9 THE ONE-ARMED WOLF BANDIT.:

From the moment Sayuri used the [Hidden Darkness Jutsu], she ran and didn't stop until she felt her chakra reserves drop down to about half and she didn't want to carrying on moving at such speeds whilst she's holding on to her young master also she is too far away for her pursuers to even track her not unless they have a Ninkēn or something.

She landed at the bottom of one of the outer mountains within the Spirit Mountain range and she stop to recuperate for a bit whilst she waits for Kai, she will leave in 30mins if he doesn't appear but as expected after waiting for few minutes she felt Kai's chakra few metres away and within few secs he appeared before her and apart from having his spiky hair all ruffled up he looks completely fine looks like he didn't break a sweat holding them off.

"Who was he, it looked you two have met before" asked Sayuri.

"Let's just say he's a former foe from the Karakan war." said Kai after taking a deep sigh of relief from seeing them safe.

"I can't believe you fought in those wars, I heard a 100,000 shinobi lost their lives in those battles and it was known to be the bloodiest event in the last 200 years." Sayuri added with a slight hint of admiration in her voice.

Kai saw her cute curious expression and wanted to laugh but answered with a straight face "It was nowhere near that number, if it was noble lords from the neighbouring countries would have lead a campaign to conquer their weaken enemies."

suddenly Kai had a sad reminiscing look on his face as he looked at the moonlit sky before carrying on "in actual fact it was only about half that number that actual perish or even less, but I won't lie it was a very bloody fight and I lost a lot of my comrades in that war….*sigh*...how's the young master."

Sensing that Kai didn't want to carrying on talking about the Karakan wars and wanted to change the topic Sayuri oblige by taking the young master from underneath her cloak and showed Kai whilst rocking him slightly she said "he's a little rattled but he's still as cheerful as ever."

As she said that she nicely rubbed her fingers on Hirōshi's tiny neck causing him to laugh whilst waving his tiny arms about and with his baby voice it's the cutest thing ever but Ofcourse the baby in question is embarrassed to no end but he can't help it he has to act like a baby or else they will be very suspicious about his behaviour and it does not help that G.A.I.A is dying with laughter in his head.

Kai couldn't help but let out a little chuckle making him forget the sad montage he was having in his head, he doesn't like going down that memory lane but meeting a former enemy-nin and Sayuri's sudden questioning made him think about sad days long gone. After about an hour of light hearted laughter and resting Kai started quieting down before looking towards the north-east which lead to the spirit mountains and suddenly as if sensing something he abruptly stood up and made a hand gesture to Sayuri and understanding what he meant she made a tacit nod and strap the young master back onto her chest and strapping on her cloak before the both of them vanished into shadows.

Unfortunately it was a hasty getaway so they didn't manage to erase their traces very well and a few minutes after they left a black wolf appeared out of the cluster of trees and the wolf is huge it's about 6ft5 tall and it has a terrifying diagonal scar that goes over his left eye with four smaller scars that go across the larger scar 2 over the closed eye and 2 below it giving it a stitch like pattern, it's good eye is even more terrifying somehow, it has an evil crimson glow in its red iris.

The wolf went around the small makeshift camp and started sniffing the still smoking fireplace and the cut stones Kai and Sayuri where using as benches, after a few seconds of sniffing around the wolf abruptly looked in the direction Kai and Sayuri vanished in and started howling *Awoo* *Awoo* a few minutes later you could hear the rustling of leaves before a cloaked man appeared from beyond the tree line.

The newcomer looked just as menacing as the wolf he even has a similar scar going over his right eye the only difference is that his eye doesn't look blinded by the scar and he also has two red fang like tattoos on his cheeks and from within his cloak you could hear the cooing of a baby but it doesn't sound joyous at all, it sounded more like the baby was in tremendous pain.

The cloaked man walked up to the restless wolf and said "What's the matter Zanmaru you know I don't like being disturbed when I'm working." as he was saying that he started rubbing the wolfs neck with his right arm. His right arm was wierd though because it looked like it was made with wood and bone, a very futuristic looking prosthetic for this era.

The restless dog kept looking in the direction of the spirit mountains and started growling in a hungry manner, the one armed man seemed to have understood what the wolf meant because his lacklustre and annoyed expression change to that of confusion as if he can't believe what he's hearing.

"No way it can't be, everyone and their dog knows not to step into the spirit mountains with a baby, it's as if the prey is willingly volunteering to be your meal Zanmaru." Said the one armed man with an incredulous look on his face.

Right after, the baby within his cloaked started screaming in pain causing the man to remove him from within his cloak showing the scrawny baby twisting about in pain he had bulging green veins all over his tiny body and his iris was a reddish gold colour and his sclera had bulging red veins.

"It's for the best anyways this one seem to be another failure." Saying that he plucked out the flaming gold eyes from the babies socket causing the baby to take its last breath causing the one armed man to snarl showcasing his fang like canines before he threw the tiny corpse to the side and reached for the tome like book strapped to his outer right thigh.

Before the tiny body could even touch the tree it was headings towards, a black shadow flashed and the corpse vanished, in its place was the giant black wolf chewing with his mouth full with a tiny shrivelled up leg sticking out of his maws dangling up and down as blood dripped out of his chewing maw.

The one armed man on the other hand was murmuring incoherent words as he wrote down what seem to be notes in his tome like book all the while the flaming gold eyes he plucked out earlier where still dangling by the optic nerves in between his finger he lifts up his hand from time to time to observe the eye before he carries on writing in his book 30 or so minutes later he closed the book and strapped it back to his thigh and then he looked towards the giant wolf.

"You done with your meal Zanmaru.?"

The giant wolf nodded and started growling in the direction Sayuri and Kai vanished in as if saying he's ready for more.

"Don't worry they'll be caught in due time after all they are within my lands now." Saying that he started walking towards the wolf before continuing " in the meanwhile it's time for your snack." He fed the dangling eye balls he had to the wolf before mounting him and said "chop chop now Zanmaru it will soon be time for your next meal."

As the wolf was chewing on his 'snack' he started running in the direction of Sayuri and Kai as if he couldn't wait to catch his new prey and soon enough the two of them vanished into the mountains.