First Kiss–Chapter 32
"Breathe in the dirty air of the clean civilization."
AN: Sorry for the short chapters, I'm currently writing a personal story, and I keep the chapters at a size of 1000-1500 words to not put as much stress on myself, as writing two stories at once is a real painful experience. That's why chapters go slow. . .but. . .action will begin to erupt in this and the next couple of chapters. Enjoy.
Naruto and Hojo rounded out the next corner, they ran as fast as they could, while staying as low as they could to the ground. They passed door by door, window by window, as they ran towards what they thought to be the armory.
Almost no sound came from their feet as they turned right, and went down another hall, it looked exactly like the others. It was as if it were a maze. Hojo put his hand to his sword, signaling that they were almost there. He put his hand out, letting go of the hilt.
'Okay. . .that means. . .next door. . .end of the hall. . .' thought Naruto as he grabbed for a kunai. Hojo took a deep breath slowly came to a stop at the end of the hall, there stood one lowly metal door. Naruto ran behind him, looking down the hall, waiting for someone to walk in their path.
Hojo opened the door slowly, and a large creak was heard. The men inside stopped, and looked at the door. One started to walk towards it, the door kept going out as the man walked up to the doorframe. He reached out to grab the handle when Hojo jumped out and kicked the back of the door, the door slammed into the man, causing him to jump back.
He collapsed onto the floor as blood started to poor from his nose. The door, again, opened. Another man walked back to a weapon rack and took a sword. He walked slowly up to the door, put his back to the wall closest to the doorframe, and started to slowly inch his way to the door. He reached his hand out, but couldn't get to the handle.
The man took a deep breath as he reached again, this time he barely touched the handle, it fell his way, and he reached out again, he grabbed the handle, but instantly a hand grabbed his. He was thrown from the doorway out into the hall, and instantly the door slammed.
The men heard nothing, the four left ran towards the racks, they nervously grabbed whatever weapon and armor they could equip themselves with. A creak was heard. They all flew back, looking at the door.
Heavy breathing was heard above all else. The door started to creak open again, it then flew open, as the body of the man fell in front of them, blood soaked his uniform. "W-who is out there!?" said one of the more braver men. Silence. "Who is out there! We will kill you!"
Hojo walked into the doorway. "I don't think that is going to happen."
"Who are you!?"
"My name. . .well you don't need my name now don't you?" Hojo gave a small laugh. "Well, I just want to welcome you to the warming party for our leader, Mr. Taguchi." Naruto walked in as well.
"Hey," said Naruto as he laughed. He gave a smile as he said, "Give up your weapons and you will not be killed, no blood will be shed, and all this will be an eternal dream. You will wake up tomorrow and none of this will have happened."
"What about Tagimi! And Inoguchi!?"
"Them? They're dead."
"Bring them back! Now!"
"They're dead, they cant come back. Except for maybe this guy right here," said Naruto as he flipped over the second mans body, revealing the first man. "We only gave him a probably minor concussion, that sound right?" he said to Hojo.
"Just about," he said.
"And maybe a little broken nose, he'll wake up tomorrow, or will he?" Naruto reached into his shirt pocket and smiled as his fingers rest inside.
"What are you doing!?" said the guard.
"Just getting a kunai. . ." said Naruto as he held it above the passed out guards head.
"Now, do you wanna watch this man die, horribly of course," he said as he looked at Naruto, Naruto shook his head yes, "or. . .you can give up. One or the other." The kunai dangled above his head and the men shook, almost as quickly as the kunai.
"Come on!"
"Fine, fine!" shouted the guard.
"Good, sit down on the benches, all of you." Naruto put the kunai away as they walked up to them, Naruto laughed as he got right up to them. "Did you really think we were going to kill a man?"
"Didn't you kill Tagimi?"
"No. . .he's passed out." Naruto looked around as he sighed. "Serious? You thought we were gonna kill you guys? Come on! We're on your side dumb asses!"
"Oh thank god. . ." said the guard. They started to loosen up as Hojo laughed again, it was a small laugh, but the guards heard. "What was that for?" said the guard as he also gave a small laugh.
"Just for this. . ." Hojo threw his elbow in his face, throwing the man into the locker, Naruto unsheathed his sword as he cut the guard on the right end of the benches. Now all that was left was the two in the middle, Naruto quickly cut down the right one while Hojo threw his fist into the left guards neck. "Oh god that was funny!"
Naruto laughed too as he sighed. "Keep your composure."
"Yeah, now that the guards are out of the way we shouldn't have any trouble with guards un till we get to Mr. Taguchi's cell. Or unless an official is roaming the halls. . .but they shouldn't be around this time of the hour."
"Then lets go."
Naruto and Hojo jumped from the room and ran down the long hall un till they got to an intersection. They went left, and kept going for another minute, "Alright. . ." whispered Hojo back to Naruto. "The next hall is where Mr. Taguchi is!"
Suddenly a door opened, so quickly Hojo could do nothing to get out of the way, he slammed right into the metal door, it flew back into the wooden wall, so hard that the handle was stuck in the wood. Hojo collapsed onto the floor, moaning, he looked up at the man who came through the door.
"Soonichi. . ." said Naruto. Soonichi laughed as he remembered what Sasuke had said.
"He was. . .half right. . ." said Soonichi.
"Who?"
"Sasuke."
AN: I SWEAR that a lot of fighting is going to happen next chapter, so don't get mad. :P
Sorry for the delay.