*Madara, Grimm and myself arrive at the flame village. A crowd gather at the entrance, they have recognised zanji's headless body from the robes he always wore.*
Villager 1: Lord Madara... what happened?
Madara: There was an ambush... some rogue ninjas attacked us and zanji sacrificed himself to save me.
*sceptical murmurs sweep through the crowd as we walk through them into the main section of the village.*
Villager 2: ... i'm sure he had an honourable warriors death.
Madara: Please everyone... allow me to mourn for my friend in silence, attend your jobs.
*we walk into a graveyard together and a woman walks towards us*
Madara: Bianca... what have i done now to be graced with your presence? going to get angry for me taking this mission upon myself instead of letting you and your group deal with it?
Bianca: No... but Why did you lie to them?
Madara: I don't know what you mean.
Bianca: Don't treat me like a fool. no regular rogue ninjas could do this... not even in the best of ambushes...
what could be so terrible you'd avoid telling the villagers about?
Madara: Bianca... as covert ops leader you'll find out the details later in my report... I just wanted zanji to be rememberred as a hero, he was killed instead without any of us noticing a movement.
these guys are real, and these guys are strong. and as such, i don't want the villagers to panic. even if the secret will end up being exposed... let them live their life in peace while they still can.
Bianca: I don't believe i'm hearing this! the enemy hasn't even attacked but you treat it like the villagers are condemned to death!
Madara: Look... let me say my final goodbye to zanji... just leave me alone without this please...
*Bianca sighs and reluctantly walks away. Madara turns to an open grave, the tombstone has Zanji's name on it.*
Kawagiri: I don't mean to sound heartless in this situation, but why was his grave already dug?
Madara: Zanji used to tell me when we were kids he'd die young... He'd die to protect all his friends he'd say... we just called him weird for it.
5 months ago he commissioned for his grave to be dug, he told me... "the time felt right" he said he'd die to protect everyone. instead he just died needlessly.
Grimm: Wow... i never thought the guy was like that... he truly deserves to be remembered by the villagers as a hero... i'm sorry...
*Madara begins to bend down. He has a flashback to childhood. It's night time and Zanji is laid on a high tree branch and Madara and Bianca are standing on the ground below*
Young Madara: Hey! Lazy butt! get down from there... it's time to go!
Young Bianca: Just leave him... he'll come down.
Young Madara: Get down fool!
*there is a long silence and a slight wind blows a leaf from the tree, landing by madara's feet. Zanji is staring at the moon and a howling wolf breaks the silence*
Young Zanji:Madara... have you ever thought about what animal you are?
Young Madara: What are you talking about? you've been sat in that tree too long! lack of oxygen is affecting your head!
Young Zanji: No... I'm being serious. i see myself as the wolf... brave and strong... often in groups but sometimes overwhelmed by loneliness...
... everyone sees me as a useless kid... but i'll show them i'm a wolf.
*Young Zanji is seen handling a bracelet on his left arm. The bracelet has 3 wolf fangs on it. Madara returns from deep thoughts of memories past and looks down at Zanji's body. slowly he lifts up Zanji's sleeve revealing a wolf fang bracelet, which he removes and puts in his pocket*
Madara: Goodbye old friend.
Kawagiri: Madara, we'll go walk around and meet up with you later while you say your goodbyes...
*as Grimm and I leave, Madara lowers Zanji into his grave and proceeds to bury him*
*on a slope outside a huge iron door to enter the volcano, many bodies of highly trained ninja guardians litter the slope. their faces melted and sticking to the volcanic rocks on the slope of the extinct volcano. some barely alive guards scream in agony as they lay disfigured in this horrifying way.*
*inside the volcano Nero and Emperor have a guardian pinned against the wall*
Nero: Do i have to start melting you piece by piece or are you going to tell me where it is?
Un-named Guardian: Please no more!
*the guardian wimpers in agony and begins to cry softly*
Emperor: Then tell us where it is! it's not a hard question!
Un-named Guardian: Down the hall 2 rights and there is a large door... it's there! please let me go now!
Nero: I'm sorry... but that's not how i work
*Nero chuckles and brings his left arm to the guardians chest, the heat from his hand melts the skin and muscles from the front of his chest exposing bone. with one push he forces his hand inside the ribcage breaking it and pulling the heart out slightly... the guardian could do nothing but watch his life burn away infront of his very eyes as the heart burst into flames and melted.*
*Nero and Emperor approach a set of huge gilded doors... slowly opening them they walk inside... only to find a woman dressed in a long red silk kimono.*
Emperor: Yo... woman... where's the jewel of vulcan?!
Woman: My My... it appears that not only is manners a rare thing in modern times, but also intelligence too.
Emperor: What are you trying to say? i should kill you for that... you're lucky we need you so we can find the jewel!
Woman: But that's what i am. I am the jewel of vulcan!
Nero: Then we have no choice... you're going to come along with us...
Jewel of Vulcan: and if i refuse?
Nero: Then we will force you.
Jewel of Vulcan: Then try! i haven't killed a child in years
*the jewel of vulcan smirks and stares down the two intruders with an evil intent.*
*Far away from the volcano, Roku arrives in iwagakure with bishamon and helping ragnaroc get to bishamon's lab*
Bishamon: Carlie get in here please! we have a test sub... umm patient!
Roku: Test subject?
Bishamon: No no... i quite clearly said patient, would you like your ears testing too?
*carlie enters the lab.*
Bishamon: i'll need yout to quickly sew him up after i ingect him with this regrowth elixir.
*bishamon injects ragnaroc in the shoulder and the remains of his shoulder begins to glow*
Bishamon: now quickly!
*carlie closes her eyes, 5 needles float in the air and spin round ragnarocs severed arm fast as the stump of the shoulder regrows slightly towards it. the needles quckly stitch up the arm flawlessly*
Carlie: Operation successful!
Bishamon: Thank you carlie.
Roku: if it's regrowth elixir, why didn't you just regrow the arm?
Bishamon: it's experimental, i can't get it to grow full limbs yet but it can fix a connection between severred flesh, the only restriction is that there must be a slight amount of growth before re-attaching the limb.
anyway, your friend should be able to use that arm in 2 days. right now i need to do research on hasashi...
*Bishamon accesses his computer by inputting the password and the computer loads up successfully. he begins searching for files but finds nothing about hasashi.*
Bishamon: i thought that may be the case... i don't care how good a security system is... how complex, it can be broken!
however, simple every day things, people tend not to notice.
Roku: umm... i'm not quite sure what you're getting at.
Bishamon: as a way to check whether someone has been on my computer, every time before i log out i tell a program i created to give me a welcome message... if i don't set this before i turn my computer off it won't appear when i load it next.
in simple terms i didn't get the message, and because usually welcome messages are default, the hacker overlooked this minor detail as a standard feature.
i wonder what was on those files...
Villager 1: Lord Madara... what happened?
Madara: There was an ambush... some rogue ninjas attacked us and zanji sacrificed himself to save me.
*sceptical murmurs sweep through the crowd as we walk through them into the main section of the village.*
Villager 2: ... i'm sure he had an honourable warriors death.
Madara: Please everyone... allow me to mourn for my friend in silence, attend your jobs.
*we walk into a graveyard together and a woman walks towards us*
Madara: Bianca... what have i done now to be graced with your presence? going to get angry for me taking this mission upon myself instead of letting you and your group deal with it?
Bianca: No... but Why did you lie to them?
Madara: I don't know what you mean.
Bianca: Don't treat me like a fool. no regular rogue ninjas could do this... not even in the best of ambushes...
what could be so terrible you'd avoid telling the villagers about?
Madara: Bianca... as covert ops leader you'll find out the details later in my report... I just wanted zanji to be rememberred as a hero, he was killed instead without any of us noticing a movement.
these guys are real, and these guys are strong. and as such, i don't want the villagers to panic. even if the secret will end up being exposed... let them live their life in peace while they still can.
Bianca: I don't believe i'm hearing this! the enemy hasn't even attacked but you treat it like the villagers are condemned to death!
Madara: Look... let me say my final goodbye to zanji... just leave me alone without this please...
*Bianca sighs and reluctantly walks away. Madara turns to an open grave, the tombstone has Zanji's name on it.*
Kawagiri: I don't mean to sound heartless in this situation, but why was his grave already dug?
Madara: Zanji used to tell me when we were kids he'd die young... He'd die to protect all his friends he'd say... we just called him weird for it.
5 months ago he commissioned for his grave to be dug, he told me... "the time felt right" he said he'd die to protect everyone. instead he just died needlessly.
Grimm: Wow... i never thought the guy was like that... he truly deserves to be remembered by the villagers as a hero... i'm sorry...
*Madara begins to bend down. He has a flashback to childhood. It's night time and Zanji is laid on a high tree branch and Madara and Bianca are standing on the ground below*
Young Madara: Hey! Lazy butt! get down from there... it's time to go!
Young Bianca: Just leave him... he'll come down.
Young Madara: Get down fool!
*there is a long silence and a slight wind blows a leaf from the tree, landing by madara's feet. Zanji is staring at the moon and a howling wolf breaks the silence*
Young Zanji:Madara... have you ever thought about what animal you are?
Young Madara: What are you talking about? you've been sat in that tree too long! lack of oxygen is affecting your head!
Young Zanji: No... I'm being serious. i see myself as the wolf... brave and strong... often in groups but sometimes overwhelmed by loneliness...
... everyone sees me as a useless kid... but i'll show them i'm a wolf.
*Young Zanji is seen handling a bracelet on his left arm. The bracelet has 3 wolf fangs on it. Madara returns from deep thoughts of memories past and looks down at Zanji's body. slowly he lifts up Zanji's sleeve revealing a wolf fang bracelet, which he removes and puts in his pocket*
Madara: Goodbye old friend.
Kawagiri: Madara, we'll go walk around and meet up with you later while you say your goodbyes...
*as Grimm and I leave, Madara lowers Zanji into his grave and proceeds to bury him*
*on a slope outside a huge iron door to enter the volcano, many bodies of highly trained ninja guardians litter the slope. their faces melted and sticking to the volcanic rocks on the slope of the extinct volcano. some barely alive guards scream in agony as they lay disfigured in this horrifying way.*
*inside the volcano Nero and Emperor have a guardian pinned against the wall*
Nero: Do i have to start melting you piece by piece or are you going to tell me where it is?
Un-named Guardian: Please no more!
*the guardian wimpers in agony and begins to cry softly*
Emperor: Then tell us where it is! it's not a hard question!
Un-named Guardian: Down the hall 2 rights and there is a large door... it's there! please let me go now!
Nero: I'm sorry... but that's not how i work
*Nero chuckles and brings his left arm to the guardians chest, the heat from his hand melts the skin and muscles from the front of his chest exposing bone. with one push he forces his hand inside the ribcage breaking it and pulling the heart out slightly... the guardian could do nothing but watch his life burn away infront of his very eyes as the heart burst into flames and melted.*
*Nero and Emperor approach a set of huge gilded doors... slowly opening them they walk inside... only to find a woman dressed in a long red silk kimono.*
Emperor: Yo... woman... where's the jewel of vulcan?!
Woman: My My... it appears that not only is manners a rare thing in modern times, but also intelligence too.
Emperor: What are you trying to say? i should kill you for that... you're lucky we need you so we can find the jewel!
Woman: But that's what i am. I am the jewel of vulcan!
Nero: Then we have no choice... you're going to come along with us...
Jewel of Vulcan: and if i refuse?
Nero: Then we will force you.
Jewel of Vulcan: Then try! i haven't killed a child in years
*the jewel of vulcan smirks and stares down the two intruders with an evil intent.*
*Far away from the volcano, Roku arrives in iwagakure with bishamon and helping ragnaroc get to bishamon's lab*
Bishamon: Carlie get in here please! we have a test sub... umm patient!
Roku: Test subject?
Bishamon: No no... i quite clearly said patient, would you like your ears testing too?
*carlie enters the lab.*
Bishamon: i'll need yout to quickly sew him up after i ingect him with this regrowth elixir.
*bishamon injects ragnaroc in the shoulder and the remains of his shoulder begins to glow*
Bishamon: now quickly!
*carlie closes her eyes, 5 needles float in the air and spin round ragnarocs severed arm fast as the stump of the shoulder regrows slightly towards it. the needles quckly stitch up the arm flawlessly*
Carlie: Operation successful!
Bishamon: Thank you carlie.
Roku: if it's regrowth elixir, why didn't you just regrow the arm?
Bishamon: it's experimental, i can't get it to grow full limbs yet but it can fix a connection between severred flesh, the only restriction is that there must be a slight amount of growth before re-attaching the limb.
anyway, your friend should be able to use that arm in 2 days. right now i need to do research on hasashi...
*Bishamon accesses his computer by inputting the password and the computer loads up successfully. he begins searching for files but finds nothing about hasashi.*
Bishamon: i thought that may be the case... i don't care how good a security system is... how complex, it can be broken!
however, simple every day things, people tend not to notice.
Roku: umm... i'm not quite sure what you're getting at.
Bishamon: as a way to check whether someone has been on my computer, every time before i log out i tell a program i created to give me a welcome message... if i don't set this before i turn my computer off it won't appear when i load it next.
in simple terms i didn't get the message, and because usually welcome messages are default, the hacker overlooked this minor detail as a standard feature.
i wonder what was on those files...
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