Hey eople i am very sad because today is my last day of Summer break before i go back to high school which starts... Tomorrow. An you know what that means when you go back to school.

Hope you enjoy the next Chapter of Naruto Mercer.


Chapter 4

Snakes and Rebels

After the boat docked into the port of the Village Hidden in the Mist Naruto and Alex got off of the boat at their own pace, and followed the crowd as they made their way towards the city. When they got their the people with belongings such as; farmers, merchants, and the like had to wait or their belongings to be searched since they could have been enemy spies for one of the other nations like Kusa, Kumo, and especially Iwa. They bear a grudge against Iwa for a event several years back known as the tragedy of Yosuga pass where the Iwa ninja caused the deaths of several shinobi that were called Junsai and Suiren to take an important scroll that the Iwa ninja helped them and Ganryu stole from from Kumo but had betrayed them.

Naruto and Alex were then asked by several ninja wearing a striped shirt with a black undershirt underneath it, they wore a full-black shirt and pants over which they wear the flack jacket to do a quick body search for a weapon, Naruto didn't mind to some degree, but was still annoyed by all of the security. Alex just sighed and said, "fine, but try to feel me up and you lose your hands."

The ninja blinked and just continued with the search ignoring Alex's warning. As the ninja first felt the ankles and his legs for a knife, Alex inwardly sighed and thought, 'this is just like the god damn air ports back in the States, I thought I left that crap behind when I came here!'

After the quick search they were free to go and Alex muttered, "good thing he didn't try to grab my crotch I would've ripped his head off."

Naruto turned towards Alex and said, "from the sound of your voice you have experience in that department do you?"

Alex turned to Naruto who had a smirk on his face and said, "you would be surprised how often some guard would ask a person to step out of line so they could feel them up, and I'm not going to say I was one of those or not. The last thing I need is for you to have more ammunition on me."

After a minute of the two glaring at each other the two then burst out laughing and made their way into the city. When they got into the city Naruto could only gape at the buildings and Alex only whistled as he looked at the buildings around him. The buildings were larger then any of the villages that he visited and had several cylindrical buildings, the only buildings that Naruto could compare them to would be the Hokage tower back in Konoha.

When that thought entered his head Naruto's mood immediately soured which didn't go unnoticed by Alex who placed a hand on his shoulder and said, "listen we are nowhere near Konoha and if they ever come after you then you will be ready to fight them and return what they did to you tenfold."

Alex felt a singe of pride as he looked at him. The kid if he could call him that was now tall reaching up to his chest and he had grown strong, powerful, and was willing to do the right thing, he was glad that he took the kid with him when he was in Konoha. Back in Konoha he knew that the kid's growth would've been stunted to the point of no return if he didn't do what he did and he doesn't regret it. He was like the little brother that he never had back in the States, the thoughts of the States then made Alex realize how long it has been since he last saw Dana. He left her the coordinates to where the nations were and how you should enter them.

The nations was essentially a nation hidden in the Bermuda triangle or the Devil's triangle as it was known where all navigational technology will deactivate it if it gets too close to the nations, the places position completely hides it from satellite and thermal to do its magnetic field. All the disappearances all of the missing planes was all because of its magnetic field. The people they didn't know where they were going in there for all they knew they might've been over a island or something. The way he found the nations was that a former ninja decided to play dead and hide out in New York before the infection happened

Alex kept wondering about Dana the only family that he had left aside from Naruto. If it wasn't for the kid who knows what he would be doing right now. He also kept him around because life with the kid was never boring at all. It was like boredom absolutely hated the kid and trouble absolutely adored the kid like garbage attracts flies. Yup life was never boring now, which Alex saw as a blessing.

As they got deeper into the city people were offering them items of all kinds, from food to jewelry to weapons. Naruto couldn't help but want to swing a couple of the weapons offered and get a feel for them, sure he could just mold his arm into a weapon, but it was always fun to try one out. Naruto then sighed and kept walking forward with Alex as they made their way deeper into the city, wanting to see more.

Alex had a feeling of remembrance as he looked at the city, true the buildings were nowhere near the size of New York's sky scrapers, these buildings were pretty tall for this country's buildings and despite all of the ninja's that he had consumed over the years it still amazed him to what they could do. They were normal humans in a way, but in a different way they were a new breed all together a stronger breed of humans to him. Alex sighed at the thoughts and then kept moving walking through the crowd in a attempt to find a bar where he could get a drink. Naruto saw him moving and followed him trying not to lose him.

If either of the two had payed any attention they would've noticed that they were being followed by people in the crowd as they walked through. The people that followed them had hidden kunai pouches that they had smuggled into the city after they landed. Their mission was to try and capture Alex Mercer or the boy that traveled with him and showed signs of having the same bloodline.

Alex found a bar and ordered some sake to drink and took a giant swig of it, sure it would take several barrels to even just get a little buzzed it gave him a sense of normality despite what he was. Alex's eyes kept moving from place to place as he looked through the crowd. When Naruto came over he sat in the chair next to him and asked for a drink of water. Alex eyes stopped scanning the crowd when they landed on several people that looked determined to catch up to him and Naruto, he could tell by the way they walked and their eyes, they showed a person on a mission. He had plenty of experience from telling the way a person is going to react or move by the way they move or act.

Alex then finished the sake and placed it back on the counter he then turned towards Naruto and said, "kid we got to go."

Naruto was wondering why his surrogate brother was acting the way he was and was about to question him, until he say Alex's hand moving forming hand signs. Naruto having information from consumed shinobi knew that he was using sign language that said that they were being followed by people. Naruto nodded his head and then formed several hand signs saying that they would walk together for a bit and then split up half way to split them up.

Alex nodded his head and then payed for the sake and made his way towards the deeper part of the city with Naruto right next to him. As they passed a couple houses Naruto saw a street to the right leading to the alley ways. Naruto then made his way towards the alley way and most of the nin followed him however one, the only female of the group followed Alex with a smile as he made his way in the opposite direction that Naruto took.

Alex

Alex walked along the streets at a leisure pace that wouldn't bring suspicion when he saw a alley way he made his way in there and then ran up onto the roof of the building after he landed on the building, he then turned around and said, "alright whoever you are come on out, I don't feel like playing hide and seek with you, so safe us both some time and just show yourself already."

The woman that had followed him appeared before him with a smile on her face and said as the words were practically dripping with glee, "well nice to meet you Alex Mercer, just the man that I wanted to see."

Alex sighed and said, "yeah well a lot people want to see me whether it be for me to join them or to have my head on a sharp pointy stick so that way they can say that they killed me."

The woman chuckled and said, "oh don't worry Alex, I don't plan on killing you I'm here to make a offer to you to join me." She then brought her hand to her face and peeled the skin of revealing pure white skin and long black hair with golden snake like eyes.

Alex blinked a few times and then said, "I did not see that coming so what do you want from me Mr, snake sannin or do you prefer Orochimaru formally of Konoha."

The person now known as Orochimaru chuckled and said, "well aside from that I was wondering if you would consider joining me, you and the boy would be greatly rewarded if you join me willingly, I can offer anything you want money, power, you name it and I will offer it to you."

Alex then hmed looking as if he was thinking about the offer here then cleared his throat and said, "while your offer is truly tempting I will admit that, I must decline to your offer and offer a rebuttal." After he said that red and black tendrils overcame his arms and formed long razor sharp claws on four fingers, "I like my life the way it is so you can you either go away now or we fight it out and see who wins game."

Orochimaru grinned sadistically and brought out his sword Kusangi, this was just what he wanted the chance to test out this unknown bloodline for himself and see its true power.

Naruto

Naruto sighed in annoyance as he made his way into the alley way and turned around after a few minutes several people appeared around him and looked ready to attack him. Naruto sighed in annoyance and said, "you're here to capture me aren't you."

The ninja showed no signs of replying, Naruto sighed again and smirked a little. He then said, "well if you want to capture me your first going to have to catch up to me first now don't you." Naruto then jumped up into the air, he then landed on to the roof and turned around and saw that the other ninja were following him and one said, "we will capture you as ordered from lord Orochimaru."

"Orochimaru huh," Naruto said having remembered the name through several consumed ninja as a former ninja of Konoha who had done some experiments on people in a attempt to gain immortality and learn every jutsu in the world.

"Well did he tell you what I could do," Naruto said with a smirk on his face at the thought of fighting these guys."

"He told us enough to know what you can do," the ninja said with narrowed eyes.

"Really did he tell you about this then," Naruto then changed his right hand into a claw and changed his left arm into a giant blade. "Well then I hope you guys can keep me entertained then. It would be very boring if you didn't."

All of the ninja stared at him wide eyed and then Naruto smiled and had a somewhat crazy gleam in his eyes and lifted his clawed hand and wagged one of the claws at them forward and back at him and said, "well what are you waiting for? Come and get me!"

The ninja charged at him with kunai drawn and threw shuriken at him Naruto lifted his blade arm and used it as a shield to block the shuriken, he then jumped up into air and brought up his blade and cut one of them down, he then raised his clawed had and claws easily cut through the shinobi like a knife through butter.

One ninja was trying to go through hand signs but Naruto stopped him by changing his clawed arm into whipfist and sent it at ninja and stabbed itself into his head. He then spun himself around and threw the dead ninja into the body of another ninja throwing both of them off of the building and onto the ground below them. He then turned to the last one and said, "I'll give you five seconds before I try to kill you, deal."

The ninja didn't need to be told twice and immediately ran off in the opposite direction. Naruto quickly counted down five seconds in his head and then launched the whipfist at the fleeing ninja. The whipfist easily pierced through the ninja's body killing him on the spot. He then pulled back and returned his arms back to their normal state. He then looked around and thought, 'well that was a waste of time, I thought that they would be better then that I didn't even have to use any jutsu.'

He then turned round when he heard a explosion and saw smoke coming from the direction that Alex went and thought, 'I wonder who Alex is fighting? Whoever it is they must be good.'

Alex

Alex panted as he looked at the bloodied sannin across from him, he was having the time of his life. Orochimaru had been the first person in the nation's to push him this far in a while and he loved it.

Orochimaru pride fully cackled and Alex looked at him questioningly wondering if the man had lost it, but then the man said, "Alex Mercer I must have you!" Orochimaru's neck then stretched towards the Blacklight being. Alex smirked and waited for him to get closer for him to do something. When Orochimaru was a few feet away and getting closer Alex quickly changed his blade arm into a shield and slammed the shield into his face he then formed his arms into muscle mass and grabbed Orochimaru's neck and spun on the heel of his foot and spun himself around faster and faster, he then said at the pinnacle of his speed, "going, going, gone!"

Alex smiled at the sight of the flying sannin, but the smile faded away when he heard clapping and saw Naruto, Naruto had a smirk on his face and said, "not bad on the spin, how do you think he likes flying by being thrown."

"Honestly I hope he lands in a dung pile or in a hot spring filled with woman," Alex replied with a smirk.

"You know Kiri's Anbu are on their way we should go now."

"Then let us help you out," a voice said.

The two then turned around and they saw a middle aged man with spiked up blue hair and a eye patch over his right eye , he wore a talisman in each ear with the kanji for 'to hear' written on them. He wore a bluish-green kimono and a striped under-shirt with pants in the same pattern.

Next to him was a guy who looked about Naruto's age and they saw that he had short tufty blue hair. He wore square, black-rimmed glasses connected to ear protectors, a blue pin-striped shirt and camouflage pattern pants, with a shuriken holster attached to his leg.

"Who the hell are you guys?" Naruto asked.

The man with the eye patch stepped forward and said, "my name is Ao and this is Chojuro we would like to ask you a question by or leader, but first we need to get out of the city."

The two thought about and agreed they needed to get out, sure they could probably handle a few at a time but they couldn't take on all of them at once without repercussions later on. Naruto nodded to Alex and said, "fine we will go with you but betray us and we will kill you both."

The man now known as Ao nodded his head while the boy Chojuro seemed nervous around them. Ao took them through the alley ways and after a hour of evading the Anbu search parties they eventually managed to get out of the city.

When they were several miles away from the city Alex turned to Ao and said, "alright who the hell are you guys, why did you us? And who the hell is this leader you talked about earlier."

Chojuro looked at Ao who shrugged and said, "as I said earlier my name is Ao and this is Chojuro our leader sent us out to find you and ask for you to join us."

Alex nodded his head and said, "join what exactly?"

"We were sent to ask you to join us. The rebels who want to overthrow the current Mizukage."