Night Predator
Chapter 10 - Interview With A Dead Man.
Konoha city was still as every eye watched their tv screens as the gruesome scene played out before them, the dark figure had slipped a knife from his coat and placed it at the young news casters throat.
"Now before you even think of shutting down this live feed..." The knife was tilted to catch the light and the man went on.
"Know that as soon as the live feed goes off this young lady will suffer a rather gruesome fate." the man pointed to something off screen.
"And I will know if you cut the feed."
Naruto watched as the camera was turned to reveal a tv and on top was a small device with a clock, even Naruto with no experience knew what the small device was...
"That's a bomb." Cried one of the junior detectives in Fugaku's office.
"Now where to begin this interview?" The dark figure tapped his temple as he ponded on his own question.
"Shall we begin with my childhood, my schooling...Or should we talk about my recent hunts. Well my dear..." The man said his voice becoming very dark.
The news caster was too scared to answer the man as she was petrified with fear, the man on not receiving a answer pulled the knife away and let the women breath again.
"Your not very talkative tonight my dear." The man stepped away as he slid the knife back into its place in his trench coat.
"Maybe we should find someone else to talk too...Maybe the police who are trying to catch us?" The man spoke now switching tones as he spoke.
Naruto looked over to Fugaku who was already picking up his office phone, as he rang the broadcasting station he saw on the dark figure pull the newscasters mobile from the women's pocket. It took several minuets for Fugaku to get the number from the news station, all the while the dark figure stood in front of the camera simply waiting not moving a muscle, Naruto couldn't even see the man breath. Finally Fugaku rang the phone number and on the screen the man finally moved as he answered the phone, Naruto had expected a lot of thing to be said by Fugaku but the ravens first words even put him in a state of shock.
"Listen here you fucking bastard lay another hand on the women and I'll personally string you up." Fugaku shouted down the phone, the man on the tv screen stood silent for a moment and the he spoke.
"Good day to you too Uchiha. Do excuse me whilst I put you on speaker." the man said as he pressed the button so the entire viewing population of Konoha could follow the conversation.
"What is it you want Sir?" Fugaku spoke in a restrained voice knowing not to blow his top off with the entire city watching.
"What do I want? A very good question with no probable answer, I want war and peace, I want life and death, I seek the stars in the morning sky and the burning sun in the night sky. I hunger for violence but find violence without meaning wrong. I seek to hunt and be hunted...What do I want? I want nothing...And everything." The man spoke in a placid and rather monotone voice as if he was reading from a qua-card.
"As to my purpose here tonight I can be more clear about, you see I have with me a thermonuclear device. Not a very big one but large enough to set this entire city to acned to the heavens, all I want is my quarry. I want my fox...You have three hours to decide oh and if you think of coming into the slums don't even try. I've littered the place with explosives...Three hours and if my quarry isn't at the north gate I'll give the world a view of what the world once feared." The camera was switch off and the phone line went dead.
Fugaku and the room went silent as they stood in utter disbelief...Fugaku broke the silence
"How did he get his hands on a nuke?"
"A while ago one was stolen from our military base." Minato said as he did he found himself been grabbed by Itachi.
"And you didn't think to tell us this!" The raven growled as he clenched a fist.
"Enough Itachi." Fugaku dulled his eldest son off the shocked Minato.
"We have a bigger problem to deal with...Shikamaru what do you make of our 'Hunter'?" Fugaku turned towards his most intelligent detective. Shikamaru might be slow in action but his knowledge and understanding was only surpassed by specialists.
"He is obviously insane, delusional mostly likely to be suffer a personality disorder." Shikamaru yawned as he spoke the fear of death not even shaking him.
An explosion went off in the direction of the slums.
Suddenly the phone rang and Fugaku instantly picked it up as the room went into a tense silence. Finally he put the phone down...
"One of our officer was just killed..." Fugaku sounded as if he was announcing the death of a family member.
"Apparently he was trying to get into the slums when a triggered a mine or something and..." Fugaku couldn't finish and for the first time in his life Naruto saw the man lose his cross look and fall back into his chair, the raven turned away so nobody could see him...
Again the phone rang but this time Minato answered after a few minuets he placed the phone down and turned to the room.
"That was the Council they want us to cooperate with this guys terms...Now we just have to figure out what the fuck he wants." Minato said as he glance at Fugaku the man looked to be in shock, after twenty years of service he'd never lost a man. A few had died of old age or retire from accidents but none had been killed and he was taking it badly.
"He wants a fox...Where the hell are we getting a fox from?" Choji asked as he looked around for an answer.
"The only fox in the entire city is the pack they have in the zoo...I will take more than a three hours to grab those and I don't think the zoo keepers will just give them to us..."
"It's me."The conversation stopped and the entire room turned to look at Naruto.
"I'm the fox he wants.." Naruto indicated the whisker scars on his cheeks as evidence.
"No! Your wrong Naruto." Sasuke shouted.
"I think he was the one who gave me the scars that day...i remember his eyes and that voice, they are the same ones I see ever night in my dreams." Naruto said as he though of the knife cutting into his cheeks, he might have been unconscious at the time but it didn't stop his mind from creating the pain.
"What are we going to do?" Minato said as he looked at his son...
TBC