The evening light had drowned the world in a beautiful orange colour. Amell stood on the head of Orlando and observed the forest passing underneath him. But it may have just looked like he was observing the trees in all their beauty, but what had caught his eyes was the shadows moving among the trees, clearly tracking the two giant eagles.
'A welcome party this far away from the village? Something's going on.' Amell said and looked as more shadows joined into the chase. But of course, they weren't blurred or shadows to him, he could see the hidden leaf symbol on their headbands.
"Orlando, speed up! Leave them in the dust," Amell said and Orlando and Gold both sped up. They broke the sound barrier as they took off and left their shadow tail far behind.
They had now arrived above the village, and it looked pretty much the same as usual. It had a slightly more modern look to it because it now belonged solely to the empire as all hidden villages did. But the place still looked very much like the ninja village where he raised his sons. And Amell started to reminisce because for him it had been a hundred years or so since he stepped foot inside this village.
Amell was wearing a white full-body cloak that covered both his front and his back. Underneath the cloak, he wore his martial arts school outfit, which was a white Tai Chi Kung Fu top, with black baggy pants. He had on casual black Tai Chi slippers.
"Orlando, Gold, stay out of the village for now. You two are way too big to move around inside the village." Amell said and stepped off out into the air and started floating in front of them with his hands behind his back.
"KAA!" Gold screamed at him, offended about something.
"No, I did not call you fat. And why would that matter? This kid will have sex with anything." Amell said and pointed at Orlando, who in blind rage swiped his massive claw at Amell.
"Calm down, you big baby. Don't think I haven't heard what you said about me to Gold behind my back. And do believe me when I say that there will be hell to pay eventually." Amell said started to wave away the eagles from the spot. They were very high up so no one in the village noticed them arguing and screaming at each other.
Orlando shook his head in denial at Amell's accusations. He glared one last time at Amell who laughed at him, and he gave out a small scream before departing into the distance.
Amell started floating down, and while doing that he was also distorting the light around him so that he effectively became invisible to others. Through spirit bending he had created a whole other form of bending that he called light bending, which in truth it was not, since it can't be done with having control of cosmic energy. The four bending arts don't require direct control of cosmic energy as light bending does.
He landed on the streets, still without being seen. But Amell saw a lot of jounin ninjas running around the village, and he could only guess he was the cause for it. They didn't look panicked, but they were all on guard for something.
'It appears that Orlando and Gold have them spooked. But that's not my problem.' Amell said and started walking along the streets and observing all the shops and people he passed on his way towards his dojo.
He arrived at his dojo very quickly with how unnaturally fast his casual walking speed was. And the dojo hadn't changed much in appearance, the only real change he noticed from the outside was that the building got bigger, a lot bigger, about three or four times its previous size. The building was standing on its own now, it had merged with its neighbours and become a gigantic traditional dojo.
'My home, good to be back.' Amell said walked to the door. But before he could reach it, the whole front of the building blew open and a body came flying out. 'ohhh? after years away, it's still this lively around here,' Amell said, slightly annoyed that as he admiring his house, someone had to come and destroy it in front of him.
And after the body, a bunch of teenagers followed and surrounded the target. They had their weapons drawn, and among them was two with an exceptional amount of chakra, they had yellow and black hair respectively.
"Naruto, I'm getting sick of this! This is the sixth time that our house suffers from these stupid fights." Sasuke said.
"You guys can try and talk to Alucard if you feel like it! I have tried, but he will only do something if it threatens the Empire." Naruto said and sighed while scanning the surrounding for the enemy that had disappeared.
"Yeah right! Like that would work, he would probably cut out our tongues. He listens to no one." Ino, the girl Gildarts saved before he left the world said in an annoyed tone.
"Dad can, Alucard listens only to him. Hope he returns soon." Naruto said while applying haki to his hands.
"Since uncle Amell isn't here we have to protect this place. So let's seal this one and then get to repairing the house, AGAIN!" Sasuke said and his sword blackened as he applied haki to it.
"Good luck with that, I am immortal!" A voice sounded out and the ground in the middle of the group exploded upwards. A huge smokescreen was created from the dirt and the group of teenagers lost vision of each other and the surrounding.
"BACK TO BACK!" Naruto yelled, and all of them quickly found a partner and stood back to back with their weapons drawn. They stood still and used all of their senses to observe the surrounding. The smoke cleared slowly and everything soon became visible to them again. And they all now saw how their enemy stood in the middle of their ring, but he didn't stand there alone. Amell had appeared and he held their opponent by the throat.
"Hi, Naruto, would you mind explaining what is going on here?" He said as he stood there casually and restraining someone Naruto's whole group failed to defeat.
"H-Hey, Dad..." Naruto said, not able to comprehend what just happened. The rest of the group stood there with their jaws on the floor.
"Uncle, that's a reanimation of someone Kabuto revived. That snake guy escaped a year ago, and we haven't been able to locate his hideout yet." Sasuke said as he recovered his composure quicker than the others.
"Oh, I see. That's an easy fix then." Amell gathered a tiny amount of cosmic energy around his finger and placed it against the random reanimated ninjas forehead, and immediately the ninja started to break apart like paper would if you threw it in a fire. And soon only ashes were left of the random ninja.
"What the hell was that? We fought that guy for a solid fifteen minutes, and he defeats him in two seconds," Tenten, the girl with a love for all kinds of weapons said to Shikamaru quietly. And he just nodded along slowly.
"Little lady, that's because you are still very young, and the world is a lot bigger than you think it is," Amell said and turned to Tenten with a calm and collected smile.
"Come all of you, let us go inside. I am curious about what I have missed." Amell looked lovingly at Naruto and Sasuke while inviting everyone inside again.
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