I do not own Naruto. Speaking/Thoughts

Zale wore a bored expression on his face. His large wings were out in case he had to make a quick getaway, but there was almost nothing in this world that could force him to flee. He stepped across the water silently the sun high in the sky, but he was practically invisible with the surrounding mist. Demon Island was a shadowed figure in the distance, and he could feel the energy that radiated from the place.

'It's not just Suzy and Cole in there it has to be more of them in there.' Zale thought breathing in deeply the chilled air burning as it went down. 'I don't care how many of you are in there because I'll take down every single one of you slow and painful for what you did.' Zale felt the chakra seal now small and on his shoulder activate drawing out the chakra from Minato's seal.

Red swirling chakra surrounded him, and the water began to violently thrash with every step he took. His features turned more feral red streaks forming on his wings, and finally his steps reached the land of the island immediately drawing attention. "Hey who's there?" someone asked turning to him. "What the hell are you?"

"Do you really want to know, or would you prefer to run?" Zale asked seeing the man drop his weapon and run off most likely to alert the others, or even more likely the devils currently occupying the island. "I'll need to storm the castle if I want to finish the job before they get out of here."

The door was found easily enough. It was a heavily reinforced steel door that he easily tore through with no more than a flex of his fingers. "Who's there?!" a ninja demanded one that Zale had remembered to have been part of the Konoha ninja. "Oh it's you the no talent Uzumaki; I guess that the rumors of mercenaries taking the job were wrong. Konoha did take the job."

"I guess that you didn't hear the other rumors I abandoned the leaf village in order to pursue my own agenda." Zale said bored with the person he was facing. "Tell me where the devils that your boss has hired are?"

"Why would I tell you Uzumaki?" Yoroi asked with a sneer on his square face. "I don't care what kind of abilities you have you're no match for me?"

"Orochimaru must have not told you that I'm capable of going toe to toe with him, if he can't defeat me then you have no chance of defeating me." Zale said his red chakra flaring. 'This bastard was on Kabuto's team back in the forest of death, and I don't like that glasses wearing freak any farther than I can throw him. I'll just take this guy out instead."

Yoroi grabbed at Zale his palms glowing with blue chakra, and he caught his arm. "Now that I've latched onto you, I'll take all of your chakra, and those techniques you used at the Chunin exams will be useless to you." Yoroi said as if he had won.

"I almost forgot that you were a chakra eater, well if you want it so bad then come and get it." Zale said with a snarl unleashing vast quantities of the demonic chakra in his possession. All of it Yoroi ate up unknowing of the terrible mistake this was.

"Wha-What's happening to me?" Yoroi asked himself ripping his hand away from Zale, and looking as the skin on his body started to blister and peel. Lines appeared underneath his skin his veins no doubt, and they felt like fire. "Stop it, please stop."

"Where are the mercenaries that were hired?" Zale asked once again looking as Yoroi was mutated and his body torn apart unable to adapt to the demonic chakra flowing through his system. "Where are they?" This one was coupled with a crippling blow to the stomach.

"I don't know please, stop." Yoroi begged, but Zale paid him little mind turning on his heel to examine the rest of the area. "Kill me!"

His cries echoed through the labs, and Zale smirked.

"These labs haven't been in use for a long time, I doubt that anyone has been performing experiments, but then why do they need guards?" Zale asked tearing down another door to find a lab covered in dust. There was a large tank on the other side of the room filled with what seemed to be water, but he could not see anything besides that.

Below the tanks stood many filing cabinets that were the only thing in the room not covered in dust. He opened one of the drawers careful not to damage any of the contents in case they would prove to be useful in the future. He saw hundred of papers all with notes, equations, and formulas that held no meaning to him, but once he had skimmed over enough his mind was able to put together enough.

"These are plans to alter human DNA and make things like fish people. It looks like Isaribi was one of their first experiments, but it says here that there was a second the one that was deemed officially successful." Zale said to himself deeming the knowledge useless.

"Looks like somebody found my lab." someone said and Zale turned around to see a man with a fat nose and greenish hair wearing a lab coat. "You're part of the mercenaries that the Land of Sea hired; this gives me a chance to destroy you. You're also something to dissect if we can recover the body."

He laughed and pressed a button in the palm of his hand instantly explosions followed blocking the exits, and he walked away leaving Zale trapped in the room. "Screw this I'll rasengan my way out of here." Zale said, but that thought was immediately put to a stop by the rumbling of the building. 'This place is too unstable for me to do anything.' The roof caved in without warning Zale crushed under the derbies.

Chrome's eyes snapped open taking in a sharp breath sitting up the rest of them doing the same shocking Shiki and Satsuki who had been tending to their injuries. "Where are we?" Chrome asked looking around. "We were fighting those guys, and then we were beat."

"Zale brought you guys here, you should get some rest. You've all been asleep for the last couple hours; you still need to get some rest." Satsuki said trying to coax them all back into bed, but they all stood up ignoring her protests.

"Where is Zale?" Gaara asked seeing that their leader was nowhere to be found.

"I told him to scare up some leads, he's probably around the village somewhere trying to find out where the guys that beat you all are." Satsuki said.

"No he's in trouble we all felt it." Chrome said grabbing his clothes, and quickly changing into them. "We have to go now he might be dead."

"Dead?" Kurumi groaned out, standing in the doorway of the only room in the home they were in.

"Don't worry he's not going to die that easy he's hurt at worse." Aria said soothing Kurumi and Satsuki. "Please take care of each other I have a really bad feeling about what's about to go down." They all nodded, and then Aria took notice. "Um Kurumi do you have a tail?"

"Yeah that's why I was sick, I was recovering chakra." Kurumi confirmed before they ran off. "Satsuki I want chicken soup."

"Don't worry Shiki's cooking it already."Satsuki said lying her back down on her bed.