Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto.
This is my fist fanfic ne… dakara don't be too harsh ne...
Ano this is probably my first time writing anything…
Ano I thought the story up while listening to Miyavi's 'itoshii hito'
Summary: After the successful retrieval of Sasuke from Orochimaru's lair, team Kakashi returns to Konoha with an unconscious Sasuke. A week after that an incident happens…
It was raining hard… A group of Konoha ANBU was patrolling the village for any suspicious characters, with all the incidents they couldn't afford to be careless. As they come about the forested areas of Konoha…
"Taicho!" an owl-masked ANBU with a large dog by her side called out.
"What is it?" a dog masked ANBU captain turned to his subordinate and motioning his team to stop.
The group consisted of five people accompanied by an ANBU squad captain.
"Benitsume says she smells blood."
"Can you trace the stench?" he ordered
"Hai! BeniTsume!" the dog gave a bark and started running…
Seconds later…
One of the ANBU noticed that they were slowly leaving the forest and houses were already coming into view
"Taicho, aren't we heading to a residential area?" A boar-masked ANBU asked.
"Yes. That is what worries me, Hagane, report to this to the Hokage."
"Hai!" a bird-masked ANBU separated from the group.
A minute after they followed the scent they came upon one of Konoha's recreational parks. Benitsume stopped as they approached the park. What they saw shook them and sent shivers down their spine…
Piles of mutilated bodies of men, women and children, old and young. It looks as if they were having picnic. There were still plates and food scattered amongst the tables in the park. The children seemed to have been the first to be killed. The adults were carrying forks and knives. It seems they tried to protect themselves.
"My god!" the owl-masked ANBU couldn't take it. She visibly shook at what she saw.
It has just been three months since she has become an ANBU but never has she seen such a gruesome thing. She couldn't help but wonder what else is there, they haven't even gone into the park yet.
The other ANBU tried their best not to show their shock but alas the sight was too much. Some even motioned as if they were going to vomit.
Their captain however didn't show discomfort. He had already seen death before. But never in his career as an ANBU has he seen such a massacre. What troubled him the most were the children.
The rain was getting harder…
"Looks like they were dead for a few hours", the boar-masked ANBU said as he inspected the bodies "Some of their blood has already dried".
The squad captain took a quick look around…
"Search the perimeter, once the suspect is found secure him/her or they, but do not engage. Send a signal to the others.
"Maki, report to the Hokage. Hagane should already be there, tell him to come here."
"Hai, Taicho!" said the boar-masked ANBU as he disappeared in a swirl of leaves.
Meanwhile at the Hokage Office…
"Blood?" the Godaime asked with slight curiousity in the tone of her voice.
Ever since Tsunade became Hokage she hardly has any reservation for annoying distractions while she was having her 'afternoon nap'. Especially when it's raining.
But an ANBU who reports that his squad has a found a trail of blood or rather a scent of blood was not an ordinary distraction.
"Find out what it is and report back to me, understood?" her stern voice implying that she wants to know what it is.
"Hai! Hokage-sama" just as the ANBU was about to move a poof was heard and another ANBU appeared.
The ANBU told the Hokage of what they found, stressing the gruesomeness of the crime.
"WHAT? SEND A MESSAGE TO ALL ACTIVE SHINOBIS, TELL THEM TO STOP WHAT THEY'RE DOING AND FIND THIS MURDERER! I WANT HIM FOUND AND CAPTURED BEFORE THIS DAY IS OVER! UNDERSTOOD?" her voice boomed out the Hokage's office. Practically everyone in a mile radius would have heard her.
On to the park…
The ANBU squad has rendezvous back to where they started, each one silent. They found several more bodies and blood was everywhere.
"There's no one in the vicinity left alive sir…" a sorrowful tone of one the ANBU.
"There is still a place we haven't looked into. The killer may be there. Let's go." the captain motioned for his squad to follow him.
He was right, they saw him there… in the children's playground.
A blond boy on the swing, locks of his wet hair drooped as he hung his head low hiding his eyes. They heard painful sobs. He was holding a kunai in his left hand with blood dripping from it. His clothes the mixture of orange and black now held a the color of dried red blood.
The ANBU captain, Yamato, stopped in his tracks.
'Masaka?' His thoughts raced to find words but were utterly defeated. He was shaken…
"Naruto….?"
To be continued…
A/N: Should I continue this? Please tell me…
Hagane means steel, Maki means volume and ano Benitsume means crimson claw.