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Chapter 72.6- One Thousand Hands

“Stop getting distracted Shorirama” She hissed, turning about once she realised I was too busy looking around to follow her to the tablet. Wo could blame me? This was literal history. Well, history that was yet to happen, but you get the vibe.

I walked to the tablet, and even with my byakugan, there was nothing to be seen. Just characters that were either half or a quarter formed. They didn’t mean anything.

“I assume there’s something here I can’t read” I said, tu...

Chaoter 53.5- Doom Days

And there it was, the arrogance that came so naturally to everyone here. First it was that girl— I hadn’t gotten her name— and her audacity in trying to en her my mind without permission. No, not even her, the first had been the guy who I had tried being nice to who had basically spat it in my face. I noticed he had made it to the top 64 as well. I would enjoy dueling him again. This time, his cheap tricks would not catch me by surprise, and neither would I. I barked a sharp laugh.

Chapter 19.6- The Seadragon's Roar

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I waited outside, trying my best not to act like I was sulking even thought I was most definitely sulking. By my side, Laena was brimming with amusement. Mother, on the other hand, was the very picture of propriety. One would not even be able to tell that this woman had screamed at me a scarce few hours ago.

I’d tried to join them in heading into the cave, and mother had decided that she would be having it only over her dead body. Our wills had clashed, we had fought, and...

Chapter 19.5- The Seadragon's Roar

After dealing with the second castle, I noticed that Caraxes and meleys had begun to tire. It was nothing terrible, but it was there in the way they flapped their wings— taking a second too long, doing it with even more strain than I’d ever seen them do it before. Interesting. Igneel was still relatively fresh— most of our endurance training had focused on being able to project his flames for long periods, after all. Vhagar, to borrow a phrase from someone else, looked like she could do...

Chapter 72.5- One Thousand Hands

We walked down the road to the shrine. This was one of the places in the Uchiha district that I had never been to. Izuku avoided it like the plague. I hadn’t been religious either so what was the need for me to push on visiting it. I knew it had relevance in canon, but what did that matter here. The second Black Zetsu turned up or showed his face in my village, I would cut him to pieces and scatter Kaguya’s will to the wind like sand in the desert. There would be no Obito. Not on my watch...

Chapter 53.4- Doom Days

“Try it again and they will be mopping up what remains of you” I said, seething. She seemed taken aback by my visible rage but instead of dialing it back, I leaned into it.. Drawing closer to her, we met eyes again and I shoved myself into her mind with all the subtlety of a baby in an airplane. She was reeling, scrambling to raise her own shields. She was better than her brother it was clear. When my probe broke against her mind, it became clear that she was better than even I was.

Chapter 72.4- One Thousand Hands

I had a marker near the entrance of the Uchiha Clan District. I had markers like that all over the village. They let me get from place to place instantly in the case of emergencies but this wasn’t an emergency and Uzume would definitely call it cheating. Besides, I was having a great time as we were now.

Uzume was fast. It was a fact that I had sort of known, but now it was clear. Neither of us were going truly all out . If we did, the race would be too short to be any fun. But that ...

Chapter 53.3- Doom Days

A white line burned itself into the water, forming a circle around them— about double the size of the previous stage. Other platforms rose from the water around them as well. They had mobility, but it was clear that their choices were between jumping from platform to platform or swimming the way there. I noticed there was nothing that said they couldn’t get in the water itself. It wouldn’t be a completely bad strategy. Submerge and wait for your opponent to let down their guard before s...

Chapter 19.4- The Seadragon's Roar

The next ‘castle’ we came across was barely worth its name. This one had clearly not been built by the Valyrians. I found it difficult to conclude even that the person building this had more than two brain cells to rub together even. Not with the way the thing sprawled. Three different types of stone had been used ins its construction. Almost like whenever they ran out of one type, they moved on to another.

Saying it stretched to the sky would be a dire overstatement of events, so ...

Chapter 19.3- The Seadragon's Roar

“If we want that castle, we have to get men inside that bitch” Daemon said, and I feared that he was right. Because that was going to be a costly castle to take no matter what.

“Let’s deal with the other castles first” Rhaenys said instead. She was just as hesitant as I was about challenging that castle, it seemed. Good. Because our dragons would not be useless. We’d be able to use them to prevent people from guarding the walls and stalling the breaching of the castle itsel...

Chapter 53.2- Doom Days

The first duel was called, and I went up to the competitor’s box. Unlike with the qualifiers, there was no option to just retreat to my own box to watch the duels. There was even a rule against it. Apparently, the spectators were going to be getting a special kind of view that would give me an unfair advantage in the matches if I used it as well. I called bullshit, but who was I to argue? Quickly, I marked one of the seats near the front as mine and moved to it even as the others began to ...

Chapter 72.3- One Thousand Hands

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Uzume looked nervous. That was new. That was very new. It was like looking at a scared lion or a small hippo. It was so strange and new that I allow dit to stretch out, perhaps for longer than I should have. The Council meeting was in two days. I’d handed the report, and copies over to Uraume and we were discussing a schedule for approaching the relevant clan heads. The ones who were undecided s far as we knew and were likely to supper me instead of Hiruzen once the report ...

Chapter 19.2- The Seadragon's Roar

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People had a misconception about dragons. They couldn’t just burn castles willy nilly. Not the most of them at least. Strong as Igneel was, he’d have difficulties burning a full sized castle with anything less than hours of work. We didn’t have the stamina for doing it in one go, and the thing did lose a lot of its awe-striking potential when you had to do it in shifts or batches. That was not the case with four dragons though.

Especially not these four. Together...

Chapter 72.2- One Thousand Hands

“What if I have something more engaging for you to work on?” I asked, leading her to the question I had. I’d done it. I’d all but secured the Hokage hat. That meant I had to begin working on what would come next.

“Speak, boy. I’m too old for all this leading on” She near barked. I looked at her again. Did I even want to work with someone like her? She was definitely immoral enough to not care about the inevitable need for human experimentation…a factor that had made me ...

Chapter 19.1- The Seadragon's Roar

“There’s been a change of plans” Mother said, spreading out a map of Bloodstone in Daemon’s command tent. He hadn’t even begrudged her taking control. I guess even the infuriating and mercurial man-child could see that pissing my mother off in this situation would be even more brain dead than his usual behaviour.

“What do you have in mind, Cousin?” He said, stepping closer to look at the map as well.

“My husband’s plans, while brilliant, were overly generous to...

Chapter 72.1- One Thousand Hands

I watched her as she completed the examination, in the end, she did not need to change anything in the report apart from some notes about the scar tissue in his legs. Then she passed the report over to me. I nodded, knowingly owing what I ha to do. The new Clan Council meeting was scheduled to take place in two days. I’d have Uraume do the rounds with this and then bring it up during the meeting. Kagame seemed willing to witness it in person, so that would make things even better. She could...

Chapter 53.1- Doom Days

The rest of my qualification duels passed without note and I took note of the Leaderboards as the second day wore on. At the beginning of the day, there were several of us on perfect 4/4 records. By the end of it, only about eleven of us out of the chosen sixty-four had perfect 9/9 records. That didn’t mean they were all on my level though. It also didn’t mean that those with less than perfect records were very far off. Several of them were on 8/9. In fact, only three out of the chosen si...

Chapter 52- Doom Days (Qualifiers)

I held my wand in a loose grip even as I rocked on the balls of my feet. There were dozens of duelling platforms all around me. I was standing on platform seven—an auspicious sign if I was one to believe in such things as I waited for my next opponent. My first duel had passed without incident, the boy who faced me having been nothing special. His attempts to use transfiguration against me would have been cute if they had not been so disgraceful. To watch a wizard on the cusp of maturity st...

Chapter 71- One Thousand Hands

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“Form up!” he roared at the top of his voice. To their credit, the maggots were at attention in a matter of seconds. Good. Almost good enough. He looked at them. There were close to forty of them arranged in a straight line in front of spaced-out targets. Another month, another set of maggots to take through the basics. He almost wondered what the Raikage had done to convince the Lightning Lord to give them such free rein to recruit, but it was not his place to q...

Chapter 18- The Seadragon's Roar (Reactions)

XXXXX - THE GRANDMAESTER

Another emergency meeting of the Small Council would probably be called in light of this revelation, he thought to himself with a sigh. Sometimes he regretted accepting his Uncle Allar’s invitation to the capital. Being in the Capital when the former Grand Maester died, adding his blood relation to the man and the pedigree of his original family before he had forsworn them to forge his chains with the Citadel, had probably combined to make him the best choice...

Chapter 18.6- The Seadragon's Roar

“And what would you have us do?” One of the Myrish asked. Xovario wondered if that was even a question worth asking. The answer was simple, wasn’t it\>? An attack on one part of the Triarchy had its consequences spelled out in full within the Charter.

“The Charter is clear” Tasseling replied, not even looking at his fellow as he spoke.

“You cannot be serious. You would have us declare war against the Sunset Kingdoms? Face Dragons?” Selqor Mararys was the one who...

Chapter 18.5- The Seadragon's Roar

Runciter silently wondered what game his benefactor was playing here. He was more than well aware of Otto Hightower’s hidden hatred for the grasping Velaryons, and their patriarch most of all. Few had fumed as loudly as the Hightower when Corlys Velaryon had just resumed the office of the Master of Ships like he had never left it after the Great Council and Viserys’ coronation.

“So what do you advise we do about the Stepstones, Otto?” The King asked, tilting his head.

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Chapter 71.6- One Thousand Hands

XXXXX- SHORIRAMA SENJU

I watched Kagame as she compiled the report with unmatched efficiency. It was impressive as she took things Tsunade had written and reworded them for maximum effect. Tsunade herself was sulking over by her desk, seeming have decided that giving us the silent treatment was preferable to doing anything else.

When Kagame had completed the work, I whistled as I read it over her shoulder. It was objective— phrased objectively rather. It referred to him as the ...

Chapter 52.6- Doom Days

“That’s your name called, Harry” Sirius noted. I nodded n his direction as I made my way outside again. This was my third duel. My first and second had passed so quickly after each other that I never even got the chance to make it up here. Now this on was coming after I only got a few minutes of spotty rest. Luckily, I still had plenty in the tank. Multiple duels in quick succession would probably tire me out if I endednup matched. Against even semi-competent duelists over and over agai...

Chapter 52.5- Doom Days

“Winner: Potter” The referee said before gesturing for me to get off the stage. Healers were heading towards my opponent but he had made it to his feet on his own and was dusting himself off.

“Good duel” I said as I walked towards him. He narrowed his eyes at me. He was looking at me like he was not quite certain I was bering genuine. I tried to stretch my smile even further.

“Yes, you duel well, Potter” he said, smiling stretching his own face as I leaned forward to...

Chapter 71.5- One Thousand Hands

“The day you die” Hayate replied coldly. Kosuke looked over at him.

“That is the truth. Fear reminds you that you are alive— that you are human. Anyone who feels no fear is inhuman. Enjoy the fear. Allow it remind you that you are alive. And when the time comes, ignore it and do your duty” Hayate said, stabbing the sword he was polishing straight into he ground.

Kosuke did not know if he was willing to accept that. Hayate did not understand what he as talking about. Pr...

Chapter 18.4- The Seadragon's Roar

“Then it is decided. Send a raven to Lord Redwyne, requesting his presence at the pleasure of the Crown. Do not mention the reason for the summons, however. It would be…inconsiderate to be seen planning his replacement before an announcement has been made of Lord Corlys’ death. Also prepare condolence messages for my Cousin, Rhaenys and her children. Send them the second we receive official confirmation” The King said to him, giving his ruling and bringing discourse to a conclusive en...

Chapter 71.4- One Thousand Hands

XXXXXXX- KOSUKE THE DESERT BLAZE

He watched his friend and partner as he polished the blades that gave him his epithet. Each one of Hayate’s six swords was a masterpiece onto itself. Most assumed mastering six swords meant he was not that dangerous with each one, but this was a man who had travelled the world in his younger years, seeking out Samurai, Kenjutsu practitioners, even Monks who wielded blades, and besting them all until he became a master of six different sword styles and ...

Chapter 52.4- Doom Days

Mist flowed from his wand, encircling two of my snakes and I watched, fully enraptured, as both creatures were torn from my control, smashing their heads into each other as they began to fight. The small pack of wolves I’d transfigured only fared a little better. Natural pack hunters with the instincts imbued in the at creation, I watched as they encircled their quarry, my opponent. Two of them were never in his view at the same time and he had to constantly turn this way and that to keep g...

Chapter 18.3- The Seadragon's Roar

“I was unaware that the position of Master of Ships was a hereditary one” Darklyn commented with a chortle. His animosity with the Velaryons spawned from little but petty jealousy. Regardless of its origins though, Runciter was aware that the Hand had leveraged that animosity on more than one occasion. Especially when he did not want to be seen as overtly anti-Velaryon even as he worked to oppose them underneath the scenes.

“Daemon to Aethan to Daemon to Manfryd to Corlys and the...