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Ryuu continued smiling at Night's words even as he turned his attention to the cloaked female. The female begins gliding towards him a moment before his eyebrows tug together and his smile falls a little. The cloaked female seemed to stare at Ryuu but soon seemed to stare at Night. The old woman motions over to the cloaked female only for the cloaked female to glide away, keeping a foot of distance from the woman. Everyone was silent for a while before Ryuu finally speaks. "How exactly did you get in here? What is it you want?" The cloaked female seems to stare at Ryuu who wondered why she would not respond. "Are you mute?" The female extends a pale white hand to Ryuu and then sweeps that hand over to Night. She seemed to be asking them to come to her or to come with her. "Do you wish for us to come nearer to you?" The cloaked female lowers her hand slightly before raising it again. She shuts her hand and then opens it as ghostly red letters seem to float above the palm of her hand. Swiftly the letters jumble around before words are formed.

"I have come to take you two away with me. By the request of Naomi, my leader," the word leader seemed warped, twisted, and italicized as if the woman did not wish to use that word, "has requested I bring you and your friend Night back with me. Akou, Nimen, and Sienna are already heading to Hidden Spain as we speak. By association with the majority of our squad, you must come with me to Hidden Fantasy." The words then disperse into shimmering orbs as the female lowers her hand. Ryuu didn't know if he should trust what the woman said but her chakra signature was very familiar to him. He sensed her aura over a number of Akou, Nimen, Sienna, and even Sai's items as soon as he met them. But until now he didn't know the aura was hers. Could he trust her?

"I take no isn't what you want to hear?" The cloaked figure turns towards the door as Ryuu takes a step towards her. "Are you the woman Sai mentioned? If so... where is he?" The figure does not respond. "Where's Sai? Or are you lying?" The figure twists around slightly. Ryuu could sense the female glaring at him for questioning if she were telling the truth or lies and he lowers his gaze. As soon as he does the figure appears directly in front of him. His eyes snap upward only for the cloak to cover Ryuu's body. Beneath the cloak he wrestles but soon the cloak falls to the ground empty. Glossy and empty blue eyes seem to trail the room before settling on Night. The female extends both hands outwards as words seem to flow around her boy. "Trust me. I won't hurt you two." As soon as the words as come they disperse as the cloak rises in order to slip over Night. If successful then Night would disappear and then reappear at the docks while Ryuu would be in Hidden Spain already. At that time the female would begin leaving, her cloak floating to follow her. The old woman begins to speak only to lock eyes with the female. it was at that moment she remembered Reina. Not many didn't know that woman unless very young. That woman... was Reina Rose the Magikage and the widow of the late Sannin, a hero to some despite her evil deeds in the late years. Even if Reina were evil and not to be trusted, not one person in the cabin could stop her from doing as she wished. She was far too powerful.

Cupit, feeling wind in his face opens his eyes to see that he is flying. He doesn't say anything at first but after a little while he cries out, "I'm flying!" When he does a blade covered in cotton cotton slides into his view from the right. His eyes grow large a moment before he stops in midair.

"All right Scion, Lucifer, that's enough. Stop torturing him."

"But Redemption..."

"...it's fun," concludes Scion as Redemption sighs. Cupit looks down at the female that had him slung over one shoulder tied up. So he wasn't flying after all. Redemption grabs him by the rope knot on his back and sets him down on the ground. It took Cupit a minute to realize that he had been kidnapped.

"This is illegal! You can't just come to someone's village and kidnap them!"

"Illegal things are fun."

"And besides, it'd be best..."

"...you came with us. Because..." starts Lucifer looking at Redemption who looks at him in confusion. The twins sigh, motioning from Redemption's side and out in front of her. They point their fingers at one another before pointing their fingers at Redemption.

"We'll be taking over Hidden Love soon and you'd easily be killed." Then the twins points both of their index fingers at themselves. "And we don't want that."

"What?" Cries out Cupit as Redemption frowns.

"What do you mean by we when you point at yourselves again."

"We went to school with Cupit."

"He's very funny as you can see." Scion laughs pointing at Cupit's light pink hair while Lucifer points at his confused and frightened face. Then the two point at the ropes binding Cupit. "We like to keep things that we enjoy."

"So is this village another location you decided to go to in order to serve your own agenda?"

"Nope." The twins say together. Before Scion grins and Lucifer raises his index finger before speaking.

"We're back to business."

"In Hidden Substance there is Missy Game & Watch..."

"...and Aero Smith that we have come to get..."

"...at the request of our leader," the two finish in unison. "Now," they start grabbing the hilt of Redemption's katana and waving it in Cupit's face. Redemption snatches away her blade as Cupit looks around dizzily.

"Enough I say," she states tearing off what cotton candy she could and throwing it to the ground. She then sheathes her blade and grabs up Cupit. Scion and Lucifer laugh as they make there way in front of Redemption to look for their targets.

As soon as the three each the marketplace, however, they are met by the officials of Hidden Substance. "Stop right there kidnappers!" Yells a boy with pure white hair, his eyes obscured as he glares at the twins. He isn't dressed like the other officers blocking the twins path, who were uniformed in blue and black colored Jounin attire. In fact, he looked out of place in his all white outfit. His white tank top with brown colors decorating the outlines of diamonds along his sides; his various sized, brown colored sashes serving as belts around his waist; his white hakama over white socks and wooden sandals. The tassels on the odd fingerless gloves he wore shift in the wind as he reaches behind his back and draws out a blade with a pearl white hilt. Scion and Lucifer point to the boys neck where large silver beads tied around his neck by a silver ribbon could be seen.

"The target," they say together as the boy growls and begins to charge. Redemption tosses Cupit off to the side and places a hand to her hilt before speaking.

"I'll handle this," she declares as Scion and Lucifer chuckle. She looks at each one of them angrily as the shift back to stand beside Redemption. As the boy nears them Cupit begins wrestling to get free from the ropes he was bound by.

"I will not hesitate to take you three down!" Yells the boy dashing forward as Redemption smirks. Cupit finally gets free and gets to his feet as Redemption tries to draw her katana but is unsuccessful.

"Oh no," Redemption thinks remembering the cotton candy. Scion and Lucifer clap their hands once as Cupit dashes in between the boys blade and Redemption. Light and the sound of a transmutation fills the area before fading away. Small steel beads clatter against the ground, the boys sword---or what remained of it-- is pressed up against Cupit's chest. Cupit stares down to see that it had been aimed at his heart though on Redemption it was aimed at her stomach. Cupit collapses as Redemption catches him in her arms. The boy jumps back before looking at his blade which was no more.

"Aero Smith of Hidden Substance..."

"...and member of the Aoimaru clan." Finishes Scion, his fingertip where Aero's blade had been before it reached Cupit. Lucifer, crouched on the ground and tinkering with the silver beads, laughs at the look on Aero's face.

"If we are so bad then why would the guy we..."

"...kidnapped risk his life to save one of us?"

"I don't know. Perhaps you used some sort of technique on him."

"That's a good assumption but an incorrect one. We have no such abilities. Well... at least I don't." Redemption murmurs looking at Lucifer and then Scion. The two chuckle and shrug as the officers behind Aero make their way towards them. Lucifer scrounges up the beads and extends them to Aero. Aero begins to take them when Scion claps his fingers together. Aero tries to motion away from Lucifer only to have his hand with the hilt grabbed by Lucifer. Scion touches the beads, the same light and sound as before emitting, before Aero's sword is restored.

"We'll be in touch," say the brothers together as they dart off in different directions. Redemption looks around before grabbing up Cupit. Kunai are thrown but miss the three as they run off in different directions. Aero stares after the male Scion a while before looking at his blade. it looked as good as new. The only difference was a strange symbol along one side of the blade. he stows the blade in its place before turning and talking to an officer behind him.

As soon as night creeps over the land Redemption, Scion, and Lucifer gather on the rooftop of a random building. "You found me," Scion and Lucifer say to one another as Redemption sighs. She sits down on the roof, Cupit no where in sight.

"Did you drop him somewhere?"

"Or maybe she killed him for defending her when she didn't ask for his help." Scion says to Lucifer as Redemption stares at them. She begins to ask them what they were talking about when Cupit finally makes it up the side of the building. "There he is."

"We thought she killed you."

"Can't you jump from building to building?"

"What do we see in him?" The twins laugh at each others comments as Cupit reaches Redemption and pants heavily. He sits down beside her trying to catch his breath as Redemption clears her throat.

"So what do we do about that Aero?"

"Nothing," the twins say in unison. Cupit looks at Scion as Redemption looks at Lucifer who were both grinning widely. "He'll come to us and so will Missy."

"What? How are you so certain?" Asks Cupit but the twins do not respond.

"Are we going to wait for them here?" The twins shake their heads as Redemption lets out a sigh. "I guess it'll be less puzzling if I just let you guys do what you're doing."

"You three are so very strange. Can I go home now?"

"If you want to be killed," the twins say wiggling their fingers towards Cupit and making scary faces.

"Forget those two. They won't kill you cause they enjoy your company."

"But... my village."

"The twins are just trying to scare you Cupit. Stop letting them get to you. Typically in a take over the goal is to gain control of the village. No one is going to just come in and start killing people, right Scion and Lucifer?" The twins sigh before nodding at the same time.Cupit smiles at Redemption as the twins begin dancing towards the edge of the building.

"Next destination is Hidden Twilight," states Lucifer leaping off the edge of the building.

"The targets are Fallon Knight and Obe Pepper," Adds in Scion also leaping off. Cupit jumps to his feet as Redemption slowly stands. She slowly walks over to the edge of the building with Cupit at her side to see Scion and Lucifer running down an alleyway towards the docks. She leaps off and gives chase as Cupit tries climbing down.

"Finally," sighs Scion and Art as the group gets off of the boat at the docks. Once close to the village Scion and Art turns around to Anu who was between Grimace and Obu.

"Well if we'd have gotten a boat the right way instead of stealing one perhaps it wouldn't have taken so long." Grimace comments as Scion points a finger real close to her face.

"But none of us wanted to be the one to pay for a boat..."

"...and the boat drivers refused to bring us here when we finally decided to all put on." Includes Art doing the same as Scion. The two then motion back and shake their heads at Grimace.

"So what else could we do?" They ask together before looking at one another. They point at each other and begin trying to say what the other is thinking as Grimace sighs.

"Stealing is stealing. And so we were punished for our thievery by getting lost, caught in a sea storm, and running out of food."

"Actually, I was holding out," laughs Art as Scion shakes his head at her.

"No you weren't. Anu and I ate your sandwich when you fell asleep that one time."

"What? I thought I dropped that!" Art bellows as Scion begins laughing. After a moment laughter is heard down the road that seemed eerily similar to Scion's laugh. Scion freezes and looks down the way before setting eyes on his twin, only with longer hair.

"Lucifer!" He yells darting towards the man and hugging him. They then step back from each other before speaking.

"You found me!" They say in unison as the others motion forward. They all look on to see the only differences between the twins, Scion and Lucifer, besides their hair. Lucifer seemed to wear the exact same clothes as Scion but he was covered by a black cloak. Upon his back was a black sack and in his arms he carried other black cloaks. His silver eyes fall on each person before he smiles.

"You not only found the target Grimace Ome but Anu too. But why here?"

"We're here at the request of the boy, Obu. After he sees the village and stuff Art, Anu, and Grimace are coming back with us." The two continue to chat as Grimace frowns at them. She was going to see Hikai and ask for his aid and then leave. She had no intentions o doing anything more than that. So she didn't see why they were so intent on taking her with them. And why were calling her the target? Anu just smiles at Scion and Lucifer. She was happy to see the two of them again. She then looks over at Art who was frowning at her.

“So what are you and Scion going to do about eating my sandwich?” Art asks as Anu laughs nervously. Lucifer laughs loudly which catches Art’s attention.

“I’ll repay you for it.”

“He brought food with him because he thought…”

“…that Scion would be hungry.”

“It’s food from our base,” they say in unison as Art smiles happily. “You can have it when we’re in town and you catch us.”

“What?” Art asks angrily as Scion and Lucifer run off. She takes off after them followed by grimace, leaving Anu to stand with Obu.

“Shall we?” She asks gesturing towards the village, a smile lighting her face.

"Ain't he just the happiest guy in the world?" Mumbles Art as Lucifer tosses a rock at Art's feet. "That's right! I will not lose to them! I will get revenge for that sandwich and get the food he holds captive!" Art hollers as she chases the Howard's. They toss the bag of food back and forth whenever Art draws too near.

"You three are being rude! Obu is offering us fruit! Stop fooling around!" Grimace yells angrily as Scion sticks his tongue out at her. Lucifer laughs at Scion's action and mimics it before tossing the bag to his brother. Grimace growls before also jumping into the fray. They all run around and around as Anu laughs.

"They're silly where ever we go. I'll have one Obu," states Anu smiling as she gets a piece of fruit. She bites into it, the juices running down her mouth as she does. She blushes before wiping away the juice and continuing to eat. The peaches are so good that she takes another. "I guess I was hungrier than I thought," thinks Anu as she eats. Before long she sighs happily. "That was delicious Obu. You really are amazing." Anu looks around to see Art was tiring out and so was Grimace. The twins laugh at the females, flaunting their barrels of energy and high metabolism, as they dance all around them. After a moment the twins turn to one another. They were out of the hearing range of Obu and Anu as they spoke.

“What do you think about that Obu boy?” Lucifer asks Scion.

“I dunno. He seems fine to me. I don’t think he’s hungry for what you brought.”

“Scion,” sighs Lucifer putting a hand onto his brothers shoulder.

“I’m joking. Well, unlike you, I don’t have strong instincts. He hasn’t done anything suspicious yet. But…”

“But?”

“What do you think?”

“Hm. I sense a danger from him. But none right now. Maybe it’s just because he seems strong.” Scion and Lucifer place opposite hands under their chins before looking at the ground. “So you took the others back to the base?”

“Yep. I imagine they’ve met Naomi by now. I wonder how they’ll act without us around,” laughs Scion as Lucifer smirks.

“I wonder how long it’ll take for Obe to make up her mind?”

“I wonder where we could possibly find Kel at. Before we left Spain, we were informed of our targets. As we traveled, Naomi updated us using the bells about our targets and their location. But not once was Kel’s information mentioned.”

“Yeah, it’s as if Naomi doesn’t need us to go and get him or something.”

“That or…”

“…she’s got him in her own way,” the twins say together as they look over at Anu and make their way over. “What are you two eating?”

“Peaches,” Anu says as the twins frown.

“Peaches are nasty.”

“They are not. You must not have ever eaten one.” The twins look at one another before shrugging and smiling at Anu in embarrassment.

“Nope. But they are nasty.”