Author's note: This has been a fun ride so far thank you everyone who has stuck with me. I'm going to continue this story till the end. This chapter will contain a bit of violence, so be warned. The mill will be revealed as to what it entails but I'm sure most of you guys figured it out.
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto.
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How many lined the walls of the base. 100, 1000, 10,000, they beat against the towering walls trying to get in. They had managed to evacuate 20% of waves population, before the horde caught up. They lost two medic nin who refused to abandon the civilians. Something about making up for their past crimes.
Gin shook his head and lit a cigar. Mounted artillery along the walls fired a constant barrage into the undead. Their team had only gotten the walls up yesterday and the artillery was mounted that morning. Explosions rang out killing dozens of them with every round. Except for the well-fed ghouls. The well-fed ghouls were tough. They no longer looked rotted and had snow white skin. The boys were starting to call them whites.
He looked over his men. They were all like him. A week ago, they were gangsters working the streets trying to get ahead to feed their families. Now they worked for a ninja. Their income was steady, and their children were safe inside the bunker. The Boss had their families moved underground the second he learned of the possibility of a zombie outbreak. Smart man their boss, he let out breath of smoke.
Gin was the captain of the flamer unit. Their task was to burn the undead until nothing remained after the artillery softened them up. "Are we really going out there, captain?" Gin turned to one of their recruits. He wasn't anything special. A boy of 15 picked up off the streets, dressed up, and trained. But he was raised in wave one of the toughest crime ridden cities in the world.
"The artillery specialists can't put these creatures down for good, only we can do that. Head up flamer out and stay close, you'll be fine." Gin read the suspected casualty report. A report the boss hands out to the captain to keep them informed. These ghouls were dumb as rocks and driven by hunger. Without a vampire to direct them they were little more than a mob. Their strength was about 10% greater than a human with exoarmor. If they let the little devils near too close they would take heavy casualties.
"Can't we just stay behind the walls and wait them out. They have to get tired sometime." Gin shook his head.
"We could wait here for a decade before they begin to die. In that time, they will have eaten everything on the island. That includes the trees and worms in the dirt. With an entire island to eat through it could be hundreds of years before they die naturally." Gin said. It was his job to read reports and collect information for his men. He wouldn't send them out there is there was no chance.
The gate opened, and they turned on their heavy flamers. Fire hotter than a forge burst forth as his team of 10 heavily armed men made their way out. With their backpack full of fuel, they could keep their flamers burning for up to 4hours.
They walked over the ashes of the ghouls. Burnt skulls shattered under their feet as they made their way outside. Ronin in shoddy armor and child whores from the streets hissed at them and charged into the flames. Their hunger clouding what reason they had. Everything burned, their flamers burnt through muscle and sinews charring bones in seconds. Once the trigger was pulled they stayed at the gate burning a swath through the undead.
It was their job to destroy the undead. They were the eradicator the flamer infantry. With the death of the zombies the vampire will lose chakra. Without a constant supply of chakra, a vampire will become savage. The only problem was the shear number of ghouls surpassed their estimates. It was going to be a long day.
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Tsunami's house was a shitty place to have a last stand against a vampire and his elite zombie squad. Fifty ronin shriveled joined their boss pulling a massive pavilion. Gato the midget had went through a change. He had grown several feet and had massive arms. His skin was pale with black veins everywhere. Gato's hair had fallen out revealing a white bald head.
The zombies had two people chained up. One was held to Gato. The vampire opened its mouth and bit down in the man's neck. "Is that Zabuza?" Sakura asked. He honestly forgot she was there.
"Yes, that is Zabuza, and that would be the hunter nin." Bones were popping, the vampire was changing. Hair began to grow out of its head silver, its arms turned black, and its veins bulged more. Akira could feel a force growing within the midget. It was taking Zabuza's chakra and adding it to his own.
"Akira, how did this happen? I thought you were on the job." Kakashi said. They heard a scream. The vampire ripped off the hunter nin's clothes and mask.
"That's Haku, he was the hunter nin?" Akira realized that Haku was probably the prettiest boy in existence. "We have to save him." Naruto yelled. Sasuke stopped Naruto in his tracks.
"Naruto we can't afford to give him the advantage. With the house we can limit the number of enemies he can send after us." Akira new what was about to happen.
"Naruto look away from the window." Akira said.
"He's my friend, I have to save him." Sasuke saw what was happening and covered Naruto's eyes. Akira let his calamity cannon extend from his arm. This was going to be a bloody fight. The screaming from Haku was loud and horrible. Energy crackled in his cannon. He stepped out the door and fired. Several of the ghouls were ripped apart or scattered.
The vampire managed to dodge and too his victim with him. He saw Haku, as the kid's blood was drained, and his body was gyrated. It was the sounds, by god the sounds Akira would remember them for the rest of his life. Resistance and gravity seals appeared around his body and released.
Gato made a face and Haku made a silent scream, as he was ripped off and tossed to the side. "The little shit stain broke my arm. Thought, I would team him a lesson. His blood was nice and cool, a virgin too rare here." The vampire licked his lips and pulled up his pants. Akira's eyes were side chakra and mana were moving about chaotically. "What's wrong did you want him? Maybe after I turn you I will let you have your share of virgin boys. How does that sound?" Gato said with a chuckle. The vampire's body was exuding an aura of cold. Somehow it absorbed Haku's ice bloodline.
More power, his rage has been sleeping for so long. Adrenaline flowed through his bloodstream as his chakra acted like a buffer to his red and blue mana. Chakra exploded around his body, a blue cloak of solid wizard chakra appeared around him like a mantle, and his eye became an orb of solid blue. A second layer of red wizard chakra covered his skin and covered his hair. This was it what he had been waiting for his wizard mode.
Before he could get ahold of his rage he attacked. An aura of ice shot out from Gato freezing the ground the vampire moved like a shadow appearing in his blind spots and attacking clumsily. The blue cloak blocked every attack. It flowed like smoke and held like steel. The momentum of Gato's attacks were carried away from him and dispersed by the cloak.
Akira felt Naruto rip through the house clad in red chakra. Sasuke was hot on his trail kunai bare and tossing great fireball jutsu like party favors. He wasn't looking at them, he was still completely focused on Gato. This information was a passive effect from his wizard mode. Already, he could feel how imperfect it was. The form had changed his body too much. After he killed Gato time would need to be taken to adjust to it.
"You ninja, even when I'm finally able to kill you trash on my own something like you comes along. It isn't fair. You shouldn't exist." Akira answered with a few blast from his cannon. Each attack packed more power traveling greater distances. Gato took a shot to the gut. Extreme cold protected him from most of the heat only for lightning to ravage the bastard. Burns healed over the bastard's body in less than a millisecond. "But now I figured something out." Ice shards blasted him from the vampire's hands. Akira walked through them his cloak easily blocking them without fail.
"You are a tumor on the world. I am the cure." Akira said. He withdrew his cannon and went through hand signs for the most basic fire jutsu in existence. "Fire Release: Spark," A tiny spark of flame appeared in his mouth and shot out towards Gato. The vampire chuckled at the slow moving jutsu. The spark was no larger than a firefly and it appeared as no threat. Gato despite his new power was still just a business man turned vampire. He had no shinobi training.
When the jutsu hit it created a massive well of heat and energy. A pillar of fire fifty feet high exploded upward. Wizard chakra allowed him to greatly increase the power of his fire jutsu and keep them contained until the right moment. It turned a normal campfire jutsu into a credible threat. When the smoke cleared Gato remained clutching his arm. Tentacles of meet shot out trying to reform it. His body began to thin as a new arm formed. His fangs increased in size and his eyes glowed brighter.
"Blood, I need more blood." The monster shrieked and began running for the city. Sasuke had his sharingan now and was moving at above chunin speed jamming his kunai into brain stems and burning the corpses. Naruto moved like a wrecking ball. He killed everything he touched in a mad dash to end every single life. With every attack he drew on more power and the Kyubi seemed unable to control him. Kakashi dashed through the fight hamstringing the ghouls for the genin. Sakura was blasting them to bits with his grenade launcher.
He was about to rush towards Gato to finish him off, when he heard her scream. No, one of the zombies had dragged its way through the battle field and bitten her. Akira ran over to them. He was there before the zombie bit all the way down. Akira's hand reached around the zombie's skull and crushed it.
The enzyme had already passed through Sakura's blood stream it was in her heart going throughout her system and making changes. He tossed away the bloody remains of the ghoul's skull. Sakura looked at him as he placed her on the ground and made a series of shadow clones.
All of team seven was there in the next blink. Sasuke looked at the scene and he could sense the boy's emotions. A feeling of fear like self-loathing filled the boy like an avalanche. Naruto had a full tail of the fox and continued to clench and unclench his hands unable to do anything.
Akira sent out a command and dispelled several his medical shadow clones. New information flooded his system. He quickly went over what he knew about this disease and options. Unsealing his medical supplies, he turned to Kakashi. "I'm going to need a blood transfusion immediately. Two of his shadow clones put their hands-on Sakura and began pouring chakra into her body. Then the screaming started. "Kakashi cast a Genjutsu on her." The sounds of cannons firing resounded and the ghouls were quickly reduced to ash.
His clones prepared the blood transfusion kit after Kakashi knocked her out. The enzyme was drinking in chakra faster than Akira could replenish it. He found the connection to Gato. The enzyme doubled as a chakra battery for the vampire. That was a mistake on Gato's part. Akira made more shadow clones and sent them after Gato.
Akira had no way to stop the drain on Sakura. The blood transfusion was helping her. Changes were happening to her body and the blood transfusion kept her body mostly intact. The enzyme had more energy than it needed even with the drain. It was busily using the energy to create a gland within Sakura's brain. Unlike with Gato Sakura had a set of working chakra coils with near endless chakra incoming. The enzyme had never had such resources before. It didn't need to cannibalize organs like it did normally. Sakura would become a perfect vampire. She would need weekly transfusions from the hospital, the sun would burn her eyes, and she will always crave blood, but Sakura would live and remain herself.
He cut off the blood transfusion and unhooked Kakashi. His wizard mode would only last another five minutes at most. The power was beginning to cause friction burns all over his body. In five minute the damage would surpass his ability to heal. Using chakra would only hasten the effects. But he needed to flush out his prey.
"Kakashi look after your genin, I'm going after Gato. If he dies Sakura should get much better." Naruto looked up.
"I want to go to. He's the reason Sakura is like this, he needs to pay." Sasuke looked just as eager for revenge for his teammate.
"I'm with the dobe. He needs to die." Sasuke said. His single tomoe sharingan moved with so much life.
"I need the two of you to watch over Sakura and Kakashi. He gave Sakura a lot of blood and Gato might try to attack them the second I leave. Keep them safe." Akira said. Naruto nodded, and Sasuke began making a perimeter.
Akira took a deep breath and unleashed his chakra aura once again. He powered up until his wizard chakra was spilling out of his body. His time was cut to three minutes.
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They were all dead every single one of his slaves. Thousands of ghouls burnt to a crisp. Another unfair advantage of the damned shinobi. A smile crossed his ugly face. He had still managed to get his revenge on that boy who broke his arm. He licked his lips remembered the cold taste of the child's blood and how good it felt to take him.
Gato relaxed as he made way to his ship. In a matter of hours, he would be out to see and on his way to a new place to start up. This time he would do it slow. Bite a few at a time, block all the exits, and drink the island dry. Snow seemed like a good place to start. It was cold with little of the retched sun. He would be a god there. Gato the great god of blood and snow, he like the sound of that.
He ripped off ties to his ship and started the engine. "You're not going anywhere." The captains cabin was ripped through as his nemesis ripped smashed him across the jaw. He hissed as he drained more power from his last servants. Perhaps they found a secret village somewhere and turned them all. That would explain the near inexhaustible power.
Gato fought back using his monstrous strength to bulldoze through the fight. The damned cloak continued to bloke most of his attacks. He kicked a hole into the floor trapping the boy's foot and delivered a blow to cyclops face.
The blow resounded and shot the boy back ripping a massive hole in the floor and shooting the boy out of the cabin. When the boy yanked himself off the ground he delivered a punishing assault. Gato felt his monstrous body take punishing blow after blow. Bones splintered, and arms were ripped off. This boy was the real monster. No normal person should be this strong.
Icy crystals formed and shaped new arms and legs, before his body became whole once more. He let out a laugh. "Keep it up, I will heal, and you will weaken. There is nothing you can do about it.
The boy smiled. "Good bye Gato this has been fun." The boy vanished in a cloud of smoke. Gato turned his head. A light from the shore shined with the brilliance of a thousand suns. The boy was there by Gato's vampiric sight. Gato felt the connection to his well of power disappear. Like strings were being cut. Gato felt his nature began to ravish his body. How was this happening?
A wall of light and the ship was gone. Gato's vision went dark.
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Akira needed Gato away from the shore and time to study the connection between Gato and Sakura. Once he understood how it worked and what part of the enzyme mutated cells facilitated communication and the transfer of energy, he burnt out the blue print for Sakura. In a sense it was like cutting out a single salesman in a pyramid scheme.
He needed Gato far from shore to lower the chance of destroying the island. 25% of his wizard chakra went into his calamity cannon. The shear scale of the attack put the runes in his weapon to the test. Much of the ocean was evaporated and clouds were darkening. It would be raining here for some time. The ship was gone all that remained was a bubbling puddle of steel. Fish from miles around where dead and some of the ancient reef beneath was burnt away.
The survivors of this incident he would make them into a fighting force directly under him. Akira was toying with calling them the inquisition. The enzyme was still out there. Orochimaru had a sample and was experimenting with it constantly. There was a whole underground order of medic nin who were dug in everywhere. It was possible, even in Konohagakure. Akira froze at that thought.
He made his way back to his team. Sakura opened her eyes. Blood red at first then slowly they returned to their natural green. Akira waved at the group. "Did you get him?" Sasuke asked.
"He's a stain I doubt there is enough of him left to fill a sake saucer." Akira said. "Sakura how are you feeling?" Akira asked.
She looked down at her hands. They trembled then stopped. Sakura breathed in and opened her eyes. "I don't know. Everything is so new. I can smell things, hear things, and taste things far away. When I hear your hearts beat, my mouth waters. I sound like a freak." Sakura said tears of blood beginning to flow down her face, leaving red stains.
"No, your exactly as you should be. As longa as you can control yourself everything is fine." Akira said.
"That's right Sakura chan is Sakura chan." Naruto yelled loudly. Sakura looked up and smiled a little.
"Thanks Naruto," she looked at Sasuke. Sasuke shrugged.
"Its like the dobe said. You are you, nothing will change that." Sasuke said. Akira watched a lot of her anxiety lift from her shoulders.
"This is going to be one hell of a report." Kakashi said. Akira nodded. He was going to have to sanction the inquisition on the books. That was going to take some creative language. This entire shit channel was going to be labeled an SS class secret mission. Wave had a bridge now, great for his new island of inquisition to invade the continent and acquire materials.
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In the end the bridge was finished and named the great Naruto Bridge in honor of Naruto's inspirational speech to Inari. Akira wasn't around for it, so he didn't hear it. But apparently it was very inspirational.
Sakura was given a cooler filled with various blood bags complete with red bendy straws. The various people of wave who survived the zombies were very thankful for their held. It was perhaps the biggest blood drive in the island's history.
Sasuke was constantly playing with his Sharingan and sparing with Sakura. The girl had the strength and durability of a natural sage. Her taijutsu was quickly improving as a result. And she had a new love of sparing due to her nature.
Naruto had managed to use his natural chakra like the Kyubi cloak. He couldn't hold it for nearly as long but the kid's chakra levels were growing rapidly.
Kakashi was dragging his feat the whole way back. He knew just as well as Akira how bad the report was going to be. It was time to face the music.
Akira wasn't worried. He activated wizard mode for an hour a day to get his body used to the new form. Naruto often joined in with his false kyubi cloak. Sasuke kept trying to replicate it with his own chakra with limited success. Every time he tried he kept complaining about his eyes hurting.
"He Akira you said I was stronger than the Kyubi, so why can't I keep my cloak up as long." Sasuke and Sakura face vaulted.
"When did Akira say you were stronger than the Kyubi? How could anyone be stronger than that monster?" Sakura yelled. Her fangs were out, and her eyes were glowing an ominous red.
"Sakura… your scaring me." Naruto said. Sakura paused and looked around. Kakashi was reading his book and Sasuke was looking at Sakura with a bit of fear. Akira on the other hand felt rather chill.
Sakura snorted. "Answer the question Naruto." She still put away her fangs.
"He asked me which is stronger the prison or the prisoner. I hold the Kyubi and I'm the prison, so logically I'm stronger." Akira nodded his head.
"That's right and you're already getting the hang of the cloak. You might have a shake problem. That could be the reason why you can't hold it for very long. Why not make a human shape cloak, instead of tails, maybe arms?" Naruto nodded his head.
"I thought the ninetails was killed by the fourth." Sasuke said. Akira nodded.
"That is the narrative, so if anyone not in the know asks that's the story you stick too. Village secrets and all." Akira said.
"Personally, I question why any of you genin talk about such important matters outside the village where enemy shinobi might hear village secrets or hypothesis that could mean even more trouble." Kakashi said.
"Its important to talk about these things. And I'm certain no one is listening in. I would have sensed it in wizard mode. Besides we have a potentially beyond Kage level team. When Sasuke maxes out his sharingan, I can just do a slight medical procedure and unlock his Mongekyo sharingan. Then when he gets all his abilities unlocked, I can lab grow him a new pair from his cousin Shinsui's cells granting him the eternal Mongekyo. No big deal at all." Sasuke blinked and blinked again.
Kakashi sighed and they kept walking. Akira didn't tell them that he had no idea how to do that at the moment. He was still studying everything.
That's a wrap
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