Resident Evil: The Naruto Project
Episode 1: So It Begins
Chapter 25: The End Of Days
X-B dodged to the left as a gruesome arm flew through the air, attempting to snag her with its horribly decomposing fingers. Rolling away, X-B came up, cross-cutting another creature as it shambled aimlessly towards her. Behind his army of grotesque, alien creatures, the man laughed. Fits of glee racked his body as he threw another wave of creatures at the girl, bringing up his right hand and moving his middle finger slightly. A canine jumped across, latching onto the girl's hair. With a scream, she flipped the creature over her head, uppercutting it in the jaw and sending it flying into the wall, splattering entrails and fur against the already worn, bloodied paint job. She panted slightly as two more began to stumble and run towards her. She flipped, bringing her feet thudding into their heads as they bent over to bite. One's jaw came off completely, flying across the room. The man dodged slightly to avoid the projectile. Annoyed, he stopped his creatures, bringing them to a halt in front of the girl, who had been cornered.
"You know, X-B. This is getting tiring. Why don't you just give up and face the inevitable. Or, you could become one of my creations, you know. Wouldn't that be wonderful? You could do what I wanted you to. You could become the ultimate fighting machine. Think of it." The girl sneered, grabbing the post off the ground and twirling it above her head.
"Yeah...let's go with that one, shall we? Oh, and while that happens, I'll slowly pull you apart. Slowly..." The man smiled, bringing his hands back up.
"Well well well. I suppose I should have anticipated you to be as dull as this, X-B. Very well. Have it your way..." He began to bring his hands up once more...until X-B staggered slightly, putting a hand to her stomach. He stopped, his face beginning to brighten slightly. "Oh...oh dear, X-B. Are you alright? Do you need to...lie down for a while?" She sneered as she held her pole tighter.
"Shut up! Just shut up!" The man laughed again, putting his hands behind his back.
"Oh X-B. You make this far too easy. You forgot, of course. Your body needs nutrients. All the time it needs nutrients. I'm sure that you haven't eaten for, oh, perhaps two days now. Maybe three? Who can tell. But, your body is beginning to shut down, is it not? Hehehe..." The girl stumbled again, feeling her internal mainframe beginning to jump sporadically.
This isn't good. I...I can hardly concentrate. My caloric intake is nil, right now. This...this isn't good. She shook her head, beginning, for the first time, to feel the effects that not eating was having upon her body. The man again smiled.
"Poor X-B. You know, I do feel sorry for you. Here...allow me." He brought his hand up to a panel on his left, pressing a button. A whoosh sounded from below as a deck that had been previously hidden appeared on X-B's left. She turned, her eyes wide. A small boy stood on the deck, chained to the ground. He looked up at her, eyes wide and tearing.
"Who...who are you?" He turned, looking at the monsters around him. Then, he began to wail. The faces of the creatures around the two turned in his direction, but none made a move. They were under the complete and utter control of the man behind them.
"Hehehe...if you need to eat so badly, X-B, than eat. None here will stop you. Eat...eat..." X-B turned to the small boy once again, who sat, tears pouring from his face.
"Why...why am I...I here? Where...where am I?...Someone...some...one...help me!" His cries began to echo around the chamber. X-B was in shock. Did he really think that she would eat the boy? Suddenly, something began to tear at her. She dropped to her knees, clutching her head as her internal processor began to function without her. What...what is this? She groaned, clutching her stomach as a pain ran through her.
"Yes, X-B...you know what you must do. Pretty soon, you won't be able to fight anymore. You won't be able to stand. You won't have the energy. I won't need to attack anymore, as your body will begin to decay in upon itself." She screamed, trying to will away the pain that gripped her. The man smiled again. "Yes, X-B! YES! Do it! Consume him! Allow his body to feed yours! You are no better than these here! Do it! Eat him!" She gazed over at him, her mouth watering. Her feelings, her actions...her body was not her own anymore. She was gripped by hunger. By pain...and lust...for blood!
"Please...please help..." The boy was whimpering now, and all the un-dead eyes were upon him. The creatures were literally foaming at the mouth to unleash the fury they held upon the boy, but held back as they were, they could not. As she stared at the boy herself, X-B began remembering what had been told to her over the course of the years she had been imprisoned at the Umbrella Corp. main building.
"How do you feel today, X-B?" A scientist in front of her, staring at her. She felt uniquely aware of her body. She was naked, lying prone on a table, multitudes of wires and tubes entering her at various positions. At the moment, the man was taking measurements of levels in her body. What levels? She could only guess.
"I...I feel fine, I suppose." The man smiled, taking her hand.
"Good. That's good, X-B. Now, please do me the favor of squeezing my hand." She did as bidden, squeezing. As she squeezed, the man monitored her levels on the machine. As she squeezed harder, he winced, but continued to monitor her. "Oh...ok, X-B. That's good. Please...please stop now!" She released him, and he shook his hand to relieve the pain. "Well, X-B. That is something." She turned to him, her eyes distant.
"What is, doctor?" He smiled, laying a hand on her stomach and feeling her pulse. It pulsed sporadically, jumping about...then slightly, than pumping fiercely again.
"Your blood pressure is off the charts, and you are burning energy far faster than normal." Her gaze left him as his hand ran itself to her thigh, checking her pulse in her lower artery. "Hm...yes. It seems to be returning to your heart as fast as it leaves. Interesting." He turned, jotting down some notes on a clipboard.
"What does it mean?" She gazed back at him as he turned, smiling at her.
"Well, it means you will have to eat constantly to keep your caloric intake at a minimal level, at the least. You need to be sure that every couple of hours, you eat a large meal. Every few minutes, it may be worthy for you to eat a snack." She coughed.
"But...but my figure." He laughed, turning to click off the monitors.
"X-B, your figure will look like a pencil if you don't eat. Please, for your own sake, eat often. Soon and often." She nodded as he detached the wires and tubes. Sitting up, she shrugged into the robe that hung from a peg.
"I will, doctor. Thank you." He smiled again as he helped her cinch the robe up.
"You will find a small refrigerator in your room. It will be equipped with an exchange system, to keep fresh food always available. Please utilize it. You are very important to this corporation. Can't have you wasting away, can we?" She nodded again.
"Yes...thank you, Doctor Sasori."
"Do it, X-B! DO IT NOW!" X-B roared, getting up and running to where the boy lay. He gave a scream as she reached down, yanking and pulling. It tore...it ripped away. She laughed maniacally at another snap...another grinding motion. The boy screamed himself hoarse as she continued to work. Soon, it was over, and the boy stood...unchained. With a heavy grunt, the girl turned, smashing through the wall with a fist. The outside lay open to all, and she turned, kneeling and smiling.
"Go...you're free!" The boy sniffed, smiling slightly, and then took off, running across the lawn. The man grimaced, moving a hand. A canine took off, attempting to outrun the boy and kill him before he could escape. Heaving the pole up, she turned, throwing it as hard as possible. It flew, catching the dog below the jaw and pinning it to the ground. It yelped once, struggling, and then lay silent.
"X-B...I am surprised...and disappointed. I was so hopeful that you would become something like...a daughter to me. But...here you are, and here am I." The girl smiled, wrenching the pole that the boy had been chained to out of the ground and menacing his army with it.
"So sorry to disappoint, Dr. Sasori. So sorry indeed." The man smiled, shaking his head.
"No no, X-B. You aren't sorry...NOT YET!" With that, he brought his hands up, sending his creatures to the attack once more. With a roar, she met them halfway, fighting with the strength born of desperation.
"Foolish little brother. What do you think that you will do here? What do you wish to accomplish?" The man began walking towards me, and I walked backwards slightly. Feeling around for a weapon of any sort, I brandished a knife, once used to cut food or some other object.
"Who are you...why are you calling me brother?" I couldn't surmise why he was saying that. I had no brother. I had no siblings. I was alone. I was X-C...no, I was Sasuke Uchiha! "Who are you? Why are you saying these things?" The man snickered slightly. Suddenly, he was gone, appearing from behind me.
"I am your brother. Don't you recognize me...bro?" A hand caught me against my ear, and I flew through the air, striking some cabinets and ripping them off the wall. I lay on the ground, trying to catch my breath as the man stood, smiling down at me.
"I told you, I don't have a brother! Now, who the hell are you!?" I got up, bringing my hand up and around to catch him in the stomach. His hand flew down, catching mine. With a small grunt, he lifted me off my feet, sending me flying through the door and out into the hallway.
"Really now? I am so disappointed in you, my brother!" He disappeared once more, and a foot caught my chin, knocking me backwards.
"You're no brother of mine! WHO ARE YOU!" I lashed out, and he caught my arm with ease. His face lowered to mine, and his eyes began to sparkle, teeth flashing out at me.
"Foolish little brother." Whipping me around, he threw me down the hallway, and I rolled to a halting stop as my forward momentum ceased. "You were the reason I did what I did...and you don't even remember me? Tsk tsk tsk..." I looked up, glaring at him. How...how was he so fast? My internal computer wasn't able to register his movements. Even my ocular nerve didn't allow me to read him. "Our parents...our sister...everyone died...because of you!" What was he talking about? I didn't have parents. I had no siblings. I was X-C...I was Sasuke Uchiha.
"You lie!" I ran forward, trying to catch him off guard. He wasn't where he had been, instead ending up behind me.
"This is pointless, little brother." A hand slammed into my back, and I coughed. Another hand caught my shirt, stopping me from moving at the moment. "You need to know what has happened...before you die." I shrugged, my shirt coming off as I stepped away. A foot planted into my backside sent me over onto my face, and I looked up, highly unamused. "Hehehe...foolish little brother." Another kick sent me spinning in another direction. I hit the wall, breathing heavily as I wiped a hand across my chin, feeling the sticky liquid sensation of blood.
"What the hell are you? What the hell is this!" X-A stared across the expanse of the destroyed room, eying the blond who stood across from him. A smile graced his lips as he withdrew more clay from his pocket. X-A noticed the action. However, his mind was working at only half the normal capacity. The attack the man had just used had destroyed an internal mechanism in his processor. He was having trouble focusing completely.
"This is my special attack, yeah? It allows me to blow the living crap out of things I don't like. And guess what? I don't like you, yeah?" Another clay creature flew across the room, stopping in front of X-A. The boy thought he saw the creature wink at him slightly. "Katsu!" It expanded, and X-A threw his hands up as it exploded, sending him flying through the window and out onto the terrace. Staring around him in a daze, X-A picked himself up, avoiding a second bird as it flew through the aperture of the window. Looking up, he jumped from the small balcony onto the roof, standing and gazing around him. "Katsu!" A portion of the roof blew apart, sending X-A flying backwards, tumbling onto the ground. The man jumped through the hole, staring at him with that same, sadistic smile plastered on his face as he landed gracefully on his feet.
"You bastard!" Getting up, X-A rushed him, throwing his fists as fast as he could. The man ducked and dodged, catching him with his own attacks and blocks. He gave as good as he received. As X-A brought his hand back to punch, he lashed out, catching it. Locking arms and hands, they glared at each other, their faces literally touching. The man smiled once more.
"You're going to like this X-A, yeah?" He brought his other hand up, ducking down below the boy's punch and kicking out, sending X-A flying away. He shook his head, looking up at the blond man as he smiled at him. With his right hand, he pointed down at X-A's hand. X-A blinked, looking down at the small, clay spider that sat on his hand. "Katsu!" The spider almost smiled up at him as it expanded, then exploded, sending X-A into a fit of rage and pain. "Hahahaha! Here, X-A. Let me give you...a hand, yeah? Hahahaha!" X-A gritted his teeth, standing as he gazed down at the ground, a pool of blood beginning to form from what used to be his hand.
"You...you son-of-a-bitch!" He heaved, his body turning numb. Blood loss...I can't keep on going this way. I don't know who this asshole thinks he is, but I need to kill him. NOW! Running forward, he brought his left hand up behind him. Focusing the insane energy that kept him going, he began to form his attack, the ball bursting to life all of a sudden. The man saw it, his eyes widening as he hopped backwards. X-A felt the move, adjusting his attack accordingly. Jumping into the air, he brought his hand up and around, bringing the attack to the face of the blond. "RASENGAN!" The man seemed to anticipate the action. He moved fluidly, his bangs falling from his face as he ducked underneath. As they both hit the ground, the blond backed away, a look of horror on his face. X-A smiled at him as the man began to rant.
"My...my hair! What the hell did you do to my hair!" His hair had been singed off, almost to the skull. All that was left was the long hair on the side, a smooth looking semi-circle cut from the top. He glared down at the mass of hair on the ground, singed and dead looking, and then back at X-A. "You...you cut off my hair! I...I'll kill you!" X-A smiled, even through the pain that his stump of a hand was sending throughout his body.
"Well then...let's go!" They threw themselves at one another, and in a moment, the roof was a place of chaos and discord, the silence broken by grunts, heaves, and shouts of katsu, followed closely by explosions.
I...can't keep this up forever! X-B gazed around her at the multitude of creatures that surrounded her. Twirling her pole in the air, she smiled at them. Already, she could feel her body beginning to shut down, to lose any resemblance of working at all. Seeing her in her weakened condition, the man laughed.
"Really, X-B. This fighting is pointless. You know you will lose. Stop being so negative about death. You know, the best time in life is death. Yes, that is correct. Death is what all creatures experience. None escape from it, and none are immune to its effects. It is what separates living things from inanimate objects. The only thing. You should feel honored, really." X-B sighed as her arms began to lag.
"Sorry, doctor Sasori. I'm sorry I've let you down. I'm sorry I wasn't a better test subject." The man stopped, natural interest etched into his features.
"Really, X-B? Have you finally learned some respect? Very well...Now that that is out of the way, we can get on with the next stage of life...DEATH!" He brought his hands up, and his creatures attacked once more.
I have to get to him. If I can kill him, then I can stop these things. Of course, without his control, they will just want to eat me...but that is just something I will have to deal with. Jumping into the air, she landed on the head of one creature, twisting suddenly and spinning in a semi-half arc as she jumped behind the main body of creatures, landing behind the crimson haired man. He turned, smiling, as his army did the same. She grinned at him, wielding her pipe. "Now...you die!" She ran forward, roaring out as she brought the pipe back for a final strike. A few feet from him, however, she stumbled, her strength ebbing. The pipe dropped from her hands as she staggered. Within a moment, she was set upon by the creatures, pinned to the ground. A canine jumped in, ripping at her arm. She screamed in pain as it gnawed down to the bone, sending a flurry of nerve impulses rippling through her.
"NO! ENOUGH!" The creatures stopped their frantic attack, dropping her to the ground. She panted, holding a hand to her wound as the man walked to her, laughing down at her face as she groaned. "I will deal with you personally! Goodbye, X-B!" He picked the pipe up, twirling it before he placed it against her head. "I hope that you have a good time in hell! Tell your maker that your comrades will be joining you soon enough!" He brought the pipe up, and she closed her eyes, waiting for the attack. I'm sorry, X-A...I've failed...
The man had cornered me in an elevator shaft. As he thrust out at me, I tried my best to block his attacks, but he was far too fast for me to block. Each attack was punctuated by a laugh...or his cruel words.
"Yes...mother and father. They screamed so well when I slit them. Father always did want me to become something better than I had been. Well...I showed him just how good I could become!" His foot connected with my stomach, and I bowed, trying to catch my breath. A hand grabbed my hair, and my head was thrust against the elevator side. "You...you and that little bitch! You had to be gone, didn't you? Well, I thought about it, brother. I thought long and hard about it in the moments after I slaughtered our family. I would wait to see who you would become. I waited to see if you would be strong. But, I was wrong! You are so very weak. You are so...foolish!" The door opened, revealing another hallway, and he grabbed my arm, thrusting me through the portal. I rolled across the ground, lying down and breathing heavily. My internal sensors were going haywire, and I couldn't focus. My ocular nerve was beginning to fail. I could feel it.
"How...how are you so fast?" He smiled, almost laughing.
"Foolish little brother. Do you think that the T-Virus would only work upon someone as weak as you? No. Umbrella Corp. found me. They enhanced me physically with the T-Virus. They made me so much...stronger! They made me into a machine of destruction!" He walked from the elevator, staring down at me. His smile still adorned his face, and I grimaced at him.
"You. My ocular nerve should pick your movements up. Why...why doesn't it?" He laughed again, highly amused. Then, he gazed at me. His normally coal black eyes began to morph...to change. Horrible. "What? Your...your eyes! What is wrong with your eyes?" He laughed again, his head cocked to the side slightly.
"My eyes are the same as yours. However...mine are much higher up on the food chain. Not only can I read your movements, but I can manipulate the way you see your world."
"My...my world? But...but how? How is that even possible!?" He smiled once more, than appeared suddenly in front of me.
"Because, the T-Virus has opened abilities to me that I had never known to exist. For example..." His horrible, red eyes gazed into mine, and I gasped once, feeling myself shrink...down, down, down into that horrible gaze. I looked about, trying to decide where I was.
"What the hell is this? Where...where am I!" He appeared in front of me, this man with the red eyes. He looked about him as he smiled back at me.
"This...this is my world. This is the world that I can manipulate myself. I control time and space here. I control...your destiny!" A foot caught me below the eye, and I thudded away. Blinded slightly, I looked up, seeing two of the man in front of me. "Sasuke, you really are so very foolish!" I shook my head.
"This...this isn't real. This...this can't be real!" His image expanded. Where two were was now a horrible army. Hundreds of them. They talked as one as well.
"Sasuke, you were always weak. You should see how our parents were killed. Perhaps it will help your spine straighten...or perhaps it will send you into a state of dumbed silence. Either way, it will be amusing." His copies faded, leaving a house standing in front of me. I looked around. The place. The area was highly foreign, but somehow very familiar to me. I gazed about, studying everything. A cry from inside made me gasp, and I ran inside the domicile, glancing about. Another cry from upstairs sent me running up, and I stopped in the hallway as the man exited a room on my left, holding a small girl.
"Brother...what are you doing? Why?" He smiled, a large knife in his hand. As two older people came from a room down the hall, he slit the girl's throat, letting her body drop to the ground. The man at the end of the hallway yelled something, running down the hall. The knife flashed out, catching him in the chest and sending him crumpling to the ground. He gurgled once before he lay silent. The woman was weeping as the man walked to her, grabbing her wrist and striking her on the face. He brought her over to the other two bodies, kicking her into a kneeling position. Then, he smiled, bringing the knife up and placing it to her throat. Looking up, he smiled at me, as if...as if he could see me. He couldn't...right? This was just a vision...a hallucination.
"Say goodbye to mommy, Sasuke!" I gazed down at the woman, who looked up pleadingly at me. I reached out, trying to take her hand, to stop him.
"Mo...mother?" Then, the knife slipped across her neck, and as her lifeblood spilled to the ground, she swayed, and then toppled to the ground. The blood pooled on the carpet, leaving a large, black stain. A tear fell from my eye, and I knelt on the ground in front of them. I didn't know them...why was I so emotional from this? I had no ties with them. But somehow...they were family?
"Don't you see, Sasuke? This was your fault. If you hadn't been out with that little bitch of yours, you would've been here to save them. It is all...your...fault!"
"NOOOOOO!!!" The vision began to subside, and I was left on the floor of the hallway once more, shaking like a leaf. Suddenly, a lighter appeared in the man's hands, and he struck it. The flame jumped up, flickering slightly. I gasped. It...it was a flame. Just...a flame. Fire. Nothing more than that. I had seen it countless times. I had seen it more often than I cared to recall. But...in this man's hands...it was alive! It was feeling. It breathed. It moved. It...was horrible! I struggled to a sitting position, backing away from him as he moved forward, swishing the flame in front of him.
"What? This? This fire? Are you afraid of this?" He walked forward more, and some internal process made me...afraid? This was fear? This was being afraid of something irrational? My processor, even with its sluggishness, pulled up schematics. Phobia. An irrational fear of something. Fire was a phobia. My phobia. Why was I so afraid of fire? Why was I afraid of fire now when I hadn't been for so long?
"What are you doing? Explain!" I continued to back away as a smile lit his features.
"Yes. They burn so easily. Bodies, you know. Nothing left. Nothing but charred ashes and some bones. So easy to wipe away memories...and traces." His foot lashed out, and I was knocked backwards again. As I lay on the floor, his foot pressed my head into the cold tiles, grinding it down. "When I am done with you, little brother. When I am done...nothing will be left but ashes, bone...and hate!"
"Hahahah!" The blond man laughed maniacally as blood poured from the wounds his bombs had inflicted. X-A flinched as his muscles continued to work on nothing. Though his hand was missing, the sensors in his neural processor still attempted to work against his will. Both combatants were thoroughly covered in blood from the multiple wounds they had been dealt, though all of them paled in comparison to the single wound that X-A bore.
"You son-of-a-bitch!" This seemed to amuse him even more. His hand began to mold more clay as he gazed at his pouch.
"You know, X-A. This has been fun and all, but I am afraid that I have to be getting back to business, yeah? I hope you don't mind if I destroy you now. It's been...a blast!" He brought his hand up, a small bird again lying there. With a motion, it flew across the expanse, preparing to destroy the boy in its flight path. X-A glared at the creature flying in, then began running towards it. The man laughed again as he watched the two about to collide.
"Hehehehe...X-A. You fool! You stupid fool, yeah! You're going to die!" As the two centered on each other, the man shouted out. "KATSU!" The small clay bird exploded brilliantly, leaving behind a large dust and particle cloud. The man smiled once more. "Another one bites the dust, yeah?" He turned, walking back to the hole to enter the building once more, until a yell behind him made him turn.
"Rasengan!" His eyes widened as a hand slammed into his chest, ripping a hole into it as X-A threw his weight into his ultimate attack. The man continued to smile as he staggered backwards, gazing at X-A, who was heaving. His right arm was completely missing now, having been used to block the last airborne bomb. Blood was flowing heavily from the wound, and X-A wobbled slightly. The man coughed, feeling his own wound like a curse.
"You...you sacrificed your own arm to...to hit me...with that?" He smiled again, coughing up blood as his lung collapsed. "Very good, X-A, yeah? Very...very good indeed." He staggered forward, reaching in his pocket for more clay. Suddenly, his eyes widened as his hand groped for what was not there. "What...what the hell?" He glanced down, noticing that his pocket was empty.
"Looking...for this?" X-A held the balk of the clay up in his left hand, leveling it so the man could see it fully. Suddenly, his hand began to glow. "Rasengan!" The ball of energy encompassed the clay, filling it with energy as the nano-byte computers began to filter in the excess power. They began to be reprogrammed, the energy of X-A overriding their circuits. With a heave and a gurgle, X-A ran full tilt forward, thrusting out his hand. The man had no where to go, such was the speed at which X-A used in his desperation. X-A's hand entered his body, thrusting the clay into it. He stared down at himself, coughing even more blood up as he glared at the gaping wound. Pulling his hand out of the wound, X-A capitalized on his success, bulling the man and himself backwards and down through the hole in the roof. Together, they landed in the executive suite, panting for air and glaring at one another.
"You...you little..." However, it was X-A's turn to smile. He crawled to the man's body, grabbing onto his cloak and pulling himself up to his face. He smiled down at him, grinning maliciously. Leaning over, he went to the man's ear, whispering slightly.
"This...is for my freedom, and the freedom of my comrades!" Then, he collapsed completely, laying on the man's chest. His eye's shut tight, and he smiled one last time. "KATSU!" The man's body began to expand, and he shrieked in pain as he swelled. With his last remaining energy, X-A had infused his own power into the clay, giving himself the power over it. With his last remaining energy, X-A gave new hope to a world in which tyrants conquered all, ruling with an iron fist of oppression.
"NOOOOOO!!!!!" The man gave out one last, pityful shriek. Then, the world turned white...as the heavens themselves seemed to crumble inward. The force of the blast rocketed through the empty hallways, reducing stone and brick to dust, leveling iron and grate, and forcing glass from the windows. Such was the magnitude of the blast that it completely annihilated the upper floors, causing them to disintegrate in upon themselves. This began a chain effect, as the main structural integrity of the building became compromised. The structure became a time bomb...a time bomb that was set to destroy itself.
"Time to die, X-B!" The red haired man smiled, his twisted grin almost reaching both ears as the pipe descended. Suddenly, the building rumbled, and he stopped as pieces of the ceiling began to rain down. "What...what the hell was that! Deidara!" He glared up at the ceiling, noting his partner having made something explode.
Now! X-B, using the last bit of energy she had, reached up, grabbing the man's hands with her own. He glanced down, noticing the look of insanity that had etched itself onto her face. "Have fun in hell, Dr. Sasori!" With that, she crushed down, feeling the man's bones crumble beneath her fingers. Then, she let go, listening to his agonized screams as her eyes closed and she sank back to the ground. Her internal processors began running more information in front of her field of vision.
Heart function shutting down. Internal processes shutting down. Nutrient deficiency critical. Shut down initiated.
X-B smiled to herself as she heard the man stop his screams. "Wait...no! Don't come any closer! I am your master! I...I am your leader! Stop! No! No! NOOOOOOOOO!!!!" Then...nothing but the sound of gnashing teeth, moans...and death.
"Now, little brother. You die!" The man in front of me took a sword from his back, raising it above his head, ready to pierce me through. The roof shook, then the building itself, and he staggered, knocked off balance. With a roar, I hopped from the floor, rushing forward and crashing into the man's stomach. He grunted, his sword leaving his hands and clattering to the floor. Together, we staggered, and with a scream, the man fell from the shaft of the elevator, the machine having been blown from its rope and flying down the shaft. His hand shot out, clinging to the lip of the elevator shaft.
"Little brother! Help...help me! Help Itachi! Help your big brother! Help...your family! Help!" That name...something was familiar about it. Something...something I recognized. Why did I recognize that name? Rushing forward, I leaned down, grabbing his hand before he fell.
"Wait! I'll...I'll pull you up!" My strength was failing. If I was to pull him up, it would have to be now. He smiled up at me, panting slightly.
"Thank you, my brother! Thank you...thank you..." Then, he snickered. A knife appeared in his other hand, and I felt his grip on me tighten. "Foolish little brother! I'll see you in hell!" His knife flew forward, in perfect line with my skull. Another tremor shook the building, and his grip loosened. The knife fell from his grasp, and he fell from mine. He plummeted downward, screaming. I watched him fall, my ocular nerve picking him up until he had fallen too far for me to see. Hearing something from above, I dodged backwards as another elevator came rumbling down, screeching on its downward path. I waited for a moment, then the blast from below sounded in the shaft. A plume of fire sprang up like a stream from hell, followed by a large pillar of smoke. I stood, brushing myself off. For some reason, I felt relieved. Not only relieved...
I felt justified...
I turned, walking down the hallway. I halted, turning back to the shaft. "You first...brother. You first." With that, I turned back to my job at hand. The glint of metal caught my eye, and I stared down at the blade lying on the ground. Kneeling, I picked it up, feeling its weight. It felt wonderful to the grip, and I swung it around experimentally. It worked just right. I smiled, slipping the blade into my now unused sheath on my back before using the stairs to head back down to the main laboratories. I had to find the self-destruct disks before they were used to shut down myself and my comrades.
I had no idea that I would never see them again. Nor did I have an idea about what I had coming...in the future.
Next Time: Sasuke learns more about his own past. He learns the reason his name was switched, learns of his brother, and learns of another human emotion...Love.