Chapter 8: Time to rumble

Talking

Thinking.

Demon/Boss summon talking

Demon/Boss summon thinking.

*Jutsu*

As evening fell on the town the four dark shadows of our heroes raced across the rooftops towards the church, having spent the rest of the day out of sight to recover from the battles with the cultist earlier and gather up whatever supplies they could from around town the team was now ready to begin their attack.

"So, what exactly is the plan here Sensei?" Kenji asked, seeing how this was no longer just some basic C-rank mission Anko would be the one leading instead of letting them do it.

"Our first objective is to actually get inside that cathedral, no doubt now that they know we're on to them they have the whole place swarming with guards and men to keep us out. Take them down if we have to and don't hold back, remember they want to kill you so do not hesitate to do the same." She told them in a very serious tone.

The trio of genin gulped a bit but, remained undeterred from their job, they knew and accepted eventually they were going to have to take a life just never expected it to be so soon.

"After we get inside we need to poke around and find out more about this cult, no sense if we just go blindly charging in with no information." Anko continued.

"If we can we should try and find Sinaka since her father was the one who created the church, she is bound to know something about all this." Naruto said, the others nodded in agreement.

"Good idea, if we can we will. After we find all we can we start looking around for any more missing people and free them, once free one of us will lead them out while the other three stay and find the main bulk of this cult and take them down." Anko finished, it was a sound plan and they hoped it would work.

Soon they arrived at the church and just as predicted it was covered in lights and they could make out the figures of various people walking along the outer wall to keep an eye out for most likely them.

"Kenji, take them down." Anko ordered, said dog boy nodded and hurried up to the wall, picking a good spot he hopped up and generate a small amount of lightning chakra in his fingers before stunning a pair of guards creating a whole.

"All right, let's go." Anko said, the trio quickly moved and jumped up joining Kenji and Takamaru. They looked around and soon found a window that they could open, pushing it aside they hopped into a long hall way and made their way inside.


Guards moved up and down the halls of the building holding candles for light as they patrolled the inner hall ways, their job was to make sure the Konoha shinobi were found if they managed to get in, however unlikely that was.

What none of them failed to see were the four pairs of shadows that walked silently on the roof of the ceiling right down the middle, making any form of patrol they had completely useless.

"What is with bad guys and never looking at the ceiling, what do they expect us to just come charging in through the front door or something." Kenji commented as they stood in front of the main office for the church, Anko was currently picking the lock while the four kept an eye out.

"This is not the time to be discussing the hiring qualifications for henchmen to a sadistic cult." Kiana berated in a hushed tone.

"I'm just saying, they know we are ninja so did they not thinking about ceiling walking?" Kenji said back throwing a glare at her.

"Can you two please just stop for five minutes, we're in the middle of a break in here." Naruto said stepping between them.

"Foxy is right there gaki's, we have a job to do now shut up and do it." Anko said finally cracking the lock, she pushed the door open and allowed them past her before walking in herself and shutting the door.

"Wow for the leader of a crazy demon cult this guy has good taste." Naruto said as they looked around, the room was simple yet lavish in an odd mixture, paintings hung on the wall and various statues and vases lined shelves. In the middle of the room was a pair of couches and a table lined with mugs.

"Now if we were the leader of a demon cult, where would we stash all our information." Naruto commented as the group began to go through the place, searching the various shelves and draws to find anything.

"Hey, think I got something here." Kenji said finding a hidden file tucked away in a large book, the other's came over and cracked open the file, inside was a list of all the members of the church and that did not look promising for them.

"Holy shit, every member of this town save a few are members of this cult, they have the whole town under their control and people are just willingly buying into this BS." Anko said taking the file.

"Not only that look, we aren't the first genin team to come here, in fact it looks like this town has hired a squad from each of the five great nations and none of them ever reported back." Kiana said reading another file.

"So what they made request to each of the five nations and then killed the teams that were sent, I get they have the whole town on their side but how could civilians take down three genin and a jonin sensei?" Kenji asked.

"Wouldn't be as hard as you think, drug them with acts of kindness, slit their throats while they're asleep, oldest trick in the book actually." Anko said continuing to read the file.

"Anything else useful you can tell us from that, why exactly they are doing this, maybe a rough idea of their plan?" Naruto asked hating they didn't have a ton of useful information to go off.

"Well from what I can see in here the why is to raise a demon who they believe can bring down the five great nations and unite the world as a whole under its banner, though I doubt it will be the peace and love fest they think it will be. The how is a bit trickier, they apparently need to sacrifice the blood of shinobi to act both as a fuel source for this Jutsu they plan to use and give the demon a marker so he knows who to bring down and where they are." Anko said.

"Oh perfect, Eraitla is the one behind this, mom is going to blow a fuse at this." Naruto said throwing his hands up.

"Your mom and you have had talks regarding this kind of crap, and about demons and stuff." Anko said giving him a weird look.

"Hey technically she qualifies as a kitsune and me as a kitsune hanyou so yes we have had the occasional talks about divine stuff, demons, angels and all the other mystical bull that could possibly come and kill us just for being closely related to demons." Naruto told them, Kenji and Kiana weren't that surprised and Anko just found the whole thing not worth getting into.

"So what can you tell us about this Eraitla guy Naruto?" Kenji asked.

"He's basically the patron of slavers and slavery and all that, wants to come here and rule over all of humanity and all that." Naruto said, he doubted this could ever happen even if he did manage to use this cult to open a door, the Nine Tailed Beasts were honor bound by the sage centuries ago to destroy anything that came from hell.

"Ok so it's even more important that we don't let these guys summon them." Anko said shutting the file, this was getting way to complicated way too fast for her and honestly she would have liked to leave this up to more skilled hands, but they didn't have the time to do so.

"So we know what we are up against now, next is to find any of the missing people as well as any other kidnapped victims and get them out of here." Anko said, the four nodded and soon the room was back to how they found it.

Moving silently down the halls once more they moved passed the patrols and looked for what could be the prisoner room, it didn't take them long before they found a lower area that was on the bottom floor and very well guarded. Anko gave a silent order and this time Naruto moved forward, using his natural fox stealth he dropped down and knocked the guard's cold before stealing the keys and unlocking the door.

His face shifted to one of disgust as he saw the poor state several people were in, the room had at least twenty or thirty people packed inside all looking bad, among them were their missing people and others seemed to not even be from the land of fire.

"Who are you, come to collect another of us." One man asked bitterly as he tried to stand.

"Easy their buddy, the four of us and the dog are shinobi from Konoha, were here to get you and everyone out." Anko told them as she and the other three stepped inside next to Naruto, upon seeing the headbands many faces turned hopeful about getting out.

"Naruto, don't suppose you could summon us up some medics to treat the wounded?" Anko asked, Naruto nodded and quickly preformed the summons causing six green kitsune with four tails each and a silver vixen with six tails to appear.

"Matanari, can you help heal these people?" Naruto asked looking at the head medic who nodded, soon she and her medic corp were preforming basic first aid to help get people on their feet so they could be moved.

"Kenji, you and Takamaru have the best nose and since I can't be the one to do it you need to lead these people out of here and to safety." Anko said not liking to have to ask one of her students to do this for them.

"You got it sensei, leave it to us." The Inuzuka said with a bark of agreement from his partner, soon the civilians were ready to move and will Kenji leading the way, they and the foxes moved out of the room and through the church.

"Sensei, we need to find out where these people were being taken. The cult could be using them for part of this jutsu as a blood payment or something, we need to find out where this is happening so we can put a stop to this." Kiana said watching her friend go.

"We do indeed, come on were burning time here." Anko said, the now trio slipped out of the room and relocked it to cover their tracks before once again moving through the building, soon they came across a stairwell leading deeper in and underground.

"So… Who wants to make a guess all the dark and creepy stuff is down there?" Naruto asked with a blank expression, of course everything evil was stored underground.

"Naruto, no one would be stupid enough to take that bet." Kiana said as they began their trek down into the lower part of the church to find what was there, the further they went down the colder it began to get showing just how far they were.

"Oh surprise, surprise it's a fucking catacomb." Anko said her own sarcasm starting to flare at how cheesy the whole situation looked when they finally arrived at the bottom of the stairs and found rows of crypts and coffins lining the walls.

Ignoring the blatant stupidity and cliché look of the whole place they trekked forward and through a maze of hallways, the area far less patrolled as it had been upstairs proving they thought no one would ever be able to get past them and down this far into the underground.

As they turned a corner they came across something different, a blank looking door that was very out of place in the nest of torches and skulls. They silently pushed it open and when they peaked inside it took all their will power for Naruto and Kiana to not throw up.

Inside were corpses that had been cut up by a surgeon and experimented on, chunks and blood still filled jars and laid on tables, it was a rather gruesome sight to behold and not something they would be forgetting anytime soon if the smell alone was anything to go by.

"Ok, these guys are sick and twisted and very, very much a bunch of messed up people. We need to take them down and stop them from doing this to anyone else." Anko told her genin, even her former sensei who had done some horrible things before he left the village was not as bad as anything these guys had done and that was saying something since he had done some very demented experiments to the villagers.

Before they could leave the door on the other end of the lab opened forcing them to hide among the room and try and keep control of themselves, from the other door walked in two men in lab coats wheeling in a live human strapped down to a table.

"Now then what does the master require us to do with this one." One of the men said grabbing various tools and instruments to begin work on the frightened person.

"This one is to be the next attempt at a DNA fusion, the master wants to see if it is possible to mix together a new demon blood sample with humans" The other said holding up a vial of blood, the first nodded and began to move towards the subject to begin when the shinobi revealed themselves.

"Striking shadow snakes." Anko said bursting out from her hiding spot and wrapping the two mad doctors up in a length of deadly snake, the two fell over and the blood landed on the table. Naruto and Kiana quickly rushed forward and knocked the two men out before they could call for help.

"Kiana get this guy free, he could give us some clues." Anko ordered, Kiana needed no orders as she broke the restraints on the man and allowed him to sit up.

"Thank you so much, I thought for sure I was going to be a goner to these men. You must be the Konoha shinobi the village managed to rope into this, I'm grateful you managed to find my note and arrived here." The man said.

"You left the note? Nice job doing that, without it we would have no real leads on this and could have possibly still been in the dark." Anko said.

While the two chatted Naruto had grown curious and picked up the vial of blood that was still on the table, he uncorked it and gave it a sniff to see if maybe he could get something form it, his eyes suddenly blazed crimson and anger radiated of him in waves.

"Naruto cool it, what's gotten into you." Anko said trying to calm her student down, she didn't know why he was so pissed off suddenly.

"How, how the hell could they possibly have something like this, no one should know about this much less have some." He growled furious at what he was holding.

"Have some of what?" Anko demanded.

"My blood." He said making everyone freeze, that like Naruto said shouldn't have been possible since no one knew of Naruto's status as a half demon and the son of the Kyubbi except for his family and his tea unless…

"Looks like someone back home knows a bit more than they should and decided to make something of it with a demon worshipping cult." Anko growled, this was a serious breach in security and she knew if they didn't plug it, things would come back to bit them in the ass later.

"We need to report this to the hokage when we get back, he needs to start working on finding the traitor." Kiana said looking away, she didn't like the fact that her friend was in danger with someone knowing his secret.

"We'll have to deal with this later, one problem at a time otherwise we will be up to our necks in no time." Anko said, her attention returned to the man on the table who had been silently watching them." What can you tell us?" She asked simply.

"I don't know much but, I can tell you they are almost complete with the requirements for this ritual or whatever it is, all they need now is fresh blood of some kind to jump start the whole thing and they will be able to call their dark god here." The man informed him.

"Ok that is bad, we are going to have to go and stop this now, you need to stay here and wait for us to come back, keep hidden and do not let anyone see you." Anko told the man.

With that taken care of the three moved once again into the hall from where the doctors came, this time it was only one direction so they wasted no time moving down it. After a few hundred yards the saw a source of light ahead and moved to it, coming out into the upper levels of a large circular chamber. The place was illuminated by candles and thirteen throne like chairs were placed around the outer ring, in the middle of the chamber was a large alter table of some kind but what drew their attention was what was on it.

There laying buck ass nude, chained down and gagged was…

"Holy shit they have Kenji as a sacrifice." Kiana said in the most blank tone possible, indeed surrounded by robe wearing figures was their teammate frantically trying to escape his bonds, the reason he couldn't being some-kind of seal placed on the chains that was suppressing his chakra to the point he couldn't use it. Off to the side the boys loyal partner was trapped in a cage and sedated to prevent him from helping his friend.

"We are going to be having a talk about that later." Anko muttered to herself, she couldn't believe her student had managed to get captured.

The trio moved a bit closer so they could hear what was being said by who they guessed was the leader.

"Brothers and sisters, tonight is a time of celebration for our moment of destiny is upon us. We have captured this Konoha shinobi and with his blood we shall open the door to our master so that he may come and bring peace to this world." The leader said among the cheers of his followers, Kenji (Who was royally pissed himself about being caught) renewed his struggles to break out and find his team.

"It is useless to struggle shinobi, these chains restrict your chakra so you can't use it to strengthen yourself." A new voice said, a smaller robed figure approached him ad held a knife in her hand.

"Let go and give in, this is your destiny and with your death a better world shall be created." The figure said as she raised the knife, Kenji's eyes widened as it dropped. He closed his eyes waited for death until he heard the sound of metal hitting metal, opening them he saw a kunai deflected the knife and save him.

"WHAT?!" The elder priest yelled as the ritual was stopped, from above the rest of team eleven descended upon the cultist and began to bring them down.

"Wind style: Gale blast." Kiana yelled banishing her fan and sending the various cultist that surrounded her teammate crashing into a wall on the other side of the room, with them out of the way she hurried over and untied him.

"You are the worst shinobi ever you know that, you got jumped and captured by a bunch of demon worshipping mental cases." Kiana told him as she found and gave him his clothes, she didn't need to see him naked any longer than this.

"Yeah, yeah you can give me the full lecture later, right now less talky and more fighty." He declared as he hurriedly put his clothes on, he refused to go into battle naked.

On the other side of the room Naruto beat his way through cultist that attacked him using his fox style to pound away at them, ducking under furious sword slashes and strikes trying like hell to lop his head off. Further away Anko was dealing with about the same from her batch of cultist but, having a far easier time since she was a Jonin and they were just civilians.

Kiana and Kenji soon joined the fray with Takamaru playing guard in case anyone tried to sneak up on them and strike them from behind, in no time the last of the members were on the floor out cold or in serious pain. Their attention turned to the leader who had be knocked over to his so-called throne before he had passed out.

"So, that was way easier than I thought it was going to be." Kenji admitted, that had taken them only about ten or fifteen minutes.

"Hmm, what should we do with them?" Kiana asked looking at the zealots and the leader of the whole group.

"Get them tied up and ready for transport, we are gonna have to take them with us back to Konoha for interrogation." Anko ordered and the three genin agreed and moved to do so.

That was when the sword burst through Naruto's chest from the back.


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