So if people are still interested in this book I will update more often. If not so much, then I probably will start a new book instead and take this one down. But I am still deciding... Also, I changed the description of this book. I hope it looks better...

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A roar burst out in resorting to rocks being blasted back and the man before the roaring creature threw his hands over his head, his blade and staff clenched in them still. Lowering his arms, the long-haired man glowered up at the large beast that towered over him dementedly.

"Turn back now, foul beast! You are not welcome in this land! Return from whence you came!" The Sage scowled in despair at the Beast.

The beast seemed to avoid what he coherently said; the beast suddenly began to accelerate swiftly on its feet towards the lone man.

"Father!" The man turned to see his two sons and his wife standing a few feet behind him.

"Stay back!" The man ordered as the ground shook underneath the beast's feet.

The sons moved further back, but his wife refused and jumped up beside her husband. "Saika, get away from here! This beast is dangerous!"

The beast let out another roar and more rocks flooded the air around them. The Sage threw his arms around his wife; shielding her life from the beast.

Saika pulled back and looked up to see the Beast radically disappeared to only look back to see her husband.

"Be quiet! I will not leave you here to deal with this creature alone! If the Sage of Six Paths can deal with it, then so can his wife!" Saika placed her left hand onto his left cheek.

The Sage stared down at the woman in his arms and smiled as he kissed her forehead.

***

The terrain of the lands left a scar as The Beast has grown within its power. It has a much higher aptitude than before.

The Sage fell to his knees, his wife beside him, breathing hard. The beast let out another monstrosity roar, stomping its feet as it stormed towards both of them again as if there was no hope left. The sons wanted to join their parents, but the Sage and Saika had told them to get the villagers safely away from this place.

"We...we're not going to be able to destroy this thing," The Sage gasped strongly onto air. "It...it is too strong. Even for me..." He announced to his wife who stood behind him panting for air.

She looked back up at the large creature clenching onto her jaw. "We might not be able to defeat it, but...but we can seal it." She stated with full determination.

"What?" He looked at her in surprise.

"Seal it, Love. Seal it within me! I am the wife of the Sage of Six Paths! I will be able to withhold the beast until we find a way to destroy it."

"No," The Sage shook his head. "I won't do it!"

"Do it, Love! You're the only one that can seal the creature within me. Do it, or everything else will be destroyed!" She grabbed her husband's face. "I am strong enough to do this. Trust me and do as I say!"

The Sage lowered his head in defeat and nodded contently. Turning to face the creature that loomed over him and his wife again, he began to jutsu that would seal the beast within the woman he loved.

***

He had done it. He had sealed the creature within his wife, but there was something wrong. The ground still rumbled and the rocks still flew in the air. And the power of the beast...it could still be felt...and from the body beside the Sage.

He turned and looked at Saika just in time to dodge out of the way.

Saika body, her eyes now that of the creatures, had tails of chakra now floating out of her body as she snarled at the Sage.

The Sage looked at her in horror. The sealing...it didn't work. The Beast had been too strong. It now took control of Saika's body. Of his wife's body!

"Father!" His two sons appeared beside him. They had witnessed what had happened and fear travelled onto both of their faces.

"Mother..." The younger child stared at the woman in fear. "What...what are we going to do?"

The Sage shook his head as the four of them just stared at each other. Saika's body let out a shrieking roar and the older son received an idea. "Brother," They both looked at him. "The Beast is only in mother's body! Mother is still there! When Father and I knock the creature out, use your powers and erase the things memory! It should halt its power and mother will be fine!"

The Sage nodded his head. "Good idea. And then after that, we will think of an idea to destroy the beast."

The younger son nodded, his face still worried but he got ready as his Father and Brother attacked.

It was actually not that long that he had to wait. The moment his mother's body fell down he rushed forward, the chakra on his hands. The Sage and Older brother watched in silence until he stood up.

"Is it done?" The Sage asked.

"Yes." The man nodded. "Will...will mother be fine with that...that thing in her?"

"For now, I don't know," The Sage shook his head as he picked the woman up. "But I sure hope so."

For days Saika just laid in her bed. The Sage never left her side and just sat in a chair, watching over her despondently. He didn't want to sleep as his sons helped rebuild what was once a village. Everyone knew that the Ten-Tailed Beast now resided within Saika's body. Some were afraid, but they believed that nothing foul would happen again. Not with the Sage of Six Paths with them.

Finally, after days, the woman's body began to move and her eyes opened. She glanced around the room and her eyes fell on the man beside the bed.

Immediately the man jumped from the chair. "Saika!" The Sage grasped her hand as he kneeled beside the bed. "I'm so...I'm so happy that you're safe."

The woman looked into the Sage's eyes. "Wh...who are you?"

Dream over...

Aquila jolted up from her slumber and gasp for the air around her.

What was that? She thought as she shivered and only could think of the dream she dreamt of.

The Sage of the Six Paths?

Could this be an event that took place from the past? Aquila started to shake her head and wipe off the remainder sweat off her face.

It felt so much real to Aquila that made her tremble.. As the dream was telling her something. But what?

She didn't want to just sit around and do nothing. Maybe in time, she would know what these dreams mean.

It certainly wasn't the first time she had them...

***

She rolled out of bed quietly and pulled out the scroll Mito handed to her.

She sighed and began to quiver slightly in her right palm which holds the scroll tightly.

"I wonder what is in this," Aquila asked out loud. She started to open it deliberately; still nervous deep down.

"Huh?" Aquila widened her eyes in shock at what she apprehended on the scroll...

The Uzumaki clansmen signatures?

"The signature of my father Natsu... He was an Uzumaki? This doesn't explain how I was caught up with the Taiyo clan at all." Aquila placed her right index finger under her chin and got up and left her room to get some air.

What is wrong with me? Aquila wouldn't stop talking to herself ever since she left.

Wouldn't Mito know this by now?

Ramiko appeared a few yards in front of her in the town 'centre' shopping.

"My old friend..." She felt her throat go dry. Aquila missed her company but things certainly have changed since the war.

She still blames her own self that their friendship had ended that day.

With the conflict between Gaia who was now a mere servant girl in the village. Who knows what things would have turned out.

Ramiko and Aquila aren't exactly the same around each other when they were both living in the Uchiha stronghold years back.

"Aquila?"

Aquila snapped out of her thoughts to see Ramiko staring curiously at the redhead. She smiled faintly at Aquila which suddenly faded into a frown.

"Oh hi!" Aquila tried to smiled back abruptly but faded soon after.

"Haven't seen you much around, everything alright?" Ramiko brushed a few strands of blue streaks out of her delicate face.

Aquila opened her jaw to say something but closed suddenly.

"So... Not everything is alright? I miss the old you... I wish things didn't turn out like this." Ramiko stared down at her feet. Aquila listened to what Ramiko said and simply nodded.

"I'm sorry Ramiko, but I think that whatever happened a long time ago, we could work past it. We are much older now, in my mind, I always thought of you as my friend. Nothing won't change that, even through the worse of times." Aquila placed her assuring hand on Ramiko's shoulder.

A faint smile crept onto Aquila's lips.

"Maybe we could hang out sometime?" Ramiko inhaled and felt a tingle of nervousness spike herself.

"Yeah, like old times!" Aquila chirped with an excited feeling.

Ramiko smiled and both parted ways. Aquila decided to pay Hashirama a visit in hopes that Mito maybe around or if not Madara.

Aquila navigated herself to the Hokage building in order to find her rightful place in mind. She wanted to find answers she has been longing for.

"Aquila!" Aquila familiarized the voice and spun around to be met by Mito which surprised her.

"M..Mito?" Aquila held a stern face. She narrowed her eyes at the woman in front.

"Sorry for the inconvenience here, but you still haven't told me something..." The woman crossed her arms over her chest observing Aquila carefully.

"What haven't I told?" Aquila bluntly said confusingly.

Mito 'huffed' and gave off a huge blithesome smile towards her.

"I would want to talk to you in private and not somewhere so public." Mito leaned close to Aquila pushing her out of the building.

"Wh-what! Where are you taking me!" Aquila was being more than dragged.

"Shush! This is a discussion, we need to talk about. Anyways, no one will hear us here." Mito stated as both of them came to a full stop. They started to look around their surroundings carefully.

"Why are we in the outskirts of the village?" Aquila's face palmed; slanting her eyes, parting her thin lips sternly.

"Well like I said, we have things to discuss," Mito smirked crossing her arms over her chest.

"Well better make this quick, I have to talk to the Hokage." Aquila rolled her eyes turning her head away from Mito.

"What? You need my husband for something?"

Aquila jolted back her head towards Mito shockingly.

Husband?

"You're married to Hashirama-sama? I didn't know that part, but I was on my way to discuss with him of the Uzumaki leader who possibly knew my father." Aquila whispered which caught Mito's attention.

"Yes, I found my father Uzumaki Natsu's signature on the scroll. He was apart of the Uzumaki council a long time ago; he had a good prosperity circumstance on the council I presume. But I only have faint memories of him. Memories that are much harder to explain. He brought me to the Taiyo's and last I knew he was killed in battle..." Aquila trailed off, lost in her own words and anticipation.

"I would help with that. But I never knew him, Aquila-san. But you were right about one thing. The leader of the Uzumaki clan may know him." Mito spoke calmly keeping a sustained expression.

"Well I think I should get back, I have to find someone..." Aquila hid her blush that was creeping onto her pink cheeks.

"Ah, I get it. You're on your way to see that Uchiha I have seen you around with multiple times!" Mito chirped lightly causing Aquila to be embarrassed and disconcerted, "ah isn't his name Uchiha Madara..." Mito chortled, rolling her eyes playfully.

"I swear it is nothing!" Aquila held her hands up in defeat.

"Well, whatever it is I think it is love." Mito playfully cooed.

Aquila rolled her eyes as they began to walk back to the village in an awkward situation.

"Hmm, so it seems the Phoenix princess is here!"

Both Mito and Aquila swiftly turn their heads to where the voice belonged to.

A tall young man maybe in his early twenties, dark blue hair as the night sky. Electric blue orbs that encircled his features, wearing a visible navy blue kimono with good out linings. His jaw was firm and straight, his hair was smooth, black and medium length. The man smirked as he stared down at the two females up in the trees astonishingly.

"What did you call me? I have no formalities. Who are you?" Aquila asked boldly, gritting her teeth together agilely, furrowing her brows irately.

"Oh, right I heard that you're quite feisty and a fine enduring Kunoichi. I am here for not much chit-chatter, I am Taiyo Kenta." The boy stepped down from the branch a few feet away from the women.

"Do you know him?" Mito came up close behind Aquila; quavering at the thought of possible worse outcomes.

"My, my, I would say that you must have been the leader's son of the Taiyo clan. I had nothing to do with the collision of the fall of the Taiyo clan. If you seriously have forgotten I was a mere child back then." Aquila exhaled the air around her unfolding her arms away from her chest, letting them drop to her sides.

"Ah right, but yet the princess of our clan was abducted, how pitiful. But to only help the Uchiha's with their sickening schemes." Kenta clenched his fists tightly looking at Aquila with such fury in his eyes: hurt, pain and anger overwhelmed him.

"The war is over, I've gotten over my past and just let it go. I may not know you personally. But you should get over it. And leave us out of it." Aquila said beginning to walk away with Mito close behind.

"You'll pay for the damage you caused!" Kenta roared with anger seething through him.

What is he thinking?

What is going to happen next?

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(Kenta is the guy in the picture!) :D