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darth occlus, her wife, and their adorable grandson go on an accidental road trip to find baby anakin's alt. (they were not exactly anticipating the naruto-verse.)
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Lean. "You're the best, you know."

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"It's kind of you to say so."

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"I only speak the truth." 

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Kiss.

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Kiss!

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What a lovely idyll. It'd be a shame if something were to...

Happen to it.

Such as, for instance, gravity increasing - widespread, sudden - there's a ramp but it's fast enough only the most elite shinobi can detect the soar - one and a half times and the newer buildings are creaking, those not built into the cliffs, not built with the same insane levels of redundancy as the most important shinobi buildings - two times and they're cracking, only not collapsing yet because time hasn't caught up -

Four times, and only the strongest civilians could move to safety even if they could process the oncoming collapse fast enough -

Eight times -

Sixteen, and full shinobi can still move but genin are likely to shatter their bones if they try to run -

Higher -

The air feels thick, impossible to breathe - it's unclear if that's the weight pressing on everyone or the fear or the chokingly massive swell of chakra, so much it's nearly impossible to believe even a bijuu could saturate the world with this much -

Gravity spikes, and releases, the entire horrid cycle contained within the space of a single heartbeat.

The release is too late, though, for the inhabitants of Kiri. The village collapses, inevitably, several of the cliffs destabilizing - cave systems collapsing - almost all the buildings, every single free standing one fold in on themselves and the soil beneath them slides away, a pell-mell rush into a hungry ocean -

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Occlus jerks awake.

It's entirely possible her initial reaction to the dream-vision leaks strongly enough into the Force to wake her wife and grandchild before she slams her shields down again.

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It wakes Ani up, at least, eyes snapping open as she tenses. 

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Hug.

"...Danger is coming," she says softly.

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Hug!!!

"Imminently?"

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"Soon."

She sighs and drags a hand through her hair. "I need to speak with the Mizukage."

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"Okay."

Up, then.

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And hopefully the discreet guards that Occlus usually pretends to politely not notice will be able to assist them here.

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Yes, though the guard at the Tower's entrance would like to know their business and its urgency.

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It is what you might call a matter of national security. Information on an existential threat to the village and everyone inhabiting it.

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They'll let her see whichever of Mizukage-sama's honorable advisors is currently watching over the village; it will be up to the advisor whether to wake Mizukage-sama and/ or take emergency measures.

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Acceptable.

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In, then, to one of the higher rooms, where the guards announce them to 'Abe-sama,' a man perhaps in his forties, with a deeply lined face, dressed somberly.

"What information do you have for us?" he asks, once the room has been sealed.

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"An aspect of my powers occasionally grants me visions of a possible future, particular events of great moment or that directly impact myself or those I care for. I was awoken this night by such an event."

"I saw a woman with lavender eyes, no iris or sclera but broken by concentric rings. She stood outside the village and felt nothing but duty. She multiplied gravity, intensified its effects so that the village ripped itself down from the cliffs under its own weight, crushing everyone inside."

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He stills. "I see."

"When will this happen?"

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"It was daylight, and the village did not look significantly altered from how it does now. Beyond that..." Occlus shakes her head. "There were no other cues."

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He summons in one of the masked guards, facing away from Occlus and Ani as he addresses the guard. "Bring Mizukage-sama, the Council, Asano Sayuri, and Uchiha Tobirama here at once, though with great secrecy. Only those listed or sworn guards may enter the council room, except on countermanding order of the inner Council or Mizukage-sama."

The guard acknowledges the order and body flickers away.

The man turns back to his visitors. "Follow me," he says.

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Taking this seriously. Good.

She follows.

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