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Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters here that belong to Naruto that I put into this story except for my own OCs. Neither do I own any of the character in any of the crossovers I do. I'm just using them in this fanfiction and I have no money so don't bother suing me. You'll just lose money instead of gaining any. And remember to leave a review!

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The village of silences–

This place defined the word of a small 'village'. There had to be only six or seven buildings there. Jiraiya brought his binoculars up to his eyes and zoomed in, he and the others are hiding on a tree cover hill near the village. Building here, building there, mostly houses. A two story house rested left center. To its side was a stone tower, nearly eighty feet high. Four smaller houses, a large church, and several pathetic-looking huts made up the rest of the village. In the middle of the village is a stone pillar with a blue emblem on it.

The villagers numbering eight in all who are in sight were working. They were carrying water to troughs, shoveling hay, carrying wheel barrows back and forth, and ushering chickens out of the way. They were completely normal, working people. Jiraiya scanned the whole court; the barn where a cow stood, a water trough where a woman was fetching water

"How should we play this one?" Kakashi ask remembering what Jiraiya told him about what happen in the first house they came across.

"Two of you sneak into the village while the rest of us wait here," Jiraiya said, "If we go as a group we'll be spotted and they might start attacking us like that man in the house."

"I'll go," Lee said, "If we get spotted, I can still fly my way out."

"I go two," Ino said pointing to her raccoon ears, "With these, I'll be able to hear anyone trying to sneak up on us."

"Try to stay alive alright. Also remember that letter I show you earlier the one Sakura found in the house. I think that the bell tower has the safe it mentions. If you can find it and bring it here," Jiraiya said as the two headed off to into the village.

Lee and Ino leap onto the roofs of the houses as silently as they could without alerting the villagers down below. They headed for the two story house, the house next to it the roof connects to the second story. Making sure that none of the villagers are looking at their way they enter through a window. Inside the two story building they found a heavily strained bed with a chamber pot next to it that smells like no one has bother to empty it for along time. There's a bookcase next to the window and a long strange metal thing displayed on a rack on their left next to the staircase going down. Lee grabbed the metal rod that has two metal tubes one a wooden frame and it might be something important as he and Ino headed downstairs as they might find something useful down there. The thing has a trigger like on a crossbow but he couldn't understand how something like this was to be use without any arrows. (1)

The floor hadn't been swept up in ages, dust billowing from under their shoes with every step. Downstairs they found that it was a rather small house, Lee still slowly climbing down the rickety stairs making sure not to make too much noise and alert the villagers outside, and Ino walking into the small kitchen. She swatted a fly away from her face, but it was pretty useless; there were flies everywhere, buzzing around on the kitchen table. Several pots were placed out, but the food inside looked diseased and inedible. Plus, the stench prickled her nose. Doing a quick casual search, and finding nothing but nasty porridge in a pot, a turkey, some bread and water in a pitcher next to it. These people apparently did not eat. This food had obviously been prepared awhile ago; the bread was one big hunk of mold, the old rotting turkey, and the water appeared stagnant. Ino couldn't understand what they were living off of.

Looking at the kitchen cabinet she spotted something fresh, some sausage links and a jar of strawberry jam. Seeing nothing else of value she took the two only edible things in the house, since one thing she learned of being a ninja is that even the smallest of things can come in handy later. She motions to Lee for them to start back up the stairs. Lee nods as he lets her past by him first before climbing up as well.

Once they got outside they slowly climb up on the roof making sure that none of the villagers saw them climbing up. They leap onto the bell tower running up it before any of the villagers notice them, making it to the top as one of the villagers their his view towards the direction of the tower.

In the tower they found nothing but a small wooden table on the small room on top of the tower, there's also a small green box on the table. Lee picks up the box reading the label 'Shotgun Shells', never hearing of them before he opens the box finding that it held small cylinders in it. The wired part is that they look like they're made of two different materials, the bottom brass the top looks like cardboard. He quickly pockets the box as one of the other ninjas might know what they are.

Turning back to the task at hand he and Ino begin searching around the small room. The scanned the room carefully but found nothing, looking up, Ino saw that the top of the tower looks like it has a hollow top as the ceiling is made out of wood. Taking a kunai out she pulls out some of the boards out making a small hole in the ceiling where she notice that the woods in one part of the ceiling was colored differently then the rest. Looking through the hole she spots a small metal safe the sizes of a backpack and pulls it down. Lee takes a hold of it giving the metal rod to Ino instead and they quickly left the village as quickly as they came.

"What did you found?" Jiraiya ask as Lee and Ino came back to their hiding spot that he and the other ninjas are waiting at.

"We found the safe," Lee said as he puts the safe down in front of their leader.

"I'll crack it open," Kakashi said as he kneels down and pulls out his safe cracking kit he carries around with him.

"We also found this thing," Ino said handing him the metal rod, making Jiraiya eyes widen when he was what it was.

"Where did you find this?" Jiraiya ask as he picks up the rod.

"In one of the houses of the village," Lee answers, "What is it?"

"It's a musket," Jiraiya said looking it over, "I have seen these things in the lands beyond ours across the sea. Very powerful weapons, in anyone's hands can kill a ninja of my level quite easily. They're like crossbows but they use small metal balls by using gunpowder that can shot them out faster and further then anyone can throw a kunai by hand, but they make a lot of noise when they're fired. All of the ninja villages make sure that these weapons are banned from coming into the country as once anyone gets their hands on these the use for us ninjas will drop as anyone can be train to use one of these. But this one is far more advanced then the ones I have seen."

"We also found this," Lee said handing him the box of shotgun shells he found.

Jiraiya opens up the box pulling out the shells, after fumbling with the musket he opens the back end of the gun revealing the back ends of the two metal tubes that has two shells in it already he pulls one out and compares it to the shells in the box, "It's a shotgun then, counting the shells in it and the ones in the box the gun can be fired twelve times before it becomes useless, but it can still be use as a club."

"I fired crossbows before," Ino said taking the gun, "I think I can handle this."

"Just be careful where you point it and make sure you make your shots count," Jiraiya said to her as they need all the firepower they can get to make it out of here alive.

"I got it open," Kakashi said opening the small safes door and pulling out a small book and a seal envelope, "Now let's see what it says here." He begins reading the book first as the others listen on in.

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My name is Alan Gardner and this is my diary...

26! I have now counted twenty-six cases of missing persons connected with the research center.

Strange that the police have never come up with anything about it...

The research center was founded over forty years ago by an Eric Salvador.

Dr. Salvador is still our Head Researcher.

That would mean he's at least a hundred years old!

I just found his birth certificate.

Judging by that date, he's...

How have he stayed so young for so long!

I found some articles about Dr. Salvador and his experiments,

said to be so original that they 'went beyond human morality'.

Sixty years ago he went on an expedition to a hidden valley

in the peaks of Candy Mountain to find medicinal plants.

He stayed for six months and brought back a

large number of hitherto unknown varieties.

One strange specimen, named Mortifilia, became

the basic subject of his research.

I have discovered horrible photos of disfigured

people in his office...

I absolutely must find his lab.

Its somewhere in the valley where he first found the plant!

But only he knows where the valley is located.

I managed to follow him unnoticed through the

narrow pass to the valley high above the research center.

The valley is covered with mist no amount of

sunlight can get through.

There's something very wrong with

the people living here.

I keep out of their sights as they look to

be drugged or something.

I have been found by one of the villagers

he attack me on sight.

I manage to kill him but his body broke down into

a puddle of slime?

What's happen to these people?

Found the lab hidden underneath the

old temple on top of the hill.

Through the house with the metal door, it has

an underground tunnel leading up to the temple.

It can be unlock by inserting the blue emblem in the

middle of the village into the slot on the door.

I searched the lab and according to Dr. Salvador's notes,

the anti-aging serum has yet to be perfected.

The photos I found of half-human creatures bare

witness to the failed attempts.

I stole some of his files on Mortifilia

its sealed inside the envelope.

It will explain everything about what's going on here.

Prolonged exposure to the sun results in mutation.

He's been using magic to keep the mist which

covers the valley over it.

But the magic he's using is starting to effects the land

itself, something dark is being release.

I have been hearing a wailing noise

when it stops darkness covers the valley.

The villagers start to act strangely and seem to mutating

even further every time the darkness comes.

But it can only be seen when the darkness comes.

There is also a big metal door in one room in the temple,

I don't know what's behind it, but I think

I understand how to open it.

There is a mechanism with the gold and silver medallions,

I've seen one of them around the temple and

other is in the garden outside.

An Eagle and a Wolf…

Tomorrow, I'll go and try to see what's going on

behind that door...

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Suddenly, the air was pierced by a long, wailing sound, so sharp and clear that the Leaf ninjas winced and clapped their hands over their ears to protect them from rupturing. They were crying out in surprise and fear, instinctively closing their eyes. Abruptly, the wailing sound was silenced, replaced by the soft patter of-

"Rain…?"

Jiraiya opened his eyes… but nothing could prepare him for the sight he saw. The sky has turn black like a moonless night. The entire village has become in an instant became a decaying heap. The buildings all became rotting husk of wood and rusting metal. The trees around them became deadwoods that took on the appearance of bony hands reaching out of the ground. All life had suddenly be drain from the world leaving noting but rotting, decaying husk behind.

"What happen?" Choji ask as he looks around at the change landscape looking scared.

"This is something like out of a nightmare," Sakura said as none of her nightmares ever gotten this scary before.

"Guys look at the villagers," Sasuke said pointing to the village.

"My god what happen to them?" Neji ask as with his eyes he couldn't understand the energy that's coming from them.

What was once the villager's, have become something that only a dark twisted mind would have been able to design. He recoiled from the things before him for they were hideously deformed. They are completely devoid of hair, dirty, and rotten teeth for the ones who still had mouths, the rest have short tentacles growing out of their faces. There seems to be some kind of black mist coming off of their bodies making it hard to clearly see them. The things big bulbous eyes looked up at them and as one hissed turning and scurrying off on all fours right at them.

"Everyone get ready here they come!" Jiraiya shouted as they threw shurikens at the approaching creatures that were once humans. The creatures took the torrent of shurikens without a phase as they took the sharp throwing weapons letting them hit their bodies till their bodies couldn't handle the amount of damage they're taking.

Only two of the creatures reach the top of the hill as they use their fellow creatures as shields as they ran up the hill. They leaped towards at Ino who's the closes to them. She raised the shotgun aim and pulled the trigger, the kick of the gun blast she fell onto her butt as she wasn't prepared for such a powerful recoil from the gun. The shotgun pellets stuck the first creature blowing its head clear off, the other creature was hit on its right arm making its useless. Choji took out the wounded creature with a shuriken in its head between its eyes.

"Amazing," Ino said as she picks herself up not believing the power that this gun has.

"I can see why this kind of weapon is ban back home," Kakashi said as he saw what was left of the monsters head, "Any lord who gets their hands on these can make an army that can handle any of the ninja villages back home."

"There's more coming through the trees," Neji said as he saw more of the monsters running through the tree behind them. But he couldn't make them out as it was too dark to see them even with his eyes.

"Quick to the village," Jiraiya shouted as he saw they're out number as he could make out dark shapes in the tree line all around them.

They ran into the village as the monsters in the forest around them surrounded the entire village making sealing off their escape. Sasuke using his new found fire powers began throwing fireballs at the monsters he could see. The monsters ran from the fires as the light from the fires seem to be hurting them.

"What do we do now?" Sakura shouted as she threw shurikens at the monsters who got too close to them but with all of the darkness around them she couldn't make out what she's trying to hit.

"Sasuke make a ring of fire around us!" Kakashi shouted as he saw the monsters are scared of fire.

"On it," Sasuke shouted as he poured his fire on the ground making a ring of flames around them. He also began setting anything that's made out of wood on fire to give them some more light so they'll be able to see what they're trying to hit.

One of the wooden doors of a nearby house burst open as a giant monster twice as tall as any of them came out of the house. It was a blasphemous creature from hell. The giant troglodyte's face looked like decayed flesh. It has long thick tentacles dangling out of where its mouth should be. The creature was covered in muscles. Its knuckles dragged on the ground as dark mist came off of its body. Sasuke didn't need to be told as he threw fireballs at the monster, knocking back into its home setting the house on fire.

The new found light gave the ninjas the light they needed to see what they're fighting. Besides the tentacle face monsters there were smaller creatures at well. One of the creatures looks like a human torso, with a useless head, two legs that look like they were once arms and a sideways opening mouth where the rib cage used to be. The other creatures were bigger than the first coming up to about their stomach levels, they have skin a pasty, sickly shade of off-white. These beings bore no other features, their heads looking as if someone had shoved lumpy, misshapen white potatoes on their stocky little bodies. They alike the other monsters are holding knives. And all of them have black mist coming off of their bodies that further hides their forms in the dark shadows.

"We need to get out of here," Sakura shouted out as she tries hitting the monsters with her shurikens but with the dark sky, with the black mist coming off of the monsters she and the others couldn't hit them. The only ones they can hit are the ones who got into their sight range as the black mist cloaks the others perfectly with the darkness, "We can't hold them back."

"Tell me about it," Ino said as she fires the shotgun at an incoming torso like monsters. She tried to fire again but found the gun wouldn't fire anymore.

"You got to reload it," Jiraiya shouted to her as he tosses her the shoutgun shells.

"Thanks," Ino said as she reloads it the way Jiraiya showed her before. Just in time to fire a shot at one of the potato head monsters as they started advancing on them.

"Choji get the blue emblem," Kakashi shouted as it's the only thing beside the metal door that's behind him that retained its form.

"Got it," Choji shouts back as he pulls the emblem off the stone pillar, giving it to the other ninja.

Kakashi inserts the emblem into the metal doors slot a sharp click rang through the metal as the lock was release. He opens the door to find a brightly lit room in a solid concert room, the light is coming form the lamps along the walls, "Everyone get inside!"

"I'll give you guys cover!" Sasuke shouts out as he throws fireballs at the monsters. He was the last one to enter the house as Kakashi pulled out the emblem out of its slot, slamming the door shut. Without the emblem in the slot, the door lock itself again as the monsters outside began pounding on the door outside.

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In the home of Naruto –

"Hinata are you sure you want to do this?" Kurenai ask as she helps dress her student.

"I already made the decision long ago," Hinata stated as she was helped into her shorts, "There's no turning back now."

"But can you do this?" Kurenai ask again.

"Naruto still has feelings for me," Hinata said, "He shown that much already. But I need him to be able to trust me. I need to earn his trust if, I'm ever going get him to break open the iron shell that's around his heart."

"Can you do this to your friends?" Kurenai said as she wheels Hinata out of their room.

"They're no longer my friends anymore. I have read the orders given by my father to kill me on sight," Hinata said causing her teacher to flinch, "Yes that's right the orders that you were carrying when you were capture."

"Your father gave us those orders while we were heading off to the recon mission," the older woman explains.

"Yes he wants to keep the family bloodline in his control," Hinata said, "I have to ask Naruto to make sure to kill him, himself when he attacks the village."

"Hinata," Kurenai whispered sadly as she sees her student slowly changing in front of her eyes. But she couldn't blame her student as all she wants now is to make Naruto happy the way the happy mask he wore look while he was still in the village, the way his father wanted him to be before he died.

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Back with the ninjas –

"I hope the door holds," Choji said as he and the others inside can hear the monsters outside pounding the door on the other side.

"There has to be a hidden door somewhere around here," Neji said as he searches the room they're trap in. Besides the lights on the walls, there's three wooden barrels and several boxes shattered around the room.

"Look for any kind of clues," Shikamaru said as he searches around the room, for any kind of clue to help them get out of here alive.

"How about some help with these barrels and boxes?" the male Anbu with the bird mask said as he shoves one of the barrels against the door.

"We're on it," the cat mask female said as the ferret mask woman help with barricading the door.

"Kakashi what are you doing?" Jiraiya ask him as he helps in looking for a hidden door in the room.

"Reading the files in this envelope," the silver hair ninja explains as he opens the seal letter, "Maybe it will tell us what's happening around here." He began reading the papers inside as the other ninjas continue to search around the room.

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The Mortifilia comes in the form of ciphers.

Classification appears difficult. This endemic

plant allows microscopic buds to appear, which do

not appear destined to form a new plant but to

possibly generate other leaves

for closer examination.

The parasites and spider-like appearance explain

its capacity to propagate in an excessive manner.

Hypothesis verified by the presence of an oversized

sucker ensuring proliferation.

Detailed examination of the buds: the bud shows

a stupefying germinative power. Hundreds of lines

at the neck confirm that the species has phenomenal

longevity.

Cutting the xylems: the ducts are completely dry,

no trace of humidity. How are these chlorophyll cells

irrigated?

The black substance released comes from glands

located on the root; it is poisonous to its biological

environment.

The black substance appears as black mist

it can only be seen in darkness.

During a darkness - light - darkness sequence,

variations in dioxygen concentration are observed,

whether DCPIP is present or not. The plant is

particularly sensitive to exposure: it fears the light!

This plant transgresses the rules of phytology.

Molecular analyses show genetic associations

that enable the Mortifilia to be defined as a

non-recombinant isolate at the genetic level;

this means that it does not have a sexual process

for exchanging genetic material, but a parasexual

one. I attempted to experiment during which a

transient diploid node was formed. In this node,

mitotic cross-over was produced at low frequency.

The diploid node then self-haploided through the

loss of chromosomes Using this system, two distinct

species could exchange genetic material.

Conclusion:

It is certain that the Mortifilia possesses abnormal

properties. Not with standing it's incredible

longevity, the plant is particularly receptive to

crossbreeding. Research must be continued and

the genotype of these cells must be examined

in detail.

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"That's why they reacted so violently to fire," Sasuke said realizing why his fireballs are so effected on the monsters and why they had stayed back when the fires started burning as the light was hurting them. But with the rain going on outside the fires weren't that effected as they should have been.

"And this has a horror movie plot written all over it," Neji said as he has watch horror movies and from the report and what he has seen something dark happen here.

"And if, I know horror movies we'll be lucky if even one of us gets out of here alive," Lee said as he shook with fear. As he finds himself living out a real live horror movie that he so loves to watch.

"All of this for an anti-aging serum," Jiraiya spats out disgusted on hearing the report, as he in his long years met many power hungry people who do and did everything for a way to live forever.

"Found something over here," Ino said as she wipes off some dust on something written on one of the walls of the room.

When the moon is full and the trees are bare-

Walk through the Cemetery if you dare.

Where skeletons rot and corpses fester-

Locate to the tomb with the skull of a Jester.

Feed him a golden coin all shiny and new-

It is then that the door will open for YOU!

"Maybe it's a clue like the blue emblem," Sakura said pointing to the item that unlocked the metal door for them.

"I still have the gold coin, I pick up that came out from that floating block," Kakashi said showing them the gold coin from his pocket.

"Good but that's useless till we find the hidden door to the basement," Lee said as he and the others still couldn't find the door to the tunnel.

"Let's just make one," Choji said as he stamps his foot down in a hollow sound part of the floor. Using his family's bloodline jutsu of increasing his body's weight as he stomps his foot down making cracks on the floor he's hitting till he smashes through the floor.

A low growl suddenly came out of the new hole on the floor as Choji backs away from the gapping hole. An arm burst out of the hole making it bigger as the spike cover arm pulls its long thin but massive body out of the hole like a mutant grub. The creature looks like a human who has been bent backwards in a lower case N shape. One side of this creature is the victims bloated arm, the top is the torso, and the other side is the victims fused legs.

"Eat this!" Ino shouted as she fires two shotgun shells point blank at the N shape monster causing the monster to jerk back as the lead pellets torn into its body. It reeled into the air like a horse and slams its bloated arm into the ground causing spikes to shoot up from the floor, one of them hitting the ferret mask woman breaking her leg as it punch through her flesh and bones.

Sasuke end the fight as he stuck the monster with several fireballs causing the creature to burst into flames and shake about in its death throws. Its powerful arm strikes the left wall punching a hole to the outside before it dies. And to the horror of the ninjas inside as the lights of the rooms blew a fuse destroying the only thing that was keeping the monsters outside at bay.

"Get into the hole!" Sasuke shouted as he began throwing fireballs at the monsters as they tried going through the hole. The others jump into the hole, Choji helping the wounded member of the team into the hole.

Sasuke was about to jump into the hole when the metal door was rip open as a giant blade slice through the metal and the wooden barrels press against it. The monster that came through the door made Sasuke's blood run cold as he could feel the darkness coming off of it in waves. It looks somewhat like a tall man covered with a white, blood-soaked robe that resembles a butcher's smock. The monster is cover with hard, rip, body builder muscles, that looks like it could easily rip the young ninjas in two, as easily as a piece of paper. But it was what it was wearing on its head and held that burn into the mind of Sasuke, a helmet is colored black and from what he remembers from his school days is in the shape of a girded tetrahedron. In its hands was the biggest knife he has ever seen, that reminds him of Zabusa, zanbatō sword but it's in the shape of a butcher's knife.

Without thinking Sasuke threw fireballs at the monsters before him not stopping even as the room was incase with smoke from all of the fire he's throwing. The light from the fire force back the monsters out of the building as the light burns them. The young ninja finally stop the onslaught as he couldn't continue firing anymore, his eyes widen as the monster before him step through the smoke without a scratch on him, even after all of the fireballs that were thrown at it. The monster didn't spoke a word as it took a swing at Sasuke with its giant knife. The young ninja screams could be heard for miles around.

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Also, I'm reposting this reminder to all Naruto writers and fans!

I have been thinking about something that's been on my mind for awhile now. Those who read 'A Fistful Of Omake' by metroanime. Those who don't know it's a bunch of omake's about how different Ranma would be if he was raised by different people. So I have a challenge to all Naruto writers and readers. I call for the 'What if Naruto was raised by …?' challenge! Those who want to write just think of someone raising Naruto besides him being left alone all of his life and how it would change him from the Naruto we know to an all new one. Like what if Goku raise Naruto or if he was raise by the X-men. There are all kinds of stories that can be created so those who I have sparked an idea go and write it! Because mainly, I'm getting tried of some many Yaoi fics being posted. I mean some of them are good but there are too many with him getting together with Sasuke!

How many times am I going to have to rant about this for someone to take this perfectly good story idea?

Author's Notes

1 – Double-Barrel Shotgun can't be in a horror movie without a shotgun.

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