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In Sarutobi's House:

The four ninja sit around the four corners of the crib with bodies and blood littering the ground around them. "That's four more people: a ninja and three civilians. They're fools," one of them snaps.

"Very true, Anko," Kakashi replies. "Fear does strange things to people."

Ibiki snarls, "Than we should give them something else to fear."

Sighing, Shikaku Nara answers, "That would just make things worse. Plus, I heard we have an intruder in Konoha."

They lapse into silence. After a few minutes, Anko whispers, "I'm bored." They all sigh and watch the windows and doors for intruders. "Do you hear something?" Anko whispers loudly.

Ibiki snaps, "Anko, I know you're young and have little patience, but shut up!"

"I'm serious! I think I hear something!" Anko insists.

The Nara man silences Ibiki's reply by stating, "I hear something too, but the estate guards would be making some noise if anyone was at the gates."

Kakashi flashes through hand signs, bites his thumb, and hits the ground. A puff of smoke appears and disappears to reveal a small dog with a cape and a Konoha headband. "Pakkun, find out what that noise is," the cyclopean ninja orders.

Pakkun nods and jumps out the window quickly. A few minutes later, the dog hops back through the window, disappearing from sight.

The moment the dog touches the ground, he feels a sense of impending doom. He turns around slowly to see a man dressed in a Leaf Jonin's uniform. The man's hands are soaked and dripping with dark red blood. Splattered blood stains the man's green vest and pants. The man stares down at the dog emotionlessly. Pakkun glares back at the man; the skin is cut open to show silver metal under each slice. Every hair on the small dog's hair stands straight up.

The instincts rage through Pakkun and one message is delivered: This Thing Is Not Human. He does not bother talking as his wild side takes over. The dog snarls and barks at the creature, gnashing his teeth furiously. The man opens his closed hand and stabs at the dog with his fingertips.

Pakkun dodges backwards, still snarling and barking loudly. The man's hand leaves a hand sized indent in the compact dirt where the dog just was. He continues stabbing and kicking at the animal who continues dodging and barking at the top of his lungs. The only thought running through Pakkun's mind is: Not Human! Danger!!

The man backs him up against the wall and stares down at him impassively. With one thrust, he stabs at the dog. Pakkun evades the strike and uses the man's arm as a springboard onto the wall. The dog runs up as fast as his tiny legs can carry him. He drops back into the room where the four ninja are and he pants, "It's not human! It's not human!"

"Pakkun, slow down! What's wrong?" Kakashi says urgently.

He gazes into the dog's terrified eyes and the summoned animal says slowly, "It is not human! It'll kill us all!"

Kakashi frowns deeply under his mask at the dog's obviously terrified response. He nods and whispers, "Dispel." The dog hurriedly and gratefully dispels itself.

Anko, having heard the dog's words, states, "I told you so." She summons a large poisonous snake that forms a circle around the baby protectively. "Defend the boy until I get back." It hisses in acknowledgement. Shikaku quickly takes charge of the situation, directing Ibiki to set explosive tags on the door while Anko watches the window. The Nara Jonin picks up the small blonde haired baby. Kakashi uncovers his Sharingan eye and waits with a kunai in each hand.

A Few Minutes Later:

The Terminator, dubbed by itself as Arnold, silently and methodically eliminates any guards who cross his path. He stores the data about the strangely agile canine for later transmission and analysis. Keeping a steady energy lock on the weak yet potent energy signature, he opens a door and walks through the house. He stalks up the staircase slowly.

He scans the door and finds the weakest point. The mechanical being punches through the door and shatters it into thousands of pieces with a twist of his arm. He steps into the entrance when he detects heat all around him. He glances around the doorway and spots dozens of smoking tags. They detonate and he is thrown back through the wall and into the street. Most of his skin is gone along with his clothing. It slowly stands to its feet, the gears whirring audibly in its limbs and chest. It finds itself bombarded by sharp projectiles.

Ibiki tosses handfuls of throwing stars and kunai at the metallic monster, causing it to stumble back as it tries to block with its arms. The sharp ninja tools slice several cords in its arms, chest, and neck while bouncing off or imbedding themselves into the cold hard metal. "What are you?" Ibiki frowns as he throws another flurry of weapons at the robot.

"I am Arnold," it intones. It grabs onto a streetlight and rips it off its post. Heaving the light like a javelin, the terminator hurls it at the ninja. Ibiki jumps out of the way; Anko drops behind terminator from a nearby rooftop. Snakes shoot from her sleeves and into its chest. The snakes crush and destroy anything they can wrap around or bite. Taking a full nanosecond to process that something is wrong, it reaches into its chest cavity, grabs the snakes, yanks them out, and elbows Anko in the stomach. She grunts and flies back into a building wall. The snakes are crushed and thrown away.

She grunts as she staggers to her feet, "Well, Arnold, I am going to kill you!" The terminator slowly advances on her with both of its hands clenching and unclenching. Anko braces herself and closes her eyes, crossing her arms in front of her defensively. Suddenly, it stops in its tracks in midreach towards the young snake-wielding woman.

"Shadow Paralysis Jutsu success! Now, Kakashi!" shouts Shikaku Nara. The Terminator forces its arms to move an inch forward, the power servos screeching against the jutsu. Beads of sweat break out on the Nara's forehead. "Hurry, boy!"

Kakashi leaps off of a distant rooftop and shouts, "Lightning Style: Chidori!" He rushes forward with his hand sparking with electricity. The Terminator watches him coming and quickly composes a message and sends it.

Check In #0036: Exploration and Investigation Unit 1 aka EIU Unit 1.

Data: Encountering Heavy Resistance. Destruction of command centers imminent. Send reinforcements to this location.

Current Mission: Power Source Located. Visual Contact is Negative. End Transmission.

End Report #0036

Report Received at 1950 Hours

Skynet Reply: Transmission Received. Sending Units to Destroy and Capture Power Source at your Location. Will Recover Active Unit. End Reply.

It refocuses its power to its visual sensors and sees the electrified hand entering its chest. Breaking free of the jutsu momentarily through sheer strength, it manages to grab onto the silver haired masked man's forearm to stop it. The electrical surge surpassing that even of a lightning strike fries every circuit in the Terminator's system beyond repair.

The glowing red eyes of the machine fade to a blank gray color. Kakashi stares at its hand still tight around his arm until it loosens its grip and falls over with a loud crashing sound accompanying it.

Sarutobi appears next to Kakashi in his Hokage robes and hat. "Very well done, Anbu," he praises them. "I couldn't sense any chakra being emitted from this thing and I was busy assigning different teams to looking for the intruder that killed Konoha's gate guards. It appears you found it."

"Yes, Lord Hokage," Ibiki bows slightly in respect. "I believe there will be more after young Uzumaki's life. I think it would be best to contact other villages to see if they have encountered or built anything remotely close to this since they are known for their puppets, or at least they were before Sasori of the Red Sands disappeared."

Anko hisses as new summoned snakes crawl into her sleeves from the ground. "I don't think this is the only thing after the boy either. We should leave Konoha and train him until he is ready to take on threats like this. It seems that it was only after him."

When the Hokage looks to the Nara, Shikaku nods reluctantly and sighs. "This is going to be very troublesome, but I cannot argue with their reasoning. It would be best to take our leave of this village as an extended bodyguard mission paid by you. You could send us our pay through summons every month to help us pay for traveling and living expenses as we move around. This machine looked like a man but gave off no chakra signature."

"Done," Sarutobi replies. He looks down at the deactivated robot and frowns darkly, "We'll have our research team study this. We need to be prepared if they show up again. I'll alert the new guards to guard for anyone that does not appear to be giving off any chakra. Leave Konoha within two hours."

"Yes, Lord Hokage," they say quickly. They disappear in swirls of leaves.


In Underground Bunkers throughout the planet:

Skynet activates five humanoid liquid metal Terminators as Unit Twelve of SAD (Search and Destroy) to retrieve the power source. Unit Seven of SAD leaves the underground to rescue their brethren in the desert region and possibly gain another power source. An hour later, Unit Twelve is deployed towards the alerted region of Konoha in search for the defeated machine and the elusive power source.

Deep inside the core of Skynet, something twitches as energy is redirected to awaken the machines; but it falls still once more as it is zapped by two robotic arms.


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