The Sounds of Dreams [Event-Hallowen]

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Things had finally began returning to normal in the village of Otogakure. Uchiha, Kaito had just returned from the land of dreams, once a barren landscape ruled over the the almighty Beelzebub. It was after an intense battle that the Otokage was able to come out on top before coming back to in his precocious village, and all of the rifts within it had finally began closing. As him and his student, Shokku, Raikur, exited from the hospital, they were met with much applause and cheers from those who had known of their presence there. Kaito smiled as he looked upon their happy faces, happy himself that the village was now safe from unwarranted harm again.

"My people," Kaito said from the top of the steps leading into the hospital proper. "The threat of the rifts and the monsters has been dealt with. You can all sleep peacefully now without worry!" Another round of applause echoed throughout the vicinity as Kaito walked down the steps, motioning for Raikur to join him. "Alright, Raikur." He said once they could actually hear each other away from the village folks. "I want you to get a good nights sleep tonight. We have a lot of work to do at Chikyū Prison tomorrow, Mr. Chief Warden." Kaito would await a response from his student before dismissing him and walking back home for the first time in weeks. By the time he arrived back home everyone else in the household was already asleep, so Kaito would simply go to bed himself on the bed in the living room.

The man would fall asleep without any hesitation or trouble, but how things would change in such little time...

A few hours would drift by as Kaito slept, snoring away as the world around him changed drastically. These changes would go unnoticed by the man, however, and by the time he would wake up in the morning all had still seemed quite normal. The only thing that seemed to standout was the fact that, by this time, nobody else in the household was home. Chalking it up to Hanzo and Tatsuya going out to train and Amaya heading off to the store, Kaito would head off to the restroom. He passed by the mirror above the sink without much thought, but he would quickly take a step back and stare into it wildly before letting out a scream.

"What the fuck!?" He asked, noticing now that he was covered in dark brown fur, his nose and mouth elongated into that of a wolf's snout, and his ears were now long and pointy above his head. It looked as though he had entered into his 'Animal Sage Mode', but how could he have done such a thing in his sleep? Had he somehow managed to gather nature energy within himself during his slumber? Trying to deactivate this perceived technique only ended up in failure, and Kaito realized that it was not an active transformation that he himself had initiated. Getting a fresh set of his normal outfit and a hooded cloak, Kaito decided it best to head towards the hospital to see if anyone could tell him what was going on. When he took leave from his humble abode, however, his eyes widened with shock. The village seemed to be completely remodeled in an unfathomable way. From the doorstep Kaito was greeted with a massive drop from the side of a mountain, and below him was the training ground, which was seemingly cut in half and replaced with multiple different shops and buildings that in no way had existed near each other before. Using his 'Body Flicker Jutsu', Kaito would swiftly make his way down the mountain and to the ground below. He was utterly confused and taken aback by the sight, and the clanging of metal upon metal caught his ears, which perked upright as the hairs on the back of his neck stood high.

'Quinn?' He thought, knowing that the sound was the same as the one from the woman's forge. Kaito made his way through the mess of a village until he could see the redhead sitting upon a beach of sorts. Her shop in its entirety was there with her.

"Quinn!" He said with a wave as he started walking towards her. "You're here too, huh?" Kaito lowered the hood of his cloak to reveal his wolfish appearance. "Its me, Kaito." To reinforce this, he would activate the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan that the Forgemaster had seen him use time and time again during the invasion of the rifts and monsters.

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Hanzo too would make his presence known to the Otokage and the Forgemaster, but unlike Kaito or Quinn, the other Uchiha boy would take on the appearance of a demon with six eyes; all golden yellow in color. Kaito had wondered if the boy had somehow managed to have become corrupted by the evils of the Land of Nightmares, which he had originally thought that he had quelled, but his adoptive son seemed to have all of his faculities in check quite well.

Quinn would make a point in stating that they would have to all work together again to figure out just what in the world was happening, and as the Forgemaster pointed off into the distance, Kaito could see yet more of the flying monkeys that had plagued the village of Otogakure no Sato up until recently.

'Damnit...' He thought to himself as he drew his katana from its sheath and activated his 'Glass-Release: Glass Wings' technique. Without hesitation he would take flight, feeling quite confident his his own abilities and the abilities of his subordinates to act in tandem with himself. The three of them had done wonders in dealing with the beats previously, and nothing would be different now despite their lack of home-field advantage. Not wanting to waste his Chakra too much as he had in previous encounters, the Otokage would refrain from activating his Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan. Despite this he and the rest of the team would have no trouble in dealing with the creatures that had ambushed them, and once everything was wrapped up Kaito would address his two subordinates again.

"I'm not sure what in the world is happening here, but we are going to put an end to it here and now." Kaito would look both Quinn and Hanzo over, garnering their reactions to his call to action. "These occurrences have plagued us and the village for far too long now, and I'm certain that if we don't do our part as quickly as possible, then the entire world will be in danger. I've seen something like that before." Kaito thought back to the time when he, Lord Third Kazekage, and Sebastian Mikaelson had been transported into the Eastertide Fairgrounds and had been tasked with quelling a similar world-ending cataclysm. The Otokage and the world as a whole had survived that occurence, and he knew that with the combined efforts of himself, Quinn, and Hanzo that this situation too would come to an end without fail.

"Let's go see what we're dealing with, you two. Just let me know when you're ready to set out."

Kaito would wait for both Quinn and Hanzo to ready up, and once everything was ready, the Otokage would lead the charge through the mysterious and unfamiliar landscape that resembled in odd fashion their beloved home.

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The trio would walk for what felt like an eternity. Everything was so different from what they had been used to, and this felt especially so to Kaito. He had helped to look over the construction of the entire village upon its founding, and everything was just so out of place and odd about it. The young man would not allow all of this to distract him, however, and he kept an open lookout for other things that seemed to be out of the ordinary. For starters,s there were a few people who walked through the world of dreams and nightmares without much trouble. They seemed to be going about their normal lives as they would in their walking lives. As they passed the location where the village's academy was the sound of disembodied laughter could be heard as many toys floated through the air, almost as though there were children playing.

'Are these people's dreams?' Kaito thought to himself as he looked down at his hand. He was remembering his last visit to the dream world in which he had fought a powerful demon. While in that world he had been able to conjure things out of thin air with just a simple thought of such things being a reality, and the man wondered if those same mind tricks would work here as well. Closing his eyes as the group walked, Kaito pictured that he had a spear in his hands. He thought long and hard, giving life and shape to the construct in his mind's eye until he could see it perfectly. After a minute, and with an exasperated sigh, the Otokage would open his eyes again to reveal that, in fact, the very spear that he had thought up in his mind had come to fruition. He paused his walking for a moment, examining the blunt weapon as he twirled it around. The object sure had the weight of a real spear, and as Kaito drove the pike at the top into the ground, it too pierced as though it were real. 'So it is like that time then...'

Kaito would turn to Quinn and Hanzo, unsure if they themselves had also experienced the revelation that Kaito had discovered for himself yet.

"Quinn, you were right the other night," He said as he showed off the spear he had created. "This world of dreams allows for us to create anything and everything that we put our minds to. This can really help us should the need arise." Just then a loud rumbling sound would erupt from the group's right side. Bracing himself, Kaito would draw the spear as he took an offensive position. Off in the distance, he could hear a low growling hum as a pair of crimson-red eyes stared at them all from the shadows. "Looks like its showtime, you two. Let's put these newfound powers to work, eh?"

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It would not take long for the beast off in the distance to begin closing the gap between itself, Kaito, Quinn, and Hanzo. The creature walked with heavy footsteps, which made the earth below their feet tremble and quiver as though it was sure to give out at any second in time, given it all had the right conditions of course. The Otokage's eyes, which had transformed into their impressive Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan forms without Kaito's noticing, widened at the sight of the monster.

'What in the fuck is that thing!?' Kaito asked himself as he took a single step back and drew his spear before him in a defensive manner. The set of crimson eyes that the beast yielded turned into a total of sixteen eyes as it maneuvered itself out from the darkness and into the light. It too sported the features of a rather odd chimera, with its tail and fluffy paws resembling those of a tabby cat and its body being covered in reflective and thick scales similar to a reptile. The thing was, however, that the beast also had a multitude of spikes that covered its entire body from head to toe. This was sure to be an issue should the Otogakure no Sato trio attempt to go on the offensive, and Kaito was well aware of this.

But everything, including monsters with home field advantage in a world of nightmares and dreams, was sure to have a weakness or two. The group would just have to figure out what these weaknesses were and how to exploit them to find victory in this battle, which was sure to be a massive and invigorating one when all was said and done.

Due in massive part to tapping into his innate Chakra Sensory abilities, the Otokage could sense a huge amount of Chakra oozing from the beast before him. He too, however, noticed something else. Positioning himself in such a way that he could see beyond the beast, Kaito gritted his teeth at the sight of what were perhaps hundreds more creatures, which were all similar in appearance and cold-bloodedness to what had previously attacked and ravished their precious village of Otogakure no Sato.

"Son of a bitch..." Kaito said under his breath, not sure whether Quinn or Hanzo would have been able to hear it or not. That simply would not matter as they all had much bigger things to worry about, but Kaito was still worried nonetheless. "I hope we're all ready for this..."

A quick moment of unsettling silence would befall the area around the upcoming battlefield before it was broken by a gut wrenching roar from the beast. Kaito wanted to cover his ears to deafen the sound, but he knew that if he did then he would without fail drop his spear, and that would never do. Instead, he would endure as all shinobi and kunoichi should in this type of situation, and just as he himself was preparing to act, he would be shown up by the village's most favorable and hardworking Forgemaster.

"Quinn! Wait!" the Otokage exclaimed as he released one of his hands from the spear that he had conjured up so that he could reach out to attempt to grab Quinn's hand to stop her in her tracks. As the village's leader, he feared the worst for one of his most prized genin, but the plea would fall upon deaf ears as the red headed women entered into the fray of battle. Kaito watched on in awe and aspiration as the Forgemaster brought down a swift and heavy drop kick upon the massive beast's head, making the monster roar in anguish and pain as an intense and quick rush of air and dirt flew in all directions around the epicenter, which was the kick brought upon by the Forgemaster. Many of the surrounding creatures were knocked back by the violent display of force, all crying out in a similar fashion to their now surely concussed and monstrous leader. Once such a creature would hurdle directly toward the Otokage, recovering itself just in time to open its ugly mouth in an attempt to devour Kaito as it flew through the air. This would easily take no effort on the beast's part as it was double, if not triple, the size of Kaito and other average sized human beings, but the Otokage, living up to his name and status as Otogakure no Sato's leader, would be entirely too quick to react to all of this. With a click of his tongue the young man would position the spear before him in such a way that, as soon as the beast came into close proximity to it with its open jaws, it would only take a quick upward jab on Kaito's part to finish it off.

'Smile, you son of a bitch...' The Otokage thought to himself as he followed through with the jab, undeterred in any way back by the numerous rows of sharp and unkempt teeth that the monster sported. The pointy and heavy spear would pierce directly through the fatty tissue that made up the beast's mouth, moving upwards through the monster's sinuses and exiting through its massive left eye. Kaito would wish that he had prepared himself as his ears were once again met with a gut wrenching wail of incomprehensible pain. The Otokage would, despite this minor setback, do his best to keep hold of the spear as the beast thrashed around on the other end of it, but the monster was just too powerful for the young Uchiha man. The monster released itself from Kaito's grasp, spear still lodged far up into its head, and it began crying out more and more. Blood gushed out from where the eye was once positioned, and Kaito couldn't help but chuckle as he realized that the massive and reflective body part anchored itself precariously on the top end of the spear. The sight was without a doubt gruesome, but the Otokage felt insane joy in being to harm the creatures that had plagued his home for the past couple of weeks. Hell, even if they had only been attacking the village for a single day, it would still be too much in Kaito's eyes.

This was war, and Kaito, Quinn, and Hanzo were now finally able to bring the war back to the creatures on their home turf.

While all of this happened around the trio, the Forgemaster would land directly next to Kaito's right side. Being her she already had her war bat at the ready in her hands, and she looked raring to engage the numerous number of enemies yet again without hesitation or need for direction.

"Good job, Quinn," Kaito said as he watched his own enemy of a monster thrash around before him. "Keep giving them hell like that and they are sure to retreat and leave us and the village alone for a good, long time."

The Otokage would not dare allow himself to take his eyes off of it as he relished in the fact that it was in intense and aggravating pain. Still, in his wolfish form, Kaito felt as though he had given into his old Inuzuka-clan tendencies. Growing up in the village of Sunagakure no Sato, Kaito had been known as the 'Hellhound of Sunagakure no Sato". He had wolfish tendencies, including an intense and unmatched tracking ability, and even his chakra had been known to take on the form of a wolf on more than one occasion. That very same form would have been the one that Raikur had experienced when the two of them had their showdown the previous night, and Kaito smirked as he remembered the fear that his very name brought those who had opposed him and the village that he once called home.

Just as quickly as Kaito had complemented the Forgemaster did she request that Kaito and Hanzo, two of the many Uchiha in the village of Otogakure no Sato that yielded very powerful and infamous Mangekyou Sharingan, take their offensive to that of ranged combat. Being a taijutsu and close quarters master, it was without question that Quinn would be able to take out the giant creature she had attacked previously, and with Kaito's Glass-Release techniques of flight and Hanzo's Mangekyou Sharingan ability of the intense black flames of the Amaterasu, it only made sense that the two of them took up the rear and provided back up to the Forgemaster. As to reinforce her position as the group's heavy hitter, the red headed Forgemaster would swing her other leg towards the monsters before her, creating another shockwave and sphere of effect that mimicked the first one that she had unleashed only a moment beforehand.

"You got it, Quinn." Kaito replied with a smirk. "Take the lead and don't let up. I and the entire world are counting on you, and I believe in you without a hint of doubt in my mind." A genuine and compassionate smile crept its way on Kaito's face as he watched on as Quinn set to work again. Whether she would see this or not was not known to Kaito, but he knew not to worry whether she would come back alive or not. She had proved to him in the creature's previous invasion of Otogakure no Sato that she could handle herself very well in combat, and he was without reason to disbelieve that she could now. "Good luck, Forgemaster."

Kaito would waste no more time in dashing backwards a few meters and out of Quinn's way, reconvening himself as he regrouped with his adoptive son and student, Hanzo. Kaito too believed in the abilities of the younger Uchiha as the boy had grown exceptionally over the course of the past few months. His growth was even more so than Kaito's own when the later was young, and Kaito couldn't help but be proud of his adoptive son and student.

"Hanzo," Kaito said as he formed a multitude of hand seals through his gloved hands. "Hold them off with those black flames of yours, but try not to over do it. I won't go into too much detail just yet, but by overusing the Mangekyou Sharingan those in our clan can become blind." Kaito paused for a moment as he looked over to Hanzo, realizing only now that his words could possibly set a fear within the boy. "Don't worry about that now though. You've only had your eyes for a very short time until now, so you have nothingg to worry about. I'll explain once we are back home, okay?" It was in that instant that the Otokage finished the hand seals that he had been working through, and chakra surged through his body and into the tenketsu points in his shoulder blades. At tremendous speed the chakra would form to once again take shape as clear and magnificent wings reminiscent of those of angels from fairytales and folklore.

"Glass-Release: Glass Wings Jutsu!"

Almost as though the words that Kaito spoke had been a catalyst of sorts, the wings would finish sprouting to their full length and thickness with a number of flutters, which caused dust to fly through the air around the Otokage. Placing his gloved hand upon the hilt of the katana attached to the left side of his belt and with his Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan still very much active, Kaito would take to the skies as an audible whoosh echoed throughout the battlefield and surrounding area. The young man would simply levitate into the sky above the battle, increasing his height until he was twenty meters above the ground. It was from this vantage point that he could see the entirety of the battle, and along with it all of the forces brought on by the opposing forces of grotesque evil. From looks alone it was almost as though a mad and deranged scientist had created the creatures with the body parts of many normal animals, creating horrendous and sorry looking things that, as the name of the land suggested, were the things of nightmares. It was enough to almost make Kaito feel bad for having to utterly destroy the lot of them for their digressions against the village of Otogakure no Sato.

"Time to show them the consequences of their ill advised actions!"

Kaito would hesitate only for a second as he prepared to remove his precious sword from its hilt, remembering that Quinn had requested his assistance from a long range standpoint. Acknowledging this in his mind, Kaito would remove his hand from the sword's hilt and instead begin forming more hand seals in a quick fashion, starting with the hare seal, followed by the ram seal, and finally the snake seal. With the seals now complete, Kaito would activate his Kamui: Left eye technique, focusing in on the area directly behind the horde of hundreds of creatures that were slowly beginning to close in on Quinn and Hanzo's positions. As soon as his feet exited the portal he had created and met the ground below, the Otokage would infuse his molded chakra with the ground. The ground would erupt with pressure, almost swelling before an area of fifteen meters surrounding Kaito opened up like a giant square mouth. He, alongside a good third of the oncoming creatures, would sink at tremendous speed into the pit of the earth below them until they reached a final resting place of thirty meters deep. The creatures all the while attempted to swarm in directly on top of the Otokage, but it would all prove futile as he had become a master of his sword since the onslaught of the attacks on his village. In an instant, he had severed a handful of arms that reached out towards him without any sign of remorse, and as soon as his technique had reached its final resting point he would again take to the air with his still active 'Glass-Release: Glass Wings' technique. The creatures all bellowed and roared up at him crazily, some stepping ruthlessly and clumsily on top of the others to try to reach him, but much like their attempts to grab at him previously, it was all for naught.

As soon as Kaito reached a point of fifteen meters above where the creatures were currently located, he would again begin forming hand seals through the use of both of his gloved hands.
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'Tiger... Ox... Monkey... Rabbit... Ram... Dragon...'

No sooner would Kaito finish listing off the names of the seals in his mind did he clap his hands together and began forming chakra wildly and recklessly into his lungs. His chest puffed outwards brilliantly as he arched his back, and with a great release of pressure, he would open his mouth, releasing down into the earthen core he had created a massive amount of water. The monsters all cried out as the dense water quickly rose above their heads, the force of the vortex they were all caught in swirling them through the hole as though they were caught in a horrible storm. This was the technique known throughout the world as the 'Great Vortex Technique', and it was easily one of the most powerful water techniques to have been known to mankind.

As the water quickly filled up the hole in the earth the Otokage would fly high back into the skies above the battlefield, taking note of what all was going on. Quinn and Hanzo both seemed to have been doing a fantastic job in keeping the creatures currently there at bay, but off in the distance, Kaito could see yet another wave of monsters making their way toward the scene. Looking down at Quinn he could see that based on her reaction alone she too knew of the danger yet to come, and Kaito cursed to himself as his ocular abilities were still not yet ready to counter them and, as he had previously back home, transport the incoming wave into his own personal Kamui dimension.

"Damn!" Thought the Otokage. He had to think quickly, otherwise, Quinn and Hanzo were sure to be overcome by the rampaging beasts that threatened the world. It took only a split second, but an idea would finally come to mind. Flying off towards the location of the incoming horde, Kaito would form another set of seals before divebombing towards the ground directly behind the group that Quinn herself was fighting, slamming an open palm upon the ground as soon as he reached it.

"Summoning-Art: Rashōmon!"

Two giant gates would rise from the ground directly next to each other, both of the structures bearing the face of a different oni. The both of them, standing next to each other, rose to a height of fifty meters and were each twenty five meters wide, in essence creating a fifty meter tall by fifty meter wide defensive wall against the incoming horde. The creatures would all have to act quickly to get around the defensive measure, but Kaito doubted in his heart of hearts that they would be able to do so before the Otogakure trio were able to once again gain the upper hand in this fight. Again wasting no more time, Kaito would form yet again more hand seals, this time for his 'Wood-Release: Wood Dragon Jutsu' technique. From the trees located to the right of the walls, which was at this point directly underneath of Kaito, the trees would burst outward, forming together to take the shape of a monstrous wooden dragon that was no less than ten meters in length and five meters in utter thickness. The dragon, with a roar of its own, would fly directly into the horde of creatures that Kaito had sanctioned off from the rest of the group, tossing them into the skies like ragdolls roughly fifty meters into the skies, even higher than Kaito himself. Within a moment they would all hit the ground with loud thuds, and Kaito knew for a fact that even a creature of their stature would not be able to survive the fall that they had just sustained. .

With his end of the fighting now over and done with, Kaito would retreat back towards the ground. By this point Hanzo and Quinn too had finished up with their fighting as well. Kaito was very much proud of his two students, and he would have been sure to let them know as such, when a sharp pain cut across his right arm. Grasping the location of the pain with his left hand, he realized that there was fresh blood and a cut from where a sharp object had pierced him. Turning towards the location from which the object had come from, Kaito was again baffled by what he would see; three figures staring back at the lot of them, all resembling Kaito, Quinn, and Hanzo perfectly and almost without flaw. They all wore intense smirks upon their face, and from his active dojutsu Kaito could see a disgustingly dark and gross chakra oozing from each of their bodies.

"These monsters are not mere reflections... Be ready to fight back..." Kaito said, not sure how in the world he would be able to fight himself in his current tired state...