AFTER DARK | naruto

30 | search for jinchurriki! capture, or captured?

"The Fire Dragon Diaval grants the Jinchuuriki—given the name 'dragon slayers', overwhelming power. Of all five Dragons known, the only royalty in line is Diaval. It proves to make him the strongest of all five—which in turn, makes whoever the Jinchuuriki maybe be, the strongest... Diaval has been described to be sneaky, cunning, manipulative, and..." You couldn't help the small chuckle you let out. "... Annoying."

"Dragon force is the ultimate power any dragon slayer can achieve—which requires a strong bond between Jinchuuriki, and beast... There hasn't been a single recorded instance in history, of dragon force being achieved with the Fire King..."

'To bad... Looks like answers come to an end.' Diavals known since the beginning about your curiosity about him, ever since you were a kid, you'd ask him things—which he'd always answer vaguely.

"Huh, I think they forgot the part about him trying to act cool." You said, looking up at Shisui. You were sat down, the two of you outside on the training grounds. "Right now he's saying just how awesome he is, and that he just wants to stay mysterious forever..."

'Can you not insist on making me look dumb?!'

Shisui chuckled, shutting his eyes before looking up at the sound of footsteps.

"Mister Mizukage has gone missing..." It was sudden news, the sudden disappearance of the Mizukage Yagura was definitely alarming, after all—he was strong, but he was also a dictator. Although he was gone, he wasn't relatively missed. Still, Wendy had a heart of gold—she found herself sad.

Shisui remembered that Mizukage, he actually defeated him in battle once... A long time ago, but don't let that distract you from the fact that he did it. Besides, that very well could've been what landed him a flee-on-sight order.

It had been eight months, you were in the Mist for eight more months, and your training had been going good. Shisui had even taught you how to wield a blade, not exactly your style—but swords were always cool. Your Poltigan training was fine, you could control yourself when someone like Shisui possessed you now—his resistance wasn't strong like Kibakis. He was hardheaded, strong, and had set morals, all that combined the fact he didn't exactly like you made it a lot harder.

Still, you were getting there somewhat.

"... Rumor is that... It's because he was a Jinchuuriki—the Mizukage at that. Easy target." She sighs. You had become good friends with Wendy, in a way, you saw her as a little sister. Maybe she fit well into the younger sister stereotype.

You thought back to something you'd been told before, Naruto had warned you of people called the 'Akatsuki', out for people with 'beasts in them.' Looks like they were only now beginning to make their move—if that was the reason behind the Mizukages disappearance. It seemed likely. "If it's true they're after Jinchuuriki, we might be next. Well, you—they know you're in the Mist, but I doubt they'd know I'm here, too." You said, standing up. Wendy had interrupted your training with Shisui, but you didn't mind. After all, Wendy had taught you a variety of things you didn't know before.

Limited medical ninjutsu for the first part, something you'd been dying to learn. That along with Wind Jutsus, still not your strong suit whatsoever—but you actually managed to get the hang of one of them. Nothing special, a bit wild at that... But it was still a wind Jutsu. Your fire power had gotten stronger too, noticeably so, you had been training with an Uchiha after all, and Kibaki definitely taught you to be on higher alert and improve your reflexes.

"The Akatsuki..." You continued, shutting your eyes. "That's who it was. My knowledge on them is limited, I only know they're after people like us."