Chapter 5 – Biological Warfare
Sat north, past the large snowy mountains, sat a large town. The left hand side had been carved into the side of a mountain; the right was placed precariously by the edge of a mountain. Furthest in the village, sat a large square wall, inside sat an ancient looking monastery, white flags with a red cloud hung in the monastery. There was only one way in to the town, and that was through the main road leading away from the town. The town itself was fairly basic, cement and wood buildings, old insignias showing its age. The building varied in height, some were fairly tall whilst the residential areas were smaller. On the right hand side behind the mountain; sat a small dock, used for boats bringing in supplies. Walking through one of the smaller two story buildings was Naruto, he had a whistle on his lips, he was holding a bottle of sake, and a syringe. His tuneless whistle pierced the silence; the sound of wind blowing was faintly heard. Naruto was on the upper floor, men were situated in each of the rooms, each clutching a syringe in their hands. Naruto got to an empty room, he conspiratorially looked over his shoulder before he un-rolled the scroll and sealed the syringe into the final slot. He rolled the scroll up and placed it back in its case; he turned the bottle of sake in his hands and nodded when he saw the brand.
"Nice." Said Naruto softly into the air. He heard people coughing and banging around, he walked to the window and looked down towards the entry to the town. He saw ninja and local militia, he scowled slightly.
"Ninja?" he questioned to himself, he heard yelling and he sighed. Naruto moved away from the window, he turned his head to the right and saw three men yelling. Their heads aimed towards the ceiling, when their heads snapped downwards, Naruto fought the bile that rose in his throat. The once healthy men had taken a sickly pale colour, their jaws were hanging open, the skin either side of their mouths had stretched, fangs stuck out of their top and lower teeth. Their noses had flattened slightly, turning into slits. Their eyes had taken a green colour, with slitted pupils. Their faces had changed to snakes. Their muscles rippled slightly as they screamed once more, they each dashed forward, Naruto clicked his neck as a black shroud surrounded him. One of the men pulled out a machete, Naruto ducked his head backwards, the blade sailing over his head. Naruto flicked the sake bottle into the air, before he exploded in a show of a shimmer and black smoke, immediately he appeared, his right hand palm slamming beneath the man on the right, the man's jaw slammed closed. Naruto's left leg crossed over swiftly, snapping the man's knee backwards, the weird snake like man didn't even cry in pain, he was dropping forward, Naruto's right arm wrapped around his neck; Naruto twisted and disappeared in a show of black smoke and shimmer, the man's neck snapping. He appeared crouched, slamming an open palm into the left hand mans kneecap, popping it backwards, this man cried out in pain, his tone a strange double timbre. As he was collapsing, Naruto flipped onto his hands, his knees bent, he spun slightly and straightened his right leg, hitting the man directly beneath his chin, snapping his head back with a sickening crunch. Naruto flipped onto his feet, sticking his left leg out, he caught the sake bottle on his boot. The final man screamed, Naruto ducked a machete sailed over his head at a deadly speed, the man lost his footing slightly, and the machete smashed the sake bottle. Naruto spun quickly, the bottom part of the bottle still on his foot, he spun and lodged the glass into the man's chest, the man stumbled backwards, his back hitting a pillar, he had lost grip of the machete, which was now curling in the air. Naruto blurred and stabbed the machete through the man's head, pinning him to the wall. Naruto shook his foot to remove some of the sake that had hit his foot. Naruto pulled off his jacket and hung it on the machete. Naruto pulled out his scroll, and unsealed a holster that went over his shoulders, a special kunai holder that went under his left armpit. Naruto also unsealed a holster for his right thigh, which attached to his belt. Naruto then unsealed two kunai, they were tri-pronged, with a seal formula on the handle. He slotted them into their holsters and re-rolled the scroll; he put the scroll back in his pocket and pulled his jacket on. Naruto took a sniff through his nose and looked up; walking through the other door was Hinata, wearing her winter coat outfit, except this coat had cream fur, the tanto on her lower back.
"Naruto." She said in relief, Naruto raised a red eyebrow.
"So the ninja are from the leaf?" questioned Naruto, Hinata nodded.
"We got a mission request, Tsunade stretched the forces as thin as she could." Said Hinata, Naruto shook his head.
"Stupid." He muttered, Hinata was about to speak, when explosions began to sound outside. Both moved to the window in shock, down to the right were the leaf ninja and local militia, hiding behind cover. Small bolts of fire in quick succession were striking random areas. To the left were the now mutated mercenaries and militia who didn't agree with the town leader. There mutated faces were clear, they were all holding metallic items that were firing the fire bolts.
"What are they?" muttered Hinata, looking at the metal objects. Naruto frowned slightly.
"I have no idea; I have never seen anything like it." Said Naruto, the blots were dangerous; they watched as a man got struck down by one, the fire tore through his body like a hot knife through butter. Hinata shook her head; she turned and walked away from the window.
"So are we going then?" questioned Hinata, Naruto turned to look at her.
"We?" questioned Naruto, thoughts of Hinata being struck down by those odd weapons shot through his mind.
"Yes we, I want to help." Said Hinata, Naruto scowled at her.
"Do you even know what I am doing?" questioned Naruto, Hinata shrugged her shoulders easily.
"Don't need to, now are we going or not?" questioned Hinata, Naruto sighed under his breath.
"We have to get to the monastery." Said Naruto, Hinata shrugged.
"Sounds easy enough." Said Hinata, Naruto scowled.
"Hinata, have you not seen what the enemy is carrying?" questioned Naruto, Hinata shrugged.
"We go the quiet way then." Said Hinata, Naruto sighed and nodded.
"Okay, we do this together." Said Naruto, albeit reluctantly. But he rationalised, he would rather she be with him, than fighting out there. Naruto moved to leave the room, Hinata trailing closely behind.
"Oh, before I forget." Said Hinata, she pulled out a device similar to her own. And a small headset that would wrap around his ear and go inside.
"You got me one?" questioned Naruto, Hinata nodded.
"A gift, my number is in, and we need to connect to be on a secret connection." Said Hinata, Naruto did as she instructed; he placed the device in his pocket and put the other device on his ear.
"Testing." Said Naruto, Hinata put her thumb up. Both paused as they held their backs against the wall, either side of the door, both listened for any noise. Naruto nodded to Hinata when they both heard it was silent. They both moved out of the room and walked down the hallway, that is when they heard the noise of something wet, something chomping. The smell of blood filled their noses, as they got to the door on the left hand side, Naruto placed his back flush against the wall; he motioned for Hinata to do the same. Naruto peered around the wall, and what he saw made him gag. A corpse lay filleted on the ground, two of the mutated men were eating the entrails; blood surrounded their snake like mouths and clawed hands. One of them made an odd noise; Naruto pulled his head away in time, the two men looking his way. Hinata pinched Naruto slightly; Naruto's gloved hand held up two fingers. Hinata nodded, they both froze when they heard sniffing directly behind the wall, where they were hidden. Naruto tensed slightly, a hand suddenly exploded through the wall, Hinata ducked her head backwards, the arm quickly grabbed hold of Naruto; the man released an animalistic shriek, exploding through the wall. It wrapped its clawed arms and legs around Naruto. Naruto spun slightly, trying to grab it; its jaw flexed, before cracking open, its fangs growing. Hinata watched as Naruto's red eyes flashed briefly, before he was gone in his shimmer and black smoke. He appeared next to Hinata, slamming his boot into the other one who had slithered behind Hinata, Hinata ran forwards as the other one ran towards them. Naruto was struggling as the snake-like being was holding his foot with extreme strength. Naruto's body covered in black shroud, doubling his pressure. The creature groaned slightly, before its eyes flashed and it let out a scream. Naruto's eyes were wide as the creature wrapped a hand around his ankle, it got to its feet and pulled Naruto off of his, the creature spun slightly, slamming Naruto into the already destroyed wall, Naruto flew into the bloody room; dust from the wall followed him. Naruto spun and landed on his feet, his left hand sliding along the ground slightly. Hinata flipped onto her hands, twisting her body slightly, her foot come down, hitting the one that had thrown Naruto on the head. It ducked slightly, Naruto blurred, his clawed palm appearing beneath its jaw, cracking its neck backwards, Naruto ducked and spun to the left, down the hall as Hinata flew over him, her two feet landing on the things already cocked backwards head. There was a sickening crack as Hinata flipped backwards, Naruto finished his roll and stood up in time to intercept the other one, Naruto did not give this one time, neither did he play light. He slammed an open palm into the things chest, the thing stumbled backwards, Naruto spun, dropping his body low as he tripped up the creature, it shrieked as it fell backwards, Naruto moved quickly, he blurred and slammed a kunai into the things forehead. Hinata walked up behind Naruto, dusting off his shoulders slightly. They both watched as the creatures burst into flames, their bodies turning to ash.
"Odd." Said Hinata, Naruto raised an eyebrow.
"What is odd?" he questioned quietly, Hinata frowned.
"The attacks on the village, all the men we killed burst into flames, but they never looked like that." Said Hinata, Naruto frowned.
"I wonder what is going on." Said Naruto, his mind was racking for the answer.
"Let's get going." Said Hinata, Naruto nodded his head. They walked down the stairs carefully, both keeping quiet. As they got to the bottom, they saw the open plan bottom floor was empty. Nothing but empty metal crates, and briefcases that once held the serum.
"These crates weren't here when I came through." Said Naruto, Hinata looked at them, she crouched down by one, the sounds of the fighting was echoing in the background.
"This is probably the weapons they are using." Said Hinata, Naruto nodded. He walked away from the front door, to one of the doors on the other side of the building; he tried the handle and cursed slightly when it wouldn't open. Naruto took a step back and kicked, the door flew open. The sound of fighting was louder.
"We are going the back way come on." Said Naruto, Hinata nodded and followed. They walked through the dark corridor, Hinata couldn't help but ask.
"What is in the monastery?" questioned Hinata, Naruto frowned slightly.
"It's hard to explain. As you know the Akatsuki expanded, they took in a lot of scientists, war-hawks and other strong members, and made separate divisions, from what I know, Orochimaru is the lead of the R&D, the scientists and what not, he may be in the monastery." Said Naruto, Hinata shivered, her mind going back to the time she was twelve and kidnapped by the sick man.
"Okay, so we are investigating yeah?" questioned Hinata, Naruto nodded, his lips in a thin line.
"And exterminating." Said Naruto, Hinata nodded. Both got to another door, Naruto opened it slowly and looked around. The sound of fighting was right by them, Naruto spotted the sewer system next to them; Naruto moved to the lid and opened it.
"The sewer? How romantic?" questioned Hinata, Naruto smiled slightly.
"We need to get to another building, it is safe this way." Said Naruto, Hinata nodded.
"Okay, let's move quickly." Said Hinata, Naruto nodded and motioned for her to go first. Naruto dropped in behind Hinata, landing next to her. Hinata held out a torch for him but Naruto shook his head, he removed his glasses and smirked.
"Don't need it." Said Naruto, Hinata chuckled slightly.
"Lucky for some." Said Hinata, Naruto nodded but once again his lips were thin. Both were quiet as they moved through the sewers.
Hello Ladies and Gentlemen, On first note I am sorry for my absence, my PC officially stopped working and I was without a computer for the past few weeks, I had no way of updating and I am sorry.
But on the plus side I have got a new mac and I will begin my regular updating again.
I am sorry for making you wait, but I hope you enjoyed the chapter.