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"D-dad?" Hagoromo croaked in a soft voice . He was so co fused at yhe scene before him he hadn't realised what he had called the old man.

"Hagoromo.. Keep your eyes on he opponent would you? " Urahara take heavier and heavier breathe each time.

"It's over for you Urahara. There's no way you're surviving this so we'll let you have your pitiful last words before kill everyone here and destroy the Leaf village." Boss says trudging towards a tree stump before plunking herself down on it also breathing heavily. All those body shots were finally getting to her and she definitely broke a few ribs hiding from the sharp pain around her stomach area.

"You've got to be kidding me, this isn't reality... You're gonna survive this aren't you?" Hagoromo says kneeling down beside Scarlet who was having trouble fighting back the tears wanting to stream down her face.

"Scarlet my dear granddaughter. Are those tears for me? " Urahara says looking at her distressed relative with surprised eyes.

"Why elze do you think i would actually cry!? Stupid old man!"

"But... I indirectly killed your parents,my daughter,your mother. Don't you harbour any hate towards me?"

"How can I when you're the only relative alive right Now?"

Urahara stops breathing to cough out more blood making Hagoromo gasp with every splurt of blood jwemed onto the floor.

"Tell me,do you love me Scarlet? "

"Of course I do you stupid geezer. You treated me with more love than both my parents combined did. I remember getting so excited when we came to visit you. Besides Muon,you are the most important thing to me!"

Urahara begins gasp loudly.

"Grandpa! Don't die yet!"

"I'm.not dying yet, I merely have put a chucole."

"What?"

"To hear there's even just one person who still loves me on this earth-."

Urahara begins to cry years of joy while looking up to the awfully blue sky.

"It makes me,so happy y'know?"

"Grandpa.... Answer me this question. Where did you get that injury before fighting the boss?" Scarlet asks with hard eyes.

"Scarlet, there's no need to-."

"So it was the Leaf huh." She says choking on her words again.

Urahara pauses before meekly nodding.
"The Yohei Anbu black ops,they wanted revenge for what the Yohei did to their comrades when trying to rescue Hagoromo . Using my trusty gambling skills. I was able to make a bet that if each of them couldn't kill me with one shot,They would leave me alone. I easily gritted my teeth through all but one of them. A woman with a snake mask was the only one to hide a weapon in her sleeve, she tore through my abdomen like pudding. Perhaps, I loss ener the tension in my abs... I can't remember. She was infuriated that I survived it even though I was severely wounded,but they left me alone. One day of trudging back to my home later,Hagoromo shows up. And now we're here."

"Tch,I knew it." The boss says spitting onto the floor in disgust.

"Why? Why did you let them beat you up!?" Scarlet asks baffled.

"I guess... I still am ashamed for what my clan did to these ninja."

"But look what they did to us 16 years ago! And now this!"

"I know,it's a negative cycle that goes on for eternity until someone is grave enough to let by bones be bygones. Scarlet ,please. Be that generation that lets all your hate go. Your grudge towards the rest of the world is just poison that harbours within you,not them."

"You know it's not that easy."

"You'll be able to do it. You're my granddaughter after all." He smirks to which S ar.et gives a small smile back.

"Urahara-san." Hagoromo says grabbing his pale white hand in his and kneeling to one knee seeing that this was his turn now to talk to him.

"Hagoromo... My have your eyes changed. When you first came to me. They still harboured greed and ambition on the typical Yohei. But i see your journeys and tge people you've met have changed your eyes into a more caring and slegless character. You did well."

"Yeah.. Man, was your training tough too. I wanted to for very single day to ease the pain."

"Hehehe... But you stuck through it in the end didn't you?"

"Yeah I did."

"Hagoromo,I have nothing left to teach you nor do I have the time to anyway. "

"But I will remind you about one thing. No matter what,keep moving forward little by little. Like a-."

"Like a drill,I know." Hagoromo smiles.

Urahara scoffs. "It seems I didn't discipline you enough on manners. Me we interrupt an elderly when he or she is speaking Hagoromo, never."

"Don't worry you taught me well." Hagoromo says rubbing Urahara's now dead hand.

Nia and Morgiana look away biting their lips while Isagi says the Sato attrition for the spirit to find peace in heaven.

"Oi,grandpa. Grandpa! Not yet wake up!" Scarlet begins shaking the body in hopes that he would suddenly wake up ,but he didn't....

Hagoromo slaps Scarlet across the face so hard the sound resonates throughout the battlefield.

"You won't disrespect his elderly body. Not when I'm around,he's gone Scarlet."

Scarlet only saw eyes that hadn't shed a single tear and showed no signs of doing so when she looked up. Hagoromo frowned,but didn't mourn. All he did was sigh.

"How are you so calm? He's dead Hagoromo,he was your master right!" Scarlet shrieks furious with his uncaring attitude.

"Yeah he was my master."

"Then why the hell aren't you-."

"And he taught to me that no matter how many loved ones die at your feet, you pick yourself and finish the fight. Mourning is for the lucky who survive the battle."

"So you're going to fight us now? Even when your master couldn't defeat us?" Coco muses stepping in front of the boss who was still resting from her wounds.

"I'm gonna drive you away ,one way or another. And please refrain from referencing my master's name in your mouth." Hagoromo says flatly.

"What? Did I hit a spot in that warm heart of yours? Do you wanna know how it felt when I killed that traitorous bastard?"

"How did you feel Coco?"Hagoromo says tilting his head playfully. His whole team watched as he calmly continue used to talk while Coco insulted the man he respected the most.

"Happy,excited. Great,my Yohei blood is still pumping hard because it knows I just avenged thousands of my brethren's lives just now." Coco says licking her bloody fingertips to mock Hagoromo.

"I see."

"That old man was a black smudge on the history of the Yohei. Better yet, the history of humanity. The worlds scummiest traitor!" Coco laughs spreading her arms out wide.

The boss watches silently not saying a word but watching Hagoromo carefully.

"He brought nothing good to this world and that's the truth!"

Hagoromo stares at Coco before sighing again. Shaking his head back and forth in disagreement. "We,l have to agree to disagree. He brought Scarlet to this world didn't he?"

Scarlet stops staring at her dead grandfather to listen to what Hagoromo was saying.
"He brought her to this world and he trained me into the man I am today. Both me and her are going to do this corrupt world a lot good so indirectly.."

Hagoromo clenches his fist with a wide smile." Indirectly, Urahara Yohei is the greatest man to ever live!"

Coco frowns dumbfounded by those words. Before she can respond,the boss gets up from her postion.

"We're leaving Coco," she states clearly.

"What!?" Coco says spinning around in oppositions.

"You said that-."

"I know what I said. But nows not the time. We'd easily be able to wipe these brats and the village out but what happens next? Word will get out and the nations will once again form an alliance to take us out,for good this time. We're not ready, these ABDs aren't ready. We still have work to do, end of discussion. Flash step!" With a bust of sharp wind, she disappears without a trace except some of her wild flames lingering for a few seconds in the air.

Coco contemplates staying but decides against it.
"I'll finish this later Hagoromo." She's about to leave when she thinks of something else to say.

"I wonder if I'll be able to wash this pig blood off my hand when I get back. Goodbye.. Flash step." With the same loud boom and bust of wind, she's gone too.

"It's over." Hagoromo sighs.

"Yeah, I guess it is." Scarlet says with an evident amount of venom for both Coco and Hagoromo.

"God mode." Hagoromo says quickly.

"Earth style:Earth coffin." He slams his fists into the ground making a  narrow yet long rectangle hole in the ground.

"Learned that when I snuck into the Earth palace. Now them ,lets bury him shall we?"

"Where? In the soil of the same people that helped kill him!?" Scarlet

"Look Scarlet, I'm just as upset as you are right now. If not more-."

"Bullshit! If you were upset, you wouldn't have let them escape, you would've attacked them with rage. You would've at least cried. But apparently that's below you!"

"Scarlet-san," Nia begins.

"Not now blondie! I can't be associated with you anymore Hagoromo. We Yohei are sick,but it seems you're even sicker." Scarlet picks up Urahara and with no care whatsoever,chucks him into the hole Hagoromo created.

"There, happy?"

"What did I just say about disrespecting the elderly-."

"To hell with that and to hell with you! It seems the only way to not feel pain like you is to be heartless huh? So that's what I'm doing."

Hagoromo stomps over to Scarlet who looks him fierce in the eyes nostrils flared intensely.
"Urahara Yohei is dead. He's not coming back ever. But what do we still have?"

"What hell are you talking about?"

"What do we still have we can hold dear?"

Scarlet passes not understanding what he was getting at.

"We have Nia, we have Isagi, we have Morgiana. We have Muon!"

Scarlet's eyes widen at what Hagoromo says.

Hagoromo grabs her by the cheeks and directs her head towards their team.
"We still have comrades to care for. Friends to battle alongside with. That's why I can still move forward."

Scarlet stares at each individual remembering the times she shared with them. She wanted to frown and tell Hagoromo she had no idea what he was talking about, but she couldn't. Mostly because she knew they were the only ones she could look to for help at that moment. Even when she was in the Yohei,it was every Yohei for themself and she had the same mentality... Until that day. That day when Hagoromo removed the seal on her Orochimaru had planted, he didn't have to but he did. No one's ever been so nice to her ever, which is why the only reaction she knew to take was to escape without showing gratitude. Not just Hagoromo.but Isagi and Nia brought actual happiness out of her whenever she teased them. Nia was like a little sister and Isagi was a stupid brother who had a short fuse. Even Morgiana was beginning to grow on her.

"Comrades?"

"Yes, Scarlet-san. Friends." She says hugging Scarlet with her whole body.

Scarlet is taken aback with the the sudden affection, but slowly comes to terms with it.
"Blondie... You stupid little girl."

"Are you crying Scarlet-san?"

"As if I'd shed tears on you."
After saying that, Scarlet placed her hands which were covered in dried crusty blood, on Nia's back accepting the hug. She rubbed her back cautiously nots ire if she was hugging someone right. Somehow, in almost an instant, all those negative feelings of frustration and rage, ebbed away like rain into a sewer. She missed her grandad so much it hurt, but she no longer blamed herself and felt a n actual sense of optimism in her heart.

"Okay that's enough." Scarlet says jerking Nia off to which Nia giggled.

"Sorry, Hagoromo."

"It's fine." Hagoromo says tapping the ground which began to close up the gap in the ground. Scarlet watched as she took one last glance at Urahara. She said a mental goodbye as the ground looked just as normal like nothing ever happened.

"We'll make do with this." Isagi says lugging a large log over the grave and slamming it into the earth.

"Nice tombstone." Morgiana finally speaks up feeling as though she had to say sown thing at least. She may think they were all commoners ,but she was still human.

"Morgiana-san,are you sure you don't want me to heal your  ear?" Nia says remembering what she was doing previously. She was adamant on not letting Nia heal her wound fully.

"Leave it, it's my fault for losing concentration during battle. It'll be a remainder to never do it again." Morgiana waves her off dissmisvely.

"It'll do for now I guess," Hagoromo says calming down and realising his God mode.

"I've a managed to calm down the citizens to assure it was just our ninja training. I owe you one Hagoromo." Tsunade says appearing near the team who all stood at the grave. She began walking over when Scarlet spun around
"It'll do for now I guess," Hagoromo says calming down and releasing his God mode.

"I won't touch you or the Leaf regardless of the answer but,did you order your Anbu Black Ops To kill Urahara Yohei?" Scarlet says asking Tsunade.

Tsunade stopped taking the hint that she wasn't trusted.
"Hagoromo had given me a radius to stay clear of and I made clear to all ninja that it was off bounds. He trusted me w
Enough to tell me his master was living there so I didn't answer any questions to my ninja as to why we stay clear of that radius. But those Yohei Anbu... They put two and two together it seems and realised. I was harbouring a Yohei on Konoha land. I'm sorry if they caused any problems with Urahara Yohei's living conditions-."

"Problems? Problems!?" Scarlet shouts pointing towards the grave behind her.

Tsunade narrows her eyes unsure as to what Scarlet was indicating but then gasped when she figured it out. " Urahara Yohei was defeated!? How could they have killed someone revered for his unrivalled strength?"

"Don't flatter yourself Hokage. He let them injure him to atone for his clan's sins. Your ninja rook a cheap shot to his abdomen handicapping him throughout the fight with the boss. "

"I - I don't..I didn't authorise them to go anywhere near-."

"What happens happens Lady Tsunade." Hagoromo says stepping in before anything escalates any further.

"Hagoromo! Surely you know you know that I wouldn't go back in up my word?"

"I know, doesn't change the fact that he sided and you're Anbu had a factor to play in this."

Tsunade bites her lip not knowing what to say for once.
"I'm sorry."

"Sorry don't win the war now does it?"

"That is very true,Hagoromo Yohei."

"Who's that?" Isagi says looking towards a nearby tree. Everyone follows Isagi's eyes to see a man hanging from it before dropping down to their level.

He wore a pure white cloak with whit gloves. He resembled a human angel.
Nia scared hard trying to identify the blond haired hooded figure.

"I make my work quick so I will quickly address myself. I am one of two of the last survivors of the fairy clan." He removes his hoodie to reveal eyes that were ocean blue and had red velvet crosses as pupils. They sparkled majestically yet had a cold dark feeling to them.

"Fairy clan? Then-." Isagi turns to look at Nia who was having trouble breathing.

"Then you're my-."

"Yes,Nia. I am Lord Genome. You're brother. But you can call me by my current name. Phillip of the Kurin Clan,8th order."

"The Kurin? Are these the people you've been talking about Hagoromo?" Tsunade says as beads of sweat trickled down her chin. He gave off such a presence it was un bearing to be around.

"Yeah, and a right pain the ass it's become now that he's here."

"I've come to erase the Hagoromo Revolutionaries off the face of the earth, and I shall do so without fail. Prepare to be sent to hell."







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