Chapter 7: Dangerous minds part 4

Iruka finally noticed the roar of an engine in the air, this was an underground hanger. He could see the thin line in the ceiling where it opened to the run way outside, the gate was unlocked in preparation. There was even a fighter plane waiting for Kabuto that was already started and everything was initialized for flight, this was suppose to be a quick escape. No wonder he was so mad. "A low class solider was able to do all of this." Kabuto shook his head "Luck comes to the weak."

Iruka replied by lifting the gun, but in one swift motion Kabuto was in front of him and grabbed Iruka's wrist with his hand. In fluid movements Kabuto pulled Iruka's arm toward him and sent his elbow into his face, then while Iruka's head was falling back Kabuto sent a sharp chop into his arm and force him to drop the gun. Finally Kabuto released him and drove his foot into his stomach making him stumble back.

Iruka placed his foot back to stop himself then charged at Kabuto while he was going for the gun. Iruka drove his shoulder into Kabuto's stomach and wrapped his arms around his waist, both of them faltered backwards away from the weapon. Iruka placed his head into Kabuto stomach and rammed him into the roaring jet and knocked the wind out of him.

Kabuto gasped, grabbing on to Iruka's head and driving his knee into the man's chest. Iruka tried to pull back but Kabuto and his superior strength pulled him in, thrusting another knee into Iruka's torso.

"Aaarrggg!" Iruka fought to get out of Kabuto's hold, thrusting his shoulder forward into Kabuto stomach twice and forced him to let go. But Kabuto was quick enough to drive one last knee into Iruka's face and sent him flying backwards, falling painfully to the ground.

"Your too weak." Kabuto walked forward, sending a strong kick into Iruka's stomach, the impact carried enough force to send him sliding backwards. "You should have run when you had the chance."

:I...wont run." Iruka placed his hands behind him to stop sliding, the pulled himself on to his feet. "I will not let this happen." Iruka reached back and grabbed the gun that he had landed next to, opening fire on Kabuto.

Kabuto had no choice but to crouch under the Jet's wing and take cover on the opposite side. "It's all ready happening, someone like you can't stop it. You wouldn't know how." Kabuto peaked around toward Iruka, only to be driven back by another shot. He had to get that gun away from him, or at lest find away to return fire. Sure he could beat him one on one and probably in most other things but Iruka wasn't that bad of a shot, he couldn't take him on unarmed when he had a hand gun. Even with a bullet proof vest.

Which his why he came prepared. Kabuto climbed up the Plane, jumping into the cockpit and immediately coming under fire. He had to keep his head down making it imposable to see where he was going and escape as long as Iruka was capacitated. "Oh my the way, we've captured Konohamaru."

Iruka's eyes went wide and his mind took a second to register the severity of what had just been said. It gave Kabuto enough time to reach into the back seat and take the large gun that resided there. It wasn't a regular one, it was sliver and the size of a rocket launcher, a large rectangular weapon with a long trigger and a handle. It was so long that he had to hold half of it under his arm. This was a electromagnetic rail gun and it had a battery pack with enough energy for 30 shots.

"Oh and we've got his two friends, Naruto and Sasuke."

Iruka had to stifle a gasp "What?"

Kabuto took the opportunity to place the barrel of the gun out of the toward Iruka "That's why your weak, you get distracted too easily." Kabuto opened fire, sending an electromagnetic round towards Iruka. It was a jolt of electricity that came like lighting drawn towards the ground. It was much slower then that and being drawn by a black electromagnetic bullet that kept the electricity in a strait line instead of striking the closest thing.

Iruka jumped to the side just barely dodging the bullet but not the lighting, a few stray volts were drawn toward him though he wasn't hit directly, making him scream as the Railgun electrocuted him with it's equivalent of a bullet burn. Only it was much more painful and damaging, he was sure it would leave a burn on his chest.

He fell to the ground, hearing something explode as the Railgun round strike an object. He could feel the heat as flames ignited in the elevator and cut off his way back.

"I don't have time for you right now Umino Iruka." Kabuto shouted, closing the cockpit windshield and started moving the plane toward the lift that carried the aircrafts to the surface instead of taking another shot.

Iruka pulled himself on to his feet and ran after the aircraft, gun in hand. "You can't get rid of me that easily! Were are they?" Iruka honestly had never been so angry and motivated in his life, he was determined to save Naruto, Sasuke and Konohamaru. Kabuto just ignored him, flaring up the engines as the Jet got on to the lift "Tell me!"

He knew he was putting himself in danger of being incinerated but it was his only way up and he couldn't wait for Kabuto to leave first.

Kabuto's sliver fighter plane complete with the leaf insignia started lifting off the ground in a burst of wind that Iruka could hardly stand against, he had to grab on to a railing to keep from falling off. As soon as the lift reached to surface the Jet began to burn fuel and thrust off into the air almost burning Iruka to pieces in the process. Iruka was knocked back by the force, flying a few feet away to the ground.

Only to almost get hit by a car.

"Iruka?" Kakashi jumped out and ran over to him.

"I'm ok." Iruka took Kakashi's hand and stumbled on to the feet. "Come on, Orochimaru has Sasuke, Naruto and Konohamaru. And Kabuto knows were they are."

"What?" Kakashi was somewhat confused at his words.

"Come on!" Iruka grabbed his hand and ran towards the hanger where his plane resided. "Did you check your radar?"

"Yeah I saw it." Kakashi said. "There's an attack coming by sea."

"What?" Iruka was tempted to stop and looked back at him. "There's an attack coming by air. The sound's attacking by water too!"

Kakashi's cell phone rang at that moment.

! - ! - !

"Kakashi it's Gai." Gai was just leaving the Police station with Shikamaru and Lee, getting in the car. "We have big problems! The radar's back on and you won't believe what's coming."

Gai jumped into the car, turning it on as the other to entered. He started talking again before Kakashi could get in a word "There's a whole force coming at us from the east on the ground, may or may not be Sound but most likely is."

"The sound is coming from the water and the air too, They're trying to hit us while we're recovering from the storm and before the next one starts." Kakashi said.

Speak of the devil.

The wind, which had already picked up while they were inside, blew a strong gust that had to be about 45 miles an hour and a heavy ran started in a flash. It didn't go from light to heavy, it started off as a torrent. The second wave of the storm had just arrived and darkened skies seemed to get darker. "The timing couldn't be worse." Lee sighed.

Gai held the Cell Phone outward "Great, the signal's gone."

"Where are we going now?" Shikamaru clinched his seat tightly as the car accelerated, he had forgotten that Gai had wanted be a professional racer before he became apart of the Leaf special forces. He may just have been the best driver in Konoha, which is why he always focused on Ground attacks using vehicles. Anything on wheels he could use effectively.

"My house, I have to get equipped because this battle won't wait." Gai made a sharp turn to the left, he could see water coming out a manhole ahead. The city could barely hold the water from the last storm and now they were about to be hit by a lot more. This time he was sure streets would flood, and basements wouldn't be so safe as shelter.

"Who did you call Gai-sensei?" Lee asked.

"The president."

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"Kisame! Itachi!" Konohamaru shouted, his voice wasn't filled with it's usual excitement like it should have been when being rescued. It was anxious and shaky so un-Konohamaru like it was almost scary.

"What the hell!" Orochimaru pulled the gun from the holster on his side and pointed it toward the closest person which was Kisame, only to find that he had done the same and he was looking a much larger gun in the face. "Why are you here?"

Kisame reached back and pulled Konohamaru's scarf from his back pocket "You took the kid, and I have a problem with that." Kisame sent a sharp kick at Orochimaru who blocked with his free hand and fired the hand gun. Kisame tilted his head to the side and dodged the bullet and sent a sharp punch to Orochimaru's face. Orochimaru stepped to the side and evaded...only to run into Itachi.

"Why are you to worried about the brat?" Orochimaru looked back at Itachi, his face didn't show it but he was nervous. He knew he couldn't beat Itachi let alone Itachi and Kisame at the same time, all of his time in Akatsuki weren't a waste. "I thought you didn't care for Konoha."

There was no use asking why he captured Konohamaru, it wasn't hard to figure out considering who was who. "We're taking him back." Which really meant your a dead man, Orochimaru knew that.

He sent a sharp elbow back at Itachi, which Itachi grabbed and twisted behind his back. Orochimaru turned the gun in his free hand and pressed it against Itachi's stomach, contently firing a shot only to find Itachi had moved and he was no longer being held. Only now Itachi was in front of him sending a sharp kick into his torso.

Orochimaru slid backwards, stumbling into a wall and a safe distance away. "Heh, not bad, But not good enough." Orochimaru pulled a small remote control out of his back pocket.

"What the hell is..." Kisame's eyes widened to considerable proportions when he realized what Orochimaru was about to do and immediately ran over to the tank Konohamaru was still in. He grabbed him roughly by the collar a picked him up while Itachi opened fire with the riffle.

He would have stopped him too, if only he hadn't already used up all his ammunition. Orochimaru smirked and pressed two buttons while Kisame was still trying to get away. And just as he expected the capsule exploded, the force knocking Kisame off his feet and Konohamaru out of his hands.

The left wall was made completely out of windows shattered from the shockwave and a thick black smoke poured out. Even with that Itachi was still able to see Konohamaru's bloody body sliding towards the shattered frames where glass once stood. He ran after him, cursing Orochimaru for covering him in the red liquid, it was only making Konohamaru slide faster. He was forced to dive forward, half of his body landing out side of the 20 story building in just enough time to grab Konohamaru's arm.

"It-Itachi?" Konohamaru looked up, a weak voice coming from him. "What just happened? How did you get here?" It all happened so fast that Konohamaru got confused, besides he wasn't really focusing since he had been surrounded by his parents blood and a chunky substance that he hoped not but knew was his parent's flesh.

Kisame looked toward the window, seeing that Itachi had Konohamaru. He was going after Orochimaru for sure. 'That asshole doesn't make sense, what did he have in this room so important that he had to blow it up because we showed up...' It was just a wondering thought, he was more focused on killing him then figuring him out.

Kisame jumped onto his feet and ran out into the hallway after Orochimaru, only to realize that the gun he'd been carrying had been lost in the blast. Luckily it was laying a few feet ahead... Only Orochimaru was closer. He started to reach for the second gun under his shirt but he knew by the time he got it out Orochimaru would have already shot him. So he ran for his lost gun as he reached for the second while Orochimaru tossed away his empty handgun in frustration and dashed toward Kisame's silver magnum .

"Your dead Orochimaru!" Kisame growled.

"Heh, don't count on it." Orochimaru dived, talking hold of the gun before Kisame could kick it away. He rolled on to his back with the gun outward while Kisame finally retrieved his other magnum, but Orochimaru was quicker. The man fired a shot into Kisame's torso and another into his shoulder before Kisame could fire one shot which landed a few inches from his heart.

'Damnit!' Kisame shouted in his head, firing and missing another shot while Orochimaru rolled out of the way. 'That gun had the poison rounds...' "Bastard." Kisame snorted, missing another shot as the quicker Orochimaru dodged.

"What the hell was that!" Orochimaru shouted, feeling a painful and inhibiting cold where the bullet struck. He was forced to hunch over slight and clinch his chest, he could feel the wound was completely frozen to the point where it was starting to effect his breathing.

"Doesn't matter." Kisame said, firing another round as the pain started to rise in his body. "You wont live long enough to find out." He kept trying to shoot him but he was missing horribly, his vision was getting burry and he had trouble focusing.

Orochimaru looked down at the chrome weapon and quickly figured out that there was something in these bullets also. One more shot and the already weakened Kisame would be down for good. But he found himself quickly dropping the gun and the freezing sensation shot through his wrist.

"I'm not out yet ass hole." Kisame said, an impish smirk coming on to his face.

Orochimaru clinched his arm, knowing he didn't stand a chance being able to use only one hand and the pain was horrible. It got even worse when that same pain shot through his other arm, Kisame was a good shoot when he was mad. 'Damnit what did he do to me...I can't fight them like this...' Orochimaru found it best he retreat for now.

"Watch it Orochimaru..."Kisame said, finding his legs getting weaker "I'm not done with you yet." He finally fell on to his knees and leant against the wall.

Orochimaru wasn't too worried.

"What happened to you?" Itachi emerged from the room with Konohamaru walking behind him.

"He shot me with my own gun." Kisame sighed "Twice."

Itachi didn't see any freeze or burn marks so he knew it had to be the poisonous. Konohamaru walked over to him. "Are you ok?"

Kisame looked over him for a moment, seeing that he was dripping in some one else's blood , and the by way it was smeared in a strange design Kisame could see he had tried frantically to get it off of him. In fact the only reason he stopped is because he didn't want to look weak in front of Kisame and Itachi as if they were oblivious to his anxiety around blood. Though chances were Itachi had seen him and didn't say anything yet. "Are you ok?"

"Yeah...I'm fine." Konohamaru's voice had faltered a bit when he spoke, it wasn't a pleasant sight to see him like this.

"Kid, your shaking." Kisame pointed out. Konohamaru's hands were shaking the most visibly but his whole body was trembling.

Konohamaru's expression cracked uncontrollably from a strait face to one that was about to break down. "I'm...I'm"

"Despite what you might think I'm not stupid." Kisame snorted, using the wall to pick himself up off the ground and holster the gun holding the poison rounds. The chemicals inside worked faster on some people then others, and It worked relatively slowly on Kisame so he had some time. "Your not ok so don't tell me that."

A few tears escaped from his eyes, falling to the tiled floor. He didn't bother trying to cover them up "He...killed my parents...and he dumped me their blood." He said as more tears fell and a few sobs escaped "He did something to me...I couldn't move, I couldn't breath. It was horrible! And then he did this to me!"

That trembling increased substantially, he still tried to hold back knowing this wasn't the time or place to cry. It was hard though, and the fact that he had looked at his hands when Kisame pointed out he was shaking didn't help. He wanted to scream as loud as he could, he wanted to get the blood off with a passion.

"Come on, Let's get out of here." Kisame said morbidly. It wasn't easy seeing Konohamaru in so much pain, he didn't know how to handle these types of situations though he really wished he did. All he knew was Orochimaru was really going to pay for this. "Here." Kisame handed Konohamaru his scarf, and then a small towel he had in his back pocket.

"Thanks..." Konohamaru silently put it back in place, pushing back any other tears that threatened to come while he gratefully wiped off as much of the liquid as he could . "No...I can't go now. Naruto and Sasuke are still here! I have to get them."

"Damnit. I can't wait that long, I have to go an get an antidote, now." Kisame snorted in annoyment. He could barely walk and Itachi would have to go with him. "You gotta to come with us now."

"I can't, I have to get to them." Konohamaru said stubbornly, he wasn't going to leave and it would take too much time to force him.

"If your that determined to stay, I'll let you...If you do one thing." Itachi said, of course he didn't go through the trouble just to have Konohamaru die now. Konohamaru nodded and waited for him to continue "Go to the roof, by the time you reach the elevator it will already be unlocked. Your guardian, Ebusi I think it is, has a Helicopter waiting there."

"Ebusi is here?" Konohamaru looked up questioningly, it was still hard for him to concentrate considering he wanted to practically get out of his skin.

Kisame knelt down next to Konohamaru, getting about an inch from his face. "Can you really do this? This is really dangerous and you're prone to doing stupid stuff."

Konohamaru just looked up at him, usually he would have taken this as an insult and said something but this time he only starred up at him blankly. But his eye were squinted as if he was about to cry. Kisame such up hard one time, "Konohamaru!"

"What?" He really sounded out of it. "I can do it, don't worry about me." He slipped into his confident voice though he really wasn't paying attention to the risks. "Orochimaru isn't going to mess with me, Don't taunt the shark huh." Konohamaru always teased with that line when Kisame messed with him, now it just sounded hollow. Which only made Kisame madder.

What happened to the over-reactive, hyper Konohamaru that always was head-strong and egger to please. He was always fun to ague with and always followed them like a lost puppy that was really easy to train. And some how he able to retain his innocence and humanity during all of that, he became the good side of them. And not once did Konohamaru call Kisame boss, 'What did he do you that kid?'

Itachi pulled Kisame's arm over his shoulder and started to walk him down the hall. "Kid." Kisame called back "Don't mess around here, get your ass up there and remember what I taught you." He said firmly.

"Can I use your gun, you know for protection?" Konohamaru asked, he always wanted to use it after all the times he saw Kisame testing it out. 'What did he mean by remember what I taught you? I'm supposed to just go up to the roof and to the helicopter.'

"No." Kisame called back as he and Itachi head it out of the door at the end of the left side of the hallway. Konohamaru sighed, the way to the helipad was on the right but he could use the elevator to get to other levels to find is friends. There was no way he was leaving with out them.

! - ! - !

"Sasuke and Konohamaru, they must be over there." Naruto said quietly to himself, staring out of a corridor window about 4 floors below the window on the opposite tower that had exploded. "I bet that's Sasuke trying to get out." Naruto smirked, happy at the thought that he was alright 'That bastard, always the center of attention.'

With the riffle he'd gotten when he escaped from Kidomaru he roamed down the halls, clinching the weapon nervously. It was way too quiet around here, he hadn't spotted another person since then. What had actually happened was Itachi and Kisame disposed of most of them, the guards in this building had to go help but the result was the same.

That's why Naruto jumped when a loud sound came over the speaker system. "What the hell is that?" It sound as if someone was playing something backwards at a fast speed and a high pitch. "Must be broken." Naruto shrugged it off and counted walking down the hall cautiously. Just by looking out of the window he could see that the skyway to the next tower was in the next room.

What he didn't know was that sound wasn't a mistake and it meant something. It wasn't relevant to him but a few other people in the towers may have been interested. "I hope you guys are alright..."