Spoooooky Season: Part One

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Uchiha, Kaito awoke from his slumber in a stir; his face covered in a cold sweat. He huffed, trying desperately to catch his breath and to relax his now labored breathing. His wife, Amaya, groaned as she too woke up groggily.

"You okay, Dear?" She asked without much to back up the question.

"I'm fine, Amaya." The Otokage replied, collecting himself as his breathing slowed back down to a normal pace. He brushed her hair back from her face and placed a delicate kiss upon her forehead. "Go back to sleep now."

Amaya quietly obliged and turned herself around into a comfortable position. Within seconds she was sound asleep again and snoring lightly. Not wanting to disturb her more, Kaito carefully removed himself from the bed that they shared and quietly threw on a simple shirt over his bare upper body. It had been a hell of a nightmare he had; one where weird things were seemingly causing havoc all throughout the village. The Uchiha couldn't quite put his finger on what all had happened, but he did remember that towards the end of it all he had found himself back in his home within Otogakure's Uchiha District. Upon the table in this world of dreams was a fully decorated and beautiful assortment of food. Pies, fish, steaks, and so much more.

It was all too weird for Kaito, but his remembering of this dream had surely made him hungry. Noticing as well that it was still dark out, he knew now that he would never be able to go back to sleep. Deciding it best for him to take a midnight stroll around the village, he quickly shuffled himself into a pair of dark grey sweatpants, a fishnet tank top, his black gloves, and black shinobi sandals before exiting the bedroom and sneaking quietly and elusively down the hallway past Tatsuya's and Hanzo's respective bedrooms. As he made his way down the staircase into the kitchen, he could hear the back door close with a light clicking sound. The Otokage knew that Tatsuya didn't really dedicate himself to much of anything, so he figured that Hanzo had also awoken early to get in some training. The boy had sure come a long way since their first meeting, and Kaito couldn't have been more proud of his adoptive son.

As Kaito too walked to the door, planning on leaving for the day as well, the scent of freshly made food met his nostrils. Looking over at the dinning table he couldnt see anything, but as he turned his head to the garbage can next to the counters he saw it; masses of freshly prepared delicacies.

It had all been exactly what he had seen in his dream...

"What the hell?" Kaito asked, rubbing his temple with his fingers. "Strange things are afloat for sure..."

Trying not to think much more about it all, Kaito exited the house and made his way towards the village. Many people were awake as well, all making their way towards the village center as well. Knowing that something was up, Kaito closed his eyes to garner the location of Hanzo with his sensory abilities. He found the boy's signature within the village along with Quinn's and Raikur's signatures. Knowing now for certain that tings were amiss, Kaito activated his Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan and used his Kamui to teleport himself to the location of the three genin. He would appear in a swirling fashion a few meters away from Quinn and his two students, and he would begin to make his way over to them all with haste.

"What in the world is going on here?" Kaito asked. "Have you all experienced or seen anything out of the ordinary, other than all the villagers making their ways to wards the village center anyways?"

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Quinn would quickly brief Kaito and the rest of the makeshift team in regard to what had been gping on. Apparently the massive amounts of food had not only appeared on the Otokage's table, rather it had seemingly appeared everywhere within the confines of the village.

'Very odd indeed…' The Otokage thought to himself.

Next would come the horrified screams of terror from the villagers. They pierced Kaito's eardrums with a chilling cunning, and for a brief moment he was taken back to a place in his mind that he had long blocked out; a repressed memory of fantastic magnitude.

For that brief moment he found himself holding the hand of a woman. They were running frantically as rubble from falling buildings collapsed all around them. He turned his head to look up towards the woman, and he was greeted with the sight of his adoptive mother. They were running away from something until a shinobi darted to their side.

"You two make your way to the bunker. I don't know how much longer we're going to hold out." He was sporting a Konohagakure flak jacket and crimson red Inuzuka warpaint. Kaito recognized him as his adoptive father. Suddenly, a man dawning Kirigakure armor appeared from a thick mist before them, weaving an immense number of hand seals. "Damnit!" The Konohagakure shinobi cursed. He sped up and threw himself forward, turning his body in quick fashion. "Tunneling Fang!"

It was then that Kaito had remembered where he had heard these screams of terror before; Kirigakure's attack and subsequent subjugation of Konohagakure during his childhood. Coming to his senses, Kaito realized that he had frozen in place; standing stiff as a board. It was in that time a group of flying monkeys had begun to terrorize the villagers. All havoc had broken loose, and all of the genin under the First Otokage's command had taken no time in getting down to protecting the rest of the villagers. Quinn had been using a sort of metal bat to beat the monkeys as they flew by, but Hanzo...

"The black flames..." Kaito remembered the words that Hanzo had once said regarding his father; that the man had killed the boy's mother with black flames that were granted by the infamous Mangekyō Sharingan. "He's mastered them for himself." Kaito looked on as the next generation of Otogakure shinobi fought on with valor and precision, and the Otokage could feel a flame of invigoration brewing from within himself. Wasting no more time, Kaito quickly formed the 'Ox' --> 'Monkey' --> 'Hare' --> 'Rat' --> and 'Boar' hand seals in quick succession. His chest expanded wildly as it filled to the brim with immense amount of water.

"Water-Style: Water Dragon Bullet!"

Exploding from his mouth, the roar of a dragon echoed throughout the village center as the water swelled out from Kaito's mouth rapidly. The water would take the shape of a raging dragon with golden eyes and an open mouth that revealed an innumerable number of teeth. The dragon thrashed around through the sky, consuming and spitting out the flying monkeys that Quinn, Raikur, and Hanzo had not already taken care of. Blood would splatter across Kaito's face, which extenuated the intense rage that burned within his heart and was lit up by his still active Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan. Whether the genin present at the scene this evening would witness it or not mattered not. They would eventually need to understand the dark side of being a village official.

"I will not allow any harm to come to this village..." He said through gritted teeth. "I swear it..."

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Kaito sat upon the roof of the Otokage's Mansion. He had not been able to sleep ever since the night in which the flying monkeys had infiltrated the village, having experienced numerous nightmares when he would simply close his eyes to even attempt to catch some semblance of sleep. Instead he had decided it best to personally continue fighting the remaining bands of monkeys from within the village and the surrounding areas. In the scramble to defeat these monstrosities, however, a mission request had made its way to the desk in his office. A local family had lost their son to a world of dreams, where the boy believes himself to be some sort of 'Dream King'. Kaito knew that he would have to save this child from whatever it was that had been plaguing him, and he knew that Quinn, Raikur, and Hanzo were the most well equipped to help him in doing as such.

For that reason he too had assigned the trio to the mission under his tutleage, and it was there at the Otokage's Mansion that they would meet up before heading back out again. Quinn would be the first to arrive, and upon this revelation Kaito would jump down from the rooftop of the wooden building to the ground below.

"Good evening, Quinn." He said with a look of exhaustion. "Sadly I havent been able to sleep. Too much going on as of late." WIthin a moment's notice Hanzo too would arrive atop one of the Wolves of Death Gorge. Kaito had not been too familiar with this particular summon, but he still bowed to the dire wolf respectfully. "Ah, Hanzo. Sorry I've not been home as of late. How goes things at home?"

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Kaito was glad to hear from Hanzo that everything back at home was going just fine, but the Otokage wished that he himself was able to go back there and actually sleep in his own bed. He would wait around for Raikur for just a little while longer, but it seemed as though the genin was preoccupied with other things at the moment. No matter. The sighting of different monstrosities all throughout the village was quite common as of late, so perhaps the lightning-release user had gotten caught up in helping some of the non-shinobi villagers.

"Alright, lets go."

Kaito would lead his subordinates to the exact meeting location, a quaint house that was now in severe disarray. With a knock upon the door a middle-aged man and woman would let them in, directing the trio to the bedroom of their young son. It really was decorated with a lot of shinobi memorabilia, and based on the way the toys were scattered all about, it was clear that he had been playing ninja at some point. A simple nod of Kaito's head would indicate his interest in having the boy enroll into the village's academy at some point in the future, but first they would have to save him from the grips of this so called 'Demon King'.

The Otokage would take a quick moment to think before engaging.

"The boy is in a powerful genjutsu from my understanding, and a very powerful one at that." He said, all the while stroking his goatee. "The only thing that can save someone from such a powerful technique, if it can even be called that, would be an equally powerful genjutsu or 'Genjutsu: Release' technique, both things of which I am not too adept at." Kaito would look over to Quinn, gauging from what he had known about her abilities whether it was something she could help with. As someone who focused on bukijutsu and taijutsu, however, it did not quite seem like an area of expertise for her. Instead he looked over to Hanzo, who just like himself yielded the Mangekyō Sharingan. The dojutsu was a powerful in regard to illusionary jutsu, so hopefully Hanzo had been practicing in the arts necessary to complete the mission. "How do you feel taking the lead on this one, Hanzo?"

Hanzo did not say a thing in response, rather he opted to head right into action. Kaito watched on with interest as the younger Uchiha activated his three-tomoe Sharingan and opened the child's eyes with his hand before activating a technique, which Kaito could feel due to his expertise in chakra sensory.

After a few minutes Hanzo would remove his hand from the boy's head and stepped back. The child slowly opened their eyes as they sat up in their bed. An impressed smile crossed Kaito's face.

"Good job, son." He said, patting Hanzo on the back as the child's parents cried in happiness while heading to embrace their son. "I'm proud of you." Kaito would lead the team out of the house before turning around to address them when the all arrived outside. "Alright, lets take thirty before we head off to our next mission. I recommend trying to catch a quick nap, or if you can't do that, try to grab a quick bite to eat. Either way I'll see the both of you at the rendezvous point directed to us by the Sensory and Sealing Division."

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Thirty minutes came and went much quicker than Kaito had desired. He himself had arrived within a few seconds of Quinn and Hanzo taking their leave with the help of his Space/Time jutsu, but when the divisions debrief him on their findings the Otokage was not at all pleased.

"They seem to be coming from here, Lord Otokage," One of the division captains said. "the flying monkeys and other monsters, I mean."

"It works similarly to a normal Space/Time technique, though, am I wrong?" Kaito asked, trying his best not to sound ungrateful for his men's hard work and dedication. The man nodded. "Good. That means it works both ways." Kaito said as he formed the clone hand seal. A single clone of himself would be created and walked without hesitation into the portal. A minute passed, then two, then three. After what felt like an eternity memories of what the clone had experienced flooded back into his mind.

What he saw nearly made him puke from horror and disgust.

"What's wrong, my lord?" The captain asked. "What did your clone see?" Kaito looked up at the portal with his Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan now active.

"Close the barrier as quickly as possible!" He exclaimed.

"We can't! Its too powerful!"

Kaito tsked at this revelation.

"Send some of your men to evacuate the citizens immediately! They have an army coming directly for us!" The men acted immediately, half of them heading off to do as Kaito had ordered. At the same time Quinn and Hanzo would arrive. "You two," Kaito greeted. "be ready to fight with all you've got." Almost immediately a horde of the creatures that the clone had encountered began sprouting to life from the open mouth of the rift. Hundreds of the flying monkeys flew through the skies above them, using their claws and fangs to tear some of the Sensory and Sealing Division to absolute shreds. Kaito acted quickly, using his 'Glass-Release: Glass Wings' technique to take flight as he drew his seldomly used katana from its scabbard at his hip. With precision he would take out many of the creatures as he rose, dove, and scurried through the skies above Otogakure with his beautiful and reflective wings. It surely was a sight to behold as blood covered the wings, Kaito's face, and the ground like a torrential rain. Despite the combined efforts of everyone involved, however, the creatures just kept coming and coming without fail.

Kaito had one last trick up his sleeve, but he was unsure whether it would actually work or not. He would focus his active Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan on the portal below him, and blood would rupture from his eye mercilessly.

"Kamui!" He exclaimed, doing his best to keep his vision steady. In quick fashion a new Space/Time portal would erupt directly in front of the previously developed one. This was the doorway to Kaito's personal Space/Time dimension, and over the course of a few seconds it would engulf the rift that led to the world of demons and nightmares. Once the rift was completely encased Kaito would close up the Kamui portal, taking along with it the previous rift that had formed. A sigh of relief overcame the Otokage as he dealt with the few remaining creatures in his vicinity and landing back upon the ground where Quinn and Hanzo waited. "Hell of a job, you two." He said as he wiped away the fresh blood from his face. "Those creatures shouldn't be a problem here anymore. I sealed their barrier away in my personal pocket dimension. They have the option to explore its endless void and starve to death or to go back to where they came from and continue living their lives without disturbing ours. Whatever that choice is, though, they hopefully wont be coming back." Kaito looked all around him, seeing the utter chaos that the creatures had caused. There was quite a mess, and many deceased bodies of the men from the Sensory and Sealing Division laid sprawled about. He would have to alert the Medical Corps to come and clean up their dead, but there would not be much that he himself nor Quinn and Hanzo could do in the meantime.

"I want you two to head on home and get a good night's rest, but keep on the lookout for anymore of these abnormalities." Kaito placed a firm hand upon both of their shoulders. "Well done, both of you. You keep proving yourselves like this and there may just be promotions in store."

As Quinn and Hanzo took their leave Kaito would send one of the surviving men away to the village hospital to recruit some assistance before he himself got straight to work in helping to clean up the mess that the otherworldly creatures had caused...