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The guards standing watch jumped away from the door, and readied their weaponry as they heard the screams of agony from behind the door they were guarding.
One of the guards reached up to their ear and spoke, '"We have a code red, I repeat, code red, all available units come here an-"
'AGHHH!' the sounds of agony continued to echo.
'BANG' the sounds of the door they had been guarding getting slammed against repeatedly was deafening.
The guards stepped back, "We need backup over here now!"
The two guards readied their weaponry as they awaited backup, the sounds of the trapped scientists and med-nin behind the door tearing through their very being.
They could only imagine the carnage on the other side.
In the lab…Moments Ago
The doctors, scientists, and med-nin in this base, in this particular laboratory had an objective given to them, and were expected to fulfill this to the letter.
They had followed their objective, performing their duties with the organization of a well-oiled machine. At every interval, they had ensured the subject lying on the table in the laboratory had been kept under sedation, never once allowing the subject to open their eyes, let alone awaken from their slumber.
When it came time for the implantations and inoculations upon the subject, they had performed that duty with the same diligence and zealous devotion to the task at hand. They had ensured that the subject suffered no adverse reactions to any of the injections, had ensured that each injection was pure and uncontaminated to maintain an unpolluted experiment.
Before any injection occurred, they ran dozens of tests on samples of her DNA, they tested her bone marrow, red blood cells, white blood cells, they even took inconsequential samples of her chakra network, and the results of each test were studied until the outcome of each test could be replicated without worry for error, and no concern for the experiment itself.
With each experiment, the results were studied down to the cellular level, blood and tissue samples were extracted from the subject. The results of these studies proved invaluable as they continued to perform their duties.
Each second of the process, each minute detail down to the last drop of DNA injected, or extracted from the subject was carefully monitored by the entire project. Not a single moment was left to chance, not a single event was left to chance.
Yet, all that work…all that planning.
It all meant nothing…the moment the subjects lips moved to utter a few words…the moment her eyes fluttered open…
The moment her eyes snapped open.
As the doctors, scientists, and med-nin crowded around her, trying to ensure she stay sedated…
Their lives were forfeit.
'SQUELCH!'
"AAAGHH!" the doctors and scientists tried to get as far away from the subject as possible, their eyes wide with horror.
For over half a dozen though, they were trapped, and they screamed in agony.
The one who had been giving orders earlier was amongst those trapped, his teeth grit as he tried to hold in his cries of pain as he looked down at his chest.
Tearing into his chest was a long tentacle-like appendage, covered with sharp thorn-like barbs, pulsing with the subject's lifeblood coursing through it.
The doctor's mouth opened in a vain attempt to take in air, only for blood to ooze out over his lips, dribbling down his chin as he gargled and choked. He gasped as he tried to grasp onto the tendril, the spines along its length stabbing into his fingertips, drawing further blood…only for the light to leave his eyes as his body slumped over.
The doctors and scientists who had succeeded in getting away only stared in horror, trembling as they beheld the events before them unfold.
The woman's hands trembled ever so slightly as her fingers struggled to grip the table she had been lying upon, her palms pressing against the table as she slowly pushed herself up.
Those still amongst the living stared in a petrified stupor as they looked at her back.
Growing out of her back like limbs on a tree, seven long tentacle-like limbs snaked out, stabbing into the still twitching bodies of the doctors, med-nin, and scientists who were too slow to get out of the way when she unleashed them. The limbs twisted like a vile coil, covered in thorny barbs that seemed to glisten with a sharpened edge.
The woman blinked slowly, and she stretched out her arms, after years of disuse, allowing the muscles to pop and the groans and creaks of her unused physicality echoed as the sound bounced off of the metallic walls of the laboratory.
The woman slowly turned her body, letting her leg fall off the edge of the table, dangling off the edge. She slowly continued to turn and dragged her other foot off the table, allowing her other leg to fall off the edge, and hang next to the other leg. She continued to sit on the table, her legs dangling off the edge, the tendrils on her back moving the bodies of the dead scientists aside, removing them from her sight.
The woman's hands pressed against the table she sat upon as she slowly began to slide herself off.
As her feet touched the floor, she seemed to stumble for a moment, the tendrils coming out of her back reacting slightly, as if readying to catch her as she fell.
However, she quickly righted herself, her body adapting quickly to its sudden use after it was in hibernation for so long.
She took in a deep breath; her chest rising as her lungs filled with air…and her chest fell as she exhaled
One of the doctors panicked and tried to make a run for the door.
At that exact moment, the tendrils coming out of Kushina's back snapped to the sides, sending the bodies that they had impaled crashing into the walls.
Or in the case of one body, right into the running form of the doctor who tried to flee.
"AHHGGG!"
The woman's eyes widened as she heard the scream of pain, and she snapped her head to the side in the direction of the scream.
Trapped underneath a body, pressed against the wall, a doctor whimpered in pain as they tried to push the body off of them.
The woman's eyes narrowed and the tendrils on her back twitched and snaked in the direction she was looking.
The doctor sniveled in pain as they felt agonizing pain rip through them the moment the body smashed into them. The initial contact had obviously broken several ribs, but when they smashed into the wall behind, they felt their entire body be lit up with the most horrible pain they had ever felt in their life, as if their spine was stabbing into their flesh and being twisted into a malformed knot.
The doctor tried to pry the body off of them in a vain attempt to escape.
"Grrgghhhrrr."
The doctor froze as he heard the sound of what they could only describe as an enraged snarl. Swallowing, he slowly raised his head towards the place he heard the angered snarl.
The woman stood over him, the savage and bloodthirsty look in her eyes, her teeth bared like a predator ready to tear into their prey, and the tendrils on her back, each one sporting a spear-like tip at the end, all pointing directly at him.
The doctor whimpered, "P-please I-"
The woman shot her hand forward, grabbing the man by the face, her snarls growing louder as eyes glinted further with bloodlust and vicious intent.
The doctor's muffled whimpers, his muffled begging, echoed throughout the laboratory.
The woman bared her teeth, before she opened her mouth, and let loose a deafening war cry, "RAAAGHH!" and shot her head forward…sinking her jaws into the doctors throat.
The doctors muffled screams of pain as the woman's teeth cut through his skin and flesh, tearing open his throat as if it were nothing more than a tender piece of cooked meat.
The woman dug her canines into his throat, cutting through flesh and vein, blood spurting out from the gaping wound as she tore the meat from his throat, dribbling down her chin, the sinew and muscle separating from the man as she pulled her head back, taking the doctors throat out with her.
The doctor's muffled gasps of agony were heard, his blood pouring out of the gaping wound where his throat once was as he fell limp in the woman's grip.
The surviving lab staff stared in horror as the woman tore out the doctor's throat.
And they began to whimper as she slowly turned her gaze towards them.
The woman's eyes were twisted in a savage bloodthirst, her teeth still bared, the doctors blood coating her lips and dribbling down her chin, dripping off and splattering onto her bare breasts.
The doctors whimpered, one of which stuttered as they spoke, "P-please…h-have mercy."
The woman's eyes twisted into a savage glare, and she roared, "RAAAGHH!" and shot towards them.
In the last moments of the scientists…the doctors…and the med-nin…they learned one of the absolute truths of the world.
Kushina Uzumaki has no mercy.
Outside the Lab
The guards backed further away from the door as they heard they heard the staff inside get torn to pieces by Kushina.
One of the guards looked at the one who made the call for backup, "Where are they?"
The guard glanced at him and snapped, "They said they would be here-" the guard stopped as their ears perked up and they turned around.
They heard the sound of running steps coming from the halls behind them.
A few moments later, over a dozen ROOT ANBU poured into the hallway in front of the laboratory.
The guards seemed to give a sigh of relief, the one who made the call stepped forward and saluted, "Guard Unit 01102, reporting sir."
The apparent lead ANBU stepped up, "Report."
The guard stood at attention, "The subject has become active sir."
The ANBU was silent for a moment, "What evidence do you have to support th-"
'RAAAGHH!'
The guards and ANBU readied their weaponry as the door creaked, and they saw a slight opening begin to form as it seemed as though somebody on the other side was trying to pry the door open.
The lead ANBU snapped, "Never mind." they turned their head, "Katon jutsu on the doorway, weld it shut."
Two ANBU stepped forward, and they began to perform hand signs, "Katon: Hi Sou…" the two ANBU inhaled, and as they exhaled, a stream of fire shot at the door, slowly welding the door shut.
The lead ANBU continued speaking, "All others, cover any possible exit…the subject must not be allowed to escape under any circumstances."
The ANBU nodded, "Hai!" and went to perform their duties, covering both hallways and readying their weaponry.
The guards and ANBU commander simply watched as the door was welded shut, and listened as the banging on the other side of the door increased.
In the Lab
The laboratory underneath Konoha had been funded by missions done by ROOT that Konoha deemed too inhumane, or too dangerous for their Shinobi to accomplish. The funds poured into it were enough to end the hunger, poverty, and fund entire divisions of the Konoha corps, from ANBU Black ops, to Torture & Interrogation, from the Medical corps, to a fully funded police force. The laboratory had been outfitted with the latest technological advances, been given every single bit of the newest and most sophisticated biological enhancements known to ningen. Every medical technique from every village that ROOT had infiltrated had been installed in this single laboratory at the behest of the head of ROOT, Danzo.
It took less than a minute for the entire lab to be turned to rubble.
The screen monitors which once were lit with data and readings were cracked, sparks flying off them, the lights of the room dimmed as the bulbs shattered from the force of Kushina's tendrils crashing through them as they slammed ruthlessly into the forms of the staff and coworkers who once surrounded her unconscious form.
Speaking of the staff, their remains were scattered all across the laboratory. Some in whole pieces, others bifurcated and dismembered.
The arm of one such scientist had smashed through one of the screens, the blood from the torn limb dripping onto the keyboards and dripping onto the blood soaked floor.
Standing in the center of the lab where the table once occupied, Kushina stood in the center as she breathed, her tendrils waving about as they slowly began to recede back into her flesh. The flesh seemed to mold back into her skin, like a drop of water returned to the source of which it came from, until it steadied and disappeared from sight.
Kushina herself was covered in the gore of her goes, her hands and forearms coated with the lifeblood of those whose hearts she tore from their chests, dripping off her and joining the blood pooling up on the floors, across her bare breasts, the blood splattered as she ripped limb from torso, and flowed down her body like a river of death. Her face splattered with blood as her teeth tore into her opponents.
As Kushina slowed her breathing, her eyes focused as she stretched her neck, allowing it to pop as the strain from disuse still remained, until it had no pain in it whatsoever.
Kushina's eyes looked about the room, and she breathed in the stale air of the laboratory, now hinted with the stench of fresh blood. Her mind taking in all the sights and scents around her…and she began to look upon herself, letting the events of her awakening play out.
When she awoke, she was not thinking as clearly, no, she was blinded by a bloodlust unlike any she had ever felt in her life, so she was not truly aware of what she was doing as she was doing it.
Because of that, she had no idea how she made those tendrils come out of her body, much less how she used them to begin with.
Kushina had never used such an ability before, she knew for a fact that particular ability was not in her repertoire, hell, nothing like that was in her skill set.
Kushina looked over her body in confusion, 'What did those bastards do to me?'
She narrowed her eyes as she looked where she was, this was not the Konoha hospital, she was not even sure she was in Konoha. For all she knew she could be outside of Hi no Kuni, outside of the elemental nations even. But if that were the case…
Where was her Naruto?
Kushina brought a hand up to her chest as she muttered, "Naruto-sochi." her eyes lit up with longing, love…and something more.
Kushina clenched her hand into a fist, wherever she was, it was clear that being here kept her from her sochi, and that was something she could not allow.
Kushina grit her teeth and looked to the door that held her in, she needed to get out of this place. Once she did, she would quickly head to Konoha, knowing her sochi was likely within the walls of Konoha…she could not allow this.
Snarling, she walked up to the door and shot her hands forward, digging her fingertips in between the seam that kept the door shut, and she hissed angrily as she began to pry the doors open, with little success.
She cursed and roared in anger as she stepped back, she was still weakened from the years of captivity. She growled underneath her breath, there was no keypad to open the door, and likely the computers she had just destroyed were the means to open the door.
She then remembered how she killed many of the doctors and med-nin, they were heavy, but her tendrils not only ripped through them, but they threw them with such strength that it seemed like they were throwing a pebble. Perhaps she could pry the doors open with those, if only she knew how to call them out then-
As Kushina thought of the tendrils coming out, three tore from her back, like a root from a seedling, and they hovered around Kushina.
Kushina looked at them briefly, 'How did I do that, all I did was think an-" Kushina's thoughts were silenced as she realized.
She had thought of them coming out of her body, and they had done so.
She smirked slightly at that, and looked at the door that she was previously unable to open, 'Pry the door open.'
In a single motion, the three tendrils shot at the door, stabbing into the seam keeping the door shut, and gradually, the metal doors keeping her in were slowly being pried open.
Kushina grinned as she shot her own hands forward, and began to do the same, trying to pry the doors open as well, she was filled with an overwhelming sense of euphoria as the doors were sliding more and more open, she could now partially see the other side of the doorway.
When she did, she saw many individuals on the other side, two of which were performing hand seals.
'Katon: Hi Sou…"
All of a sudden, a stream of fire shot from the mouths of the two individuals on the other side, right at the seam of the door Kushina was currently trying to pry open.
Kushina curse and tried harder to pry the doors open, the tendrils coming out of her back also trying harder to pry the doors open, only for the effort to be proven futile as the metal was welded together by the two streams of fire.
Snarling, Kushina began to bang her hands against the door, 'No! I will not let you keep me in here!'
Behind Kushina, the ground started to crack.
Kushina kept smashing her fists against the door as her tendrils tried to pry the doors open, 'I will not let you keep me from my sochi!'
Kushina did not notice the ground behind her explode upwards.
Outside the Lab
The ANBU continued welding the door shut, the commander and guards watching.
The commander signaled two ANBU, "Seal up the entrance, make sure that the door cannot be breached until we say so."
Two more ANBU stepped up and performed hand signs, "Doton: Doryuh-"
Suddenly the metal doors exploded outward, the metallic barriers into the lab being torn through and sent flying through the air as if they were no lighter than a pebble.
The ANBU using the Katon technique were sliced through by the metallic chunks of shrapnel, along with the Guards and one of the ANBU about to use the Doton technique.
Near the back, the other ANBU used shunshin to evade the flying chunks of steel, some were luckier than others.
One such ANBU tried to use Shunshin, only for the steel to stab into his side and tear clean through their abdomen, and bifurcated their body, letting their entrails spill out and fly through the air before gravity sent their remains smashing into the floor.
The Commander and the other Doton user had been quick enough to escape, and they turned to prepare a counter offensive…only for them to gasp in agony as a stabbing pain tore through them before they were torn apart as the thing that stabbed through them tore through their bodies, growing larger as it continued forward.
The remaining ANBU tried to avoid the incoming source of destruction, but it seemed as if the thing striking at them had a mind of its own, following them with ruthless abandon, tearing through them like a hot knife through butter.
Two ANBU went through hand signs, "Katon: Gokakyu no Jutsu!" they both fired off the jutsu, and two massive fireballs went hurtling towards the incoming destructive force.
With an explosion of fire, for a brief moment, it seemed as though the attack had ended the existence of the force tearing through their comrades.
The ANBU however remained vigilant, already weaving through a second technique.
Beneath their feet, the ground itself began to crack.
The two ANBU finished weaving seals, "Katon: Goka-AAGHH!" one of the ANBU screamed in agony, as a horrid and deep stabbing pain tore through their very being.
The other ANBU jumped away, and stared at their comrade, their hidden eyes widening in horror as they saw what had happened to their comrade.
Tearing out of the floor, spikes of unknown origin ripped through their comrade, ripping through limb and bone, while simultaneously keeping the ANBU still amongst the living. The ANBU's screams of agony echoed throughout the halls.
The ANBU readied their weapon, and was about to make a break for it.
Only for their body to seize up…frozen in place as a tearing pain ripping through their spine, traveling through their ribs and inner organs.
The last thing their saw was what remained of their heart, trapped upon the black root that tore through them.
And then all they saw was darkness.
The corpses of the dead ANBU coated the floors, the walls, all in differing manners of dismemberment. Some were torn to pieces, others simply impale on the black roots, pinned against the wall.
All but one, a single ANBU, whimpering in agony.
The ANBU panted and whimpered, sobbing in pain as their blood dripped from the holes in their flesh, trickling down the black roots stabbing through them. Their eyes tearing up as blood poured out from their eyelids, one of the roots having cut up, slashing through part of their skull, just barely missing a vital spot.
Their eyes darted around, trying to find any survivors, to no avail.
Suddenly, their gaze caught movement in the shadows, and they tried to whimper, say something, to beg for help.
Only for them to see the outline of the figure in the shadows…
They were filled with indescribable horror as the figure walked towards them. They shook and whimpered, trying to vainly move, trying to flee as the figure came closer and closer to them.
The ANBU began to sob as their bloody tears fell down their face, dripping off of their chin.
The figure exited the shadows, revealing the form of Kushina Uzumaki as she stared impassively at the vulnerable ANBU before her.
Her eyes glanced across their form, before she snarled as she stepped forward, her hand shooting out.
Tearing out the ANBU's throat.
Kushina watched intently as the ANBU gargled and choked, the blood from their throat pouring out like a vile fountain, the ANBU's throat still oozing blood as it was gripped between her fingertips.
She scoffed in disgust at the ANBU, before she threw his bloody throat to the floor…and turned her attention to the instruments of their destruction.
She started her observation by looking at the location that was just a few feet behind her when she was trying and failing to pry the door open, and the black roots that tore out from it.
Kushina looked around, and beheld the carnage created by these roots, and she could not help but wonder what exactly they were.
She walked up to one of the roots, coated in the blood of the ANBU it had torn through, and she looked it over with a careful eye.
The wood was little different than any other tree, but the ridges of the bark seemed to flow more like a river, rather than the layered and porous ridges she saw on almost every other tree, the bark on these roots seemed to flow like the current of a river, the swirls and arches of the bark resembling a winding stream of sorts. But that wasn't all; the color of the roots was something she had never seen on any tree in her life, the color was like black ash, like burnt stone, no tree that she had ever seen in her life had such a color tone.
Kushina continued to look at the root, until she suddenly stopped as she stared at something blemishing the root, something unlike any plant she had ever seen. The closest she could compare it to was a knot in the wood, but it seemed more like a pod than anything else, and down the center of the pod, there was a slight slit of some kind. She traced her fingers across the pod, and looked at the edges of it. Surrounding it were strange ridges which seemed almost like veins, creating as the river current-like ridges coalescing into the vein-like shape.
Kushina couldn't help but look among the length of the roots, similar pods covered the roots, some larger than others.
Kushina looked back at the source of the roots, and what they had done, she had wanted the door opened, she wanted the ones who dared get in her way of getting back to her child dead, and they had done as she wanted.
'Did I do this?' Kushina could not help but ask herself.
First she was able to force spear tipped tentacles out of her back at will, now she was able to call upon this…black Mokuton?
What in Kami's name had been done to her?
As Kushina focused on the root, she did not notice six more ANBU come out of the halls.
The six ANBU turned towards the direction of the roots that had torn through the walls, and saw Kushina, "The subject. Restrain her!"
Two ANBU swiftly stepped forward and shot through hand signs, "Doton: Seishi!"
The floor in front of them split open, and two pillars of earth erupted out of the ground, shooting off towards Kushina.
Hearing the orders given to the ANBU, Kushina snapped her body around as she prepared to attack.
But just as the pillars of earth came at her, the ground was torn asunder, and a massive root the width of a tree trunk shot from the ground, blocking the path of the earth pillars, causing them to shatter upon impact.
The ANBU covered their faces as the dust created from the pillars failed strike was shot back at them.
The ANBU then looked back at the obstruction which had blocked their strikes path.
The tree-like root had three of the pods on its surface, facing the exact location of the six ANBU which had just arrived.
The ANBU stared at the root, and were about to move.
When suddenly, the pods began to quiver, the slit in the center of all three slowly starting to widen.
The ANBU readied their weaponry, while the two that had first used their techniques began to go through hand seals.
Before they could get to the final seal though, the pods snapped completely open.
The ANBU stared in a mixture of shock and confusion as the pods contents were revealed to them. They expected that once the pod opened that more black roots would shoot out towards them, and they would be forced to defend themselves.
They did not expect that inside the pod, there would be a fully evolved Sharingan eye.
But…it seemed slightly different from the typical Sharingan eye.
The sclera of the eye was a milky white color, but around the edge of the iris, there was a black ring that seemed to bleed into the sclera itself. The iris was a deep and vile blood red, and the ring connecting the three tomoe in the eye seemed warped and broken. The tomoe themselves were distorted, and the tail end of the tomoe seemed to curve like a sickle.
The ANBU could not help but stare at the eyes as they began to move inside the pods.
The eyes seemed to glance around the room for a moment, taking in the sights around them, before all three eyes snapped their gaze at them, the pupils dilating.
The last mistake those ANBU ever made was looking into the eyes.
Suddenly the ANBU stiffened, and they began to shake, they looked at their arms in a panic, and began to swat at themselves, cowering and whimpering as they started to panic.
Suddenly, the ANBU began to scream as they grabbed their heads and began to dig their nails into their scalp, scratching at their head until blood began to soak their hair and drip down their cheeks. One ANBU began to claw at their arms until the muscle and bone was revealed, even then they still did not stop scratching.
The ANBU suddenly pulled out a kunai each, and began to drag the sharp edge across their skin, peeling the skin and flesh off as if it were the skin of an apple, their flesh and bone bare as the blood leaked from their arms.
All the while, as this was taking place, Kushina was staring forward, her vision blocked by the immense black root that had protected her from the ANBU's initial assault on her person.
Yet she could see everything.
She could see as the ANBU ripped at their own flesh in some vain attempt to get at a hidden enemy, their cries of agony muffled as they began to claw at their throats, their blood starting to pour into their lungs, drowning them in it.
She could see as they slowly descended into madness, and their inevitable death.
She could see as the light left their eyes…through the Sharingan eyes on the root that had saved her life.
Kushina shook as she looked at the roots, and she reached up to her face, staring at her fingertips, a single question going through her mind.
'What did they do to me?'
Tendrils coming out her back, and now this twisted fusion of Mokuton and Sharingan?
How in Kami's name had this happened? She didn't have any bloodline she was aware of, and she knew neither of her parents were Senju or Uchiha, nor were they of whatever clan had the ability to make tendrils come out of their back.
Kushina kept staring at her fingertips, contemplating what could possibly be the reason for her having these abilities.
Everything about her situation was beyond strange, first she had woken up in a hidden laboratory, now she was using these unusual abilities that she had never seen before.
Kushina clenched her hands into a fist and she looked up, she would worry about what had happened to her later, for now, she had to find her son.
First, she had to escape this wretched place.
Kushina started to walk around the giant tree root in her way, and looked down the adjacent hallways.
Frowning, she tried to think of which way would likely be the exit.
As she looked down the hall to her left, the one to her right was echoing with the sound of many footsteps.
Coming down the hallway were over a dozen ROOT ANBU. As they headed down the hall, they saw Kushina at the end of it.
The ANBU towards the front stopped and performed a ram seal; "Kai." on the ANBU's vest, several previously unseen seals glowed for a moment, before a cloud of smoke erupted from them.
The ANBU jumped back and shot their hands forward as the clouds dispersed, grabbing something in the cloud of smoke and bringing their arm back, revealing their hand gripped around a transparent glass bottle, filled with what was assumedly water.
The ANBU uncorked the bottle and threw it in the air, the water falling out of it as the ANBU swiftly shot through hand seals, "Suiton: Mizu Tama."
The water condensed into a ball, and shot towards Kushina.
Kushina heard the ANBU yell out the jutsu and turned her attention to the ANBU just as the sphere of water was flying towards her with great speed.
Kushina saw the incoming ball of water fly at her with speed she knew she could not hope to dodge, and based on the chakra she felt being used for the technique, it was something that could definitely injure her, and since she had no clothing to wear, no armor or even a cloak to lessen the blow, it would be even more devastating.
As these thoughts whirled throughout Kushina's thoughts, the pools of blood beneath her, created by the still bleeding carcasses of the ROOT ANBU who had been dispatched by her Mokuton-like abilities, began to bubble.
The sphere of water sped towards Kushina, the sphere turning into a more oval shape as it sped at Kushina, the end pointed at Kushina becoming a sharper point, which would no doubt increase the damage done by the technique.
Time seemed to freeze as Kushina tried moving out of the way in hopes of lessening the damage of the technique.
The water technique closed in on Kushina, there was no way that Kushina would be able to avoid a dangerous blow.
Just as the technique was within a foot of Kushina's position, the water suddenly dispersed as its path was obstructed, causing the water to scatter about, not one drop ever touching Kushina.
The ANBU jumped back in shock as they readied their kunai, while their comrades did the same.
Kushina stared forward at the object that had obstructed the technique, and looked down at its origin.
Shooting out of the puddle of blood, a crimson spike that shimmered in the dim lighting of the base had sprang up, jutting in the path of the Mizu Tama just as it was about to strike her.
Her eyes scanned the surface of the crimson spike, and she glanced at the ground around the spike. There were no cracks in the ground, suggesting that it was not another of the roots created by that black Mokuton, and there were also no pods on it, so that was ruled out. She briefly considered that perhaps it was an earth technique, after all, she seemed to possess the Mokuton to some degree, it was a fair guess that she also had Doton abilities that reacted similarly, but there was no warping of the puddle that suggested that earth had shot up through the floor.
As she scanned her eyes across the crimson spike and puddle of blood, a single droplet of water from the Mizu Tama fell into the puddle, causing a ripple to occur in the puddle of blood…
Which then traveled up the crimson spike.
Kushina's eyes widened briefly as realization struck her, 'It's blood?' she stared up at the crimson spike which had stopped the Mizu Tama.
A spike of blood had protected her from the Mizu Tama technique? Could she manipulate blood as well?
The ANBU saw Kushina's moment of distraction, and quickly performed a second Ram seal; "Kai." two seals on their chest glowed brightly, and from each seal a cloud of smoke. The ANBU shot both hands forward and pulled back, showing their hands gripped around two glass bottles filled with water. Rather than uncorking them, they simply threw the bottles at the ground, causing the glass to shatter, and the water to spring upwards. The ANBU ran through hand signs again, "Suiton: Mizu Ya."
The water shot up and converged in a swirl, before suddenly shooting at Kushina like an arrow.
As the arrow of water shot at her, the ANBU readied several kunai and Shuriken and sent them flying through the air, Kushina being the target.
Kushina's attention immediately turned to the water technique flying at her.
The spike of blood reacted to her thoughts, and the tip of the spike suddenly lengthened and bent at a perfect ninety degree angle, and a second spike of blood shot out at the water arrow, dispersing it, sending it flying through the air just before it struck Kushina.
However, the blood was not able to move fast enough to block the incoming kunai and shuriken, which were flying at Kushina just as the water spear dispersed.
Kushina could not move fast enough, her body still weak from years of not being used.
Kushina tried to jump back in a vain attempt to avoid the incoming projectiles as the spike of blood tried to block some of the projectiles.
To everyone's shock though, each and every kunai and shuriken was knocked completely off course, impaling the walls and floor.
What shocked them though was not that they had been blocked, but that it was the water of the technique that had been flying at her moments ago, which had blocked the projectiles.
Kushina glanced at the flattened spheres of water that had been created, blocking the projectiles before even touching her, knowing she was vulnerable enough to need protection.
This thought coursed through Kushina's psyche as she looked between the blood spike, and the water floating around her, 'I wonder.'
The ANBU did not pause for a moment, they all swiftly went through hand signs, while others readied their weaponry, throwing them at Kushina, while the ones performing the hand seals cried out, "Kage Shuriken no Jutsu."
The projectiles suddenly tripled in number as they flew at Kushina, to the eyes of the ANBU, vulnerable to the massive assault of kunai and shuriken.
They were dead wrong.
Kushina lowered into a stance and she began to move her arms in a flowing manner, before she sent a single palm strike out.
The flattened spheres of water spun out of their sphere shape, and shot through the air like a snake through a river, slashing through the incoming projectiles.
Kushina then stood up straight and swung her other arm, before sending a second palm strike forward.
The blood spike suddenly shot through the air, arcing left and right, clashing with the projectiles, arcing like a bolt of lightning.
As a dozen of the projectiles started to come closer to her, Kushina's gaze snapped towards them.
Before the kunai and shuriken could touch her, the puddle of blood beneath her feet sent several arcing blood spikes up at her, slicing the projectiles in half and causing them to scatter all across the hall.
The ANBU drew their blades and ran at Kushina, in their mind, if projectile weaponry and ninjutsu did not work, perhaps kenjutsu would.
Kushina saw them rushing at her, and she swung both of her arms as they came at her.
The blood pool beneath her sent up a long rope of blood that coiled around her arm, and the water did the same, a long rope of water wrapping around her arm as she swung her arm.
The ANBU swung their blades, charging their chakra through them.
Kushina chose that moment to strike, sending the whip of blood at the frontal ANBU.
The ANBU saw the incoming whip and tried to slice through it, thinking that the blood would not halt their progress.
The clang of their blade against the blood rope told them otherwise.
Before the ANBU could react, the rope of blood suddenly sharpened the edge that was connecting with their blade, and sliced through it.
And lopped their head from their shoulders.
The remaining ANBU jumped away from the rope of blood as it sliced at them. The headless body of their former comrade falling over as their head rolled across the floor.
Kushina then swung the whip of water at those remaining ANBU who still persisted to charge at her.
The ANBU had clearly learned from the mistakes of their fallen comrade and dodged out of the way of the water whip instead of foolishly attempting to cut through it.
Kushina only smirked as she suddenly swung both arms causing a ripple to go through the blood whip and the water whip.
Two of the ANBU saw the ripple through the water and blood whip, and despite the fact their enemy was in front of them, they turned around and looked back at the whips.
The last thing they saw were two scythe-like blades made of blood and water swinging at them.
The sound of something cutting through flesh and bone alerted the remaining ANBU, and after a quick glance, several ducked below the swinging scythe-like ends of the whips.
One ANBU bent over backwards as the whips sliced over their head, cutting through their extended sword as they skidded across the ground on their knees.
Two other ANBU were not swift enough, and ended up getting bisected, each half of their body, both top and bottom being sent flying through the air as the bladed ends of the whip slashed through them.
The ANBU recovered quickly and readied themselves.
Meanwhile, Kushina lowered herself into a combat stance, and shot at the remaining ANBU, the whips retracting until only the blades remained out, while the rest of the whips wrapped around her arms. The blades at the end looked like the blade of a scythe, one composed of water, the other of blood.
The ANBU whose blade had been cut by the whips flipped up, and charged chakra through their blade, creating a curved chakra blade where the blade had been cut off. The ANBU shot at Kushina, intending to strike her down.
Kushina saw the incoming ANBU and ducked under their strike, while swinging her own blades at the ANBU.
The ANBU flipped over Kushina, and swung their blade again; Kushina responded swiftly and swung the water blade, which clashed against the blade the ANBU swung. To her surprise, it did not cut through it.
Kushina narrowed her eyes as the two blades clashed, and she saw the shimmer on the edge of the blade, a shimmer not found in normal chakra, 'Elemental chakra?' the shimmer certainly suggested some sort of elemental chakra was allowing the ANBU to clash against her blade instead of cutting clean through it like before.
Kushina cursed inwardly, and swung her blood blade at the ANBU directly. The ANBU saw this and used their blade to push themselves away just as the blood blade struck at them. The ANBU barely avoided the blade as it sliced their mask, causing cracks to run across it.
As their feet hit the ground, their mask started to fall off them, revealing their face, a slightly deep gash passing across their cheek.
Kushina narrowed her eyes and swung her blades again, the ANBU meeting each blade strike with their own. The ANBU swung their blade at Kushina, only for her to block it with her blood blade, and she swung at the ANBU with her water blade. The ANBU just barely avoided the strike again, this time gaining a cut across their brow.
Kushina jumped back, as did the ANBU, both of them staring at one another as they readied themselves for a second round of strikes against the other.
Kushina frowned inwardly, the ANBU was not as easily bested as the others, and she still had not recovered from her body's hibernation. All she had managed to do to the ANBU was damage their blade, cut their face an-
Kushina's eyes widened briefly as she looked at the ANBU, and saw the blood trickle down the ANBU's face from the two deep cuts on their face. She then looked back at her blood blade.
The ANBU shot at Kushina, their sword at the ready, and they swung hard and fast.
Kushina shot her hand out in an open grip, pointed at the ANBU, while her water blade was at the ready.
Suddenly, the ANBU froze in place, trapped in the air mid swing, their face contorted in pain as they grit their teeth.
Kushina's eyes widened and she allowed a mild smirk before she began to close her grip and slowly lift up her arm.
The ANBU seemed to be trying to cry out in pain, but was unable to, their body starting to levitate higher in the air.
Kushina closed her fist entirely, and smirked, before ripping her arm back in her direction.
The result was the ANBU screaming in agony as their skin tore open, and a shower of blood spurted out, flying about in a crimson mist.
The remaining ANBU all backed away in shock as the blood converged in the palm of Kushina's hands, forming a crimson sphere composed of the blood of the ANBU.
The ANBU continued to convulse, their skin growing pale as their life blood left them, their body becoming like a drained and dried husk with every passing second.
Finally, the ANBU's body fell to the ground, the last of their blood leaving their carcass.
The ANBU stared in horror as their gaze shifted between the corpse of their comrade, and the form of Kushina, swirling the sphere of blood above the palm of her hand.
Kushina looked at the sphere of blood, a glint or pride in her eyes, 'So that's how it works.' Kushina kept the sphere swirling, the crimson lifeblood shimmering in the bases dim lighting.
The remaining ANBU broke free from their horrified stupor, and quickly ran through hand signs, charging their chakra as they readied their technique.
Kushina saw them get ready to use a jutsu on her, and narrowed her eyes. She was not going to let them have a chance. She allowed the whips of blood and water unravel from her arms and join the crimson sphere she was holding in her hand, and she brought her other hand to the edge of the sphere.
In a single motion, she separated the sphere from one, into two smaller spheres of blood. Kushina clenched her hands, causing the spheres to ripple and distort, as if a maelstrom had been created inside of each sphere.
The ANBU ended on their final seal, "Futon: Hitofuki no Shitsunen." the two ANBU inhaled, their chest expanded, and they readied to exhale.
Only for the two rippling spheres of blood to explode outward, creating a dozen crimson spikes of blood each, pointed at the ANBU…which flew through the air at the ANBU…
Their lives ended before they could finish their technique.
The ANBU fell over dead as the blood spikes dispersed, joining the growing pool of blood beneath each ANBU as their own life blood drained from their bodies via the gaping holes in their flesh.
As the blood pools grew, Kushina relaxed her stance, sighing as she stretched her arms, and looked at the corpses of the ANBU littering the hallway.
It was fortunate for her she had been able to figure out how her newfound ability worked, as she was not sure how to use her others in the situation she had been in with this particular batch of ANBU. While yes, it was certainly possible that she may have activated the needed abilities by instinct, she knew she would not be able to rely on that in the future. Not if she planned on being the mother her sochi deserved.
She absentmindedly brought a hand to her chest, her eyes distant, "Naruto-sochi…" she sighed heavily and moved to continue onward.
All the while, thoughts ran through her head, specifically on her newfound powers.
First she had awoken with multiple tendrils ripping out of her back and stabbing into several doctors, scientists, and med-nin who were no doubt performing sick and deranged tests upon her person, which would explain why she had such powers to begin with. While at first her ability to conjure these tendrils was instinctive, she managed to partially figure out how to conjure them at will as she tried to pry the doors of the laboratory open.
As she tried to leave the lab, and those ANBU tried their best to keep her contained, her anger revealed another of her abilities, again, activated instinctively. The ground beneath her feet ripped apart, and from it, black roots tore from it, and ripped the door apart like a hungry wolf tore through a rabbit. At first she thought the roots was a sign of Mokuton, and while she may be right, she knew that if that were the case, she was only half right. The Mokuton was black, like ash, or stone, and the bark on the roots seemed to flow like the current of a river. Not to mention those pods all along the length of the root.
Inside each pod, there was a Sharingan eye, and she was able to see through each eye.
And now, this new set of abilities, the ability to manipulate blood and water at a whim, shape it, warp it, move it, it was something she had never heard of before. While the Nidaime Hokage was a master of Suiton ninjutsu, she had not quite heard of water manipulation to the extent she had just done, and she had most certainly never heard of manipulating blood as she had done.
However the biggest question she had on the blood and water manipulation was not how she could do it, she figured the scientists had done something to her to give her these abilities. Her biggest question was if the manipulation of blood and water were two separate abilities, or if two examples of the same ability, if they were different from one another, did they have their limits…and if they were the same, then what else could she manipulate in the manner she could manipulate them?
The plethora of questions continued to course through Kushina's psyche with unrelenting intensity.
Until she forced her psyche to silence, 'I don't have time for this, I can worry about these powers later.' she continued onward, her eyes burning with intensity, 'Until my Sochi is back in my arms, unharmed, nothing else matters.'
Kushina continued onward, either not noticing, or not caring as her path was followed by the puddles of blood, and the increasing growth of the black roots.
Kushina's lips moved slowly, and she uttered a single phrase, "Hold on sochi…Kaa-chan is coming."
Ok, now that the chapter is done, both myself and my partner Hakkyou no Yami realize you will have many questions…let us start with your first concerns
1. Kushina constantly thinking about how she did what she did...what would you do if you suddenly woke up after an indefinite amount of time in a location you were unfamiliar with and suddenly started using abilities you know for a fact you never had the apability for, and no idea how you got the ability in the first place...please, answer that.
2. Kushina's calmness in the face of her new abilities...she is a Shinobi...do you really think something like her powers would cause her to panic and do something stupid?
3. Kushina's quickness in figuring out her new abilities...again, she is a Shinobi, she saw a pattern in her abilities and herself, and played upon that to see if she could use her newfound abilities at will instead of instinctive.
4. Kushina's singular focus of getting to her child...Kushina is a mother, that really needs no further explanatiopn on her focus on her child.
5. Is Kushina a former Jinchuriki in this one...NO SHE MOST CERTAINLY IS NOT!
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