9 Final Preparations

Kira helped Lana to get to the healer's hut and led everyone else outside the dojo with the help of the other Kyoshi Warriors, all of that while Madara sat on the ground to rest, his shoulder was hurting like crazy, that last strike he took really screwed him, if not for his final move he didn't know if he could keep fighting aggressively like that, and giving Lana the initiative wouldn't be different from admitting defeat, that woman is strong!

To anyone watching the fight it seemed that it was a one-sided beatdown but he knew better, he had to spend three times more stamina than needed, his child body didn't have the same strength as a grown man, every kick and every punch NEEDED to be done with his full strength behind it, otherwise it would have no effect in battle whatsoever.

Not only that but during fight he felt something, he doesn't know what it was and it was very faint but he felt something weird with him.

As someone who struggled to live during his previous life he was more than used to dirty his hands with a few things, he never crossed certain lines because he was afraid of the consequences that would for sure come to bite him in the ass, but he was never soft-hearted person, his goal was to survive and if he had to play dirty do achieve that he would, so he had no problem in fighting seriously or aim for the head.

His thoughts were interrupted by Kira that came back and offered a waterskin, he took it and gulped it in a few seconds.

"Phew, I needed that… thanks…"

"You are welcome" she grinned "That was a nice fight by the way, to think your small body could pack such punch…"

"Hey I resent that! Don't use the word 'small' when talking about a man, unless you want that man to really dislike you…"

She laughed out loud "Well… tell me that after you grow up a bit, okay?"

'This fucking bitch…' his eye twitched and he let out a loud laugh together with her, regardless of her teasing he couldn't stay angry with her.

"So, what you think? Did I worsen my situation with your town?"

She shook her head "I believe that after this everyone will know that if you had bad intentions, you would have no issues in doing it... by the way..." she pointed to his shoulder "You better get that checked."

Madara loosed his robes a bit to reveal his right shoulder, a huge nasty purple mark spread through his skin.

"Ouch" she said with a sarcastic tone.

"Ouch indeed, that will hurt tomorrow" he replied.

She turned her sarcastic grin on. "That will hurt for at least five 'tomorrow's"

"You know... you are this far from entering my Fei Lan list…" he said with a deadpan voice, which she just laughed louder and louder.

He got up and left the dojo with her on his tail, when he turned the corner of the street, he understood the saying 'Talk about the Devil and he shall appear'.

"BUT HE IS A FUCKING IDIOT!" said a small five-year old boy looking at the Kyoshi Warrior, Fei Lan, right in front of him, while all she did was to stare at the boy with an angry face.

That seemed to be enough and he boy lowered his head and walked away with her.

Madara turned to Kira and asked "Who's that? One of her victims?"

She chuckled and answered while shaking her head "No, that's Kelo, her son… she always doted on him like a little prince, he is spoiled to the core… well that was until certain someone showed up and taught him how to curse…"

"Oh…" Was all Madara could say.

"You finally understood huh?" she asked teasingly.

"Now everything makes sense… I can't even complain about the treatment anymore…"

She started to laugh out loud again, using her fingers to clean her tears.

"What's so funny?" Asked Madara annoyed.

"We had a bet about how long would it take for you to figure that out…" she answered while still laughing. "Some said a day, some said a week, some of us said never…"

"What about you?" He asked with a raised eyebrow.

"Until any of us told you about it" she said that with the most sunny, charming and cute smile possible, that made Madara want to punch her face so damn hard...

After that incident Madara went to rest on his cabin, and look at that? That little bitch was right, it took him five days to get his shoulder better.

After that he kept exploring the Village and talking to the population, this time no one treated him badly, it seems someone told them to treat him with respect that he was no spy at all… phew… finally!

After the first couple weeks after the spar, Madara was called by Kira again who offered him some sort of exchange for some fighting tips for her warriors, he wouldn't get paid in currency, because they wanted to keep their economy tight inside the island, but they would fetch goods for him directly if he wanted, and just like that Madara got his first job.

He also taught some extra tips to the young girl group that watched the spar that day, especially Suki, he knew what she would become so he went an extra mile to impart some extra fighting techniques to her.

"Huff… Madara this is too much... I can't carry more weight!"

"Your stamina is too low Suki, you need to grow up and become the strongest of the Kyoshi Warriors." He replied.

"Just a little break... pretty pleeeease?" she said doing her best puppy-eyes technique on him.

"Sigh, alright alright… lets rest"

And like that she dropped a big rock from her back and sat down under a tree with him, drinking water and resting her tiny body.

"You are from outside the island, right?" she asked while she gulped her water.

"Yes, why?" he said while taking a dumpling from his bag and started eating beside her.

"What can you tell me from the outside world? How people live there? Have you been to other nations?" She was really curious about how things were outside Kyoshi Island.

"Other nations huh?" he leaned back on the tree and started thinking for a few seconds, then an evil scheming smile appeared on his face "I know quite a bit about the Southern Water tribe…"

"OHHH! Tell me tell me!" she exclaimed excitedly

He pretended to be reluctant for a bit "Are you sure? I don't know if you will like it…"

Her cute blue eyes narrowed "What? Tell me!"

Sigh "It's…. well…. the boys of the southern water tribe believe that woman aren't capable fighters, that they should accept being housewives and always bow their heads to their man's wishes"

As expected, Suki got furious "THAT'S STUPID! THEY ARE ALL FUCKING IDIOTS!"

For the first time Madara was proud of spreading his sailor's speech through this village, he gave her an understanding nod and continued "That's how they behave, even if they pretend to be understanding… is just to woo other girls, it's their culture after all…"

She was fuming "What a stupid fucking culture! If I encounter any of them, I will break their family jewels!"

He let out a loud laugh and patted her head "Good, young Suki... Good" he couldn't help but use a Palpatine-like voice. 'I hope you enjoy my gift, Sokka' he lifted his water skin to his mouth, pretending to drink water to hide his demon-like evil smile on his face.

After a couple of months of tutoring young children and veteran Kyoshi Warriors in different fighting styles Madara went to Kira with a request.

"Can you take me to a blacksmith? I have some weapons that i want forged…"

She looked at him in confusion "You can just ask me any weapon and I will find you one, I know you like the katana so I will just give you one, there's no need to get a new one forged…"

He shook his head "It's not a katana, I can't wield it properly my body is too sma-" he paused mid-sentence and coughed "Ahem.. I don't have the proper body to wield one yet, the balance would be all wrong for me."

She couldn't help but raise the corners of her mouth in a sarcastic and smug smirk, gosh Madara really wanted to punch her pretty face right now once again!

"Alright, you can come with me then, I will take you there."

"Before we go can you spare me some paper and charcoal? I want to draw the weapons that I want" he requested.

"Sure" She, she looked around the dojo for the items he asked and handed them back to him. "Here."

"Thanks!" he started sketching different shinobi weapons from the Naruto world, Kira never saw any of those weapons anywhere, that made her belief even more firm 'He is definitely not from the Fire Nation.'

She guided him to the blacksmith and he presented his sketches, that made the poor old man scratch his head.

"What is this one?" he asked with a raspy voice while pointing specifics.

"This one is a Kunai, it needs to be this specific size, don't forget the hole on the pummel that's very important, it should be large enough to put a finger through it."

"I see, how about this one? How long do you need this thing to be?"

Madara stopped to think for a second "Hmm about... 900 feet each, I want at least 30, the same goes for the kunais... I will need 30 of them."

The old blacksmith nodded "Very well it will take me over a month to finish this, this... kunai… is easy, the problem is this other one, to make it resistant and malleable we will need to work on it for a while."

Madara just grinned "No worries old man, I have all the time in the world."