In a world of white Hilda is strapped to a table, arms and legs spread open. She struggles as she tries to get up, but it's all in vain.

Marco walks to the side of the table, looking at her messy blue hair. He runs a hand

through it to try to fix it, but she turns her head and dodges.

“You bastard! Let me go!! Zhu mountain sect will never forgive you!” a smug look appears on her face “I have many suitors in the inner court, once they find out you've captured me you're dead!” a crazed look appears in her eye.

Marco gently shakes his head “Ok, you've won. Just tell me about pixies and I'll let you go.”

Hilda stairs at him for a moment “Good! You know what's good for you. I promise I won't tell people where you are.” taking a breath “Pixies are a rare creature, an ancient descendant of the Fey. Even though they are humanoid they are still a demonic beast. They are like the retarded cousins of fairies and no pixie has ever gone past bronze rank, even with people feeding them cores. Their only use is to an alchemist. They grind up their bodies to make pills and some people eat them directly.”

Hilda squints her eyes “That's all I know, now let me go.”

A smile forms on Marcos face “I lied"

“AHhh!let me go right now!!” shaking violently she tries to break free.

“Now you see what it's like for people to break your trust.” lifting up his hand a dagger appears “Now, I'm going to use you to practice my technique.” swinging down his hand he stabs her in the arm.

“Ahhhhh! It hurts! Stop!” she wails in pain.

Ignoring her he pulls out the blade and continues stabbing.

In the real world, he looks at the pixie in his hand.

“I know this isn't the best decision, but it won't really matter when I get the rinnegan.” opening the pixie's mouth reveals rows of sharp teeth.

While holding a Qi stone he puts his right hand to his mouth and bites the skin of his thumb. Using his Qi three drops of blood flow out of the cut before a small flame heals it.

“I don’t know how special my blood is, so you'll be the first to find out.” with his Qi he intertwines the three drops of blood, turning them into a long string. The blood enters the Pixies mouth.

Guiding the blood it manages to arrive at the core after some difficulties. The blood begins to wrap around the small core, twisting and turning. After a bit of effort, a ring wraps around the center of the core. Small lines spread out from the circle of blood forming tiny veins. As if fighting back the core begins to pulse. The blood faintly shimmers blue and the pulsing stops. The veins cover the core forming a runic design. Once the design is complete the blood sinks into the core and the design becomes part of it, like it was always there.

As the runic symbol is complete he feels an immediate connection with the pixie, like she's apart of him.

As the connection is established the pixie is suddenly surrounded by a blue light. Suddenly blue runic patterns appear on the side of her thighs. Patterns also appear on her shoulders and etch down to her elbow. Another pattern appears between her cleavage and travels down to her navel and splits into two parts, coming to a point on both sides of her bellybutton. Blue streaks appear in her green hair as another runic pattern appears on her forehead. Her originally thin translucent wings fuse together, looking more like the wings of a swallowtail butterfly. As the wings transform they take on a slight blue hue. Tiny blue veins appear in her ears and her originally red eyes turn blue.

Seeing this Marco release her from the illusion.

The pixie stirs for a moment in his hand. Her eyes flutter before she sits up. She touches the side of her body when she notices that its wet. Confused she looks at Marco.

“Chem?” she tilts her head to the side.

“What's wrong?” he can feel her confusion through the connection.

“Chem, kuu!” she rises to her feet while pointing the side of her body.

“Oh haha" a smile forms on his face “That was an accident, don't mind it.”

The pixie begins to inspect her body. Noticing her wings they begin to flutter. Taking off from his palm she flies around.

After flying around for a few seconds she lands on his shoulder and kisses his cheek.

“Chum ma!” excited, she begins to swing her feet back and forth.

“Ok be good, I need to concentrate” he touches her face briefly before turning towards Hilda.

The Pixie uses her hands to cover her mouth.

Concentrating on Hilda he focuses on the illusion.

This whole time he's been stabbing Hilda repeatedly she continues to scream.

“Hm...How do I make this pain affect you in the real world?”

“pla-pla...please stop" tears stream down her face as she sobs.

Raising the knife he gets ready to stab down. But something, a feeling, or an idea stop him from thrusting the blade.

“Oh??” his eyes flash for a moment “I finally understand, memories may not make you who you are, but they still influence your actions subconsciously.”

“So that's what it is? Patrick's memories are affecting me. While in his last moments he wished for power, his memories and lingering feelings don't want to see this violence. He's holding me back”

Hearing his deranged talking she sobs louder “I don't know what you're talking about, please please please let me go!”

“Because of your memories, you are scared of me, if you didn't have those memories you'd treat me differently. Would you be a different person too if you lost all your memories?”

Marco shakes his head “I was wrong. I only came about because traveling in that vortex made those memories feel foreign. If more time passed, Patrick would have returned once the soul settled down and fused perfectly and I would have become a joke. That's what it is, Patrick is slowly trying to make his way back. To think I was grateful towards you”

Marco looks at her and shows a tender smile “Thank you, my understanding of memories have deepened because of you and my illusions can take one step further.”

In reality Marco's tomoe spin as a smile forms on his face. Pulling out his saber he looks at his own reflection in the blade.

“Chu?” the Pixie tilts her head as she sees Marco draw his saber.

“I don't need them! Patrick, you died!! This is my life now!” his tomoe spins faster “Illusion seal!”

Casting an illusion on himself he begins sealing all the memories of Patrick's feelings, thoughts, and emotions using an illusion to cast a haze over them. He only leaves pure information and his own experiences over these few days.

Taking a deep breath Marco closes his eyes. Returning the saber to the scabbard he listens to the sound of the river before he opens his eyes.

“A fourth of my Qi gate is now permanently occupied, but I'm finally me now.” as his eyes open they feel deeper, darker.

Looking around he sees the birds fly, the rabbits dart about the ground, and squirrels playing in the tree.

“The memories are sealed, I can already feel my way of thinking and how I see things differently. Cute animals? All I see is food. I should be able to make even more progress now.”

Looking at Hilda his tomoe rotate again, he begins to alter her memories. Instead of meeting him at the wolves, they met a foundation establishment cultivator. They fought against him but were no match. The male she was with told her to run while he holds him back. As she ran she happened to run into Marco. Knowing that she was a Zhu mountain disciple he helped her flee.

As he finishes with the big details he fills in all the smaller ones.

“This will do, I'll keep her trapped for now. I wanted to wait till my Aura was stronger but I'll open my feet gate when it recovers.”

Pulling a piece of meat from his bag he begins to eat.

Seeing the meat the Pixie covers her nose.

“Don't like meat errr do you have a name?”

“Chum chem la"

“ I don't know what that means, I'll just call you Ezra.”

“Chuuu!! chuu!” the pixie begins to furiously wave her hands.

Grabbing her off his shoulder he holds her in his left hand. “So, what can you do?”

The Pixie tilts its head. Suddenly she bites his finger.

There is no pain but Marco's brow furrows.

Suddenly she begins to suck his blood. As she does her runes begin to glow.

After getting enough blood she removes her mouth. Suddenly a blue flame appears in her hand. She holds the flame against the cut and it heals.

“You can heal other people?" Marco’s eyes open a little wider from surprise.

The pixie struggles free from his grasp. Floating in the air she puts her hands on her hips. “Kukuu!” striking a pose she looks smug.

“Ok haha, you're awesome” nodding his head he truly feels excited. Because of the bond he feels with her he knows she won't betray him. This is his first real companion, one he can let his guard down around and trust.

“I'm going to cultivate, keep watch"

Ezra nods her head furiously, then flies into his lap and closes her eyes.

Shaking his head he looks at Hilda. “It's a shame, we could've been a great team”

Closing his eyes he begins Revolver Qi. Using the outside Qi and the 2 ½ open Qi from his gates he begins to gently whittle his left chest gate. Using the stone to fuel his Qi he waits till his Aura recovers.

When his Aura finally recovers the sun sits on the horizon. Opening his eyes he takes a deep breath.

Feeling his movement Ezra wakes up. Looking at him she tilts her head.

“I'm going to be in a lot of pain shortly ok? But don't worry I'll be ok, probably.”

Nodding her head she looks serious.

Pulling out the spare robe the places it over his lap.

Ezra pops out from under the robe and flies into the air. She stares at Marco, wondering what he's doing.

“Let's do it” he begins Revolver Qi. The outside Qi and 2 ½ Qi from his gates rush towards his left foot gate. Before the Qi hits the gate his foot erupts in blue fire. As the Qi crashes into the gate veins bulge in his entire body. Instead of the nerves in his foot being on fire, his entire body is in pain. The bones instantly shatter and the muscles shred. The blue fire heals the muscles slower than they are being destroyed. Because the gates are harder to open and he's missing 1 ½ gates worth of Qi so the process is going slower.

After a full five minutes of pain and suffering, the gate finally breaks.

Sweat pours down his head as he breathes roughly. Blood trickles from his mouth but a smile still appears on his face.

Ezra bites her fingertips as she watches his suffering. Not sure what she can do to help she watches with worry.

“One down" taking a deep breath he wipes the sweat from his brow.

Calming his mind he brute forces a gate for the last time.

He goes a little slower this time because he has a feeling that if he goes full force his foot along with the gate will be destroyed.

After thirteen minutes and burning through a Qi stone his last foot gate opens.

His face is pale and his breathing is shallow, but he finally succeeded. If he tried this with any other gate he will probably instantly die. With his flames, he may be able to whittle a little faster than most people, but the last four gates are located in important places. If he destroyed his heart trying to open a gate, who would cry for him?

Ezra rushes towards Marco and hugs his face.

After being kissed a few times he pulls her off.

“Ok ok, It's time to go.” a gleam flashes through his eyes. Suddenly the tomoe elongate into three stretched triangles evenly spaced around the pupil. The top of the triangles curves around the eye to form a circle. Behind the pinwheel a vortex pattern takes shape.

“Finally, Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan.” a smile forms on his face as he looks into the sky.

“Three gates to activate the eyes and two more for close range Kamui.”

“Ezra, come”

Ezra flies over and sits on his shoulder. Tilting her head in confusion.

Marco grabs a Qi stone from his bag leaving only nineteen more after this one. “I don't know how draining this teleportation will be or the situation over there so I better be prepared.” Placing his hand on top of Hilda's back. “Kamui!”

Two additional Qi gates divert their energy into his right eye. A spinning portal opens around his right eye, because he has both eyes the transport starts a lot faster than Obito’s did. Their bodies begin to distort as they are sucked into the portal, and in only seconds all three disappear.