Bonds of Shadows and Light

Chapter 11

Iwagakure

Is been a month sense massacre Kurotsuchi has witness. She in her room in her bed, still her eyes was dull with bags under her. She couldn't sleep seeing the horror that haunts her, her comrades slaughtered. She saw how that yellow demon killed he didn't show no remorse nor satisfaction. He didn't show not even an ounce of emotion, just killed without feeling nothing.

Naruto gave them a chance to leave, but because of their village pride at stake they ignore his mercy and were massacred. Kurotsuchi was a fool to believe she has a chance, but why did he live her alive. Then sound of the door of her room opens up and she sees her grandfather. With calm demeanor.

Onoki: Change of clothes and come with me.

He leaves, walking back down stairs. Leaving her granddaughter confused. Later on she walks out of her house and sees her grandfather waiting for outside. Gesture with her to follow him and she did that. After walking in the village, he led her down a lesser traveled street towards a bar that looked at least 20 years past condemned. The inside was very bare for a bar, with only a few patrons, most of whom were probably as old as Onoki himself.

Barkeep: "Ah, Tsuchikage,"

The grizzled old barkeep greeted.

Barkeep: "Here for a drink."

Onoki: "Hmph,"

Onoki grunted, jumping onto a stool.

Onoki: "Like hell I'd trust any of the swill you serve here."

Barkeep: "Then maybe your lovely granddaughter?"

Kurotsuchi shot a glare at the man before returning to her attempt to burn a hole in her grandfather's skull. She demanded an explanation, and he drags her to this dive?

Man: "Whoa, she looks pissed Onoki"

A man at the end of the bar laughs, joined by many others. Onoki, taking a flask out of his vest, Closed his eyes and drank, before speaking.

Onoki: "She mad and also survive a massacre from the Naruto Uzumaki" another swig, and he added,

Onoki: "she was stupidly enough to join the rogue of our Shinobi to hunt him and she was the only survivor"

At that name, the entire bar fell silent, some started shaking, and the man at the end of the bar grasped at his chest, the bartender had to rush over and fish some pills out of the man's pocket, shoving a couple down his throat before he started to calm down.

Kurotsuchi: "Grandpa?"

Kurotsuchi ground out the same question she'd asked her grandfather.

"Bartender" your grandfather is trying to keep you alive, yet you didn't listen and is. Miracle you lived"

The Bartender said, picking up the glass he'd dropped in his rush.

Kurotsuchi: (muttered) If we had my grandfather some of the best of in village we could have-

Bartender: Shut your trap, girl, even you had more Shinobi even a thousands and more you would have still been defeated. Even the boy is a Namikaze, but being half Uzumaki make it worst"

The man at the end of the bar growled, still clutching at his chest with one hand and steadying himself with the other.

Onoki: "Kurotsuchi"

Onoki said flatly, staring at the flask in his hands.

Onoki: "The Uzumaki is more than some near extinct clan."

Taking a drink to steel himself, he continued.

Onoki: "Back in the first great war, they were a force to truly be reckoned with, even a single one of them could turn the tide of a battle we would otherwise be sure to win. When the second war broke, it was known how dangerous they could be, so a temporary truce was reached between Us, Kumo and Kiri. At most, Uzu, the island village of the Uzumaki, had maybe a thousand ninja, and maybe fifteen hundred people if you include civilians in the entire island, and we came with a combined force that outnumbered them at least 100 to 1, led by My teacher, the second Tsuchikage himself, as well as the third Raikage, and the second Mizukage. I was there with my teacher."