Chương 17: Arc 3 - Fjorn
NOTE: This chapter has some brutal scenes. You have been warned.
Also some of you seem to like the siblings quite a lot, if I reach 20 reviews today I promise to be kinder/softer when writing their fate.
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The teens take a while to convince Aemon why he can't accompany Ikarus to the village. Only the promise that the shinobi makes to buy him some sweets convinces the boy.
After almost three weeks living on the farm, Ikarus is back on the road, although this trip will be short. The village is two days away, Ikarus could cover that distance in a couple of hours but since he is hiding gis power he will have to take his time and he will not make this journey on foot either, he will go in a cart drawn by the horse of the small family.
`I haven't traveled by horse-drawn cart in a long time, I'm a little excited`
Ikarus says goodbye to the siblings.
"Come back soon Ikki! We have to play Dragonknight VS the Prince of the Desert!" Aemon hugs his brother figure tightly, the older boy smiling softly.
"Yes Aemy, I promise. I'll be back before you know it." He ruffles the boy's hair and turns to Jenny.
Seeing the girl looking at him out of the corner of her eye, a little blushed, he smiles amusedly and opens his arms dramatically.
"Do I get a goodbye hug?" Ikarus looks at her with his best puppy eyes.
Aemon laughs and runs over to his sister, pulling her towards Ikarus.
"You have to give him a hug sister, we always give hugs when we say goodbye to the family." The boy says seriously.
The girl laughs a little at the drama of her boys and hugs the shinobi.
Releasing him, she leans down and kisses him on the cheek.
"Have a good trip, Ikarus."
The Senju has a small blush on his face and is scratching the back of his head in embarrassment, but there is a bright smile on his face.
"Yes! I'll be back soon!"
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While traveling in the cart Ikarus practices the Leaf Concentration Practice, he has 13 leaves stuck to his face.
`It took me a while but I can finally complete this chakra control exercise`
The Leaf Concentration Practice requires very small amounts of chakra, so small that even a four-year-old civilian child is capable of doing it repeatedly without depleting their chakra reserves.
Members of the Senju clan are among the shinobi with the highest amounts of chakra, second only to their cousins, the Uzumaki clan. Ikarus's current body wasn't used to using such minuscule amounts of chakra, even when he was using what he thought were minuscule amounts of chakra he was actually using far more chakra than necessary.
But after much training Ikarus finally learned to control his chakra enough to be able to use such small amounts of chakra.
`Well it's not like I was able to train other skills during the last few weeks either.`
During his weeks at the farm Ikarus spent most of his time in the presence of the siblings, he had very little time alone. So he couldn't train his other flashy skills, Leaf Concentration Practice only requires a few leaves and he could practice discreetly.
That's not to say that he hasn't made any progress with his other skills, he almost mastered Tree Climbing! And as for his first jutsu… Well, let's just say that he progressed quite a bit.
`At least I don't vomit or stumble anymore...`
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After a day of traveling he saw smoke in the distance, although curious this time he did not come closer to see who it is.
`Last time I met a kind old man, I could make more friends but now I am on a mission. My first mission! S-Rank top priority: get supplies for the farm! Well more of a D-rank mission`
Ikarus continued his journey and after two days on the road he arrived at the Fjorn village.
`Fjorn, that's a good name`
The village is even smaller than Frostwood, and in worse condition. Many buildings are half-destroyed, the streets very muddy and many of the passers-by seem on the verge of collapse.
`What happened here?! This is not how Jenny described the village!`
***Flashbacks***
"The village is called Fjorn, it is two days away to the southwest. You just have to follow the road for half a day, you will come to a crossroads where the road divides in three directions. There you will have to follow the path to the right, after another day you will come across a rock the size of two men with an inscription in the old tongue. There you have to turn left and after another half day you will see the village."
"Aye, how is the village?"
"It's small, only about a hundred people live there. But the people are very friendly and welcoming. Every time I went with my parents, people always smiled at Aemy and me, more than once the kind merchants gave us sweets ."
***End Flashback***
`These people don't seem very welcoming`
Ikarus watches the villagers warily, more than one looking at him with open hostility.
``I'll just do my shopping and go`
Sitting on the cart Ikarus leads the horse to the market, wanting to buy the supplies and leave. He doesn't like this village, the people are very strange.
As he proceeds through the village he observes the damage to the buildings.
`Fire?`
Looks like there was a fire a while ago.
`Maybe that is why everyone looks so... grim`
After a few minutes he sees the entrance to a square, where the market is supposed to be.
"!!!!!!!!"
Ikarus stares in horror at the sight before him, his face pales and takes on a greenish tint.
In the center of the square there are three large posts driven into the ground.
Hanging from each post is a person tied up, a corpse.
The three bodies are in various states of decomposition. The first, a middle-aged woman has the rag that was once a nice green dress hanging from her figure, her breasts and other parts are visible. She has clear finger marks on her neck and her entire body is covered in blue bruises. The cause of death is clear, a violent rape.
The second corpse is a boy of Ikarus's age, his condition is even worse than the woman's. Several body parts are missing, his eyes were gouged out, and someone cut off his hands above the elbows.
The third corpse is...
A little girl, maybe four or five years old. Her injuries are very similar to the woman's. She... she had the same fate as the woman.
Ikarus vomits.
The scene is too horrible.
After emptying his stomach, the green-eyed boy watches the villagers walk around the corpses as if nothing had happened. The merchants are selling their wares. The corpses seem invisible to the peasants.
Ikarus rubs his eyes, doubting for a moment that the vision before him is real.
It is impossible for all these people to ignore the corpses and continue with their day to day, right?
The scene does not change.
The bodies are still there and the peasants continue with their chores.
"What's wrong with these people?!"
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