Chapter 2 – Enter the Evil

-Underground Facility; X-virus testing area-

Annette had gotten a call from her husband that he and Wesker were heading out to handle the containment failure at Arklay, as well as finalize the T-virus work. She was to begin combat data tests on the X-virus with Stahl, or as some of the researcher that permanently staffed in that section of the facility came to call him, 'the Deacon' due to his pointed head. As a scientists she hated it when people broke protocol to name the B.O.W.'s, then again, she had heard from William that Spencer had a fetish for puzzles so it was par for the course for Umbrella. Spencer himself had okayed the name so their was little she could do to change it now.

Now William had given her a list of the B.O.W.'s that they'd be testing against Stahl –

*MA-39 Cerberus Pack

*Plague Crawler

*Web Spinner

*Eliminator

*Lurker

*Chimera

*Licker

*MA-121 Hunter Alpha

*T-002 Tyrant

They would be tested in ascending order from weakest to deadliest, a Cerberus Pack to the Tyrant. This would allow them to get a better understanding of X's combat effectiveness and raw strength, and refine the virus further with genetic modification firer down the line, much like what they had done with T, and created the Tyrant series.

William had informed her with excitement that they finally located the source of the blood they found, which had become the key component in creating the X-virus. He went on to say that he and Wesker would be baiting him somehow to the Spencer Mansion to test his combat efficiency against the T-virus outbreak and gain more insight to their work.

Internally, she could not suppress a shiver of delight at the thought of seeing this unknown in action. The things they had found within his cells, the potential could revolutionize virology, nay, the very world if this anomaly, this alien could be found. If she actually knew his heritage would she just laugh at her words...

While this would be good news, she couldn't help but be worried for her husband returning alive. If their projections were anywhere close to the potential of the virus, then this man could be deadlier than anything in the mansion, and the T-virus would be just another benchmark to mark X's progress, though the Tyrant they had in cryo could at the very least put up a fight.

There was one thing that worried her about Stahl's, no… the Deacons adaptability. Throughout his confinement, they have been forced to increase the dosage of ethanol, and the voltage strength of the walls to keep him contained every time they needed to run invasive tests. And recently they had to install freezing nitrogen spray into the containment unit to increase the security in case the current level was enough to bring him down again.

"Alright; X-virus preliminary combat data tests will begin against T-virus and its subsidiary B.O.W.'s. Subject: Deacon will first be tested against Cerberus Pack. Commencing… now."

Now for the blood bath to commence.

-Naruto-

The former shinobi yawned as he made his way home after closing up the shop for the night. With the recent spate of strange murders going on, he'd been selling firearms and ammo to quite a few of the paranoid people around town, hell, he even had to turn away three 16-year-old's away with fake ID's and after hitting the closing hours, he made sure to fill out a requisitions form for more stock to be shipped to the store, as he highly doubted that the murders were going to end anytime soon even with S.T.A.R.S. on the case. Call him superstitious, but he had a gut feeling that something big was coming, just no telling what.

He had gotten a letter from Ada in the mail this morning saying that she should be back in Raccoon sometime in September, as her 'family' was over in China and there was some old dispute between hers and another family concerning land. An old trick that worked pretty well since he read up on Chinese laws and customs, and they weren't all that different from his own, much like the other Asian cultures in this world. This may be a different world, but when it came down to greed and power, it was the same more or less.

After entering the apartment building he passed by the mail boxes for the complex, but he was brought to a stop when he saw an envelope stuck inside his box. He raised a brow at that, since he already got his mail today. Taking the enveloped out and seeing that it was just plain white, lacking a stamp or return address, and only having 'Mr. Uzumaki' written in black pen ink on it. A door opened with an older woman, the land lord, Mrs. Burkowicz taking out her garbage for tomorrow.

"Oh, Whiskers. Long day?" She was kind woman that was widowed a few years ago, and had given Naruto an apartment a few months after his arrival. Though the catch was that he needed to find a job within the week and she introduced him to the Kendo brothers, thus kickstarting his job in this worlds weapons and guns.

"Yeah, something like that. Business was good for the day what with all those murders going on, and people just trying to be safe." He replied to mature woman.

"I just hope that they catch the damn bastards behind it all." Mrs. Burkowicz also had a tendency to swear every so often, despite her age.

"Same here." He looked at the envelope again. "Say, you wouldn't have happened to have seen anyone walk in her during the day and put this in my box, did you?" The lack of a stamp would indicate that it was delivered by hand, and he could count the number of people who knew where he lived, ironically on one hand.

The land lord seemed confused and shook her head, "No. I don't know how that got in there." She scratched the back of her ear, "It must have been someone pretty light handed, your mailbox squeaks when the mailman delivers, I didn't hear a thing."

Naruto nodded, "Well thank you either way. Have nice night, Mrs. Burkowicz." Naruto walked to the stars to his apartment, while the woman grabbed his attention, "Oh, by the way, who was the woman you brought back here a few months ago?"

Naruto turned back to face the land lord, "Her name was Ada… why? Don't tell me you're in on the Kendo brothers scheme to get me a girlfriend." He raised an incredulous brow at her question. Though her response was to just wave it off, and pretend like it was nothing. "Me? No, not at all. While it's nice to see that you're finally living life, just don't do it too loud like last time." She finished with a teasing smirk.

Naruto blushed up at that, since he didn't really recall much after taking their game back to his place. Just waking up immensely satisfied the following morning, "R-right. Yeah, uh… I'll see you later then ma'am." He went back up to his apartment and stepped inside with the intent to open up his new mail.

His apartment had been kept neat and tidy, unlike his old one, where trash, old food containers, and outdated milk was kept around. The stench had been awesome in all the wrong ways. Instead it was clean, kept orderly, and unlike his old apartment, he didn't keep any of his photos out. It was due in part to just to try keep a low profile, but mostly to ensure that he wasn't constantly reminded that he would likely never see his old home again.

Opening the envelope, he saw that inside there were pictures of Jill and Chris along with their S.T.A.R.S. coworkers. He took note that Barry was showing off his Samurai Edge to the youngest member of their group, Rebecca if memory served him correctly. The quality was like those of surveillance photos, taken from a reasonable distance without them noticing. The timestamp indicated that they had been taken a few days prior and he already had a bad feeling, "What the hell…?" Silent shock evident in his voice.

Then he pulled a neatly pressed letter out from behind the photos, unfolding it, he read the neatly slanted handwriting that he swore he recognized, along with a photo of a pretty large mansion and its location on a map with the connected buildings. It looked like something out of that one horror movie that Jill told him just had to see.

"Mr. Uzumaki,

If you don't want them to die, come to this place. I would hurry if I were you, time is of the essence starting tonight."

-A Curious Watcher

"Shit…." He closed his eyes in frustration, he had covered his tracks well enough for so long... half a decade in fact. He spent what seemed like hours thinking as to who would've found out. He had considered Ada, but shot her down as he didn't want to believe it as from what little he gleamed from her that night, she wasn't a bad person and that she wouldn't fork him over to whomever she was working for so easily. Moreover, he couldn't bring himself to believe to think that the one that he had given himself to would betray his trust. He recognized the handwriting but he just couldn't place it. It wasn't much, but it was a start.

Then he began thinking further back to when he came here. He recalled people trying to track him down, men and women in hazmat suits and remembered the symbol of whom it was: Umbrella. But what the hell would a pharmaceutical company want with him?

"…dammit, I should've covered my tracks better. Five long years of peace down the fucking drain. Now I've got to deal with this mess." He looked back at the photos and one was of a time when he was at the bar with Jill and Chris. The two special forces cops had gotten off duty and dropped by for a drink and they had just chatted for a while with the basketball game on, just being friends with one another. Whatever Umbrella had planned for him, he had unintentionally dragged Jill and Chris into it, and now friends of his were now paying for it.

He sat on his head in deep thought as he now needed to figure out some sort of plan to rescue them, and stick it to Umbrella, somehow… someway… The old Naruto Uzumaki would've tried to find a better way to resolve this; trying to talk his way out of it. But now? After spending years here, and learning how this world worked? You might as well call the coroner, because you're already dead to him.

-William Birkin-

"This is a goddamn mess…" Indeed, it was. Not long after the S.T.A.R.S. Bravo Team had been dispatched and their chopper brought down thanks to Wesker's sabotage, their entire team was wiped over with the exception of Marini and Chambers. Both of whom had already gleamed some sensitive information of Umbrella's old management training facility that his former teacher, Dr. Marcus had established before he and Wesker betrayed the man. He could just imagine that blonde bitch Alexia laughing at him, 'Laugh while you can you little ant. Your work will be meaningless compared to what X will do to you.' he thought to himself before focusing back on the situation at hand.

Now they had discovered the source of the viral outbreak and it was none other than their teacher himself, back from the grave to haunt them in the form of his work on the Queen Leech. Wesker believed that Umbrella, at least Umbrella USA was now finished thanks to this outbreak and despite the man's flair for the dramatic, he had to agree with him, but he couldn't leave his work behind. Not when he had sacrificed so much to gain so much within Umbrella.

Shortly after Wesker left to bring in the S.T.A.R.S. Alpha Team, he began the self-destruct protocol at the facility to kill Marcus and cover up the conspiracy that began in '88 in one fell swoop. Chambers and the then identified convict Billy Coen had escaped from the facility before it was destroyed and left quite a problem, but one that would hopefully resolve itself. He had to commend their tenacity, they were like roaches. Difficult to kill no matter what you did to it.

While they wouldn't need to worry about Coen, a convicted felon, going to the authorities after all, was given the death sentence after Umbrella managed to use his squad to cover up a mistake of theirs. So, no one would believe him, even if he spoke out, it was Chambers and Marini. They had escaped the destruction, but Chambers saw much of the facility and Marini had come across some intel that Wesker was Umbrella's mole in S.T.A.R.S.

Given that both had contact with neither of the two, or was able to radio back to Alpha Team, Birkin thought he could get them both killed with the release of some Hunters if it came down to it that Wesker or the infected was unable to kill them.

All the while he had been cleaning up this mess and focusing on another, he still had needed to finish up his work on G and X. With G, there was the high mortality rate that the virus would take over and the host would be nothing more than a slave to the instinct to reproduce. God help the poor soul who came into contact with it. His wife had run her own projections that the virus would end up in failure regardless of what happened, but he refused to believe it. Marcus was able to retain some semblance of coherent thought while infected with the T-virus, then surely his superior G-virus could show up the old fossil. If he was able to keep this covered up, then he could continue work on perfecting G, and make it beneficial.

And with X, his hopes were higher for that project, despite the little funding he had for it. Despite running a multi-billion dollar company with support from governments around the world, Spencer could be rather tight at times. The potential was there to do what he believed and now he was looking through the street cameras at the man who was the source of the blood that lead to him and his wife creating the X-virus. He had a sword strapped across his back along with a duffel bag loaded with something, he couldn't tell, as he walked out the door of his apartment building. No doubt this was Wesker's doing to draw him to the mansion.

"All that power, wrapped up in human form, so alien..." And Spencer was content to let silly little girls play with ants while he found a diamond in the rough.

He messaged Annette over at the containment lab where she was running some combat data tests on the Deacon, and he was ecstatic to hear how well it was preforming against the T-based B.O.W.'s. So far it had torn apart anything that came its way, and the T-virus subjects seemed to regard his existence with indifference, no doubt due in part of what used to be part of the T-virus strains in his body. "Say what you will against sloppy second, but when it comes down to virology we take what we can get."

As he killed the subjects, the Deacon seemed to become smarter when dealing with a different type of opponent. With the Cerberus dogs, he allowed them to get close to sniff him scent, and then with his inner jaw, he tore off the head of the first dog, and then proceeded to tear the others that fled from him with his claws.

The other B.O.W.'s fared little better, however when a Hunter was pitted against him, he acted differently.

When the Hunter was introduced to the room, it and the Deacon stared one another down and began to circle one other similar to how predators would do in the wild. The Hunter on all fours like a true animal, while the Deacon used his legs to walk, hissing at one another until the Hunter launched itself at the Deacon.

The Deacon merely sidestepped out of the way as the Hunter made contact with wall and was subsequently shocked with several thousand volts of electricity coursing through its body, but it didn't stop there. The Deacon rushed over to the Hunter and proceeded to grab it by the back of its head and slam the Hunter continuously against the shocking wall until it was nothing more than a bloody mess. Muscles still twitching grotesquely as the current ran through its corpse.

This told him and Annette that the Deacon was growing more intelligent… and becoming far more dangerous… Annette decided to postpone the Tyrant test until she could gather more UBCS security for the remainder of the combat data tests. Given that there was no telling if it saw this as a chance to escape.

Not long after Wesker left him to clean up the Management Facility, Colonel Sergei and one of his more advanced Tyrants dubbed 'Ivan' had arrived to see the finalization of the reopening of the facility. However even with Marcus' outburst and Wesker's continued plan to test the T-virus as well as contain the threat at the Spencer Mansion, Sergei wasn't pleased of what happened. Either way after a failed attempt to kill Wesker for their failure, they went to the Spencer facility to retrieve Sergei's pet project T.A.L.O.S. and left the area to who the hell knew where with that Russkie bastard. Then again, he seemed to be the only person who seemed to have Spencer's ear these days.

He made his way back to the Research lab where Annette was still waiting on more security on the testing site, and so he could continue observing the S.T.A.R.S. teams.

So far, Wesker was able to split them up and get them to begin containing the B.O.W.'s and combat data was showing good results. Ah, but nothing short of amazing could be said on their new subject who just arrived far quicker than the Alpha Team chopper did, "Astounding… his speed is beyond what we could have hoped for. Now, why don't you show us what all you have to offer us." The surveillance system that was running through the facility and the mansion, also extended to the dormitories, and the surrounding area for security purposes, but now he could use it to observe the young man that he absolutely needed for their research. "All your secrets will be mine, G and X will reshape the world, the God and the Xeno..."

-Naruto-

Taking a look at the map and address of where he was supposed to go, it didn't take him very long to find the place. His speed may be crippled by Shinobi standards, but he was still faster than most living beings on the planet. To say that the atmosphere was creepy as hell was an understatement. He kept his magnum out now that he arrived and the special duffel bag he brought with him carried everything he would need, while his mother's sword was strapped to his back along with the duffel over his shoulder, he'd be ready for whatever came his way.

He looked around the darkened area where trees were in deep senescence when they should not be, and the air had the stench of death. Something was lurking around him on the edge of his senses, although he could just hoot whatever would come his way, he opted to go a more silent and graceful approach; he holstered the magnum while he unsheathed his sword and had it positioned to swing at anything at a moment's notice.

He began moving deeper into the forest before he came across a downed chopper, but upon looking into it there was no one inside, but he heard shuffling behind him closing in fast. He spun around to see dogs coming after him in a rabid frenzy, however he noticed that they appeared very differently from what they usually did. They looked as if they had died recently, put in the ground, dug up a week later and then some of that reanimation crap was used on them, their joints moving out of tempo, as if fighting off rigor mortis. And judging from the looks they were giving him, they had already tasted blood, and he sure as hell wasn't going to end up like their last meal.

The one leading the charge leapt right up at him growling with it's frothing maw, however he quickly sidestepped as he noticed the speed of the dog was far greater than what a normal one was, and sliced it in half. However, the others were not intimidated by the death of the alpha, and tried to go at his limbs, "Oh, hell no."

Not wanting to deal with them one by one and waste time he may not have, he coated the sword in a bit of wind chakra as he prepared to slice them to ribbons.

'Wind Style: Art of the Gust Blade'

The meager Jutsu was enough to slice the dogs up and eliminate the threat, it was one of the few Jutsu he could still use, coming to this world had screwed with his chakra stores pretty bad, he still had about the same amount of chakra that Kakashi had when they were genin, but it was a drop in the ocean compared with what he had in the fight against Toneri. He went to sheath his sword when he noticed something disturbing. Despite having killed them he noticed that the head of one of the dogs was still relatively intact, and… it was still trying to move despite all rights that it should be dead.

"What the hell are you?" The only thing that came to mind was the Edo Tensei, but this world didn't have ninjutsu at all, but it was similar to that one Jutsu that those graverobbers led by Kazuma used to basically drown them in undead, deteriorating corpses that would pop up from the ground. He stabbed the undead dog in the head effectively ending the dog's attempt to bite him.

He looked around to see if anyone was watching him as he got that strange feeling that he was being watched. Having dealt with spying enemy ninja, and Hinata stalking him on some occasions, he knew what it felt like to have a pair of eyes stare at the back of his head. He did notice that a bird that was sitting all to still for his liking simply staring at him, and after squinting his eyes to focus a little better, internally lamenting that even with his diminished chakra, he still lacked the control to focus chakra on the eyes, he noticed a tinge of red in its eyes, "Son of a bitch…" He pulled his magnum out and shot the hidden camera ending whatever perversion was on the other end.

Naruto now knew that he was being watched and examined like a damn lab rat, and that no doubt Jill and Chris were being held hostage unless he did whatever it is that Umbrella wanted from him. Well he came prepared to stick it to the bastards with some well-placed explosives and other various flammable items in his duffel bag. Give a prankster five minutes and a fire cracker, he'll ruin your day. You give him five years and some C4? You're in for quite possibly the worst day of your life.

He made the duffel bag specially for sealing objects one of the few things in his arsenal that didn't require a lot of Chakra, into it and making a crap ton of room for weapons, ammo, grenades, etc. Naruto pulled out a silencer and attached it to the barrel of the gun to keep things quiet as he didn't want to draw any more attention to himself than he needed. Now he made his way further into the forest until he spotted a bloody corpse, or what was left of it… fearing that it was one of his friends he rushed over to see that there wasn't much of anything left to recognize of the person that was killed. Looking at the wounds and missing pieces, it was obvious that the rotting dogs had killed the poor soul; Naruto picked up the combat vest that was still relatively intact and saw the name 'Joseph Frost' on the ID.

"Thank you, Kami." Slipping into his native tongue. He was glad it wasn't either of the two he needed to find. Looking around he saw that some tracks led deeper into the forest and towards some lights within the darkness. He ran to the source and came to the front doors of a pretty large mansion, internally realizing that it was the same one from the photo he was sent. In front of the concrete walk way that led to it were several pairs of muddy boot tracks with the S.T.A.R.S. logo smeared on it. He recognized that three of them were male going by the size, while the other was female. The only woman he knew in S.T.A.R.S. was Jill, although he didn't know Rebecca that well, but he remembered Chris mentioning she was on a different team, so he could safely mark her off the dead list.

Hopefully she'd be inside along with the others. As he opened the doors and shut them to keep anything from coming inside in case he missed any, he noticed that the foyer was much bigger than he thought, "Crap… no telling how long it'll take me to search this place room by room." So, he opted to use Senjutsu to locate them.

When he first tried to use Senjutsu after coming here, he found that while he could use it, the energy felt… off from his own world's, no doubt due to all of the industrial crap that was polluting the planet. On one hand, it took a little longer to gather it up, due to having less chakra he could balance the nature energy within him faster, on the other he could locate people faster because of this.

Sitting in the cross-legged position, he closed his eyes in concentration as the natural energy came flowing into him. It felt disgusting at first, but he was luckily able to filter out the bad parts thanks to his training and he found that there were still at least six living people in the mansion and close by on the grounds, but there were many more of the 'half-life' signatures all around them.

They seemed to 'smell' like leeches.

No doubt they were like the dogs from outside. He saw the two a little some ways from him while a third was coming up on them, two were currently together on the other side of the mansion, another was currently wandering underground. The first three were safe for now, but the third closing in on them radiated negativity, while the others were finishing up the other half-lifes.

He concentrated harder on the life signatures and found that among them were Jill and Chris. He breathed sigh of relief that they were still alive, no doubt due to their special forces training. Jill was no doubt about to be attacked, while Chris and the others were killing the half-lifes, so he decided to head straight for her first. "Good job bolder shoulders, keep yourself safe, I'm coming" he said, referring to an old joke he had once made to Chris about his gargantuan shoulder muscles.

-Jill-

Ever since they had gotten in this place, a nightmare had been the only word to describe the whole investigation. Richard had been eaten by a giant fucking snake that she almost managed to kill, but the slippery thing got away before she could blow its head off, Chris and Rebecca were off searching for answers while Barry and Wesker were popping up in every other room killing these monsters.

She thought she was going to puke up her guts when she was forced to stomp in that one zombie's head and the smell immediately got to her nose, and it was the single, most disgusting thing she had whiffed in her life.

Wesker mentioned to her that Barry had been acting strangely since coming here, although he did brush it off as natural considering what was happening and to try and not worry too much.

Well, she followed his advice to keep cool about the situation, and found herself dealing with rotting sharks trying to eat her, followed by weird lizard men trying to slash her in half and then finally giant spiders and having to gun them down before they could do anything. If she made it out of here alive, then she was taking one day just for her own damn self, and her sanity. She hoped Naruto had a big bar tab, because she was gonna abuse it to the max when she got out of here.

She had been walking the dimly lit cave system below the mansion, and the silence was deafening. Almost unsettling compared with the moans of the undead that had accompanied most of the time since she got here, she thummed the safety off the assault shotgun Richard had thrown to her before the snake ate him and had it at the ready.

Jill heard something moving up ahead, raising the shotgun, she was prepared to fire off a shell at whatever it was as she rounded the corner, until she heard a familiar voice and saw the man's face, "Is that you, Jill?"

"Enrico?" the Bravo Team leader had been MIA along with the rest of them since their chopper went down and they hadn't heard anything from them in 24 hours, hence why Alpha was sent in to find them. She rushed over to the man as she put the Shotgun down and talked to the man. On the outside he didn't look too roughed up, but he certainly sounded worse for wear, and the look in his eyes told her that he had seen something that he shouldn't have, the thousand yard stare, Rebecca had called it when going over symptoms of shock, "Thank God, you're still alive…"

She was getting closer to him as she needed to check if he had any wounds or injuries that he neglected to treat, knowing that the man wasn't afraid of anything. But he shot his hand up, "Stop!" He then quickly glanced behind her, almost afraid something was going to jump out of her shadow "Are you with anyone?"

Jill looked confused at the question, "No… but, why…?" Something was off with the man. Maybe it was just the previous night that she had a feeling that turned out a lot like this one, but Enrico wasn't one to let things get to him. She bent down to his level to see him.

That's when she noticed that he was bleeding on his right side, with gauze already held onto it, and judging from the way it was bleeding horizontally, he had been shot at.

That wasn't a wound he would get from one of the monsters here. Specifically it was the entry and exit wound of a 19mm round, Naruto had shown her some pictures of the Samurai Edge's being tested on Ballistics gel while they were still being made.

"The S.T.A.R.S. division was set up, all from the beginning. We were finished the moment we were sent out here."

Her eyes widened in shock. That's when it hit her, 19mm was a very specific round, the Kendo brothers had bragged about S.T.A.R.S. being the only police unit in the US to use it, "Wait, then…"

"Someone's a traitor…" He adjusted his position to speak better, as he wasn't looking to well, "…and Umbrella? Our sponsor? They set us up, and they—!" He was shot mid-sentence right in the head, splattering the wall with his blood, bone and grey matter, some of it getting on Jill's face shocked her. She picked the shotgun up and turned the safety off as she pivoted around to see the shooter who more than likely had a suppressed weapon.

Seeing nothing behind her she looked back to Enrico's corpse and closed her eyes in respect for her fallen comrade. "Goddamit…" Wiping a tear away, this was practically the second time she almost cried tonight. She noticed that he was leaning back on a crank that probably went to something in this confusing place no doubt. Who the fuck builds a mansion made of puzzles, she swore she would put her fist through the owner's back one day. Strapping the crank on her thigh, she needed to keep going however she heard someone coming up in her from around the corner.

Thinking it was the same person who killed Enrico, she pumped the shotgun as quietly as she could without giving away her position, and went up against the wall. Creeping over to the corner she readied her weapon and was about to blast away whoever they were until she gazed upon someone who she never thought would be here.

-Naruto-

Having to go outside the mansion, travelling down a pathway that had seen better days, hearing something call for their mom, going through dormitories and finally down a darkened tunnel with dim light, accompanied by the shitty smell of rotting corpses along the way was not what he thought would be high on his to-do list, and worst of all was having to deal with three of those lizard-men.

When they came crashing through the window in a hallway he had to go through to get to Jill, they immediately jumped right in front of him. Not expecting the shinobi to whip the sword out and draw blood from their throats, Naruto made a horizontal slash to try and just get through them quickly, however it seemed that he didn't cut deep enough. The bipedal animals were stunned by his attack, however they attempted to renew their assault, so the one on the right rushed at him while the other two stayed back. Knowing that odds are that he was being watched, he decided against anymore Jutsu after the dogs outside, so he'd need to rely on the magnum and his own skills.

He moved to backpedal and dropped down to his haunches as he brought his leg up to kick the creature and turn its momentum against it, forcing it to slam hard into and go straight through the wall, putting it into a slight daze that gave him some breathing room. However, it was short lived.

The other two creatures leapt at him, with an animalistic speed that would kill most men, but he not most men. Pulling out the Lightning Hawk, he squeezed the trigger down twice, putting two .357 rounds into their heads, however he made sure to put in an added bonus, just to be safe.

During his time here, when he would train himself, he'd also train with multiple different types of firearms as well as getting familiar with ammo types. Armor piercing rounds were certainly a force to be reckoned with along with the heavier rounds that magnums and heavy rifles used. However, he wasn't fully satisfied with the fact that they could be overcome by certain means, so he decided to test out a theory of his.

Asuma-sensei had helped him with developing his Wind change in nature, and applying them to ninja tools and weaponry made them far more dangerous, and Lightning was meant for piercing so on Armor piercing rounds they could make them do their job even better. So, he decided to try and apply Wind style to his rounds while he held the weapon. It took a couple of months to get it down to just the ammo itself, and to ensure that his chakra would still be imbued within the ammo for sufficiently long periods of time.

And holy shit did it all pay off…

When the rounds hit the creatures, their heads ballooning comically as their brain matter exploded into a crimson mist that painted the walls, and the rounds maintaining their momentum, penetrated still went through their heads, and much more as shown by the large, fist-sized holes in the wall. Their corpses were just missing their heads and decent portion of their bodily flesh. Meanwhile the creature he kicked began to regain its composure and launched another straight forward attack at him.

"Those things couldn't come up with an actual plan if their lives depended on it."

When it came at him, he pirouetted with his sword unsheathed and simply threw it at the head of the creature. The sound of the sword slicing deep into the flesh and skull, reverberated through the room as the lizard-man's corpse was thrown back by the momentum of his strength behind the throw. A satisfying thud was heard shortly after.

Dealing with them wouldn't be a problem in the future.

He pulled his sword from the reptile's thick skull and continued onwards to Jill's location. His Senjutsu had worn off by the time he arrived in the cave system; another side effect of this world's decaying natural energy and combined with his weakened state was that it burned faster.

As he felt the energy leave his body, he also felt one of the lives he sensed go out as another moved away quickly. Someone had been killed next to Jill, and odds were, she was next. Picking up his speed he got closer to her location and stepping over more corpses no doubt due to her handiwork, he opened a door and rushed to her, only to find the barrel of a shotgun now pressed against the side of his head. The gunsmith in him admired the smooth bore on the weapon before speaking.

"Naruto…? What the hell are you doing here?" Jill's voice was filled with confusion and suspicion, and little bit of concern if he could detect it correctly. He turned his head just enough to see her expression: surprised and concerned alright, although the shotgun was still pointed at his head.

"Jill, any chance you can point the shotgun away from my head?"

"I just lost one of my friends from S.T.A.R.S., and he took a shot straight to the head, and you're the only person who just happened to be close by. Not to mention Enrico back there has a wound from one of your guns." Jill would admit that she was very suspicious of Naruto being here of all places. And while she had only known him for almost a year, she still didn't know him all that well. Primarily when he was asked about his life before coming to Raccoon as he usually danced around the truth, but he did mention some things here and there, but ended up redirecting things back to her and Chris.

"Jill, I'm not your enemy here."

"How do I know that?"

Naruto closed his eyes and sighed, he really should've expected something like this judging from her expression. No doubt she was on tired and on edge, just running off of adrenaline and energy boosters to keep her going through the night. "Check my back-left pocket. I'm not your enemy here, Jill. I promise you."

Jill looked into his eyes as he spoke with conviction in his words. Despite what the current situation was, she was willing to give him the benefit of the doubt, as they had known each other for so long and never once did he give and Chris a bad vibe of any sort. Keeping the shotgun trained on his head, she quickly searched his pocket like he told her to, and found a folded-up letter and the contents inside? A vague warning message to Naruto of their current predicament, along with phots of them in the bar several times together.

Umbrella blackmailed him somehow to come here… "…but…what the hell does Umbrella want with you? Why would they tell you to come here and rescue us? This doesn't make any sense…" Now she confused more than ever as she lowered the shotgun. Naruto knew one day that his past was going to come out, but it might as well be to her, "I'll tell you once we get out of here. It's a really long story and honestly… I'm not sure if you'd even believe me."

Jill took a long breath in and closed her eyes as everything she and the others had been doing this whole time. Shaking her head, she accepted that Naruto probably wouldn't say anything until they got out of here.

"Ok… ok then, but we still need to find the others and find out what's been happening here. Captain Wesker and Barry are on their own, though I think Rebecca from Bravo Team is still with Chris; they went to the library to try and look for any useful info on this place."

"Before that, do you recognize the handwriting? I could swear I've seen it before." Naruto said, causing Jill to give the paper a once over again. Furrowing her eyebrows, she did recognize it but just couldn't place it. She shrugged it up before summarizing the situation back to the blonde.

The ninja nodded, "Alright then." He pulled the Lightning Hawk out and readied the weapon for future use, "Let's see what the hell's going on here."

"Hell…a pretty good name for this place." She showed Naruto the crank, "I noticed back the way I came in, and I'm sure you did if you followed my way; there was a slot meant for a crank over by a chasm. I think this'll help us keep going. And hopefully we'll run into the others if they've managed to find their way down here."

"Sounds like the only plan we've got right now."

With that Naruto and Jill continued to venture into the caverns, but not before a single lizard-man rushed around the corner and tried to pounce on him from behind, prompting Jill to try and move him out of the way, but Naruto felt the killing intent from the creature. "Naruto! Get out of—" He spun around to deliver a roundhouse to the creature's face creating a small shockwave coming from the point of impact, as he went smashing into the wall with some rubble being stirred up, as Naruto pulled the sword out and cut the damn thing's head in half and ending the threat it posed, but another rushed into the cavern as it heard the commotion going on, but Naruto aimed his magnum at the Hunter and pulled the trigger twice as two powerful shots imbued with Wind Chakra were delivered to its head and chest to put it down for the count. The creatures body was reduced to just the arms, legs and some remaining parts of the torso, but overall it was just a pile of mush with limbs now.

Jill was utterly stunned at the display of speed, skill and strength that Naruto just employed against the monsters. It took her at the least 4-5 shells to kill one of the damn things, and yet he killed two of them and he didn't seem weathered at all by taking out three, "H-Holy shit…"

Naruto just glanced at her, "Like I said, it's a long story. So…" He sheathed his sword once more and now held the magnum with both hands like a trained professional, "…let's keep going, and find the bastard responsible for killing your comrade." He made his way back over to the chasm that Jill mentioned to him while she just nodded her head.

'Just who the hell are you really, Naruto?'

-Wesker-

"Impressive. You really are more than what you appear to be, young man." Wesker had his shades off for special occasions, mostly when he fought in life-or-death fights, or if something truly astounded him. And this was one such occasion of the latter. After killing Enrico before he could say anything to Jill after he discovered evidence that he was Umbrella's mole in S.T.A.R.S., he made a quick getaway with one of the hidden passageways that Spencer told him about within the Arklay facilities and returned to the central lab to continue monitoring the situation and gather combat data. For once he was thankful for the old man's obsession for puzzles as it helped him maintain secrecy, while he prepared all of the data for portable storage since Marcus' outburst told him that the company was finished in all due to this, but he had other plans…

He watched all of the footage concerning Naruto, and he was astounded by what he was capable of: some type of wind manipulation if what he observed outside the mansion was of any indication, enhanced senses beyond what anyone could have, superior strength and speed which was more than enough to down a Hunter Alpha and God knows what else he's holding back going by his body language. "Using those photos was good enough bait to lure you here for combat testing, and you haven't disappointed one bit. Although…" He turned to look at the T-002 that was inside the containment tube, all hooked up to wires and tubes feeding it the nutrients it required and the orders it would be programmed with for viable usage as a B.O.W. Even he would be hesitant to fight such a beast, maybe that meant that X-Source was super- 'No.' he quashed that thought instantly, he was Albert Wesker, the one and only, and there was no one better than him.

He had to admire the beauty of what the Tyrant represented, as humanity's future, and the future he would bring about the world, his world. Now that he thought about it, he could add in some additional programming other than to kill the remaining S.T.A.R.S. members to keep things working in his favor. He didn't want the Goddess of vengeance stealing all the fun.

Bringing up the Tyrant's programming module, he looked over the contents of what had been installed to its brain:

1) Eliminate all S.T.A.R.S. officers

2) Eliminate all B.O.W.'s within the immediate area of the area

3) Shutdown all functions for Umbrella personnel to retrieve all possible material for research

Now he decided to implement a new order before its shutdown: Attack subject designated as X-Source also known as Naruto Uzumaki-Namikaze, but do not eliminate if at all possible.

"That should satisfy Birkin for a long time." Speaking of Birkin that insufferable speck, he had made his way back to the underground facility after destroying the training complex with Marcus in it, and wiping away half the problem. Although it was just a temporary solution for what would come eventually no doubt.

He was with Annette overseeing the final combat data testing with the Deacon, and he received a page from William on something and checked the computer with his private server setup to receive the data and he was not disappointed at all by the results.

Smirking at the news, he looked over to the container that Birkin gave to him before they arrived in the mountains and decided that now was the best time to inject the Prototype virus into his system for when the Tyrant took his life. Opening it up, he looked at the syringe, specifically as the red liquid inside and wondered just how far this virus would take him. He jabbed it into his arm as he felt the contents slowly be injected into him, and he tossed the syringe away, but as he waited he felt nothing.

"Hmm, unsurprising. But not unfortunate. Either way…" He glanced at the Tyrant one more time, "…better to be prepared for the eventuality." He walked to the back of the lab hat held the viral containers in cold storage, and punched up the security codes to open the door. After getting the green light indicating that the codes were good, he reached inside to take the single vial filled with black liquid that radiated power and potential. "You certainly will make all of Spencer's work look like child's play." He looked at the screen of the Deacon's holding cell where it had tapped into the camera feed where the Deacon had astonishingly grown to a height of 8ft. tall to prove its dominance over the bloody and boney puddle that was the T-002 sent to test it.

Pocketing the vial into a hardcase on his body, he looked back to the cameras as once again, Naruto continued to impress him by his own natural abilities.

-Underground Facility; X-virus testing sector; Office of Annette Birkin-

"I am telling you right now William, the Deacon is evolving. It's becoming more intelligent every time it encounters something, and I don't need to tell you that we may end up creating a walking catastrophe in that cell." After procuring more UBCS personnel for security, she was ready to conclude the Deacon's combat data against the T-virus, and the result was fascinating, and frightening all at the same time. When the Tyrant was brought into the pit, the Deacon stopped with eating the remains of the Hunter, and began to look at the Tyrant with interest.

No doubt to the introduction of a new enemy.

The Tyrant looked at the Deacon before charging into a fight with a super-human speed that many humans would be unable to keep up, and tried to take off the Deacon's head with a devastating right hook. But it seemed to anticipate the Tyrant's movement and duck under its massive claw while maneuvering behind the larger specimen and was going to attack, however something miraculous and yet frightening happened.

The Deacon's body began to shake, and soon after, it grew in size and muscle mass to that of the Tyrant itself. The Tyrant turned to face the now larger and deadlier Deacon. The T-virus subject was about to swing at the X-virus subject, however the Deacon reached out and caught the Tyrant's arm and was stopped dead in its attack, with the Deacon now grasping its opponent by the neck who was now struggling to break free from the unnaturally strong grip, but it was all for naught.

The Deacon raised the Tyrant up into the air and its inner jaw shot out with superior speed and grasped at the Tyrants heart to rip it out from the body, effectively ending the Tyrant for good. But it didn't stop there.

No.

It moved its other clawed hand to the other Tyrant's own arm, beginning to stretch it out, then the Deacon bit down on the neck, bifurcating the man-made mountain of muscle as it tore the thing to shreds.

Annette stopped the test and had the room put on level Omega, as several UBCS soldiers readied their weapons in case he tried to escape, but miraculously… it didn't… and it worried her. She had already been running projections with their viral research and while T was something they were able to develop Umbrella's First Aid Spray for public usage on the worldwide market, G was a failure considering the instinctual nature of the subject, it would exhibit would eliminate the hosts will and make it a simple thrall to reproduce through incest, and X was an ever-evolving strain that didn't seem to have any limits. Looking at the original blood source, there were certain parts of it that the X-virus were heavily complex and common within it. Whatever that the man that Wesker managed to lure to the Arklay research facility, it seemed that certain part of him was targeted and amplified within the virus itself and the 24th chromosome was what made up that part of him.

It was almost as if that 24th chromosome was was a sentient concept, 'adapt and survive'. What scared her was that all forms of life seek to propagate themselves in some way, 'increase their family' so to speak, X was… waiting for something… and for the life of her she could not work out what.

"And yet, all of the combat data suggests that we can create superior beings because of this. Listen, I was just watching some of the footage Wesker was able to stream back to my office, and it's absolutely amazing. The X-virus is a game changer, and if we can perfect it, then we can give Sherry a better life." William was making his case to Annette. He knew that she was just a talented as he was, but she didn't have his ambition. And despite being a poor father, he cared for his little girl Sherry, and he didn't want to try and use her as a justification for continuing their research. In a few weeks time, the irony of that statement would come back to haunt him…

Annette had a feeling he'd bring that up as a point. There was the occasion in which several of her family member had suffered from contracting cancer every generation or so, and while she didn't have it, it terrified her that Sherry could very well end up with the disease and she'd never live it down. Not if she had the tools and resources to stop it.

"Ok… but we need to enact more security for the Deacon subject. I'm starting to worry that the current measures may not be enough, and another thing that's bothering me is that he hasn't tried to escape, it's almost like he is waiting for something. You know what could happen if he does."

"Oh, please. Stahl is the 'Deacon' now after we injected the X-virus into his system, he's just an animal. Why can't you or Wesker see that?"

"Because William, we still have no idea what X can truly do! We've never pushed the virus to it limits, and projections can only get us so far before we have to preform tests to further our research!" She breathed in deeply before speaking again, "Look, I'm not saying we should stop all our research, but we need to take more secure matters into consideration. Especially after it just grew from 5'9" to a full blown 8' exact and killed a Tyrant with almost no effort. And the man where we obtained the blood samples from? We have no idea what he's fully capable of. What if he learns what we've been doing? You can't reason with a tiger when your head is in its jaws."

Willaim did nod his head in understanding at the first part, "Alright, I'll have more UBCS stationed in this area of the facility to keep things secure. And if the animal gets to unruly, I'll have them ordered to put him down if that's what it takes. He should regenerate nice and clean if going by what he has in his system. And as for the source man himself, we won't have to worry about him. Even if he did find out what we're doing he can't do anything about it. No one will believe a word he says, and with Irons on our payroll and no doubt Umbrella will want him alive, he'll be outnumbered and outgunned. So don't need to worry about him. If anything does happen, Management will take care of it." And with that, William went back to his office to continue gathering the necessary data from the Arklay facility.

Annette was not so convinced of this. While William was a brilliant virologist and scientist, he didn't always see the endgame or the bigger picture, or even the effects their work would have on others; mainly Sherry. She had worked to create a process that would enable their daughter to virtually heal from almost any injury and become immune to diseases such as cancer that ran in her family. However, the viral work that William worked on was mostly towards weaponizing them later in the future, while she also did this, however she worked to create vaccines.

Thinking back a few years ago, she remembered a line from Jurassic Park that she and Sherry watched whiel William was working, it about summed up how she was starting to feel on the matter. "You were so preoccupied with whether or not you could, you didn't stop to think if you should." She said aloud to no one more or less.

She was already finished with the T-vaccine, and the G-vaccine was close to finalization, however the X-vaccine was proving to be a bit more difficult. Due to the fact that the virus was created through cloned blood, along with two separate virus strains, it was proving to be rather tricky. However, she did have at least one theory that could prove to be vital to their research although, she wasn't sure if she should share it with William yet. Given that when a vaccine to a certain type of disease is made, the disease can be made stronger through mother nature's own natural evolution, or through careful genetic manipulation could a virus become stronger from the antibodies of a carrier.

The only possible projection she came up with was that by using the T-vaccine alongside the G-vaccine to help counter the mutative properties of X, along with the original blood source, that vaccine could be manufactured for the X-virus. Now, if the virus itself were to be injected alongside the others, well… there was no telling what would happen.

She looked back to the cell where the Deacon was being held, and she shuddered at its presence within the facility, "The sooner we get finished with our research, the better." Now she needed to comb through the names of those that were infected by the T-virus at the Arklay facility and run background checks and make sure to create reasonable explanations behind their deaths to the families and any of their significant others.

However, no one noticed one of the researchers overhear the conversation and had been underpaid for his work for years. Umbrella employed him because he was a genius when it came to figuring out the vaccination for their viral work, and being the lead researcher in that aspect of the virus, well… when hearing how a vaccine was basically made overnight by being exposed to a single drop of blood, and cloned blood at that thanks to TRICELL's breakthrough, his job was substantially reduced to just being a mere assistant to the Birkin's in their work would make just about anyone upset to say the least.

He'd bide his time until he could make off with the virus samples that Umbrella had been working on, as well as the vaccines that went hand in hand with them. However, escaping their watchful eye would be a bit more difficult, and if anything, he could leak some rather damning evidence to the press on Umbrella's more "questionable" acts, and then of course he would need a new name. Fredric Downing was a nice name as he thought on it, and WillPharma rising up in the pharmaceutical business, it would be a good place to start over with all of the research already in his hands.

NEXT: HATRED IS BORN

I think I'm going to cut it off here. Now, many of you guys are going to be questioning my reasons as to why I decided to have Naruto inserted a little halfway into the Mansion Incident. Well doing so allowed for the STARS members to gain the experience and development that helps make them into the people they are and that we know. Now the next chapter will be having Naruto and Jill meet up with Barry, along with Chris and Rebecca making their appearance within the Mansion Incident, and encountering Lisa Trevor, Yawn, the laboratory, etc.

After the Mansion Incident, there will be a few chapters taking place in between the this and the Raccoon City Incident which I may have finally figured out the order in which I will have it go. The Wolfpack will be making an appearance, along with Colonel Sergei, and perhaps even Spencer if I can find a way for that to happen, either it be a minor or major appearance.

Another thing that Naruto would be limited by with his usage of Senjutsu, is also by the fact that the modern world is in a sense killing the planet and nature itself, it will also burn faster so he won't have it to use as much as he used to. However that doesn't mean he isn't still retraining his body to compensate for the crippling matter. So have no fear readers, Naruto will get his power back over time.

Also, with the Jutsu that Naruto used to kill the Cerberus', he didn't say it outloud, but rather that is something that manga authors put in to let the readers know what they're doing, unlike in the anime where the shout it out and what everyone seems to think. So no, Naruto isn't going to be shouting out Jutsu names when he does use them.

The Deacon has also showcased what it's capable of and while it isn't much, it certainly will help you guys get an idea as to how things will go, once it's unleashed in Raccoon City…then the it will really get a chance to cut loose from its shackles so to speak.

As for the pairing, it's been decided but I will say this, it will be solidified more or less during the Raccoon City Incident.

Also, if anyone knows of a complete longplay playthrough of Dead Aim in a single video, I'd greatly appreciate it. SHN Survival Horror Network on YouTube had one, but Sony decided to be stubborn jerks and block the vid from ever being viewed again. While I said that I wouldn't be including Dead Aim, I did some more research into it, and I thought that I could make it work, but with some changes to the story to fir with Naruto's interference with the Resident Evil world.

I'd also like thank me beta SliferMK2 for going over this and helping me out greatly with this chapter.

So be sure to continue reading, reviewing, favoriting and following this story as well as the others I have going on.

Now, every other chapter I'll have a few non-canon omake's at the end of chapters to amuse you guys, and they shall be called… Jill Sandwich's! So here's one that takes place during Resident Evil 3.

-Jill Sandwich: The Ultimate Weapon?-

Nemesis now approached them now with a rocket launcher hefted on its shoulder, shocking them all.

Nemesis: STARS! (Angrily)

Jill: It can use weapons?!

Carlos: My God!

Naruto: What kind of sick bastards would turn a man into this thing! What a second, is that...?

Nemesis dropped the rocket launcher to take a quick break as it pulled out a pair of chopsticks and a steaming bowl of what looked like Ramen…?

Jill: Ch-chopsticks?!

Carlos: It really is the ultimate weapon!

Nemesis: STARS. (Confirmation)

Naruto on the other hand was not happy...

Naruto: You...sonuva bitch...

Jill and Carlos backed away from the ninja who did not look happy at all.

Nemesis: STARS? (Curious)

Naruto: THAT'S MY RAMEN YOU GODDAMN SON OF A BITCH!

Naruto pulled out the Executioner's Blade leaving everyone wide eyed on where the hell he was hiding that damn cleaver. Nemesis looked down at the Ramen and realized it made a mistake.

Naruto: BANZAI!

Nemesis: STARS! (Scared like a bitch)

-End of the Sandwich-