The Start of a New Chapter in this Accursed World
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Waiting at the front entrance of the Ring of Fire was Itachi and Kisame waiting by his side as they not only patiently wait to face off against Orochimaru but speculate as to what this place use to be since many of its things had been stripped, but some semblance of the old world remained like polished wooden walls, and floors made up of that speckled floor tile.
"I think this place may have been a hospital at some point" said Kisame, "I don't think hospitals were that equipped with this much security footage, if anything I would say this may have been at some point a police station" said Itachi.
"You are both wrong" came the voice of Salem as she and Orochimaru stood atop of the stairs while looking down on Itachi and Kisame.
"This place was a safe house built under the pretence to keep those in this town safe from not only bombs, but from any outside threats, all funded by the towns people, before the mayor went and turned his back on everyone, leaving them to their fates" said Salem.
"But I know you care little to not caring at all about this" said Salem as Orochimaru made his way down to confront Itachi for the last time.
"Orochimaru, you have some nerve" scoffed Itachi, "Bold words from the man who's come to surrender himself, all for the sake of his little brother" said Orochimaru mockingly.
"Truth of the matter, I was sent here mainly because knowing you to still be alive is nothing but an ever living threat to not only us, but to those who serve for the Windmill Warlords" said Itachi.
"You wouldn't happen to have such a thriving society if not for the assistance of I, Tsunade, and Jiraiya, Ho-Musubi Itachi" said Orochimaru, "No we would not, though we do live a lot better without you especially" said Itachi calmly as Orochimaru was starting to lose his chill.
"Enough of your ignorance and insults, less you want that little brother of yours dead" said Orochimaru trying to bait out Itachi now.
"I've already said that I came here, under the orders of my father, to kill you, I said nothing about saving Sasuke" said Itachi, "You mean to tell me that you, Ho-Musubi Itachi and that foolish Fujin Fugaku would allow a member of your family to die" exclaimed Orochimaru as this was hard to believe.
"By the sound of, I take it that Sasuke had withhold the fact he was not only stripped of his title, but was disowned and sent out into exile" said Itachi as Orochimaru felt an uneasy pinch in his gut.
Knowing that this situation was going out of hand and out of their favor, Salem quietly snucked away from the scene to make her escape as Orochimaru stood there and angrily shook in rage.
Like a 2-bit fiddle, he had been played for not only letting his presence be aware, but his one means of leverage was nonexistent from the start since the recent revelation.
"Damn that illegitimate leader for the bastards he raised in this world" said Orochimaru with his teeth clenched as Itachi took a moment to reflect between what he and Orochimaru had been talking about.
"I agree, but that still doesn't change the fact that you need to die" said Itachi as he took out his flame sword as Orochimaru began to take his katana out of its scabbard.
Elsewhere
As the flooded waters made it's way to the fiery engines within the Ring of Fire, all the power within this place was starting to cut off, which mattered nothing to Yang or Naruto as they grabbed one of the wall mounted torches and continued to race out of this many one of hells on earth.
"We got to hurry up, I don't know how much longer we can stay here before were belly deep in water" said Naruto, "What don't you know how to swim" asked Yang.
"No do you" asked Naruto, "Kinda" said Yang as they none the less picked up the pace and made it to another flight of stares.
It wasn't until they made it to the 4th floor did they realized that half the damn stairway was torn in half.
"Now what" asked Naruto in disbelief, "What happens is that we either wait and risk getting the waters rise enough for me to swim and you drown, or you hop your ass over there on the other side and give me a hand to get across safely" said Yang.
Seeing as there was no room for option, with little running room he was given, Naruto was barely able to hang onto the ledges of the stairs as the wood did creak and moved a little.
Undeterred, Naruto climbed his way up to the fragile stairway before he laid his body over with both arms extended.
Now it was Yang's turn to give her shot in the leap of faith, where thankfully Naruto managed to grab her arm, however, the loud sound of wood breaking and the sudden shift in said stairs.
"Oh shit" exclaimed Naruto, "Pull me up, hurry" shouted Yang as it was a race against time.
As Naruto pulled Yang up with all his strength, Yang climbed as fast as she could to get on the actual floor on time, before hooking her nub arm through some iron banister and used her one good arm to grab Naruto by belt line to his trousers, just as the stairs finally collapsed to its fragility.
Pulling Naruto up, both let out a sigh of relief, before both continued their journey to escape the ring of fire.
Eventually they got to the final floor with hopes to their salvation, but their laid one final obstacle to their freedom.
"No fucking way" said Yang in disbelief as Sasuke stood their realizing that the blonde duo were alive, as he began to aim his gun at them.
"Touché" said Sasuke as Naruto and Yang defenseless to what may or may not happen next.
Elsewhere
As Salem had gathered the remaining horseman, along with anything they can get their hands on as she stood in front of a ham radio.
"Cinder, I need an immediate evac, and I need it since yesterday" said Salem in the speaker, "Copy milady, we'll send in one of our pilots over to retrieve" said Cinder on the other line before turning off the radio.
"So we're just going to abandoned Lord Orochimaru Lady Salem" asked one of the horsemen, "What choice do we have, he was blinded by his own hate to not properly take control of the situation" said Salem in a huff.
"It's bad enough that we now must forfeit our control here within the Ring of Fire, and I've no intention to forfeiting my own life here today" said Salem as the other horsemen looked at each other and nodded in agreement.
"Forgive us Lady Salem, but we've no intention of leaving here without Lord Orochimaru" said one of the horsemen as they all lifted their arms at Salem.
"Hmm, and you think Lord Orochimaru will forgive your deeds once he's learned of this" said Salem once she turned to face the horsemen, "We'll accept whatever consequences shall come after this, but we're not leaving without Lord Orochimaru" said the only female member to the horsemen.
"Tell me, what is your name" asked Salem, "It's Tayuya Lady Salem" said Tayuya, "Well then Tayuya, you and the other horsemen have my blessing in joining Orochimaru" said Salem.
Thinking that they all felt a moment of understanding and agreement, the remaining horsemen had let their guard down for Salem to throw a bunch of knives right on between their eyes.
"Lady Salem" said Tayuya in surprise before she had a chain wrapped around her neck, where Salem yanked it with enough speed and force to break her neck in 2.
"Yes, you may join Orochimaru in death" Salem said calmly before she adverted her eyes to the corner of the room.
"Kabuto, I know you're there, show yourself already" said Salem as the organic mechanic made himself apparent.
"I'm surprised how you bothered to not lift a hand and had to leave me to me to fend for myself" said Salem with a huff, "I assure you milady, for this was pointed towards the back of the heads of these rejected soldiers" said Kabuto as he lifted a pocket pistol.
"Whatever, anyways we must leave, less we end up as yet another statistic to the ever growing pile of corpses today" said Salem, "If I may Lady Salem, I would like to at least be given the chance to search for Sakura" said Kabuto.
"Sigh, unfortunately I have a feeling the poor girl is dead" said Salem, "Regardless I none the less would like to at least confirm it myself, if you allow me my lady" said Kabuto with a bow.
Salem said nothing, but instead walked her way to Kabuto as he stood there awaiting for whatever may come next, as she went and stripped him of not only his pocket pistol, but a flare gun as well.
"You have 5 minutes, if you're not back up on the roof by then, I'm leaving you here to your own fate" said Salem, "Thank you Lady Salem" said Kabuto as both went ready to go their separate ways, but Kabuto stopped in his tracks to simply comment out loud of their current situation.
"It's a shame that this has to be the end of the Ring of Fire" said Kabuto as Salem stood outside the open door to another elevator that worked at the moment.
"This may be true, however, this is also the start of a new chapter in this accursed world, and this time I'll make sure no tragedy will befall so long as my name reigns presence over power and loyalty" said Salem as she still has big ambitious plans of her own.
With that being said, Kabuto took her words in as a mental note before going back to the corner he was at to pick up a duffle bag filled with mixed goods before heading out.
Going down a 2 flight of stairs, Kabuto heard the loud ruckus of some gunshots, before he leaned his back into a corner, and peaked his head out to see that we were back to where Sasuke had originally held Naruto and Yang at gunpoint.
Right now, Naruto laid on the ground with 2 fresh bullet holes in his chest as Yang knelt down under the mercy of Sasuke.
"Time to finish this" said Sasuke as nothing was going to stop him from killing Yang, other than Kabuto when he took out a pocket sized syringe gun and fired a needle in his neck.
"What the fuck" said Sasuke as he pulled the needle out of his neck, "That right there was a dose of new plague which we've called Tsukuyomi, any second now you'll start feeling fatigue and feel heavily sleepy, before your body collapses and wake up with lymph nodes and break out in both black and red pox" said Kabuto.
"You son of a bitch" said Sasuke as he was starting to feel the effect of the virus as his vision went blurry and his gun felt heavier to hold before he dropped it in order to hold his head up.
"You want to know what truly makes me a bastard, the fact that Sakura herself was the one who carried the antidote" said Kabuto with a shit eating smile as Sasuke began to hurry to find Sakura only to collapse on the ground after walking a few feet.
"Thank you" said Yang hesitantly as Kabuto made his way towards the blonde duo, "I apologize for not coming here sooner, however I was admittingly preoccupied" said Kabuto as he knelt down to her level.
"I'm really sorry for what happened to your friend here" said Kabuto, "He was a good man, a rare trait to find in this world, and he proved it when he took the bullet for me" said Yang as Kabuto looked at Naruto's chest to see the bullet wounds.
Upon doing so he realized something unique, and that was how he bullets were being pushed out his body by themselves, and how the bleeding itself was slowing down.
"I don't think we have to worry about your friend leaving us any time soon right now" said Kabuto, "What do you mean" asked Yang as he pointed at Naruto's chest again where Yang saw the bullets had finally fell out of his chest cavity as it started to heal.
"What's going on" asked a surprised Yang, "I'm not entirely sure, but all I can say during my life as medical professional and organic mechanic, I can say that never in all my medical life or knowledge have I ever seen something like that before in my life" said Kabuto as he really hated how they never got the chance to experiment on Naruto before the Ring of fire went up in flames.
"Do you think he'll be alright" asked Yang, "I'm going on a limb here when I say yes, but who knows honestly" said Kabuto before he got back on his feet.
"Here this for the both of you, everything you need here to keep yourselves going" said Kabuto as he handed the duffle bag over to Yang where she spotted her prosthetic arm inside through the unzip zipper.
Grabbing it, she instantly began to put it back on to place where she felt she was whole again.
"I must say thank you, but why are doing all this for us" asked Yang, "Let's just say that I made a promise, well actually a bet with someone where that whoever got to successfully leave the Ring of Fire first, got to not only leave with their freedom, but some essentials for their journey" said Kabuto sheepishly.
"Though if you want to pay me back, just answer me this one question, your prosthetic arm, do you remember who not only made it but gave it to you" asked Kabuto.
"A woman by the name of Tsunade" said Yang as Kabuto smiled upon hearing that name, "Good to know that old biddy is still alive" said Kabuto as he began to walk towards a different exit.
"Will we ever meet again" asked Yang as Kabuto stopped in his tracks and turned to look at her.
"Hmm, probably never" said Kabuto as he began to put his hood on to cover his head before pushing on a button on his wrist that turned him completely invisible.
While there was a lot more Yang wanted o question, she had to focus on getting herself and Naruto out of here first and foremost as she was the one to carry him out.
With Itachi
Picking up where we left off, Itachi moved fast and up close as he locked blades against Orochimaru as they grinded their blades against one another.
Using a bit of forced, Itachi managed to push Orochimaru back before swinging his sword at back at, but Orochimaru was surprisingly quick to recover and locked blades again, but was tricky enough to give himself some space to swing the butt end of his katana into Itachi's face.
Recoiling back and hissing in pain, Itachi barely dodged from getting stabbed in the torso, but was successful and landing a long burning cut across Orochimaru's chest.
Orochimaru hardly flinched as he went back for him and Itachi to continue swing and clash their blades against one another.
"You've gotten better" said Orochimaru, "Only cause the student was better than the master" said Itachi as he lit up some more flames on his sword to further intimidate but also in hopes of splitting Orochimaru's sword in half.
Unfortunately the blade Orochimaru was more durable, more so he too had a trick up his sleeve as one of his many snaked crawled across his fore arm and lunged a venomous bite on Itachi's wrist.
"That right there was a Mojave rattlesnake, less you intend o retreat back home right now, you have a greater chance of survival, however if you choose to continue to fight, the venom will spread faster within your blood stream, leaving you probably a good hour to get cured, that is if you're lucky to get an hour" said Orochimaru as he knew better than anyone else that the distance between here and the Windmill Warlords are about a good 5 hour drive away that is if you continue to drive at top speed.
To Itachi it mattered very little to him as he saw this cheap tactic as a sign of desperate act from his former mentor and legendary organic mechanic.
"Itachi" exclaimed Kisame in concern, "Stay back, I intend to finish things soon enough" said Itachi as he set the flame dial to his sword to critical.
Taking in a deep breath, Itachi swung his sword almost madly before he went and tossed it over head behind Orochimaru where the blade planted itself into the ground, where he used the distracted opportunity to shove Orochimaru back to where his blade was, where it promptly exploded.
Being sent flying and partially on fire, Orochimaru layed his face buried in the ground as Itachi walked his way over while taking out his second flame sword.
"You… sneaky bastard" coughed Orochimaru as he barely lifted his head as Itachi began to lift his sword once more over head, "This time, I'll see to it that you stay dead" said Itachi as he swung his sword down with swiftness and was successful in beheading Orochimaru.
"Itachi, we better hurry and get you some antivenom man" said Kisame as Itachi began to his sword away back on his hip.
"Fear not, I always come prepared for any emergencies such as this, all you need to do is go into the glove compartment of my car and grab me the medical bag that's inside" instructed Itachi, "Alright man, just hang tight" said Kisame.
As Itachi waited patiently, he was surprise to see the sudden arrival of Yang carrying Naruto out.
"Hmm, small world" said Itachi as he began to rest his hand over the hilt of his flame sword.
"You wouldn't happen to be serving for Orochimaru now would you" asked Itachi, "No way, we just barely managed to escape from his hell that he called the Ring of Fire with our lives" explained Yang.
"Alright" said Itachi as he began to remove his hand off the hilt of his sword as Yang continued on her way to escape that place with Naruto.
"Tell me, you wouldn't happen to have seen my brother now would you" asked Itachi as Yang froze in place since she feared that Itachi would ask that question.
"He's dead…I'm sorry" said Yang as she felt uneasy saying it and felt that this man could snap and simply kill them for not doing anything.
"I see" said a saddened Itachi as he looked at the ground and let out a shaken sigh.
"Thank you for telling me this" said Itachi just as Kisame came back with the medical kit, "Everything good here boss" asked Kisame as he could see that Itachi was visibly upset.
"Yeah, everything is fine Kisame" said Itachi as he walked his way over to open the medical kit and preparing to inject himself with the antivenom.
"Why don't you do something useful for your life and get out of here, no one should have any business in the accursed place anymore" said Itachi as Yang didn't need to be told twice as she hurried her way towards the outside and hopped in one of the many vehicles parked there before driving off on her journey to find Summer and her sister at long last.
Time Skip
Waking up after being down for a solid 6 hours, Naruto saw that he was resting in the back seat of the car, before he groggily got up to see that Yang was driving.
"How you feeling" asked Yang, "I'm good, just… what happened" asked Naruto.
"After you took the bullet for me, some random guy went and injected something in that Sasuke's guy neck, claiming to be a new plague or whatever, before he gave me back my arm and a bag of goods" said Yang as she lifted up and showed off her new sawed off double barrel.
"After that, I carried you ass back outside, hotwired a car and now we're back on our journey to continue driving west" said Yang as she purposely left out her confrontation with Itachi.
"So now I got a question for you" asked Yang, "Yeah" asked Naruto nonchalantly, "How is it that you're alive and are able to heal like you do" asked Yang.
Truth of the matter, Naruto doesn't even know himself, all he knows is that ever since he was little he always had this weird ability to bounce up and dust himself off from any injury, and he notice this apparition when he took a shotgun blast to the head shortly after his father took one in the chest cavity.
While he could spend his days wondering and questioning every time he'd been mauled, ran over, beaten, shot, stabbed, and even at one point fell to his own death, frankly speaking he was lucky enough to be alive and able to move on, unlike many others in the wasteland they live in.
So right now, he was left sitting there trying to answer one of the hardest questions anyone could ask him.
With Sasuke
In all reality, Sasuke should have stayed dead for one reason or another, but what was for sure certain was that he wasn't going to die from the new plague Kabuto injected him, only cause there was no such thing.
If anything Sasuke was injected by a heavy dose of tranquilizer that would normally put down a rhino, leaving the question as to why would Kabuto lie to everyone like he did back there.
For whatever reason, I don't think we'll know anytime soon, what we do know is the fate that fell before him.
You see Sakura never died, and was able to escape the Ring of Fire in one piece, though she was able to leave with a something of value.
Having decided to take a liking to Sasuke, she had personally dragged him along with her as they continue to travel northwest, with Sasuke as her prisoner and personal protector.
Right now they were both taking refuge in an abandoned building, with Sasuke, having his pants down and his left arm pinned to the wall with 3 different scalpel blades as he sat chained to a chair.
"I hope you're hungry" said Sakura as she walked her way over to Sasuke holding 2 bowls of instant porage as Sasuke couldn't replay do to him being gagged.
"No worries, I know you'll enjoy this" said Sakura as she set the bowls aside before stripping herself of her clothes.
Making her way towards Sasuke, she sat on his lap and wrapped her arms around his neck.
"It's a little hot, so let's have some fun while our food cools off" said Sakura sweetly in his ear as Sasuke jerked his head in defiance, to which Sakura found such an act to be cute.
"Don't be like that, after all you're taking responsibility for me after destroying not only my home but my world" whispered Sakura in Sasuke's ear before nipping on his earlobe.
With Itachi
Having been successful in his campaign to wipe out not only Orochimaru but Raven, Itachi had to deal with only one remaining threat he saw to the survival of the Windmill Warlords.
In the halls to his father's throne, lied a great number of dead guards who remained loyal to Fujin Fugaku, as the man himself was on the ground desperately trying to push his son of while escaping.
"Fujin Fugaku, is everything alright" said the voice of a concerned woman on the intercom, "Things are busy right now sweet cheeks, please call back in a few minutes" said Kisame as he answered the call in his heavily beaten state as he had a bullet wound on his left shoulder and a gash on his forehead hence why he was bleeding.
"Kisame, what's going on, explain yourself immediately" inquired the woman on the other line as Kisame remained on the sidelines to witness Itachi to finish the deed.
Walking his way to the radio, Itachi finally answered the call to settle things and set things straight.
"Everything is fine now miss Roth" said Itachi, "Ho-Musubi Itachi, is everything alright, what about the Fujin" asked Roth.
"My father is stepping down, permanently, oh and please be a dear and spread the word now for everyone to start addressing me as Fujin, Fujin Itachi" said Itachi as he knew the night was young and that he had a lot of unfinished business before the day ends.
Elsewhere
In the far wastelands in the west, we see one of the many mutants that indeed roam these lands.
This one in particular stood at least 10 feet tall, with a scrawny built body, they had one large black horn growing from the right side of their forehead and a bunch of other stubs and nubs around said forehead area, and moe importantly their nails were long and sharp like claws as they extended about a foot per finger nail.
Still compare to the other abominations that roam the west, it was considered to be the weakest, but none the less it was considered to be dangerous up close.
Henceforth why laying proned on her belly we see a girl wrapped in a dirty white cloak that was starting to stain in a little bit of a red color here and there, as she held a scoped hunting rifle in her hands.
Taking in a deep breath, she set her sights on the mutant before pulling the trigger and blowing chunk of its head off before the mutant fell to the ground dead.
Getting up from her spot, she made her way downstairs with the accompaniment of a small dog whose back legs had been replaced by wheels as it barked happily alongside her.
"Come on Zwei, we gotta properly dispose of its body less it starts attracting other mutants" said the girl as she removed her hood off to reveal she had short red on black hair, and silver eyes as she picked up a shovel and a hatchet.
Alright, another chapter down and yet more are still to come, since we're far from being over with this story as of yet.
Before signing off I just want to thank you guys for your continued support in reading this, and more importantly proving every hater that their flamed reviews and opinions to whether this fic is mediocre or not is false on all accounts, so yeah this is me calling you guys all out for being tasteless philistines and for being jelly over not thinking of something original like this to begin with you scabs.
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