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Once again, Kageko heard that word, "Akatsuki". "What is Akatsuki?" she asked, she had always been told not to worry about it but... within the span of a few days, she had heard that word being used repeatedly. Responding to her brother's orders, Kageko simply said, "And I know that I have a mark on my belly. I'm not dense." Looking at the strange woman, she asked, "And may I know what your name is as well? Or at least something that I can refer to you by?".

At "Z"'s outbreak of anger, Kageko had the sudden urge to pull off an action worthy of Vincente and start screaming her head off, but she contained her impulse. She needed information, and she wasn't going to get it by screaming her head off.

"I'm going to kill you later." Vincente said plainly. He then noticed how cramped it was getting. "And why are so many people in my house anyway, Kage, what did you do to get discovered?" He also added in silently. 'And I meant I was drawing on that seal, my bad.'

"Alright kid look..." he began as he became more tense with the prescense of an ex akatsuki member. "I'm going to be serious on this you ignorant little punk..." he said to Vincente. "Hiding this from her is not going to protect her, actually It'll make things much worse on her. If she doesn't know what will be coming at her and why, then she'll have no way of defending herself. I subdued you without a hitch and I found her quite easily actually," he began. "And the Akatsuki will find her faster than me. Now...listen to me..." he started, having had plenty of experience with several of the members of Akatsuki, his brother killed two of them.

"Akatsuki is a secret organization comprised of several high ranked missing shinobis. I have no idea what their ultimate goal is, but they are gathering and extracting the demons, the tailed beasts. Long ago, demons, gigantic monsters with incredible power raomed the land, running rampant. The leaders of the villages decided to seal the demons into specific human beings in order to harness and control their power, you Kage are one of them," he explained. "That 'drawing' is in fact a very intricate and powerful seal that keeps the demon inside of you. Have you never noticed a surge of chakra, or another prescense welling up inside of you?"

Kageko listened to the beginning of Z's explanation, trying to keep up with his explanations.

However, the more he talked, the more she got confused. Demons, she knew what demons were. She wasn't so oblivious as to not know that. She knew that they could be destructive but also helpful, but it seemed that this explanation focused more on the destruction. So far, so good. However, she still didn't know why Akatsuki would even bother trying to find a genin like her if they were so powerful. Wouldn't they be better off spending their time on some stronger shinobi?

Then came the description after that. That was the point at which her mind began to unravel. She didn't understand.... How was it possible for such a destructive demon to be kept inside of her? I made no sense. There was no possible way. But, when she tried to check for the signs he had told her about... she had to admit that she had felt another presence surge up inside of her. Maybe not a chakra boost, but an certainly an adrenaline boost if she had let the feeling stay for long. she figured to herself, .

Then she heard her brother's explanation. An explanation which left her even more confused and frantic. <'Kyuubi',> she thought to herself, <'Nine-tail' so that was why I was called the 'Nine-tailed fox'? M-most evil? W-wait a minute, how is it possible to have something like that in me? If I did, then I definitely must have felt something a bit larger than just feelings and impulses. No, it's not possible for me to even have a demon inside of me.... R-right?>.

On the outside, she was visibly confused and at least slightly frantic. Not at the level of freaking out, not yet, but her eyes were darting back and forth as she tried to piece together everything. "W-wait," she asked, directing the question mainly at Z simply because he had explained first, "Let me just clear this up. 'Bijuu' means 'tailed beast' so that mean that they're the demons you're talking about, right? And then 'jinchuuriki' literally means 'sacrifice' so they're what the Akatsuki is after.... So when you were asking me what I was the 'jinchuuriki' of... you were asking me which 'bijuu' I held? And... I apparently hold the evilest? Kyuubi? Was that why you called me a 'nine-tailed fox' when you tossed me the vial?". This was way too much information for Kageko to take in at once. She was going have to split it into bits and pieces.

(I wasn't calling kage a punk i was calling vicente that)

"I'm not trying to do anything...I was simply trying to get information...but now she's the one asking of me..." he stated simply as he began to think about the answers to Kage's questions.

"Bijuu does mean tailed beasts, and yes you do hold Kyuubi the 9 tailed fox. That's exactly how powerful that seal on you is...powerful enough to contain the demon inside of you. That's why Akatsuki wants you, they want to release the demon inside of you and take that power for themselves. The problem is, they remove the demon..." he began, "and you die. Your body wouldn't be able to take that amount of strain. I don't know what Akatsuki wants, but they want that power for themselves. I've met four others...you are the fifth one I've met so far."

"No, you have an amazing amount of control over it, the first few times you draw on it's chakra, I'm getting far away, but when you master it you will have a better chance at not hurting anybody close." He crossed his arms. "And it's a sintenent being, if you somehow manage to get inside the seal yourself, you can have a chat with it, we have papers on the thing, I was surprised you never discovered them." He sighed again. "A smaller explanation of what it's doing, it's 'feeding' on you we could say, that doesn't even finish explaining anything about it though."

Kageko was a big baby, it was a side effect of being the youngest in the family. But she did as she was told, like a baby, and calmed down. She was too tired to even talk back to Vincente, much less say something to Z.

After a couple of seconds to calm herself down, gather her wits, and think things through, Kageko forced a smile on her face and wiped away the tears that had formed during her temper tantrum. "Eheh," she laughed a bit, keeping up her act, "Sorry for that. That really was kind of immature wasn't it?". She didn't need to bother them with her problems. No, there was no need to, she would simply just fix this problem by herself. She herself was the cause of the problem so she herself needed to fix it. As the last of the tears were wiped dry, Kageko asked, "So how do I learn to control... what was his name... Kyuubi?". For a moment, she had considered just turning herself in to Akatsuki but she could see how her family would react to it. Vincente would probably rush headlong into his own death in his rage and even Neo might choose that path as well. No, she had to choose the path with the least side-effects, even if it would be even harder for her. Already, her hands were almost completely healed. At the most, they contained first-degree burns and maybe a tiny spot or two of second-degree burns.