Here's the second chapter of Dragon Ruler 06's creation! After the chapter after this, I will update hopefully every week. I hope... enjoy!
Three years later
"Would the following students please come to the front office?" a voice from the speaker in the corner of the room asked. "Uchiha Sasuke, Uzumaki Naruto, Uzumaki Kyuubi, Sabaku Gaara, Sabaku Temari, Sabaku Kankuro, Haruno Sakura, Tenten, Hyuuga Neji, Hyuuga Hinata, Inuzuka Kiba, Rock Lee, Yamanaka Ino, Nara Shikamaru, Akimichi Chouji, and Aburame Shino." The announcement repeated as the called students packed their things and walked towards the front office to meet with the principal, who had called them. They all waiting at the front before Principal Tsunade came in.
"Alright, I bet you bunch are wondering why I called you all here," she stated. "Well, Halloween is coming up and the staff and I thought of a place where we can have the Halloween Party for the school. But we're sending you bunch there first to make sure that it is safe, and if it is, then start decorating it."
"What's the place?" Sasuke asked in his monotone voice.
"It's been in Orochimaru's family forever until it was abandoned: Sune-ku Hotel." Everyone had heard the stories of that hotel, especially from Naruto, Kyuubi, and Sasuke. All of their friends promised that if those three ever went there, then they would come along as well to help out. There were no words, just nods. "Alright. Jiraiya, Orochimaru, and I will be coming along as well. Tomorrow at five in the evening, we will be leaving to go there. Understood?" More nods were given. "Good."
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Time flew by quickly for the group before the next thing they all knew, they were all outside of the abandoned hotel in the middle of the night. In front of them was a large steel gate with a locked chain connecting both sides. "I don't remember this being here before," Orochimaru stated, inspecting the lock that he was twirling around in the palm of his hand, pulling on the chain every now and then.
"Guess we'll have to climb over since someone obviously tried to lock anybody out," Jiraiya stated. "Who first?"
"I'll go first," Sasuke said. "Then you guys can toss the bag over and I'll catch them." Everyone nodded before Jiraiya helped Sasuke climb over the gate. When the brunet was at the top, he slipped slightly, but what shocked everyone was the faded hand on his ankle. Sasuke caught himself on the top, pushing himself back up before he leapt down onto the ground on the other side of the gate. "Toss the things over," he said before the group tossed a few duffle bags over. When the last one was over, Kyuubi climbed over, then Naruto, who Kyuubi helped when the blond got on the other side of the gate, then Shino, Kiba, Akamaru slipped in under the gate, Neji, Hinata, Tenten, Lee, Sakura, Shikamaru, Ino, Chouji, who needed more help then the others, Kankuro, Temari, and finally Gaara.
"You all have your cell phones, right?" Tsunade asked. When the group nodded, the blonde woman sighed a little. "Okay then. Orochimaru, Jiraiya, and I are going to find a hotel to stay in. We'll be back in a few hours to get you guys, alright?"
"Alright," Kyuubi replied, picking up a duffle bag. "Don't worry about a thing. We can handle ourselves." They didn't know if it was the confidence in the red-head's voice or the fox like grin on his face, but the three adults felt a little uncomfortable.
"If anything happens, call us and we'll come and get you, understood?" Orochimaru stated before the group nodded a bit. The three adults loaded up onto the bus before they drove away. Once the bus disappeared down the hill, the duffle bags were opened.
"At least none of these were loaded when you caught them, Sasuke," Kyuubi stated, taking out a pair of identical handguns before placing them under his belt after he filled them with bullets. Temari opened up her duffle bag, which was filled with shotguns, some single barrel, the rest double-barreled. Neji opened up another that was filled with daggers of many lengths, picking a few up before placing on in his boots and strapping a couple to his belt before hiding a small one inside of his jacket pocket. Eventually, nearly everyone, for the exception of Hinata, who didn't want anything more then a dagger, had both guns and daggers. Everyone had at least three to four handguns and one shotgun, and to top it all off, each had about four to five daggers.
Sasuke picked up an unopened bag that he strapped to his waist since it was a small one. "We're going to have to go in groups of four and search different floors," Sasuke stated, making sure that the bag was strapped securely to his waist.
"Kiba, Hinata, Tenten, and I will search the fifth floor," Neji said.
"Ino, Chouji, Shino, and I will look around the tenth floor," Shikamaru stated with a small yawn.
"Lee, Sakura, myself, and Kankuro will look around the first floor," Temari stated.
"Alright then," Kyuubi spoke. "Then Sasuke, Naruto, Gaara, and I will check around on the fifteenth floor."
"Um, guys?" Hinata's soft voice met their ears. "I think the gates just changed." Everyone turned around to see that the gates did indeed change. Now they were twenty feet tall with pointed tips that bent towards the hotel.
"There is defiantly something going on with this place," Neji stated.
"I don't care," Sasuke nearly snapped. "My brother and the others are in there somewhere and I'm not leaving here until I find them alive or dead. Hopefully alive." Everyone nodded in agreement before they all walked into the hotel, the door slamming close behind them, making a few of the girls jump in surprise while letting out a startled squeak. Kiba went to check the door, only to find out that it wasn't opening up.
"Whatever made the gates the way they are obviously doesn't want us to leave," Kyuubi stated. "Okay, everyone keep their cell phones on and call if anything happens." The group nodded before the red-head spoke again. "Alright. Let's split up and meet back here in one hour. Got it?" Another nod from everyone before the four groups took their separate ways.
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"Neji-nii-san?" Hinata called to her cousin, who turned round to look at her. "Do you really think it's a good idea to be around here."
"Hinata," Neji sighed, shaking his head a little. "You know that if you wanted to stay out of here, you could have just said so. We wouldn't force you."
"I know," the shy girl replied. "But I wanted to come, to help Naruto, Kyuubi, and Sasuke find their family and friends."
"I would be really surprised if they were still alive," Kiba stated, shining the flashlight in his hands into a room. "Hey. What's that?" Kiba asked when his flashlight landed on something. The other three looked as well while Kiba walked into the room and picked up a small camera from the floor. He looked around to see if he could find anything else, but he nearly tripped over himself when he saw the large dried blood stain near the wall.
"What did you find, Kiba?" Tenten asked when the dog-boy finally came out of the room with the camcorder in his hand.
"There's this and a blood stain on the floor," Kiba replied, leaning against the wall before checking over the small camera. "Its batteries are dead."
"Here, give it to me," the tomboy said while she pulled out a couple of batteries. They crowded around the camera, watching the small screen once the batteries were in it.
On the camera:
"Hi!" a blue-haired teenager girl chirped. "My name is Umi!" Then the camera showed a red-head with a few piercing on his nose. "That is Pein, the love of my life and I could not ask for another!"
"Umi," Pein spoke. "Knock it off."
"Aw, Pein, you're not fun!"
"Not falling for that puppy pout," Pein stated before he turned around and walked down the hallway.
"He's grumpy about something," Umi muttered before the camera showed her again. "Ok, what we are doing is seeing if the stories of Sune-ku Hotel are true or not. So far, the stories are a load of bull. We've been walking around in here for nearly half an hour and yet nothing has happened. Boring!" Then a painful scream was heard. "What was that?" Umi asked, turning her head towards Pein. "Pein! That sounded like Sasori!"
"I know," Pein calmly said, walking over to the blue-haired teen. "Wonder what that was about. See if you can contact him on your walkie talkie." The visuals moved around a lot like Umi was shifting the camera around. "Umi, give me the camera," Pein sighed before a hand was seen covering the screen up before it showed Umi pulling out a walkie talkie.
"Sasori? Sasori, are you ok?" Umi asked into the walkie talkie. There was only static as a response. "He's not answering."
"Umi, come over here to me right now," Pein's nearly calm voice said before Umi gave him a confused look. She must have been grabbed by the red-head since it looked like she was jerked forward before the camera was stuffed into her hands. "Hey! Who's there?" Pein yelled down the hall where a human figure was. He didn't bother calling again when he saw the glowing red eyes before the human figure started to run towards them. "Run, Umi!" Pein yelled before the screen gave a jerk like Pein just grabbed the teenage girl. The camera screen only showed the floor before blood spilt onto the carpet after a small yell of pain was heard. "Umi!" Pein yelled. "Oh my god! Hold on, for me. Okay?" He pulled out a couple guns before shooting was heard followed by a loud shriek.
"Come on, Umi! Get up!" Pein yelled, pulling the teenage girl to her feet by her arm before they took off running again, the creature following after. The screen showed them taking a sharp turn before the slamming of a door was heard. "Umi!" Pein called to the blunette that had placed the camera on a table and was now laying on the floor. Her stomach was bleeding badly like something thick and sharp had speared her from behind. Pein took off his shirt before pressing it against the girl's wounded stomach. "Come on, Umi. Don't you dare die!"
"Pein," Umi choked out, some blood tricking down from her mouth. "You need to get to the others."
"I am not going to leave you here!"
"Come on, Pein. A wound like this? I'm not going to be able to go very far. I've already lost too much blood when we were running from that thing." Kisame's voice came from the walkie talkie for a minute, but Pein ignored it. "That thing is going to find us. You need to go. We both know that with all this blood I lost, I can't go any further."
"Don't you dare give up!" Pein snapped, fury in his eyes as he yelled at the blunette. His forehead connected with hers as his breathing sped up a bit. He started to whisper softly, but the watchers couldn't hear anything he said before he pulled back and saw the small smile on Umi's face. Her eyes closed with a sigh before her chest stopped moving. Pein was still, his shoulders shaking furiously before he stood up and yelled out. "Damn it!"
It was kind of obvious that Pein was getting a little tired of Kisame trying to call him when he finally picked up the walkie talkie and started to speak with Kisame. Eventually, the conversation ended. When it did, Pein gave one sad look towards Umi's still form before he softly stroked her blue hair away from her face before he walked out of the room, closing the door behind himself. Not long after, banging noises came from the closed door before it burst open and a shrieking noise was heard. A black human-like creature with chunks of it missing approached Umi's form before more showed up and started to tear her to pieces. Then the camera's screen turned to static.
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"Pein and Umi?" Neji spoke when the screen died away. "Weren't they a couple of friends of Itachi's?"
"I think Sasuke said they were," Tenten replied. "But I think we need to get out of here now. I didn't like the look of whatever those things were."
"Same here," Kiba agreed. Hinata said nothing. She was shaken up from what she had seen on the camera screen. Kiba wrapped his arms around her shoulders, comforting her a little bit. "Tenten's right, though. We need to get out of here." Akamaru, who was in the hood of Kiba's jacket, barked in agreement.
"Then let's go," Neji said as he stood and pulled out his cell phone and dialed a number. "Kyuubi? …Well, we found something…A camera…Umi and Pein. It showed us how Umi died and what the hell is in this place…I don't know how the hell to describe them…Yes there is more the one. About five of them tore Umi to shreds…Alright. We'll call the others…Where? …Alright. We'll see you there." With that, he hung up the phone before putting it back in his pocket.
"What did he say?" Hinata asked, managing to find her voice after what she had just seen.
"Meet up with him on the fifteenth floor and tell the others to keep an eye out for whatever the hell those things were."
"I'll call Temari," Tenten said as she pulled out her cell phone and spoke into it while Kiba called Shino. When they hung up, the group headed towards the stairs, but stopped in their tracks. Six pairs of glowing red eyes were watching them from the shadows. Before anyone could say anything, they were grabbed from behind, hands over their mouths, and pulled back into a room before the creatures shot towards them.
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"So there is something in this place with us?" Sasuke asked, looking at the taller red-head.
"That's what Neji said when I spoke with him," Kyuubi replied with a small shrug. "But we need to stay alert and keep an eye out. There's more then one in this place."
"How do you know he wasn't just joking around?" Gaara asked, giving the other red-head a blank stare.
"Neji doesn't joke around," Sasuke replied before Kyuubi could say anything. "He's as serious as you, me, and Shino put together. Like I said: Neji doesn't joke." Silence was passed through the group as they walked towards the stairs. "I still can't believe it," Sasuke muttered under his breath.
"What?" Naruto asked, bending down a little bit so he could look at Sasuke's face.
"Pein and Umi," the brunet replied. "You two remember them. Pein was an ass, but not even he deserves to be torn from someone he cares for like that. And Umi defiantly did not deserve to die."
"Yeah," Naruto sadly sighed before he tripped over something. "Huh?" He turned around to look at what he tripped over to see a small camera on the floor, close to the wall that he was walking next to. "Hey, guys, I found a camera."
"Let's see what's on it," Kyuubi stated as he picked up the camera from his younger brother's hands. After replacing the old batteries with newer ones, he sat on the floor with Sasuke peering over his left shoulder and Naruto over his right. Gaara still stood, but he was bent over a bit so he could still see the camera screen.
On the camera:
Heavy panting was heard as the screen showed bent legs that were bleeding heavily before the screen turned around to show Kisame's face. "My name is Hoshigaki Kisame," the teen spoke, though his voice was filled with fright and was shaking a bit. "I came in here with all of my friends. We split up, but I guess that was a mistake. We already lost Sasori and Umi and Tobi. Itachi and Arashi were with me, but we split up, thinking that we could get the creature that was chasing us to back off, but it didn't work. A lot more came. If anyone finds this, then I am already dead. Right now, I locked myself in a room and there around about five of those things outside of the door trying to get in.
"Sasuke, if you find this, I'm sorry, but I don't know if your brother is alright or not, but knowing him, he is still alive. Naruto and Kyuubi, if you two see this, you don't need to worry about your old man. I know he's still alive. He was always a hard one to take down." He jumped in surprise when a loud bang was heard. "I want everyone that sees this camera to know what is in this goddamn place." He placed the camera next to him before the door shot open to show creatures running into the room. Kisame started shooting at them, but they seemed unfazed. Eventually, he ran out of bullets and the creatures lunged towards him. His pain-filled yells and screams went on for about five seconds before the camera screen turned to static.
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The group was stunned at what they just saw. "I can't believe it," Kyuubi softly whispered. "Come on, guys. We need to get going before we run into one of those things." The other three nodded was they stood and continued walking towards the stairs.
"How do you think the camera got into the hallway?" Sasuke asked. "It showed that Kisame was in a room."
"Maybe it got kicked out of the room or something," Kyuubi said with a small shrug. "Or one of the others had it and dropped it running from those things." He looked down at his blond brother, seeing a small distressed look upon the normally happy face. "Naruto? What's wrong?"
"I hope the others are alright," Naruto spoke in a frightful tone. Then suddenly, gunfire was heard.
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"What the hell are these goddamn things?!" Kankuro yelled, firing his handgun at the creatures that were chasing them down the hall. He wasn't having much luck getting away from them since he was supporting an injured Temari on his shoulders. Sakura was shooting at the creatures down the hall as well as Lee, but the bullets seemed to have no effect on the creature. It had a small effect. It injured them and got them to go slower, but then they sped back up once the group tried to run away.
"Temari's losing too much blood!" Sakura stated when she noticed that the deep gash on Temari's waist was still heavily bleeding and showing no sign of stopping.
"We need to get somewhere and help her out!" Lee spoke this time, yelling a bit so he could be heard over the gunfire.
"Sure. But the problem with that is that we can't get those things to back the fuck off!" Kankuro yelled back at the two. He felt Temari starting to slump down his shoulder a little bit. "Damn it, Temari! Stay with us, ok?" The creatures started to run towards the group. "Come on!" the older brunet yelled out before they turned and ran off down the hallway. They made many turns around corners before running into an opened room and slamming the door close. "Put something in front of the door so those things won't get in here." Lee and Sakura nodded before the started to stack the chairs, table, and anything else in front of the door. Kankuro laid his blonde sister onto the couch in the room. "Temari? You still with us?" he asked, shaking her shoulders a bit. He grinned when he heard a faint groan coming from her.
He pulled out some bandages that he always carried around from his jacket pocket before ripping off the sleeve of his shirt and pressing that against Temari's wound. "Will she be alright?" Sakura asked.
"If I can get her cleaned up and bandaged soon then yeah, she'll be alright," Kankuro replied. They all jumped when a loud bang was heard from the door. "Damn it," the brunet swore before removing the bloody sleeve from Temari's wound and carefully wrapping her wound. Another bang was heard before Kankuro was done. "Temari?" he called softly to his sister. He was worried that she wouldn't make it when he noticed how much color she lost. "Temari, come on."
"Sorry Kankuro," Temari's choking voice met his ears. "I really don't think I'm going to get out of here alive."
"That is a load of bullshit so stop joking around," Kankuro nearly snapped, thought deep down, he knew it was true.
"Take care of Gaara, ok?" she asked before her breathing stopped completely.
Kankuro's eyes widened a bit before he lowered his head, his shoulders shaking as his teeth clenched. Lee placed a hand on the other brunet's shoulder, making Kankuro look over to him. "We need to get out of here somehow before those things get in here," Lee stated.
"And how do you suggest we get out?" Kankuro nearly snapped. "The door is blocked by not only what you and Sakura put in front of it, but also by those things outside in the hall! How the hell do you suggest we get out of here?!"
"The vents," Sakura replied, looking up at the vent in the room. "We can get in there and get to another room. Those things won't know until they break down the door." She looked at Kankuro, who loaded a new magazine into his handgun.
"Alright then," the brunet spoke. "You and Lee get out of here. I'll cover you. I'm going to make these things wish that they never killed my sister." He turned towards the door when another banging noise was heard. "Get in that vent and beat it!" Kankuro snapped when he noticed that Lee was about to talk to him. After a few seconds and a glance to Sakura, both nodded before Lee opened the vent and helped Sakura into it then climbed in after her.
"Come on, Kankuro!" Sakura called to the brunet when she noticed that the door was about to break and the pile of things in front of it were about to fall.
"I already told you guys to beat it," Kankuro stated. "And that I'm going to get these things for killing my sister. Now get to another room!"
Both the teens in the vent nodded before turning around and going down the vents. They heard Kankuro yelling swears at the creatures when the door finally gave away followed with a lot of gun firing. When they got to another room and climber out of the vent, they still heard gun fire before it stopped and Kankuro's yelling words turned into screams of pain. Sakura buried her face into Lee's shoulder, sobbing a little while the brunet comforted her. "Sakura," Lee spoke. "We need to leave before those things find us in here." After a couple minutes, Sakura nodded before straightening up a bit. "Let's go then."
"I'll call the others to let them no what happened," Sakura said as she pulled out her pink cell phone. "Ino?" she spoke into the phone. "Are you and the others alright? …What do you mean you can't get a hold of Neji's group? …I don't have a clue…We lost Temari and Kankuro…No I don't mean like that! They're not lost in the building! …Yes, that is what I meant…Okay then. Watch each others backs, okay? …See you, Ino." She flipped the top half of the phone down, hanging up on Ino. "She said that she'll call Kyuubi's group about Temari and Kankuro. I hope Gaara doesn't take it too bad."
"Same here," Lee agreed. "But we have to leave right now."
"Lee?"
"Yes, Sakura?"
"That camera we found. Do you have it? Or did Kankuro have it?"
"I have it," Lee replied, pulling a camera out of the bag he had on his waist. "We didn't have enough time to watch it before those things attacked us. Think we should? Or wait for the others?"
"I think we should at least know who had the camera," Sakura said. "And we need a small break from running from those things so much." Lee nodded a bit before he sat on a couch after making sure that the door was locked. Sakura sat next to him, resting her head on his shoulder so she could still see the small screen. (Me: they already changed the batteries)
On the camera:
"Hi!" a masked teen chirped. "I'm Tobi! Tobi's a good boy!"
"Tobi, shut up," another voice calmly said before the camera showed another teen with green half.
"That's Zetsu-senpai! We're here in Sune-ku Hotel on a mission to see if the stories are true or not. So far, untrue stories!" The camera turned to show Tobi once again. "So far, we've been walking around for about twenty minutes. Nothing has happened yet. Tobi's a good boy, but Tobi get bored often!"
"Tobi's about to be a dead boy!" Zetsu's voice snapped. "If he doesn't shut up!"
"Zetsu-senpai is in a bad mood because he was asleep in the car and I had to wake him up," Tobi stated, letting his grin being heard in his voice. "But Arashi told me to wake him up so I did! Zetsu-senpai has a few issues."
"Tobi, be quiet," Zetsu sighed.
"Anyway, how about a tour as we walk down the hall of the first floor? Ok, that is a random bedroom!" Tobi said as the camera showed the same room that Sakura and Lee last saw Kankuro and Temari. "That is a table. That is a dead plant! Looks like a fern, doesn't it, Zetsu-senpai?"
"I don't care, Tobi," Zetsu replied. It went on for a little while, even when a painful yell was heard, but since no one contacted them, the teens paid it no mind, with Tobi pointing the camera at random objects and saying what they were from time to time until Zetsu got tired of it. "Tobi, put that camcorder away." Tobi did not hear the green-haired teen. "Tobi!" Zetsu snapped. Now the screen showed Zetsu holding out his hand. "Give me the camera," Zetsu spoke before the screen showed the floor moving a bit before it showed Tobi's stomach and chest. "You got the walkie talkie on, right?" Tobi shifted a little as he went through his pockets until he pulled a walkie talkie out. "Tobi, it's not on."
"It isn't?" Tobi asked, looking at the walkie talkie before one of his hands disappeared. Probably went to rub his head or something.
Zetsu sighed before he took the walkie talkie and started to speak into it. Kisame's voice was heard over it, replying to anything Zetsu said until Zetsu told Kisame not to get the others to the first floor. The camera was pointing down the hall way, in Tobi's possession now since the screen showed Zetsu. There was yelling and the background changing a lot, but the creature chasing after the pair was still there. It grabbed Tobi once, dragging the teen on the floor before Zetsu shot at it and helped Tobi to his feet, running the opposite way of the creature. Zetsu kept shooting at the thing, yelling at Kisame, who was still being heard on the walkie talkie.
Then Tobi was snatched a second time, but this time, Zetsu couldn't get him back. The screen showed the same things as before, only no creature and things were going to opposite way and Zetsu appeared from time to time only to disappear once again after a few turns around some corners. Tobi kept yelling, most likely thrashing around to get free since the screen kept jerking from one thing to another. Eventually, there was no Zetsu coming around a corner when the monster pulled Tobi into a room with a few more creatures in it. The creatures eyed Tobi for a minute before blood splattered onto the screen and Tobi screamed one final time.
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Sakura and Lee were speechless at what they just saw. Lee turned the camera off when the screen turned to static. "We need to get to the others," Lee broke the tense silence that was passed back and forth between him and Sakura. "We need to at least get to one of the other groups. Which one is closer?"
"Neji's group is on the fifth floor," Sakura replied, still shaking a little bit from what she just saw on the camera.
"Then we need to get to them," Lee stated before he stood up and walked over to the door. He pressed his ear against it to make sure nothing was outside in the hallway before he opened it up just a crack to look around. "Coast is clear, Sakura."
"Ok, Lee," the pink-haired teen girl said as she stood with the camera now in her hands. "Let's go find the others. But I think we should head for Kyuubi and his group instead of Neji's since his group is heading towards Kyuubi." Lee blinked a bit before nodding in agreement.
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Shikamaru was in the lead, followed by Ino next to Chouji and Shino behind them for cover. He had more experience in dangerous situations more then the others, so he kept an eye behind them in case something tried to sneak up on them. Ino was staring down at the floor with a depressed look, tearing threatening to spill from her blue eyes. "Ino," Shikamaru spoke, but gained no response. "Troublesome woman. Ino, come on. Being depressed isn't going to do anything other then distract you and we all need to be alert if we want to make sure we don't get unexpected guest."
"But we already lost Temari and Kankuro," Ino pointed out. "And we haven't heard from Neji's group since Kiba called Shino about what they found! How can you act so laid back?!"
"He's Shikamaru," Chouji stated. "So, do you think we should find the others?"
"We should," Shino stated. "Kiba said that his group was heading towards Kyuubi and that Tenten already called Temari about it. So we should get to the fifteenth floor and find them."
"Shino's right," Shikamaru agreed. "Let's get going before whatever got Temari and Kankuro come up here and find us." Chouji and Ino nodded in agreement before the blonde girl stopped in her tracks, eyeing something on the floor. (Me: u readers should no what it is by now.)
"Hey, guys, looks," Ino spoke, nudging her head towards the camera on the floor. Shikamaru walked over and picked it up, examining it a bit.
"This thing's really dusty," he stated. "It might have belongs to someone in Itachi's old group."
"Play it and find out," Chouji suggested.
"Batteries are no good," the lazy genius pointed out. "If it is from Itachi's old group, the batteries would be three years old. Most likely dead by now. If we want to find out who this camera belong to, we're going to need new batteries for it." Ino started to go through her pockets before she pulled out a Game-Boy Advance and took the batteries out of it and tossed it over to Shikamaru, who caught them and changed the old batteries with the new ones. "Thanks, Ino."
"No problem," the blonde shrugged a bit.
"We should look at it while we're walking so nothing can get us."
"Then we won't be paying attention where we're going and might get lost," Shino pointed out.
"Good point," Shikamaru sighed. "Then let's get somewhere safe and take a look, okay?" The group nodded before they went into a room and closed the door behind the last group member that came into the room. They all sat on the couch in the room, crowding around Shikamaru, who still held the camera. Shino stood behind the couch, peering over the heads of the other three.
On the camera:
"This is Hidan," an albino-haired teen stated.
"Mr. Religious Man!" another voice yelled out while Hidan just scowled. "You want to know how much batteries cost?!"
"Kakuzu, they're only a little over a buck," Hidan stated, rolling his eyes a little. "The person you just heard was Mr. Greedy Money Keeper Who Will Shot You If You Try To Steal His Money. AKA? Kakuzu. We're partners in crime and mischief whenever we feel like it. Our current residence if Sune-ku Hotel. And so far, the stories of this place are dangerously close to being true. We've found a few old blood stains on the carpet and such."
"Hidan! Turn it off!"
"Fine, if it will get you to shut up." Then the screen turned black for a few seconds before a panting Hidan came back on with blood trailing down his forehead. "We've already lost three of our friends in this place. And if we don't get out of here soon, three is about to become four. Kakuzu is badly hurt and I've managed to bandage him up some and slow down his bleeding, but I don't know how much longer he will last."
"Hidan," Kakuzu's strained voice was heard. "You need to get out of here and meet up with the others."
Hidan turned away from the screen, showing his back as he walked towards a bed where Kakuzu laid, his arm bandaged and bloody, as well as his stomach and if his leg wasn't bandaged, then there would most likely be bone being seen. The watchers could tell when they saw the unevenness of the bandages on Kakuzu's legs. Hidan was also injured badly, but his wounds looked uncared for. On his waist was a deep gash and he was limping badly. The albino-haired teen sat on the bed before talking quietly to the other on the bed. Their conversation wasn't easily heard. But eventually, Hidan backed away from the teen on the bed and walked over to the camera. "If anyone ever finds this camera, get out as soon as you can before those creatures lurking around here get to you." With that said, the screen went black.
No more camera watching:
"Sasuke said that the knife wounds on their chest was what most likely killed them," Shikamaru stated as he turned the camera off. "They probably killed each other before whatever's in this place could get to them again."
"How do you know if something got to them?" Ino asked.
"The condition that Kakuzu was in," Shikamaru simply stated. "Come on. We need to get to the others." The other three nodded before they walked out of the room and headed up to the fifteenth floor.