"Hmmm?"
Max opened his eyes.
The last thing that he remembered was doing Cross Scar before blacking out, so he quickly looked around to see were he was at.
"Your finally awake!" A woman said as she moved towards his side.
"Who are you?" Max couldn't help but to ask. He knew just a few people from the village or forgot who they were.
"Tazuna was right. You really lived in this village without knowing any of us. I'm his daughter by the way." The woman said as she gave a small chuckle.
"Tazuna? Then I'm in the village?" Max said as he got a little more clarity. But that clarity made him remember that he didn't know how the fight ended which made him try to get up from the bed.
"Hmmm!?" After lifting his torso, he noticed something wrong with his body. When he was about to ask her about it, people started to enter the room.
"Yo, is good to see you awake." Kakashi, Naruto, Sasuke, Sakura and Tazuna entered the room.
"The death walks? So all of us got killed in the end..." Max said as he saw Sasuke entering.
*TSK*
*BURF*
Sasuke tsked as Max mention that and Naruto who was about to said something almost choked.
"Hahahahahaha -ugh" But that didn't stop him from laughing out laud, which made Sakura had to hit him for him to shut up.
"Haha, no. We are all quite alive at the moment. Even Sasuke. It see-"
"Haku had put him in a false state of death. He just made us think that he had killed him."
Kakashi didn't finish when Naruto interumpted. He was too exited with the outcome to wait to say.
"Haku is too much of a softy to do something like killing." Max coment with a mocking chuckle. "Speaking of him. What happen with to my fellow kin and Haku?"
"We had them in another house, since we needed to send them to the village as they are rouge ninjas, but 4 days ago haku seems to had woken up, took Zabuza and escaped. Now non of us know were they are at." Kakashi responded as he lifted his shoulders in a not caring kind of way.
"So they ecaped. At least I payed back the favor that Haku gave me. While you guys need to pay me big time for this one." Max said as he looked at everyone in the room and then looked at his hands.
After woking up and trying to get up, Max noticed that he had almost no feeling in his right hand while his left one was healing but at a slow pace. Performing Cross Scar left him in a worst shape that he could imagine.
"Hahahhaaaa. Well, for us to pay you back for that we would need to heal you back up first. Sadly none of us are medical ninja, so we would need to get you back to the village to patch you up." Kakashi say in an akward way.
Naruto also felt a little down after noticing how hurt Max was. Max had helped Zabuza fight the goons while he was spent and couldn't do anything.
"That is something that I had in mind since I meet you guys. What the hell is a ninja." Max couldn't help but to interrupt after hearing the term again.
"..."
The room suddenly froze for some reason. Everyone in the room had white faces after hearing Max ask that.
The first one to recover was kakashi. "Since you are a samurai, maybe you haven't heard what a- "
"Samurai? I don't know what that is also. I trained to become a Devil before meeting you guys, so at least I'm that. But I don't know what you mean by 'samurai' or 'ninja',"
"..."
Another cold wave moved inside the room. This time, even colder than before.
"I can explain..." Tazuna recovered after a minute of silence. "You see, Max was been raized by the town blacksmith until 4 years ago when he suddenly dissapeared. Since then, Max lived by himself all this years away from the rest of the villages. Only me and the other elders meeted Max from time to time and the other kids were too afraid of him growing up, so he may not know much of things outside of the village."
"Wait, how old are you?" Naruto couldn't help but to ask Max.
"12"
"WHAT!?"
This time, even Kakashi was surprised by that. Max looked like someone at his seventeen or eighteen. Non of them could imagine a 12 year old with such a stature and face.
"You guys act like is something weird. Maybe for humans is it, but for Devils this should be normal." Max was a little proud to say.
".."
Another cold wave passed.
***
'The hell? Ninjutsu? Genjutsu? Taijutsu? Whatever-jutsu? They are making this up.' Max thought as walked beside Team 7 as they made their way towards Konoha.
After 2 more weeks, the bridge was complete and the team needed to go back to the village to report. Naruto was still crying a little after saying goodbye to Inari and Tazuna. On the other hand, another weird thing was happening in the group.
*Giiiii*
Max felt a sudden chill coming from his right. After looking towards there, he saw Sasuke giving him a weird look to him.
"You have been looking at me for a while zombie boy. What do you want?" Max couldn't help but to ask.
Sasuke had been acting weird since they meet, well since Max started to see him standing (Because he was dead before). Since then, Sasuke would stare at him for time to time. Max had ignored it before because he didn't stare for long. But as time passed, his stares will last longer and longer.
"I-I have been meaning to ask you something." Sasuke was taken back when he got called zombie boy, but decided to ignore it. "Are you willing to fight me?"
"Haaaa?"
Max was taken back by the sudden question. He had heard from Sakura that Sasuke was supposed to be the stronger of the three, so he was curious too to see at what level he was.
He also was curious about Kakashi, but he knew that he didn't stand a chance, for now.
'Is always something with these kids' Kakashi thought. He could see how Sasuke was acting since they started going back. Sakura was the only one that acted normal, if he could called drolling over Sauske every now and then 'normal'. Naruto was always throwing kunais and shurikens all over the place thinking that enemies were hidding in the bushes.
Max was the one only one normal since he wasn't doing anything, but his face said the another thing.
'He's looking at us like we are crazy people that are trying to scam him.'
*Sigh*
"Since we have walked for a while now, lets take a quick break." Kakashi knew that they were going to use this free time to settle things and sadly, he knew how things were going to end.
"Perfect!" Sasuke said as he moved across from Max.
Max didn't do much looking at this. He only placed his left arm on top of his katana, which he now placed in his right waist side.
Noticing this, Sasuke grit his teeth. He knew that Max was injured at the moment, because of that he hadn't asked before to do this. But, after hearing Max call him zombie boy, he couldn't stop himself.
"If you are thinking that because I can't use my right hand I'm giving you an advantage, you are right. Devils need to know when to use all their strength and you have not prove me worty enough to use my best." Max say with a quick laugh.
*Tsk*
Naruto could be seen beside Kakashi getting hit by Sakura. It seems that the comment from Max was funny for him and got hit by Sakura for it.
"Sakura-chan, can you don't hit me? I'm not the one making the comment." Naruto couldn't help but to say.
"Shut up, Naruto!" Sakura fainted as to hit Naruto again so he shut up. Then she faced Kakashi an said.
"Sensei, I know that is crazy for me to ask but. Is Max really a devil?" Sakura ask weakly.
*Sigh*
Kakashi didn't know what to do with this group.
"You know Sakura-chan, Inari told a interesting story about Max. It something that happened to him a couple of years ago. It also has something to do with how he always called himself a Devil." Naruto laughed a little as he wispered to Sakura.
Sakura and Kakashi couldn't help to got surprised to see Naruto know about something like this. Kakashi especially, since he asked around the village for infortion on Max and didn't get much since Max wasn't born on the village and only appeared out of nowhere in the hands of Rex.
"Then tell me, what is the story?" Sakura got curious and approched to hear.
Naruto got smug to see how interested Sakura was for information, but he quickly started speaking. "You see, Inari told me that he had heard that Max usually when to the market for provition with weapons on him since little. And also for time to time, he would stop in the middle of the road to swing his weapons around. That is way the other kids started calling him Blade Devil.\
But more than that 4 years ago, he stopped going to the market for some time. After weeks passed, Max was seen with dirt all over him buying provition. And that kept happening over and over again. It didn't matter that he wore a different yukata to go to the market, it was always covered in dirt. That is way the other kids changed the way they called him and started to call him,
Trash Devil!"