Chapter 20: The possibility of evil part 3
"Wow, this thing is so cool!" Lee took it upon himself to investigate and over look every inch of the device in front of him, it was so fascinating, so simply amazing that he couldn't contain himself. "It's like, looking out of a window!"
"Lee...maybe you should calm down." Iruka said nervously, he'd never seen someone get so excited over something so very common. But that was too be expected since he was from the past.
Lee, still holding the same soil in his outstretched hand as he had been doing for the past 2 weeks, stared with his mouth slightly open at a TV. It wasn't just any TV, it was really big, and it looked so real, so amazingly real. He at first thought someone was trapped inside. "Whoa!--" Lee abruptly jumped back as something on screen exploded, and the speakers relayed the sound. He ended up falling painfully on his back, though still able to hold the soil.
Asuma looked down at the boy and laughed, it was amusing, very amusing. "Don't get too excited, it's not real." Asuma said, glancing over at Iruka then at Shikamaru who was just shaking his head.
They were at Asuma's apartment, who was serving to keep Lee from getting lost while Gai was at work. Shikamaru wouldn't have been able to help him, he barely knew his own way around a place so big. "Are you alright Lee?" Shikamaru looked down at Lee, who hadn't moved at all since he'd fallen. He just laid there, staring seemingly off into space with a shocked expression across his face. "Lee?"
"I...I-It's happening!" He was nearly shouting.
"What's happening?" Iruka asked. "What's wrong?"
"Nothing, All of this work finally paid off." Lee shot upward, staring down at his outstretched arm holding the soil. "It's happening, the seed is sprouting!"
"I don't see anything." Shikamaru looked down carefully at Lee's hand, watching for anything.
"No, no it is!" Lee nodded excitedly, excitement that made him subconsciously tightening his grip around the soil. "Ow..." For some reason, that squeeze made his whole arm hurt. "What was that?"
"Your arm has been in that same position for two weeks, you haven't move a finger." Shikamaru explained "Your just stiff."
"Yeah, you must be right." Lee shook his arm a little and slowly shifted his fingers inward, "Man, that really--" The pressure made something green pop up out of the pile, something green.. It was the seedling, of a tree! "--...I did it, I actually did it!"
"Wow he's right." Asuma lifted himself out of his chair and leaned over Lee's shoulder.
"But how?" Shikamaru asked "That was an acorn wasn't it? Trees don't grow that fast..."
"That must mean it worked." Lee could hardly contain himself after such an accomplishment, he sprang on to his feet and lifted the small plant in to the air...and fell to the ground in pain. "Ahhhhhaaaa..." He clinched his wrist tightly, the source of the most pain.
"Take it easy Lee, you need to stretch." Shikamaru warned, cuffing the plant in both and lifting it out of Lee's hand, or trying to anyway. "Huh? Lee, let go."
"I'm not holding on to it." Lee stretched out his fingers, laying them flat on the ground while Shikamaru attempted to pry it away. "Wow, how dose it get stuck?" Lee pushed Shikamaru's hands away and attempted to pull it out himself, and it really hurt, a lot. "AAhhha..." Lee gritted his teeth, clinched his eyes and forced himself to keep pulling..."!" Until finally he held the plant in his opposite hand, he noticed the inch long roots hanging out of the bottom of it with a considerable amount of blood covering them. Matching holes were visible in his bandages.
"What?" Shikamaru looked questioningly at the roots and at Lee's hand, "How is this possible? it looks like the roots grew into your hand, there is so many things wrong with this I don't know where to start."
"Man that feel's better." Lee clinched his hand into a fist then shook it lightly. "Well, what wrong with this again?"
"Those roots shouldn't be that larger for a tree that was just planted 2 weeks ago." Iruka said. "And it shouldn't be strong enough to burrow through skin like this among other things. Are you ok?"
"I'm fine." Lee placed the uprooted sapling back into his left palm.
"What are you doing?"
"I'm going to see if it worked--Ahhhaah..." Lee cringed as he felt that sharp pain shooting threw his arm again, he tried to pull the soil back off but somehow the roots had forced themselves back in to place under his hand... "That doesn't usually happen dose it?"
"No..." Shikamaru sounded a little bit worried now.
"Well, let's see..." Lee gently press his finger against the small sapling's leaf, then he lifted two fingers from his free hand and closed his eyes in concentration. He tensed his muscles... "Please, don't let this be for nothing..." He whispered to himself...He started to feel something strange, "I feel weird, maybe it worked."
"L-Lee?" Shikamaru place a hand on Lee's his shoulder, then another one on his back, then he started feeling around his body with a shocked expression.
"Shikamaru?" Lee looked back at the boy who had his arms around his waist and his head pressed against his back. "Uh...what is it?"
"Chakra..."
"What!"
"You have...Chakra. I can feel it, you have Chakra."
"..." Lee knew his mouth was hanging open, and his eyes were wide, but he didn't care, he couldn't believe what he was hearing! Lee closed his eyes and lifted his fingers again, tensing his muscles enough to forced more Chakra out in a normal person. The plant in his hand started to shake lightly. "It's the plant, I don't have Chakra, it dose."
Iruka and Asuma looked at each other, they didn't exactly know what was going on but it seemed important.
'He's drawing Chakra from the plant?' Shikamaru looked in amazement, 'How is it possible?...It must be the roots that got in to his hand, but roots suck out...those roots must be gaining nutrients from his blood, no wonder they were so large.' It was a trade off, it absorbed some of his blood and allowed him use of it's Chakra, plants had lots of Chakra, though it was still a small plant so it didn't have much. "Lee..."
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"Lee?" Shikamaru opened his eyes and rolled over, the last time he was awake Lee was also, and he still was. "Are you still it awake? It must be 3 in the morning."
Lee sat on the edge of the bed, in the dark with a small flashlight in hand pointed on the small plant in his left hand.
"Did you get any sleep?"
"Not really, but look." Lee turned off the flash light, making the room pitch black again. But not for long, a sparkling green light started to glow with in the small sapling, then spread outward into a shining aura that rotated around it like a tornado. Lee's other hand could be seen moving out of the darkness and lifting over the plant by it's light.
"Lee..." Shikamaru tilted his head just enough to get a clear view.
"That's not all..." Lee said, his fingers lowering enough to lightly touch the two leaves on the sapling...The light brightened, growing stronger and stronger as the plant started to grow. More and more, taller and taller, wider...until it was a foot tall with 2 small branches, 6 leaves and a light bark growing around the trunk. He'd just made living thing grow. "I learned something, isn't it great?"
"Lee...you..." Shikamaru crawled over to him. "But how?"
"I feel, connected with it." Lee turned on the lights, hoping not to wake up Gai in the next room. "It's like you, when you said you felt connected to the Shadows."
"How do you feel?"
"Kinda drained, but it's not nearly as bad as before." Lee pushed himself off the bed with his free hand and held out the larger now a little heavier tree. "Oh yeah, I remembered when I was younger there was only one Jutsu that I kept practicing, I still know it." 'I hope this works...' Lee lifted two finger, holding them horizontally and pressing them against the tree. His body went up in a cloud of smoke, clearing to reveal a mirror image of Shikamaru.
"You can...use Jutsu!" Shikamaru couldn't help but become a little excited for him, he was proud of him! Lee had just done something no human had ever successfully did. Shikamaru climbed out of bed and ran over and hugged Lee tightly "That's amazing!"
"Shikamaru." Lee smiled. "I never saw you so happy."
"I know, I'm just so proud of you."
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"Urrrhhhh..." Kakashi opened his eyes, awakened by a small chill and the dull light of daybreak. '?' With a yawn he shook his head and sat up, feeling another chill coming from behind him. He looked back and saw the window above his bed was open, and he was the only one here. 'Great, he disappeared again, but why did he open the window?' Kakashi knew Zabuza wouldn't go out of a window when he could have easily walked out of the front door.
Ringggggggg
Kakashi glanced over the side of his bed at the familiar sound radiating from his discarded pants, his cell phone was ringing. "?" Who could have possibly been calling at...Kakashi glanced over to an alarm clock on a nightstand nearby, 7:45 in the morning. With a dull sigh he lifted the phone to his ear. "Huh?"
"Kakashi, wake up."
That woke him up. "Zabuza? Where are you?"
"The docks, I had to go see about a situation...with the Sound."
And that got him out of bed. "What?"
"Something's going on." Zabuza told him "I just found an undercover sound solider walking around, I...interrogated him, and I found out Kabuto is here."
"What, again?" Kakashi couldn't believe that he just kept coming back, how did he keep managing to get in, and what was he doing? "Then he'll probably have more opposition forces then last time."
"I've already at least double, get down here now."
"Yeah, ok."
"And be careful, they're on the look out for both of us particularly, so try to be inconspicuous until you get to Dock 21."
"21, got it...is Kabuto there?"
"No, he's somewhere else, you should be worried about that." Zabuza paused for a minute "And oh yeah, it's snowing."
Kakashi looked towards the window...Zabuza was right, it was snowing, and rather hard. And the sunlight had been so dull because of all of the gray clouds covering every inch of the sky. "Thanks."
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"Ok, I'm here." Asuma ran into the living room of the Uchiha household, panting as if he'd just run all the way here from home. The house was still in bad shape from Nightmare, most of the same damages remained but it was obvious repairs were in progress. The large gaping hole in the side of the house had at lest been covered temporarily. "What's the emergency?"
Kakashi looked around at the group, Iruka, Gai, and Asuma were finally here. Naruto and Sasuke were already here, and Shikamaru and Lee came with Gai. He himself was already equipped with his bomb suit and his two regular handguns, a bomb detector and PS01 sniper riffle equipped with a silencer strapped on his back. This really was serious. "I'll be really brief, the Sound are here again. Zabuza found out that there is a relatively large force down at the docks concealed in plan clothes, and Kabuto is also some where in Konoha, the problem is that he's not at the docks. So that means there has to be more groups in different places, we can't handle a job this big by ourselves. All of you know what you have to do."
"It never stops." Gai sighed, "I was heading to the base anyway, I'll see if I can track the other Sound groups down."
"I'll head to the police stations and get some units down to the docks." Asuma said "I'm sure they'll believe me this time after that whole thing at the hospital."
"Do you need any help down there Kakashi?" Iruka asked.
"I'll have to go by myself for the time being, I'll need to find out what they're up to before backup gets there. Anymore people would only slow me down." Kakashi declined.
"Then it looks like I'm off to tracking detail." Iruka said. "I'll go to the NDAFA, I'm sure that I can radio in some support."
"Ok, what do we do?" Naruto asked anxiously.
"Nothing." Kakashi said it firmly just to make sure Naruto heard him clearly "You and Shikamaru are already targeted by the Sound, it's too dangerous. Stay. Here. All of you."
"What? You can't be serious." Lee apparently wasn't happy about the arrangements "You expect us to just sit here, not after what happened last time."
"He's right." Gai was in agreement, there was no way he could let either of them back into harm's way. "This is way too dangerous, Stay."
"Well this sucks." Naruto rolled his eyes and sat down in a chair. "You really expected us to stay here?"
"Naruto, they're right." Sasuke knew they were after Naruto, especially with the weather outside, chances were that if put in that situation they would capture him. "You can't go into a fight like this, it's stupid."
Naruto scowled and closed his eyes, on the other hand Lee had took the denial a lot better and figured it was all for the best.
"We better go now." Kakashi said, gaining a nod from the three of them before departing. He paused and retrieved his Cell phone to call Zabuza, which was his attempt, but unfortunately it didn't work. "Wait a minute, we have a problem."
Asuma, Iruka, and Gai paused. "What?" Asuma asked.
"You have your radio with you Iruka, check for a signal."
With flashbacks roaring in his head, Iruka retrieved the radio on his waist. There was nothing, no static, no deadpan tone that came when a signal couldn't be a achieved, not even an emergency broadcasting signal. "Your right, it's being jammed."
"You don't think Kabuto would try taking over the NDAFA again?" Asuma inquired. "No, it would be too obvious."
Iruka sighed. "I'll go down there anyway and see if I can find the source."
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"It's freezing out here!" Konohamaru looked down at his coat just to make sure it was closed, then tightened his scarf. He felt like he was in the middle of a blizzard, he was in the middle of a blizzard! The snow was falling so hard that he could only see a few feet in front of his face, this same weather was working in his favor since that meant those who were coming after him couldn't see him either. Konohamaru knew his way around this city when they didn't.
'I need to find a way to warn Grandpa, a phone, radio, something!' Konohamaru stopped at the edge of the street, he knew where he was, and he knew there was only one place he could go at the moment, he could at least use the phone there.
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"Hey!" Konohamaru burst through the front door of Sasuke's house, slamming it shut behind him so swiftly that it nearly hit Asuma. "I didn't think I'd make it!"
Iruka looked down at the frantic expression on Konohamaru's face, it looked like he ran all the way here and had been outside for a long while from the thick white layer covering his body, especially his hair. "What wrong?"
"There were these guys, they're from the Sound Country, ." Konohamaru knew that much by looking at the bullet proof vest they had been wearing baring the Sound emblem. "They're after me, I think I lost them though."
"What!"
Konohamaru shook his head. "That's not even the worst part, They're going after my Grandfather too, I gotta warn him!" Konohamaru brushed past Asuma and ran for the phone... "What's wrong with your phone?"
Sasuke immediately narrowed his eyes. "Nothing..." With a thought forming in his head he took the phone from Konohamaru and placed it to his ear. "The phone's dead."
Naruto's first instinct was to check the phone lines, which drove him into the living room where a window sat. Though obstructed by snowfall, he could still see what he was looking for. "But the phone lines are still connected outside."
That's when something in Iruka's head finally clicked. "Why didn't I figure this out before! It's not the NDAFA, that's what Kabuto wants us to thing. The only other place that can block cell phone signals, radio transmissions, and the phone lines is the telephone company!"
"We need to go now." Asuma headed for the door again. "You wanted something to do Naruto, all of you, watch Konohamaru, it's too dangerous for him to go back outside."
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Kakashi pressed his back against the wall of a small boat house on peer 1, rifle in hand. The cold winds were blowing a torrential amount of snow directly into his face, this weather hindered him as much as it helped him. With his mind on the cold, Kakashi turned around towards the wall and jumped upward, grabbing on to the outer rim of the roof and pulled himself up on top of the small boat house. He crawled along the frosted surface of the slanted roof up to the very top, then set the riffle in front of him and looked through the scope.
It was a good thing the snow was blowing the way it was, if it wasn't then he wouldn't be able to see. 'Alright, let's see what's going on...' Kakashi first noticed that there were a lot of people out in the middle of a storm this bad, they were anchoring ships, unloading packages, things of that nature. Then he shifted his view upward and zoomed a long ways down to dock 21 where Zabuza was supposed to be meeting him. 'Damn...' Kakashi could see a very large tanker in port, most of the activity was there, though mainly loading and unloading of very suspicious cargo.
There was no way Zabuza would be there anymore, he'd be caught. And now that phones and radios were out, he had no way of finding him... 'Zabuza had to leave some way for me to track him, but what could he possibly...' With an idea forming, Kakashi retreated his bomb detector from his waist and turned it on...he was picking up something about 100 feet away from him, 2 docks down. Just as Kakashi was focusing his scope on pier 3, what ever he was picking up exploded, taking out what looked to be a fishing boat. A clear hello from Zabuza. 'Fine, we'll do it your way."
Kakashi focused in on a person running toward the dock and fired a silent shot, striking the man in the head. His aim quickly shifted to someone next to him and he pulled the trigger, taking him out as well. It wasn't long after Kakashi had taken down 5 people that they seemed to notice what was happening, that's when a lot of guns appeared and just about anyone civilian already disappeared. '?' That's when Zabuza surfaced from the left, all attention being drawn directly to him. 'What are you doing, running into the open like that?'
Zabuza, equipped with a Mark 3-AP single barrel shotgun, fought his way toward pier 21, firing on just about anything that move. 'Watch it Zabuza.' Kakashi gave him as much assistance as he could, shooting anyone around Zabuza that he missed or just got too close. He was amazed that Zabuza still didn't mange to get hit, the man apparently exactly knew what he was doing. He watched as Zabuza came from behind and wrapped his arm around one man's neck, pulling his back against his chest and using him as a shield, he did that often. He had time to give a quick look back in Kakashi's direction since he was the only one who could tell where the sniper was firing from.
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"This weather is horrible..." Gai squinted past the windshield at the blizzard outside his house, roads were thinning traffic wise due to the weather and ice was starting to form. Infact the storm had hit so fast and so hard, a good portion of the roads were frozen over with ice already. "I can barely see where I'm going." It was a good thing for him that he knew his way by heart, in fact he'd just reached the on ramp for Highway I-41, where all his problems began.
He didn't know he'd been targeted, studied and setup, it didn't even occur to him. The first thing he'd noticed was that he started sliding to the side from the ice caused by 12 strait hours of heavy snow. "..." Gai reached down to a smaller stick shift that lay next to his regular gearshift and changed his car into 4 wheel drive before proceeding any farther. That's when the second thing caught his attention, that there were no cars whatsoever on the road. "Hmm, that's strange, I wonder--!"
Half way into his sentence the third thing made itself know, a single gunshot and a bullet striking and deflected by his roof. He didn't even have to look for the aslant since a white car pulled up next to him, there was a man with blue hair that descended down to his shoulders, blue eyes and something somewhat large on his back. Gai, being the solider that he was, knew who this man was, Sakon. A general well known among Sound troops, and what they knew well, he knew well.
"Maito Gai, we finally meet, too bad we wont have time to talk."
"You!" Gai shouted "What are you doing here!"
"One specific task." Sakon said. "Orochimaru wants you dead. I personally don't think your worth my time but you should feel honored we're putting this much effort into you." Sakon gave him a small wave before accelerating ahead of him, and was quickly replaced by another car holding a driver and a man holding a gun out of the window.
"!" Gai abruptly veered to the left and retrieved his riffle from the passenger seat as bullet's flew into the side of his car. The forth, and what should have been first, thing finally made itself known. 'A set up!' Gai crouched his head down and quickly slammed into the blue import firing at him, knocking it to the side and pin it against the side rail. A loud scraping sound and a flurry of sparks streamed from his attacker's vehicle as they tried and failed to push themselves off of the railing. Gai shifted the gun to his right hand and fired randomly into the one beside him, the vehicle quickly decelerated and went out of control meaning the driver was either dead or wounded.
By the time Gai pulled himself away from the guard rail he was being surrounded by two larger SUVs trying to pin him in. 'I don't have time for this, I just have to catch up with Sakon.' Gai shifted gears and pushed his own former racer forward, though he took a speed decrease being in 4-wheel drive he was able to blow right past them.
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'I was right.' Iruka looked up at a large metal gate that now stood in place of the barbed wire chain link fence, infact the whole place was barricaded. Iruka wished he'd had time to get a coat, that among other things he needed. Kakashi had insisted that he take a weapon just in case he encountered an enemy, that being something a little stronger then the handgun he already had. So Kakashi insisted he barrow one of his own .50s, something much stronger then Iruka originally had. 'Well, there's only one way in.'
Iruka crouched slightly and jumped up into the air, grabbing on to the top of the steel gate and pulled himself up. Looking ahead he could see the compound of Konoha Bell central, the main of three branches and the largest, he could see what looked like hundreds and hundreds of phone cords being spread outward in all directions from the compounds. There was one large 3 story building with another 2 story wing on each side including the back, this was it. And it looked like the outside of it was empty, completely empty. Not a worker or anyone.
'Yeah, this place is too quite, I definitely was right.' Iruka jumped down to the opposite side, no turning back now. With the snow blowing at his back, Iruka ran crouched low toward the front door, as stupid as he felt knowing that there were camera's everywhere, he had no choice. Not like they wouldn't notice if one o their cameras went off line, but on the other hand they might not even see him because of all of this snow... With the 9mm and .50 drawn, he kicked in the glass window that made up one of the 4 doors and ran through, letting out a deep breath from the warmth. 'Alright Kabuto, I'm ready for you this time.'
Iruka ran along the marble floors of the front hall and up the stairs they lead too, after that the path split three ways. He mused slightly on how people were prone to picking right, so he picked strait, slowly opening the door that lay there. He found a white room filled with desks, phones and computers, probably where all the operators worked from the looks of it. Unfortunately all the operators were laying dead on the ground at the hands of two men in blue Sound uniforms and black M4s. 'I hope I can do what Asuma showed me right.' With himself crouching so low he was almost crawling, Iruka ran quietly through the rows of desks.
As much as he absolutely hated doing this, he crept up behind the first man, reached up just enough to press the gun to his head and pull the trigger. The loud noise alerted the second man a row away and he turned towards Iruka who caught the first solider as he was falling a used him as a shield from the hail of gun fire that came his way. Then he abruptly pushed the dead man over the desk and into the second solider, giving him enough of a distraction to stand up and fire two round into a more inhabiting spot on the second solder's body. The shoulder and the leg, which at least didn't leave him dead. 'Sorry guy.'
Iruka looked around the room for another exit, he was sure others had heard that exchange. That was dangerous even if Kabuto never had a large team. There was another door laying in the left corner of the back wall, 'There!'
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Asuma pushed open the door to the Konoha police department, running up to the receptionist's desk by the side wall, "I need to find Chief Irons, is he here?"
The woman looked up at him questioningly, "Hold on a moment, I'll cheek." She pressed the intercom button on her desk. "Mr. Irons, Sarutobi Asuma is here to see you. It's very important." She said, nodding to Asuma "You can go up."
Asuma ran toward the stairs, only realizing when he was halfway up the second flight that he'd never told that receptionist his name, or that nature of his problem. He'd never seen that woman in his life, in fact she wasn't even the usual receptionist. "...No, I don't know this for sure." Just in case something was off, Asuma reached behind him and drew the Mac 11s holstered in the waistband of his pants. Then he proceeded up the stairwell to the only door on the fourth floor.
"..." Asuma slowly pushed open the door with his foot, guns outward as it swung into the opposite wall. His eyes scanned the room, finding nothing out of order. He even found Chief Irons sitting in his chair, looking out the window, probably surveying the snow storm. "Chief Irons!"
The black chair turned around to reveal a person that wasn't Chief Irons, it was a smaller woman instead, she had red hair that stopped at her chin, pressed down by a black hat. She lifted her feet on to the desk and crossed her legs, brown eyes looking over Asuma while a M4A1 with a flamethrower attachment hooked under the barrel. And she of course was dressed in Sound uniform. "Took you long enough Asuma."
Asuma kept the guns aimed steadily at the redheaded woman, "Who are you?"
"Tayuya, but I suppose it doesn't matter since your about do die any way." Tayuya pulled the gun from her shoulder, causing a red sight to shoot out at his head right before she opened fire. Asuma, still in the door way, had no choice but to dive backwards to avoid being hit, though he did manage to return fire before his body fell from Takyua's sight. "?" She looked over at the smoking hole in the chair next to her head, 'That was too close, I better take care of this guy quickly.' With that thought, she jumped out of the chair and over the desk, going after Asuma.
Asuma suddenly sprang into view when he jumped up from the stairs and drove his shoulder into Tayuya's chin hard enough to throw her into the desk. "What are you doing here?"
"I'm not sure about everyone else." Tayuya drove the barrel up into Asuma's head, making him stumble a little. "But I'm here to kill you." She pulled the trigger, and by his own speed Asuma was able to move to the side enough to be struck in the shoulder, he crouched down at a speed higher then usual since he almost fell.
"Are you saying your doing all of this just to kill me!" Asuma swept his foot across the ground and into Tayuya's legs hard enough to knock her off of her feet.
"Don't get too excited sparks." From the ground Tayuya kicked Asuma in the face and then drove the end of her riffle down on to his head. "Not just you, your other friends too." Tayuya flipped on to her feet and kicked Asuma in the stomach, knocking him back a few steps. After words he was sure he was bleeding some place.
Asuma grabbed her leg before she could pull it away, then threw her into the wall a few feet away. "What? You did all of this just to kill us!" Asuma turned the guns on to Tayuya, hoping to finish this off now, but unfortunately Tayuya was faster then that. She pushed herself into the air, kicking one of the weapons out of his hand.
"Heh, we're going after someone more important, I just have to get you out of the way." Tayuya landed gracefully on her feet sent a strong punch into Asuma's mouth, but Asuma was quick enough to catch her fist. He pulled her arm over his shoulder, crouching down enough to continue pulling her body up on to his shoulder, then he threw her forcefully into to the wall again, this time sending cracks shooting out from the point of impact.
"You must be the one that took out our radio systems." Asuma knew you could do something like that from here, especially since dispatch was down in the basement. But this was a police station... "How did you get past the police?"
"Past?" Tayuya laughed, placing her hands on the wall behind her. "Are you stupid, they're all dead. Of course we couldn't leave a district of Konoha unprotected, so we replaced them all." Tayuya leapt upward into the air, firing down on Asuma with a rain of bullets. Asuma dived out of the way, though unfortunately his path was blocked by Irons's desk and he ended up hitting his head and falling to the ground. A red beam streamed on his torso, followed by Tayuya who landed on his chest.
From the corner of his eye Asuma just barely spotted something to his side right before Tayuya landed on him, so he raised the one remaining Mac 11 and fired at Tayuya while he reached for the second one nearby. Tayuya fell back, a burning impact coming from her body armor. Most soldiers had that body armor that protected against bullets, thought it stopped them from penetrating anything, the strong impact still hurt and with each shot the armor became weaker and weaker... 'This place is full of Sound spies, I'm surrounded...Damnit!'
Asuma kicked aside her weapon, picked up Tayuya by the collar of her shirt, slamming her back against the wall and pressing one of the guns under her chin. "Call them off now!"
She smirked, "What makes you think it will be that easy?"
"Because if you don't I'll kill you."
"A weak bastard like you kill me?" Tayuya drover her forehead into his, pushing away the weapon "Get. Off!" then sending a kick into his stomach with all of her strength. Asuma slid backwards, his legs hitting the side of the desk and, to his dismay, he flipped over it and landed hard on the other side. Tayuya laughed again, kneeling down to retrieve her fallen weapon. "You know what, I think I will call them off." She reached up to her ear and tapped an earpiece hidden beneath the black hat. "I have Sarutobi Asuma, now you guys get your asses in gear and get out there."
Asuma sat up with a small groan, he had to admit, that hurt. 'She's sending them out to Konoha. I have to stop her!'
"Let's get down to business." Tayuya pulled the slide on her M4, then held down a button just bellow the barrel, sending out a wave of flames that swept over the desk and forced Asuma back down. The flames reached the window, effectively shattering the glass and throwing a furry of snow at Asuma, and he was forced to jump back as the fire quickly incinerated the wood furnishing.
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Konohamaru growled in frustration, pacing aggregately around the room. "I can't just sit here!" He shouted.
"Calm down Konohamaru." Sasuke said in an attempt to stem his impatient movement. "Just wait."
"How can I wait? Those guys are after my Grandfather again!" Konohamaru yelled.
"I know your worried about your Grandfather but Sasuke's right." Naruto sat down on the couch, leaning forward just enough to hover over the table with a gun in hand. 9mm bullets were scattered across the table, and he was loading them one by one into a clip. "If those guys are after you, then they'll be waiting for you go back home. He's a smart guy, I'm sure he's alright."
Konohamaru sighed. "I guess your right." With no choice but to calm down, Konohamaru looked around the room for something to focus his attention on besides the obvious. Nothing really seemed good enough to hold his interest, he wanted to do nothing but at least warn his Grandfather, at lest do that much... So he just sat down on the ground, holding his head in his hands.
"..." Shikamaru unfolded his arms and opened his eyes.
Lee, leaning against the wall behind him, took notice. "Shikamaru?"...he started to get uneasy.
Shikamaru stood up from the chair "Someone's outside." Those words gained everyone's attention.
'!' Sasuke's eyes averted to the living room door sharply, he was right. "Konohamaru! Get over here now!"
Konohamaru looked up, he didn't even have time to inquire why before the door behind him was thrown off it's hinges and landed directly on top of him. A rather large man with oddly styled orange hair walked in, placing his foot lightly on the door to prevent Konohamaru from escaping. Naruto jumped at him, but the man easily grabbed him by his neck and threw him aside, directly into the large TV. "How the hell do you lose a runt like this?" The man growled, waving two very conspicuously dressed KPD officers into the room.
A few of the fake ones replaced by Sound soldiers.
The large man climbed off of the door, releasing an unconscious Konohamaru into the hands of the two men. "Leave him alone." Shikamaru came from the side, throwing a strong kick to the orange haired man to the side of his head. The man sidestepped a few steps as Shikamaru landed and crouched down, sweeping his leg across the ground and into the man's. The man moved back just enough to avoid it and then sent a strong kick to Shikamaru's chest, throwing him through the side of the stairs rather loudly.
By then the men had disappeared into the storm, taking Konohamaru with them.
"Give him back." Sasuke growled. The man looked at him and seemed surprised...
"Uchiha Sasuke, So you did survive."
Sasuke narrowed his eyes, this man probably still thought he was working with Orochimaru "I know you, your one of Orochimaru's Generals, Jiroubou?"
Jiroubou nodded "I see you did most of the work for me already, it would have taken hours to track both sources down." Jiroubou retrieved a small remote like device from his back pocket, the same one Kabuto had used to find Naruto and Shikamaru. He tossed it to Sasuke. "How about you and me get this over with."
"What are you doing with Konohamaru, where are they taking him."
Jiroubou smiled "To the white house, Orochimaru wants him alive for whatever reason. I can't say the same for the president though."
'...There gonna...assassinate the President!' Naruto pushed himself out of the inside of the dead TV, shaking the glass and metal parts from his hair. "You bastards...If you want us." Naruto indicated himself and Shikamaru. "No...if you want Konohamaru, your gonna have to go through me first."
"Obnoxious little brat aren't you." Jiroubou pulled a large Glatting gun, a weapon for an aircraft, off of his back. Things just started to look a lot bleaker. "Too bad I can't kill you, but that doesn't mean I can't hurt you."
Sasuke drove his standard issue riffle into Jiroubou's stomach, forcing him to keel forward just enough to for Sasuke to give him a sharp punch to the face. "You want to hurt him, you have to go through me."
"Figured as much." Jiroubou grabbed Sasuke's arm and swung him painfully into Shikamaru, who had been emerging from the wreckage. Naruto tried to sneak up while Jiroubou was doing that, he was stopped by the large Glatting gun being pressed against his head. "Give up now and I'll take it easy on you."
"Take it easy on me? How about you stop and I wont kick your ass." Naruto growled.
"Have it your way then."
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