"Hold on you were trying to save my mother for who?" Naruto asked
"An old friend who shot us in the back. Your mother and I served on a task force together
"What task force?" Kyoko asked.
"A Black ops unit the a organisation called the Advance Research Group United Support. It started out in the U.S before becoming global. Task Force X was a unit made up of dangerous criminals who conduct extremely dangerous missions in exchange for time off their sentence. You're mother was basically our field handler, working with our actual handler back in Tokyo. Anyway the squad I was on was comprised of her, myself and four others. The most notorious one of them was Floyd Lawton aka Deadshot, he was a mercenary like I became after leaving the squad." Slade explained
"What were you before the Task Force?" Mami asked
"Australian Special Intelligence Service, or ASIS for short. Then I became the ARGUS Liaison with Australia leading me to meet Kushina Uzumaki, aka Vixen" Slade said.
"So what happened?" Kyoko asked pulling a stick of pocky.
It was a classified mission to grab a smuggler who was working out of one of Rio's Favella sections, he was known for peddling guns, drugs, diamonds and women. But he's most dangerous asset to sell was a chemical steroid called Venom, said to have its origins in the Japanese developed serum called Mirakuru. Anyway we found the scumbag conducting a trade with the Bratva, Russian Mafia. We moved in and took them all down. That was when it happened: Deadshot pointed his gun at the back of one of the operatives and pulled the trigger, killing in her cold blood. We were all shocked and then once the shock was over our heaviest member was the next taken down. He managed to injure Deadshot a bit but nothing severe, any way he got away and I chased after him. Mistake number one, Misktake number two was letting him get a bead on me"
"What happened?" Sayaka asked
"I was shot in the right eye, completely destroying it, hence the eyepatch" Slade said tapping his eyepatch.
"So then what happened."
"Kushina gave some of the others cover while they got in out of there for medical treatment" Slade said
"But that's not the end of it is it?" Naruto asked feeling his anger for Slade ebbing away.
"No, soon we were all targets for Deadshot, picking us off one by one until three remained.
"You, him, and Aunt Kushina" Kyoko said
"That's right, now what I'm about to tell you is not pretty.
"Give it up dude, so he stalled mid fight" Yosuke said
"But why?" Kirito asked
"Who cares, let's go" Yosuke said point away from the wall.
"Maybe your right we're not finding any new evidence" Kirito said
"Thank you, I mean it's not like there's a bullet hole in the wall" Yosuke laughed before sighing as Kirito stared at one point in the wall. "There's a hole in the wall isn't there?'
"Yeah, .308 round possibly from a sniper rifle." Kirito said getting it out of the wall.
"Wait, isn't that where Homura was when he punched her?" Yosuke asked.
"Yeah and after that he looked around, almost as if" Kirito said
"He was looking for someone else besides us" Youske said
"But who would he be looking for?" Kirito asked
"I don't know but we have to tell Naruto and the others" Yosuke said
"So how did Deadshot kill her?" Naruto asked.
"Not going to lie to you kid, it was easy for him, just about as easy as it for Kyoko to inhale Pocky" Slade said
"Hey" Kyoko shouted
"Not hearing any denial" Slade chuckled.
"So the details?" Sayaka asked as Naruto's hands tightened into fist as Mami place her hand on top of his.
"We were six years past that little mission, I had become a mercenary while Kushina had become a stay at home mother, something she dearly adored. If she could be left with just one thing; it would be her family" Slade smiled fondly at the memory of his dear friend. And our handler had retired as well, wanting a simple life. So imagine my surprise when during a job in the local area I found out that Deadshot had been paid to get rid of us. So I booked it to Kushina's house and knocked on the door" Slade said
"So what happened next?" Kyoko asked.
Flashback 10 years ago
"KUSHINA! KUSHINA OPEN THE DOOR, ITS ME SLADE!" Slade shouted, soon the door opened to revealed a beautiful red haired woman with deep violet eyes.
"Slade what is it?" Kushina asked seeing her old friend unnerved.
"He's nearby, Floyd is nearby" Slade said
"Oh shit, how did he find me, I mean we were only ones who know and even then Tom recommended this city because it was safer than Tokyo" Kushina said worried.
"We don't know if he's here yet or not" Slade said
"Anyway since you're here you may as well come in" Kushina said smiling letting her old friend inside.
"Thank you" Slade said removing his shoes and placing in the hall way, then he spotted a small patch of blonde hair. "And who is this?" Slade asked kneeling down.
"OH, that's my son Naruto, come on out; he's not dangerous'
"Depends on who you ask" Slade muttered earning him an elbow to the ribs.
"Now would you like something to drink?" Kushina asked smiling
"Just a coffee please" Slade said ruffling Naruto's hair as the walked past.
After an hour or two of smiling and laughing the two became sombre.
"I wonder if he's out there right now lining us up in his scope" Kushina said
"Don't think like that" Slade said softly.
"Says the man in standard combat gear" Kushina stated
"How's Minato?" Slade asked, just about as Kushina was about to answer the sound of glass smashing was heard. Quickly Kushina and Slade jumped up into action, both holding their sidearms. Kushina had a Beretta Cougar while Slade drew out his TiSAS Zigana sport. Slade subtly hinted to the lights which Kushina turned them off. Slade stood in the doorway to the kitchen while Kushina stood by the wall in the middle of the lounge room.
"Nothing out here" Kushian said
"Nothing in here either" Slade said backing up a bit to see the hallway. He saw Naruto their looking scared before looking back into . Suddenly a zipping and thud was heard.
Looking around Slade saw that Kushina had been shot in the head. Looking up at Naruto he walked over to him and chop his neck to knock him out
"Sorry kid" he said sadly, slowly he pulled out his phone and dialled a number. "Yeah it's me, Vixen's down her husband might as well. I knocked out teh kid, just make sure he gets to someone who can look after him" Slade said "Yeah that would be a good idea." Slade said hanging up and looked outside to the red light of Deadshot's tactical eyepatch whihc was placed over his right eye, Slade quickly rushed out of the house while the police was coming with a beat up Toyota Corolla in tow. Using his skills he climb up onto the roof. But once he got there, all that was left was a shell casing with the word vixen on it. Angered Slade stepped on the shell with his boot.
"You won't get away with this you bastard" Slade said.
"So that's what happened" Kyoko said after Slade finished his tale.
"Yeah, I knocked Naruto out to save his life. But unfortunately Minato and Kushina were dead. I couldn't do anything, so I call my handler and asked him to do the rest" Salde said
"And who was your handler?" Naruto asked.
"Why don't you ask him yourself, he is standing in the kitchen behind the wall" Slade said as the handler he talked about rounded teh corner holding an old service revolver up in a ready to fire position, thsi shokced the team.
"Papa?" Madoka asked
"Hello again Tomohisa, did you miss me?" Slade asked
"I never though I would hear from you Slade, but then my wife brought you home under teh guise of being a business partner" Tomohisa said
"And I did, you see I'm a sub-director of ARGUS, and we've been working with Junko's firm to handle more of our accounting and legal businesses, she is quite good at her job. Not to mention she could drink most Aussies under the table. But believe me I never meant to bring harm to your family." Slade said
"I'll believe you for now" Tomohisa said as Slade's phone rang along with Naruto's.
"Uzumaki here!" Naruto said answering his phone
"Dude, don't kill Slade he's apparently on our side" Yosuke said
"you think" Naruto said
"He save Homura...wait what you knew"
"Slade just finished telling us, wait what did you mean by that first part? Naruto asked
"He punched Homura out of the way of a headshot" Kirito said
"Whoa" Naruto said noticing Slade was nervous
"Hello?" Slade asked
"Hey Slade, old buddy how much to talk to you again"
"Floyd, where are you?" Slade snarled.
"Looking at a pretty fancy shindig. Heck I have this old codger in my sights. Well had in my sights" Floyd smiled as a gunshot was heard. "And next is that cute violet haired woman by the bar, good thing her hubby went home to get something, I would hate to orphan more kiddies like I did with Vixen's" Floyd said hanging
"Where is he?" Tomohisa asked
"He's there, or at least nearby the place where the party was being held. Now I better get going" Slade said noticing a lack of something "Where are the kids"
