Chapter 3: The gather's garden

Naruto POV:

After getting through the rock and granite, Naruto thought he would be safe for a bit, yea but we don't always get what we want. He certainly did not expect to see a desk on fire rolling down a stairwell towards him. Thinking fast Naruto barely managed to doge the obstacle.

After dusting himself off he came face to.. mask, with another splicer, his hands clinging tightly to his wrench, he swung the tool onto the head of his enemy killing him.

After getting up the rest of the stairs, he saw a door, locked by the look of it, and a stairwell, "Best you head up the stairs boy, there's something up there for ya." Atlas told the spiky-haired ninja over the radio, Naruto obliged and sure enough, he was right, in a sense.

"What the heck is that?" Naruto questioned, "It's called a plasmid, think of it as another card to your deck." on closer inspection Naruto saw something that made his skin crawl,

"Uuuuuuh, Atlas?"

"Yea."

"What's with the needle?"

"Well how else do you expect to get it into your body?"

"WHAT! THAT THING IS HUDGE!"

"Look, if ya want to survive this place your gonna need to do this, if not, then you'll be dead in a hour."

Naruto recalled the time, during his first mission outside the leaf, where he had to cut his hand to keep poison from killing him, it hurt like hell but he lived.

Murmuring about big needles he took up the syringe and quickly poked it into his exposed wrist and pushed down on the pump. He expected a little sting, what he did not expect is a burning sensation throughout his whole body! He heard Atlas talking over the radio but couldn't hear a word.

Naruto just kept backtracking until he hit the rail on the stairway and fell off the balcony, and onto the floor.