After storing Shukaku's chakra, Finn was thinking which village he should go next. "Getting the nine tails chakra would be easy. I could always ask Kushina's help to get nine tails chakra. If Kuruma doesn't agree to give me his chakra then I will have to fight hime. The 2 and 3 tails are with Akatsuki, aside from nine and one tails, I have 5 more tail beast to find and get their chakra."
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"It looks like my next destination is hidden Stone village, the four tail beast host Roshi of the lava style." Finn created a shadow clone and sent his clone to the land of earth territory.
"I will go head to hidden earth to territory later for now let's head to Gremory household and check the situation." Finn was going to Gremory household because he suddenly received the memory of his clones, responsible for training Rias.
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Teleporting to the training ground,
Few minutes ago....
Rias had lunch in the training ground then she got 20 minutes rest before Finn told her to get up and train. Mio and Sona also came to see how Rias was doing after having lunch.
"I feel little bad for Rias but she needs to go through this training if she wants to become stronger." Mio said.
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Mio after spending a year outside the world understood that if a girl is not strong enough then she cannot survive alone. That's why Mio felt that it was necessary for Rias to become strong if she wants to survive without depending on her brother too much and take control of her fate.
'The current me wouldn't have been so weak if I had trained my magic powers before.' Mio sighed recalling the past. In the past Mio had a similar personality just like Rias. Maybe that's why both became best friend in the first place.
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Sona looked at Rias from a distance. "I agree that she needs to train and become strong. Even Rias peerage members are also training after seeing their president or should I say their king train so hard. If Rias didn't had a rating match this month, maybe Sirzechs would have trained Rias slowly." Hearing the word Rating game, Mio looked surprised.
"Rating game? With who?"
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The Rating Game is a competition first invented by the Devils, between two Devils with a peerage. The Rating Game shares many similarities with the board game; Chess. The Rating Game was created after the introduction of the Evil Pieces by Ajuka Beelzebub. The Rating Game is used to measure a Devil's strength which will reflect their social standing. In fact, the Rating Game is so famous that the Top 10 ranked are considered as heroes to the Devils. But over the years, Rating game became the most popular thing in this world. Over time not just Devils, Fallen Angels, Angels and other factions with their own peerage also began to participate in the Rating game.
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Factions began to use Rating games to solve their disputes. The same thing happened to Rias. Rias was proposed by the Riser Phoenix but Rias didn't wanted any political marriage so she rejected Riser. Riser Riser Phenex is the third son of the Phenex Clan after his elder brother and an unnamed second older brother. Riser was a popular playboy and has slept with many women so when Rias rejected him, the rejection hurt Riser's ego. Riser immediately demanded a Rating match against Rias. Rias also didn't like Riser so she also accepted thinking that she could defeat.
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"Is Rias has lost her mind or what?" Mio couldn't help but shout loudly.
"Rias has a powerful peerage group and he actively participates in the Rating game tournament. I don't think there is any way, where Rias could defeat Riser. And Let's not even mention the fact, Riser has Phoenix bloodline, meaning he can heal and regenerate from any injury. So Rias destruction magic is useless against Riser." Sona sighed and looked at Rias who was training.
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"I know that. Fortunately Sirzechs has helped Rias by limiting Riser and his peerage powers. Riser power is limited to high rank. Rias became overconfident thinking that her peerage members has the strength of mid class devil and can defeat Riser easily. Rias took Riser too lightly." Mio nodded.
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"Rias came and attack me. If you can knock me out then there will be no physical training for the rest of the day." Hearing Finn's words Rias became excited.
Rias slyly smiled and said. "Finn, I am exhausted. Let me rest for 10 minutes then I will fight you. For now come and sit here. I want to ask you some question. I am thinking of creating a new magic spells using my destruction magic."
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Finn didn't think much and sat next to Rias. Finn became interested to know more about Rias idea of creating a new spell using destruction magic. 'Rias destruction magic has lots of potential. Not to mention, being a pureblood Rias has more mana than a average Devil.' As soon as Finn sat down, Rias landed released a small destruction magic on Finn which exploded Finn's clone and transferred the memories to the real Finn.
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Back to present_________
"Why did you do that?" Finn had a frowning expression on his face. Finn certainly didn't like the prank Rias played with his clone.
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In a laboratory, a man with pale white skin and long hair reaching till his waist could be seen. Behind that man was another shinobi, he was wearing glasses and from time to time he would push his glasses up.
They were Orochimaru and Kabuto. Orochimaru was really excited thinking that he would get new research material which would help him a way of increasing his life span. But to his disappointment, the Akatsuki failed to kidnap the nine tails.
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Even with more than 10 Kage rank shinobi, the Akatsuki failed to kidnap Kushina. After learning about the failure, Orochimaru was very disappointed. Being disappointed doesn't mean that Orochimaru will stop, this was not the first time Orochimaru was so disappointed so he didn't stop his research. Orochimaru instead began to research on Snake Sage mode and forbidden Jutsu created 2nd hokage, the reanimation Jutsu.
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Orochimaru was researching to find a way of absorbing Nature energy to make him and Kabuto even more stronger. As for Reanimation jutsu, Orochimaru didn't had the complete jutsu formula so he had to recreate what he had managed to stole beforeing leaving the village. For that purpose Orochimaru has visited the ruins of Uzumaki clan to learn more about the death god, The Shinigami and to know how the Uzumaki was able to summon The Shinigami.
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Few days had passed, Orochimaru was not bothered with the Akatsuki anymore. To him what Akatsuki did was none of his business. Right now the only thing that mattered to Orochimaru was perfecting the half reanimation jutsu he had.
But today the Akatsuki, the black Zetsu came to Orochimaru once again.
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"What do you want?" Orochimaru's tone was not that friendly especially when the Akatsuki has failed complete their task.
Black Zetsu didn't mind Orochimaru's tone, rather seeing him work on the reanimation jutsu Black Zetsu came here with a proposal.
"Orochimaru, the Akatsuki can give you the complete reanimation jutsu formula. But in exchange you will join us. If you join us, the Akatsuki promises to give you a portion of tailed beast chakra which should greatly help you with your research."
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"Why should I even trust the Akatsuki when they failed to keep their own words?" Orochimaru asked with a smile.
"Orochimaru stop pretending. You also know that the Akatsuki only lost because Finn had came to rescue Kushina at the last moment, something we didn't expect from Finn. Not only that, Finn also appeared with some black monsters that are even more powerful than Kage rank shinobi. So if the Akatsuki wants to capture every tailed beast then it is necessary to eliminate Finn."
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Orochimaru being the smartest among the Sannin, immediately understood what or where Black Zetsu was going or trying to say.
"Finn did kill lots of shinobi in the 3rd great ninja war, I am sure he will be pleased to meet them again." Hearing Orochimaru's words Black Zetsu knew that his plan had worked.
"Here is the complete formula or technique of reanimation jutsu." Black Zetsu put a scroll on the table. It was not hard for Black Zetsu to get any forbidden jutsu from konoha or any other villages.
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Orochimaru hurriedly picked up the reanimation jutsu scroll and opened it. After reading the reanimation jutsu, Orochimaru smiled and licked his lips with his snake tongue.
"Black Zetsu, I will need lots of DNA. I hope you can help me with this." Orochimaru could use his connection to get the DNA needed to use the reanimation jutsu but that would take too much time and the chances of his subordinates failing is really high.
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"Don't worry, in few weeks you will get every DNA we can get including the creator of this jutsu." Black Zetsu then left while Orochimaru excitedly licked his lips with his snake tongue.
"Kabuto with this, we will be one step closer to achieving our goal of immortality." Kabuto also felt excited.
"Congratulation Orochimaru-sama."
"This is not the time for celebrating. We have lots of work to do. Prepare for some test subject, I want to master this jutsu as soon as possible." Orochimaru looked impatient.
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