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Edited: 05/06/24
Reuploaded: 06/06/24
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L/n clan names Old --> New
Zyra --> Zera
Xander --> Kenji (there aren't any X names, but I've been advised to switch X with K)
Hira Clan names Old --> New
Clari --> Chiho
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3rd Person PoV
"If I'm going down," Morgue glared at y/n, "then you're going down with me."
"Y/n!" everyone shouted out in horror as the h/l h/c haired girl was dragged by Morgue into a large looming shadow.
"Damn it!" Yuuto shouted as the shadow disappeared right before he managed to reach it, "y/n!"
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One hour earlier_
"Zera!" Kye shouted as two arrows landed, one in either of her shoulders.
"I'm fine," she put her hand up and pulled the arrows out, "who even is that?"
"Never seen her before," Kye shook his head as the two of them along with the other l/n's in the group stood to fight while the leaf nin tried to pull Aoba back out of the chasm that he'd fallen further down in after the explosion had knocked everyone off balance and caused those holding Aoba up to let him go.
"That means that jutsu is already in place," Zera concluded, "she must be a resurrected guardian."
"Yeah," Kye nodded, "who are you?!"
"Me?" their attacker asked, "I'm Chiho, Chiho Hira, one of the original Shadow Guardians. You're cute, aren't you... Zera, was it?"
She smirked.
"Ooh—I hate beautiful black haired Shadow Guardians," Zera said bitterly, "especially one's that shoot goddamn arrows at me."
"You might want to treat that," Chiho smiled, "it's laced in poison."
Zera's face dropped and Kye looked to her quickly as she pulled the sleeve of her shirt down to see the wound on her left shoulder had a ring of black around it.
"Oh... crap..." she looked to Kye with a face of anger and fear.
"Oh, don't worry, I don't have the updated version of the poison, so it'll take a good few days for that to actually affect you, dearie. So if you get out of this alive... Then you'll do so with the ability to heal yourself eventually. Time can be a friend or an enemy, depends on the situation, no?" Chiho smiled, "although... My mixture is a bit... different. Will you be able to find a cure in time?"
"Of course we will!" Kye shouted, "we know an excellent medic who found the cure for the other poison, we will find this one as well. Right, Zera?"
Zera looked to him and nodded with a small smile.
A loud bell rung out, all the Shadow Guardians and Snowflake Guardians in the area all shouted out in shock as the bells chimes drilled deep into their heads. When the noise died down Chiho turned and looked to the mountain.
"It's time," she nodded, "I'll see you cuties later."
Black bone like wings sprouted from her back and she flew.
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"What was that?" Zethran mumbled as he rubbed his temples, trying to release the stress that that seemed to cause on his mind, "stupid bells. I didn't even know we had one up here."
"Big brother?" someone called out from behind Zethran, he turned, confusion written on his face to meet the face of his younger brother, "it is you! Oh thank goodness! I thought someone had somehow just dumped me on the side of the guardian mountain for no reason!"
"Kenji?" Zethran frowned as he just stared before taking a staggering step forward, hand awkwardly half reaching out to his younger brother, "how... What... Why... I mean—little brother, it's so good to see you."
He rushed to cross the rest of the distance and grabbed Kenji, dragging him into a tight hug, almost not believing that he was right here, right in front of him despite knowing that at home, in a scroll, his body waited to be buried along with the rest of the l/ns that'd died recently.
"Can't... Breathe..." Kenji choked out, hitting the back of Zethran's shoulder, Zethran let him go and sighed, "what's gotten into you?"
"You died, Kenji," Zethran reminded him, "or did you forget?"
"Wait—so that actually happened?" Kenji looked to his brother in shock, "I thought it was all a dream. But that still doesn't explain how I'm on the guardian mountain, dead or alive. Were you burying me up here? What happened to leaf village pride, huh?"
"We haven't buried you yet, your body is in the leaf village," Zethran replied before doing a head-to-toe check of him, ensuring that he wasn't injured, nor rotting in front of him, "but that doesn't explain how you're suddenly warm, living flesh, and bones up here."
"Weird," Kenji said with a small laugh, "but awesome! Now y/n can't feel guilty, right?"
"Right," Zethran nodded, "come on, let's get up there before the party becomes too much for the others that are already up there."
"Lead the way," Kenji nodded before the two brothers began climbing up the mountain, unaware that fighting had begun all around them.
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Your PoV
I passed the gates of the l/n's old place and walked over to where the boulder usually would be, instead it was somehow split into two perfect halves.
"Can't even enter with respect, huh?" I mumbled to myself, climbing over the boulder and dropping down into a familiar but not so familiar area.
It'd really grown over since the last time I'd seen it. By like a lot. A surprising amount considering they'd only been away from here for a few years, but then again, this place is able to resurrect the dead, old and new, so the overgrowth of plants is the least of the unexplainable weirdness around here.
It didn't take long for me to reach the overhang, looking over the area where the houses were all dotted around. The houses weren't much to look at anymore, but there was an odd kind of beauty that nature brought to the abandoned buildings. Although... I'm not liking the fact that there seemed to be a lot of resurrected around the whole area. 
A lot, Shadow Guardians... Even more Snowflake Guardians.
"That's wild," I smiled before a kunai embedded itself into the ground right in front of me, "close..."
I turned around just as a Shadow Guardian jumped off the wall.
"You're y/n, you look exactly like in the picture. Perfect. The resurrector has been waiting for you," the Shadow Guardian told me before something tight wrapped around me, I looked down to see some kind of metallic snake.
"What the hell is this?" I hissed as he walked over, a smug smirk etched on his face.
"I guess the species must've died out," he smiled, "ever heard of the Serpents en métal?"
"Metal snakes?" I mumbled, "that can't be a thing."
"It was in my day, and this guy here just so happens to be my boy. Meet Kaa, Guardian," he grinned before grabbing me a dragging me down the cliff side and into the housing area.