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Chapter Eleven

When All Hell Breaks Loose.

It was a quiet walk back to the motel; Broody and Tail-brat lead the way. I was next to Pinky and Bored-eye-sensei was right behind us.

Inside I was thinking, should I say anything to Pinky about Oki? Tarnish her silvery image of the woman, possibly have her loose all trust in me and have it lead to some disaster that might get someone killed? Like me, the Tail-brat, or worse, me and him?

Well, what are the consequences of keeping my silence? Well, if it's a kidnapping we might end up with a hostage situation, or an eaten or possessed Pinky, after all, how the hell can I prove that Oki is even human?

I looked at the girl, her long pink hair dangle and sway with each step.

As much as I lack the skill in the area of understanding humans, Kaka—Bored-eye did mention the importance of teamwork, if something were to happen, it would damage us all. But what if she didn't listen to what I said? Wouldn't have the same results as if I didn't say anything?

Well, if she doesn't listen, doesn't that mean it's not my fault if something happened? Or would some sort of miracle happen if I did say something? Was Oki, some woman she had known only for days more important to her then her team? Whose words had more power? Hers or mine?

Hell, I'll just have to say something…. I think I've been a human for too long, I'm starting to think like one.

"Pinky, can I see that card of yours?"

"Why?" Pinky looked at me oddly, possibly wondering why I was asking.

I felt like grumbling, but felt that would be too odd, "Don't give me that look, I saw Oki give you that card."

"And I ask again why?" Sakura replied.

"There's something not right with her, I saw her fighting with that boyfriend of hers, and I think it might have more information for the mission."

"What do you mean something's not right with Oki?"

Broody, Tail-brat, and Bored eye were watching us. I felt like groaning, this was information I wanted to only share with Bored eye, oh well.

"She was behaving strangely, she seemed jittery, and like I said she was having a fight with her boyfriend." I decided to keep the fact that she talked about Pinky to Bored eye.

Pinky looked at me oddly for a few seconds before she sighed and dug out the little business card.

Sure enough, it had an address to it, and it did say "Treasure Cove" on the front; the company name with a dolphin jumping over waves was printed over the logo. Also, to our surprise, there was a small map of the factory on the back. If this was a trap, we will have to spring it, and take control from there.


"Alright, state your position." I heard Bored-eye crackle over the radios he had brought for this mission.

Finally we get some action.

"Kyumaru, I'm at point D."

"Sakura, I'm at point B."

Sasuke, I'm at poin-

"UZUMAKI NARUTO! I'M AT POIN-"

"Turn down the volume runt!" I hissed in to my microphone before I remembered something, "Oh, and by the way, watch out for snakes."

"Snakes?" Pinky enquired. "Why do we need to look out for snakes?"

"There's the sentry." Bored-eye replied before I could answer. I caught sight of a man walking at the top of a tall cement wall just inside the range of my vision. The sounds of waves filled my ears among the large leaves of my tropical camouflage.

I crouched in a familiar four legged position for the most familiar stalking method. I slowly crept forward, listening for the signal to attack, even though I didn't think I needed it. I hunted prey in the past, this sentry would be nothing but an easy target, his strides were long and loud, clunking on the wooden deck over the cement, the torch lamps he used for vision made him stand out among the stars and vastness of the tropical night sky. The lamps would be efficient in creating large shadows, easy for us to hide in from a distance. A stretch of bare sand was our only difficulty, seeing as there would be nothing to hide under from the sentry's gaze, if he wasn't pacing and creating blind spots. This would be all too easy.


Nai'ia was having trouble sleeping, even though it was traditional to doze with half of her brain awake. Her siblings huddled close to her body, huddling for warmth. The sound of foot steps caught her attention. There was also a pair of voices steadily growing stronger and louder.

"I don't know why they had to drag me outta my tent so late a night for another slaughter? Couldn't it wait until tomorrow?" A man asked. She didn't recognize this man, but she could tell that he was nervous; she could taste it in the air. Nai'ia could also hear his heartbeat thumping in his chest and low voice.

"I heard some authorities are breathing down the boss' neck, so he's doing what he can to hide the evidence. After all, it wouldn't do for us to lose our jobs because of some unregulated dolphin harvesting. I mean there are laws that supposedly regulating the harvest, but we are twenty times the legal amount." Another, younger and high voiced, man replied. "And it's not right to keep them in tanks, where are the days when it was just man and animal fighting for their lives out at sea."

"Some people will trade tradition for convenience and safety." The first man said. "So what's the plan for this tank?" Nai'ia froze; the voices were closer to her tank then ever. She could "Hear" the direction the first man was pointing, just by his voice alone.

"Meat, nice, marbled, dark meat. The other tank will be for oil."

Nai'ia nearly screamed, but her distress awoke her fellow dolphins.

A loud booming sound rang in the distance.


The pavement wall collapsed as I leapt over the rubble. I smirked at the sudden chaos, men in uniforms leapt from doors and hallways, many of which I was sure where security guards. I growled and pulled out some Kunai and Shuriken from my hidden pockets.

My orders were to distract the guards while Broody, Pinky, and the Tail brat free the fish creatures, Bored-Eye will deal with these rumored Shinobi…

I leapt to the side as the first guard attacked; he swung a nightstick wildly with no real skill or precision. A Kunai of mine found a soft spot in his throat. He collapsed.

Others gasped and made a wild run to avenge their fallen comrade. I will never understand humans.

I didn't care any more; I closed my eyes, and unleashed my long suppressed need for bloodlust, and action. I wove between my opponents, striking right and left, the fools collapsed under their fatal wounds. I had missed the exhilaration that came from life and death battles, the suspense of knowing that my next move could be my last, as well my opponent's moves could be their last move as well. It was just like my life, when I was nothing more then a wild kitsune.

Some of the fools changed tactics, some brought out blades, I apparently weeded out the weak, and the stronger came forward. I sank in to my animalistic mind set; my human opponents became my competition for survival, as well as my prey.

I growled again, and they leapt back at what they claimed to see demon red eyes.

This was going to be fun.


Haruno Sakura dashed down the empty corridors above her were the tanks that kept the dolphins. Beneath her feet were the drain trenches that would flow to the sea. She found a control panel and looked at it briefly before she flicked the switches labeled "To the Sea" before she ran as fast as she could down the corridor, racing up hill before the corridor would flood with water.

Uzumaki Naruto and Uchiha Sasuke were right behind her, setting up more freedom switches and Naruto yelled about how this will save the dolphins by setting them out to sea, and to freedom.

With out other words, the three genin ran to a three way fork in the corridor. Each corridor was dark, but water was slowly leaking in to each passage.

"Which one do we take Sasuke-kun?" Sakura asked.

Sasuke said nothing for a moment. "I'll take the center one." The Uchiha finally said.

Naruto, not wanting to be out shown by his rival exclaimed "I'll take the one on the right!"

"Alright…" Sakura finally said, and she took the one on the left.

The genin parted ways each disappearing in to the thirsty darkness.

Behind them, a figure smirked, pulled out a weapon not known to shinobi kind and smirked. They just made her cleanup job easier.

They should have never hired Shinobi in the first place, but now all they had to do, was finish off the job before those genin discovered too much. But first, the easy target, and with murderous intent, the figure entered the left fork.


Hatake Kakashi leapt out of the shadows for a second before he entered a new set of shadows, heading for the central office, where the man behind all this should be. He found the door with a fogged glass window titled central office in seconds. Kakashi couldn't help but feel suspicious to the lack of guards, and paid close attention to his surroundings.

He heard a voice inside having what sounded like a one-sided conversation with nothing. The male voice seemed angry and irritated.

"What do you mean he's not answering our calls?!" The voice exclaimed. "We have shinobi breathing down our necks and his shipping industry can't accept our dolphin yokai oil!"

Kakashi slowly slid the door open to see that the man on the phone had his back turned to the door, as the man glared out of the pitch black room to stare out at a harbor in which ships with the company's logo was out side a wall of glass.

"A Green what! Of where?!" The man, young man, Kakashi was sure of it, judging by the tone of the voice. "Fine." The man finally bit out before he hung up the phone he was talking to. Kakashi had finally crept to be close enough to place a Kunai against the man's throat when the man turned. The man was wearing a business suit and a tie. At first Ev looked surprised and frightened before he remembered something and reached quickly in to his pocket and confidently looked Kakashi in the eye.

"Nice night." He replied. "Thanks to some of your fellow shinobi, your kind has cost me a multimillion ryo contract."

"What do you mean?" Replied Kakashi, kunai held firmly in his hand, ready for anything this man might throw at him. "According to the mission, you are responsible for the illegal poaching of the dolphins; it is not the legal season or the methods. Not only that, but I've seen evidence that says you aren't using ordinary dolphins."

Ev smirked and almost laughed, doing what he could to ignore the blade to his throat. "You mean by exposing dolphins to intense trauma they forego a transformation from a normal mortal dolphin to one of demonic proportions, however the trauma also kills them and makes for wonderful oil. Yes, the elders would not approve of such methods, but they are so old fashioned that it clashes with such a modern world."

Sensing danger Kakashi leapt back.

"Sharp instincts I see," Ev remarked coolly as he pulled out strange weapon. It was black and shaped like a narrow tube connected to a handle and a compartment that contained some hidden projectile. "Like it? It's called a pistol, a weapon used by pirates that once raided our waters." His index finger reached for the trigger and pulled.


I, the Kyuubi-no-Kitsune, smirked, running on all fours, aiming low punches and kicks on the humans who attacked me when I heard a loud bang. The smell of sulfur filled my nose as I felt something graze the back of my left hind calf muscle as it pulled out of another kick to a human's heart. The pain was red hot and burned the whole afflicted area.

"Missed." I heard a human cursed from a distance. I caught a glimpse from my peripheral vision, to see that human holding some kind of weapon, smoke was rising like cloudy steam from the tip of the tube at the end.

Damn.


Sakura smiled to herself as she released another batch of dolphins, she turned to a tank labeled 326 and was about to flip that switch when a voice called out, "Sakura-chan? My, I did not expect you to come a day early."

Sakura turned and looked her friend Oki, in the eye.


"So, this is the tank for the meat?" The first man asked.

"Yep, tank 326." The second man replied as he pulled the switch. Inside the tank, Nai'ia felt panic swell in to her system, as she heard a loud clank. The water in the tank began to recede in to a drain at the bottom of the tank. Hurriedly she pressed her siblings close to a chain link fences that had the faint sounds from the sea cry out like a dying siren. It was then hell broke loose.


An: Well, Here's the chapter you've all been waiting for! Sorry it took so long, I had to work on College and I had to organize this chapter a little. But I'm glad as to how it turned out. The next chapter will be the conclusion to all this drama. If any readers have any ciritzim or suggestions, or even on ways battles should be held, just send a review please. Thank you!