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Valkyrie and Akira entered hidden nano planning on visiting an old friend. Getting of the boat at the dock, they walked into the village. The thing was that they needed to wander around Hidden nano until they found the weapon shop that Koujin was spending his retirement in. Akira really did not think that he would have to go looking for him until recently. Looking around the shop they saw an array of blades. Akira was thinking that he would have to remember this place much later, just to be on the safe side. For now, though, Akira simply rang the bell and waited for service.

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Akira suddenly put his finger to his ear. He formed a smile on his face. "Valkyrie, I'm sorry, but I'm going to have to leave you to deal with this while I go to Hidden Void. As soon as your done, join me there. Hopefully, all that will be left to do will be to pick up the pieces then. With that, Akira set off running back down to the Docks. He could not miss this, not this time. He may not get another chance. to fight him if he did.

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Valkyrie would remain looking around the front room of the store, trying to find something to do. She wondered where Koujin had gotten to. She wondered if he was alright. Even in retirement he still had a price on his head, mostly because he had something that others wanted. She remained waiting, finally taking a seat. She took out one of her fans and began to fan herself. It was dreadfully hot in the weapon shop, with the firing furnace still on. She really wanted to leave but she had a job to do.

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Valkyrie's eyes shot up to the counter. She did not even notice him come in. She smiled. "No, we met, though it was a brief meeting. After you had died fighting Shiro in Hidden leaf, I was tasked to bring your body back to Hidden Moon. You came back to life shortly after we arrived. It seemed that it was not yet your time to rest.

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Koujin was startled lifting up the dark glasses that he used to shield his eyes from the bright light of the forge. "It is you, you've become beautiful while I was away it seems." Koujin gave a small chuckle, it seemed like it had been such a long time ago that he returned from the grave bearing the curse of the Tanuki on his back. "I was a lot more monster then man back then, but with the Shukaku gone I think I can rest some. So what brings you here to an old traitors shop?" he watched her inquisitively his hands never leaving or pausing at his work, he seemed relaxed here in this enviorment as if all the Moon's ANBU could come storming in and he wouldn't bat an eyelash.

"I'm sorry, but the worst is over now. Just lay here a little longer and then we'll move you to one of the rooms. I'm going to inject you with a mild sedative to take the edge off of the pain, too much could complicate the matter and cause nerve damage." she said as she released the bonds holding him while gently pressing him down to the table too keep him from moving too much. In short order she would have him cleaned up even his hands had a single layer of bandage around them now. She slipped the needle into his neck in such a way that he wouldn't even feel the p***k of it's entrance or exit only a calming wave that would drag him into a deep slumber. When he would awake he would find that hours had passed the sun had dipped well below the horizon and the world was cold and dark except for the small form of a child curled up on top of the sheet which he lay under. Her exhaling signaled that she had been asleep for quite a while and the only thing to do was drift back to sleep and wait for morning to come.

"Urg hurry up with that tranquilizer. My eyes....are...killing...ZzZzZzZzZz" Koukon hadn't evenf felt the needle go in. Such is the ever gentle touch of a medic nin. He slept a dreamless sleep that night till he was woken by the the shivering of a child. It was about two in the morning. She was curled up on the sheets so Koukon didn't move in fear of disturbing her. Instead he warmed the air around him till Rin's shivering subsided. Koukon drifted back asleep maintaining a comfortable temperature in the room. He slept through the rest of the night with no trouble.

"This is something I can do for you," Koujin nodded reaching under the counter removing a set of maps removing a pen he began to write down some instructions. "The base itself is destroyed from the ground up, but it's still intact in many layers underground. You'll have to enter the base from underground as the entrance that lies above ground is guarded by a genjutsu that's unique in composition." he looked up at her wondering if he should explain things further. "I won't die for a while yet... I've been cursed to live allot longer then I really wanted too." He held up his right arm the sleeve falling down revealing a tattoo of interlocking black lines wrapped around his wrist, slowly the lines began to raise from his skin, floating mid air expanding and twisting up his arm. The marks stopped growing and the shop was filled with a blinding light and then you could see it, his right arm wasn't much of an arm anymore, instead of flesh and blood it was a strange red stone almost see through it pulsed with power. With another red flash the arm appeared normal again. "The philospher's curse, it's made me like the others in my family who've went missing, they had similar fates, but I don't think this curse will ever let me rest. It gets heavy sometimes... this arm holds the spirits of a whole civilization inside..." As she would look at him she would begin to see the hazy outlines of people standing behind him in the shop, they were all dressed in clothes of different eras, but they all shared some shared features, these were the spirits of his family who had surpassed their disease and become swords when they finally died. "I hate to think what kind of weapon I'll become when I perish..."

Hidden Nano
The land of Hidden Nano was known for it's beauty, for it's flowers, for it's prosperity. Now it would be known as another land turned victim in the slime girl war upon everything. Soon the village would be under attack by thousands of slime girls, led by none other than the empathic roseate slime girl, Bara Hachimitsu Sennyo. She knew exactly what the soon to be victims would be feeling, but it didn't matter, she would still wage war upon them.