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Chapter 75- Doom Days (Bones of the Father)

She snapped awake in the dead of the night. A siren was ringing. The high-pitched sound was coming from the walls of her room itself. She slid her wand out from under her pillow and pointed it straight ahead before she rolled backward off the bed ...

Chapter 42.6- The Seadragon's Roar

XXXXX- SIX WEEKS LATER

“A visitor for you, my lord” One of the dozens of serving boys that now called Bloodstone home said, walking into my solar.

“What flag did they fly?” I asked, watching as the boy turned to the side, tryi...

Chapter 75.6- Doom Days

“I would rather die, and so would Susan” her aunt spat back, and Susan found herself nodding along. She could never imagine working for someone so evil. So cruel. It hut evil and cruel, but the man on whose orders her parents had been killed. ...

Chapter 95.6- One Thousand Hands

To Kushina’s credit, her chains were already moving to wrap around me the second I’d tossed Minato away, but that was still far too little, and far too late. I reached for one of said chains, grabbed a hold of it and felt it try to suppress my...

Chapter. 75.5- Doom Days

He tore through the next two creatures that assaulted him so quickly that Susan hadn’t even been able to tell what they were. And then he went for her aunt. He smashed through the cover she hid behind, but she wasn’t there. She had moved alrea...

Chapter 42.5- The Seadragon's Roar

Just like him, they didn’t believe me when I said they were free. None of them moved forward to attack Declan. They probably saw it as a test of the loyalty or something equally inane. If only I could just shove the thought in their head. You a...

Chapter 95.5- One Thousand Hands

XXXXXXX- THREE MONTHS SINCE THE ATTACK ON KONOHA

We had finally broken ground on the new tower. It had taken a while to secure all right families and their reallocations, but that had not been the real delay. The real delay had come from th...

Chapter 95.4- One Thousand Hands

And then he felt the pull at his soul as the teapot began to eject him. He landed on the ground, crouched, feeling aches all over..

But he was an abbot of the Wind Temple. Pain was an old fiend of his. He rose to his full height, not paying...

Chapter 42.4- The Seadragon's Roar

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“Is everyone here?” I asked Declan. He nodded. I turned to the line of former slaves. The people whose freedom I had purchased only for them to be enslaved by my man. As far as they were concerned, I had bought them, freed them, ...

Chapter 75.4- Doom Days

She watched as he admired the various statues and paintings that dotted Bones Manor. He was taking his time, enjoying himself like he was an invited guest on a tour and not an intruder who deserved to die. Her nails bit so deeply into her skin tha...

Chapter 42.3- The Seadragon's Roar

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Perhaps I should have made him suffer more before I killed him, I thought to myself as I looked at the stack of communications that had been exchanged between one of my most trusted Captains and a certain Ravandyr Morello of the Stepst...

Chapter 95.3- One Thousand Hands

And so he continued his investigation. He moved his eye from street to street, and when he reached the hospital, it took a large amount of willpower for him to continue. In the sand outside the hospital, they lay in their dozens, each one sick as ...

Chapter 95.2- One Thousand Hands

“Blindspots?” I asked.

“The other villages: Suna, Kusa, Ame, Kiri, Kumo, Taki. With some preliminary training, they will be able to act as competent spies. Some will begin lives as civilians while others will seek to enroll as shinobi...

Chapter 42.2- The Seadragon's Roar

Because if he thought mocking me about Corlys, a man whose death I had gotten over a long time ago was going to give him the chance to take the advantage here, then he had another thing coming.

I took my stance and waited for him to come fo...

Chapter 75.3- Doom Days

“Susan, I need you to listen to me carefully.” Her aunt said, drawing her closer and grabbing her head by both hands.

“This will be the last time we ever speak—“

“No”

“Yes. That man— that thing coming here will...

Chapter 75.2- Doom Days.

“That’s impossible” She heard her aunt say before her eyes could even adjust to the sudden darkness. The light fixtures had gone off in the earthquake.

“Auntie?” She called, seeing the woman she had grown up seeing as unflappable ...

Chapter 95.1- One Thousand Hands

Where Toshiro had seemed to stroll into the room, comfortable in his skin, Shiba seemed to lumber. Every step he took seemed to weigh more than the last. Not with a physical weight, but a metaphysical one. This was a man with a burden on his shoul...

Chapter 42.1- The Seadragon's Roar

The one to my left, Declan, attacked first. He had a pug face, nose clearly broken one too many times to heal right, and a sneer on his face. He swung his blade at me. I ducked underneath it, and stomped at his foot. He managed to snatch it back i...

Chapter 75.1- Doom Days

She snapped awake in the dead of the night. A siren was ringing. The high pitched sound coming from the walls of her room themselves. She slid her wand out from underneath her pillow, and pointed it straight ahead before she rolled backwards off t...

Chapter 94- One Thousand Hands (Complete)

XXXXXX- THE THIEF

“Did you get it?” his benefactor asked as he walked into the cave.

“I still don’t see why we have to keep meeting in caves. You have the gold to pay me. Surely you could find something better than… this,” ...

Chapter 74- Doom Days (Happy Birthday)

The day the seventh month died began like any other. I woke up and stretched, preparing myself to head out to begin the day’s first duelling session. After weeks of training—more like months with all the time that we had passed in the time tur...

Chapter 41- The Seadragon's Roar (Traitors in the Tower)

“Arghhh,” I screamed as I felt the wood of his lance shatter against my shield as mine failed to make contact. I kept riding, turning at the last moment to see that my opponent had done the same.

I gestured to the boy who had taken the r...

Chapter 41.6- The Seadragon's Roar

“My Lord? The meaning of this is that you shall surrender yourself into our custody now that you have delivered yourself into our hands”

“You would betray guest rights?”I asked. I didn’t truly care all that much for the concept of ...

Chapter 74.6- Doom Days

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“Now what do you think is the most important part of a spell?” Nicholas began our spell learning session of the day with a question.

“Intent” I said instantly, it was based into us from a young age.

“That is th...

Chapter 94.6- One Thousand Hands

“Most of them managed to make it to the general genin corps. But from there, their fates diverge widely. Some of them manage to make it onto chunin squads and die in their second or third C-rank. Others group up together, go on D-ranks for a yea...

Chapter 95.5- One Thousand Hands

“But then I got the position, and the clearance level to see numbers that I’m sure everyone who’s held this chair before you would rather remain hidden”

“Hmm? A scandal of some sort? One Granduncle and Grandfather would both want ...

Chapter 95.4- One Thousand Hands

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It only took twenty minutes after Shika had left for my next appointment to be at the door. I had Retsu bring hum in while I waited patiently behind my desk. While the meeting with Shika had been about bringing her around to my way...

Chapter 94.3- One Thousand Hands

“It’s not just about making them like me, Shika. It’s more than that. What do you think the civilian to shinobi population split is?”

“Accounting for casualties?” She asked.

“Of course”

“Two to one?” She tr...

Chapter 74.5- Doom Days

I flicked my wand, creating the sound of clapping thunder to draw his attention. Is head snapped to me, the expression of shock on his face, comical.

“What’d you do that for?” He asked, picking at his ears.

“You weren’t pay...

Chapter 41.5- The Seadragon's Roar

I waited for the bread and salt, thinking things through as I did so. Was he the thief? Probably. But I had no proof or evidence, and beyond that, I wasn’t sure enough to push on regardless. Would I torture a man for my suspicions? Possibly, but...