Summary: Sasori Akasuna is a well-known forensic pathologist from the C.D.C., who's dating Deidara, a Special Agent from the F.B.I. When a disease breaks out in Konoha, they're on the scene, trying to figure out who's behind the outbreaks and why new diseases pop up in different cities. Naruto-Cobra Event x-over. Slight AU. SasoDei. Yaoi.
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto, The Cobra Event, or any government-related stuff. Just the creator of the virus.
Prologue:
Theory
A woman in her mid-twenties clucked her tongue as she worked, standing over a table and wearing a biohazard suit. Her ash brown hair was tied up in a ponytail inside her Racal hood, which was protecting her from her own work. The air pressure in the room was negative due to HEPA filters- a standard procedure for a level 3+ hot zone. Her blue-green eyes flicked around as they watched what she was doing, being very careful not to mess up.
She knew she hadn't been trained for years for nothing. Now more than ever she needed her skills. Then, it had been for the sake of getting a paycheck. Now, it was because of a theory she had come up with. As she labored to create this disease, which was partially created by BioArk, a company based in Oto, partially created by her, she thought of everything she had given up. A well-paying job, her boyfriend- though he was going to back out when she told him she really worked for BioArk anyway, and mostly, if she got caught, a clean criminal record.
All this trouble just for a "stupid" little theory. The people at BioArk said she was crazy to go this far. Anyone else in the world would too. But she thought she was perfectly sane. That, and that her work was righted by her theory.
She believed the Black Death happened because it was nature's way of making sure a species' population didn't get too big. After the Black Death, the survivors entered a Renaissance. She figured the human race was due for another natural virus to keep the population in check. Sure, there was AIDS, but vaccines and work to find a cure were keeping it from doing its job. So she took it upon herself to mass-produce a virus that would kill off a good portion of the global population. There would be much suffering, and many would die, but she figured it was for the best.
Working away making her virus and listening to the hum of her Racal hood and stolen Biozan bioreactor, she thought about her theory. She worked it out in her head that these naturally-occurring viruses happened to all species. But since the humans had too much technology, a naturally-occurring virus couldn't do its job. Even though BioArk had different goals, hers had become clear about a year ago.