Chapter 8: Dangerous Minds Finale

"Kabuto? Is everything going according to plain?" Orochimaru asked over the radio, Kabuto's was set up with an anti-jammed that only worked because he knew how the radio wave jammer in place over Konoha worked. The only other people who knew were dead per the plan.

"Everything should still work out." Kabuto said confidently, traveling over Konoha downtown Konoha toward the East. His plane was sending out a frequency that the other Sound aircrafts recognized so he wouldn't be shot down by the approaching army. "I heard there was some problems back there."

"Nothing I can't handle, just make sure everything is in order with the attack." Orochimaru sounded annoyed as if he didn't want to be bothered with it, there was also a small strain to his voice as if he was in pain.

Kabuto only sighed and shook his head, he could handle this, he was sure no one but Iruka knew and by the time he got the word out Konoha would be a hole in the ground.

"Kabuto!"

Iruka's voice roared over his radio in a furry never seen by anyone. Iruka wasn't one to get too mad about things but Naruto, Sasuke and even Konohamaru were almost like sons to him and he'd do anything to get them back. "Tell me where they are!"

Kabuto looked down at his radar, then looked behind him. Finding a blue jet with the numbers 4477 on the side trailing him with Iruka in the cockpit and Kakashi in the seat behind him looking a bit nervous. "Your a brave one Umino Iruka." Kabuto said "Let's see if that's courage or headstrong stupidity." Kabuto knew he had to get Iruka off of him, he wasn't worried though, Iruka wasn't nearly as skilled as Kabuto.

"I'm not afraid of you. Tell me where they are now!" Iruka shouted, pressing the bottom trigger on his throttle and opening fire with the duel Glatting guns under his wings.

"Iruka?" Kakashi made sure he was strapped in tightly before leaning forward over Iruka's shoulder. He didn't say what he was going to say because he saw that intense look on his face, it was almost freighting to see a person like Iruka be this mad. Quite surreal actual, this wasn't the same shy, nervous, nice person he was use to. With that thought Kakashi found the focus to stop thinking and say what he was about too a moment earlier, but he didn't get a chance because a sharp acceleration and a nose dive sent Kakashi flying back in to his seat.

He was going to hate this.

Kabuto rose up, flying nose first into the air in a skill full balancing maneuver Iruka never could mange to do. "No one person has ever caused this many problems for me, I want to find out just how good you really are." He had to get Iruka off his tail anyway, why not feed his curiosity in the process, a chance like this was few and far between. "The attack is starting, you say that Konoha isn't weak. Now's your chance to prove me wrong."

With a loud crash of thunder and a strike of lighting, the first fighter plane emerged from the thick black clouds. Even louder then the thunder, what sounded like a bomb exploded at the far east corner of corner of the city. And the dock flared into an inferno almost instantaneously. "Kabuto!"

"It's not safe for you. Thing are a lot different then they were in the past." Gai said, Standing in a green bullet proof vest with a machine gun in hand a 4 clips on his hips.

Standing next to his front door with Lee and Shikamaru, he adamantly denied them...well Lee since he was the one to ask permission to come with him. Before anyone could get another word in, a deafening explosion shattered every window in the house and sent flames through all of theones in the front of the house.

"It's not safe here!" Lee shouted, removing his hands from his ears he'd been using to drown out the noise and standing up again after the force knocked him off his feet. Gai pressed his body against the wall and peered out of the window frame.

"My luck is really off tonight." Gai sighed. "Lee, close that door!" He pointed toward the closet door in front of him knowing Lee was the fastest. Lee complied without question, running to the end of the hall and slamming the door shut. From there his eyes looked towards Gai for farther instruction but ended up with a glimpse at what was outside.

"Ahhhh!" Lee pressed his body against the wall as a large rocket flew through the open frame, it passed close enough to him to nearly burn him before it glided through the window at the opposite end of the house. The source was a large tank that had just taken out mostly every other house on the street and who's main goal was to cause the most destruction possible. It's cannon was looking them right in the face. "Gai! What is that thing?"

Gai jumped in front of the window as soon as he saw that red flash from the next round about to launch out of the long tube. He opened fire with the idle machine gun, shooting directly into the barrel and detonating the rocket before it could leave the tank. He dived forward towards to the ground, pushing himself far enough to pull Lee down with him and cover him while the weapon detonated in a spray of flames, fuel and metal scraps.

"Ooohh...I guess your coming with me after all." Gai said, reaching back and pull and scrap of steel of from his back.

"How can we fight against something like that?" Shikamaru asked nervously, yet he still managed to keep his calm and lazy tone as always. He'd been against the wall altogether so he avoided damage "I hear at least 20 more of them outside, I'm not an expert on war in this time period but I'd say this is a full scale attack."

"Don't worry, we have plans for emergency situations like this. A counter attack should be happening...about now." Just as he spoke the noise outside doubled and too him that was a good sign. "Alright, we're going to have to get out of here now and get to my car. On three we go." Gai peered out the window to make sure his car was still their and started counting "1...2...3!" He pulled the door open and ran outside, immediately met by tall flames that covered his front lawn and everything else on the street.

He looked back, afraid Shikamaru and Lee would be unable to get around the inferno. He was pleasantly surprised to find out that they were amazing good jumpers. It was a small leap over the flames, to find that that 3 Sound soldiers using Gai's car for cover against one soldier fro doing the same a few feet away. Lee fell on the central man, landing on the man's shoulders, wrapping his legs around the man's neck and flipping backwards. With a quick motion he sent the man flying in to the flames just as Gai dived through.

Shikamaru pressed his hands together in a quick seal "Shadow mimic no Jutsu!" His shadow shot out and connected with the two men's just as they turned towards the boy. Using it to his advantage, Lee jumped into the air, sending a kick to both of the men, followed by two swift elbows as he landed then a sweep kick that went in a full circle. That was strong enough to knock both of them to the ground and leave them voluble for a while.

"You two are pretty good." Gai jumped into the driver's seat and started the car quickly, he accelerated fast enough to involuntarily throw both boy's head back into the head rest. And just as they finally recover from take off, a loud roaring sound that was easily able to drown out the Car's engine came screeching from above, a fighter plane that was directly above them dropping bombs on any and everything bellow it. "Hold on!"

Gai made a sharp turn to the left just as a rush of flames exploded behind them, he pressed the gas to floor and drew out every bit of acceleration he could out of the machine weaving through the traffic of Konoha citizens, Sound solders and the clashing Leaf army. He glanced up again, then ducked down under the wheel in expectance as the buildings to the left of them combusted with tremendous force, Konoha was officially a war zone.

Thick clouds of gray dust cascaded over them, hiding a rain of bricks and debris in it's wake that was only reviled by the sound of it smashing into to the hood of the car. Gai lifted his head slightly just as the car emerged from the other side of the cloud. "No!" Gai pressed the breaks mildly and turned to the left to avoid an on coming humvee, just narrowly scraping right door as he past by, then shifted gears and accelerated forward with all of the tork the car had.

"Watch it, it's going to be close!" Gai shouted, barely able to stop himself from flinching when the Bomb fell no more then a few feet behind them, the noise and shockwave was enough to shatter the rear window and any remaining glass on the car. Let alone the blazing heat and the Flames pressing forward so fast that it was nothing more then a blur of red and orange Chasing after them.

Lee and Shikamaru crouched down in the back seat, truly believing that it would catch them for a moment. Gai wouldn't let that happen though, he flawlessly dodged anything in his path until the heavy rains fought the flames back.

Gai looked up again then abruptly turned right sharply, spinning the car around completely and heading the opposite way, getting a few feet away from his position before a bomb dropped directly where he was. He also found himself going head first into an approaching Jeep driven by a member of the apposing army. Even worse their was a large machine gun mounted on top and it was firing on them.

Gai turned lightly to the right, watching a trail of holes burst through the side of the car just a few inches from a head shot. Then he lifted the gun and fired quickly with an impulse, the two front tires of the car burst open and the car uncontrollably spent over side ways and rolled over. Then Gai fired one last shot, striking the exposed gas line and erupting the car in an earth shaking explosion.

The man sighed in relief as he outran the last wave of attack, Gai looked up in preparation for the next but this time he found that a Leaf aircraft had taken down the plane.

"I have to get you two someplace safe." Gai made a sharp turn to the right, throwing the car into a controlled spin and a 180 degree turn after coming face to face with another Tank. He hit the next street before it could run him over.

"There is no place safe! Look around. Their no way out, we can't keep going at this rate" Lee reached over and pulled Shikamaru's head down following Gai's example. With good reason, the car came under gunfire, the front windshield shattering from the rain of bullets aimed towards them.

Gai lifted his Assault gun out of the window again and pulled the trigger, shooting the attacker in the neck. "Hope may be frail but it's hard to kill. Don't ever give up even when things seem imposable. "

Lee was right though, no place really was safe. With the storm sending a Category 3 hurricane and growing, 75 mile an hour and gaining winds and a torrent of rain. Dogfights everywhere in the sky, fire and artillery fights in the streets, and who knows what was going on in the water, it was hell everywhere. No place was safe. "I'll find someplace to drop you off, it's going to get a lot worse with the storm coming in." Gai already had to shout for them to hear him.

He abruptly stopped, sending Lee and Shikamaru flying forward but thankfully pulled back by the seat belts. The street was completely flooded to the point where the current would have carried his car away if he continued, he had to pull back and find another way. But apparently the tank didn't, one was coming right for them. "Oh man." Gai threw the car into reverse just as a missile lunched directly for them. The Sound wasn't aiming for anything in particular, they were just trying to destroy everything and get the death count up, Konoha soldiers like Gai took priority though.

"No!" Gai pulled the riffle from in-between his seat and the door, quickly firing on the approaching projectile. All three of them quickly crouched down as it detonated and sent a rush of flames over his car, it burned immensely, a chemical flame being so close, surrounding them. Neither Lee nor Shikamaru had ever felt this type of flame created with what ever substance enhanced the missile. It caused an unexpected Chakra release from Shikamaru in the form he used it most.

The next thing they knew the flames were completely black, covered in Shikamaru's shadow. 'What?' He looked up, placing his arm over his face to block some of the heat, 'What happened? Why did do this?...It must have been that fire, it can't be normal.' That much he knew, he could smell it from where he was. 'A reaction...what ever is in that Fire cause same type of reaction in me, allergic maybe?' He pushed the flames back, controlling them just as he did anything else when he used Shadow Mimic no Jutsu.

By the time the smoke clear it turned out that most of the flames came from a Konoha Helicopter that dropped a missile on the tank "Good to know we have help..."

Itachi sat Kisame down outside of the control room on the third floor of the right tower. "What are you doing?" Kisame asked.

Itachi walked inside. "Locking the elevators, the only place Konohamaru is going is the roof no matter what he presses." Itachi called back, it was his stubble way of protecting the boy since they didn't have time to make sure he went up to the helipad.

"Wouldn't he just take the stairs?" Kisame said, feeling that he was undermining the boy's inelegance, Konohamaru was smarter then he looked. He smirked, Konohamaru would be yelling at him for that remark right now.

"That's why all of the other doors will be locked except for the roof."

"Your good." Kisame said, glancing over to the next door over down the hall as a man flew out of it. "Huh?" He watched as a boy came out directly afterwards, slamming the door shut behind him. "You can't be serous." The boy in question had a striking resemblance to Itachi, it was uncanny.

The man pulled himself to his feet, glaring down at the boy as he reached for him with both arms. The boy grabbed his arms and pulled him in while he jumped forward and sent a kick to his face. The man fell back against the wall, dazed but not out. He threw punch at the boy but he was too quick and crouched down before he was hit, then threw a blow to the man's side. The man faltered slightly and boy gave him a swift roundhouse kick to the side of his head while he was leaning to the side. He managed to knock him out. He wasn't bad.

The boy turned towards Kisame, a little surprised that he hadn't notice him beofre. Kisame sent him a mock wave "Let me guess, you must be Sasuke." The boy tensed up, ready to fight probably with the thought that Kisame was one of Orochimaru's men . "Figures. Hey Itachi, guess who just showed up."

Sasuke glared at him "What did you just say?" He watched on as Itachi emerged from the control room and he felt his anger flare. "What are you doing here?" Sasuke shouted.

"I had to take care of some...Business." Which was still unfinished but Kisame took priority over Orochimaru, and Konohamaru would be safe if he followed directions.

"You! Your working for Orochimaru." Sasuke growled.

Kisame snorted and laughed, though neither of them responded Sasuke could easily draw an answer from that response. He wasn't really interested in any answers, the only thing he wanted from Itachi was revenge and he couldn't stop himself from trying if he wanted too. The furry was overwhelming "Bastard." Sasuke charged at him, his eyes wide and blood red in an anger that he had never experienced before, throwing a punch at his unyielding brother. Itachi carelessly stepped to the side and kicked Sasuke in the stomach hard enough to lift his body a half foot off the ground and drop him to his knees.

Despite the pain and lost air, Sasuke forced himself to jump on to his feet stepping forward punched Itachi in the stomach, only it didn't have any effect. In fact Itachi just smirked, grabbing him by his neck as he tried to move back. "It's been years and your still just as weak as you were then."

"You...son of a" Sasuke was abruptly thrown back into the wall, bouncing off with strong repulsion and falling to the ground. 'No...it's not possible.' Sasuke's mind raced, screaming in pain when he felt Itachi stomp into his back, hard. 'I've been training for years...and I can't get one damn hit off of him.' before he could finish that sentence he was being lifted off the ground by his neck and pressed firmly against the wall by Itachi. 'How is he so strong! How is it that I can't get close to laying a finger on him! After all of that work, way is there still such a difference between us?'

"Why are you still so weak?" Itachi sighed, "You're...pitiful." Itachi drove his knee into Sasuke stomach as he was trying to lift his hand, each time he attempted to move another blow came and left him unable to do anything but feel the pain and struggle weakly.

Finally Itachi let Sasuke fall to the floor in an embarrassing manner, knocking what little air he had in his lungs out on impact. Sasuke gasped, only to cough up a small amount of blood before he could take in a good amount of air and leavening him choked. "I-Ita" Sasuke was cut off by Kisame.

"Itachi! Problem!" Kisame was on his feet now, pointing to 3 Grenades that came flying at them from an empty hallway, more likely it came from the vent above because Kisame would have spotted someone of they showed him. He would have tossed them back too if the room wasn't spinning from the poison.

Itachi grunted in frustration, making his way back over to Kisame and placing his arm over his shoulder before dashing off past Sasuke down the hallway. Sasuke could only watch as he struggled to get up, just barely making it to a standing position before the 3 grenades exploded.

He flinched and covered is face with one arm, hearing a second sound accompany the detonation.

At the last second the fire shutter rolled down and separated him from the flames. "What?"

"Close wasn't it."

Sasuke turned around to see Orochimaru standing no more then a few inches behind him, he never even notice him until he said something, it made him very uneasy. "Orochimaru." Sasuke glared at the man, taking a few steps forward.

"I want to talk to you, I think you'll want to hear what I have to say."

"Great!" Konohamaru said to himself, backtracking to the same hallway he had escaped from with the help of Itachi and Kisame. "The elevator doesn't work and all of the doors or locked!" He said angrily, though the trip wasn't completely useless, he'd stopped at a bathroom and scrubbed the blood off himself. 'I'm not leaving with out Naruto and Sasuke.' He thought stubbornly, there was no way he'd leave them even if Itachi had told him to.

He became more uneasy as he reached the end of the corridor, slowly opening the door to find another empty hallway...not completely empty though. Kisame's silver Magnum lay on the ground in front of the door 'Kisame...' He knew Konohamaru too well, of course he would go back for them even though he knew the risks. Though they seemed minimal since most of the guards were disposed of by Itachi and Kisame.

Konohamaru walked slowly, clinching the tightly as he moved through the eerie quite, it made him nervous, afraid even of what might come out unexpectedly. He tried to identify every noise, the distance and faint sound of gunfire nowhere near him, the sound of a Helicopter somewhere outside, and then nothing but his own breathing and heartbeat. "Where are you guys."

Konohamaru pressed his back against the wall and peered around the corner, thankfully he found an elevator and a stairwell. "No way all of them could be locked." Konohamaru sighed in relief, pressing the down button and watching the doors roll open.

Konohamaru stepped inside, pressing the button for two floors below the one he was currently on. The doors slid closed smoothly and the elevator descended down the path, but as it past the first floor the lights went out. "What?" He looked around frantically, feeling the box fall far past where he set it to go. "Oh man..." He ran to the panel and began pressing the now red glowing buttons, no response though, the elevator counted downward uncontrollably.

"Come back here!" Iruka shouted, following Kabuto at full speed about 300 miles outward of Konoha.

"I don't have anymore time for you Iruka, I have a schedule to keep." Kabuto called back carelessly. "I'll give it too you, you didn't do as bad as I expected." Kabuto reached up to a small glass door above the throttle and pressed the red button inside. "Later, Umino Iruka."

A missile dropped out of the bottom of his Fighter plane, A black shell with a green warhead. "What is that thing?" Kakashi said, a little uneasy since he wasn't in control of anything that could happen next. He watched as the green head detached and fired towards Iruka. Iruka rolled to the side, falling back to avoid it, it still managed to find it's way under his cockpit.

It triggered something, that black missile Kabuto launched blew apart in a cloud of thick black smoke. Thousands of smaller projectiles fired towards him, homing in on him.

"No!" Iruka rolled the ship completely upside down to the point where Kakashi was looking up to the ground.

"What are you doing!" Kakashi's calm voice was starting to crack, it was already clear that he was uneasy about this flight in the first place, this was pushing it/

"Just hold on!" Iruka said, watching the ground approach faster and faster as the smaller projectiles exploded above him. The explosions trailed after him, coming closer and closer towards the Jet... 'NOW!' Iruka rolled the ship right side up again, scraping the very tip of hull and the green device across the ground as the aircraft shot forward with sudden acceleration. Iruka had some obvious talent in what he did.

Hundreds of the smaller projectiles slammed into the ground and exploded, the blast took a few more of them out in the process of Iruka's failed attempted to destroy the device attached. "Damnit I can't get them off of me!" Iruka yelled, lifting the ship higher into the air and sending the jet into a nose first spin. The projectiles flew past him like bullets in golden streaks in the dizzying blur of stirred backgrounds and horizons. Kakashi honestly didn't know how Iruka could stand to do these types of maneuvers without getting sick.

"Brace for impact!"

"What?"

The ship shook violently as one of the smaller missiles struck the wing of the plane, followed by countless others. In the blink of an eye the windshield was surrounded by flames and the plane immediately dipped down, falling head first toward the ground. "No!"

He was completely separated from his team, he didn't know or had the time to find out where they were, he had a bigger priority. Ebisu ran towards the open door way with haste, this task was like trying to find a needle in a haystack. Besides looking through every door from the top of the building down their was no way to find Konohamaru, very tedious. He was tempted to take the initiative to find out about his team, but the only way to do that was by his radio.

If he used his radio his transmission would be picked up and traced and then it was a race against the clock to get to the roof. Pulling a move like that prematurely could cost the lives of him and his team.

A man turned the corner, turning immediately pivoting towards Ebisu, pulling out of his thoughts Ebisu ran at him head on, jumping to the left as the man fired the first shot, then crouching lower and avoiding the second. By then he was right next to the sentry and was able to grab his wrist before the third shot fired. Ebisu pulled him in as he sent kick to the man's torso, then turned around completely as the man stumbled backwards but he only got one step before Ebisu pulled the man's arm over his shoulder and threw him to the ground roughly. Subtle enough for his taste, he hadn't used any ammunition yet and strived not to since it was very limited.

Ebisu continued past the downed man heading around the corner and quickly steeping into the still open elevator. The only problem was that as soon as he pressed the button and the elevator started move, the lights went out and it started descending of it's own accord. "What the hell?" He slammed his fist against the door and pressed the buttons hastily, the only thing he gained in response was a red light indicating the locked status. 'Damnit, he knows I here.'

Konohamaru clinched the gun tightly as the elevator came to a stop on what seemed like the very bottom floor. Light pierced the darkness as the doors slid open until every corner of the small box was illuminated and his surroundings reveled themselves to him. He had in fact went down to the bottom floor, because he could see the tiled floors, bare concrete walls and the network of pipes and cables that made up the ceiling.

It was dark and shadowy, barely giving more light then the elevator, Konohamaru could feel his heart racing as he stepped out. He nearly screamed when a drop of water fell on to his head from one of the pipes above, this was what was creating most of the noise, that and the sound of steam.

This was apparently used only for storage and as a boiler room for heating and cooling from all of the equipment. Which is why he knew it was really bad when he heard quickened foot steps heading towards him from down the hall around the corner. 'Crap!' He shouted in his mind, immediately thinking back to his training with Kisame and Itachi. Strangely enough the first thing that came to his mind was how Kisame teased him about his scarf all the time, he also told him to use it to his advantage.

'I can't do it.' Konohamaru said apprehensively.

'It's not that bad.' Kisame sighed.

'...I don't see how you can even do something like that.'

'Simple. You do what your afraid of, then you get the courage afterwords.' Kisame told him.

'That doesn't make sense, it should be the other way around.' Konohamaru said.

Kisame smirked 'Yeah, should be shouldn't it. I got news for you kid, that's how the world works.'

Konohamaru nodded to convince himself, then ran forward with the magnum in hand. He climbed up one of the One of the pieces equipment of equipment that resembled a tank. Then jumped upward, grabbing on to the closest pipe with one hand while placing the gun into his waistband. All of the training for strength he'd gotten from Itachi, and the balance he'd received from Kisame was paying off. He almost smiled at his quick thinking and physical development, but he focused (another thing he learned from Itachi) and pulled his scarf off of his neck.

Then he wrapped it loosely around a pipe so that most of it was hanging down, then he jumped down and dived for the elevator. It was still locked, obviously not by Itachi this time since it forced him to go down instead of the roof, so none of the buttons worked and the doors didn't close. He did the best he could to hide himself against the wall as 3 men came around the corner. They were wearing security guard uniforms and carrying hand guns, the man in front was the only one holding a radio though. "Sir, were at Elevator 22 in the basement, we got him."

Orochimaru locked the elevators and controlled them...so he had to know Konohamaru was there somehow. Konohamaru looked around the elevator, of course finding a Camera mounted above the panel that he couldn't see before, it was almost clear now that he had some light. "Oh crap."

The man pulled the Scarf down with a sharp tug, instead of Konohamaru's body tumbling down as expected, the whole pipe snapped and fell. Slamming into the man's head and sending a burst of burning steam blasting onto them causing a few yells of pain came from the cloud of mist. Konohamaru saw this and glanced back up to the camera, he had to move now if he wanted to get away. So that's what he did, he ran out of the elevator and into the burning mist, it was more painful then expected.

He almost cried out in pain himself and would have if not for his Scarf being blown into his face and shielded him, Konohamaru definitely had luck. It was a miracle that he came out the other side without running into someone. He ended up in a narrow hallway about 20 feet long, it was empty so that meant that their was only a full sprint before he stood a chance of getting away. He pulled the Scarf off of his face and started running, only to stop dead in his tracks at the sound of a gunshot and a body hitting the ground in front of him at the end of his path.

Konohamaru flinched and lifted the gun as a man steeped in front of him "Ebisu!"

"Konohamaru?" Ebisu looked at him in surprise, that much could be seen past his sunglasses. "How did you get down here?"

"The elevator just started taking me down on it's own." Konohamaru told him, if a dead man wasn't in-between them he probably would have hugged Ebisu right there.

His words were more then enough to snap him back into his mission, making him more aware of the fact that this was an obvious setup. He pulled the radio out of his back pocket, this more then qualified as the right time to use it. "I've secured Konohamaru, drop whatever your doing and get out of there, now." He made it as short as possible because every second counted, the race had already started and he was way behind. "Alright Konohamaru"

His eyes widened as he saw one of the guards emerge from the cloud of steam...no, he wasn't one of the same men that Konohamaru had tricked, he was holding an assault riffle and must have just come from one of the upper levels through the stairs. "NO!" Ebisu pushed Konohamaru out of the way as the man started firing, Ebisu wasn't nearly fast enough to return fire because before he knew it his torso was being filled with bullets and his body was knocked off his feet from the force.

Everything around him moved at a slower pace, even his body seemed to be falling in slow motion. It may have been that way because his mind was racing, he had time to look around and think about what was happening to him. He also felt that split second feeling that happened before something was about hurt extremely bad, almost as if it took his nerves a second to process the pain. It was like his blood ran cold and warmed again, being immense pain with it.

He slammed into the ground, sliding a few inches backwards on his own blood before coming to rest. Though he couldn't see much he knew it really must have been bad from all of the red liquid splattered across the walls and floor. "Ko-Kono..."

"No, stop." Orochimaru called out, "You might hit the boy. I still need him" Orochimaru emerged from behind the corner, pushing the barrel of the man's gun down.

Konohamaru ran to Ebius's side, an absolutly horrified look on his face, he was even shaking. "Ebisu!"

"Run." He called out weakly, watching Orochimaru casually approach. He may have been able to feel his strength draining out of him in the form of blood pooling on the floor, but he wasn't going to let Orochimaru have Konohamaru, even if it took his last bit of strength.

Ebisu lifted the gun in his last rush of adrenaline, pointing it past Konohamaru and firing two trembling shots past his head into what seemed to be the wall. Then he dropped the gun and shoved Konohamaru into the wall but what was actually a trash chute that connected from one of the upper levels.

Ebisu smirked up at Orochimaru, trying to form words with his weak lips before his face went blank and his body went completely limp.