10

The next morning

—

Surprisingly the Witch Queen is a lot nicer when you sleep with her. (Literally)

"Remind me why you decided not to have a child of mine?" Rhya asked

"I have a ability that's allows me to see in my own future and let's just say I'm ready to deal with something that wild, Are all Uzumaki that loud?" She asked while grimacing at the fact the little red head kept asking for something she has never heard of before 'ramen' 'ramen' the child repeated over and over.

"Hehe" Rhya didn't directly answer her question just smiled bashfully.

"What is ramen?" she decided to ask.

Boy was that a mistake.

"The food of the gods!" Rhya stated in a serious manner.

After a lecture on ramen the two decided to head towards the dinning room for breakfast.

When entering they say Fū, Tori, and Torune all in their civilian clothes smiling at them.

"So when's the baby gonna come?" Tori teased.

"Actually she didn't want one, so we just slept." Rhya responded while eating a piece of toast.

"Really I thought we were going to have to leave you behind because you were gonna be a dad." Torune said.

"Wow I see how it is." Rhya mumbled

—

"Disregarding them, Rhya we had a talk last night and decided that we need to start looking for answers soon so we are going to be leaving today." Fū said while finishing his breakfast.

"Alright.. that's fine with me I'm just gonna need a few things before we leave." Said Rhya while he made a thinking pose.

Rhya then turned to the Witch Queen who was silently eating her breakfast. "Hey~ do you mind if I take some of your magic?"

"Hmm? Not really, but it's called mana. Magic is what happens when using and manipulating mana." She clarified.

"Plus I have a perfect amount of mana unlike some imperfect people." She finished looking at Rhya who had black lines over his head.

"Ahhh thanks for the clarification!" Rhya said while pulling out a scroll that had some writing on it that merged into a circle like shape in the center of it.

"Could you be a dear and push some mana into this scroll?"

"I can't you still have my mana sealed." She deadpanned

"Oh sorry about that." He smiled bashfully while making a hand seal.

"Kai!"

With that the seal reappeared on her body before slowly disintegrating into ash.

"You know if I had any bad intentions I could've attacked you right?" The Queen questioned

"Oh come on you wouldn't do that~, Plus we both know you wouldn't survive against the four of us unless you pulled out something big." He said childishly

"*sigh* what exactly do you want me to do?"

"Just place your hand in the center of the circle and slowly insert a decent amount of mana into the scroll."

After his explanation she did as was told and put 1/4 of her mana inside of the scroll filling it to the brim.

(She has a stupid amount of mana btw)

—

All of the former Root group was packed and ready to go, leaving so suddenly didn't really surprise them after all not staying in one place for to long is something they have been trained to do.

"Should we really have shown our faces and headbands to a unknown village, Plus defeating the Kage of that same village?" Torune asked

"I…..don't know so far everyone we have talked too doesn't seem to know anything about the village or even enemy villages,Something is going on and I don't like it." Fū tried to sound as normal as he could but a small hint of worry could be heard.

"I agree." Tori spoke

"No body going to talk about y'all selling me out?" Rhya questioned

*silence~*

"wow."

—

*Fwoosh*

"How big is this village?" Fū asked Rhya who was leading the way.

"The Witch Queen didn't say anything about the size of the village, Just that it wasn't popular so I'm guessing it's small." Rhya responded

"And what kingdom is it in again?" Torune asked

"The Diamond kingdom since it's closer than any other village."Rhya once again responded

"I hope this is going to be easy." Fū mumbled

—

Standing on the edge of a cliff overlooking the 'village' the group was dumbfounded.

"Hey this isn't a prison of some sorts is it?" Torune asked

Looking down at the 'village' one could see it was surrounded by a large wall made of cut down trees with mages walking along the tops watching people in what seem like prison clothes doing manual labor.

"Some sort of labor encampment?" Tori narrowed his eyes when he saw a man getting beaten while he lay on the ground while the guard screamed at him to continue working.

"So it seems." Fū said while his eyes narrowed in thought.

"I'll start with the scouting while y'all think, Torune can you check the other edges of the camp while I check inside?" Rhya asked while biting into his thumb.

Making some hand seals he placed his hand onto the ground and a array appeared underneath before a big cloud of smoke engulfed him.

*poof*

'Summing Jutsu: Mizo'

When the smoke cleared a human sized snake could be seen with its body a brilliant green with black dot like patterns on its stomach.

"Hey Mizo! Could you help us scout out this village?" Rhya asked

" I can but itssssss~ going to cosssst~ you 10 sacraficesss." Mizo declared.

Nodding his head Rhya responded. "After we do our scouting you can have some of them." He finished by pointing at a mage wearing a cloak similar to theirs.

"Oh by the way~ where are we?" Mizo suddenly asked

"That…..We don't exactly know." Rhya said

"Now isn't the time for talking everybody get ready after Rhya is done scouting we are moving." Fū declared coming out of his thinking.

Nodding their heads every placed their masks on and readied their blades.

"Mizo you use your ability and check around the inside of the village! Torune how is the outside?" Rhya asked while the body of Mizo suddenly started to break into smaller snakes leaving 20 small snakes that all resembled Mizo.

"A group of 4 people are walking around the outside of the walls, From what my beetles say is that they are only carrying a grimoire no other visible weapons." Torune responded while his eyebrows scrunched together.

Seeing his face Tori asked "what wrong?"

Torune looked at him for a minute before he said. "Don't you think it's weird? I mean only carrying a grimoire outside plus being out in the open are they just that careless thinking no one will attack? Or is it that they have the ability to defend themselves?"

"Don't over think it from what we have seen it should be they think no one will attack I mean what crazy person would go through the witches forest?" Tori muttered

—5 minutes later—

"How was it Mizo?" Rhya asked the reformed human sized snake.

"Odd, very odd I sssssaw~ people mining and cutting treessss~ but what was different issss~ in the ccccenter~ of the village issss~ a compound like building I couldn't even get into but I ssssaw~ them taking in people who looked exhausted but the place was heavily guarded." Mizo responded

"Could it be a sleeping quarters?" Fū asked.

"Unlikely that they would take prisonersssss~ in ssssuch~ a place just to ssssleep~ but who knowssss~." Mizo responded.

"I see thank you Mizo I'll recall you when we get the sacrifices!" Rhya happily said.

Nodding his snake head Mizo disappeared in a cloud of smoke.

"Alright let's move." Fū declared and with that all four of them disappeared from the cliff they had been standing on.

-

(A/N:

Mizo-Snake Summon

Ability- Can divide his body into smaller ones

Looks- Forest Green body with black dot like patches on his stomach.)