Chapter 18: How things start
"I don't know, I mean half of me wants to hurt him." Konohamaru said, sitting in the familiar settings of Itachi and Kisame's usual safe house in Konoha. He looked strait ahead at the TV that was on mute, which Itachi had on for a reason, and avoided looking up at Itachi. "A lot...but the other part of me wants to kick that part of me's ass for thinking that way. What am I suppose to do?"
"I don't really care." Itachi said frankly, finding his brother's name an annoyance at the moment. Every time it was mentioned it brought up the memory of how disappointedly weak he'd been.
"Come on, I need help on this." Konohamaru said
"You can figure this out on your own." Itachi sounded cold when he said that, but he usually did.
"How am I supposed to do that?" Konohamaru jumped up from the couch and pointed an accusing finger at Itachi. "Part of this is your fault!"
Itachi snorted "I don't control my brother actions, he chose to do what he did on his own."
"You fought him!" Konohamaru shouted "You said something to him, I know you did."
Itachi barely responded "Don't blame me for what he did to you."
"It's your fault!" Konohamaru yelled "Don't you feel any responsibility for what you did to him! You killed your whole family! He was your brother and he trusted you, you left him all alone, you left him for dead!" Konohamaru shook his head as he glared at Itachi, he felt a furry rushing through him "How can you not feel anything at all after that! Don't you care about anything you did to him?"
Itachi rolled his eyes "I don't."
"All those times he must have wondered what it would have been like if his parents were there, and what it would have been like if they weren't dead. If they were there..." It became clear by each word that Konohamaru started talking less about Sasuke and more about himself.
"Done yet?"
He wasn't even listening! He didn't even care! Konohamaru growled in frustration "You evil bastard!" Konohamaru yelled, stomping toward the door.
Itachi smirked, "So now your running away."
Konohamaru stopped and glanced back at him sideways with a harsh glare "I'm not running."
"Yes you are." Itachi folded his arms and sat back. "And your protecting Sasuke, I thought you were mad at him."
Konohamaru was about to say something back, when he realized, though reluctantly, that Itachi was right. He'd tricked him so easily it was almost embarrassing, but on the other hand this was Itachi, he could trick anyone. And it was especially easy since he knew Konohamaru so well.
Looked like Itachi gave him the help he asked for, more then a simple one-word answer, even if it did piss him off. "Do you really...not care about you did?"
Itachi didn't respond, or show any indication of an answer to his question. "You can't keep hiding here, your going to have to face it eventually."
Maybe he shouldn't push it, he wouldn't get an answer out of him, Itachi was ignoring the question completely. "Yeah your right..." Konohamaru glanced to the silent TV, which reminded him of what Kisame told him. "Itachi please... don't do that to Sasuke again, Haven't you done enough." Konohamaru looked up at him pleadingly "Please don't hurt him."
Itachi didn't respond, again giving no indication of an answer. Konohamaru was used to that by now, he rarely got a strait response from the Uchiha, or any Uchiha for that matter. Konohamaru sighed and rubbed his head. "Damnit Itachi."
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"Where'd you go this time?" Kakashi asked seemingly to himself as he walked causally down the street, which was much more active them before. Just about everyone in the city was outside for one reason or another, most starting on repairs. It was rather uplifting to see so many people. "For a week."
Zabuza jumped down from some place above, landing right next to Kakashi. "Taking care of some business."
Zabuza and business, That didn't sound to good "So, this business, did it result in someone being blown up?"
"Not really, but of course that's a possibility an any situation."
"You should do something proactive, I'm sure you have some skill that doesn't result in death."
Zabuza looked around at his surroundings, feeling a small chill in the air that suggested colder weather was coming. "Where are you going?"
"Looking in on a few people." Kakashi told him carelessly. "Wanna come?"
"Not really." Zabuza felt annoyed already.
Kakashi wrapped his arm around Zabuza's shoulder, "Come on."
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"Your forgetting something." Sarutobi called out, still reading over papers on his desk. It never seemed to stop coming.
Konohamaru glanced back "Huh? What?"
"Medicine." Sarutobi opened up a desk draw and pulled out a transparent orange bottle, then tossed the antioxidant caplets to him. "You keep forgetting important things like this, I'm not always going to be around to remind you."
Konohamaru rolled his eyes and swallowed one of the tablets, then threw the bottle back towards him. "I'm feeling better, do I still have to take these? They taste like crap."
"Just because your feeling better doesn't mean you are. And go drink some water with that." Sarutobi called up, pushing aside a few papers to the side "But I'm glad to here your feeling better, wanna go get some breakfast?"
"Sorry I can't." Konohamaru called back "I have to do something really important. Maybe latter."
Sarutobi looked down at his papers 'Look's like he's feeling better, that's good...I think.'
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Sasuke yawned and stretched lightly, emerging from the empty bedroom in a pair of shorts. It was horribly nostalgic walking down that hallway, it didn't inspire the best memories, no place in this house did. He really hated this place, he didn't even think he'd have to ever see this place again, he was planning on it. But he had no choice now that Naruto's apartment was gone.
Sasuke headed down the stairs, still feeling a sense of dread misery surrounding this house like ghosts that hung around every square inch. That was until he reached the living room where Naruto was sitting on the white couch in front of TV with a bowl of miso ramen. That cold and miserable feeling seemed to fade around him, it was more energetic and fiery, almost happy. "Naruto, there's no power."
Naruto glanced up at him, taking a loud slurp of the noodles then responded with his mouth full "I kowe tha." He said, swallowing.
"Then how did you get the TV on." Sasuke asked.
Naruto smirked "Heh Heh, my secret."
Sasuke just shrugged and headed toward the kitchen "How can stations still be broadcasting at a time like this? Last time I checked they were hit by the storm too."
"If there's one thing I've learned." Naruto called back "Is that there will always be Media in one way form or fashion." He pointed up toward the ceiling "Satellite."
Sasuke returned to the living room with a hot cup of tea in his hand. He looked more closely at the TV "What are you watching?"
"Fear factor."
Sasuke shrugged. "Figures." He went to sit down, only to hear the doorbell ring. "I got it." He stood up wandering who in the hell could that possibly this early in the morning and coming here of all places. As he made his way toward the door he kept thinking of how empty this place was, not just this house but everywhere surrounding it, it was always empty after what happened.
He opened the door, and was honestly surprised at what he found "K-Konohamaru? What are you doing here?"
"Do you know how long it took me to track you down!" Konohamaru shouted angrily, "I didn't even know where this place was!"
"Konohamaru?" Sasuke stared at the boy for a moment, before he realized that this was the opportunity he was waiting for " Konohamaru I'm--"
Konohamaru dropped his head. "I know." He said solemnly "I was really mad at you, I hated you even. But...I couldn't keep going like that. I don't wanna be like you and your brother."
Sasuke silently nodded "..." 'I never told him about Itachi...'
Konohamaru walked past him in to the large house before any questions could be raised. "You owe me a bowl of natto." He called back as he looked around, heading toward Naruto on the couch.
"Konohamaru?" Naruto looked up from his bowl of Ramen. "Are you ok?"
"Yeah, I'm fine now." Konohamaru nodded, leaning over Naruto's shoulder.
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He always found watching something like this fascinating, especially a machine that he'd never seen before, it gave him the challenge of trying to comprehend how it functioned. Shikamaru laid on top of one of the remaining buildings that were still standing, it was near downtown and was tall enough to give him a view that seemed to stretch for miles. The half risen sun behind him gave the perfect light without the least bit of glare, and he didn't mind the cold breeze that washed over every once and awhile. This was an indisputably perfect spot, one of a few that he'd found already.
He looked down upon a large crane lifting a steel object that looked to be a concrete column. It was being lowered into a 4 story building that had no roof, giving him the a good summary of the damages to it. Shikamaru constantly looked between the operator and the Crane itself, and had already gained a general sense of how to work the machine. But he decided there was no way to figure out how it functioned with out looking inside of it. The same went for most of the equipment around, which was almost disappointing since he couldn't do that.
For the first time he felt a curiosity, a very strong curiosity, that made him want to see and understand everything this world had to offer. One that extended past his usual laziness. Gai was able to teach him everything to know about anything in the time that moved, since that was Gai's strong point. 'I wonder if he knows how that works.'
"Shikamaru."
Shikamaru tilted his head backwards, just enough to catch a glimpse of Lee walking towards him. "Guess you found me."
Lee sat down on the ground next to him and crossed his legs, glancing outward at the active city. "How do you feel, any pain?"
Shikamaru shook his head "Not anymore."
Lee was glad to hear that, he'd been afraid for him for a while since he wasn't sure what was happening to Shikamaru. He knew making a big move like spanning a 2,000 year gap in time would force their bodies to adjust to things like lifestyle and environmental aspects now. People had built up curtain immunities to chemicals, diseases and other biological agents, they had lost Chakra but they had had vaccinations and mutated genetics on their side. Lee wasn't nearly as effected as Shikamaru was, since his genetics had mutated already into a stage that lost the ability to use Chakra but gained certain other traits. "That's good to hear."
Shikamaru turned back toward the heavy machinery working to repair damage, with these type of innovations created now a days it was possible to repair more solidly built structures in a quarter of the time. It was amazing, what more could he say?
"Ah, I almost forgot." Lee called out abruptly, he came looking for Shikamaru for a reason. "Gai-sensei said he found some thing very interesting, he wants us to take a look at it."
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"Iruka." Naruto looked up his favorite teacher who was standing above him, bearing food. "Are you alright? You looked pretty bad yesterday."
Iruka smiled and nodded "Yeah, I'm fine."
Sasuke, now fully dressed, sat down on a chair next to the couch, then looked up at Iruka and a very inquiring Asuma. "What are you doing here?"
"I had to check up on you guys." Iruka said "I didn't like the idea of you guys being in a house where the food was almost as old as Konohamaru...Naruto, where did you get that Ramen?"
Everyone in the room looked toward Naruto, who started to feel uneasy "My stash."
"You have a stash?" Asuma opened the door that lay on the wall opposite of the couch, looking around the living room. He was curious to look around the famous Uchiha mansion, noticing how good every looked as if it had been perfectly preserved, just in need of dusting. "You've only been here for one day, how do have a stash?"
Naruto smirked "My secret."
Konohamaru looked up from the TV that Naruto have somehow got to work with out power, he was still trying to figure that out. "How did you know we were here, it took me hours to find Naruto and Sasuke."
Iruka, currently looking around and partially cleaning out the kitchen. "I just thought about it, where else would you guys go."
"Really...how did you know we'd all be here?" Sasuke asked.
"I just knew." Iruka was sure that the three of them couldn't stay away from each other, even after something like that . "This stuff is really old." Iruka looked around the refrigerator, not even wanting to comment on the sight let alone the smells "I hope you didn't eat anything Naruto."
Naruto looked back offensively "Hey! Why are you picking on me?"
Iruka reentered the living room, figuring the clean up was a job best left for another day. "Because you'll eat anything."
"You know." Asuma came from upstairs, glancing back with every other step he took "This place needs a lot of work, a few paint jobs, small repairs. If you want I might be able help you out with some of these...You know, you really should make more noise when you come in." Asuma, being the only one that noticed, saw Kakashi and a quite bored looking Zabuza nearby.
Sasuke looked up at the pair, then closed his eyes again "Why do you keep doing that?"
"Because I love that look on your face." Kakashi gave a small wave to the group "Looks like everyone's here, what's the occasion?"
Sasuke snorted annoyedly "That's what I want to know."
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Shikamaru and Lee looked curiously over Gai's shoulder at the book in his hand. Gai sat in a chair in his bed room, happy to say that he'd finished every repair needed to his home in record time, was holding an old text book "I borrowed this from Asuma, he took a class in High School on Konoha History, half the book about things that happened in your time." Gai said.
"So what did you want to show us?" Lee asked.
Gai flipped the page and pointed to a passage, a photocopy of an old letter from that time period. "Since everything above ground was destroyed during the storm back then, there were few things that could actually be recovered. This was one of them, dated for this particular year and addresses both of you specifically."
Lee and Shikamaru read over the letter from inside the book, it had been sent by Kiba just as Gai said before, being a recount of what happened so far. It wasn't a very good experience, though they were giving Konoha some much needed help as intended, they each had their own set of problems. What really stood out was how Kiba constantly repeated his disapproval about being turned into a werewolf, after that he briefly spoke of the reoccurring demons that had been after them. And also, a Jutsu Neji had been very adamant about them learning, so much so that he left a scroll containing instructions for Overclocking. Of course for Shikamaru's use.
"Yes, this was defiantly written by Kiba for us." Lee said decidedly, since they were the only ones who understood why the letter was written like it was. "Gai-sensei...what happened to them?"
"Unfortunately." Gai said solemnly. "Each of them were killed by the very demons mentioned in that letter."
Lee and Shikamaru looked at each other "What?" Lee yelled in surprise "All of them were killed!"
"Well, assumed dead, only two people's body was actually confirmed." Gai said, flipping around in the book... "And that was Umizuki Naruto and Uchiha Sasuke."
"Hmm..." Shikamaru was somewhat saddened to hear of there fate, but not surprised. They had been dealing with demons, from the legends about them some of a very powerful nature
"You should be proud of them, SDI may have been the only thing that saved Konoha after that storm." Gai told them "And if you want to know more about it in detail, there are a number of investigational books that were written about it. I think there was even another letter found."
"Really?" Lee asked "What was it about."
Gai thought about it for a moment "I not sure, but I'll try to find it for you."
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Zabuza hadn't said much of anything since he arrived, just barely a passive answer when he was asked something. He was only here on behalf of Kakashi, not even bothering to pay attention most of the time as if he was sleep, in fact he had been sleeping on his feet though few people could tell. That was until something in particular caught his interest.
Konohamaru also hadn't said much, only watching TV for the better part of his stay at Sasuke's house. Everyone probably thought he just really liked Fear factor, or had been deprived of TV so long that he was happy to watch anything, even that he'd wasn't really paying attention to it but was thinking instead. He'd been waiting very patently, so concentrated on his waiting that he flinched when what he'd been waiting for finally came to pass.
We're bringing you live into the Fox 8 newsroom, interrupting your regularly scheduled program to bring you Breaking News. We're just received word of a hostage situation unfolding as we speak involving, believe it or not, the CEO and network president of CNN...
Konohamaru almost fell off of his seat when he heard that, 'Wait a minute...could this be it?' Konohamaru looked up and watched as Zabuza stood over him, taking an interest in this for what ever reason.
"Huh? What's with you guys?" Naruto asked.
Konohamaru just pointed toward the TV and leaned forward even farther.
He was somehow abducted from his office earlier today, investigators speculate it was a planned abduction and apparently the assailant or assents were very good at covering their tracks. Cameras were forced off line with electromagnetic disruption devices, and get this, no one in the building even knew he was gone until the abductor(s) announced it to all local Television networks a few moments ago. Now, we don't know why this was possibly done and police aren't releasing anymore information at this time...
Wait...Yes...Just like before it seems the abductors, I should say abductor, is bypassing the police and giving information directly to local TV stations. We've just confirmed this is a single effort of one man whom we've learned the location and identity of. Hoshigaki Kisame, fugitive of the Mist --
"!" 'It is him!' Konohamaru shouted to himself, immediately springing from the couch and sitting down in front of the TV.
"Kisame?" Sasuke glanced toward the screen curiously, "That sounds familiar...!" Now he remembered, it had been the same man that had been with his brother. "Him..."
"You know him?" Kakashi asked.
"He was with my brother back in Orochimaru's tower." Sasuke told them with a sense of bitterness. "They were working together."
Everyone else started paying a little more attention.
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Itachi waited patiently, watching the TV casually. He hadn't found out any detailed information on Kisame's mission, and it seemed to easy for him to need help, so he didn't ask. The only thing he knew was that this wasn't Kisame's official mission, he didn't even know the purpose of him going through all of this trouble of kidnapping. It seemed pointless Though he was curious as to how this would turn out.
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"I...I can't keep up with you." Shikamaru fell backwards on to the ground with heavy breathes, clinching the soft grass on the outskirts of Konoha. This was the same place that they first met Sasuke, Naruto and Konohamaru, he barely had time to notice it. He also notice that it was it was only wide empty plains, which meant the trees of Konoha's forest never grew back.
Lee turned back after hearing Shikamaru fall, "?" he leaned over the boy, his hands resting on his knees. "Your really tired?"
"How can you keep going like this?" He asked between pants "We've been running for miles."
Lee smiled and rubbed the back of his head "Going long distances was always easy for me."
'His stamina is amazing.' Shikamaru dropped his head and inhaled one last deep breath, then his breathing normalized. 'There's no way I can keep up with a person like him, he has too much energy.' "Why don't we take a break for a while."
"Shikamaru, you always want to take a break." Lee sat down next to him, knowing that Shikamaru wouldn't get back up for a while. "Alright then."
Shikamaru let his body fall back on to the ground with a loud, tired thud, it had never felt so good to lay down. He already felt his eyes closing and himself slowly drifting to sleep. "What do you think about this place?"
Lee laid down next to him, staring aimlessly toward the blue sky and the scattered clouds. He didn't know where to start. "I never could have imagined a world anything like this. I could spend my whole life in the past and never think of one of the most simple things they have here."
"Sounds like your enjoying this time."
"It's simply...awesome."
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"So, anything new?" Asuma returned to the Uchiha residence after a small trip outward, everyone else seemed to be highly interested in this for one reason or another, so he figured he should be too.
"They've got something right now." Konohamaru said anxiously, he'd inched steadily closer to the TV since Asuma's departure.
Fox 8 is back with you again with more breaking coverage on the hostage situation we began covering about 20 minutes ago. Police have blocked off and cleared out most of this downtown hotel where the CEO and President of CNN had been staying in room 719 on the 7th floor. This was clearly a very well premeditated and planed abduction, though motives are unclear and demands haven't been issued despite negotiation attempts...Police have confirmed a bomb threat announced by the abductor, who earlier said that every entrance and exit had been equipped with explosives and warned entry would result in detonation...
Hold on...I've just received new information from our news room. Demands have been made, I repeat, demands have been made. Hoshigaki Kisame is requesting surprisingly for, get this, air time...No, correction, he is selling air time. For what you might ask, well as he describes it, for a reality show determining with the hostage's life. He's offering a live feed to any network willing to pay the price of 5 million dollars--
"You can't be serious." Iruka said with evident surprise. "How dose he expect to possibly pull this off. He must know there is no way he can make it out. Why is he doing this at all?"
"Isn't it obvious?" Sasuke asked. "He wants just what he's asking for."
Naruto shrugged "I don't get it. No body is going to buy something like that."
"Basically, the money most likely doesn't matter. I'm not even sure why he's asking for it." Kakashi took Konohamaru's spot on the couch and sat down under Zabuza who was watching from there. "A person skilled enough to pull something like this off so effectively could have found a much easier way to get it, he wants attention."
Iruka shook his head "There's no way this is going to work, he kidnapped the head of one of the largest news media networks, they're not going to bargain with him."
"Why not?" Asuma retrieved a cigarette from his pocket, placing in his mouth while he reached for a lighter. "The police may not, but media is most likely interested."
"Come on, there's no way they would do that." Naruto said surely, "A news network would be more focused on getting their head guy back instead of putting on shows."
"It's the media." Zabuza told him, and coming in quite unexpectedly "Their main goal is to supply information that most viewers would be interested in hearing."
"He's right." Asuma finally found his lighter in his vest, raising the flame to the tip of the cigarette until he was sure it had ignited before returning the lighter to it's place. "Do you remember the TD district bomber a few years back?"
Naruto nodded "Yeah."
"Well what did he ask for? Nothing in particular but he said once everyone heard him out he would stop the bombings. The networks listened and gave him what he wanted unwillingly, continuous and constant coverage. Though he said some pretty horrible, they still put him on. Which was why he kept bombing because he knew he'd get the level of attention he wanted, and that's what he got."
"So your really think Kisame's going to get what he's asking for?" Iruka asked curiously.
"He just did." Zabuza's voice intruded again unexpectedly "CNN just brought his broadcast, they're going to put him live in 15 minutes. I assume the money is being put into a loop of fake and untraceable transactions until he can get it in cash, or at least that's what I would do. "
Sasuke snorted "They're actually paying millions of dollars to a manic so they can put on TV while he commits crimes."
"...It looks that way." Konohamaru was rather confused, mostly for the same reasons everyone else was, but mainly he was trying to figure out where Kisame was going with this. "Fox, ABC, they just bought in too." 'Boss...what are you doing? There has to be a reason for him to do something like this and then let everyone know about it. I thought Akatsuki was suppose to do sneaking missions.'
"So why do you think they bought in?" Naruto asked.
"Simply because one network did, if one network broadcast something like this exclusively then they get all the viewers." Kakashi said "If one person can do it, then we can too."
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"What is it Gai-sensei?" Lee asked, once again returning to Gai's room where he was now working on a lap top with fully charged batteries.
"Well unfortunately I couldn't find all the second letter, but I did dig up something interesting." Gai turned the screen towards Lee "From what was pieced together of it, it was determined that this was also sent from one of SDI's member to this time. It was for you specificity Lee, a scroll for some type of extensive Jutsu training technique form a person named Neji."
"Neji?" Lee looked down at the screen questioningly, confirming what Gai had said though all if it seemed incomplete "Where's the rest?"
"Like I said, only half of the letter along with the scroll was recovered. But this one was created after the one I showed you before, and though there's only half of it you can tell he was asking a question before he explained what was in the scroll, that was the part lost."
"So I guess I'll never know what he asked." Lee didn't feel to bad about it, how could he respond to it? "But why would Neji send me a Jutsu? He knows I can't use Chakra."
Shikamaru finished looking over the transcribed scroll and gained a general understanding of it. 'Is this...even viable?' "I think Neji might have something here, that is if what he's proposing is possible."
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"Wow, they are really going to go through with this." Iruka waited with a sense of intrigue as the news cast made it's final remarks before board casting Kisame's transmission. His only thought was that this was really planned out if he had the equipment to do something like this.
The blank screen cut in abruptly to Kisame, this was it.
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"First off, hello to everyone watching, I bet you all are wondering what the hell is going on..." Kisame thought about that for a second, then retracted the statement "Nevermind, I bet everyone already knows every detail there is to know, the news has been saying it over and over for the last hour. But just as a little recap for all of you who just tuned in..."
Kisame turned the camera toward a chair were a very frightened looking man was bound and gag. "I took that guy hostage, why? Because I'm going to play a little game, This is my reality show. The object is simple, there are 6 shots this grenade launcher. I'll fire 5 of them." The Camera shifted toward the gun he was referring to which was pointed toward the man and connected remotely to a trigger Kisame was spinning between his fingers " 5 of them are blanks, one of them isn't. I'm thinking of calling it who wants to blow up a millionaire. Doesn't matter, all of these reality shows just copy each other."
Kisame paused for a moment while the Camera angles shifted, another thing controlled by the remote in his hand. "I know you all are waiting to see it, but first, I have one simple question for everyone. Why are you watching this?" He asked.
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Kisame looked directly in the camera, making Konohamaru feel like he was looking directly at him, maybe that was the effect he was going for.
"Maybe you want to see this guy blown into a million pieces." Kisame said "Maybe your seeing this crazy bastard on TV and waiting to see what he's going to do next, Or your watching a guy like me and want marvel on how much smarter then me you are. Possibly your just watching this because it's on, no...rather because the networks put it on. Think about it, so far I've committed 3 crimes and you all have been glued to me every second, makes you wonder exactly how far networks will go for ratings? Well, a few million dollars and almost breaking the law is how far they're going for a reality show and ratings higher then the last super bowl. More importantly the question is how far you as the viewer are willing to let them go?
"Most importantly I'd like to say thank you to the audience, because with out you, I wouldn't be here." Kisame smirked, The camera shifted again toward the man tied up who looked like he'd just seen a ghost, it seemed like he realized his time was up. "Hell, you guys aren't watching to hear me talk, and I hate those reality shows that have those long breaks in-between the action. Let's get to it!"
The camera shifted to a wide view of the hostage and the grenade launcher. "Fire shot one." Kisame pressed a button and a shot fired out of the grenade launcher, but it disappeared in a flash of light and a cloud of smoke. "A blank, let's see shot two!" The man could be heard screaming frightenly behind the gag and flinching as another shot launched in a loud bang, another flash and more smoke came. "2 out of 5, let's see if he can go for 3!"
Kisame pressed the button, firing his third shot that seemed to be louder then the others, but only a quick flash of light and smoke came. The man looked like he was about to have a heart attack "How lucky is this guy, let's see, number 4!" The fourth round fired, it was deafeningly loud, and the man was knocked backwards to the ground in the chair. That looked like it was it.
"Another blank, he really is lucky." Kisame was right, the man had just fell backwards out of fear. "Let's see if that luck holds for one more shot..." the camera view shifted unexpectedly to right in front of the grenade launcher just as it fired. A loud bang and a flash of red came right before the picture cut off into static.
Everyone sat there, silently watching, waiting for what would happen next, if something would happen next.
"I think..." Asuma started. "He just blew up the audience."
"So what happened?" Naruto asked anxiously, "Did the guy get killed or not?"
"That wasn't the point." Konohamaru sat unmoving, still staring at the TV though not watching it. '..., how is he going to get out of there? Come on Boss, you can't get caught!'
Sasuke, sick of TV already, stood up and headed for the stairs, also feeling slightly annoyed that so many people were in his house.
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