Naruto Shippuden -H-: Chapter 014: The Purge of Abraham
Naruto and his team consisting of Sakura, Sai, and Shikamaru had left Konohagakure at around five in the evening and were headed to the border of the Land of Wind, which would be their first checkpoint.
Sasuke was headed towards Gaara's office in order to speak with him about the turn of events that had shaped in the recent days.
Four hours have now passed, the time is nine in the evening, as Antoine Keido had gathered with the troops he was in charge of, Camp Abraham. Their tents and barracks were stationed to the upper left of the city of Lazarus, near the Castle of Leviticus.
"If I am correct, we will be conducting an execution of a village in the far end of the Land of Earth, which is near our location." said Antoine as he was reading over a report he received from Dreatoen.
"Sir, there should only be civilians there, is it really in our best wishes to kill innocent people for no good reason, it is not like when Sheppard's platoon invaded Konoha!" said a soldier amongst the platoon that was gathered in the barracks to the west of Camp Abraham's establishment.
"Do not question me, what I receive is from the Apathetic Judge himself, now, we would not want to upset him, and there is no innocent people in this world anyway." said Antoine with a fierce tone.
"There are one hundred of you who are under my command, originally one hundred and twenty, but those men lost their lives or were captured during our raid of Konoha." said Antoine as he started to give a speech to fire his men up for their mission.
"Sheppard was killed by the jutsu that was placed in him, all for the sake of preventing the enemy from extracting information from this wonderful city." continued on Antoine.
"We will not let Sheppard's life be in vain, Naruto himself will be heading towards the city, no doubt, and when he arrives, our boss will finally get what he wants, but for now, we are to kill all of the inhabitants of this village, Testuga will be here shortly to give you all a more thorough description of what we are to do, he will also be coming with you during the mission, I will be attending to another manner, see you all later." finished Antoine as he waved goodbye to his soldiers and ran off towards the Castle of Leviticus.
"I will personally be glad to eliminate anyone who does not accept our way of living as an absolute standard." said Greshem, one of the elite soldiers in Antoine's Camp Abraham.
"I concur, and when Tetsuga gets here, we will know the exact procedure to undertake." said another soldier as they eagerly awaited the arrival of Tetsuga in the barracks.
"Thank you gentlemen for all waiting for me, I was busy sending my report of my search for the spy by our southwest gate, to the higher ups, but I will now relay that information to you all as well." said Tetsuga with a grin.
"I am Greshem, I have taken over for Sheppard as the general of Abraham, and it's second in command, I will look over these plans with you." said Greshem.
"Fine, while I was in the Watered Caverns, I had sensed a chakra that would occasionally appear, only to disappear a few moments later, I spent three hours searching for the perpetrator, but was unable to find him or her, though I have strong suspicion to believe that he lives in this village that is in close proximity to us." said Tetsuga.
"What would the name of this village be?" asked Greshem as he had the other soldiers in the barracks gather their ninja tools together.
"Amazeo Village is the name of our destination, it is only thirty miles west of us, and since we are located on the far end of the border of the Land of Earth, that would be the closest town in our proximity, and would make the most sense for that place to be home to this spy as well." said Tetsuga who was anxious to reach Amazeo Village and find the spy.
"What time our we to leave and purge this worthless city?" asked a soldier with anticipation.
"Oh, my good friend, we will be leaving at two in the morning, we will use the night as cover, and we should be finished within only a few hours." laughed Tetsuga as he finished briefing Antoine's camp on the assignment.
Naruto and his team had stopped about half way to the border of the Land of Wind as they decided to rest for the night.
"This should be a good place to rest for the night, if what that scroll had in it was true, then we still have some ways to go." said Sai who was not looking forward being away from Ino for all of this time.
"Oh relax Sai, be excited, we will finally be able to track down these bastards for what they tried to instigate on our village, and for tracking down Naruto as a target." said Sakura as she laid down beside a tree.
"In any case, I will use Sage Mode, in a clone of course, while we sleep so that we are not ambushed." said Naruto who did not want to stay up all night himself.
"That sounds good to me, I will analyze this map contained in the scroll more tomorrow, but for now let's all get some rest, we will have plenty of time to talk in the morning." said Shikamaru as he yawned and seemingly fell asleep instantly.
"He sure was tired, eh, might as well get myself to sleep as well, although the excitement of finding out who this boss is might even keep me up." said Naruto with enthusiasm.
"If you say so but, GO TO BED DAMMIT!" yelled Sakura as she and everyone else was trying to rest while Naruto was getting over eager about his mission.
"Oh fine, sheesh." said Naruto with a pout as he laid down and looked up at the stars, thinking of his and Hinata's unborn child.
Tetsuga and the one hundred remaining soldiers from Camp Abraham were all headed towards Amazeo village, as two in the morning came around.
"We will split into ten groups of ten, seems simple enough, Tetsuga can go with which ever group he desires, this will make the execution of our mission spot on." said one of the soldiers who was in the ten man team with Tetsuga.
"Tell four of those teams to stay thirty meters apart, and the other six will follow from behind, each of us shall be fifteen meters apart." said Greshem who was on one of the ten man teams in the front.
"This will work out fine, everyone get in formation, just in case we run into shinobi from Iwagakure or that spy." said Tetsuga as he formed four quick hand signs and held his hands in the snake formation, waiting to activate a jutsu should the situation call for it.
The four formations of soldiers in the front reached a cliff that overlooked the Amazeo Village, which was surrounded by a valley, and appeared to be the only village visible to anyone.
"Heh, there is no sign of any neighboring villages in the area, I guess being this far into the Land of Earth is a disadvantage to this town after all, and to beat it all, I cannot sense any shinobi in the area." said one of the sensor soldiers in the closest team to the edge of the cliff.
The six teams of ten soldiers, plus Tetsuga all arrived behind the four teams in the front shortly after, and awaited commands from the sensor soldiers on when to act.
"From what I heard over my radio, Raize, one of the soldiers in the front formation, told me that there is no shinobi in that village, so executing all of the residents there should go smoothly." said Greshem with joy.
"Perhaps the spy himself can hide his chakra, or maybe he is not even from Amazeo Village, but, oh well, this way we can send a message to anyone who dares trifle in the affairs of our great and kind god, the Apathetic Judge." said Tetsuga as he prepared to activate his jutsu that he stored earlier.
"Magnet Release: Homing Fuma Shuriken Electromagnetic Reflux!" yelled Tetsuga as a wave of magnetism surrounded all of the weapons that were in the pockets of the soldiers around him.
"I will have my Magnet Release Jutsu on standby should we run into any threats, I do not want any more of you men to die, you are like brothers to me." said Tetsuga as he shed a tear thinking of the soldiers who did not return after the false invasion of Konohagakure.
"We will all approach Amazeo from ten different corners, and use only small scale attacks to kill the men, women, and children who reside their, those weapons floating above us, under Tetsuga's control, are for armed combatants only." said Kilon, another sensor soldier in the front group of soldiers.
"Let's go!" said Greshem as the four groups of soldiers in the front departed first, with the other six behind them, making sure to be quiet in the process.
The residents of Amazeo village were all either in bed, or were getting ready to do so, unsuspecting of their own approaching demise.
"Mommy, I see something." said a little boy to his mother in the closest house near the south end of Amazeo village.
"Now son, you are probably just tired, relax, we will go visit your uncle tomorrow, I promise." said the mother with a smile as she kissed her son on the forehead before leaving to her own bed.
"I love you mom." said the boy quietly as he started to fall asleep.
"I sure cannot wait to see Hira's smile when his dad returns from Iwagakure." said the mother as she went to lock her door.
"Now, what to make for dinner tomorro..." is all the mother could say as Greshem kicked down her door and rammed a sword through her throat, not allowing her to scream.
"I sense a small chakra in the bedroom upstairs, I will take it out." said one of the soldiers that appeared behind him.
"Mommy, mommy, are you okay?" asked the little boy, Hira as he heard something fall onto the floor.
The boy started to run down the steps, only to see a man covered in turbans and a mosk, carrying the dead, headless body of his mother.
"Mom, nooo, why did you do this, oh... ...god." said the boy as he fell into a catatonic state from the sight of his headless mother.
"Oh don't cry child, you and your mother will be able to talk all day in Heaven." said the soldier with a smile as he raised his kunai above the boy's head.
"Please sir, why are you doing this?" asked the young boy with medium length-shaggy black hair.
"Because I am a Shinobi, and Shinobi kill." said the soldier as he rammed the kunai into the top of the boy's head, killing him instantly. A small shriek came out of the boy's mouth as he fell to the floor with the kunai in his head.
"Hehehehe, take that you heathen, that is for not acknowledging the Apathetic Judge as your savior." said the soldier as he left the house to join the others.
"Run, we are under attack." said an elderly man as he was impaled by Tetsuga from behind with a kunai.
"You are not under attack, this is ethnic cleansing, you old piece of shit!" said Tetsuga with a severe look of anger that showed so much, a vein could be seen bulging above his head.
"This is like a feeling of such peace and relief to kill these godless scum." thought Tetsuga to himself as a tear fell from his eye.
Most of the children in the town were all killed with kunai through the throat, since their fragile necks were easy to tear off. The older inhabitants were also killed off easily.
"I will end this now, no need to drag it on, let's not even bother blowing this place up either, just leave it the way it is." said Tetsuga as the one hundred soldiers had all easily killed all three hundred inhabitants of Amazeo Village with no problem.
"Tetsuga release his jutsu as all of the weapons he had under control of his Magnet Release impaled and dismembered the remaining children and adults that were left.
A child, who was impaled by a sword, managed to survive and stood in front of Tetsuga with a look of sadness in his eye.
"I will...not let my friends...and family die..." said the little girl as her head was cut clean off by a fuma shuriken that Tetsuga had behead her from behind.
"Well too fucking bad, it looked like we just did you dumb little whore!" yelled Greshem with a look of absolute perverse in his eyes.
"We have finished killing these lost souls, and the Earth is one step closer to being back to the way God wants it, too bad that spy was not here." said Tetsuga who did not appear to share Greshem's enthusiasm about murdering the child in front of him.
The one hundred soldiers all followed behind Tetsuga as every villager in Amazeo Village was dead. They arrived back at the gates of Lazarus at around six in the morning.
Antoine was waiting by the entrance when he noticed his blood-stained soldiers all marching proudly.
"I assume Tetsuga ran this operation well, all of the villagers of Amazeo are dead, right?" asked Antoine with curiosity.
"Yes, the mission is complete, we can now occupy that village and expand our own forces." said one of the many soldiers as they returned to their barracks.
"This will definatley send a message to Iwagakure not to mess with us, next stop, Sunagakure, I will take great joy in killing some villagers there." said Lunesto as he was in the nearby vicinity of Antoine watching the soldiers from Abraham return to the barracks as the sun was getting ready to rise.
Sasuke had arrived in Gaara's office and started to speak with him as the sunrise was only an hour away in Sunagakure.
"So, Orochimaru is going after them himself?" asked Gaara as he heard everything that Sasuke had told him.
"Yes, their boss goes by the name, The Apathetic Judge, and his henchmen are known as The Knights of Dawn." continued on Sasuke.
"You said they probably want to kill Naruto, if this is true, we need to host an emergency Kage Summit in the Land of Iron as soon as possible." said Gaara to himself as Kankuro and Temari had already left to notify the other shinobi in the village of this information.
"Okay, I will tell the other three Kage this information, I have a feeling that things are about to really get bad." said Sasuke as he started to feel a little dizzy when he left Gaara's office.
"Don't overdo it." said Gaara with concern.
"I will sleep when I'm dead." said Sasuke who knew he had no time to waste in warning the other Kage of what Orochimaru told him.
-To be continued next time with Chapter 015...-