Reborn in the Narutoverse 53 Poem Card Quarters

As Kibo flicked Samehada, Kisame's body was shot out of its scales, he tried to run away making Kibo sigh, "Why can't you see, what I'm offering you? Zabuza!" A shadow appeared out of the forest and slammed into Kisame making him fly backward into another tree. When saw his attacker his eyes widened "You alive!?"

Zabuza walked up to him with the Kubikiribōchō in hand and pointed the blade at Kisame while saying "It's been awhile Kisame, I see old Gengo's seen better days." He looked to the old fallen comrade he use to fight alongside and sighed, "I think you should take him up on his offer. I did and it was the best decision of my life."

Kisame looked at him and asked, "So you finally found a worthy master?" Zabuza nodded his head and said in response "Yes, and if you play your cards right you can too." Kisame looked back at Kibo and sighed; he placed his hands up, and said "I surrender."

Kibo walked over to him and handed back Samehada, Kisame looked bewildered when Zabuza laughed, "I had the same expression on my face after I lost against Master Kibo. He handed me back Kubikiribōchō like it meant nothing to him." Kisame grabbed a hold of Samehada's hilt, the sword looked a little sad to be leaving Kibo's hands, but it also experienced joy as it returned to its most compatible wielder.

"Will you follow me Kisame? If you do you will receive countless benefits in the future, but Kisame of the Akatsuki must die, and you must be reborn as Kisame Protector Nin of the Hoshi Clan, I won't force you, but I can't let you live if you decide not to agree."

Kisame sighed and said, "I am at your disposal, but know this, I won't hesitate to assassinate you should you ever lie to me, and I assure you I am far better at assassination than straight forward combat."

Kibo nodded his head and pointed his finger on Kisame's brow placing a black colored seal on him as he said "This seal will force the truth out of you just this once, do you Kisame chose to follow my family protect them from dangers with your very life, and vow to never betray me so long as I remain honest with you." Kisame nodded his head and replied "I vow to serve the Hoshi family with my very life."

Kibo noticed that the seal placed on him didn't change color, if it had turned white it would have meant that the a certain part of his brain that was used and the chemicals related to lying would have been scanned and detected, specifically the two main components of lying are the activity detected around the targets Limbic system and the two catecholamines; hormones made by the adrenal glands.

The two chemicals are Epinephrine; otherwise known as adrenaline and Norepinephrine; which is also called noradrenaline, a hormone that is release when one's fight or flight responses kick in, or when their nervous and lying."

"I'm always surprised by you 7 swordsmen; I have never seen such loyalty, but hardheadedness towards serving a worthy master." Kisame smiled and said, "We are Ninja, we live to be used by a worthy leader."

Kibo shook his head and said, "From now on your mine, please do behave." After giving the same rules he gave Zabuza to follow, Kibo then handed him a Chakra Armor Prototype and a Konohagakure flak jacket. "Put this on and follow Zabuza back to my estate, and remember you serve me now." Kisame bowed and followed Kibo's instructions.

As he flew back to the village he carried the fake corpse of Kisame, and Gengo's real body back to the village, he also took a piece of Gengo's bone, and a tooth of Kisame's, and stored it in his inventory, along with the two Akatsuki rings.

He showed up at the Hokage's office which Sarutobi, Tobirama, and Hashirama were in the middle of discussions, when Sarutobi noticed Kibo's arrival he looked at Kibo like he was his savior. "Kibo! Good timing. Please tell Hashirama it's not a good time for him to leave the village." He was about to continue when he saw the corpses in his hands. Kibo had them surrounded with as transparent cocoon, so they didn't leak anything on the floor. "These are two S rank bounties in the Bingo book, Kisame the missing Nin of the mist, and this is Gengo also a missing Nin from the mist."

Kibo then turned to Hashirama and said, "Lord 1st, I don't think you should leave the village just yet, it would cause a panic and may even start a war."

Hashirama's shoulder sunk and said, "But the 4th and his wife get to leave, it's not fair." Kibo continued "Minato and Kushina's deaths can passed off as faked because it's only been a few years, but everyone knows you're dead, and they've known it for a long time. If they found out you were resurrected, do you think that the other Daimyo's wouldn't order their villages to attack us to get such a secret. Even if we explained to them that the technique can only be used through circumstance, do you think they'll buy that, even though it's the truth!?" Sarutobi and Tobirama nodded their heads in agreement when Hashirama moved into a corner and assumed his gloomy form.

Sarutobi walked up to Kibo and had his Anbu take away the bodies so they could verify that their identities, if everything checked out, Kibo would be rewarded by the Daimyo himself, and it would be thanks to the Akatsuki's strange fake body technique, the corpse shared the same Genetics as Kisame, and could fool everyone but Tsunade.

Kibo didn't care about such things as he turned to the Hokage and said, "I'll be leaving now to go get Tsunade." Kibo returned to the gates to see the group there waiting for him, Kibo nodded his head as he made a boat shaped ship, out of his Star Chakra. Jiraiya shouted, "Now this is how to travel in style."

He jumped on the spacious deck and the rest joined. Minato was touching the construct with a look of amazement on his face, "How dense, no that's only part of it. The complexity of this molding technique is amazing." Kibo nodded his head in appreciation when he said, "You can probably do it too. It has a similar procedure of execution like the Rasengan; feel free to study it while you can. Until then passengers you might want to use your Chakra to hang on to the construct."

Naruto was way ahead of everyone else as he was already doing so, Kibo raised the ship up and slowly moved it outside of the village perimeters, Naruto who was confused as to why they were moving so slow, was about to ask, "What gives?" when Kibo placed his hand down on the deck, he looked to Jiraiya and said, "Point in the direction and tell me how many miles." Jiraiya nodded his head, as he gave Kibo precise directions Kibo placed a clear cover over the ship, sealing everyone inside it, a bright red and green energy formed around the wings of the flying boat, as Kibo watched the two elements combined Minato was shocked again, as was Jiraiya and Kushina. "Scorch Release!"

The wings formed tiny tubes at the tips of the feathers; a sharp whistle noise was heard as the Scorching energy shot out with a flap of the ships movements. Even thought they were using their Chakra to hang on, they almost fell back. Immediately the skies began to blur into blue and white streams. The ship had reached mach 3 and would only take a few minutes to reach their destination. Jiraiya stood up on the edge of the ship when Naruto climbed up to join in on his jolly ranting. "Soo cool! How fast are we going?"

Kibo did the calculations in his head and said, "Around 3375.98 feet per second, that's 3704.4 kilometers per hour, or 2301.81 miles per hour. It's 3 times the speed of sound, aaand were here." Kibo then continued as the construct came to a halt. "Tanzaku Quarters I believe, it is a lively town that attracts many adults due to its gambling opportunities, but the festivals and historical sites are a great tourist attraction as well."

Minato and Kushina immediately understood and thought "Lady Tsunade is defiantly here."

They appeared over a large town, it was jam packed with dozens of tourist, and there seemed to be a festival in town. Naruto was looking at the festival with shining eyes, Minato and Kushina patted him on the back, when Kibo said, "You guys can go, and it will take Jiraiya a while to locate Tsunade. Until then spend time with your family. We'll be staying at the Card King Hotel, come find us when you're done."

Minato, and Kushina, had felt that they shouldn't be enjoying themselves right now, as it wasn't the best time considering Kibo's real body's condition, they were about to disagree when Jiraiya saw what Kibo was doing and said "You know what he said is right. It will take a while to sniff out Tsunade's location, it might take a few days, and I don't recall ever needing my student's help to do my job."

Minato smiled and took Naruto and his wife to go enjoy the Poem Card Festival, Naruto looked at Kibo and felt a little guilty, when he tried his best to put on a smile for him and said, "Please, go enjoy your selves." Naruto nodded his head and jumped off the ship with his parents.

Jiraiya shook his head and said "It's not good to force yourself to smile, when you don't feel like it." Kibo sighed and dissipated the ship and landed on the ground next to Jiraiya, "Let's go look for Tsunade."

Jiraiya rubbed the back of his head as he sighed before saying "Kid you need a break. You just lost your woman, was 4 day's really enough time to mourn her loss properly?"

Kibo looked to him and said "You know Naruto asked me that same question, and I'll tell you the same thing I told him, I will never stop mourning her loss, I'll carry it with me for the rest of my life, but I don't think she would want me to sit around and become a useless person. It would dishonor her memory, and I know even though she's gone, her soul will watch over me." Kibo lifted his brow as he stared back at Jiraiya and said "What about you, I killed Orochimaru. Even though I hated that snake skinned bastard, I know you two used to be friends at one time, shouldn't you be mourning your own loss."

Jiraiya sighed, and repeated Kibo's earlier words "Let's go find Tsunade." He and Kibo headed to rent their rooms, and then set out in search of the Gambling Queen, it was actually a lot harder than Kibo expected, after almost the whole day they ended up with only a few spotted locations.

Naruto came back from the festival and was carrying prizes and food he obtained, he handed Kibo a dried squid and said "Um do clones need to eat?" Kibo took the food and chowed down on it, it tasted pretty good; it appeared that his Chakra cooking technique has already spread across the Land of Fire, he then wondered how long it would take for other nations to discover and adopt it.

Kibo thanked Naruto and as they talked about his day, Kushina had her arm wrapped around Minato's and said "I want another one." Minato blushed as he laughed shyly, the group then went to sleep.

After a few days of searching they came across their first lead it appeared she left the village for a short while, and then returned to the gambling district claiming to have found a gold mine, before suddenly disappearing again. When around half of the next day had passed Jiraiya showed up saying "I found her."

Kibo raised a brow and left with the group to end up at a barbecue restaurant, Naruto went in first when Jiraiya put his hands up stopping Minato and Kushina "I think we should tell her first, don't want the old lady having a heart attack." The two nodded at each other as Kibo, Naruto, and Jiraiya entered.

When Tsunade spotted the familiar patch of spiky long hair entering the restaurant she almost shouted "Jiraiya!?"

Tsunade had brown eyes and straight, shoulder-length blonde hair that she usually keeps tied in two long loose ponytails. The Strength of her Hundred Seal took the appearance of a violet diamond shape on her forehead. Tsunade was a slender woman of above-average height with large breasts, which Jiraiya estimates to be 106 centimeters; she is in fact widely regarded as the most beautiful Kunoichi in the world.

Despite being in her fifties, Tsunade maintains the appearance of a young woman using her unique permanent Transformation Technique. Tsunade was wearing a grass-green haori with the kanji for 'gamble' written on the back. Underneath she wore a grey, kimono style blouse with no sleeves, and was held closed by a broad, dark bluish-grey obi that matches her pants. Her blouse is closed quite low, revealing her sizable cleavage and the First Hokage's necklace. She wore an open toed, strap black sandals with high heels. She had red nail polish on both her fingernails and toenails and wore a soft pink lipstick.

Next to her was Shizune, a fair-skinned woman of average height and slender build with onyx eyes and jet-black hair; her hair is straight and shoulder-length with bangs that cover her ears and frame her face. She was wearing a long bluish-black kimono with white trimmings, held closed by a white obi, and open-toed sandals with low heels. A cute pig that Kibo recognized as Tonton was wearing her usual pearl collar and a dark red jacket, the pig rested between Shizune's arms and chest.

"I've finally found you Tsunade." Jiraiya said looking at his old teammate.

Chapter end