Hellfire
The sounds of uncontrollable laughter filled the Thames. Suigetsu and Naruto were piloting the boat down the river as Watson kept shoveling coal into the furnace. "More coal doc!" Suigetsu yelled as he drank his fifth bottle of water. Holmes laughed along with him as Shikamaru got annoyed.
"I thought discretion was our goal here" Watson reminded. "Holmes, are you sure there isn't an alternative means of water transport?" he asked. Naruto reminded Shikamaru that Suigetsu has helped them in the past and that no one knew the London waterways better than Suigetsu, hell to him, he was practically a fish. "Certainly drinks like one" Watson.
"Oh you found a sense of humor lazy boy, if only just the sense" he joked back. He then took control of the helm and took them to Nine Elms where they disembarked. He stayed in wait but not too close as to attract attention to him.
Instantly the two blended in acting like workers while they searched for clues. Inside a warehouse, they found a very familiar looking workshop. "Look familiar? All that's missing is a midget and three guys trying to kill us" Watson said as Holmes looked around. "Look at this other part of the warehouse" he ended as Holmes noticed a dead rat on the ground, after examining it, he cut its tail off and put the tail in his pocket. With this he followed Watson into the next room.
This room was filled with dead hanging swine everywhere, and it was quiet, too quiet for Holmes's case. "Something large and mechanical was moved out of that room, not moments ago. Where are all the workers?" he asked as the duo checked their pistols. Shikamaru then saw something written on the wall, two roman numerical numbers of one and eighteen. "Chapter and verse, Revelations 1:18, I am he that liveth and was dead…" Naruto recited from his memory of the bible.
"And behold I am alive for evermore" Orochimaru's voice echoed finishing the verse. Instantly the duo tried to locate him. "I warned you to except that this was out of your control Holmes" he echoed
"My, what a busy afterlife you're having" Holmes mocked. He then looked around, pistols ready for him. "Save your bullets Watson, we're going to need them" he warned.
Orochimaru's echoing voice continued "I want you to bear witness, tomorrow, midday, I will have the world at its end" he said
Watson and Holmes put their backs to the wall, "Show me your face and it's the end of YOUR world" Watson rebuffed.
Instantly, Orochimaru's face came out of a hole in the wall between the duo! "A gift for you" he said as he quickly disappeared. Just as quickly, the duo turned around and Watson fired two shots as Holmes fired all six of his. Watson couldn't help but look at Holmes for not following his "Save your bullets" rule; but he figured that was only meant for him as they turned to see machinery moving. Sakura then appeared hanging on the hook moving slowly toward flamethrowers! "She followed you here Holmes, how could you lead this canary to a snake like me?" Orochimaru's voiced laughingly echoed.
Holmes and Watson saw Orochimaru leaving out an exit, but they knew they had to choose, Capture a killer and let a criminal die horribly, or Let a killer escape to save a criminal. "Troublesome woman!" Watson yelled the duo ran over to Sakura. "This game was designed to hurt a lot" Watson warned Holmes as he grabbed a flame-retardant blanket to cover Sakura with as he jumped onto her hook to shield her from the flames that almost hit her.
Naruto just looked right into her eyes with a stern yet humorous face, "In over your head yet?" he asked. Instantly, Watson turned a wheel to stop the fire but instead, he made more come out! "Bit warm in here Shikamaru!" Holmes yelled as Shikamaru corrected the turn and removed the flaming blanket from the two. She Sakura hung there she struggled to get up, as a women she lacked the upper body strength to do so, that and iron cuffs on your wrists supporting your body is very, very painful. "You need to lift yourself up!" Holmes yelled as he got down.
Sakura tried but to no avail "I can't, I've got two big things weighting me down!" she screamed in pain.
Right away, Holmes and Watson looked at her, themselves and then back at her. "No you don't" they corrected in unison.
This was not a smart thing to say to a woman, in pain, who has anger management issues as she showed them why women have bad upper body strength. She swiftly kicked them in their heads with a powerful kick. "YOU ASSHOLES, EXCUSE ME FROM BEING SO UNLIKE YOUR GIRLFRIENDS! THIS IS WHY WE WOMEN HAVE STRONG ASS LEGS! NOT JUST SO WE CAN SURVIVE BIRTHING YOUR CHILDREN, BUT SO WE CAN KICK YOUR ASSES WHEN YOU PISS US OFF!" she screamed as she repeatedly kicked them making them wonder why they chose her over Blackwood.
However, the temper tantrum was cut short as they heard that universal sound. Instantly, all three turned to its direction to see the swine getting cut in half by a band saw and Sakura was slowly moving towards it! "Band saw, don't worry, we have plenty of time for her to finish her tantrum" Holmes said as he grabbed a cleaver and started hacking away at the chains to no avail. However, after a moment of looking around, Holmes had a plan.
He threw some pork bones into the gears of the band saw to slow it down. He then went to Shikamaru who was holding the frightened girl up. "Relax" he said as he took the doctor's belt. Running to a pressure valve, he told Watson to climb up on the chain with Sakura. He then turned the pressure all the way up to dangerous levels and not a moment too soon. The pork bones had been chewed away and the band saw was running again drawing Sakura closer and closer.
Holmes ran back to his friends and climbed up on the conveyor and used Watson's belt to hang on it. All three on there, pressure built up, Holmes's plan was no or never. "And we bounce on 3, 2…" he began as he nearly felt to saw at his back when it ripped his hat. "…NOW!" he screamed as they did just that.
The plan had worked, the weight and pressure were too much of the conveyor and it instantly came toppling down. However, Sakura's angle of falling, was taking her face right into the blade! Right away her life flashed before her eyes, she remembered why she was doing everything. After Sasuke became emotionally unstable, Naruto had him put in the asylum she worked at with her mentor Tsunade. She had assumed Holmes would let him out so she could properly attempt to win Sasuke's heart but he never did. This was betrayal in Sakura's eyes; she thought Holmes did that on purpose because she rejected him in the past. So, she decided, there was only one way to make him pay for this: use everything he thought her about crime, and turn that against him. That combined with her looks, and other factors, would make her unbeatable to Holmes. However, what has that ever gotten her? Lots of cash yes, but a criminal reputation, heartache, and the only time she was ever with Sasuke was when she drugged him and took advantage of him. She admitted this crime only to Ino, but the rumors of this were spread everyway among her friends, she was basically a rapist. "God, my life sucks" she silently admitted as she mentally prepared herself admitting it was better if she died.
However, she felt a pull at her belt as she was less than an inch from the blade and she was pulled back. Naruto had saved her life again. Realizing this, she had an emotional breakdown on top of the detective. "I'm going after Blackwood" Watson said as Holmes tried to calm Sakura.
Outside, Shikamaru saw Blackwood leaving on a boat tipping his hat at the doctor. Watson gave chase, but he felt himself trip a wire as he ran. The stopped dead in his tracks and looked back as Holmes and Sakura came out of the warehouse. "HOLMES!" he called out trying to warn him. However it was too late, the building exploded! Holmes threw Sakura behind a pillar to protect her from the numerous explosions. After that he grabbed a pallet to shield him as he went for Watson, but another explosion sent the detective flying.
Back at Ino's place Sai nearly completed his portrait of her as she leaned in closer to him. However, she instantly heard the explosions, "Was that in the Nine Elms direction!" she asked as she ran to her clothes preparing to aid Sakura.
At the Lestrade mansion Hinata looked out her window and was shocked to see what she saw "Naruto…" was all she could say.
Later, the shell-shocked detective slowly got up, but then he felt someone lift it up, it was Lee. He couldn't make out what he was trying to tell him but it all clicked in a second. "HOLMES! Lord Danzō has issued a warrant for your arrest!" he warned. However, back to his senses and seeing Sakura gone, Holmes tried to go to Watson but Lee stopped him. "No, Shikamaru is alright, just get out of here!" he yelled throwing the detective. Neji then appeared and Lee lied saying he didn't see Naruto.
Naruto raced to where Suigetsu's boat was. Now, things were personal.