In one of Shredder's hideout, Suigustu stood with the others hearing Xavier inform him of what his own informant had told him about, May. Shredder listens with calming interest, as the Masked Man stood next to the brooding large man with Tigerclaw and Sasuke right next to him. Along with Shredder's kunoichi next to, Sasuke much to Karin's agitation.
Bowing on one knee, like Shredder was some sort of Emperor or King.
"Master Shredder, my informative has made contact with me."Xaver starts off."He has told me, as of now after the attack upon their land and village, the damage was of a decent amount. You're testing worked master, though again there were some slight problems with the malfunctioning of the others. Detonating too fast, and not to mention their regeneration cells broke down. Their DNA, was not able to be stable. But, still it did the work." Shredder growls lowly displeased. Swallowing hard, afraid to continue.
"And what of the girl?"Shredder icy cold voice demands.
Xaver swallows hard quietly. His words strong yet tremble upon their release from his lips."...F-from what I was told, she has been asked by the Hokage of Konohakagure to assist in their research on the phenomena that have been happening so far. It seems they have managed to obtain a body and some of substance from us. So, the girl... May is taking lodging there at the village, which I have been told is almost near impossible to get into. There is no doubt, she obviously has figured out of our presence. My informant has also informed that, the tools used upon her, do have their effects."
"So, she's left Sunakagure..."Masked Man looks to the Shredder questionable, yet intrigued.
"So, she is out in the open?"Razhor snorts happily. Only to be quickly hushed by Shredder.
"I highly doubt that."Tigerclaw snaps at the mutant."From what I've seen, Master Shredder I highly doubt the leader of that village will leave her unattended. There is no doubt she has someone with her. But the question is how to get her out back into the open."
"We should set up a trap for her."Rahzor growls deviously."Draw her out. Knowing Her, M'Lord she is bound to figure things out. What's happening."
Sasuke slides his eyes over to the mutant."..."Shredder ponders, he sits back into his chair silently."Then let her..."
"Master?"Xaver was surprised by this."B-but..."Shredder holds up his hand stopping him from talking.
"She knows we're here...there is no doubt she isn't going to try and find us. Find out everything she can...that will be her trap."Shredder looks at everyone in the room."We'll draw her out, and like a serpent we'll strike when ready. At every corner, there will be someone waiting. Someone watching...whatever needs to be shall be done...how it needs to be. Draw her out like a moth to the flames and I will watch her burn and this world...and she shall start it."
Suigetsu does his best to keep upon his calm composer. Hearing Shredder's dark words that sunk deep into the young man, turning his feelings for May into fear. Feeling himself being bounded and no way out. He didn't know what to do, or how he could help. But, would he really want to overstep, Shredder? This man was dangerous, a danger that puts fear into him... Fear that he didn't want to upon him. Still, he didn't want anything to come to harm for her.
Sasuke looks to the silent dark kuniochi, he saw something in her blue eyes wanted to say something."Speak."he commands her. All eyes fell upon her.
Doing as she was commanded, words finally coming out of her mouth."There is also...another way..."
Your golden eyes look at the small sample of the grayish ooze, under the microscope. Turning the knob to enhance the slight blurry image of the substance. It slowly comes into view for you, looking at every single little bit of it. There were no doubt traces of mutagen had to be used to make this... new kind of mutagen.. not fully sure what it was really.
Still focused upon the sample, your hand reaches out picking up a small dropper filled with clear liquid and bring it over to the mutagen squeezing just a drop on it. Waiting you watch the reaction from it...there was nothing really. Which was strange to you, finding another dropper this one filled a slight clear greenish chemical, you put a few drops on it.
Still nothing...sighing. Removing your eyes from the microscope. Picking up a clipboard you write down your findings on sample...looking at the number on the outside of the Petri dish.
# 13. It reads, sighing to yourself still with not an ounce of a break through. Setting the sample aside a failure...again. Reaching for another one, with your gloved hand, and place it under the microscope again. Getting up from your stop, you grab a few books opening them up reading quickly at the different chemicals that were listed, along with the different herbs and plants that might be in there. Having already combined a few toes to make the reaction, chemical needed, from which you assume might be in the mutated mutagen.
There is surely something more at work here. Closing the book, turning back to the sample looking around the lab in which Tsunade had set up for you, Sakura, Ino, Shizune and few others assist in the work. It was obvious Tsunade didn't spare any sort of expense with this lab. In a world like this, having tech compared to back was amazing. Making it a little bit easier, but it wasn't enough to help you break apart the ooze.
Speaking Sakura, Ino and Shizune who was the head of this thing, no one was not even the extra carefully hand picked staff was here yet. In fact, no one really was, since you were allowed full access like the others here. You pretty much came earlier than them. In fact, ever since you've arrived here in the village, you got started right away with the findings. Examining every single little thing, that they had on this. The fact two bodies were here, made it even better for you all those times being Donatello's assistant was really starting to pay off. Not to mention the fact he pretty much taught you everything he knew with the help of a couple of text books and some very minor help from Master Splinter. As well a couple of crime and detective shows, and a bit more tutelage of Lady Tsunade. You pretty much where ready for this and prepared.
Of course you leaving Sunagakure, was something you knew Temari was completely against. Not to mention Kankuro and a couple of others, having not healed fully, but you insisted on going. Telling them, it was only right and natural that you, though in a somewhat sense part of the village. Tsunade was considered your Sensei in a manner of speaking, so you had to go when she requested you. Telling the others, it was alright, and your healing was kicking much sooner that you barely felt any sort of pain. Which was a lie, but one you managed to hide pretty well. It was plainly seen that you would not back down and take no, Gaara was against it. But once it reached the council and to everyone's surprise Ryouta agreed to allow you to go, seeing it was for the best of both villages that you venture there to offer your assistance.
He explained it thoroughly how important it was for you to go. The way in which he used his words put a few others on board not to mention the fact they held it against you slightly for bringing harm to the land. And Gaara again caught in a tight place, had no choice but to allow you to go with Sakura and Ino back to their village. Leaving Natsuki once again.
Picking up a sample of...blood if you could call it. Which was strangely crude for it to be blood and it wasn't red as expected instead it was of some sort of dark heinous purple or bluish black color. Because of its unpleasant rotten smell, it was encased in a covered petri dish. The look of this stuff was lumping and clumpy. If someone had to open it to do some experiments on it, then there was a separate room for it.
A few test has been done, but still very minimal results and data. Picking up the dish with the blood, you put on a mask putting on your white lab button up coat and goggles you head to the separate room to run some more test. Opening the air tight small room, placing down the dish slowly and carefully opening it. The smell came rushing out, even with the mask on it still didn't help. Though having grown used to it, compared to others who pretty much would be gagging at this second.
You didn't have time for a thing, because a job needed to be done. One that was starting to weigh heavily upon you, inside that pushed you with urgency to figure out what this stuff was and what was the reason for it? Not to mention why, Shredder would do this? And what purpose did you have for this so it seem if you did or not. So many questions came to you, that would flash the results in your mind about the damage that has been because of this atrocity that, you felt was slowly starting to be brought upon this world. By him...and them.
There was no doubt, this was your fault. A fault in which you much take full responsibility for on your own accord. Thinking about the many whom have died and were gravely injured because of this, not to mention those whom you knew Shredder had taken and forced into becoming his new fond weapon...a living bomb it seems. Pulled up on your heartstrings like a fiddle.
Using a small incision tool to cut the crude blood, only for the tool to melt. Hearing it sizzle from it. Picking up the clipboard you write it down, placing it back you pick up another tool, only for it to do the same thing. It was starting to make sense why very little results could find with this... It was interesting at how this blood didn't seem to burning those that it flowed through. Trying a few more things, before you finally gave it a rest.
Walking out of the room, with the petri dish closed tightly. Sighing tiredly, for the last four days you've been up early and left the place extremely late to work. Actually, you didn't take a break at all, pretty much going full force all the way through. Time would just fly by, with you even know which during that time, Sakura and the rest would eventually come in getting ready to start with you busy as always with a sample.
Looking through the organized samples for something new. You decide to take out a couple of files instead. Finding an empty spot you lay them out. Where these files from others who offered their help. Ranging from Sakura to an extra. Your eyes scan over every single little detail processing it into your mind, storing it away, while at the same time trying to match it with anything. Sometimes it paid to have a computer like brain, going over every single little detail carefully, not miss a single letter nor punctuation. A couple of words seem to add up to, your reports and theories.
But nothing else really. Carefully, you pick them up and put them back properly, and take out a couple more to do the same thing. Each result seeming to come up empty. Which wasn't helping you at all, after going through most of the files, you decide to take a look at the small tube like canisters that had been attached the bodies, from which the ooze was pumped into their blood stream. Remembering where Shizune had put it, you find it placing it down and quickly change your gloves.
Surrounding it with your energy to allow you much more better observation, it slowly turns around for you, this one was one of the non-cleaned ones. Because Shizune wanted to keep at least two of them this way while the others were sterilized to better understand it. There were at least six of them, at least three protruded out from the back of the poor victims. There had to operation done to lodge them out, which from doing so allowed much more analysis to be done, but also show the honorifics of the instrument. From the glass container, there were also long wires that were weaved into it, and no doubt the bodies.
From during a trough overview, and coming to a conclusion the wires was attached to the body's nervous system, upon the spin going all the way, are almost all the way to the spinal column. Doing further research upon it, it seems almost like a remote control or a battery. It was hard to really tell, but from the ends of the wires they seem to fire, indicating that there was a shortage or made it malfunction.
But what puzzled you really, was from Shizune had discovered. She conclude a bit that, whatever all this stuff was there was no doubt some for of jutsu used, kenjutsu to be exact. Remembering from Temari explained to you about that, it was known as forbidden, something someone must never do, a lot you found in Lady Chiyo's notes and books. Remembering coming across one that involved one giving their life force to another. It was called...One's Own Life Reincarnation.
It was an interesting jutsu, one you seem to take interesting just a bit. And like the rest of her notes and documents managed to configure it just a bit, but would never use it, remembering Temari's words about doing so. It though through asking Ebizo about it, from which he told you how his sister had made it for her grandson, to hopefully bring life into the puppets she made for him. Due to the fact he lost his parents, her son and daughter in law. But it did not work, he told you a bit about his older sister and grandson who he left the village, breaking Chiyo's heart since then she retired. He was also not around anymore, meaning he died, just as his sister did. Though from the jutsu, which she used to save Gaara, after he died.
A surprise really to you, that managed to live, but it was all thanks to Chiyo's Reincarnation jutsu that saved him, along with help from Naruto. From the way Ebizo sounded, he was not very fond of the jutsu and greatly missed his sister. A feeling you knew all to well, you greatly missed home and everyone, but mainly...April the most. To bad this jutsu couldn't allow you bring her here.
Though with the prospect of Shredder and the others being, there might be a way to find out how they did actually get here and maybe, once you stopped them. Could go back home, home...the word that sounded so nice and warm. Filling you with a jolt of bliss, that quickly faded just as it came. Slowly, you begin to lower the tube down.
It would be nice, to go back home...it really would. Being here by yourself, minusing Shredder and the others...quickly as you could. You shake off that feeling, and focus back upon your work. Now was not the time to want to give into your own desires, when others whom have been innocently thrown into all this, needed to be saved.
Floating the container back up slowly, as it twirls around, there was nothing for you to find at all. Placing back where it goes, you decided to research something else.
The kinjutsu, maybe there was one or a few in that where used. Collecting a few flies, that you felt where the right ones to use, leaving a note for anyone who came, you leave the place and head for the village library.
In the library, making your way to the proper section, able to get clearance from Tsunade to look at the much more locked away subjects and jutsus. Getting a couple of scrolls, spreading them out with the files. Eyes darting here and there taking in every single thing that came in eyes view, looking at the words to the symbols that in a some sense matched up but then did not.
This was starting to become complex right now, but that didn't stop you. Your mind fired up right now, just like Donatello a trait which you did not realize you had inherited from him. When he was in the zone, as he called it or Mikey, his mind was like a blazing fire going here and there, able to take in every single little thing. Multitasking really, and once in this state it was not wise to break him from it, yet he still managed to hold a conversation while doing so. While you on the other hand had to stay completely focused upon it, breaking you was like a unplugging a computer still downloading.
A habit you had as well, was speed mumbling everything you looked at or read. Your fingers swiftly glided across the scrolls and words, moving quickly to the next one and next one. When nothing was found, or could be compared to. You just rolled up the scroll or closed the book, putting them to the side, using your powers to bring over another one, having a few on the table, while others hovered around you. Coming to you, from a wave of your finger.
The only thing you could really seem to get from what you read, that whatever kinjutsu that was being used was a mixture of some sort. But of what, you did not know and needed to find out. Sighing, though not in defeat. There just had to be another way to get some more information really, a mission would be nice to go on. Though because of what had transpired really, not many missions were fully given. And because, you, where needed here it was slightly hard to leave, unless really Tsunade said so.
So really you had to find other ways to get information, from overhearing conversation with others in the village and maybe a couple of times from reports that might have evolved anything strange to Shizune and medical team. This desire of needing more information was starting to slowly rise, but you managed to suppress it. Remembering Master Splinter's words. To be patient, a trait he told you that you had very well.
Bringing another book over to you, opening it as it floated infront of you. You flip through the pages with great ease, it paid to have a mind like this really able to speed read. Finding nothing, you close it back up and send back to where it came from.
Unaware of the time that went by, you hadn't even left the library so the time change outside alluded you. Writing down notes after notes, until there was nothing really else for you to write. Having ran out of space really for it. Knowing there was more you could find, even if you were lying to yourself. Picking out a few books and scrolls to take back and study them a bit more. Making your way to the librarian on what it was you would be checking out, taking everything you leave.
Stepping outside, a breath of fresh air sweep over you along with the bright light from the sun. Quickly your eyes adjust to the change in light, hearing voices and the sounds of others all around. The village was awake now, but you didn't know really the time and it just didn't seem to matter at the moment. Taking what you had, which was a bit much, the stack covered your view that you could not see infront of you. Lifting off the ground, you fly up others who happen to be walking by saw you, and stare in amazement and confusion watching you leave.
Being careful not to drop anything, you had to fly slowly. Knowing you needed to take your findings back to the lab, because it was only right. You head in that direction.
Down below, your shadow flew over the others, which some looked up when saw it. Surprised to find you up there, reaching the place sensing others were inside, including Sakura, Ino and Shizune. Landing down, you go inside, placing your items down and make your way to the lab. Hearing Shizune's voice along with Sakura's, you quietly enter seeing everyone busy at work. Shizune her hair pinned up was once again in the autopsy room with a few others, Sakura with her hair pinned up on ooze samples, Ino writing down and over looking her findings and the extra busy with whatever they were told to do or their job.
Coming, Sakura notices your entrance."May, there you are."
Everyone looks at you, you smile kindly at them."Hello, everyone."you slip on your lab coat and button it up, you put up your hair in a quick bun because Shizune and Sakura had suggested it would easier for you to do things with your hair tied back or up. Luckily, with remembering April's teachings on doing hair you managed to remember doing a simple bun, leaving a few strands of hair to fall out. Framing the side of your face. Putting on some gloves you go over to her, she looks at you noticed the slight look of fatigue in your eyes. She gets ready to say something, that is until you handed her your notes.
She takes them, looking them over, amazed really at what she saw."Wow...this is a lot."she reads over a few things.
Ino stops what she was doing and comes over. She like the others dressed in a lab coat. Looks at your notes, her eyes almost pop out."Geez..."she looks at you.
"I was just barely able to find some very small, minor compression really. Nothing but, for must seem to quite everywhere."you tell them."I also have done some test, which the results are just same as before. So there is really nothing that is new. I have read a couple of books, and feel that newer chemicals must be used, to perhaps break down the compound of the substance."
Sakura nods her head, agreeing."Yeah, I agree with you."she tells you."Everything we're using doesn't seem to be allowing us anything sort of break through really..."she sighs.
"Wonderful, I have taken the liberty of doing such."you inform her. This startled her a bit, even Ino.
"What?"Ino looks at you.
You nod your head slightly sluggishly."Yes, I have been in the library and managed to come across a few things I do believe might work. Has there, been any new reports? As of today?"
Ino and Sakura look at each other, though you smiled and looked calm. Something seems uneasy really with your composer, you seem to be a bit pushy, yet they were unsure if it was true or not. Seeing how patiently you looked. The two of them hesitant really to say anything, Sakura places the notes down.
"Well..."she thinks about it."Nothing really."
Your smile slightly drops in disappointment."Oh, well then...I shall gather all that is needed to make these new chemicals. Please, continue with your work."You bow to them and excuse yourself.
The friends watch you walk off, and take a seat at your station. Gathering a couple of things to start making new chemicals. Ino and Sakura look at each other worried.
"..."Ino.
Again, spending long hours in the lab, staying behind after the last ones left. That being Sakura, Ino and Shizune who didn't mind waiting for you, you told them it was alright. Still finishing up this new chemical that might help to break down the compound of the samples. Setting the beaker aside to let the chemicals sit, for the remainder of the day. Getting up from your seat, taking off the lab coat, throwing away the gloves, and letting your hair down. Gathering your notes and notebook, you take your leave. Remembering the books and scrolls you had picked them up along the way. Locking up the place, by the time you stepped foot outside, the sun was no longer out, instead it was replaced with the night sky.
Making it much cooler, wanting to look up at the stars, you decided against it. Hosting the books in your arms, you start on your way home. There were less people on the streets of the village than before. Which was good, giving you time to think much deeper. Bringing up everything that you had processed in your mind from today, going over them one by one. Matching up what seems to make sense and making a mental note to write down your findings.
With your mind buzzing like a hive of busy bees, you did not bother to pay attention what was going on around you. That is, when you felt a slight sharp pain from your knees. Making you stumble and almost fall, you managed to hold onto your items. But the pain stun you for a second, despite you saying you were fully heal, that was not fully true, you still had some pain from the injury that you decided not to pay much attention to really. Though they were healed, just to 100 percent.
Forcing yourself to ignore the pain, you push your knees and legs to function. It was like walking with cement blocks on your feet, they dragged, but you forced them to move, which of course caused your legs to cross over one another, tripping yourself. Falling right onto your knees and your items to fall from your hold. Again, you paying no mind to it, despite its burning shooting pain.
Pushing yourself up, was a slight struggle, but you did it anyway. The images of those injured, Temari, Gaara, Kankuro, Naruto, the others and Kai came to your mind made you push yourself up more. Only for your pain to flare up a bit more, suppressing your pain, you just go all the way through and push yourself up not minding the pain. Which was a mistake, the pain came more so you fall on one knee. Though luckily, you managed to catch yourself and refused to fall all the way down. Pushing yourself back up, while focusing on the books and scrolls using your powers to levitate them up. Stacking them up slowly. Once the last one was stacked, you levitate the stack over to you. With them back in your possession you make your way to your temporary residence.