18.

Still held within the walls of the Hyuga compound. Nahen was checked over by a medical nin who also used her byakugan to be thorough and everything came out clean.

Nahen was paler than usual, his tone was tan and now was paler than when he had summoned his mask minions.

Seeing Nahen dazed like this, the medical nin injected a chakra boost into Nahen's system which brought him out of his thoughts and came back to reality and a few moments later his tan tone returned.

Meanwhile the Third who had been woken up and was now in his office went over the footage on the camera and paused while looking over it, his face gaining more wrinkles as the time goes.

Passing it on to the other advisors, their faces also turned sour and anger was boiling through them.

"So Kumo instigated this all along. The peace treatie was just a front for them to steal the byakugan for themselves" Koharu spat as he glanced outside the window hearing the commotion within the village as most of the villagers had woken up during the raid.

"Greedy bastards, that's what they are. Hiruzen, you know what this means. Kumo just broke a peace treatie that they proposed and we have the right to hold them accountable for this act. Even more we even have evidence for it. We better act now before it's too late" The voice of Danzo was heard in the Office.

"You're right, this matter is of importance right now. It has to be handle right."

"My men are awaiting orders and the news will be spread throughout the land of fire by morning while you send a messenger hawk to Kumogakure with a list of demands for compensation and we publicly humiliate them infront of the masses."

"Good. I'll send the hawk after we have a list of our demands." After a while everyone left the office and Hiruzen went over the list of rewards and watched the footage again before sending the hawk.

'Nahen, you were out there at that hour of the night training and somehow the perpetrator bumped into you. Coincidence? Maybe not. We're you a target for that earlier humiliation. Wrong place wrong time maybe?.'

Afterwards he sent the hawk to Kumo with the list of demands as well as what happened in the village by their ninja on a mission.

A far away distance from Konoha hidden shadows were watching what was happening within the village and were now dodging the patrol squads that had been deployed.

"The captain must have been busted for them to have this wide of a manhunt search, tonight of all nights" One the shadows said to the others.

"You're right, we should leave and inform the Raikage" Another said as the rest nodded and they flickered out.

That night the news spread throughout the land of fire and was quickly reported to the other elemental nations by their spys there.

Nahen finally awoke fidgeted in place as he wanted to return home and burn his gaze upon his newest member of his arsenal collection. Akiras other sword, which now qualified to be his sword as well as his ninja tool pouch which he robbed from his corpse while no one was watching.

'So much for low key existing and not taking any attention on myself' He facepalmed as he heard the people talk about what happened and his name was also mentioned.

He knew Danzo must be to blame for his name being known in this incident. Even though Danzo wasn't to blame, who else to carry the pot than one notorious for it.

He got up from the bed and was taken home. Mai had been waiting for him for a while and was worried that something might have happened to him.

When he got there she checked him and squished his cheeks all around to see if he was okay.

"Are you okay? Are you hurt anywhere?" Mai shot a question after another without giving Nahen any chance to answer.

"I'm okay, don't worry...everything's okay" He said while trying to assure her of his safety.

After a long scolding Nahen was finally granted refuge in the confide of his room and finally lay there on his bed unable to fall asleep or try out his new blade.

His hands were itching as he wanted to try out the sword but his senses picked up chakra signatures that had been following him all the way home still out there keeping an eye on him.

Without knowing, Nahen finally fell asleep or rather blacked out.

In the morning when he woke up he realised the day was already half gone. It was noon.

Getting downstairs he found a note left by Mai saying she had to attend to something and didn't want to wake him since he was sleeping so peacefully.

He went outside having changed into his training gear and started his everyday physical training to condition his body.

After a long while of training, Nahen who was drenched in sweat lay on the ground facing the blistering sun shining above. His physical fitness was far beyond anyone his age and a few years above.

He got up from his position and sat up cross legged and closed his eyes. After a while of silence and clearing his mind of all thoughts he entered a state of meditation.

In his mind, opening his eyes he was met with the same place he had been in a few times. The lake beneath his feet, the darkness around and the red clouds above. And a few new additions.

As he looked around he saw six masks floating in the air in a pentagonal shape with one peculiar one in the middle of five while the others rotated around it.

Next was a mirage of items he recognised in an orderly fashion. These were the items stored in his inventory space. Seeing that he could access the items while in here.

Even though he still felt them there, he find out that they wouldn't change if he accessed them in the real world unless he wanted to.

After a while of meditating like that, his attention was drawn in a particular direction and when he looked there he saw a silhouette crouching down and waving his hand over his face.

Opening his eyes in the real world, he saw Mai crouching infront of his face. Seeing him open his eyes Mai showed an expression of relief and said "Come eat something".

"Uhmm...I just ate" Nahen said as he saw Mai and he suddenly looked around him and noticed that it was dark and the sun had already gone down a while ago.