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"Halt!" A voice to my left suddenly called out, before three ninja appeared seemingly out of nowhere… to the unprepared at least. Conforming to their demands, at least for now, I halted, while slightly turning to my left to right to fully assess what I was up against.
The two that appeared to my left where… lackluster to say the least. Nothing really standing out at least, no clan symbols or anything of the sort, though one, a boy in his early twenties with short sandy blonde hair, was using a katana. The girl next to him was also around her twenties with long curly black hair, and was simply armed with the very basics. It was the one to my right that had my full attention.
"Uchiha" If the famous clan symbol on his right and left shoulder didn't give that fact away, the Sharingan looking into my very soul most certainly did. He looked like most Uchiha in my head did, that is to say short black hair with a look that almost seemed timeless. While I was conducting my investigation on my foes however, they were doing the same, looking over my admirably bare form. The only things visible being my signature mask and poncho, my rifle nowhere to be seen.
"Wait" The girl on my left suddenly called out, recognition striking her features "Isn't that the-"
"Shinobi killer, the first non ninja to make it into the bingo book and the one responsible for the death of Dan Sensei." The Uchiha finished, rage and hatred entering those eyes of his, while his hands balled up into fist. The boy and girl to my left however, where not angry with my very existence apparently, if the shaky step back the both took while drawing there weapons was anything to consider.
"Hey, come on guys, we have him completely surrounded and outnumbered. Surly we've already won… Right?" stated the very misinformed boy to left. If the look his allies were giving both me and him simultaneously where anything to go by, they didn't believe him for a second. Deciding that I was finished with my analysis for the time, I spoke up, much to their apparent shock.
"Well, as fun as this has been im afraid that the time has come for this meeting to come to an end. Seven, deal with the two on the left, but leave the Uchiha to me, I want him alive." The last part brought confusion to my would be ambushers, as there was no one else here but us. Of course the Uchiha figured it out first a second later, but by then he was far too late as the earth around the two to the left suddenly exploded, throwing four metallic spider like disks towards the two unfortunate souls.
The two however, had far better reflexes than I gave them credit for, suddenly kicking out backwards to avoid the spider mines. But I had not come this far by thinking that the first attack would always succeed, as they soon found out when they were suddenly knocked to the ground, as a heavy object grabbed onto their legs from behind them, vaguely looking like a metallic disk with four spindler looking legs. The widening of there eyes was the last thing they did before a sudden explosion enveloped them, the mines from earlier also throwing themselves into the inferno before exploding outwards, creating a small clearing to behind me of flame as I stared at the Uchiha before me.
"Come" I spoke to the Uchiha in front of me, whose expression resembles one of pure shock, along with the first sign of tears building up in the corners of his eye.
"And show me the power of the Uchiha" The man in question suddenly stopped looking behind me to the scorched earth, and started looking at me, rage overcoming his every being.
"Wakino, Ikari, I will avenge you" he breathed out, before rushing me with impressive speed. But me? I just stood there and waited.
"Twenty feet, ten feet, five feet…" and just as the Uchiha was within striking range of his kunai that he pulled out while rushing me, I pulled out my own weapon.
The Uchiha suddenly stopped and leaned to the left, narrowly missing the the curved blade attached to the massive revolver in my hand, however, instead of stopping the swing I turned with it, while at the same time my other hand came out from the depth of my poncho, revealing a second revolver with a similar curved blade starting from halfway from the barrel and ending about a foot from the barrels end. Said barrel was was pointing itself right at the Uchiha face, but before I could pull the trigger his free hand shot up and knocked the gun to my left, throwing of the shot and sending it into the forests depths. Capitalising on his current advantage, the Uchiha brought up his kunai into the right side of my body, only for it to ping off with barley a dent.
Seeing as this was the moment I had been waiting for, I brought the revolver in my right hand forward akin to a stabbing motion. The Uchiha, still recovering from his last attack, was in no position to doge my own. And when the Uchiha's eyes suddenly bulged out, and blood started spilling out of his mouth, I knew it had connected.
"BANG!" The shot that followed afterwards was simply assurance, blowing open a hole in his back and tearing apart any organs in the way. I expected him to collapse afterwards, but what I didn't expect was for to bring his hands up in a familiar sign.
"Fire style" The Uchiha breathed out with seemingly all his strength.
"Fire Ball Jutsu-!" But before the Uchiha could fry us both in a last ditch attack, a hook and chain suddenly wrapped around his neck, pulling him from my blade and throwing him to the feet of the girl holding the leash. The girl then brought her foot down onto the Uchihas chest, and pulled, choking the dark haired man. Do to a mixture of blood loss, and now being starved of oxygen, he was quick to pass into unconsciousness.
The only sound that existed moments later where the crackling flames behind me, before a sigh escaped me. If I was being honest, while I still felt guilt for the death i've caused, I must admit that the fight was quite… easy. The Uchiha have always been regarded as the strongest, and yet we had dispatch him with unexpected ease.
Giving the still breathing Uchiha a quick glance, I then turned to the sound of footsteps approaching from behind, giving my apprentice a quick look of conformation, one she responded in kind.
"So..." She spoke up after reaching my side, and giving the Uchiha a look over.
"Not a word" I responded quickly, knowing what she was going say. The smile on her face told me I was right.
"Howed the new guns work out?" She asked instead, her town one of curiosity, the lifeless tone from earlier gone now that the battle was seemingly over.
"Fine, though i'll need to run them through some more trials before I can give them any real seal of approval." Seven just gave me a humph in response.
"And Him?" She asked while giving the Uchiha a little nudge with her toe.
"He's coming back with us, I have some ideas for those eyes of his."
"Oh?" She asked, "and what-" I suddenly cut her off by sticking my hand hand behind sevens head, deflecting the kuhai of my armour and sparing my apprentice all at once. Both of us suddenly turned around, and bore witness to the sight of the boy from earlier, his katana out and the left side of his body badly burned.
"I'LL KILL YOU, YOU HEAR ME, I'LL KILL YOU!" He screamed out, absolute rage coloring his… well everything.
"Oh? Your still alive?" I raised my gun, aiming the barrel over the wounded mans head, "Let's fix that." However, the moment I pulled the trigger an alarm went off in my mask, the thopters found something.
I found out what it was a second later when a seemingly white bolt of lighting deflected the bullet, before the offending individual revealed themselves, standing in front of the badly burnt sword user was another sword user, one that looked a lot like a certain spiky white haired masked man.
"Sakumo Hatake, this… is not good. I'm not ready for this kind of foe, not yet. Lucky for me" I quickly glanced over to the Uchiha behind, and the injured man behind the white fang.
"Ya, that could work…" I thought with some finality.
"So, your the Shinobi killer, the one responsible for killing Dan?"
"The one and only" This seemed to displease him, if the squinting of his eyes at me was anything to go by.
"Dan… was a friend of mind, and many others. You'll pay for what you've done." And here he raised his sword, white lighting jumping over and around the sword. Seven responded in kind, raising her hook in a ready stance, and drew Sakuma's gaze for a moment.
"Now, now" I said, drawing the eye's of both parties to me once more.
"Lets not be to hasty here. We wouldn't want anything… unnecessary to happen, now would we" I punctuated my statement by pointing my revolver down… to the still form of the uchiha. And just as I thought Sakuma's form stilled, his grip on his sword visibly increasing as his anger increased.
"Why you-"
"Girl" I turned to seven, while keeping Sakuma in my view.
"Grab the Uchiha, but make sure that he can be… disposed of should our friends try anything." Thankfully, Seven seemed to pick up on what I was planning, as she followed my order to the letter, reaching down and grabbing the Uchiha while holding her hook to the uncousensess man's throat. And all the while I kept my gun on the Uchiha while keeping my gaze on the shinobis still form, no doubt trying to find a way out of this situation.
"Now then" I spoke up again when seven's small frame gathered up the Uchihas body.
"What happens next is up to you, Sakumo Hatake." I stated, obviously shocking him for a moment. I continued.
"You can try and come for me, and perhaps even kill me. But in doing so you will not only doom the Uchiha here, but the… boy behind you." And as if to punctuate my statement the man behind Sakuma suddenly collapsed, his wounds finally catching up to him.
"He won't last long without medical aid, something I don't believe you are capable of." His anger was gone now, being completely replaced with uncertainty and doubt.
"So, what will you do? Will you fight and let everyone die around you? Or let us go and save your comrade?" And here he closed his eyes, his entire body going still. A moment passed, then another, before his eyes suddenly opened, his stance firm and face unreadable. A decision had been made then.
"You won't get away with this he stated with absolute conviction, before lowering his blade. I couldn't stop the unsee smile that broke out behind my mask.
"Oh, I think I will" I stated before suddenly jumping backwards and into the trees behind me with a chakra enhanced jump, seven following me step for step. Sakuma moved as well, but not to us, instead he moved backwards toward his wounded comrade, grabbing him and jumping away.
"That was to close… far to close" And wasn't it? Had Sakuma decided that my death was a higher priority then his comrades, Seven and I would be dead. I'm not ready for combat with people of his skill, not yet. But thats why I did what I did. Sakuma was known for being a softy when I came to his comrades, and that was what I was banking on. And it worked.
"Barley" I thought, though when I looked over to the almost comical scene of a five, almost six year old girl carrying the body of a twenty year old man, I couldn't stop the smile breaking out again.
"But oh do I like the reward. I can't wait to see what secrets I can pry from those eyes of yours uchiha…"
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For a solid five hours we ran, doubling back and leaving false trails to confuse and trick any ninja who might try and follow us, though if the readings of my drones where anything to go by, we were in the clear.
We stopped in a clearing a little while later, catching are proverbial second wind. I gazed over to to my companion, who had just finished propping up our… guest, patching up his wounds in the process with her admitabley weak first aid knowledge, something I had forced her to memorize for situations like this.
"How's the patient?" I asked, some humor seeping in my voice. She gave me a bit of a huff before responding.
"He'll live… I think."
"Well, that's all I can ask for I guess. How about the status of him waking up?"
"Oh, he'll be out for a long time. I'm making sure of that." she finished her sentence by waving her hand near the Uchiha, and watching as a black smokey like substance left his body and entered hers.
"Your draining his chakra?" She gave a humph of agreement before responding.
"Just enough that his body can still heal, but still be forced to remain unconscious to survive."
"Hmm, I see" I stated while watching her ability at work. It was a unique ability in all honestly, the ability to drain any and all chakra around her and add it to her own reserves. We discovered this during her chakra training, when she took to accidently drinking my own supply when I forced her to use her own supply through rigorous training. It was an uncomfortable experience to be honest.
After discovering this little fact, her ability to control it shot up considerably, finally understanding what the hell she was doing most likely contributing to this little detail. I had taken to calling this ability "Dark Release". Taking in a deep breath and releasing it in turn, I got up from the tree I had been leaning on, and began walking over to my apprentice.
"Brakes over, you ready to move on?"
"Ya, im good."
"Good, grab the prisoner and we'll be on our way." This drew a long groan of displeasure from the girl.
"Why do I have to keep carrying him, can't you do it?" My response was to just simply stare at her like she had just grown a second head.
"No" This time she gave a sigh of defeat while gathering up the body of the Uchiha.
"He's not light you know." She weezied out while making her way over to me.
"You'll survive. If it helps, you can think of this as some sort of training exercise"
"Ya ya, I get it" She answered as she made her way over. We took off after that, making a beeline for the base. It was time to get paid and start experimenting. I couldn't wait to get started.
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We stopped by the village on our way back, as I had an inkling that was were I would find my paycheck, and behold it was. Apparently, a carrier bird had come by and delivered two messages to the local militia of the town. One told them to hand over the the other message to me should I return successful, and instruction that this would be the norm, as they could not afford to leave ninja here in hopes that I would return. It also left a warning that should they open the other message, things would get… messy. The other message told me where they left the money.
After collecting my pay, which was hidden quite well on the outskirts of the village, we made our way home. Upon entering Alpha base, I immediately got to work.
"Follow me, we need to secure the prisoner before anything else." I then made my way towards one of the branching paths my cave home offered, and after a little bit of walking through twists and turns we came upon a metal door, something that surprised Seven.
"I don't remember this being here."
"This place is a maze seven." I responded a bit distracted, as I was currently typing in the necessary codes to open the door.
"There are bound to be things here you are unaware of, for now at least." The door opened after that, revealing a partially built metal structure within, wood tables lining the walls with a metal table dead center in the room, metal clamps lining the slab of metal.
"Strap him in, then grab your tools. I want this place spruced up and finished by the time he awakens.
"Why isn't this place finished yet?" She asked while placing him on the table and begging to strap him in using every single clamp she could find… and there were alot of them.
"I began this as a side project, in anticipation for guest we might have." I said while eyeing the Uchiha.
"Didn't think weed have one so soon though" I finished with some slight anticipation.
"Jeez, how many projects do you have anyways?"
"Ongoing or planned?" I asked with a mesure of seriousness. Aperently she didnt think id aswer her, as she had to blink a couple times before shaking her head.
"Both" she answered at last.
"Twenty-seven ongoing, with about fifty-six planned for, though that number will most certainly be going on thanks to our guest here."
"Hmm, I see"
"Come" I told her after the last clamp was secured, making the subject look almost like some kind of metal mummy.
"We have work to do" The door closed behind us as we left, drowning the room we just left in darkness and silence. Something that would change for the being inside at a latter date, and not for the better...
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Hello humans and non-humans alike and welcome back! I'll be honest, while I liked how this finally turned out, getting to this resolution took forever! The biggest problem was honestly my fault, in that I messed up. Originally, I was going to have the the three ninja Carmine fought be the Ino-Shika-Cho combo. However, after looking at the timeline I have created for myself I realized that they wouldn't even be genin, being around the same age as minato, who hasn't even been taken by jiraiya as an apprentice yet. now , there will be a bit of a time skip, something you can expect for a good portion of the second and third world wars as id rather not detail every day of his life or we could be here forever. Things will slow down, at least when it comes to time skips, around the end of the third war and near the start of Naruto, in case any of you are curious. Now, don't worry to much as I don't plan on just skipping the wars out right, we've still got a good four or five chapters until we near the end of the second war, which could increase or decrease depending on any ideas I get or discard. Let's see here… Other then that I think that's all folks! If you have a question, please either PM me, or review and I will get back to you as fast I can! Peace.