Matatabi:
I know he is supposed to be here because I followed his scent here!… And I have known him since before he was born!… There is no point in trying to deceive me!… I know all about the treacherous ways of shinobi!… You must be keeping him for your self!… But you can’t keep us apart!… Where is he?!?…
Sensing a threat, Kiba jumps out from concealment, and lands behind Matatabi, followed by Tamaki and Hoki landing next to him, with the other anbu flanking them on either side of the street.
Inozuka Kiba:
Woh there kitty cat… No need to throw a hissy fit… And no need for a cat fight… Yuntaro is away at the moment… very far away… But no one is hiding him… He will be back…
Yuhi Kurenai:
I only denied that he was here… which is true… I pretended not to know what you were talking about because I didn’t know you… And you could have been a spy… May still be for all we know… Are you really Matatabi?… the two tails?… Can you verify that?…
Matatabi:
I don’t need to verify anything!…
Matatabi’s body spontaneously erupts in an engulfing aura of blue flame, incinerating her kimono. The blue flame animates her wavy blue hair in the air around her head, revealing her ears to be pointed beneath her hair, as her two blue fur covered tails writhe in agitation, similarly engulfed in, and animated by blue flames. Tamaki hurriedly pulls back her hood and removes her mask.
Tamaki:
Matatabisama!… Wait!… Please!… We are not enemies here!… It’s me!… Tamakidesu!…
Matatabi:
Tamaki?… Since when did you come to Konoha?… And why?…
Tamaki:
What can I say… I followed the longings of my heart… some time after the war… I’m getting married and having a baby now… This is my fiance… Inozuka Kiba… He’s also a detective here in Konoha… And Kurenai sensei here was his sensei… So we’re all family here really… Right?… Sodesuka?…
Matatabi:
Hai… Sodesu… Sumimasen Tamaki… I don’t normally dwell among humans… least of all shinobi… I tend to make very few exceptions… and for very good reason…
Matatabi’s blue flames die down and extinguish, leaving her standing there naked.
Matatabi:
That was my only kimono!…
Tamaki:
Here…
Tamaki pulls off her cloak and drapes it over Matatabi’s shoulders.
Tamaki:
Why don’t we go inside?… or at least into the garden?… Then we can have a civilized conversation among friends and family… over tea and dumplings perhaps…
Matatabi:
Oh I’m starving!… I had no idea I would be so hungry in this form!…
Yuhi Kurenai:
Are you really that new to this form?…
Matatabi:
Hai… I transformed myself for Yuntaro!… But when I went to show him… he was gone… So I followed his scent here to find out what happened to him… Why would he come here?…
Yuhi Kurenai:
He was directed by the spirit of his dead mother Yugito… for the sake of the alliance… as well as for her son’s own sake… to meet his father… among other things…
Matatabi:
Oh!… Has he?… met his father?…
Yuhi Kurenai:
By now?… Probably… Why don’t you come in… And I can lend you a kimono while we talk about it?… You don’t mind if Kiba and the others join us do you?… Kiba is the acting hokage while the others are away… And whether you intended to or not you’ve already created a bit of a stir here… at a time when Konoha is on high alert after an attack by terrorist pirates… Yuntaro was here for that… and helped out immensely… Does he know that you were intending on transforming for him?…
Matatabi:
Iie… I wanted to surprise him… He’s always so helpful… and caring… He would have more friends if he spent more time among his own kind… rather than just hanging out with me in the wilderness…
Taketori Hoki:
Well you needn’t worry about that now… not since he came to Konoha… He already has a girlfriend now… Kurenaisensei’s daughter Mirai… She left with him and another group to meet up with his father…
Inozuka Kiba:
Urusai!… Baca!… That’s not your place to share just yet!…
Matatabi erupts once again in blue flames, incinerating Tamaki’s lent cloak.
Tamaki:
My cloak!?!… That was my favorite cloak!…
Inozuka Kiba:
That was part of a standard issue uniform for anbu jonin!…
Tamaki:
But I earned that standard issue uniform!…
Matatabi:
What do you mean?… girlfriend?… How can he have… a girlfriend?…
Yuhi Kurenai:
It happened suddenly… They hit it off instantly… The excitement of the attack on Konoha… along with a miraculous mass resurrection… is a hard combination for any woman to resist… even kunoichi… I’m not sure how seriously I take it at this point… But it could become very serious… But if you don’t calm yourself… You may alienate him before you even get a chance to show him what you did for him… Please… Extinguish your flames and come inside… Promise not to burn down my home and I’ll lend you one of my kimonos…
Matatabi:
Hai… Sumimasen… Kurenaisama…
Matatabi extinguishes her blue flames, and walks naked into the house past Kurenai, followed by Tamaki, Kiba, and Hoki, while the rest remain outside to stand guard. Back in the garden area of the botanical maze of the Sky Lantern Flotilla, the interrogation of dragon lady Sarada’s demon plushie squad begins with confusion, under Shintaro’s sightless watch, as he continues to lend her some of his chakra for the interrogation.
Uchiha Sarada:
Urusai!… Baca oni!… Stop jibbering!… Damarei!…
Demon Racoon Plushie:
But mistress… I only wish please you…
Uchiha Sarada:
Then stick to answering my questions!… And stick to the truth!… And stop groveling!… I didn’t ask for groveling!…
Demon Racoon Plushie:
Hai… Sumimasen… wondrous mistress of pain…
Uchiha Sarada:
‘Mistress of pain’?… Urusai!… Creep!… Chidori Stream!…
Sarada unleashes a stream of lightening nature chakra from her hand, shocking her jinn raccoon plushie. But he reacts to the pain as if being given some pleasurable reward. Sarada gives up in frustrated disgust.
Uzumaki Shintaro:
Remember Sarada… pain is not punishment for a demon… It is just another thrilling sensation of life for them… if not a primary fetish…
Uchiha Sarada:
How am I supposed to get them to even focus… The only one who’s talking won’t stop kissing up to me… Can’t we just seal them away and be done with them?…
Uchiha Sasuke:
Indeed… How much information of any value can really be gained from these parasites?… It seems to me that they’re too dangerous to bother with…
Uzumaki Shintaro:
Perhaps… Any weapon powerful enough to be useful… will be dangerous to obtain or control… including information… And while we’re at it… what exactly… is a ‘plushie’?…
Akimichi Chocho:
It’s a small plush stuffed animal of some kind… They’re normally for kids… But they’re collectible!…
Uchiha Sarada:
They’re also discrete and inconspicuous forms for demon jinn… But right now they’re insufferable!…
Demon Raccoon Plushie:
Infinite apologies to you and all your kin… mistress of divine pain…
Uchiha Sarada:
Urusai!… Creep!…
Sarada unleashes another short burst of her Chidori Stream, to the delight of the demon plushie, and to the frustration of Sarada.
Uzumaki Shintaro:
You need to try a different approach… Have you been practicing the Fade to Black Seal that I taught you?…
The demon plushies noticeably shudder in terror at the mention of the Fade to Black Seal.
Uchiha Sarada:
Hai learned ancestor… I guess it’s time for a recital… Chocho…
Akimichi Chocho:
Hai…
Uzumaki Shintaro:
Iie… You must do this yourself… to show them that you can… and that you can do so at will… I will lend you my chakra this time… But you must perform the jutsu solo…
Uchiha Sarada:
Hai… learned ancestor…
Sarada begins to pluck at her biwa with her plectrum, and the lights begin to fade and flicker slightly in the garden as the demon plushies begin to panic, and shake in fear as she begins to sing.
Uchiha Sarada:
Your life seems to fade away… You’re drifting further every day… You’re getting lost within yourself… Nothing matters… No one else… You have lost the will to live… You have nothing more to give… There is nothing more for thee… You need the end to set you free…
The demon plushies all freeze perfectly still, then they start to fade to a deep dark non reflective black, turning them all into plushie shadow figure outlines.
Uchiha Sasuke:
‘Fade to Black Seal’?…
Uzumaki Shintaro:
The imperial standard for the punishment of demons within the Otsutsuki Empire… It is very much like the Tsukuyomi… it squeezes and condenses a great deal of experience within a short amount of time… But unlike the Tsukuyomi… you are not tortured with pain… They are instead tortured with the very thing that demons fear most… It is a hell of numb silent darkness… A seemingly endless silent night… with nothing to keep you company or pass the time… except getting lost your own fear that it may never end…
Uchiha Sarada:
But isn’t that rather… cruel?… even for demons?…
Uzumaki Shintaro:
Perhaps… You may want to bring them back now… It doesn’t take much… I think you will find them more focused now…
Uchiha Sarada:
Hai learned ancestor…
Sarada plays a quick flurry of notes on her biwa, then screams out a single lyric.
Uchiha Sarada:
Jump in the fire!…
The demon plushies are shocked back to false life, as they return to full color in a flash of light, trembling.
Demon Raccoon Plushie:
Please Mistress Sarada!… I will tell you anything!… I will serve you in any way you desire!… Please!… I beg you!… No more Fade to Black!… Please!…
Uchiha Sarada:
Damarei!… Baca oni!… The fact that you will tell me anything is the problem!… Don’t tell me just anything!… Tell me the truth!… and nothing but!… And stop all of that gratuitous groveling!… Urusai!… It’s irritating!… not to mention creepy… Stick to answering my questions!… And do as you are told!… Or it’s Fade to Black all over again for you!…
Demon Raccoon Plushie:
Hai!… Saradasama!…
Uchiha Sarada:
Why did you attack us?…
Demon Raccoon Plushie:
Which time?…
Uchiha Sarada:
‘Which Time?’!?!… The first time then!… When?… Where?… And why?… I want a full confession!…
Demon Raccoon Plushie:
We came to Konoha to try our hand at the bounty on your father’s head… You were just a weakness to exploit at the time… But then you became special to us in your own way… So naturally… we had to try again… And now I am your slave… And I think I’m starting to like it…
Uchiha Sarada:
Oi!… Urusai!… Baca oni!… What did I tell you about that creepy groveling?…
Demon Raccoon Plushie:
Sumimasen!… Saradasama!…
Uchiha Sarada:
What was your plan here?… You weren’t after my father this time… Were you?…
Demon Raccoon Plushie:
Hai… Saradasama… We were… But you were more than bait this time… Especially to those who issued the original bounty… After our report… you had peaked their interest… They issued a rare live retrieval bounty on you… alive if possible… for you and your father… It was our chance to move up in the eyes of the empire… In gratitude they might have even given us what’s left of you when they’re done with you… to use as a host…
Uchiha Sarada:
Who issued the bounty?…
Demon Raccoon Plushie:
It was Otsutsuki Enkio… the emperor’s eldest son… and the provincial ruler of your world within the empire… Otsutsuki Kaguya was nothing but a caretaker for him within his domain…
Uchiha Sasuke:
The emperor’s eldest son himself is our provincial ruler?… Is that normal?…
Uzumaki Shintaro:
Iie… But our world was always special to the empire from the very beginning… That was why Kaguya was sent to our world to begin with… paired with Enkio’s eldest son… Otsutsuki Isshiki… He was reported to the empire by Kaguya as having wondered off bored in dereliction of duty… a common occurrence among the higher ranked members of the clan… But he hasn’t been seen or heard from since…
Uchiha Sarada:
How many of you are after us?…
Demon Raccoon Plushie:
We’re a tight band… It’s just us… plus whoever we can recruit along the way… Demons tend to be that way… Otherwise there are just too many nuts in the bunch… Even the demon hoards are what you might call… loosely confederated… like a syndicate… At least that’s what we call it…
Uzumaki Shintaro:
What about imperial jinn?… Mercenary gangs like yours don’t stray too far from their handlers and their feedbag…
Demon Raccoon Plushie:
It’s just us… It was just another bounty…
Uchiha Sarada:
Liar!… You’ve already revealed that it was more than that!… Do you expect me to believe that this was left to you and you alone?… Think about it now…
Sarada plucks a few strings of her biwa with her plectrum as a threat.
Demon Raccoon Plushie:
Wait!… I can’t tell you it’s name!… It’s one of the old ones!… The ones that even some of the gods fear…
Uzumaki Shintaro:
False gods… versus true monsters…
Uchiha Sarada:
Give us the monster’s name!… Or you can remain silent in black forever…
Sarada plucks again.
Demon Raccoon Plushie:
Rieitu!… It’s name… is Rieitu… a jinn agent of the imperial court… a jinn of Enkio…
The paper clone of Uzumaki Yuntaro in his Persian cat form, pipes up at the mention of Rieitu, Jinn of Enkio.
Uzumaki Yuntaro:
I didn’t want to say anything before… since we had our hands full here… But my mother is currently leading me… the other me and the other party… to chase after that demon that she was tracking… From the sound of it… we may be chasing our bait into a trap…
Uzumaki Shintaro:
How is it that you know what’s happening with your other self?… with a paper clone?…
Uzumaki Yuntaro:
It’s a power of my Rinnegan… combined field of vision… combined senses… for up to six different perspectives simultaneously… But anything more than two gets too confusing… And I need to practice more… If I’m going to keep butting heads against false gods… I’m just going to have to master all of my powers… more for those around me than for my own sake…
Uzumaki Shintaro:
Indeed… Can you track one of your selves with another?… leading us from here to there hypothetically?…
Uzumaki Yuntaro:
Unknown… I can sense them from here… But I can’t use my Rinnegan’s portal power in here… even if I knew how… We would have to make our way through the maze on foot…
Demon Raccoon Plushie:
We know the way… We could help… Mistress of Divine Pain… We have a good idea where they’re going…
All the other demon plushies nod emphatically at their mistress, in agreement with their raccoon ring leader.
Uchiha Sasuke:
I don’t trust demons to lead us anywhere…
Uzumaki Shintaro:
Agreed… But we have to get out of this maze… Portals will work on the way out of the maze… They only confuse matters within the maze… not on the way out… We have wounded… And we can’t afford to get lost right now… even though that’s what the maze is for…
Uchiha Sasuke:
I’ll go with Yuntaro… I have my own way out… And I know how to use portals…
Akimichi Chocho:
So do I…
Akimichi Chocho:
Iie!… No more running off!… You’re staying with me!… Princess Chocho!…
Uchiha Sakura:
Same for you Sarada… Don’t even think of it…
Uzumaki Shintaro:
Go ahead and put your demons to bed for now Sarada… You can train them later…
Demon Plushies:
No mistress!… Please!…
The surface of the plushies turn of liquid and boil away, dissipating as steam. Then Sarada takes her six demon gourd as her prize trophy, and straps it to Shintaro’s messenger bag that she wears over her shoulder.
Uzumaki Shintaro:
I’ll go with Sasuke and Yuntaro… The rest of you should all regroup at my design school…
Uchiha Sakura:
Agreed…
Akimichi Karui:
You got that right!…
The original Yuntaro speeds toward a possible trap with his group, escorted by a paper tracking crane and Yuntaro’s dead spirit messenger mother, Nii Yugito.
Uzumaki Yuntaro:
It’s starting to look like this is a trap… But reinforcements are on the way though… assuming the other me can catch up to me… The demon in question may in fact be an imperial jinn… and a very old one… named Rietu… one that scares the other demons… Who happens to be the jinn of the emperor’s other son Enkio… as if I need to pick a fight with another member of the imperial family… But the others are okay now… Most of the other party is evacuating the maze… My father… cousin Sasuke… and my other self… will be following after us… hopefully…
Nii Yugito:
They’re not the only ones… I let the hokage and the others know about this… They should be sending some reinforcements as well… including a couple of the hokage’s clones… But there’s no telling if they’ll be able to make it in time…
Sarutobi Mirai:
We have to assume they won’t be… We may be it…
An unnaturally echoing woman’s voice and a howling wind can be heard from the light at the end of the passage way ahead of them, as if in direct response.
Echoing Woman:
You… are… it…
Uzumaki Yuntaro:
Jugo… Ready your flute…
Jugo:
Hai…
Uzumaki Yuntaro:
Prepare yourselves… We may have ourselves a genuine wind demon on our hands…
Yuntaro discharges and disappears his truth seeker staff, then materializes his flute into his waiting hands, all with a characteristic flash of purple lightening. Yuntaro starts to play as they near the light filled entrance ahead of them. The wind picks up and whirls around Yuntaro as he runs through the opening, lifting him up off the ground. Bits of paper begin to rapidly peel off of his skin and fly out of his wind whipped hair. They whirl around him, before taking the shape of a cresting wave, carried by his own wind, as he flies through the opening.
Immediately through the opening, Yuntaro’s wall of flowing paper is struck by a side swiping mini hurricane of black cloud, whirling through the open garden area like a black wind top playing pinball with the garden. The black hurricane pinballs it’s way around the open garden area, maneuvering it’s way around Rieitu, the figure of a woman in a tan cloak and mask, standing in the center. Within the opening of an opposing entrance way on the other side of the garden, stand two human shaped hooded figures cloaked in white, one adult, and one child approximately nine or ten years old. Yuntaro uses his wind style to superimpose his voice over the sound of his flute as he plays.
Uzumaki Yuntaro:
That… is the shadow wind style… If not for my wind style shikigami defense… I would have been shredded… Mind your defenses…
Rieitu:
There is no defense… And there is no escape…
Shinki:
We did not come here to escape!… We came here to rescue!… Mama!… Masturi!… I am your son!… son of Gara!… of the sand!… Shinkidesu!…
The smaller of the two figures cloaked in white reacts to the sound of a familiar name.
Cloaked Child:
The son of Gara?… of the sand?…
The larger figure in white shakes it’s head at the sound of the recognition.
Shinki:
If it’s the last thing I do mama… I will free you from this!…
Rieitu:
Brave words little Shinki… I remember you well little boyo… But I am your real mother… I only used this woman’s body to get close to your father… You are just an unintended byproduct of my failure to manage proper human birth control while doing so… So careless of me…
Shinki:
You lie!…
Uzumaki Yuntaro:
Don’t let that thing bait you!… Demons are parasites of chakra!… They live within the chakra network of their host body… Never mistake their cunning for cruelty… no matter how cruel it may be… They are essentially empathic parasites… As such… they are master manipulators of emotions… especially the old ones… like Rieitu… Look out!…
The black mini hurricane whirls it’s way around again, and attempts another swipe at Yuntaro and his group, as Shinki deploys his iron sand. Hovering around his person in the form of a cloak of floating iron sand, the iron sand moves to form a protective wall of iron sand, which causes the mini hurricane to bounce off the wall, before it continues on through the garden.
Uzumaki Yuntaro:
Shinki… You’re on defense… Keep that thing off us while we work… But be prepared to attack on my command!…
Shinki:
Hai!… Yuntaro sensei!…
Jugo… Back me up as I play… I have an idea… Miraisama… You and the others keep an eye on our curious bystanders across the way over there… But don’t approach them… I think I may know who they might be…
Sarutobi Mirai:
I suspect I do too…
Jugo begins to play, augmenting the energy of Yuntaro’s wind style chakra, and bolstering Shinki’s magnet style iron sand defense, itself a product of wind and earth nature chakra.
Uzumaki Yuntaro:
Kagura… Give us a salvo on Rieitu please… Give it your best shot and hold nothing back…
Shinki:
Sensei!…
Uzumaki Yuntaro:
Just do it!… No time for debate!… I need to see what happens…
Karatachi Kagura:
Hai!…
Kagura pulls the extra large fish shaped sword off of his back, grabbing it by both handles, then infuses it with a large amount of his own chakra, causing it to take on a light blue glow. Kagura whips it around, and unleashes a blast of chakra out of it, straight at Rieitu. A whirl of black cloud engulfs Rieitu instantly, and forms an invincible barrier shield, blocking Kagura’s attack, as Yuntaro carefully observes the result while he plays his flute.
Kagura continues to press his attack, channeling even more chakra through his weapon. The black wind shield of Rieitu grows larger and more intense under the intensified barrage. Kagura eventually relents, no longer able to maintain the assault.
Yodo:
Let me try!…
Uzumaki Yuntaro:
Do it!… And hold nothing back!… Remember… for the host… death is a merciful option… Never hold back to save what might not be salvageable!…
Shinki:
That’s my mama!…
Uzumaki Yuntaro:
And she is still better off dead than being a host for a demon!… You have to remember… your mother is as much a battlefield as she is a hostage… Now attack!…
Yodo:
Yosh!…
Yodo pulls her long straight blonde butt length hair out from being tucked into her hoody, and whips it around with her right hand, infusing her wind nature chakra into her hair as she does so. Her wind style augments both the force of the whipping, as well as the sound of the whip, unleashing a sonic shockwave at her target. The shockwave surprisingly penetrates the black wind shield, just enough to knock Rieitu back and to the ground, and disrupt the creature’s other jutsu, disrupting and dispersing the black mini hurricane top spinning around the garden, as well as Rieitu’s black wind shield.
Uzumaki Yuntaro:
Interesting…
Rieitu begins to laugh hysterically, as it slowly stands back up, with the laughter echoing unnaturally through the garden like before. Then Rieitu’s echoing wind begins to speak.
Rieitu:
I’m glad that you find me interesting… I wouldn’t want to bore you… Allow me to sing for you…
Rieitu is ungulfed by another black funnel cloud that suddenly ramps up it’s intensity, and howls louder and louder as it expands, filling the whole garden space with it’s black howling whirl momentarily. The intensity of the sound knocks Yodo unconscious because of her sensitive hearing, a vulnerability of her jutsu. Araya kneels down by Yodo and begins to infuse his chakra into her, administering medical ninjutsu to her, while Kagura stands guard over them, ready to provide cover fire.
Shinki:
Yodo!…
Uzumaki Yuntaro:
She’s fine!… Maintain your defense!… I have a plan… And more importantly… I have a seal…
Yuntaro modifies and intensifies his playing, and Jugo follows suit. Numerous origami paper cranes form out of Yuntaro’s bare arms and hair, and form a whirling swarm around Rieitu at the center, flying with the currents of the black wind.
Uzumaki Yuntaro:
Shinki… I have a seal… and a delivery mechanism… But my shikigami will need your iron sand to act as a wind breaker escort… flying in formation with my shikigami…
Shinki:
With pleasure… Yosh!…
Numerous bits of black iron sand fly off from Shinki’s wall in the shape of feathers sculpted from iron sand, and they start to fly escort for Yuntaro’s cranes.
Uzumaki Yuntaro:
Go with the flow of the wind… Then work your way in through the eyewall of the funnel… And I’ll be right behind you… Then get out of my way…
Shinki:
Wakata!…
Uzumaki Yuntaro:
Miraisama… demons are creatures of genjutsu to some extent… They tend to be both strong and weak with respect to genjtsu… They exist within the chakra network of their host much the same way… and by the same mechanism… the same route that genjutsu uses to attack the chakra network of it’s target… The old ones are too powerful to beat with genjutsu… So be careful… But see if you can distract it…
Sarutobi Mirai:
Hai… Eh?… I’m being blocked!… It’s like some low level genjustu attack that goes nowhere on purpose… as a defensive block… like psychic white noise…
Uzumaki Yuntaro:
Blocked?… By the demon?…
Sarutobi Mirai:
Possibly… I suspect one of the observers in white…
Uzumaki Yuntaro:
Wakata… Jugo… I’m going to start playing a variation of your therapy music… play along and focus on that part… Let’s see if we can pacify this demon somewhat…
Jugo nods his head in the affirmative without interrupting his playing, then modifies his own playing following changes made by Yuntaro. The music takes on a more mellow and tranquil tone, resonating and echoing unnaturally throughout the garden, as Yuntaro’s shikigami crane assault struggles to reach it’s target, along with it’s iron sand feather escort. As the changes in the music take effect, the intensity of the black hurricane begins to die down slightly, and the ariel assault begins to gain headway.
The iron sand feathers provide one last push to penetrate the inner eye wall of Rieitu’s artificial hurricane, then peel off to get out of the way of Yuntaro’s shikigami seal barrage. The cranes fly right into Rieitu, and explode into flares of blue flame on impact, but leave no burns. Rieitu is momentarily engulfed in a flurry of blue flares, until the paper cranes are all gone. Then Rieitu’s host Matsuri collapses to her knees, pulls back her hood, and rips off the face mask covering her mouth.
Matsuri:
Shinki?… Is that really you?… my son?!?…
Shinki:
Hai mama!… Hai!… I am here!…
Matsuri breaks down crying as Shinki rushes to embrace her and comfort her, as Yodo wakes up just in time to watch the tearful reunion. Shinki collapses to his knees upon reaching his mother, and bear hugs her, with forgotten memories stirred by the sight of her face. The adult figure observing the scene cloaked in white begins to clap. Then a male voice begins to speak from the white cloaked adult, as everyone but Masturi and Shinki looks to see who’s talking.
White Cloaked Man:
Excellent technique… You truly are a master exorcist… That medallion suits you… Although my brother Enrio may vehemently disagree… That just makes me believe it even more… And who… may I ask… are you exactly?…
Uzumaki Yuntaro:
Watashiwa… Uzumaki Yuntarodesu… son of Uzumaki Shintaro… If you really are Enrio’s brother… then you should be familiar with that name… And you should also know that it’s the height of presumptuous rudeness… at a minimum… to go about cloaked and masked… then demand that others identify themselves without properly introducing yourself first… Otsutsuki Enkio…
Otsutsuki Enkio:
Hai… Hai… Sodesune… You’re quite right… Come Maruduku… Let us properly introduce ourselves to our new friends…
The two white cloaked figures step out of the entranceway, and fully into the light of the garden, as they remove the hoods of their cloaks. Enkio reveals his chalk white bald head with two goat’s horns coming out of the top of his forehead, pointed ears, and a long white braided goatee, tucked into the front of his cloak. In Enkio’s head are two blue Rinnegan, blue orbs with black concentric circles. Young Maruduku reveals a similarly chalk white head, but with a full head of long white hair tied in a loose ponytail, and tucked into his cloak behind him. Over his eyes he wears a large black rectangular visor.
Otsutsuki Enkio:
Watashiwa… Otsutsuki Enkiodesu… Eldest son of the Otsutsuki Emperor… Otsutsuki Anuo…
Otsutsuki Maruduku:
Watashiwa… Otsutsuki Marudukudesu… The second son of Otsutsuki Enkio… And grandson of the emperor…
Otsutsuki Enkio:
Now with that taken care of… I believe that I have a serious grievance with you… And I’m not referring to that little dust up recently with my baca brother Enrio… You have stolen something from me now… And I demand it’s return…
Uzumaki Yuntaro:
Stolen?… What have I stolen?,,,
Otsutsuki Enkio:
You have stolen a very valuable and prized jinn of the empire… You may be new to the guild… but you may wish to study up on the rules regarding imperial jinn… They are strictly off limits to the guild… as they are already in the custody of their gods… to whom they all rightfully belong as such…
Uzumaki Yuntaro:
I’m afraid that I cannot allow that just yet… The jinn may belong to you… but the host is spoken for by it’s mother… and never belonged to your jinn to begin with… The host cannot survive without the demon for the time being… having been a host for too long… That may change… But until then… I’m afraid your jinn is effectively… if temporarily… forfeit… If and when that changes… and if it is at all possible to safely do so… you have my word as an exorcist of the Demon Hunter Guild of the Otsutsuki Empire that your jinn will be returned to you… Does that satisfy your concern?… Enkiosama?…
Otsutsuki Enkio:
Iie… I’m not satisfied with your answer nor your attitude… Heretic!… All of the hosts belong to the gods as well!… You talk too much… You’re just like your insufferable father… No wonder Enrio had an issue with you…
Yuntaro beams with glee at the father son comparison, as Mirai braces for what comes next.
Sarutobi Mirai:
Here we go again…
Yuntaro’s paper clone in Persian cat form arrives with Shintaro and Sasuke, then the paper cat bursts into paper confetti before the confetti turns to dust.
Uzumaki Shintaro:
Enrio has an issue with anyone who doesn’t act like his slave…
Otsutsuki Enkio:
True… But that doesn’t make it any smarter to defy him… let alone pick a fight… as your son has done… and not just with Enrio…
Uchiha Sasuke:
Nor does it ever pay to pick a fight with the Uchiha Clan… as you have done… Enkiosama!… Watashiwa… Uchiha Sasukedesu!… You wanted my head!… my sword!… and my remaining arm!… I have two of them now!… Arms and swords!… Would you like to come and get them yourself?… Huh?… Enkiosama!?!…
Otsutsuki Maruduku:
Sasuke?… Uchiha Sasuke?… Sodesuka?… Is that really you?…
Uchiha Sasuke:
Who are you supposed to be?…
Uzumaki Shintaro:
Otsutsuki Maruduku… Sodesuka?… Enkio’s second and youngest son… The news of a new birth among the Otsutsuki is exceedingly rare… as far as anyone alive can remember… The last time that happened among the Otsutsuki… I eventually married her… Even a thousand years between births is a high rate for your clan…
Otsutsuki Enkio:
Your family has a special talent for running off at the mouth… Speaking of which… young Yuntaro… I will hold you to your promise regarding my jinn… But I’m sure that my brother Enrio would love to talk to you anyway…
Enkio reaches into his cloak, and he pulls out a small red crystal with a flickering red glow.
Otsutsuki Enkio:
You did a surprising amount of damage… and not just to his ego… He even came to me for extra help healing quicker… something he always hates to do… just for you…
Enkio tosses the red flickering crystal across the garden, to smash it on the ground a few feet away from Shinki and Matsuri in the center of the garden. An explosive electrical discharge of purple lightening briefly flashes upon the crystal smashing, taking the shape and materializing the form of Enrio, with four eyes now, as well as a new battle hammer made of pure purple chakra energy. Two Tenseigan are set in his forehead where he had only one before, in addition to the two Starlight Rinnegan in his normal eye sockets that he stole from his sister, Karui’s mother. Enrio raises his new battle hammer above his head with both arms, and sets off massive discharges of purple lightening above his head.
Otsutsuki Enrio:
Death to all heretics!…
Yuntaro sets off his own discharge of purple lightening, and disappears his flute from right out of his hand, replacing it with his matte black truth seeker shakujo staff, with the six rings on top bathed in an electric purple aura.
Uzumaki Yuntaro:
Are you referring to me savage?… I mean you no harm necessarily… But if you insist… I will teach you some proper manners… and respect for senjutsu… as I demonstrate my full sage mode…
Uzumaki Shintaro:
Yuntaro!…
Yuntaro undergoes a slight metamorphosis as he shifts into full sage mode, developing red kabuki style markings around the eyes, and transforming his blonde hair completely vivid Uzumaki red. Enrio ramps up the purple lighting surrounding his hammer’s head, and begins to prepare to strike at Shinki and his mother. As Enrio is about to smash his hammer down upon Shinki and Matsuri’s heads, Yuntaro is rapidly engulfed in an electric purple aura, then disappears in a purple flash, reappearing in between Enrio and his targets with his staff raised to block Enrio’s hammer.
When they strike each other, their weapons unleash a massive discharge of purple lightening, that Yuntaro manages to deflect it enough to protect everyone. But the blast manages to blow a massive hole through walls of the botanical maze, all the way to the outside. But the seal creating the artificial gravity and atmosphere for the sky lantern holds.
Uzumaki Yuntaro:
Father!… Please look after the others while I’m gone!… I’m afraid that I’m going to have to take this fight outside!…
Yuntaro opens up a portal behind Enrio with his Rinnegan, then blasts himself and Enrio through the portal in a purple flash before it closes. Just as Yuntaro portals out, Yugito arrives escorting the hokage’s clones along with Shikadai in his grey fox form, Inojin in his ink form, and Mitsuki in his normal form, still cautious of transformation.
Sarutobi Mirai:
Yuntaro!?!… I thought he didn’t know how to use portals!…
Uchiha Sasuke:
They’re fine… I know where they went… Although I doubt Yuntaro knows… And I thought my grandfather was reckless…
Otsutsuki Enkio:
He is… But his son is very much… his son…
Naruto’s stone toad form training clone pipes up suddenly.
Stone Toad Naruto:
It’s Neji!… We found Neji!…
Grey Fox Shikadai:
Who are you calling Neji?… stony toad!…
Otsutsuki Enkio:
He is calling my son Neji… And I do not appreciate it… Who put you up to that?… How do you know that name?…
Masked Naruto Clone:
He knows that name because Neji is our friend!… But I don’t know why he’s calling your son Neji… How do you know that name?…
Otsutsuki Maruduku:
My father knows that name… because that is the name of the old life that I must move beyond… as I am struggling to do… I am not Neji!… Otsutsuki Marudukudesu!…
Stone Toad Naruto:
But Neji… it’s time to come home ya know…
Otsutsuki Maruduku:
‘Ya know’?… Naruto?…
The masked Naruto training clone pulls back his hood and removes his training blind fold and mask.
Unmasked Naruto Clone:
Hai!… It’s me!… Uzumaki Narutodesu!… Ya know!… er… a clone really… So is he… believe it or not… That’s a long story that I don’t know how to explain ya know…
Otsutsuki Enkio:
I’m sure that’s all very interesting… But I don’t think that Shintaro can afford to be so casual about the fate of your own son… Enrio is quite enraged… Perhaps your son takes after you a little bit too much for his own good in that regard… You may wish to see after him… And I must confess to being curious… Why don’t we all join them?…
Enkio holds up both his hands with open palms, displaying two matching Starlight Rinnegan, which then start to glow for a moment. Then everyone present is transplanted to Yuntaro and Enrio’s vicinity, arranged exactly as they were before, but resting on the rooftop of what appears to be a decaying husk of a steel frame skyscraper. At the foot of the husk lies a fresh crater, surrounded by other similar husks, where a cacophony of thunder is erupting from blinding purple flashes in the center.
Unmasked Naruto Clone:
Nani!?!… Where the hell are we?!?… What kind of hell is this?!?… I can’t sense any chakra anywhere on this planet except for here with us ya know!… What happened here?… They didn’t do this… did they?…
Stone Toad Naruto:
This is the garden of Eden ya know… or was… or will be… it could use some help to be…
Uchiha Sasuke:
Well that clears things up…
Uzumaki Shintaro:
This… is Terra Alpha… the first Earth… We are further in closer to the star at the center of the same solar system as the Sky Lantern Flotilla of Jupiter… This… is the origin world of humanity… and the Otsutsuki… before they destroyed it early on in the Great Celestial War…
Otsutsuki Enkio:
Revisionist heresy… This is nothing but an old seedbed world conquered and gratuitously destroyed by treacherous scale face dragons… nothing more… and nothing less…
Uzumaki Shintaro:
Heard it before… Get a new line…
Otsutsuki Enkio:
You first heretic… You first…
A butterfly form Chocho, the dragon lady Sarada, and lightening monkey Boruto, all shimmer in to view next to them on the rooftop of the husk, materializing joining hands using Chocho’s Starlight Rinnegan to transport themselves.
Uzumaki Shintaro:
Chocho!… You were told to stay with your mother!… by your mother!… What are you lot doing here?…
Akimichi Chocho:
I sensed that Shinki was in trouble with his mama!… Then I saw them all come here!… Where is here?!?…
Yuntaro exhales a torrent stream of blue flame at Enrio, just missing him, but following him as he runs, instantly incinerating everything it hits, turning it to ash in the shape of it’s bore hole, which drills it’s way through the middle of the husks, slicing them in half. The top half of the husks drop at free fall speed, including the part that everyone else is standing on, as the careless blue flame stream swipes just below them.
Shintaro’s body erupts in more flashes of purple lightening, as he instantly transforms into his silver sage form as an anatomically incomplete naked silver mannikin of himself. Then he clasps his silver hands together, and begins to emit his own purple lightening, as an electric purple aura of it rapidly spreads out from himself and covers the entire rooftop chunk they’re standing on, arresting it’s fall and levitating it upward, with them all still standing on it, clearing them of the battle. Yuntaro finally notices that he is not alone battling his opponent, and cuts of his blue flames.
Uzumaki Yuntaro:
Father!?!… Is that you?!?… What are you wearing?…
Uzumaki Shintaro:
Sage transformation!… Mind your blue flames!… Where did you learn that anyway?…
Uzumaki Yuntaro:
It’s the shadow flame style of the two tailed beast!… Matatabi taught me!…
No longer kept busy by Yuntaro’s blue flame attack, Enrio launches himself in a purple flash into the air just above Shintaro, poised to strike. Kurai and Sakura shimmer into view behind Shintaro, with Kurai already in her pink dragon scaled form and bathed in an electric purple aura. Then Kurai launches herself at Enrio in a bright purple flash, and materializes right above Enrio in the air with sword raised above her.
Dragon Scale Kurai:
Die savage!…
Kurai slashes downward with her sword and unleashes a purple ball of lightening out of the tip of her sword, and smashes Enrio back down into the dead Earth with it, piling on with an electric purple arc from her sword. Then Karui hovers in place for a moment, with an electric purple aura bathing the soles of her feet, before discharging it to launch her back to the rooftop.
Dragon Scale Karui:
You’re grounded Princess Chocho!… Maybe permanently!…
The Raikame suddenly appears in a purple flash in the sky above their rooftop and the dead Earth below. Yuntaro appears in a flash purple lightening on the rooftop next to Karui.
Uzumaki Yuntaro:
Believe it or not… I was actually trying to diffuse the situation… big sis… Father… Matsuri is still in recovery… I was forced to use a reversal seal… The host couldn’t be saved otherwise… She is in need of time… and a second opinion from you… and most likely further treatment… But Enrio is most unreasonable!… Is it just me?… Or is he always like that?…
Otsutsuki Enkio:
Affirmative… on both counts… But he’s also not going anywhere…
The dead Earth beneath them erupts with purple lightening from out of the caved in pit that Karui buried Enrio in with her first attack.
Uzumaki Yuntaro:
He is beyond savage… He is beyond reason… He is psychotic… There is no other diagnosis possible… He is in need of a severe time out…
Uzumaki Shintaro:
You seem awfully calm in the midst of battle and conflict… for an Uzumaki…
Uzumaki Yuntaro:
They say I take more after my mother in terms of temperament…
Uzumaki Shintaro:
Luck you…
Otsutsuki Enrio:
Shintaro!… Face me Shintaro!… Stop hiding behind your own children!…
The real Naruto jumps off the Raikame, and generates a Giant Rasengan, a giant ball of senjutsu amplified chakra, and piles it into Enrio on the ground below. Sasuke jumps off the floating rooftop and joins Naruto on the ground, as the floating rooftop begins to float towards the Raikame.
Uchiha Sarada:
If he needs a time out… then let’s give him a time out… Chocho… help me out with the Fade to Black Seal…
Uzumaki Yuntaro:
Ooh!… I know that one!…
Jugo:
Me too… Orochimaru taught me… But I couldn’t do it before…
Uzumaki Shintaro:
It does work better as a group effort… But you have to be able to do it solo in order to rely upon it…
Otsutsuki Enkio:
Are you all out of your minds?… Baca heretics!… To think that you could treat a son of the emperor like a common jinn!… I might like to see you try… How about a wager on the challenge?…
Uchiha Sarada:
What do you intend to wager?…
Otsutsuki Enkio:
My son… Maruduku…
Otsutsuki Maruduku:
Nani!?!… Me papa?!?…
Uchiha Sarada:
We don’t make a habit of trading human flesh… Are you proposing some sort of royal hostage?… Why should we take a hostage?… even a royal one?…
Otsutsuki Enkio:
As much as I don’t like my son’s memory condition… It is a part of him that he needs to face and deal with… in order to move beyond it and leave it behind him… And he can keep an eye on my property for me… Your shinobi is in illegal possession of an imperial jinn… And I expect that to be returned…
Uchiha Sarada:
Where’s the wager?… if you want us to take him anyway?…
Otsutsuki Enkio:
If you don’t succeed in your plan… you won’t survive the attempt in order to take my son anywhere with you…
Unmasked Naruto Clone:
You’re on… speaking for the real me… because he’s busy ya know…
Uchiha Sarada:
Very well then… Challenge accepted…
The floating rooftop gets close enough to the Raikame to be abandoned, and everyone jumps ship from the rooftop to the Raikame. Then the floating rooftop loses its electric purple aura, and drops out of the sky to come crashing down on the ground on top of where Naruto temporarily buried Enrio. Enrio explodes his way up out from his piled up burial in a bright light blue chakra blast from his Tenseigan, clearing a new crater around himself, before Naruto and Sasuke jump into the crater to confront him.
Otsutsuki Enrio:
Who are you punks supposed to be?… Is Shintaro still hiding behind his own children?…
Uchiha Sasuke:
Uchiha Sasukedesu… Grandchild…
Real Uzumaki Naruto:
Uzumaki Narutodesu… Nephew…
Otsutsuki Enrio:
More heretics to purge… from a heretical line…
Enrio launches himself at Sasuke as Sasuke readies his sword. Then Shintaro materializes in between Sasuke and Enrio, in a flash of purple lightening, and grapples barehand in his silver sage form with Enrio and his purple energy hammer.
Uzumaki Shintaro:
You’ll have to start with me savage!… But I think you’re in for a treat… a special musical performance just for you… from my family… Sasuke… Naruto… Get back to the Raikame… Leave this savage to me…
Otsutsuki Enrio:
You’re awfully shinny… Perhaps I’ll melt you down for a new hammer…
Uchiha Sarada:
That’s our queue… Let’s go Chocho…
Akimichi Chocho:
Hai!…
Sasuke and Naruto leap back onto the deck of the Raikame, just as dragon girl Sarada and butterfly Chocho begin to play Fade to Black. As they play, dragon scale Karui steps to her daughter Chocho’s side and pulls out her flute, then begins to play along like she’s been doing it her whole life. Ishitara conjures forth her koto and joins them. Jugo and Yuntaro join them with their flutes as dragon girl Sarada begins to sing. Then Mitsuki conjure forth an electric guitar, which he then infuses with his own lightening nature chakra, and then plays along. Chocho glances back at Mitsuki as she continues playing.
Uchiha Sarada:
Your life it seems to fade away… You’re drifting further every day… You’re getting lost within yourself… Nothing matters… No one else…
Otsutsuki Enrio:
No one else is right!… I know that tune!… That won’t work on me!… Otsutsuki Enriodesu!…
Uzumaki Shintaro:
Urusai baca… I like this song… And they’re really good…
Uchiha Sarada:
You have lost the will to live… You have nothing more to give… There is nothing more for thee… You need the end to set you free…
Enrio starts to turn black, and he reacts badly, as Enkio struggles to suppress his shock.
Otsutsuki Enrio:
You can’t do this to me!… This is heresy!… I am Enrio!… I am Enrio!…
Enrio freezes and turns completely deep dark black. Then everyone stops playing with great relief, as Chocho exchanges a mutual nod with Mitsuki. Enkio stands stunned for a moment, then begins to laugh hysterically as he claps in appreciation of the performance against his younger brother.
Otsutsuki Enkio:
Excellent!… A performance worthy of the imperial court!… And as your prize… you get to live… and do what I want… And I will expect nothing but the best of treatment for my son while he is your royal hostage… And I will hold young Yuntaro personally responsible for the return of my jinn and my son with him… And give my regards to Kaguyasama… I’m sure my son would love to talk with her…
Otsutsuki Maruduku:
Are you sure this is okay father?… You always told me to forget about it before…
Otsutsuki Enkio:
I’ve changed my mind… This could be an excellent learning experience for you… And it’s an opportunity to step up and take responsibility in your role as a prince of the empire… Their world is a part of my responsibilities… and as such is also a part of yours now…
Otsutsuki Maruduku:
Wakata…
Otsutsuki Enkio:
You’d better leave… I’ll stay and take care of my little brother… I’ll give you a head start… and time for the emperor to catch up with Enrio… Sayonara…
Enkio shimmers away on a cordial note, and shimmers back into view down on the ground next to the blackened figure of Enrio.
Uzumaki Shintaro:
Yukai!… Set sail for the archives!… No more diversions!…
Yukai sets the course with navigation seal, then fully initiates the drive at full speed. Everything around them becomes a pink hued field of shooting stars, as they fly through space, surrounded by a protective pink aura of chakra, as purple lightening drives the ship through space.
Uzumaki Shintaro:
I was going to use the portal in my office at the design school… But we’ll have to steer clear of the flotilla for now… Too complicated… But all things considered… I think it went well…
Uchiha Sasuke:
‘Went well’!?!… Baca sennin!…
There Is No Alone!
Forever Never Ending!
There Is No Escape!
There Is No Point In Pretending!
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