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"Hm... I suppose that would be a downer for a morning greeting..." The man said as eyed the chains that extended from the bed post to clamp around the boy's arms, a playful grin playing against his lips as he did. Coughing softly into his hand, the man pushed himself from the desk and strolled to sit on the edge of the boy's bed as he watched Sorain closely. "They were simply precautions to ensure that you didn't do anything that end with you getting more hurt then you already are. Raijin already did quite a number on you, I don't believe you have much more left in you after that fight... But regardless, I am Hiroshirma and I'm here as a representative of Lightning Country. Now if you wish, I can remove those binds but you must promise to keep your wits about you and have a civilized conversation with me."

The man simply watched Sorain stoically, his eyes lacking all the passion in the world for the boy's idle threats as he babbled on like the arrogant child he was portraying himself to be. So quietly and unshaken by his words, the man listened until the boy had finally seemed to calm down enough to listen to what was to be said. "No one is holding you against your will. I simply offered to remove the chains so we can speak more civil, but you wish we can be done with this. You are free to go with you like, so go." The man said, the chains falling loose from the boy's arms at his words as he himself rose from the bed and strode out of the boy's path. "Leave, begone, I don't have time for your trivial nonsense. You must not confuse us with Water, we are not bound to waste our time and pamper you with safe keepings from the world simply due to what you hold within you. It is you stay, you go, that simple. You wish to act like a stupid little child again, next time it wont be two genin... insects as you called them.. to come stop you.

Hilariously enough, two insects were enough to pull that demon out of you and still fight you down to a pathetic and miserable state. So what does that make you, who can't even control his own demon?" The man questioned, his words harsh but his tone uncaring with no emotions to betray how he felt about the situation. "So once again, you unbound and free to go. It is your choice: be civil and we can have a nice discussion over certain topics that may or may not concern you. Or you may leave and do as you wish with your life. Either choice, save me any more speeches of whatever nonsense you have to babble about, I'm not one for melodramatics and be forewarned, make another attack against Lightning and we will lift all orders to hold back and allow our insects to attack you at full force and with intent to kill."

As Notwen and Rose walked down the slightly crowded street the dark-skinned blonde thought about all of the things that he learned during the past few days. Soul Power and Life-Stream Puppet Jutsu seemed to somehow work perfectly, but his mastery of the techniques was far from perfect. Also the fact that he had one sole family member in Joryoku Village was a fact that he had yet to come to terms with. This knowledge was divulged to him while on the cruise, so Notwen had several days to come to accept the news.
"Are you sure you want to go through with this? It was only a suggestion." said Rose as she walked alongside the crippled boy. Notwen closed his eyes as he remembered the conversation he and rose had on the second day after passing Terumi Island. She brought up the fact that at this point in time he was considered M.I.A and would be tracked down by Hidden Sand shinobi eventually. The choices Rose had mentioned were to either return to Wind Country and seek pardon from the government, stay with her and Musamaru and work as a ventriloquist, or start his ninja career afresh in Lightning Country. The first option appealed to Notwen greatly because it meant being close to his family and friends again, but at the cost of losing some freedoms and probably being unable to leave the country for a long time. The second option seemed alright, but the dark-skinned blonde didn't want to have a static lifestyle. Also the training he had endured and all of his experiences would have been for naught. The final option was the only one that seemed to make sense in more ways than one. For starters, he was on a clean slate here. Also the informant from Earth Country had said that one of the Seven Swords of the Mist could be found in Lightning Country. The only drawback was that he was still internally injured from the fight with the man on the road between Rain and Fire Countries, which would probably be repaired if he was able to become a citizen. Letting out a long breath through his nostrils, Notwen opened his eyes and looked at his guardian.
"It's the only path available to me. Besides, i will still be able to be close to you guys." he said, a small smile playing over his face. Rose nodded.
"Very well. Our first stop will be the customs office. It's only a few more streets in that direction." The duo continued walking until they came to a two-story tall brick building. There were two sets of revolving doors, allowing easy entrances and exits. No one could be seen leaving or entering, so they walked up to the revolving door and went in. The interior of the building was well-lit and cool, due to the air conditioning system that was installed. It was also rather spacious and contained several large wooden desks, behind which sat several people in fancy clothes. Some of the desks had people sitting on the opposite side of the well-dressed customs agents, but the majority were free of customers. Rose stopped and began walking toward a small stand and beckoned to Notwen. "Take one of these." she said, pointing at a piece of paper that was poking out of the feeder on the stand. The dark-skinned blonde did as he was instructed and took a piece from the feeder. Immediately an arrow pointing behind him appeared on the white slip. As the Uchiha turned to face the direction it was pointing, the arrow turned as well until it pointed at the area devoid of most people. Notwen and Rose followed the arrow on the paper past a few desks to one occupied by a young man who appeared to be in his early thirties. He looked up from the paperwork he was tending to and fixed his eyes on the two.

Kouen started the bout as usual. In fact his fighting style somewhat demanded it. Though something was odd. Usually there was a second of an opening before Kouen attacked. This time there wasnt even millisecond. As he ran in quick his hands and feet were set ablaze by an unnatural red flame. Kouen was going all out against his student. Zagula was sure Keigan would do the same. Kouen first attack was simple enough. A charging punch. But as Zagula moved to dodge a searing pain hit her. She staggered to the side as the pain took her by surprise. The punch hadnt even made contact but its heat was intense enough to sear anyone who got even close. No wonder Keigan was following Kouen from the back. Waiting for his chance to jump in. An idea sparked to Zagulas mind. If she could make it look as if she was about to hit Kouen and lure Keigan into action. Then maybe Kouen himself would be open enough if she could somehow get around the Hyuugas defense to the Uchiha. It wasnt much but it was all she had.

Seeing her stagger Kouen went in for another blow. A sideways kick this time. Though this time Zagula moved around Kouen as fast as her lightning would take her. Which actually surprised the Uchiha when she came at him from behind. Now Keigans countenance filled her vision in a second. His open palm reared back as he came in to defend his open partner. It was then that Zagula used her favorite trick. Ducking down low she went almost on all fours as she sped under Keigan between his feet. An opening that very few people ever really thought about. However Keigan had seen her do this before and was prepared for it. As she ducked down Keigan quickly started to spin as he sent out chackra from all the pores of his body. The Hyuuga Clans Rotation technique. The rotation barrier was small but enough to push Zagula backwards without harming Kouen. At this point Kouen turned to Keigan and actually attacked him! Or so it seemed at first. Kouen launched a ball of red flame as Keigan spun but it didnt hurt him at all. In fact it got caught his rotation as he expanded its radius creating large spinning mass of red fire that was quickly growing in size.

Zagula seized the opportunity to gather ideas. Thinking as quickly as she could with her increased processing speed she still couldnt manage to think of anything. She really hadnt expected them to go all out like this. Sjre cursed silently as she thought about her lacking of jutsu. Right now all she could do was enhance her speed via channeling lightning. She wished she could do more. Studying the sparks that rippled down her figured she realized something. Lightning. What came after lightning? Thunder. Despite lacking any real shape or visual thunder even from this far could generate enough of a...She had it!

After the deadly combo died down Zagula was taken by surprise. For once it was Keigan who had rushed in to attack. But she sped away quickly leaving his range of attack towards Kouen. For once the red haired shinobi took a defensive at her advance. Exhaling his red flame he surrounded himself in a wall of it. A ball of fire soon came flying at her from behind the wall but it was easy enough to do-. There was that searing pain again but this time it shot her from behind. But how? Looking backwards as she dodged a second her eyes widened. He wasnt firing them at her. He was launching them to Keigan who was redirecting the flame with a variation of the rotation jutsu. Perfect. She waited as the next fireball was launched. She dodged it easily with her lightning enhanced movement. Now came the hard part. The ball of red flame was redirected and sent back at double the speed. She just narrowly dodge it but enough to only feel its heat and no pain. As quickly as she could she channeled more lightning into her right leg. Copying Kouens taijutsu style she hopped up on one foot and launched a sideways kick in Keigans direction with all her might.

As her foot slammed air a sound of rolling thunder filled the air and dust went in all directions clearing away from Zagula. A type of shock wave. Keigan was taken by surprise. The shock wave slammed into him feeling very much like a kick to the gut as he staggered backwards. Ironically the one she had felt would be the most difficult to land a blow on was the one she hit first. She performed the same attack at Kouen. Again the kick ended with the booming of thunder sending a shock wave in his direction. Due to his bright flames infused with his chackra the Uchiha for once couldnt see it coming. The combo the two had been performing had relied on Keigans abilities to not get hit and keep them from launching attacks at Koeun. The red haired shinobi too was taken by surprise. She had never actually shown them this technique of hers before. He to felt as if he had been kicked hard in the gut and this teacher actually fell backwards onto the ground. Kouen wasnt accustomed to taking hits.

Both teachers rose to their now stable feet as they absorbed in what had just happened. She had managed to land a blow on each of them one after another with some sort of distanced attacks. The purple haired kunoichi was positively beaming. Deactivating her lightning jutsu she ran over to her friend Meitsu and once again tightly hugged her friend. Squeeing with excitement and joy she hopped up and down in glee taking her friend into the air with her each timed she hopped. I did it Mei-chan! I did it I did it I did it! The two men just looked at each other in confusion."What just happened?" "She kicked us. Kicked us good. Mayhaps the threat was poor choice on our part." "Well then. Its time." Keigan made his way over to the two girls."Zagula come with me inside. Its time for your 'graduation ceremony.' Im sorry Meitsu but you'll have to wait out here." And with that Keigan Zagula and Kouen went back inside leaving the friend to wait.

The man took a deep breath and collected himself, his eyes dead set on the boy before him, "You may or may not know this, but after the fourth great shinobi war the five great shinobi nations had lost our grasps on the tailed beasts. The demons were released into the wild and it was thought for many years that none of the nations had reclaimed any of them. However it eventually became apparent that Mist gained control... long story short your parents were the first known Jinchurrikis for a very long time and with their deaths it was thought that the demons were released again, no one knew about you and your brother. You and him are Mist's only bet to power that they have left and they are desperate to get both of you back." The man said simply, he was already aware that the boy before him wasn't the type to listen to a history lesson and he was quite frankly tired of listening to the cutting words the boy had to say. "The Mist didn't want the world to know that it had fully lost it's standing in the world, especially not after all the years they spent trampling over other countries in the shadows. However, you and your brother successfully ruined that by attacking their village from the inside and slaughtering their attempt to silence the two of you and they have been trying desperately hard to keep the matter of this a secret. The last thing they want is this: their precious demon falling into the hands of another nation.

They've even placed a bounty for your assassination and return." As the man spoke, he turned to search through one of his pouches and easily produced a parchment of paper. Quietly he handed the paper to Sorain and waited for the boy to open it and read for himself that upon the paper, in braille, was a bounty for himself and his twin brother Sai. "Sai, it seems, has disappeared completely off the map..." The man noted once Sorain had gotten chance to read the bounty in full. "Now as for the offer I mentioned. Regardless of your choice you are free to leave our country safely, the only requirement being that you never return hostilely... The Village Hidden in the Clouds of the Lightning Country is officially offering you, Sorain Orasakai, a home to call your own. We want you to join forces with us, you will be pardoned from your previous actions and will be enrolled into our Militia as an official Cloud Shinobi. The enemy of my enemy is my friend, and that is exactly how you will be greated... as an ally. Your identity would be left at your own disclosure to do with as you wish, regardless the people of the world and possibly your own country barely have knowledge of you due to your former government and as such has left it quite easy for you to simply assimilate with our people.

The only catch is that when the time comes... you will help us lead an assault against the Mist for their treasonous ways." The man stated, his eyes hard as he watched Sorain with the utmost interest.

Sorain yawned insultingly at the story of his parents, 'like this isnt something I have heard one hundred times before' he thought to himself. Watching as Hiroshima pulled out a loose paper and hand it to him, Sorain turned his attention downward and began scanning his fingers across it to read its print. Although he could see at the moment, living his entire life blind he was still for the most part illiterate to visual writing. Kissing the top of his teeth in distaste he returned the paper by casually tossing it towards Hiroshima's desk. That wasn't news to him either. Although he had never seen any hard evidence to support it, it went without saying that Kirigakure would be wanting him returned and the best way to do that would be to place a heavy bounty on their heads.

Sorain lifted his arm towards his head and made a fist with his hand, before pressing it against his temple to crack his knuckles, just what was he suggesting? That he just buddy up with this village and trust that they would be effective at keeping him safe from the world? Sorains eyes rolled to his left as he pondered the offer. In his gut he knew that he would be found eventually, that much was for sure. The best thing that he could do was keep moving, but even then he would run out of places to hide. Not to mention the fact that he was currently unaware of his brothers location. Granted he had a strong hunch, but that was information that he would gladly keep to himself, less putting his brother in a tight situation.

Sorain leaned forward and rested his elbows on his knees while using his hands to prop up his chin. "So what? You want me to be your weapon now too?" Sorain chuckled lightly, exposing his sparkling white teeth, "Do you even know why I attacked the Hidden Mist Village in the first place?" Turning his head to the side he allowed his flowing silver hair to fall to the ground. "I want new clothing. A new head band. I will not be treated as a low class, I will come and go as I please and do what the ******** I want. I want freedom to select a number of genin to prepare for the assault. Young Shinobi are easiest to train, and easiest to control. Lastly, I want official in-statement. I will not be your shadow minion hiding about. I want a new name, and for that name to be officially listed in your records."

Although Sorain had no interest in helping this village at all, he had to face the reality that he could not run for ever. If he wanted to see his plans come to life, he was going to need some sort of structured foundation from whence to start climbing. What better way to do that then to latch himself on a foolish village who thought that they could control him? No, he would do as he pleased when he pleased, but for now. He would play there game.

It was a little while after the three had entered the house. The process seemed to be taking a long while for whatever reason. But at last the procedure was finished. Keigan and Kouen emerged from the house first but they were not the same as before they had entered. Keigan wore a patch and bandaging over the left side of his face and Kouen bore the same over his right. Zagula was guided outside by the both of them and both of her eyes were completely blind folded by patches and bandaging. Keigan looked to Meitsu thoughtfully. He wasnt sure how the girl would react to what she was seeing. Both Keigan and Kouen were now half blind. And the process had caused Meitsus best friend to become temporarily blinded. Nut they both felt it would be well worth it in the end. The Hyuuga finally spoke up breaking the awkward silence. "As i said. Your timing on arrival was perfect. In a way. We'll need you to look over her for now until she regains her sight. I cant imagine what youre thinking right now but know that it will be worth while in the end."

Keigan then guided one of Zagulas hands and placed it into one of Meitsus. Kouen then smiled slyly at Meitsu giving the girl a wink with his one good eye. The Uchiha really was much more perceptive than the Hyuuga. Zagula finally spoke. Im sorry Mei-chan. They really should have said something earlier. I hope im not to much of a burden like this." Though she was clearly speaking to Meitsu she wasnt really facing her. Her temporary blindness was completely new and her other senses had yet to cope with the new found loss of sight.