(Sorry for the update lag getting harder to get into the random mood of writing, I own a volume nine Naruto manga comic but not the rights to)
The secretary at the Konoha Hospital raised an eyebrow at the newest release signature by Nurse Ramika. That's three now in last two days and no one has heard from the first two that where released. Given they lived alone and shouldn't be returning to work for another few days but it was suspicious none the less. Reading the newest signature it was signed less then one hour ago to a patient on second floor, wanting to catch up with the elusive nurse she turned to the other girl beside her and asked for her cover for her.
She got up and strolled to the elevator hoping that the nurse would still be cleaning and prepping the room she just vacated. It had been three days since she saw her face to face and that Ino girl was asking questions too. The secretary let these thoughts simmer as she waited for the elevator to open to her floor. It didn't take her long to walk into the recently vacated room and open the door.
"Oh there you are Nurse Ramika I presume?" the secretary asked walking into the room. The nurse had her back to her and didn't answer her. "Hey you answer me who are you?" the secretary demanded walking up to the nurse reaching out with an arm.
She jumped back startled as the door behind her slid closed. She turned and saw a figure in a dark robes blocking her exit. "Hey what are you-" she started to demand but the figure jerked his arm. Her breath came out as choking gasp as the nurse behind her slid an arm her neck putting her in a head lock. She grabbed at the arm out of instinct but it was futile, going back to her martial arts training she elbowed the Nurse holding her in the kidneys hard and repeatedly.
The figure let out a harsh chuckle saying "that won't work she can't feel pain anymore." The secretary gave up her attack holding on the arm around her throat trying to pull it away just a little to get some precious air. "I see you've been investigating me nosy people like you could really be detrimental to my plans when I'm at such a weak state," the figure explained to her slowly walking towards her. Her vision was getting blurry and her knees weak, she could barely hear what he was saying to her over her brain's demands for air.
The figure was standing over her as she slowly kneeled before him. He tilted his head down letting her catch a glimpse of his shadowed face. If she survived she knew she'd have nightmares for a while she thought to herself somewhat glade she couldn't see all the details of his rotting face. "Don't worry though you'll be of use to me so won't die and this will all seem as if it where a bad dream, soon sleep will set in and this will all go away," Sasori told her as his hands made a seal.
"Hey you sure did take your time," the other secretary told her when she returned to her station.
She was rubbing her throat "ya…sorry" she croaked.
"Hey you alright?" the other secretary asked out of concern, "where have you been what happened?"
The secretary looked ahead her eyes blank for a few seconds before she winced rubbing her throat "must have chocked on some food…I'm fine," she said before returning to her work. Over the next few hours she thought about what happened during that hour, she remembered something important happened but she didn't remember eating. All the mental pictures where fuzzy. "Oh well" she thought, couldn't have been that important else she would have remembered what happened.
Ino finished punching in her card to begin her work day. After doing so she walked to the reception desk just to check into something before starting her routine. "Hi," she said recognizing the receptionist expecting her to inform her right away if she had found their elusive nurse. She looked at Ino with a pleasant smile returning to greeting with a "Hello how can I help you."
"Well," Ino said waiting in an awkward silence. The secretary raised an eyebrow clueless as to what she was expecting of her. Ino wanting to break the awkward silence asked "well have you seen nurse Ramika around or heard from the patients she released?"
"I'm sorry wha-" the secretary started to say before she suddenly stopped and stared blankly at Ino for a moment. Ino took a step back wondering what was going on before the secretary blinked. Her eyes looked dull as she said in a monotone voice, "I'm sorry I just remembered something yes I did see her, actually she wanted to meet with you as soon as possible about Sakura's project please follow me this is very urgent, follow me."
Ino was startled a bit by the odd behavior but chased after the women as she stood up and walked away. "Hey wait up can you just tell me where were going?" she asked keeping up with the strange secretary.
The secretary mostly ignored her leading the way she simply repeated "please follow me." Ino sighed folding her arms and following the strange women she assumed there must be a good reason.
Ino looked up and surprised finally figuring out that she was being led to her research lab. She walked a head of women saying "she is in here you could've just told me."
The secretary mostly ignored her comment letting her take the lead. Ino pushed past the double doors and into the dark room. "Here I'll get the lights," Ino said reaching around the wall next to the door. The secretary didn't respond or follow her in she waited till the girl was in the room before grabbing the door handles slamming the doors shut. When they closed the locking mechanism kicked in baring the door closed from the inside.
Ino turned startled by the noise ran to the doors pushing on them. "Hey what's the big idea this is so not funny," she cried out in the dark. Kicking at the door she noticed it was barred feeling around she couldn't find an opening, "that is new," she thought to herself. The secretary turned and walked away, she was far down the hall where she couldn't hear the door being kicked before she blinked. Shaking her head as her eyes regained there luster, she looked around confused as to how she got there. Rubbing her sore head she figured if it was important she would have remembered before leaving to return to her station.
Ino quickly gave up on the door and returned to fumbling along the wall looking for the light switch. It didn't take long for her fingers to touch and flick the switch lighting the room brightly. She covered her eyes with the back of her hand before they adjusted. She let out a gasp that turned into a scream when she saw what that lab had been turned into.
Basically all the wooden furniture had been ripped apart and pilled beside an operating table along with a pile of prosthetic limbs that had been no doubt been stolen from the nearby supply and storage rooms. That was nothing though the obscene pools of blood all over the floors, bloody spray along the walls, human internal organs left pilled in an overfilled waste bin, and an eviscerated corpse lying on operating table with a prosthetic limb half attached.
Ino's noise wrinkled at the smell finally reached her nostrils. She put a hand on the table as bile welled up in her throat making her dry heave. She looked up on the table noticing a scalpel. She reached out and grabbed it holding it before her ready to attack as she scanned the room for any threats. It didn't take her long to notice a nurse standing idle in a corner, she was heavily covered with cloths but she could recognize her to be the nurse she had been looking for.
"Did you do this or if not are you alright?" Ino shouted at her trying to keep the panic out her voice. "Answer me!" she yelled at the unresponsive nurse. Ino heard some rustling coming from her left. She spun facing the other direction holding her small knife close to herself ready to stab at any attacker. A figure in dark robes that hid his whole body rose up from a bench. His movements where slow and exaggerated as it inclined his head to her, "Nurse Ino Yamanaka I presume yes…I am some one in need of your special medical services," it said as it painstakingly walked up to her.
Ino held the knife up threatening him with it "don't come another step closer and how do you know my name who are you?" she shouted at him taking a step back from him.
The figure laughed as he explained, "I know you from the files kept around here but you should know me as well as I know myself by now, you've been dissecting me for the past few weeks."
Ino looked confused at first before it donned on her "no you couldn't be…" she mumbled.
Sasori grinned with what little real face he had as he pulled his robe off saying "rejoice in your genius your project was a complete success, and to celebrate I humbly welcome you to my workshop, be grateful you'll be the first person to see my newest play."
"A…A monster…" Ino mumbled looking at Sasori's body. It was like the first time she saw Kakuzu's true body, it seems all the Akatsuki really where creatures from nightmares. Sasori's organic parts have seriously begun to rot if it where not for the hospitals sterility he would've been covered in flies by now.
Sasori flicked two fingers on his puppet left hand making two half puppets stand up and clumsily walk up behind him before continuing "however your work isn't done yet I suggest you come quietly I wouldn't want to damage you just yet."
Ino stood with her back against a barred door trying to look confident as said "what do you want from me?"
Sasori cocked his head to the side before answering "simple I want you to find a way to continuously replenish my chakra from wood and transfer my living chakra from this seal and into a puppet body, your perfect for the first one you are a botanist are you not?"
Ino gathered from what he saying that he had no way to replenish his chakra because he no longer has any living cells so be must be weak and dying at the moment but, he is an Akatsuki and she knew she would be hard pressed to win against one alone even if he was currently weakened.
Ino flicked the scalpel back holding it along her arm so it wouldn't be in her way as she formed a hand seal "Shinranshin no jutsu," she cried. Sasori's body or the fleshy parts suddenly went ridged.
Ino gave a surprised smile that her jutsu worked. With no partner and low on chakra Sasori could be no threat to her now she presumed. She openly smirked as Sasori's fleshy right arm raised up against his will clasped around his throat choking himself. Sasori sighed "so young," he mumbled as he flicked his puppet left arm. Ino's eyes widened as surgical blades popped out the fingers and arms of the two puppets beside Sasori. He motioned his hand down and the two puppets leapt up at Ino with there bladed arms raised high. Ino cancelled her jutsu and rolled forwards dodging the first attacks.
Sasori twitched his pinky causing the Nurse puppet to jump to life. It extended its right arm, a small electric circular saw sprung out from its forearm. It made high pitched whine noise as the circular saw powered up. Ino's eyes widened in fear at the nurse puppet leapt too at her. Falling back on her medical nin training she twisted, rolled, and dodged avoiding the deadly blades of the two attacking puppets. The nurse swung its arm at Ino in large swapping motion. Ino moved back but found herself backed up against a wall again. The puppet wasted no time coming at her again raising its spinning death high above her to come crashing down.
Ino glanced at her sides seeing the two different puppets approaching from each side. She waited a moment for the arm to be moved down ward before catching it at the elbow. The puppet was much stronger then any human but Ino caught it at good leverage point holding the arm and it spinning death just above her face. The saw sliced a few blond hairs from her face but didn't cut her flesh. She saw right away Sasori was aiming for a place that would have carved half her face off and mar her for life but wouldn't kill her, she guessed he didn't care long as she lived.
Ino struggled against the puppet while the other two came in for the kill. With a last grunt of effort she kicked the nurse puppet strait into the other two coming at her. With the three puppets tangled on each other she charged at Sasori holding her scalpel she'd have to kill or disable him quickly she thought.
Sasori glanced up at her undisturbed he thrust his abdomen forward as his intestinal spear jettison out at his target. Ino knew about his spear waiting till it neared her while she was close to the wall she ducked and rolled to the center of the room. The spear missed her and struck deep into the wall. His spear was caught in the acoustic tiles in the wall that made it sound proof. Ino smiled amazed she got this far with such a powerful foe she placed her hands in a seal to take over his body and destroy him from within.
Sasori looked over at Ino and mumbled "like a puppet on a string." Ino was confused by his comment, if Lady Tsunade or Sakura where watching they would've been screaming for her to move. Sasori noticed that this girl was shadow of Sakura's skill. She could move and dodge obvious things but didn't notice her surroundings at all. Sasori flicked a finger and Ino felt an Icy child run down her spine as a cold fleshy hand and puppet one wrapped themselves around her. She was standing by the operating table she assumed the puppet on that table was incomplete. Ino was never ready to take on an Akatsuki by herself.
Ino immediately struggled but too late as shape needle extended out of its puppet hand pumping in a sedative. Ino bashed to puppet off her and stood up strong for a moment, then stumbled as the floor seemed to move. "Don't don't don't Wooorrrrriiiieeee……" her confused mind worked out as Sasori spook to her.
"I won't kill you I need you and your going to help my whether you want to or not," Sasori explained to stumbling girl. Sasori's four puppets stood up surrounding Ino. She stumbled and tried to fight back but her attacks caused her to trip over herself and fall to the ground. Sasori stood above her as he made hand seals using up more of his precious chakra, he really hopped she was capable of the task because he was resting a lot of hopes on an inexperienced chunin.
(I apologize to any Ino fans and for the long update delay. Also any bate readers out their or any one can refer me to a good please do, and please please I love to read your reviews!)