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For some bizzare reason, the shadow-creatures were swarming around Blade, and a few of them actually leapt past Tsutae, heading straight for her companion, who seemed to have summoned himself a new weapon. Perplexed but nevertheless glad for the help now that the number of enemies had increased greatly, Tsutae followed closely.

That was when she felt it. An intense surge of significance. Ever since she'd started to train in the ways of her clan, she'd been able to tell how significant an item was. This, however, was beyond anything she'd ever known.

[Tobidogou 7/8]

The potence of this item's memories dizzied her, and she quickly found the source: A small, shimmering object hanging from a tree. No, it was floating in midair. With a skip and leap, she leapt upwards and tried to get it down with the tip of her weapon... only to lose her concentration and plummet downward through the trees as it enveloped her in light and fused with her tanto. The power of this weapon was so great that it temporarily consumed her mind, blinding her in a whirlwind of memories and consciousness.

[Tobidogou complete!]

There was love, great love, in this weapon, but there was also friendship... pain... violence... and the sorrow of loss.

A tree. Something that you ate? Yes, that was the shape of the small item that Tsutae had inadvertently absorbed into her weapon. Some deep, suppressed part of Tsutae knew that she was falling through empty space, miraculously missing each tree branch that whipped past her wide-open, unseeing eyes. There was a fruit. That was it... a fruit. One that was supposed to have intertwined two destinies forever. But did it succeed?

Tsutae sensed that the weapon had a name.

Oathkeeper. The weapon revealed everything to her, yet told her nothing-- nothing except its name.

[Crescent Moon Dance 1/7]

"Come to me... Oathkeeper!"

But it wasn't Oathkeeper. It was something new, something created by the years... Diamond Dust?

Tsutae's eyes snapped open and she gripped her weapon. She had heard tales of her clan gaining power from the significance of items, especially their gear, but she sensed that, except in the case of Oathkeeper, much training would be neccecary for this. She was feeling the pure power of Oathkeeper, and nothing more.

With a battle cry more powerful than anything she'd ever known before, Tsutae landed on the ground as lightly as a feather, and then exploded upwards toward where Blade was having minimal success clearing a path for her.

[Crescent Moon Dance 2/7]

The creatures turned and converged on her as she flew, not even stopping to boost herself using the branches and trees. With her one powerful leap, she was gaining on Blade fast.

A creature appeared in front of her, and in another lifetime, Tsutae might have panicked, or attempted to avoid it so that Blade could help her-- but not now. With a shrug of her shoulders Tsutae sliced the creature in two with her weapon, which sang through the air and flashed a bright white, rending the shadows asunder with the lightest cut.

"Blade! I'm coming!" She said powerfully, a new determination lit in her eyes.

[Crescent Moon Dance 3/7]

[...And neither can exist without the other...]

Seiko resumed his killing spree. The more he killed, the less strain he felt on his curse mark. He also had revived his blood lust from killing dozens form Hidden Grass. He threw his keyblade like a boomerang towards some heartless and they were dissolved quickly. The other heartless scrambled out of the way, as Seiko charged through them with his Fauna sword hack n' slashing to get back to his keyblade which had embedded itself in a tree. But for some reason, it disappeared from the tree and appeared in his hand. "I could get used to this..." Seiko said. He quickly flipped into the air and let his grass powers take down five heartless in one fell swoop. But, with every heartless he killed, more appeared form the shadows.

3/9

Arriving at the very verge of the Hidden Leaf village Lokey donned a cloak imbued with Chakra that was meant to mask his Chakra and again to provide a shadowed cover beyond the mask he know wears to hide him. The only thing that could be seen of him was the shining of his Rook earing that he now wore. After exploring the forests around the Village Lokey eventually stumbled upon Naomi and two other ninja whom he did not recognize at the very moment he thought better than to stay back for though he was trying to remove all of his former Ties to this Village he still wished to speak with Naomi whether she had become a Missing-Nin or not so he figured it would not do well for her to die before he finally got to talk so he flickered onto the rock just left of Naomi and stood there without saying a word the sun glinting perfectly off of the Rook Earring that he now wore

Naomi’s Demise 1/?????

“So Naomi if these creeps are bothering you id be glad to take them out it would really be nothing more then child’s play.” Lokey said as he stood there and gripped the hilt of his katana blade which hung from his back and said to the other Ninja without waiting for Naomi to answer, “Have either of you ever personally died?” He paused for only a moment before continuing, “I have and I remember every agonizing moment of it drifting seemingly endlessly until u finally place your feet on solid ground and then after you train you seem to wake up but the problem is you remember nothing of what had happened and the actually death part is horrible the agonizing pain that shoots through your body as you drift away into nothingness.”

Naomi’s Demise 2/?????

“And if you ever meet the one that murdered you in cold blood again all those memories will come rushing back to you before you even know what has happened you remember everything but as such you owe your murderer for returning your memories.” Lokey drew his Katana Blade, “You however will get no such mercy for once you die you will drift into oblivion forever being unable to learn ANY techniques taught in the Afterlife you will be forcibly stuck there permanently. Lokey raised his hand before himself and performed the Dance of the Skeletons Jutsu (Check link in signature for my Profile and a description of the Jutsu) and stood there waiting for the other Ninja to make a move.

Naomi’s Demise 3/?????

"Girlie?"

Just hearing the endearing term being used on her made something inside Tsutae burn. "What are you talking about? Standpoint? She asked angriliy, as she impaled a Heartless on the ege of her weapon. She smiled as she did so; so potent was the weapon that just holding it with pleasure. As the weapon struck, dissolving the creature, a shock of intense cold eminated from it into the air. Every time she used the tanto with the new chain dangling from the end, it seemed to grow much longer... much colder.

"I don't know who you are," said Tsutae, "But I am here for one single purpose-- to find the instructors and confirm to myself that they are safe."

[Crescent Moon Dance 4/7]

[...And neither can exist without the other...]

[b]Haroko dashed spearing through a lot fo the heartless in front of him"These thing just keep on coming.Haroko jump onto a roof top and was faced with a lot of them once more but more"I need to safe my energy but i have no choice.Haroko gourd became small and lached to the right side of his body like a saki bottle"Ok..ill save energy and stop using my gourd but ive no other weapons beside that...ill use one more ice attack"A small ball of ice formed in harokos hand with sparks of cold energy going around it.

Haroko fired it in the direction of all the heartless"Take that!"It smashed into them and a blue light flashed and were there were once heartless were now frozen shards and ice spikes"...that should stop that swarm but i dont have any good weapons but these"He pulled out his small daggers"these will have to do for now i guess"He continued to the hokage building.

Tsutae snarled as she stopped on a branch. The creatures were gone momentarily, and the Kage building was in sight, but she had lost sight of Blade.

"Whoever you are, you seem to be a capable ninja," she said calmly, sheathing her tanto. Her upper lip curled at the unfamiliar sensation of the keychain bumping against her hip. That might get annoying.

"Maybe you can tell me what's going on here. Those creatures were in my village too before they retreated for some reason-- and here there seems to be an endless number of them. What are they, where do they come from, and why are they attacking us?"

[Crescent Moon Dance 5/7]

[...And neither can exist without the other...]

Keyblade. Heartless? The first word she recognized, the second she did not. Heartless. The name was not logical. Why were these creatures 'heartleess?'

Tsutae watched Seiko leap off, his strange weapon drawn, and considered his theories. They were interesting. The creatures... they were after the artifact that was dangling from her hip now? So why hadn't they taken it before she had? She had found it just by chance, after all.

Either way, she wasn't ready to trust Seiko, much less fight at his side. Silently, she slid off of the tree and sprinted through the streets to the Kage Building.

[Crescent Moon Dance 6/7]

[...And neither can exist without the other...]

Naomi Yoshitaru (Mizu)

Naomi's Demise 5/--