Yami: The Gamer Kage

Five days later:

I looked at the pot before me. I was walking around the market district on my way back from dinner four days ago when I spotted it. It was specially treated, so it won't crack if someone drops it, and it also had some cement mixed into it. The moment I looked at it I knew it was perfect.

A perfect container for Orochimaru's spirit. I began working on it then and there, placing seals on it that were each A rank and above. It would serve as containment seal for a single soul.

I made it so that it's walls acted like chakra lines like that in a human body. So if I put a soul into it, it would produce chakra that would travel along the walls, powering the pot's protections that kept it sealed shut. It was basically a cycle of fuckery for the soul sucked inside.

It took me four days of hard work to perfect this thing, and hopefully it was all worth it. It was around ten in the morning, perfect. I made a clone and it immediately took off, running towards the hospital to talk to the head daughter about the procedure. If I'm going to do this I'll need professional help.

I yawned as I left my room, finding Misu sitting at the kitchen table, already making breakfast.

"You didn't have to make that grandma Uzumaki," I said as I poured myself a cup of coffee, "you know I like cooking."

"It's the least I can do dear after you let me stay here free of rent," she smiled. She looked inside, the room to my workshop was left open, giving her a clear line of sight to the pot, "is it ready?"

"Yup. could you take a look?" I asked.

"Of course," she put away the vegetables she was cutting and went inside. She picked up the pot ad looked at it, humming as she examined the seal matrix, "it should work. I see no flaws in it...none at all. I must say, while you may not be an Uzumaki, you sure do the talent of a grand seal master.

I smiled, "thanks. I just hope it's enough to help Anko."

"Do you really care for this girl that much?" Misu asked with a smly smile.

I smiled back, "she's really hot."

"So all a girl has to do to make you stay up all night for four days in a row is shove your head between her cleavage?"

I shrugged, "pretty much. Oh, and I guess I felt like it was the right thing to do."

"You are...an odd shinobi Yami."

"Is that bad?"

Misu smiled, "kindness is never a bad thing."

Just then the clone popped, it had talked to the doctor and gained his permission. If I wanted I could have examining room for the next two hours. I immediately made another clone that went for the Hokage to gain his permission and when it popped I was ready to move.

The Hokage agreed, but only under the condition that a doctor and nurse be on standby to make sure nothing goes wrong. I decided to go a step further and ask him for the help of Genma and the Hokage Gaurd Platoon, the only other decent seal masters in this village.

The three agreed, though it was difficult at first. And now we were ready. Misu agreed to go ahead and set everything up in the hospital, so now it was left to me to find Anko.

I used my chakra sensory skills and located her easily, she was eating dango in her favorite shop. Duh.

I landed before her and smiled, "you keep eating dango like that and your perfect figure will go down the drain."

"Please," Anko snorted, "they day I become fat is the day pigs fly."

I smiled, "you know...I wouldn't mind if you got a little chubby, just gives me more to play with."

Anko smirked, "I knew you had a fat fetish."

"It's called a boob fetish Anko," I snorted rolling my eyes, "and the only reason I'll find you hot when you get fat is because you would still be the hottest woman in Konoha," I groaned, "which is sadder than you would expect."

"Relax kid, I told you, give it time, you'll find someone," she winked.

"Right...anyway, the flirting was nice, but that's not why I'm here," I smiled.

"And why are you here?" she asked.

I smiled, "I think I can get rid of you seal, permanently."

Anko's eyes widened as she immediately got to her feet, "how?"

"I made a vessel to contain his soul, so if we just transfer it into that, you'll be snake free," I smiled.

Anko looked serious as she nodded, "right. What do I have to do?"

"Take my hand," I offered it to her. She took it without question. I closed my eyes and flashed us over to the hospital room which had already been set up.

"Ah, you're here, good," Misu said as she finished drawing containment seals all around the room that all radiated from the bed in the middle of the room. And attached to the upper left corner was the pot I had made, its lid open.

The doctor and nurse were standing in one corner, I walked up to them and told them what the procedure was going to do, and what they should be looking for.

"So what do I have to do?" Anko asked as she removed her jacket and put it aside.

"Lay down, face up and relax, we'll take care of everything," I told her just as the door opened up and the Hokage gaurd platoon walked in.

"Sorry we're late," Genma said with a node as he looked at Anko, "hey Anko, looking sexy as ever."

"You know it," Anko smirked, "and I'm about to get a whole lot sexier once I get this tattoo removed."

I smiled, "well then that would make it the most complex tattoo removal operation in history," I then guided the platoon members to their potions. They had their hands on the ground channeling their chakra to maintain the barrier around Anko, to make sure Orochimaru's spirit doesn't escape.

Misu opened the pot and went through several hand seals which allowed her to create a tube of chakra flowing from Anko's neck to the pot. And I had the most important role of her, I was going to release Orochimaru.

I activated the mystical palm jutsu, lighting up my hand with a green glow. I turned to Anko, "you sure about this?"

She nodded, "yeah. I am. Even if it kills me...I refuse to be a puppet."

I nodded, "right," I took out a set of goggles and strapped them on. They were tinted so only I could see through, and no one could see inside.

"What's the goggles for kid? A fashion statement?" Anko asked with a chuckle.

I smiled, "it's a special set of google that allows me to focus my chakra sensory skills. Now shut up, your sexy voice is distracting me."

Le successful!

The truth is the only reason I wore these goggles is because I don't want people to see me activate my sharingan. I would need it's ability to see people's chakra veins to work on removing Anko's seal.

"Evil Releasing seal!" I made a Horse hand seal and placed my green glowing hand on ANko's neck.

"ARGH!" she cried out in pain, gritting her teeth and slowly a giant three headed white snake began pouring out of Anko's neck.

I carefully used my chakra to unwind Orochimaru's chakra from Anko's own network. I then healed her body as each stem of Orochimaru's soul was removed. Misu then guided the three headed snake into the pot, activating the seals and made the pot seem like a living body, activating the containment seals around the pot.

"Keep pushing babe! You're almost there!" I encouraged her as the chakra unwound itself from her body.

"YARGH!" Anko screamed as the last of Orochimaru's soul was ripped out and put into the pot. I immediately began to heal her wounds while Misu sealed the pot up, trapping the snakes soul inside of it.

I sighed as I began close Anko's wounds, Misu took the pot away and put it into another Uzumaki special seal that would prevent it from leaving, even if it broke the pot.

The gaurd platoon stopped their flow of chakra and sighed in relief. Anko's breath slowly returned to normal. I finished healing her as the doctor and nurse came up, examining her thoroughly.

"I-Is it over?" Anko asked.

"Yeah, it's over," I smiled.

Ping!

Quest Completed!

Rewards:

Permanent 100 REP with Anko (unless you perform an unforgivable act)

+5 Skill scroll

Cursed Seal of Heaven formula!

I smiled at the 100 REP thing, which is totally awesome. And the skill scroll would be useful too. And the formula for the seal of heaven does peak my interest. If I can get rid of the bad stuff and just use the good...hm, could be game changing.

Misu and I packed up, thanked the platoon for their help, and went to see Anko in the recovery wing. Anko was asleep, which was too bad, but, she did look peaceful which was something.

Misu decided to go back home while I wanted some fresh air. It had been a long four days making that pot, I'm just glad it worked. I walked around the park and sat down, relaxing in the pleasant wind I felt in my face.

I opened my inventory and took out the +5 skill scroll. While I should probably use it on my chakra enhanced strength or something, I decided to have some fun and used it on flirting instead;

Flirting, Lv- 17 (0%)

Your ability to charm your target to drop their gaurd, confuse them or getting them to like you.

43% chance of it working (+40% from Ladies man) (+30% from nobel)

+5 REP bonus if works

Yup, with chances like this there's no way the ladies can resist me now. Thank you Ladies man perk! And speaking of perks, I wonder if I got any new one's thanks to Anko gaining 100 REP with me?

I opened it up and found two oddly enough;

A woman's bed- Gain +10,000 EXP every time your lover(s) and you share an orgasim together. (Conditions to unlock- Achieve 100 REP rate with a woman) PP cost- 20

Snake summoner- Gain a the snake summoning contract. (Conditions to unlock- Achieve 100 REP with a snake summoner) PP cost- 40

….I want the first one. I want it, I want it! I need it!

Ping!

You have obtained the perk: A woman's bed!

A woman's bed- Gain +10,000 EXP every time your lover(s) and you share an orgasim together.

And as for the snake summoner thing, I never was much of a snake person. Hate those things, so sneaky and deadly. But...that did get me thinking, what kind of animals do I summon? My curiosity took hold and soon I was on a mission.

Ping!

Quest Alert!

Find your summons and form a contract!

Rewards:

Summoning contract!

Failure:

Possible death/dismemberment

Do you Accept?

Y/N?

I of course pressed yes and took off, intent on finding more information in the library. I found a lot, mostly just a general guideline, but I also found several summoning contracts in the library itself.

The thing is, a summoning contract is a very powerful and private thing. Usually only a powerful ninja would have one, and they would in turn only allow their students to sign it, like Jiraiya did with the Fourth and Naruto.

But there were common summoning scrolls that anyone who earns the right to sign them get to us. Like the turtle scroll, the dog scroll and the rat scroll which was the village's basic summoning scrolls.

Only jounin level ninjas could use them however, and I really wasn't interested. It was honestly a pain. Plus it's not like I need a summoning contract, I do infact have pokemon….but no way to use it.

Hm, maybe I should make it so that everyone believes that the pokemon are my summons! A custom made summoning scroll that integrated my pokeballs and the space and time factors of the summoning jutsu!

But the quest, it implied I needed to find my summons, hm, that could take a while, and I only have to days left in my break. So I'll do that later, for now, I need to figure out how to make my pokemon seem like summons.

Two Days Later:

It was the day of departure and I now sprouted six new seals on my arms, three on my left forearm and three on my right. They were covered by bandages, keeping everyone unawre of what they could do, but needless to say, I had succeeded in creating a pseudo summoning contract.

I was called into the jonin HQ and inside found myself in meeting room 4 where Zabuza and Haku were already present. The ten jonin that were assigned to this mission was also present, taking up the front three rows.

We had three aburame's, four Inuzuka's, a clanless ninja that was covered with scars and two medical kunoichis.

"Morning!" I smiled as I waved at everyone as I walked in. the Jounins smiled and waved while I sat next to them, while Zabuza just glared at me, though Haku did smile back. Just then the doors opened as around 20 chunin walked in, sitting down behind us. They were all a lot older than me, probably had a lot of combat experience.

"Alright everyone, settle down," a Nara walked in and judging form his name and how familiar he looked I'm guessing he was Shikamaru's dad;

Shikaku Nara, Jonin commander

Lv- 72

REP- 60

He yawned as he took the podium and looked around, he then nodded to Zabuza who came forward standing next to the Nara with Haku by his side.

Shiaku then explained the mission, what we were going to do, how we were going to do it and what the Demon of the Mist was doing standing right next to them looking calm and almost bored.

"...And that's about it," he sighed, "you'll follow Zabuza's lead, essentially, he's in charge. We give Kiri that image, but in reality Tota will be the lead on this," Nara pointed to the scanned clanless ninja, "any questions?"

No one spoke, professions, nice.

"Good. Now, Zabuza will explain the mission parameters," Shikaku said as he stepped away and walked towards me, taking the free seat next to me. He turned to me and gave a slight nod, which I gave back.

"Right," Zabuza said stepping before us and grumbled, "honestly, I hoped I would get more help but...whatever, you get what you get. Hopefully you won't blame us for dieing because you stepped into a fight that isn't your own."

The ninjas around looked unimpressed at Zabuza's attempts to rile them up, Obviously they wouldn't fall for something that stupid. The missing nin then began his talk, detailing where we were going to lad, how we needed to go about making contact with the resistance and how we have to behave.

After the briefing we were lead into the armoury, I had never actually gotten a proper introduction into this place, no time. I either was on missions or was training and since the Hokage never told anyone to do it, I guess they just didn't bother.

Damn, now that I think about it, even though I am a tokubetsu jonin, no actually treats me like one. They still see me as a kid! The people I worked with, Ko and team eleven, they respected me, even Kakashi and Zabuza had respect for me, but these guys? No way.

Anyway, since I didn't know the route I moved to the man and followed the team, which was labeled Team Wet Wood. We ended up in a locker room eerily similar to the ANBU room and before us was a table filled with identical gear, handed out to each person.

Each person got a grey cloak with black and white camouflage patterns and a new set of weapons, which I really didn't need.

"Alright, as I call out your names step forward and receive your mask," Shikaku said as he held up a porcelain white mask with numbers on them. They looked like the hunter nin mask that Haku first wore, but these had red, green and brown patterns on them.

"Tota, you're number one," the Nara tossed him the mask, "medics Sushi and Furo, 2.1 nd 2.2," and like that he went, tossing people their masks.

By then we were all in our new gear, all ready for anything. But as more and more people gained their mask I started to grow worried, where was mine? And soon, the masks were gone.

"Alright, now that we're all set up let's move," Nara turned to Tota and Zabuza, "good luck you two. You'll need it."

"Ah, excuse me jonin commander Nara? I don't have a mask," I called out.

The man turned to me and smirked, "tokubetsu jonin Yami correct?"

I nodded, "yes sir."

"Right, well you're under special orders from the Hokage Yami, you aren't allowed to hide your face," he pointed to my face mask ad hood, "take them off. Since you're already an A rank in the bingo books we want you showing off for a bit, got that?"

I nodded, "make lots of noise, show off, look sexy while doing it. Got it."

"Is he related to Anko?" a jonin asked in a whisper as a few chuckled.

Nara smirked, "right. Oh, and one more thing, the Hokage told me to tell you that you aren't allowed to show the red while during the mission, unless it is a life or death situation. Do you know what that means?"

'No sharingan huh? Hm,' I nodded, "I do," I pulled down my hood and face mask showing my real face to everyone.

"Huh, so that's what you look like huh?" Zabuza snorted.

I smiled, "why? Are you falling in love me with Zabu? You know I'm straight right?"

"Annoying brat," the man hissed.

"Nice one kid," said number 4.1, a chunin and jonin number four. She has short spiky brown hair and was around level 45. God, how can someone so old be so weak?! Ah! This is infuriating!

"As I was saying, good luck, all of you," Nara nodded, "you'll need it. Dismissed!"

"Sir!" we saluted the man and went out in a swarm.

"Yami, take lead on this," Tota, now called 1, ordered, "you're a chakra sensor right?"

I nodded, "yes. My range is about 800 feet sir."

"Okay, they take the lead. Number 5 and 4," he pointed at the Inuzuka's and their wolf like dogs, "gaurd him. Chunin ranks follow behind Zabuza, Haku and myself, 2.1 and 2.2, behind them and the rest bring up the rear."

"Right," we nodded as we all began to move into position, with my protected by 5 and 4, whose giant dogs kept close to my side.

We travelled at around high chunin speeds, surprisingly the weakest chunin, number 3.2 whose level was only 43, could still keep up. I think it must be because of age and leveling up his skills. Obviously levels weren't a clear cut answer to how strong a person was. Example a, me.

We kept this pace through the day and into the night. I honestly wasn't bother by much because of this, not at all, but, the chunins, especially 3.2, started to get tired. We did however reach a coastal town by nightfall and hired a boat to take us across the ocean to Kiri.

We were out into international water by midnight, and it was only then when 1 allowed us all to get some rest. Though I didn't need it, I did have to pretend I did, else they would grow suspicious as to how I can stay awake without any negative effects.

The boat rocked gentle across the calm seas as we sailed for over a week. Kiri was a far away group of islands just off the coast and the Land of Fire and the Land of Lightning, as such it rarely ever was much of a country that was involved with any major wars or rivalry. It was far removed, which was both good and bad.

The night before we reached the land I found myself on lookout duty, since we were approaching a cluster of islands filled with ninjas, there were bound to be a few people who would note a boat full of ninjas coming for them.

As I stood at the ship's portside I noticed someone else come up from below deck, Zabuza and Haku. They walked onto the deck and walked towards me.

"Did you get anything kid?" Zabuza asked.

I shook my head, "it's clear for over 800 feet...although there are some creepy ass fish in this part of the sea," I noted looking down to see a giant fish fin rise up from the sea surface, splashing back down almost instantly.

"Kiri's water's are dangerous, and not just because of the ninja. We have sea monsters living in the waves. Some are….less friendly than others."

"Do you guys have mermaids?" I asked.

He blinked and turned to me, "what?" Haku was chuckling softly in the distance.

"Mermaids. You know, bottom half fish, top half woman? Totally hot? Don't….you don't have those here?"

"Are you talking about the Hoshigaki clan?"

I blinked, "Kisame's clan? What about them?"

"They are a clan of ninjas with shark like features. Kisame is just one of them."

"Huh...do the women also have sharp teeth?"

"Sharper."

"Nevermind then," I shuddered.

Zabuza laughed, "yeah kid, don't' even think about it. I heard from a friend about a ninja dumping a Hoshigaki kunoichi that ended with his cock bitten off. You don't' want to fuck with that clan."

I nodded, "yup. So...what's Kiri like?"

"What do you mean?" he asked.

"You know what Konoha is, loud, stuffy and covered with forest. So what's your village like?"

"It's...wet," he turned away and walked to the other side of the ship, ignoring me and Haku.

"Don't take his actions personally," Haku replied, "he hasn't been home in a long time. To him it's still a place he would rather forget."

"And you?" I asked, "you're from the Yuki clan yes? An ice user. Would you prefer if you didn't return?"

Haku smiled and shook his head, "no...to me, this land is still home...though I can't say I look forward to being back to a place that hates me for something I have no control over."

I sighed, "that's sad Haku...so tell me, are you really a guy? Because you're way too cute for that."

Haku smiled, "I assure you, I'm a guy."

I looked at his neck, but oddly enough it was covered by a turtleneck collar, "show me your neck."

Haku blinked, "excuse me?"

"Your neck, show it to me. If you're really a guy you'll have an Adam's apple. So...show me."

Haku blinked, "I...I don't' think that's necessary now."

I blinked, "oh my God….you're a girl!"

"Heh, about time you figured it out," Zabuza grumled.

"Lord Zabuza! Don't encourage him!" Haku cried out, and that moment of doubt I pressed my hand against 'his' throat and felt it smooth, no adam's apple, "shit!" Haku cried out as she slapped my hand away, "what is the hell is wrong with you?!"

I blinked, "you are a girl! Ha! This is hilarious!"

Haku growled as she turned away and walked back inside, growling under her breath. She slammed the lower deck door shut, I could see ice forming on the handle.

"You've done it now kid," Zabuza said as he turned around, "she'll probably freeze your balls off for that stunt."

I shrugged, "if she does I'll just thaw them out, no biggy. So why did she hide her gender anyway?"

"A lot of people would want the last daughter of a bloodline clan like hers," Zabuka explained, "we perfected her male identity for her own safety. And if you tell anyone about it," he turned to me leaking an obscene amount of killing intent, "I'll fucking kill you."

I shrugged, "you can try," he growled, "fine, fine, I promise, I won't tell anyone. Shesh, it's not like I want her to be molested."

The man huffed and looked away, his eyes fixed on the horizon. We sailed until eventually I could see land coming up thanks to my 8.0 eyesight perk. The ninjas came out from under deck and we all go ready, suiting up and arming ourselves.

The boat stopped a kilometer away from land as we hopped off and ran the rest of the way to land, water walking as quietly as we could. The boat then sailed away, intent for a trading port nearby to trade its goods, a boat coming all the way out here only to turn back would have been just too obvious.

We managed to reach land, Zabuza taking the lead as we walked through a bamboo field heading East.

We couldn't run, going that fast would only attract attention towards ourselves. And around an hour later we came upon a campsite, a bandit camp site.

"What do we do?" 1 asked Zabuza.

"We sneak around," the kiri ninja explained as he observed the bandits, "they look like they have raided some merchant's caravan, they won't bother us."

"What exactly are we trying to do here?" I asked.

Zabuza looked at me, "we're trying to gain information about the land and what's going on."

"Then let's do that," I replied cracking my knuckles, "I'll take them down and you lot and interrogate them."

"There are around thirty men down there," 1 said motioning to the campsite, "you can't take them down without drawing attention to us."

"Genjutsu," I replied.

1 and Zabuza looked at each other before the Kiri ninja nodded, "if you're confident about that, then go ahead kid."

"Right," I stepped forward and went through hand seals for an A rank genjutsu I learned in the library;

Temple of Nirvana jutsu, A rank

A powerful genjutsu that generates a fluttering rain of sleep-inducing, illusory white feathers.

CP cost- 1,000 CP

Area affected- 100 square feet (per 1,000 CP used)

It was the same ninjutsu Suna used in the Chunin exams when Naruto was involved. I threw my charka out which entered into all thirty enemy's chakra viens, influencing their minds to see white feathers rain down from the sky. Soon they all dropped down asleep and my team moved out.

We tied them up, stripped them of their gear and then began integrating them. While they did that I was waiting for my peace lover and peace briner perks to kick in. But surprisingly I didn't any bonuses for sparing the lives of all the bandits.

Hm, it did say sparing them in battle, so maybe it wouldn't work if I didn't actually fight them. Hm, something to keep in mind.

Finally they were done, One gathered us all around as we used the bandit's campsite for ourselves.

"Here's what we know so far," Zabuza said as Haku held up a map of the Land, "Kiri has seven islands around it's main chunk of land that it controls, the others are mostly uninvolved or have their own daimyo in it. So for now we focus on these islands. Each is named after a weather style, Cloud, Rain, Mist, Lightning, Sunny, Storm and Sky. The main island is just referred to as Kiri.

"These Islands are divided by straight's of water keeping them apart. It would take a chunin a day to cross the strait between each island, as such most conflits don't pour over immediately into each island. Here's what we know so far, Sky, Storm and Sunny have been taken over by the resistance.

"Cloud and Rain are neutral in all of this because of the clans that live on the island refuse to fight for anyone and would kill both the resistance and the Mizukage's forces if they ever came to their side. That leaves Mist and Lightning in the hands of Kiri, along with the main island. And to make things worse the battle on Sunny island is getting bad, the Resistance is losing."

"So we're going to sunny first?" 1 asked.

Zabuza nodded, "yes. Sunny first, that's the war front. I've been told that the resistance movement doesn't wear the Kiri headband, instead they wrap a blue bandana around their foreheads, that's how we'll know the difference."

"Which island are we on right now?" 5 asked.

"We're on Cloud," Zabuza sighed, "fortunately for us Cloud isn't as...deadly with their forces as Rain is. We need to move, now. It'll take us four days to travel around the island before we can move for Cloud, which will two days more. It'll be a long journey."

"Can't we just use a boat?" a chunin asked.

"We can't afford too," 1 replied, "we would be too obvious."

"We could disguise ourselves," number 3 suggested pointing at the caravan, "we disguise ourselves as merchants and go into town and hire another boat. Or steal it if we have too."

"Not a bad plan," Zabuza nodded, "I'm done. You?" he turned to 1.

1 sighed, "it'll be risky...we'll have to hide the Inuzuka dogs inside the caravan...and the bandits will have to be dealt with," he looked at the unconscious bandits, "but yes...it'll work."

"Then let's move," Zabuza ordered.

"Right, 6 to 8, every get moving, wear the bandit's clothes and any other merchant clothes you can find inside the caravan. 3 to 5, get rid of the problems," he motioned to the bandits with his hand.

"No. Wait," Zabuza stopped him, slowly turning to me, "let him do it."

"What?" I raised an eyebrow.

"What are you doing Zabuza?" 1 asked.

"He's never killed, have you boy?" the man smirked, "you have never taken a life before. I heard even when you fought over 600 of Gato's goons, you only killed around five of them, and that too they died from blood loss, not from your hits. I can't go into this mission with someone who will freeze when they're faced with a tough choice. So you kill them...all of them."

"That's crazy!" 4 came to my side, "he's just a kid!"

"He's a ninja!" Zabuza snapped, "and a jonin at that. It's about time he learns what that means."

I understood what he wanted, he wanted to know that I could be useful. I looked at the bandits, how many did this because they had no choice? How many had families to feed? How many….how many did this because they just wanted to not die like a dog on the streets?

But Gamer's mind slowly kicked in and I could see clearly, Zabuza was right. If I didn't show my ruthless side then they would think I'm just a kid and I can't let that happen. Because if they don't think I'm useful, when it comes to the dangerous stuff, I won't be allowed to fight, I won't be allowed to try and save more lives. So I had to kill these men, and I had to be ruthless.

"Well? You going to do it kid?" Zabuza asked in a mocking tone.

Pushing my insecurities aside I walked up to the stack of people, they had all be tied together and all knocked out. I don't think I have the stomach to kill them all one by one by slicing their neck open with a kunai. So instead, I choose the second best option, a quickly death so fast they won't even have time to wake up.

I made five clones, we circled the bandits. The ninjas all turned to us, curious as to what we would do. We moved through hand seals, landing on a half tiger and half bird seal, breathing in, and gasping out as one.

'Scorch Style: Dragon's Breath!' I thought to myself as the bodies were burnt asunder, not even ashes were left behind.

None of them woke up, they all died in their sleep. We ended the jutsu after twenty seconds, finding nothing left but ashes, not even bone. They had all been reduced to dust, and now the blue flames burnt those as well.

I turned to Zabuza with a blank face, "let's move, we have a kage to kill."

They didn't say anything as I moved to help find clothes to wear form the caravan. They all began to work as well. I noticed a few of them look at me, I could feel their fear thanks to their chakra, even Zabuza kept an eye on me, though it was more out of pity than anything else.

As we removed out ninja uniforms and mask, wearing the civilians clothes we found, I kept telling myself that it had to be done. There was no way we could even risk those bandits running off and telling someone about us.

And then I asked myself, who would they tell? Other bandits? Ninjas? And what could they tell? I then answered myself, the ninja clans in this island, they could tell them. And they could find us. It was the smartest thing to do. I know that, and yet...I couldn't help feel sad.

We disguised the wagon to make it look different, just in case the merchant who owned this reported it stolen. We then moved out, Zabuza, Haku and the medics hid in the wagon along with the Inuzuka dogs. 1 took the lead as he and 8 pretended to be my father and mother, and me the happy go lucky kid who traveled with them along with the other merchants.

I skipped along the road, smiling and humming as I cheered a tune. 1 and 8 looked at me, obviously worried. They rest of the ninjas were talking in pairs, pretending to be a normal merchant vessel, while secretly keeping an eye out for trouble.

"Yami," 1 spoke up, "do you want to talk about it?"

I smiled and looked at him, "what do you mean pops?"

1 sighed, "you don't have to act Yami. Do you sense any enemies nearby?"

I shook my head, "nope!"

"Then drop the act kid," the Inuzuka lady, one Toba Inuzuka. She had wild dirty blonde hair tied into a ponytail with black fang mark under her eyelids. She didn't have much cur