Chapter 16: The Possibility of evil part 2

'?' Konohamaru was abruptly brought back to conciseness by a hard shake and the sound of his name being called "Wha..." Konohamaru opened his eyes to the blurry vision of blue orbs "Na-Naruto?" Konohamaru lifted his hand and rubbed his eyes softly, with slightly sharper vision he was able to see Sasuke standing behind Naruto. "What the hell are you doing here!" He yelled, pointing an accusing finger towards the dark haired boy, one in instant furry.

"Kono--"

"Get out!" Konohamaru yelled, folding his arms and rolling to the side so that his back was turned "Why the hell did you come here in the first place. Screwed up the first time so you want to give it a second try. "

Naruto and Sasuke looked at each other, Naruto could only shrug and lift his hands in defeat. Naruto couldn't do anything about this, and of course he knew Sasuke had it coming. Sasuke sighed as he walked over to the bed side "Konohamaru listen to me, I know your mad at me--"

"Mad!" If Konohamaru could think of a word worse then that he would have said it, Sasuke put him through hell, mad didn't cover it. He sighed and turned over even farther. "Just go."

"I'm sorry but now isn't the time." Sasuke said.

Konohamaru turned around and glared at Sasuke, his fist clinched so tightly that his arm shook "Sorry? The hell you are. Your not sorry! You can't be sorry for what you did to me. You GAVE me to Orochimaru, you beat me up and then you gave me to him." Konohamaru's glare grew more piercing and angry, and his fist was clinched to tightly that his nails it drew blood in the palm of his head. "He tortured me! He killed Ebisu! And Ebisu was just...he.."

Konohamaru's eyes shut and he punched Sasuke across the face as hard as he could "It's your fault! You Bastard! He didn't have to die if you didn't tell Orochimaru where I was!" Konohamaru lunged at Sasuke, the IV's and tubes ripping from his body as he did so. Sasuke grabbed him by his shoulders and slammed him back down on to the bed, holding the flailing boy with as much strength as he could mange.

"Konohamaru listen to me!" Sasuke yelled in a voice that demanded attention, looking down strait into his eyes so deeply that Konohamaru didn't even notice the water dripping on him from Sasuke's hair. "I know it was horrible what I did and I'm sorry, I've never been more sorry in my life. But right now you have to get out of here, It's dangerous. So please, if all the year's we've been friends mean anything, just listen to me this one time and get out of here." he pleaded. "Just this one time and you don't have to look at me again if you don't want to. But you have to get out of here."

"All of those year's we were friends didn't seem to mean anything to you. Why should it mean anything to me?"

That hurt. "..."

Konohamaru looked up at Sasuke, seeing how sad he looked right now...he hated it, he hated seeing Sasuke look like this, just as much as he hated him right now. It was a horrible position, half of him hated Sasuke and half of him still loved him, that made him feel even worse. Sasuke was still putting him through hell...Konohamaru pushed Sasuke off of him, feeling uneasy from the blood over his body where the IV's and tubes had been tore from him. "Fine."

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"Wow, you sure took your time." Gai said, fully dressed in his black uniform, and sitting in wait in his room. Lee and Shikamaru still hadn't returned from their duties of looking around, it wasn't an easy job with this many people roaming around one of the only places that had power in the city, after a massive storm, which meant crowded ensured. "4 hours to get back."

Kakashi tossed Gai his bullet proof vest, his M4A1 rifle and his car keys ."If you had been out there you would see why." Kakashi said, he had his own EDO bomb suit on, and a pair of handguns with laser sights plus an equipped flashlight holstered at his side. Since he focused manly on speed he didn't carry around large or slow weapons, and noticeably he had his bomb detector, which was on, and any other number of tools under the suit. "Has Iruka gotten back yet?"

"Not yet, are you sure this is going to happen?"

The door opened hastily and Iruka emerged with Azuma following behind, then he pushed it shut "Kakashi? Your back..." Iruka moved quickly over to him, completely out of breath "I couldn't get anyone else."

"The army, even police and emergency units are stretched to their limits." Asuma told them "So we can't call in back up on a suspicion, we need to know for sure that something is happening."

"Damnit." Kakashi narrowed his visible eye, "We can't cover this whole hospital with this many people by ourselves."

The door opened again and Sasuke entered, followed by Naruto. They found out about the situation from Iruka and decide to come along, mainly upon the motive to warn Konohamaru. "Kakashi." Naruto walked up to the older man specifically "I just saw Lee and Shikamaru on the way up, they said that saw some guy dressed in black, black hair, has a mask over his face and a forehead protected on. They said you were with him before."

"Zabuza's here?" Kakashi looked down in surprise, why would he be-- of course. "What floor?"

"Fourth I think." Naruto said unsurely.

"Why are you getting so anxious?" Asuma asked.

"Because Zabuza's after Orochimaru, and the only reason he would be here--"

"Is if Orochimaru was here." Iruka's eye twitched slightly, when he heard Zabuza he knew something was seriously off. "That, or someone working for him...like Kabuto."

Asuma looked over at Iruka, he could see anger starting to rise in the man's usually calm nature. 'Whoa...what did Kabuto do to him?' If he had to guess he'd say it happened sometime around his rescue mission to the Sound country. '...I better go with him.' "We better find him then, there are too many people around as it is. Iruka."

Iruka nodded "Yeah, let's get going." He agreed, leaving with Asuma.

Kakashi retrieved his bomb detector from his waist, "I'm going to find Zabuza." He said scarcely to Gai before he left himself.

Gai stood up, strapping the riffle around his back. "Right, Then I better get to Kabuto."

"Hey wait!" Naruto called out, before Gai could leave himself. "What about us?"

Gai glanced back at the two... "Stay together and keep an eye out for Kabuto or anyone suspicious."

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Kakashi slipped and pushed his way through anyone in his way, he didn't have time to waste, not when Zabuza was involved. Kakashi reached forward, pushing another person out of his way to get into the open and empty elevator, then closing the door before anyone else could step inside. He really didn't have time to delay by stopping on other floors for--

Beep, beep, beep

Kakashi looked down at his bomb detector, "...According to this, I'm standing right on top of a bomb?" Kakashi looked down, he didn't see anything, which only could mean that he was still somehow above one or under it... Kakashi looked up, just barely seeing the outline of a hatch. 'Of course.' Kakashi climbed on to the railings against the back of the elevator and pushed open a much heavier then it looked hatch to revel the dark inner workings of the elevator shaft.

Just barely able to see a faint red light, Kakashi upholstered one of his guns and flipped the small switch on the side of the handle that turned on the flashlight under the barrel. He saw a small box set just next to the levy for the cables, "Basic, none resistant explosive." Kakashi fired a shot directly into the center of the bomb, watching it spark a few times and go off line. 'Too easy Zabuza.' Kakashi thought to himself, closing the hatch and jumping back down into the elevator.

With that done he pressed the restart button to get the elevator going again. 'I'm sure he did this for a reason...but he did kill those men at the construction site...And at Orochimaru's towers, but dose that really count?' Kakashi sighed and leaned back against the back wall. Unfortunately before he could think to deeply about this, his thoughts were interrupted by the sound of a bell ring and the sound of the elevator door rolling open, Kakashi pushed himself off the wall hastily and lifted his handgun just as the doors opened. Only to find himself staring into the barrels of a shotgun, the first thing he noticed was that the barrels were shorter then they should have been, the second thing was that Zabuza was holding it to his face just as he was doing.

Zabuza lowered the shotgun and stepped inside, hitting a random button before people could get too alarmed. "What's with the shotgun, gave up on bombs already?" Kakashi inquired playfully. "Because that last one was crap."

"Not at all." Zabuza laid the shotgun over his shoulder, he had on a side pack that extended down the side of his legs to his knees. No telling what he had inside that wasn't visible. "I thought you were Kabuto, lucky you disarmed it before I did." He clearly meant detente it

"Zabuza, you can't do this." Kakashi took a more stern voice with him this time. "It's a hospital full of people, if I didn't get in this elevator at the right time, then a lot of people could have gotten hurt."

"Collateral Damage." Zabuza said, closing his eyes. He could feel that unfavorable look from Kakashi on him, making him open one eye and glance sideways at him "But...I'm not trying to kill other people."

'Are you that focused on getting to Orochimaru?' Kakashi sighed, yeah, he could tell everything Iruka had told him was true. He could see Zabuza did have some... tendencies. It was just that Zabuza didn't seem like that type of person to kill indiscriminately, or at least not now. At least not around him...--, Kakashi was once again knocked out of his train of thought as the bell sounded and the doors rolled open to a long white hallway. "Zabuza, what floor did you hit?"

Zabuza looked up, "Apparently L2--" Zabuza stopped mid sentence when he saw 3 men emerge from a door down the hall, all of them carrying a box. Zabuza elbowed Kakashi in the side, prompting him to pay attention as he pointed ahead. "Pay attention, notice anything ?"

"They're warring plane clothes, coming out of a restricted area." Kakashi could tell by the sign on the door "Carrying out equipment and they don't have id's. Think they're lost?"

Zabuza smirked as he cocked the sawed-off shotgun "Let's go give them some directions then." Zabuza took a step back and then ran forward, Kakashi couldn't help but notice how fast he was as he went after him. "Drop it!" Zabuza called out.

The three men looked at him, and his weapon, and did as he said, only they picked up a few handguns and started firing. Kakashi felt an impact on his chest where a bullet struck his vest, but he didn't stop, he just ran forward, drawing both handguns from their holster. "Let me guess, stealing stuff for Kabuto?" Kakashi crouched down as he ran, just barely feeling another bullet slide by his head as he approached the first man. Kakashi drove his elbow in to the man's stomach and his arm upward, pressing the handgun under the man's chin in one swift motion. "Drop it."

Apparently the man wasn't so compliant, he tried to lift the gun and Kakashi pulled the trigger, pushing the man's body away.

Zabuza jumped into the air, pulling his leg back and kicking the gun from another Sound soldier's hand, spinning around completely while still in the air and kicking him in the chest. The man fell back against the wall and in a second Zabuza was on him, grabbing him by his shoulder and pulling the man against his body just in time to use him as a shield against the third. Zabuza lifted the shotgun toward the only man remaining. "Now, are you going to tell us where Kabuto is or do I have to get it out of you?"

The man froze...the his face contorted in anger "I'm not telling you anything." The man lifted the gun again, only to have 2 large, bloody holes blown in his chest from shotgun shells.

Kakashi shrugged and knelt down next to one of the boxes "Subtle. Now let's see what they were trying to take" He said, opening the box and shifting around inside, "Looks like machinery, parts from equipment. What could Kabuto--"

"Kakashi! Pay attention!" Zabuza yelled, running towards him with two shotgun shell's in his mouth trying to reload. After that everything seemed to move in slow motion for Kakashi, his mind seemed to go faster then his body and his eyes in an eerie way. Kakashi started to turn back as Zabuza rushed to open the chamber and shove the bullet's in place. Zabuza saw it, another man coming from the same door so stealthily that he barely caught a glimpse of it, this man with a Mac 11 Sub-machine gun that was lifting it towards Kakashi's head so quickly.

Zabuza shoved the rounds inside, flipping the barrels up and pulling the slide as fast as he could, so fast that Kakashi had just turned around enough to see the man and was just reacting. Zabuza pulled the trigger, and the man leaned back and watch as a large imprint tore into the wall behind him, he missed, Zabuza missed! Kakashi lifted his guns but while he was still raising his weapons the man already had his aimed at his head and pulled the trigger.

Just barely, Zabuza dived in front of Kakashi, feeling bullet's tearing into his left shoulder and trailing down his abdomen before he even realized it. Kakashi fired rapidly and blindly under Zabuza's flying body, emptying his ammunition before Zabuza could even hit the ground. When it was all over the fourth man had fallen back into them room where he'd come from, and Zabuza was laying next to Kakashi with 4 bullets in him.

"Zabuza?" Kakashi scurried over him, placing his hand on Zabuza's chest to hold him down while he checked over his wounds. "You just saved me."

"I realize that Kakashi." Zabuza snorted annoyedly. His voice was normal as if the pain didn't even effect him, but he wouldn't keep still so Kakashi could see it was. "Don't read too much into it, I knew what I was getting into when I came here. And I'm in a hospital, I wasn't too worried about getting shot."

Kakashi shook his head and smirked, "Yeah yeah, thank you anyway, you crazy bastard."

"Cocky aren't we."

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Naruto and Sasuke pushed there way up from the doorway into the eastern part of the 10th floor. Naruto stopped "Wait, Wait!" He fell back against the wall, clinching his chest tightly "I can't...run anymore!"

"Come on Dobe." Sasuke prompted.

Naruto looked up at him. "We just ran around 10 floors and 10 flights of stairs, and your not tired. Are you kidding me?" he managed to get out between pants. Sasuke rolled his eyes.

They both glanced to the side as they barely heard the elevator door open over the roar of people. Asuma emerged alone, looking around precedingly before he continued, "Naruto, Sasuke? Find anything?"

"No." Sasuke told him. "I'm guessing neither did you."

Asuma shook his head "Not a thing, Iruka and I split up on the 11th floor, he should be on the other side of this--"

Two gunshots rang out in the air, getting startled screams from the people around them. Naruto, Asuma, and Sasuke looked at each other, then started pushing their way through the crowds to get to the source.

"Umino Iruka, didn't think we'd meet again so soon." Kabuto adjusted his glasses with his index finger as he looked upon Iruka a few feet away, a gun lifted towards him while Iruka stared at him with a look mixed with anger and uncertainty.

"Why are you here?" Iruka growled, he couldn't seem to contain himself around Kabuto, a simple tell of his weakness. Kabuto was calm and cool, and Iruka was neither.

"Of course I can't tell you everything." Kabuto smirked, "But I can tell you your in my way, so I suggest you, and your friends." Kabuto pointed behind him, Iruka glanced back at Asuma, Naruto and Sasuke, who were trying to get to Kabuto. "Clear out be fore a few innocent bystanders get hurt."

"No!" Iruka shouted "Don't, there's no point in hurting other people."

"Last chance." Kabuto warned. "Now."

Iruka took a deep breath then fired a shot at him. "Kabuto--"

Kabuto stepped to the side as turned the gun towards a woman at a desk and shot her in the head. "Damnit Iruka, I don't have time for this move now!"

Asuma jumped over the desk and to the woman's side, hoping that Kabuto would have missed though he didn't and he knew it. Asuma drew his own gun from his holder but before he could even aim Kabuto stopped him "I wouldn't do that, you may kill me, but how many of these civilians do you think will follow that woman, let along from you trying to hit me."

"Kabuto you bastard." Iruka had to stop his hand from shaking...

Kabuto jumped and dived to the side when he felt a small displacement of air behind him, landing behind another desk and out of sight. He just avoided Kakashi, who would have ordinarily caught him if he wasn't holding Zabuza up. "You just keep getting lower and lower don't you." Kakashi used all of his strength and speed to get out of the way with Zabuza and avoid Kabuto's fire.

"Damnit." Kabuto ducked back down below the desk to reload, he'd lost contact with the team who was supposed to be taking what he needed from this place, he figured they were dead by the injured state of Zabuza. Things didn't go well, he had to get out of here, this mission was a failure. "I need to get out of here--" He was interrupted by a soft beeping "...Here...it can't be here?"

"What are we waiting for!" Naruto yelled, "We have to get him now!"

"It's not that simple." Asuma told him, watching carefully from behind the shielding of the desk while people tried to get as far away as possible. "Kabuto can just attack randomly, it doesn't matter if he hits anyone else. But we have to do what we can to protect these people from him, so we have to be careful not to provoke another attack like this needlessly and not to hit any bystanders."

"So what do we do?" Naruto asked.

"Asuma, Take care of Zabuza." Kakashi slowly walked the injured man over to Asuma and transferred him over to him. "I'm going around."

Asuma nodded as he watched Kakashi moved as inconspicuously as he could toward the stairs so that he could come up the other side "Be careful."

Kabuto looked up from the desk, gun in one hand and a small detector in the other. He pointed it towards the group, over each member until it started beeping faster "The second source...is Naruto?" Kabuto stared at the boy for a moment, they'd had him, he escaped, and he was a source of Chakra they needed and didn't know it. Very ironic. 'Damnit!'

He couldn't stay here, Kabuto had to go now. "I can't wait any longer." Kabuto crouched down and ran past the desk towards the opposite stairway "Later Iruka."

"Kabuto!" Iruka wasted no time going after him, no matter how foolish it may have been."

"Iruka wait!" Asuma tried to catch him, but he found he had problems of his own. Apparently there was a reason Kabuto decide to leave at this exact moment.

"Asuma." Sasuke stopped the man before he could go after Iruka "Kabuto has back up." He pointed out 6 to 8 men who were coming directly for them.

"Damnit!" Asuma turned back with gun drawn, and as soon as he was seen, the men scattered out of sight. Asuma had the feeling this wouldn't be easy. "Zabuza."

"Yeah, I know." Zabuza waved him off, lifting the shotgun to who ever would take it, he wouldn't be able to use it.

Sasuke handed it to Naruto, who immediately noticed the big disadvantage "What about you?" Naruto asked.

"I'll get my own."

Asuma looked around carefully "Alright, everyone is just about gone so the only thing you have to worry about is yourselves. Don't go into the patient's room, we don't need to draw attention to them. Zabuza, can you--"

"You don't want me to help you." Zabuza said "Trust me...But..." Zabuza reached into his side pack and retrieved a smoke bomb. Drawing it back he tossed it over the desk, watching a cloud of black smoke billowing over "Your Konoha soldiers, this should help you."

"Heh." Naruto jumped over the desk "Suit's me just fine."

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Kakashi kicked open the door to the 9th floor, finding people scattering in an attempt to get away from the danger. Gunshots rang through the air freely, making Kakashi alert 'This is going to be harder then I thought, I might lose Kabuto...' Kakashi pressed his back against the wall and moved cautiously '!' Kakashi rounded the corner with guns drawn towards who ever was on the other side, he found himself staring at a riffle, Gai's riffle. "Gai."

"They took him." Gai yelled out angrily, removing the weapon from Kakashi's face and looking around hastily.

"Who?"

"Shikamaru."

A body flew past them, breaking through the doorway and down a flight of stairs before a wall stopped it, Lee followed, throwing a man over his shoulder and delivering one last punch to him before he got out of range. "He used up all of his Chakra trying to protect all of these people..." Lee said desperately.

"They hit him with some type of tranquilizer." Gai told him, which had happened when Shikamaru was too weak to notice. "Damnit we can't wait any longer!" Gai forcefuly pulled out an empty clip, taking another one from his vest and loading it. With a fierce impulse, Gai ran out in to the open, drawing fire his way immediately.

"Gai! You can't just--" It was no use, Gai was highly impulsive, especially when angry, "Lee, stay--"

"Not a chance!" Lee immediately ran after Gai with a growl of anger, obviously just as impulsive. But with good reason, Shikamaru.

"It had to happen anyway." Kakashi ran past Lee, mainly to draw fire away from the un protected boy, and caught up with Gai. "Take the left."

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Naruto dived forward over the counter, hitting the ground right behind one of the blind men in a blue bullet proof vest baring the sound ensign. He rolled on to his side and jumped to the air as silently as he could, landing on the man's back and firing right into his head at point blank range. That immediately drew other's attention to him, he could hear foot steps coming towards him, so he moved quickly. "Sasuke!" Naruto retrieved the fallen handgun and tossed it towards Sasuke while he moved in the opposite direction.

Asuma was much more inconspicuous, leaving any of his arms he'd carried back with Zabuza, he took a more direct approach. Keenly aware of his surroundings, Asuma crept up behind one of the unsuspecting men, grabbing him by the head and snapping his neck with out gaining as much as a sound from him. Pushing the body aside, Asuma crouched down, waiting patiently as another person moved blindly through the smoke towards him. Asuma, long use to smoke, was unaffected while this man couldn't keep from coughing. He was stumbling closer...closer...right there...Asuma's eyes shifted back as another one of Kabuto's men nearly ran into him from behind. 'Damnit.'

"I found one!" The man called out, pressing the gun to Asuma's head, Asuma pivoted around quickly, sweeping his foot across the ground into the legs of the man and kicked him to the ground. The second man came from behind just as Asuma got to his feet, with no time to turn around, Asuma sent a swift kick into the man's chin, giving him enough time to revolve so that he was face to face with him.

Asuma drove his elbow into the man's stomach, forcing him to keel over, grabbing him by the shoulders and throwing him into the wall. 'Hmm...' Asuma paused for a moment, with the feeling he forgot something...now he remembered, Asuma threw his fist backwards over his shoulder, knocking out the man that tried to creep up on him before. 'So that only leaves...'

He heard a few gunshots nearby as the smoke started to clear away and let light through. 'None.' It was clear Sasuke and Naruto had taken out the rest of them, so there was no reason to stay "Stay with him." Asuma said, indicating Zabuza. He ran past them, trying to catch up with Iruka, only to find another set of men in his way "Damnit I don't have time for this!"

Naruto ran over to him "Hold on."

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Iruka tiredly pushed his way through the open door way on the final flight of stairs inside of the hospital, he found himself standing on the roof. Kabuto had been much faster then he had, so he was far behind, about a half-minute difference.

Iruka lifted his arm over his eyes, feeling a heavy rain falling from above and a burst of wind coming from his left side. A helicopter lay in the darkness, barely able to be seen but clearly heard, and Kabuto waiting at the other side of the building. 'Why is he still here? Why hasn't he left yet...'

"Thought I'd run into you again." Kabuto knelt down next to a large steel case sitting by his leg. "There seems to have been a change of plans, you see, we've just intercepted something very special that's well worth the risk of sticking around a few more moments. And seeing as your the only person in the way..." Kabuto opened the case and retrieved what appeared to be a weapon from what Iruka could see, but after a few second of careful study, Iruka could see exactly what it was. How could he forget it, it was the Railgun Kabuto had used against him the first time they fault. It nearly killed him, and that was an indirect hit.

Kabuto gave a small nod to the helicopter, watching the aircraft descend out of sight before he lifted large weapon towards Iruka "This is the end for you, it's time I get rid of you once and for all Umino Iruka." A high pitched sound resonated and sparks could be seen building in the barrel of the weapon as a shot charged.

'!' Iruka immediately dived to the side as a bolt of static lighting shot from the Railgun, flying past him and into the doorway he'd just emerged from. A swift explosion followed, and unexpectedly Naruto's body came flying through in a rush of flames and debris. "Uhhaaaa!"

"Naruto!" Iruka drew out his handgun and fired at Kabuto, trying his best to keep him at bay while he ran to Naruto. The pathway collapsed around the boy, taking out a flight of stairs with it and completely blocking their path back down. Iruka grabbed him roughly and picked him up off the ground and dived behind what looked like an air conditioner unit. "What are you doing here!" Iruka peeked his head over his shield and quickly pulled it back down, followed by a bolt of electricity, a stray spark of lighting coming down and striking the man from the range and how close he was. Iruka cringed and grunted in pain...'AAArrgggg!'

Naruto rubbed the back of his head "Asuma's still down there, I think he got hit!"

Iruka opened his eyes, 'No!' "Is he alright!"

"I don't know, Kakashi, him and Gai were on their way up, they said Kabuto captured Shikamaru and they had a plan to get him back but..." Naruto's voice trailed off as he looked at the caved in rubble where he'd just escaped from "They're still down there."

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Gai flew back against the concrete wall hard enough to leave an imprint, crying out loudly when Kakashi crashed into him and they both tumbled downward to the bottom of a flight of stairs, Asuma following behind.

Kakashi ignored the pain, most it was taken by Gai since he was the one that broke his fall, and pulled himself off Gai, extending a hand back to the man. "Gai, are you alright?"

"Yeah..." Gai took his hand. "What was that?" He didn't know what just happened, but his back was aching, thankfully a dulling pain. And that their path was now blocked, and parts of it were on fire.

"Some type of...electricity." Asuma shook his head, trying to regain his senses after being electrocuted. The explosion that closed the path blocked some of Kabuto's shot, though he still obtained enough damage to leave behind a burn mark. "That was Kabuto...and Iruka and Naruto are trapped up there with him. Iruka isn't strong enough to beat Kabuto, especially with that type of weapon...Damnit why'd he have to go after him like that."

Kakashi started to descend the stairway hastily "We have to clear a path now." And he knew exactly how to do it. "I'm going to find Zabuza, I'll work on this way, you two see if you can find another way up." He said.

"Somebody has to find away to reach him." Asuma jumped over a fallen pillar, then crouching under a sparking wire. "I don't have anything on me."

"I'll take care of it, just find an emergency exit or something leading to the roof."

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"You still don't give up do you Iruka?" Kabuto lifted the Railgun across his chest to block another bullet from Iruka. "After all this these times we've fought don't you realize you can't win? And yet you still come after me?"

Iruka crouched back down behind the unit, checking his ammunition. Naruto had never seen him so angry, and he'd never been so obedient in his life, it was just so...surreal to Naruto. 'Iruka...'

Iruka pushed himself off the ground and towards the left, gun outward, firing more shots at Kabuto. Kabuto easily avoided, countering with another charged shot from the Railgun. A streak of lighting tore through the air, sliding just barely across Iruka's back so closely that smaller bolts dug into his back. He fell forward, his body being forced back into the pile of debris that used to be the stairs by the explosion of some type of machinery. '!' He bit his lip to stifle a cry of pain.

"Iruka!" Naruto ran over to him, keeping a firm eye on Kabuto as he did so. "Are you alright!"

Iruka nodded, "It didn't hit me...just caught me off guard that's all." He tried to be reassuring to Naruto, but he had been hit, even if it didn't hit directly it did some damage if you were in range. "?" Iruka looked down in surprise as his phone rang, it had to be Kakashi or Asuma. "Come on." Iruka forced himself to stand, knowing it would be foolish to stand in one spot through it didn't seem to matter. Kabuto's aim was getting better, and he hadn't even felt the need to advance, all he needed to do was take out Iruka from here and he'd have Naruto...

Iruka ducked behind another square unit of unknown machinery as he answered the phone, keeping Naruto in front of him. "Kakashi? Are you alright?" Iruka asked frantically.

"We're fine...but Kabuto has Shikamaru." Kakashi told him.

"I know." Iruka glanced back, and his eyes widened, he couldn't believe he'd stopped paying attention for as long as he did "Naruto!" Iruka dived forward, knocking Naruto to the ground and throwing himself on to the boy. Just as another shot from Kabuto's electromagnetic Railgun erupted the unit he'd just used as a shield into flames. Large scraps of metal and concrete basing rained down on Iruka, enough to burry him completely.

"Are you ok?" Kakashi asked.

"F-Fine..." Iruka pushed his way up, feeling himself being cut in some places as the debris slid off his back. Immediately he checked Naruto for injury.

"Listen Iruka, we have a plan to get him back but it looks like your the only one who can do it now...And It may be the only way you can stay alive." Kakashi seemed hesitant to tell him, so Iruka knew he wouldn't like it. "You have to give yourself up."

"What? You can't be serious..."Iruka looked towards Kabuto, hearing another sound making itself known in his direction. "Why?"

"If you do, we can track you to Shikamaru."

Iruka and Naruto watched as the helicopter from before resurfaced behind Kabuto, things really weren't looking too good for them now. The only other way out was a 12 story drop. "That would mean giving up Naruto too. You actually want me to give up Naruto?"

Naruto looked up at Iruka, then at Kabuto. "Wait, what?"

"...He said Naruto was a source, that's the same thing he said about Shikamaru I'm not sure of what..." Iruka sighed "But that mean's he won't do anything to Naruto...Are you sure about this Kakashi?"

"We'll be tracking you completely" Kakashi paused for a moment "...I won't let anything happen to you."

Iruka turned off the phone and tossed it over the side of the building, manly from anger. He couldn't believe what he was about to do. "Naruto..."

"I'll do it." Naruto said promptly.

"What--"

"I could hear Kakashi from here." Naruto smirked. "My first infiltration mission."

"Naruto, this is serous." Iruka said firmly 'I can't believe I'm going to do this...what am I doing..."

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