AN:I edited the first chapter, I know that it's not very good anyway, but it's also my first story.
I would like to know your opinion and I am open to suggestions so please ...
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Chapter 1
Usually, I'm not very good at telling stories, never been good at listening to them either.
But the story I'm about to tell you has to be told.
My father used to tell me about a world, a world where everyone would be happy. There would be no diseases, no hunger, no nothing, just happiness.
Found out pretty soon that that was a fucking lie.
My father used to work for a pharmaceutical company, he was a scientist there, a damn good one. My mother had died during childbirth, so the only person I had was my father. He was my hero, my best friend, my rock.
Life was good until that day, the day my whole life changed.
We had just finished dinner and, as usual, we were going to play cards before I had to go to bed. But before my father could shuffle the cards and make faces that were only to make me laugh, the doorbell rang.
My father opened the door and, from behind his legs, I peered out to see who it was. There were four men at the door, all dressed up in business suits, and I recognized them as being my father's colleagues. Apparently, there had been an accident in my father's lab.
I remember my father had turned to me, looked me in the eyes and sighed. He nodded and went to get his coat. When he came back he knelt before me and told me he would come back quickly. It was the last time I saw him.
The next day one of the men who had come for my father took me to an orphanage, and the only thing he told me was that my father would never come back.
I was devastated and lost.
I wasn't adopted for a while, no one wanted to deal with a broken child, but when I seven, an American woman came to the orphanage and adopted two children. I was one of them, the other was a girl, a little older than me.
At the time I did not know that the woman, named Lucy Mathews, was an agent for the CIA, and we, the girl and I, were the newest recruits. I do not know why we were chosen, but I know that the recruiting of children by intelligence agencies was done so that the child would be trained from an early age.
And that's what happened, for the next ten years the girl and I were trained side by side, bleeding and struggling to be the best. When I was 17 years old, she and I were separated and we never saw each other again.
At the age of 18, my training was over and it was time for my first mission, the mission I had been preparing for since I joined the CIA. It's a long story, so the only thing I'm going to say is that I avenged my father and killed him for the first time. Maybe one day I'll tell you that story ... but not today.
I quickly became known in the agency for the various missions I then took afterward and when my superiors heard not so very good rumors about Umbrella, they realized that they needed someone inside and I was the one chosen for the job.
They wanted me to infiltrate Umbrella, one of the largest and most powerful commercial entities in the world, and find as much about the company as I could.
I infiltrated Umbrella as a Biohazard Countermeasure Service operative and I did the job for a year until my CIA superiors told me that I had two choices. The first one, I aborted the mission and came back or the second, I became a freelance and continued my investigations. Apparently, if I were discovered the agency would not want anything to connect us so as not to compromise the missions that were being made by other agents.
I made my decision quickly, and for the next year I continued my mission and worked with Nicholai Ginovaef and Yuri Loginova, two men that became my partners on assignments for Umbrella.
For a while, it seemed like I was going to be able to find something useful about Umbrella to bring to my superiors.
But that never happened...
My name is Naruto Uzumaki and this is my story.
The helicopter propellers were the only thing he could hear and the wind on his face woke him up from his unsettled slumber. He leaned forward, his elbows resting on his knees and sighed as he placed his head on his hands.
The fucking nightmares again. Something that never left him, despite so many years. Many were from the night he saw his father for the last time but others were from what he saw and dealt with during his time at the CIA.
He let the rhythmic sound of the propellers surround him, focus him as he rested on his seat of the chopper that was returning from a mission that he and his two partners had just completed.
It was nighttime in Raccoon City, the only lights he could see were the ones that shone from the city beneath them.
"Chopper Delta, new orders. Proceed directly to Ravens Gate Bridge. Reinforcements urgently needed." He heard through the headset's radio.
"Copy that base. On our way." the pilot of the chopper responded.
He felt the chopper tilt and set a new route. He lifted his head and straightened his back.
It seems the night was just beginning.
He withdrew his two black Desert Eagles from their shoulder holsters and checked the ammo in the 8 round magazine. Flipping the safeties off and on he placed them back in the holsters. Reaching down he raised the G36-K he had placed between his legs when he had when he had stepped into the helicopter, it had a magazine with 44 rounds with a compact holographic sight.
Naruto tried to adjust himself in the uncomfortable seat, his clothes not making it easy.
He was wearing the custom uniform of Umbrella Biohazard Countermeasure Service. He had a black shirt with the sleeves rolled up with double shoulder holsters for his two handguns, elbow pads and black combat pants with a gray camouflage-type pattern. He had a black padded bulletproof vest that had the UBCS logo on the back with the name Naruto Namikaze on top of the logo. He has heavy duty black laced boots, black knee pads, wears black fingerless gloves and had a watch on his right wrist. Around his neck and over the shirt was a silver cross, which had been given to him by Lucy when he had finished his training, resting on the bulletproof vest.
His blond hair had a buzz cut and he had a short beard. His eyes were blue and he had a well-shaped face with a defined jaw. Along his right forearm, he had the kanji 神のしもべ (God's Servant) tattooed and on his left one, 死の使者 (Death's Emissary) . He had made the tattoos when he returned to Japan because of a mission a few years ago.
Suddenly, a female scream that the noise of the helicopter could not drown out startled him. He looked down at the roof of the building they were flying over and saw a woman running desperately, trying to escape a group of infected people who were stumbling and groaning trying to reach her.
"Civilian in trouble!" He shouted to the pilot as he leaned over the side of the chopper. "Three o'clock, go down! Take us down!"
"We can't, we have our orders!" the pilot turned to the blond as he gritted his teeth at the refusal of the pilot and could hear the hopeless cries of the woman as the undead grew closer to her.
"They're gonna kill her! Take us the fuck down now!" He glared at the pilot making his blue eyes flash dangerously.
The pilot turned his head back. "She is a civilian. It doesn't matter. We have our orders!" he stated decisively.
"Fuck orders!" he spat angrily at the pilot and turned to his partner. "Nicholai tie me off." He got up, placed his feet on the chopper's landing gear and prepared to jump.
He could feel the adrenaline starting to pump inside his veins and he smirked. The familiar rush of excitement ran through him as he looked down.
When he saw an opening he jumped with a rope attached to his belt and, as he fell he, drew his two handguns from their holsters. Flipping the safeties off and pulling the hammer back he started shooting each one of the things going after the crying woman.
BANG! One
BANG! Two
BANG! Three
One by one, they started to fall on the ground dead. They always did, Naruto mused in a split second of contemplation from a shot to the next.
As he continues firing, he hears Nicholai shout "Now!" and his descent was abruptly interrupted. And right on time too, he was a few inches from slamming face first on the rooftop. His two handguns were empty, with the slide drawn back and held in place by the slide catch.
Placing his feet firmly on the ground, he stood, took the rope from his waist and walked up to the last infected, whose attention he had captured and that was now stumbling to him with its mouth wide open to take a bite. It wasn't a pretty sight, even dressed in a business suit it did not hide its pale skin, almost gray, and bloodshot eyes.
He looked up and could not help but sigh in relief, if Nicholai had not stopped him from hitting the roof in time he would have died.
When he was close enough, Naruto tensed his body and, with skill that showed years of training, kicked it in the forehead, breaking its neck and making it drop on the floor dead.
He continued walking to the woman as he released the slide by depressing the slide catch and placed the empty guns back in their holsters. As he got closer he raised his hands on a peaceful gesture trying to calm the fearful woman.
"Hey, hey are you ok?" He asked the woman as she backed away to the edge of the roof. "Hey now, step away from the edge and come over to me." he tried while extending his hand to her. He smiled reassuringly at her, his blue eyes shining invitingly. "Everything's gonna be fine..."
"No, it won't!" the woman, Marla Mapes, who was a telemarketer at the office building, shouted with tears running down her face. She looked down at the bottom of the building then turned back to the blond. "I've seen what happens when you're bitten."
Naruto looked at her arm, it was bleeding from a bite wound from one of the infected. It didn't look good.
"We can help you." he tried getting a little closer so if she tried to jump, maybe he could catch her before that.
The woman shook her head sadly, face covered in tears. "There's no going back!" and, turning around, jumped.
"No!" the young Umbrella operative ran to the edge and saw the dead woman below on the street dead. "Fucking hell." he cursed as his partners approached and looked down as well.
"Hey!" Yuri called him, making the blue eye man turn from the gruesome scene. "We are being called to assist the STARS. Come on!"
Giving one last look at the dead woman below he frowned and made his way to the chopper. As he got in the pilot turned around to face him with a mocking smirk on face.
"Turn around and take us where we're needed before I rip that grin off your face." the blue-eyed man snarled making the pilot pale and turn around to do just that. Drawing one of his guns from its holster he removed the empty magazine and gave it to Yuri, who started filling it back up, and reached into one of the many pockets of his pants and pulled out a full one. Inserting the full magazine and holstering the gun he repeated the same action with his other handgun. Then he took the now full magazines from Yuri and pocketed them.
Looking down to the city below Naruto couldn't avoid thinking 'Fucking Umbrella.' and leaned back, now with his rifle to his chest, ready for what came next.
Or so he thought...
Chapter 2
Half an hour later, they dropped in an alleyway close to where the S.T.A.R.S and police officers that were doing everything they could to keep the infected back. Men were all over the place as were vehicles.
When his feet hit the ground he immediately lifted his rifle and fired at an incoming infected, hitting it on the head. Letting the rifle drop off to the side, being supported by the carrying sling around Naruto's neck, he drew his left handgun with his right hand and fired to cover Yuri and Nicholai as they exited the chopper.
When he felt the tapping of Nicholai's hand on his shoulder he holstered the Desert Eagle and raised his rifle again. As they walked down the alley, the three men were killing undead to make way for the others. The sound of the empty bullet casings falling on the ground and the noise of the weapons firing were music to Naruto's ears.
When they finally reached the S.T.A.R.S and police officers they spread out. Naruto, behind a police car, emptied his weapon into the dozens of infected who were staggering to them from the north of the street.
Hearing the click of the gun, he dropped it on his chest and pulled it out of a grenade. Pull the pin with his thumb he threw it to the horde of undead.
"GRANADE!" he warned as it landed and exploded in a shower of blood and limbs, also making one civilian vehicle explode. Taking cover behind the car, he grabbed his G36-K again and flicked the gun to the side, making the empty magazine fly away and putting a new one in place. Raising again he looked down the sight and flipping safety/fire selector switch to the single fire option to spare ammo, he continued killing them.
A few feet away, Yuri was firing at some undead that were coming up the alley next to Naruto. Nicholai was shooting south, preventing the infected from coming any closer. But even so, with the help of the three partners, keeping so many infected back was complicated.
Seeing that Yuri was starting to have problems with the alley, Naruto switched the rifle to burst fire and helped the man.
CLICK
CLICK
CLICK
"Fuck." Naruto muttered at his empty rifle and pushed the cocking lever back seeing no ammo left in the magazine.
Coincidentally, Yuri ran out of bullets as well and leaned against a building' steel door on his left. While taking the magazine off the door behind him was ripped off its hinges by one of the undead, making Yuri fall with the door and the undead on top of him. It reached down and took the man's arm clumsily into its hand and bit down, hard, making Yuri yell in pain catching Naruto's attention.
Reacting quickly, he drew his handgun and shoot the undead right between the eyes. "Yuri, you ok?" He made his way to the man reloading his rifle, while said man pushed the door off of himself and pulled the pin out of a grenade .
"Bite this!" he snarled and threw it into the alley, it fell near the incoming infected. Naruto rushed to him and, grabbing the broken steel door, used it to cover the both of them from the explosion. Rocks flew everywhere as the explosion killed the last undead coming through the alley. When it was over, Naruto pulled Yuri up by his vest with an impressive show of strength.
"You good?"
"Yeah, yeah."
Seeing moment from the corner of his eye, fast as lightning, Naruto drew his handgun and placed beneath the chin of an approaching undead.
BANG!
Dead brain matter came out from the top of the head of the infected man.
They approached Nicholai, who didn't stop firing for even a second, and raised their rifles. As they kept shooting, Naruto looked around to the brave men and woman around them and saw that they were being overrun by the horde. There was no end to them and for each one they killed, five more took its place.
"Pull back!" He yelled to his partners. "Pull back!" they entered the alley were Yuri had been bitten and made their way through it while gunning down infected. Back where the officers were, the infected had overran them and now were eating the poor bastards alive. "This way!"
Walking through the labyrinth the alleys they managed to escape from the dead and mislead them. But they weren't out of trouble yet. He reached over to Nicholai's belt and took the radio hanging from it.
"This is Namikaze, we've been overrun. Requesting immediate chopper evac." he stated, holding down the transmitter and static was the only thing he heard leaving the device. "Is anybody in there?" he insisted. "Fucking hell!" he cursed and threw the radio back to his partner. "Come on!" he ordered.
They hurried through the various alleys, seeking shelter from the dead. But there was something wrong with Yuri, he was starting to fall behind and was pale, sweaty, and began to stagger in his steps, unable to follow his partners.
Since Naruto was in the back of the group, he was the first to notice it. With a quick moment he was able to catch him before he fell on the ground.
"Yuri! What's wrong?" the blond asked, seeing his friend gasping and panting with the mere effort of just standing straight.
Nicholai whipped around with his weapon prepared to eliminate any threat that might have passed without him noticing when he saw Yuri's condition.
"What happened?" he asked hastily, walking up to them and putting his partner's arm around his neck, helping Naruto withstand the weight of the sick man. Naruto checked him over, not seeing any physical injuries until he remembered. Grabbing the sick man's arm he ripped the sleeve off, revealing the swollen and torn flesh were the infected had bit the poor man.
"The bite must have infected him." remembering what happened to the woman on the roof, he cursed his luck. It was not enough to be surrounded by infected people who wanted to kill and eat them, but now one of his partners was infected as well. What a beautiful fucking day, huh?
Gritting his teeth angrily, he and Nicholai carried the Yuri across a deserted street and gently leaned him against a wall and waited for him to catch his breath.
Suddenly, the very familiar sound of helicopter propellers was heard. Naruto and Nicholai looked up in anticipation and there was what they had been waiting for. It was a chopper!
Nicholai took out a flare from his pouch and, lighting it up, began waving it around.
"Here! We're down here!" he tried yelling but it didn't stop.
Narrowing his eyes, Naruto noticed that the helicopter was carrying two boxes hanging by ropes on the underside of the helicopter.
"Where are they going?" asked Nicholai watching the helicopter pass by them as if they were not even there. Seeing that the chopper was making hovering over a Hospital Naruto quickly made his way to Yuri, who was leaning heavily against the wall.
"They are landing over there, let's get Yuri, come on!" reaching over they took hold of Yuri's arms and, each one taking one of his arms over their shoulders, they made their way to the hospital. "Come on man, we're getting out of here."
They went towards the building with a hurried pace and, luckily for them, they didn't find any more of them infected on their way there. Reaching the door they were about to open it when a flash of light made them turn around.
The fucking helicopter was leaving!
Freeing himself from Yuri's arm, Nicholai ran to the middle of the street waving his arms around.
"No! You motherfuckers! Don't leave!" Nicholai shouted furious, seeing their only way out of the damn city getting further and further away.
"They dropped something inside, did you see it?" Naruto pointed out, not seeing the boxes he had spotted minutes ago at the entrance of the alley.
"Maybe a radio the works." he stated, walking back to them.
"Take Yuri." He passed the sick man to Nicholai. Letting his rifle hang from his neck, he drew both of his handguns and made his way inside the, hopefully, deserted building.
Sneaking up and down the corridors, with Naruto leading the way, they passed through rooms with glass windows that allowed them to see the interior. In one of the rooms they passed, there was an operating table that was covered with weird looking tubes.
"What the fuck are they doing in this place?" the blue-eyed man muttered as he continued leading his friends. Behind him, Nicholai was almost dragging Yuri, seeing that the man looked like he was going to pass out at any moment. When they reached a large open space area, they saw the boxes that the helicopter had been carrying when it passed them.
One of them was open, and that could only mean one thing.
'We are not alone here...' Naruto thought.
"Nicholai." Yuri gasped, pale and sweaty. "Put me down." he almost implored, exhausted from walking in the state he was in.
"Ok, rest here." Nicholai nodded, laying the sick man on the ground and approached Naruto, who was checking their surroundings. Not seeing anyone or anything around them he approached the tow metal boxes, peered inside the one that was open and found it empty proving that his theory was correct. Walking to the other one he lifted the already open lid and found nothing in it.
"What's this?" Nicholai asked.
"Looks like weapon cases."
"We don't need weapons. We need evacuation!" He yelled furious, as he kicked the box.
"These weren't meant for us..." he replied to the raging man as he looked around again.
Then, without warning, a blinding pain burst from his arm.
"Fuck!" Naruto yelled in pain and looked down. An infected Yuri was biting down viciously on his arm and it fucking hurt!
Reacting instinctively, Naruto punched the now infected man in the face and managed to get him to let go. Backing away quickly, he drew one of his handguns and, before Yuri could attack again, Naruto and Nicholai filled him with bullets.
"Shit Yuri..." Nicholai whispered, lowering his rifle as Naruto looked down at the bite wound that the now dead infected had left him with.
"We need to move and find someplace where I can patch myself up." the blond told his partner as he place his gun back in the shoulder holster and raised his rifle as well.
The other man nodded and they both left their former partner dead, in the middle of the Umbrella Hospital. They found no more infected on their way out of the hospital, but found a few on the streets. Maintaining the same strategy they had adopted, the two men kept walking stealthily through the alleyways, skirting groups of infected along the way.
When they left one of the alleys they found an abandoned ambulance and Naruto walked up to it. His wound had not stopped bleeding yet, and seeing the bright side, there were no large groups of infected people in sight.
Opening the back of the ambulance, he rested his rifle on the ground of the ambulance and sat down near a few drawers and took some bandages for his wound. However, Nicholai remained vigilant, from time to time seeing an infected one stagger away from them, leaving his colleague to deal with his injury.
"Shit, it won't stop bleeding..." Naruto sighed as he inspected the skin around the bite mark and the swelling that was beginning to show.
"Why didn't they see us?" Nicholai asked, not taking his eyes off the street and keeping his rifle tight against his chest.
"What?" the blonde returned, looking up from the wound.
"The chopper, we were right on the-"
"Oh, Nicholai." Naruto chuckled amused at his friend's naivety as he stood up from his seat so that he could face Nicholai. "They don't give a shit about us." he then started taking his shoulder holsters off.
"What do you mean?" he watched the blue-eyed man confusingly as he took the bulletproof vest off, leaving him with his shirt and unprotected.
"We're assets Nicholai, expendable assets." placing the shoulder holsters back in place and grabbing his rifle from the ground of the ambulance he turned to his friend. "And we've just been expended."
RING RING
The sound of a phone ringing from inside of a destroyed store startled them, making them raise their guns and be ready to fire. Seeing nobody near, Naruto approached the store and saw a phone's screen flashing at the call that it was receiving.
Taking it from the destroyed showcase he pressed the answer button.
"Hello?"he half answered half asked.
"Thank god you answered. My name is Charles Ashford and I have a proposition for you..."
Chapter 3
The man on the other side of the line was Dr. Charles Ashford, a key Umbrella scientist whose daughter, Angela, was still in the city, and wanted them to find his daughter. In return he would arrange for an evacuation, seeing that Umbrella wanted to 'sanitize' Raccoon City by nuking it, making the infection and any evidence of it be destroyed by the massive explosion. After being told where the little girl was Naruto and Nicholai accepted the offer and started making their way to the school where she was hiding.
As they walked, Nicholai asked his partner why he took off his bulletproof vest, since they were still in danger.
"I'm already infected Nicholai." he showed the man his infected wound that could be seen through the rips of the shirt sleeve. "Sooner or later I'll die and honestly, I would rather be killed by a bullet than a bite." then Naruto turned to the still healthy man. "If I show any signs of turning I need you to kill me." he would have done it himself but suicide was a mortal sin so...
The man only nodded frowning, feeling nauseated with the thought of killing his friend.
Naruto was fully aware that within a few hours he might be dead. Remembering Yuri and the woman made shivers go down his spine. He never thought he would die that way, he always imagined it would be in a shootout. Because he was sure as hell that it wouldn't have been from old age...
In his line of work hardly anyone could reach sixty's, much less die of old age.
When they reached the entrance to the school, Naruto began to feel strange. Everything was spinning and he began to feel dizziness. Shivers took his body, feeling the cold sweat running down his face. When they reached the entrance to the school, Naruto began to feel strange. Everything was spinning and he began to feel dizziness. Shivers took his body, feeling the cold sweat running down his face. His lungs burned every time he breathed and he had to cough.
"Hey, you ok?" his partner asked, as the blond leaned against one of the abandoned cars on the school road and began to cough violently. When the coughing fit ended, Naruto straightened and took a deep breath.
"I'm fine, let's get the kid." checking the ammunition of his rifle one last time they both went in the dark building.
Naruto reached into his pant's pocket and took a flashlight out together with one of his handguns. Now, with his rifle secured on his chest by the sling, he had one of his Desert Eagles in his right hand and the flashlight in his left, positioned next to the pistol.
"You go left, I go right?" the only answer from Nicholai was a nod and he went left. Going to the right aisle, the blond wondered if there was anyone else alive in town. Probably not, the infected were cruel creatures, with no sense of pity for their victims. He sighed wistfully, Naruto missed the missions he had at the Agency, they were much simpler and more direct. If you had to kill someone, you would kill them. If you had to gather information, you would gather the information. Nothing that involved freaking zombies.
Hearing the sound of footsteps coming from a classroom ahead, he cocked the hammer of the Desert Eagle in his hand and turned the flashlight off, letting the light coming through the windows from outside light his way. With silent steps, he entered the science classroom, which already had the door open. Inside was a man, not infected, wearing a hat and leather jacket. In the hand of the dark-skinned man was a golden Desert Eagle and he was carefully approaching the door to the closet of the room. Opening the door very quickly he found a plastic skeleton, the ones used to learn the human skeleton.
The man yelped in surprise when the skeleton almost fell on him and then he laughed as he waved his gun in front of the skeleton's skull.
"I see you, mother-ooooohhhh shit!" from behind the skeleton came an infected, wobbling as fast as he could for the man with the hat.
Backing away quickly, the man's back crashed into something solid and a gun was raised over his shoulder.
BANG!
The undead's head jerked back from the shot that hit it right in the forehead. Looking back, he came face to face with a pale and sweaty blond man with a short beard and piercing blue eyes.
"So did you get the call as well?" the blond asked, breathing heavily and holstered his handgun.
"What?" the dark-skinned man asked, frowning confusedly.
"You're here for the kid right?"
"Oh, yeah, yeah. The girl."
"Well, said nothing about making a deal with someone else..." he sighed pursing his lips. "I guess it makes us partners. Names Naruto." he offered his gloved hand which the other man accepted.
"Lloyd Jefferson Wade, but you can call me L.J." they shook hands.
Naruto nodded and gave the man his flashlight, instructing him to light the way so that the blond could use his rifle.
They wandered around the school for another few minutes until the floor they stood trembled and an explosion was heard. Alarmed, Naruto ran as fast as he could, with L.J hot on his heels and, as he was until he reached the door of the school canteen, he smashed it with his shoulder and pointed his gun at the first person he saw. It was a woman, with dirty blond hair and a big ass shotgun aimed at his head. She was wearing a cropped orange tank with spaghetti straps. Over her orange tank she had a tattered olive mesh tank, sleeveless, with a scooped neckline. The mesh tank comes down to the level of a short mini skirt and she had dark gray-black jeans, bootcut and hipster style, the middle part of her left pants leg was missing, from above her leg holsters to below her knee. She also had many different holsters, including a webbed belt with double strapped leg holsters. She also had twin shoulder holsters and a leather strap slung across her chest, probably for her shotgun.
Naruto smirked when the woman realized that while she had him in her sighs, he also had his rifle aimed right at her head.
"Don't shoot! He's cool." L.J barked as he entered the room running with his hands raised as peacefully gesture. "He made a deal with Doctor Doom same as you."
"Uh." Alice lowered her weapon with a small amused smirk. Naruto too lowered his, flicking the safety back on.
Naruto studied the dirty blonde haired woman, then the dark haired woman who was wearing close-fitting blue top that goes to about hip level, a black short skirt with a gray line running around the bottom and black boots. After that he looked at the scared looking little girl and smiled at her, trying to ease her mind and the girl smiled back timidly.
"Name's Naruto Namikaze." he introduced himself to the ladies with a charming smile.
"Alice." the blonde replied, clearly amused by the charm of the man who, a few seconds before, was pointing a gun at her.
"I'm Jill Valentine and this is-" he interrupted the dark-haired beauty.
"Angela." he kneeled down, so that they would be face to face. "Your daddy asked me to find you." then he gestured to the others. "Like them." the little girl smiled brightly at the knowledge that her father had 'sent' so many people to find her. Naruto got up and secured his G36-K to his chest.
"How many of you guys are there?" Jill asked with black hair asked.
"What?" Naruto tilted his head in confusion and the woman looked to the side and he followed her line of sight.
On the floor lay Nicholai, dead, covered in blood and with large pieces of flesh missing, the undead must have gotten him.
"Nicholai, shit..." he muttered and lowered his head, whispering a quick prayer to the Lord in his honor. Behind him, L.J took off his hat and held it to his chest.
Then suddenly a new wave of pain struck him, making him bend forward and cough blood to the already dirty floor. The now familiar burn in his lungs was getting worse and it wouldn't get any better.
"When were you bitten?" Alice asked.
"Three hours ago..." He gasped still hunched over and not looking up.
"What the-" L.J began to protest but was interrupted when Alice raised her shotgun again, this time pointed to the ceiling and approached from the infected man as he straightened his back. When she was close enough, she smiled.
"Well, it's your lucky day..." and walked away with Angie's lunch box under her arm.
'You can say that again.' the man thought as he watched her hips sway as she walked away. Damn, that was a hot woman.
"Should have told me you got bit mother fucker. I'm hanging with you and shit..." Naruto snorted as L.J walked to the rest of the group leaving Naruto to walk towards his dead partner. He kneeled down and closed Nicholai's dead eyes. He sighed, got up and followed the rest of the group out of the school.
When they left Angie's school, walked towards a payphone that was near the school door, waiting for Angela's father to call. Naruto approached a nearby tree and leaned against it. Opening one of the numerous pockets of his pants he took out a cigar and a lighter. Placing the cancer stick between his lips he lit the cigar and breathed in the smoke that messed up even more with his already hurting lungs but damn, he needed that.
Suddenly payphone started ringing and Alice answered it. Hearing the conversation, at least what Alice said, he continued smoking, inspecting the surroundings, watchful. He did not want to be surprised again, especially with a little girl in his care.
After a few minutes, the call was over and the blonde called them.
"We have forty minutes to get to get to City Hall, there will be a chopper waiting for us there and the people that will be there will not be friendly." they all nodded and got in a car with Naruto and Alice on the back seat and Jill, L.J and Angie on the front. Once inside, Naruto rested his rifles at his feet and took the shoulder holsters off, while Alice placed Angie's lunch box on her lap and opened the secret compartment. Reaching in she took a weird looking syringe and a vial filled with a green liquid.
"So, what are you injecting me with?" Naruto asked, looking at the strange green substance, truly curious about what it contained. She turned her head to him.
"The antivirus." his eyebrow raised. Alice adjusted her position, turning so her body was facing him. She placed the vile inside the syringe and took his arm with her soft hands. "The T-Virus reanimated death cells. Basically, bringing the dead back to life. Or in a living human, it can cause uncontrollable mutation." she placed the end of the syringe on his arm and pressed the button on the top making six small needles go into his skin and inject the antivirus. Once inside, the antivirus started to destroy the contaminated cells of the T-Virus. "Or it can help her walking if the virus is kept in check with this." She showed him the now empty syringe.
"The kid's infected?" he asked as looked at the seemingly innocent little girl as she turned from the front seat to look back at them. He smiled reassuringly at her making the little girl smile back.
"Yes," Alice confirmed. "The cellular growth is enough to regenerate her...But not enough to cause further mutation."
"And they infected you with it as well, right?" he asked turning his blue eyes at her. The beauty nodded, never taking her eyes off his.
"Yeah." and then she smiled teasingly to him. "Don't worry, I'm not contagious."
Naruto chuckled, was she flirting with him right now? Oooooh, he liked her already. In the front seat, L.J rubbed his forehead and his hand went down his face, groaning at the situation.
Jill bent down and gave Alice a video camera that had belonged to a woman who was with them before Naruto arrived, unfortunately, she had been killed by some undead children. Naruto had cringed when Jill had told him what had happened, what a shitty way to go...
"Here, tape the story I'll see that it gets put to good use." Alice examined the camera in her hands and turned it on. Turning it she started recording.
"My name is Alice. I worked for the Umbrella Corporation, the largest and most powerful commercial entity in the world. I was head of security at a secret high-tech facility called The Hive..." and she told her story.
Naruto leaned back and closed his eyes, hearing her with great care. As he heard the story he could not help thinking about what he might have found about Umbrella if he had known Alice. Maybe they could have avoided it all. The deaths, the infected, etc.
When Alice finished talking to the camera, Naruto opened his eyes and studied her. It was like a heavy weight was lifted from her shoulders.
He reached for her hand and squeezed it showing support. She looked at him and smiled, interlacing their fingers.
"And what about your story?" She asked the younger man in a hushed voice.
"My story?" He looked up at the car ceiling and took a deep breath. He knew hers, so it would only be fair for her to know his, even if it was classified. What the hell, they were surrounded by fucking undead so why the hell not? "Well, for starters, I'm not an Umbrella agent. In fact, I am, sorry was, an agent of CIA." Alice and the others looked at him, shocked by the revelation. Naruto chuckled st their reactions. "Yes, yes, I know what you are thinking and the answer is yes, the agency was already investigating the corporation, even before I had infiltrated Umbrella. " Jill frowned from the driver's seat and, looking through the reviewer mirror and asked.
"What was your mission?" he straightened on his seat and started putting the shoulder holsters back.
"Find as much dirt on Umbrella as possible, but I've only been at this for two years so I couldn't find much." then he pursed his lips. "The agency had to cut ties with me because of the danger of being caught and they couldn't have anything that could connect me with them so...that only made my job harder." with the holsters in place he grabbed his rifle and checked the ammo. "But now there's nothing that I can do to stop them seeing that the agency won't admit that I worked for them." then he turned to Alice and wiggled his eyebrows teasingly. "Seems like I'm stuck with you sweetheart..."
Alice only chuckled at his cheeky flirting.
"Yes, so it seems." and she turned to look out the window.
Then a squeeze from Naruto's hand, that was still holding her own, brought her back to his blue eyes. "I want you to know, that I will follow you in your endeavor to bring Umbrella down. Ask me anything and I'll do everything to help you." Alice smiled at his offer and squeezed his hand back affectionately.
"Thank you." She whispered gratefully, her smile never leaving her face until they arrived.
Their hands never separated during the trip.
Chapter 4
Minutes later they finally reached their destination and dropped the car a mile away from the City Hall, they didn't want to be spotted by the guards.
Getting closer to their objective, Alice looked up at the roof of the city hall and a small smirk appeared on her lips. She turned to the now healthy looking blond as he held Angie's hand, leading the scared little girl through the deserted street near the land site of the chopper. She didn't know why but the little girl had latched on to Naruto very quickly and the blue eyed man didn't seem to mind.
"Hey." she called, getting his attention as well as L.J's and Jill's. "I gonna make a detour, I'll meet you there ok?" she watched as a frown appeared on his face and he stopped walking.
He looked at the woman that had captured his attention since the first time he had seen her one hour earlier. The promise of mischief in her sparking green eyes made him shake his head with a chuckle.
"Just try not to get killed." nodding and still smirking, the woman went into an alleyway on their left. Then he felt a little hand grip the fabric of his shirt and looked at the child.
"Were is she going?" the accented voice asked. Placing his hand on top of her head he smiled down at her.
"She'll be back, you'll see."
When they were closer, Naruto pulled out some binoculars and surveyed the surroundings from the corner of a building so that he wouldn't be spotted. He could see the chopper and the guards. There weren't many, for what he could see, but still they had to be careful. Looking around to see the best way to approach without being seen, an idea began to form in his head. Looking back, he looked at the others and waved.
"Come on." and they followed the ex-agent. They walked around the building so that they could approach the inclined access that would lead them to the helipad from behind, out of sight of the guards that were guarding it. Walking closer, Naruto saw two guards at the beginning of the access and very quietly he took the sling of his rifle from around his neck and cave it to Jill. Jumping over the small stone wall he stealthily approached the unprepared guards.
When he reached the first, he broke his neck with a quick motion and the other, now alerted by the sound of the neck of his comrade breaking and the body hitting the ground, did not have time to react as Naruto kicked his once in the chest to stun him then in the head, knocking him out. The other went around and Jill gave him back his rifle. As they passed the unconscious guard L.J started kicking him until Jill harshly shoved him forward.
Angie followed behind Naruto, keeping hidden behind his form as the blue-eyed man had told her to do. As they walked up to the helipad they heard sounds of fighting and they picked up their pace.
They managed to arrive just in time to see Alice subduing the rest of the guards with a steel baton in each hand. Breaking the visor of the helmet of the last guard she discarded the batons and turned to the group as they made their way to her. If she had looked back, she would have seen one of the guards, that had been pretending to be passed out, raised from the ground and was about to shoot her.
Quick as lightning, Naruto drew his handgun and fired. The bullet leaving the barrel of the gun and making it's away through the guard's neck, killing him.
"You missed one sweetheart." he smirked at the woman as she looked at him surprised. Alice only chuckled and gave him a wink.
"That's what your here for." after being rewarded with a snort they made their away inside the chopper. As they went inside, Naruto ran his eyes through the surroundings and, not seeing anything he was approaching the chopper's ramp.
"We've to hurry." Alice whispered from inside the chopper with a panicked voice.
"We're fine, we've time-" Naruto tried to reassure her but she cut him off.
"No! We've to hurry." she rushed to the cockpit with Angie behind her.
Naruto looked around the open space of the helipad and out of the fog near the gate came a monster, unlike anything he had ever seen, even the undead couldn't be compared to it.
It was enormous, its entire body was extremely disfigured and unrecognizable from anything he had ever seen. Its skin was brown and was covered with a protective coat that resembled leather, the right side of its face was stapled shut with only his left eye visible. Its teeth were visible and it had no lips. It was carrying a mini-gun and a rocket launcher.
"What the fuck is that?" Naruto whispered petrified and he was to warn them, the cold barrel of a gun was pressed against the back of his head. He slowly raised his hands.
"Holly shit were stealing his ride!" L.J yelled frightened not seeing the other armed men coming behind him.
After they were handcuffed with zip cuffs the soldiers lined Naruto, Jill ans L.J up next to a man that had been siting on a wheelchair, but the guards had placed him on the ground, and forced them to their knees. Well, not Naruto, he wouldn't kneel for those sons of bitches.
"Kneel." One of the soldiers ordered him wen he refused to do so.
"Funny, that's what I said to your mama the other da-UGH!" the enraged guard struck him on the face with the end of his rifle. Grunting, Naruto spat blood to the ground and still didn't kneel, instead he headbutted the man with a quick movement, breaking the visor of the helmet and knocking him out making Naruto let out a mocking laugh.
Alive got out of the chopper at gunpoint by Major Timothy Cain in time to see another guard kneeing her blonde friend on the stomach bringing the man down to his knees as another dragged the unconscious man away. In front of the humans was the monster, or Nemesis, was the name that Jill had muttered in Naruto's ear when it stopped walking a few feet away and turned to them.
"Angie!" The desperate father called overjoyed to see his daughter coming out of the chopper behind Alice.
"Daddy!" The little girl ran to her father and they hugged. "I knew you wouldn't leave me!"
"No, no never."
"Discard primary weaponry." spotlights flashed around the heliport illuminating the creature and all who were there as the monster put his weapons on the ground, per Cain's orders.
The guards keeping Alice secured released her as Cain walked until they were face to face.
"The two of you showed such promise, but we had to see you in action." he smiled darkly at her as she turned her head. "And most impressive you've been." Alice shook her head in disgust. "You're like brother and sister. Heightened speed, strength, agility, the same killer instincts, parallel strands of research. And now... Now we'll discover which is superior. Fight him."
"No." she refused, an expression of indifference on her face.
"Fight him or they die." Alice looked at her friends and then she saw Naruto shaking his head subtly. He didn't want her to fight it for them.
"What makes you think I care?" She tried to bluff. Cain looked her in the eyes and shrugged. He drew his handgun and shot Dr.Ashford, who was sitting with Angie, making the little girl watch her father die right in front of her as she wailed in sadness.
"Daddy no!" Angie grabbed her dying father's hand as he tried to hold on, but it was useless.
"You motherfu-UGH!" Naruto tried to rise to his feet and charge at Cain but was struck again across the face by the same guard from before and this time, he was bleeding from the nose, making his blond beard stain red. He raised his head to the guard. "When this is over, I'll kill you." he promised the guard, glaring at him with such hatred that made the soldier flinch slightly.
The Major turned back to Alice, who had her mouth open in shock and tears threatening to leave her eyes.
"He was a valuable asset to the corporation. I don't even care about these people." Angie looked at Alice with tears on her face and the woman flinched. "Begin." Cain ordered again and this time Alice nodded.
The fight was hard for Alice, she didn't want to fight but she had to keep the others alive and this was the only way. (AN:fight from the movie.) Naruto and the rest of the group couldn't do anything but watch the fight.
After a series of kicks and punches, dodges and parries Alice finally managed to impale Nemesis on a very sharp broken metal beam by kicking the monster until it was stabbed in the chest. As she hit him, to impale it further, she experiences a series of flashbacks that reveal that the Nemesis was actually Matt Addison, who had survived the whole Hive ordeal and had been subjected to Umbrella's experiments alongside her.
"I'm sorry." she cried, tears going down her face and her whole body shaking, as she looked at the bloody beam coming out of Nemesis chest. "Oh Matt, I'm so sorry." she looked back at it and she saw Matt's green eye.
"Finish him." Cain demands. When Alice didn't react he repeated. "I said, finish him." he shook her head as she turned around to face him.
"No." She muttered still looking at the thing Matt had become. She shook her head as she turned around to face him. "No." this time more loudly and Cain rolled his eyes, as if he was dealing with children.
"Don't you know how important you are to me? That creature is one thing but you...somehow you bonded with the T-Virus on a cellular level." while he was talking Naruto managed to retrieve a small pocket knife he had inside of a secret pocket he had on his pants and was cutting through the zip cuffs. He managed to suppress a snort. Suckers, all they did was take his guns away and never thought of searching the rest of him. Amateurs. "You adapted it, changed it. You became...magnificent." the man continued.
"I became a freak!" she shakily replied, angered.
"No." Cain shook his head. "You're not mutation, you're evolution. With my help, just imagine what we can achieve!"
"What about him?" she mentioned Nemesis behind her, who was still impaled by the beam.
"Evolution has its...dead ends." He smirked. Hearing that Nemesis's lone eye narrowed, the movement not being noticed by anyone. "Now, finish this. Put it out of its misery...and come with me."
"Fuck you." Alice's stone cold face didn't even twitch as she said those words.
Cain sighed. "You're such a disappointment to me. All that strength but no will to use it...what a waste."
As he walked away Nemesis started to free itself, roaring and grunting as the broken beam slid out with a wet sound. He walked to it's previous position before fighting Alice and picked the mini-gun from the ground where it had dropped it.
"Sanitation of Racoon City to commence on my mark." Cain spoke through the earpiece to whoever was on the other side of the radio line." Naruto tried with more vigor now, moving the blade of the knife as fast as he could, trying to cut the zip cuff. He had to free himself and help Alice! "Kill her." Major ordered Nemesis.
The monster turned to the unarmed woman that was between two guards and the mini-gun started to spin.
"No!" Naruto yelled as he managed to finally free himself and kicked the guard's legs from under him and broke his neck, that had been the one that had struck two times. Grabbing his two Desert Eagles, that the guard had taken from him and placed them on his belt, he was about to shoot Nemesis but it wasn't necessary because instead of shooting Alice, it shot the guards leaving the woman unharmed.
"What are you doing?" yelled Cain in a panicked confusion.
Seeing Alice rush to pick up a gun from the dead guard, Naruto concentrated in killing the ones closer to them. Pressing the triggers in his handguns repeatedly, he made his way to Jill and L.J to free them. Once free, Jill took a gun and the dark-skinned man ran inside the chopper. Looking back momentarily, Naruto makes sure Angie was safe and protected by his body. Jill was crouched beside the girl, watching for any guards who came too close.
Cain had taken refuge on the ramp of the chopper and was barking orders through his earpiece. "Priority overload. Initiate launch proceedings." with that said he headed to the cockpit of the chopper. "Why haven't we taken off?"
And out of the pilot chair came L.J's smirking face. "Because I used to drive a Cadillac." And punched Cain in the face knocking him out.
Outside the chopper Naruto, Alice and the other continued emptying their clips on the charging Umbrella soldiers. Naruto had recovered his G36-K and the additional ammo from another guard and was kneeling with his back to Jill and Angie, bringing down any Umbrella agent he saw and covering Alice and Nemesis when needed.
At some point, Nemesis's mini-gun had run out of ammo, so he had resorted to using his fists, easily tearing through the soldiers coming for them, the bullets that were fired at it doing nothing to make it stop. Jill was hugging Angie, and had moved the little girl's head to the side, she didn't have to see so much death. What she saw already was enough.
"Surrender or we open fire." An incoming chopper warned Alice as she entered one of the buildings after killing some Umbrella agents. It started firing and she ran as fast through a corridor full of windows that were all breaking as she passed them. She managed to dodge all the bullets successfully but when she dived through the glass door at the end of the corridor, she was face to face with three Umbrella operatives, all of them holding her at gunpoint, making her raise her hands.
"Dro-"
BANG!
BANG!
BANG!
Three well-aimed shots from Naruto's rifle killed the operatives and allowed Alice to continue running. She briefly looked at his blue eyes and he winked at her, flicking his rifle to the side making the empty magazine fly away and loading a new one.
"Alice!" she heard Angie yell and looked at the direction the girl was pointing, the choppers were coming back. She ran as fast as she could to them but was stopped by the spotlight that was pointed at her from one of the choppers.
"Drop your weapon and surrender!" she aimed her Beretta 92FS at the cockpit and emptied the clip, unfortunately failing to kill the pilot. She was sure that she was going to die, but suddenly Nemesis stepped in front of her with its rocket launcher ready to fire.
Nemesis roared and shoot a rocket to the same chopper that Alice had been shooting, blowing it up. Coincidentally, the wreckage of the first helicopter destroys the second and the fireball that originates falls toward Alice and Nemesis.
Nemesis ends up being crushed by the wreckage of one of the choppers. The explosion takes Alice to the ground and, as she raises her head, she's rendered unconscious by flying shrapnel that hit her on the head.
Killing the last agents of Umbrella, Naruto and Angie run to Alice, who was still on the floor. She was dizzy and her body did not stop shaking, her vision blurred.
"Matt..." she muttered, seeing Nemesis hand beneath the wreckage of the two helicopters.
"Alice, hey." Naruto takes her head in his hands and turned her head so she was facing him. Her vision is still blurry, but she could still make out the outline of the blond's head. "Come on sweetheart, we have to go." He picked her up bridal style and carried her to the chopper with Angie following after them.
When they entered the chopper Jill was holding Cain by the front of his shirt with one hand and the other was holding a gun beneath his chin.
"If you expect me to beg, I'll not." He said through gritted teeth. Naruto placed Alice on her feet and she made her way to the cruel man. Grabbing him she threw him onto the ramp of the chopper as it was rising. Naruto approached Angie and Jill and the little girl hugged his waist, her face buried on his stomach. He placed his hand on the back of her head and held her there, preventing her from seeing what Alice was going to do next. "Wait!" grabbing him she threw him onto the ramp of the chopper as it was rising. "Killing me won't put things right." he pleaded.
"No...but it's a start." she snarled as she threw him off the chopper.
As he landed he broke his shin and yelled in agony, behind him, there was a horde of undead making their way to him. He crawled to the nearest dead soldier and grabbed his gun. He shot down as many undead as he could but realized he hadn't enough bullets for all. Placing the barrel of the gun on his head he pulled the trigger.
CLICK
It was empty.
"No!" He yelled desperately as the undead drew closer and a now revived bit his neck. "Nooooooo...!" Alice saw from the rising chopper and watched as he was eaten alive by the undead. The screams of the dying man were muffled by the noise of chopper propellers and moans and grunts of hundreds of undead.
Naruto held her arm gently and guided her to the seat beside Angie and started helping the little girl putting the seat-belt on.
"Are you going to be alright?" Angie's innocent voice asked over the sound of the engines. Alice smiled and nodded, with her face covered in blood and sweat, and clicked the seat belt on. She looked at Naruto the only one that still was on his feet and they smiled at each other. Naruto mouthed 'You did well.' and she winked at him with a smirk and mouthed 'Thanks.'
Suddenly there was a flash of light, the nuclear bomb that Umbrella had launched to destroy the infection and all the evidence exploded in the city. Buildings and undead were destroyed in a matter of seconds.
Even as far as they were the shock-wave caught up to them and shook the entire helicopter.
"Hang on to something!" Naruto yelled as he grabbed the nearest thing he could and he closed his eyes until he heard a wet, piercing sound.
A pole of some sort inside the helicopter was shaken loose by the blast and began spinning toward Angela. Alice, seeing this, throws herself in front of the girl and, as a result, was impaled by the pole.
"NOOOOO! ALICE!" Naruto yelled, seeing the dark red blood coming out of Alice's mouth.
Alice was only partially aware of the helicopter crash before she died, catching flashes of the event as it happens. But the last thing she sees and hears his Naruto's blue eyes and him yelling in extreme pain.
I don't remember much after the explosion.
But I knew Alice was dead. Luckily the only other victim was the pilot, Angie, Jill and L.J survived without injuries. But there was a small problem.
Wen I woke in a Hospital, I don't know were, I found out that not everyone had made it out of the crash uninjured. I had lost my right arm. Ripped from my body from the shoulder down.
At first I was catatonic, but eventually I had to accept that I had lost a part of myself. At least I still had my precious crucifix.
I was able to contact an old friend at the CIA and told them all about what had happened in the City. I was promised that they would choose to pay for their crimes and with the camera recordings it was impossible for them not to be convicted.
But Umbrella had already done the impossible before. The recordings were discredited by the public and the law, that was the extent of Umbrella's power.
Meanwhile, my CIA friend told me about a scientist who specializes in high-tech prostheses and recommended that I go and talk to him about my arm.
It cost me a lot of money but I was able to get a brand new metal arm. It was a military prototype but it served perfectly and, with some adjustments, it became even better than my original arm. With eight times more strength, coordination and a little bonus, my new arm was the best. (Think of the Winter Soldier's arm, without the star.)
A few days later, one of my informants told me that Umbrella had brought Alice back from the dead and were experimenting with her. I and the others made a plan to rescue it, but we didn't even have to execute it.
Three weeks after the crash
She was cold and wet, she didn't what to open her eyes. She could see light behind her closed eyelids, there also was a breathing tube in her mouth.
"Alice, sweetheart."
Who as Alice? Was that a man's voice? Who was he?
"Alice."
Now was a little girl's. What's happening? Where was she?
"ALICE, WAKE UP!" the combined voices of both the man and little girl made her eyes snap wide open. She was inside some kind of thank, filled with greenish water and there was a man looking at her from the other side of the glass.
"Can you hear me?" she panicked, her eyes wide in confusion. This wasn't the voice she heard, this one was strange to her, lacked the warmth that other one she had heard before and made her skin crawl. "Do you understand what I'm saying?" she started trashing against her restraints and the man nodded. "Good. Begin the purging process."
The water inside the thank started being drained, allowing her to breathe without the mask, and she turned her head wildly in all direction. What was happening?
When the water was gone the thank opened outward making so that she was lying down on the cold glass. She coughed and her body started convulsing and shivering on its own. The man with the creepy voice covered her with a lab coat hiding her naked body from view. She sat up, the man grabbed her hand gently and she tried to speak.
"Whe-whe-whe..." 'Come on Alice, you can do it.' she heard the warm voice again.
"Where are you?" She turned to him. "You're safe."
He slowly helped her get up and leaned her gently against the wall. There was another man taking notes next to them and she looked at what he was using to write with curiosity.
Seeing the curiosity shinning in her eyes the creepy man grabbed both the pen and paper.
"Do you know what this is?" He mentioned to the object. "It's a pen. See? You try." She grabbed the pen and tried to draw, only managing to do some random lines on the paper.
"That's it...it's a pen." he took the shiny object from her hand as she tried to say the word repeatedly and cradled her face. "Look at me. Can you remember anything? Mmmmm? You remember you're name?"
"My name? My name...?" She kept muttering, over and over again. Then pain flooded her head as she got flashes, some were of her, others were of other people. People she was beginning to remember.
"My name..."
Another flash was a woman woman with dark hair, another of a little girl in a school uniform and another one of a dark-skinned man with a hat. Then a blond man, smirking at her gripping a rifle to his chest and saying something she couldn't hear.
"My name..."
"Come on Alice, you can do it."
The there were flashes of the first man, Dr. Isaacs the same man that had experimented on her and Matt. He looked at her, hearing her speak louder.
"... Is Alice." she smirked at the look of fear of the doctor and the others. "And I remember everything." quick as lightning she grabbed the pen that was in the hand of one of the doctors beside her and made to stab him in the eye only stopping less than an inch away.
Letting the pen fall she elbowed him on the face and punched two more, with one hand always holding the sheet that was covering her . She grabbed Doctor Isaacs and threw him against the glass of the thank breaking it and knocking him out.
A guard tried to shock her with a taser but as the needles penetrated her skin she showed no signs of slowing down or even being hurt. She jus tilted her head and ripped the needles of out, throwing them at the guard's neck. She walks out of the lab, barefoot and naked under the sheet (literally) and walks through an enormous corridor. She somehow senses that she was being watched by one of the security guards.
See looks up at one of the surveillance cameras and, inside the security office the guard cried in agony as a massive pain struck his head and his eyes, mouth, nose and hears tarted to bleed. Then, he went silent and fell on the floor, dead.
As Alice exited the building she was confronted by a dozen armed soldiers waiting outside, ready to kill her if she moved.
She looked around and knew she had no chance, even with her new abilities.
And that was when a black SUV parks right behind the soldiers. From inside comes out a woman that she imminently recognized. Smirking she watches as Jill Valentine, Lloyd Jefferson Wade and Naruto Namikaze got out of the vehicle and the dark haired woman told the guards "Thank you gentleman, but we'll take it from here."
"On whose authority?" the leader asked.
Then the man, the blond man whose smile and eyes made her feel warm inside stepped between the two and, without even taking his eyes off Alice slams a written order that placed Alice on their custody on the guard's chest. Alice briefly noted that he was wearing a glove on his right hand.
"Classified, level six authorization."
He looked good in a suit she mused as she looked him over. His hair was still the same but the blond beard was now a stubble. She liked it better that way.
The guard murmured an apology as Jill walked up to the barely covered woman and guided her to the car were L.J and Angie were waiting.
Halfway there Naruto took his back blazer and placer it on Alice's shoulders, squeezing warmly. They got inside the car and L.J drove off.
They stopped at a checkpoint were Naruto had to show his forged ID and, as it was being checked one of the guards received a call.
"Let them go." The voice of Doctor Isaacs came through and the guard pressed the button that made the blockade raise. They drove away calmly.
Naruto turned back from his place on the passenger seat at the front and smiled at Alice, with his clue eyes shinning.
"Good to have you back sweetheart." Alice gave him a slight smile.
"Are you alright?" Angie asked.
"Program Alice activated."
"What did they do to you?" Jill asked concerned.
Alice didn't respond to any of their questions, she just looked at Naruto.
"Thanks for coming for me."
Naruto nodded and smiled at her.
"Always."
With that said she looked out the window and knew that she shouldn't get comfortable because...it wasn't over, far from it.
It was only the beginning.
Hours latter
After hours of driving through the state, they drove to one of the safe houses Naruto had had since his time in the CIA. No one spoke during the trip but had to stop so that Alice could wear something more than the simple sheet. Now she had a black tank top, sweatpants and sneakers on.
When she returned to the car, Naruto was in the driver's seat and L.J was at the place where she was previously. As she made herself comfortable on her seat she noticed that Naruto had taken his tie off, leaving him only with the button up shirt, with the first two buttons undone, and the dress pants.
He was rolling his sleeves absently, staring out the window, not remembering what had happened to his arm. When he rolled up the right sleeve and took off the glove Alice gasped.
"What happened?" she almost shouted, seeing the metal member, shining in the sunlight that struck it. Naruto looked at his arm and cursed, he did not want her to find out that way.
"You were not the only one affected by the crash." he started, as her fingers explored the cold metal surface. He let her roll up her sleeve to see where the prosthesis went. "When we crashed, I was jolted out of the helicopter and my arm got stuck. It was ripped from the shoulder down." behind him, Jill flinched, she was the one that had found him bleeding out on the ground near the crash.
Alice undid two more buttons of his shirt and opened it so that she could see the scar.
"I'm so sorry." she whispered as he gentle fingers caressed the skin around the scar.
"Why? You didn't do it." he grinned then, grabbing her hand and gently holding it with his metal one. "Besides, I think of it as an improvement." she smiled hesitantly at hims and looked at their joined hands. He gave her an affectionate squeeze and started the car.
As Naruto drove, Alice studied him.
He looked better than he did wen they were in the city, more alive. Alice sighed and looked out the window. She leaned her head against the glass and let the sound of the car and the light from dawn lull her to sleep.
Weeks later
The world was going to shit.
Both Naruto and Jill were being hunted by the authorities for questioning, because of the videos that Naruto had sent to the CIA.
Two days after they arrived at the safe house, reports of 'people coming back from the dead' attacking and eating others began. After that, it was a matter of time for some of the major cities and the whole country to be infected. Now, there were undead on the streets and going out alone was suicide.
They remained hidden through all that, the safe house was big enough to accommodate everyone comfortably for a few months.
It had four bedrooms and they each occupied one, except for Jill, who shared hers with Angie. The little girl had nightmares almost every night, so they all agreed that someone should stay with her at night and Jill volunteered.
There also was a kitchen, a living room and a bathroom for everyone but they made it work. They didn't have a choice after all.
After lunch, Jill and L.J had gone to get more supplies, Naruto didn't have enough to feed five people. He never thought that he would be in a situation like the present one, so he only had provisions for two in the safe house.
Naruto sighed, leaning his left arm against the shower wall, he had to remove the metal one seeing as it could not be wet, and shivered. The hot water had ended three days ago, so now...cold showers.
Turning to the water, the blue-eyed man dried himself as best he could with just one arm. Thankfully, the CIA trained their agents to be ambidextrous.
He put the metal arm back in place and left the bathroom, wearing a t-shirt and sweatpants.
In her room, Alice was sitting on her bed thinking and sighed. She knew she had to leave, Umbrella would come for her sooner or later and she wasn't going to take the risk of them catching her with her friends. She heard footsteps behind her door and then a knock.
"Alice." It was Naruto's cheerful voice. "You've been in there for hours, you'll need to come out eventually."
She sighed again and closed her eyes, this was something she would miss, his voice, his eyes, his warmth. She knew she had had some kind of feelings for him and that was the worst part. It made her attached and she new that if she acted upon those feeling, she wouldn't be able to leave.
The weeks they had to get to know each other revealed to her a lot about his personality. He was a cheerful person, focused when it was accurate, kind, and excellent with Angie.
Of course he had imperfections, he can't cook anything but ramen. Although it was very good, they had no ingredients for it. He often left alone to get some supplies, which was very dangerous with the dead walking the streets.
"Can I come in?" he asked.
"Yes."
He opened the door and saw her wearing a white tank top and shorts. Her dirty blonde hair was still wet, she had taken a shower before him and closed herself in her room.
"What's wrong?" He asked seeing her troubled look and sat next to her on the bed. She looked him in the eye and her heart throbbed with the pain of knowing she was leaving. And here he was, concerned with how she was doing.
"Nothing just thinking." Naruto hummed in response.
"Thank you." She whispered.
"Mmmmm?" he tilted his head in confusion.
"You came for me even if you didn't have to-" he grasped her hand, interrupting her.
"Alice." he smiles at her, the same smile that seamed to be just for her. "I'll always come for you...I owe you that much."
She frowned and shook her head. "You don't owe me anything." Naruto chuckled.
"That came out wrong sorry." he cleared his throat. "What I meant was that you're one of my special people, and I'll always move heaven and earth to help them." then he smirked. "Even if they're already halfway there."
Alice presented him with a light chuckle. It warmed her inside to know that and it pained her at the same time. She looked down at her feet and thought for a long moment.
The man looked at her and sighed. Reaching to the back of his neck he took his necklace off.
"Here." she looked at him and he placed the crucifix around her neck. "This is for you." Alice looked at the object, shocked.
"I can't accept this." she muttered and was about to reach back wen Naruto captured her hands with his.
"Its a gift, a way of you knowing that no matter what, I'll always be there for you." she gazed his blue eyes and smiled, even if her chest was caving in with pain.
"Thank you." Alice whispered, making Naruto chuckle huskily. He gently cradled the back of her head and, for a moment, she thought he was going to kiss her. She was right, he kissed her, but not on the lips. He kissed her forehead.
"Get some rest, you look tired." he got up and made his way to the door. "I'll come by latter wen dinner is ready." and left.
Alice looked down at the holy symbol and caressed it.
"I'm so sorry." a tear fell down her face.
