Chapter 9 The Last Day Part 3
"Alright seal up all the samples you can get ahold on." ordered Sakura as she, Ino and Naruto rushed into the medical research area. A few doctors looked at them confused since neither of them had put in their biohazard suits. "Naruto roll out five sealing scrolls and prepare to seal what we give you."
"What are you three doing?" inquired one of the doctors
"We have been betrayed," explained Ino as she placed vile containing samples of the virus on the sealing paper. "This virus is the precursor to an attack and Lady Tsunade has ordered us to get samples to a safe location."
"What?" asked one of the doctors, totally confused from the statement coming from two of the three students of the Hokage. "Who is the traitor?"
"Don't worry about that now, she has released a pure sample of the virus in the green zones so head up there and do what you can to help." ordered Sakura as she placed chemicals and other supplies they will need on the sealing paper. The doctors look at each other before finally following the orders of the two students of the Hokage, leaving the three of them alone. "We will be lucky if half of them stay to help most will try to get to their families."
"Can't say I blame those who do leave," admitted Sakura as she thought about her parents, likely they were on a cruise ship when the outbreak happened and with some luck they were safe.
"Is there anything I can do?" inquired Naruto as he looked around the clean room.
"We need some of the backup glassware and the computer hard drives," ordered Sakura as her mind raced about everything they could possibly need but in the back of her mind was that little voice telling her to run and hide.
"Where are they?" inquired Naruto as he looked around at the multiple rows of medical stations not sure where the items where.
"Glassware is in the supply closet over there along with extra chemicals grab them both." said Ino as she pointed to a backroom in the right. "The hard drives are in the room on the left, just grab the drives we will find computers later."
"We will get them later we need you to seal these up." countered Sakura as Naruto formed a hand sign instantly four more Naruto's appeared. The four shadow moved off to carry out the orders while the real Naruto stayed behind to do the sealing.
"Why didn't we think of that?" inquired Ino as she kept moving grabbing some samples from the storage area.
Inside the computer room located behind research area one of the Naruto clones looked at the other, the entire room was nothing but lines of computer servers each with flashing green lights showing that they were on.
"So we grab the hard drives?" inquired one of the clones "What are those?"
"Must be these," said the other as he looked at the side of the servers and saw squares about the size of a small book. There was a label on it which had a number and a short note, the one before them said "Medical Hard drive Blood Records AA-FZ"
"Grab them." ordered the other as they began pulling the drives from the computers.
Outside Naruto was sealing as fast as he could, Sakura and Ino where bring every piece of medical technology and sample they could grab, his clones where bring extra supplies and the hard drives.
"Naruto send a clone upstairs to grab some of the resealed medical supplies in the mission closet?" inquired Ino
"That is on the second floor right?" inquired Naruto
"Yes, now go." ordered Sakura as Naruto formed a hand sign as two more clones appeared. The clones rushed upstairs only to find the lobby of the hospital to be in a state of total confusion. Doctors where trying to care for the people who had fallen sick and trying to control the people who were panicking. As Naruto stood in the stairs he saw at least two doctors slink away from a sick person and disappear out the main door throwing their white ninja vests which marked them as a healer away as they went.
"Naruto!" yelled a female voice as Naruto turned to see Tenten, Neji, Shikamaru and Sai. They were all dressed in their ninja uniforms, they had a look of confusion on their faces just like everyone else. "What the hell is going on? We got radio messages telling us to come here."
"No, time to explain but we need to prepare to leave. Ino and Sakura are down stairs getting all the medical samples sealed up, I am going to get some of the medical mission supplies on the second floor." explained Naruto "We need everything else."
"We are leaving?" inquired Tenten as she looked around at the state of the lobby. "We need to regain control over the village not leave."
"Yes, no time to explain we need weapons, food and everything else." explained Naruto "It's the old ladies orders."
"Alright, we will take care of that," explained Shikamaru as the highest ranking ninja of them all. "Meet downstairs in fifteen minutes?"
"Make it ten," countered Naruto "We don't have fifteen minutes, we are about to be attacked."
"Attacked by who?" inquired Neji
"Demons." answered Naruto as all four of them looked as if Naruto had lost his mind. "We will explain everything later, just go get supplies."
Outside the city was in a state of total panic, the virus which naturally took days to bring a person down with a pure sample released was doing it in minutes. That caused whatever was left of any government control to break, civilians where rushing out of the safe zones attempting to find safety in the almost abounded but still infected city. Others tried to rush for the bunkers under the Hokage mountain and still others began to loot buildings. Even ninjas where not unaffected as some broke from command and ran, some went running with families and others tried and mostly failed to get things back under control. In truth, the red flue was not as dangerous as the fear of the flue.
"Get those fires out!" yelled Guy as he pointed toward a raging fire in a small apartment complex, people where rushing out of the building even as others where rushing in to loot the building. The order which had been hanging on by a thread had broken down and the base instincts of humanity was on full display.
"Guy!" yelled Kakashi as he landed beside his friend.
"Kakashi, we need more forces here the virus somehow got in." started Guy as multiple screams filled the air. They turned to see yet another building was now on fire, seconds later there was an explosion as a gas pipe went up filling the smoke filled sky with light.
"It was a deliberate act, we have been betrayed." stated Kakashi as Guy blinked.
"Who?" inquired Anko as she appeared beside Guy, she heard the start of the conversation and she couldn't believe it either.
"Shizune, she is something I have never seen but more are coming and Tsunade has ordered a small team to leave." Explained Kakashi
"Shizune?" inquired Anko "She is a traitor? I don't believe it."
"She isn't even human." countered Kakashi
"Not human, Kakashi you're not making any sense." stated Anko as the sound of a crashing building filled the air.
"Does any of this make any sense, trust me the village is about to be attacked." explained Kakashi before turning toward Guy. "Your team is meeting us at the hospital, we are leaving."
"I am not leaving." stated Guy as Kakashi looked at him. "I am needed here more than anything else, if you have to leave then someone has to take command. If not me then who?"
"That would be me," stated Tsunade as she and a dozen ANBU arrived "I need you to back up Kakashi and his team."
"No offense but Neji can do just as much as me and I am more useful here." stated Guy as he took a deep breath "I am not leaving, I am going to defend this village."
Tsunade lowered her head for a moment.
"Alright." ordered Tsunade "Guy, gather everyone you can and head to the nearest isolation wall, forget about putting out any fires or stopping looters form a defense line. I don't care if you have to set demolition charges in the buildings you are to buy as much time as possible."
"As much time for what?" inquired Anko
"For you to get anyone who is capable of moving on their own out of the tunnels under the Hokage building." said Tsunade as she thought about it for a moment. "They likely know about all the tunnels so we will have to fall back onto the backups."
"The backups?" inquired Kakashi
"Before the tunnels where built the village used to use the sewerage and water tunnels which run under the village." explained Tsunade "Use everything get as many people out as you can."
"Lady Tsunade it will take a lot of time to organize groups to…" started Anko only to be stoped by a hand raise.
"I never said it was an organize pull out, open the supply closets and hand out whatever we have and tell them to run down the tunnels." said Tsunade "Maybe the sudden exodus of people in such a confusing way will allow more people to escape. Kakashi rejoin your team and head out, I can't tell you where to go but get somewhere safe."
"What of the Leaf?" inquired Anko
"Sadly today is the last day for the Leaf village," admitted the Hokage
The door flew open as Tenten, Neji, Sai and Shikamaru entered one of the jonin and ANBU weapon locker. The ninja core had long ago spread out weapon cases around the village so that the ninja teams would have access to anything that they could possibly need. There were other ninjas in the room as well grabbing different supplies. Instantly Tenten took command as the daughter of a weapon shop owner and a collector of weapons she knew every type of weapon just at a glance. Within moments they had all the weapons they could ever want, at the same spot the ninjas had food and other supplies. They loaded up on everything they could and headed back down to the hospital.
"Alright tell me what the hell is going on?" inquired Tenten as they began to split up the multiple scrolls and weapons between all their packs. Luckly each scroll was labeled so that they didn't have to search for items. They were loading up on everything they could carry and it was clear that even with the scrolls holding a lot of the items sealed away it was still going to be carrying a lot.
"Ok, basically the virus wasn't natural it was an act of war on a global scale." said Sakura as she and Ino split up the medical supplies among the two of them with Tenten taking the third scroll full of supplies.
"The village is about to attacked and Lady Tsunade has ordered us out of here," added Ino as she strapped on an extra weapon pouch to her leg.
"Smart move, the plague weakens the village and then they move in and take over what is left." Said Shikamaru "The question is what nation would do that since every nation is affective by this thing."
"We don't know for sure but Shizune is a traitor," added Naruto as the others looked at him "She released a pure sample of the virus in the population."
"Why would Shizune do that?" inquired Tenten "She is the aid to the Hokage they knew each other for years didn't they?"
'Yes but we are not sure what she is or if that thing we saw wasn't human." Added Sakura as the others looked at her as if she had just said the dumbest thing possible. "Naruto grabbed her and then she broke a hedge and it what we saw wasn't human."
"She wasn't human," confirmed Naruto as he prepared a pack for Kakashi as well as himself.
"Wasn't human?" inquired Neji
"She looked like a sort of human deer thing," explained Ino as she described the deer like creature Shizune had become.
"Sounds like a Bai Ze." added Shikamaru as they looked at him confused. "It's a legendary demon which used to rule over the forest protecting Deer and other animals of the forest."
"How do you know that?" inquired Naruto
"Legend says they were the ones who taught the first Nara clan members how to tend to the deer and how to make medicine from them. It's a childhood myth nothing more than that." explained Shikamaru as he recalled his clan's history, his grandfather had told the story multiple times.
"Well they don't seem to be a myth," said Naruto before he blinked "Wait other demon races?"
"Not surprise you don't know about them, remember when had to find a book to read and write a report about in school about our clan history." Explained Shikamaru as he double checked to make sure he had everything he could possibly need.
"I don't have a clan, so I wrote about the Hokages." explained Naruto as he remembered sitting in class listening to everyone talk about their family histories then he would have to stand up and do a report about the Hokages.
"We had to do that every year what is your point?" inquired Ino
"My dad had some books about ancient myths so that is what I wrote about and the Bai Ze was one of a demon or Oni races which used walk alongside man." explained Shikamaru "It was all myths but it was an interesting read none the less."
"What about the tailed beast could Shizune be one of them?" inquired Ino as Naruto and Sakura shared a glace which went unnoticed by the others.
"They are just myths nothing more there has to be something more to this." said Kakashi as he moved into the room. "We need to get going and now do you have everything ready?"
"Yes, and I know a way out that no one else knows, not even Shizune." said Ino as Kakashi titled his head a bit. "There is a tunnel in a house by my clan compound which leads out of the village."
Kakashi thought about it for a moment, he had planned to use the tunnels under the Hokage building but this way would have less civilians in the way and if Ino was telling the truth then Shizune and whatever was waiting for them outside wouldn't know where they would come out of.
"Alright let's get going." Ordered Kakashi
"Sir, is it just us I would think another Jonin at least would be joining us." inquired Tenten as Kakashi lowered his head.
"Guy is staying behind." explained Kakashi to two of Guys students. "He is going to save as many people as he can, but in the end he can only delay whatever these things are planning. If there is to be any hope then it lies with Ino and Sakura with their medical knowledge. If they find a cure for this virus then we can form a true defense."
"And it our job to defend them." explained Shikamaru as he looked around the room, everyone had their uses. Naruto and Sai are great fighters, Tenten is the best weapons expert in the leaf and combined with Neji's Byuckugan she could hit targets without seeing them. Then there was himself and aside from his father was possibly the best planner in the Leaf and some had even said that he had surpassed his father. "Come on let's get going."
While Kakashi and his team where making their escape the outer walls of the Leaf village had already fallen to the demons. They had expected a fight of some kind so when those among them capable of flight reached the wall they were disappointed. Even though they were disappointed they carried on with their mission, some flew down and opened the gates for those unable to fly. With that done they began to sweep into the village. The planned operation called for those demons capable of flight to secure the major populated center of the village while a larger ground force moved through the village. Luckily, the Leaf ninjas had already cleared out most of the village, they only had to find those sealed away in medical isolation and all those where mapped out. They expected to find the odd couple of people outside of the green zones or running from them but that was supposed to be the exception to the rule. They did leave teams by the gate and on the walls and an outer line by the tunnels but the main force would be heading toward the village center from the main gate.
Near the center of the village, Lady Tsunade looked out over the city from the top of the Hokage building, beside her was what remained of the ANBU and regular ninja core command. Through the smoke of the fire, they could see humanoid figures flying in the air over the village.
"What is that?" inquired an ANBU
"Don't know but they are coming to take over this village and we are going to do everything we can to stop them." stated Tsunade
Running across the roof tops of heading away from the main gate and with the Hokage building in their rear Kakashi and his team could see figures flying over the village.
"Whatever they can fly?" inquired Ino as she saw the figures through the smoke.
"In legends there are multiple demons which can fly," stated Shikamaru "The Question is how many of the stories are true."
"Whatever happens keeps moving," ordered Kakashi as he jumped off the roof of one building landing on the next building. They were heading into the oldest part of the leaf village where all the major clan compounds where. It was dominated by the massive Hyuga complex but surround it was three small clan compounds, those compounds belonged to the Nara, Akimichi and Yamanaka clan.
A head of them hidden door located behind what remained of built in bookcase swung open for time in years as two figures stepped out into what would have been a home office. The desk he had picked out all those years ago remained where the movers had left it, the entire area was covered with dust and it was clear that no one had been in the room for a long time. The man ran his fingers over the dust covered desk as he cleared away the dust the dark stained oak came out.
"I remember when you picked out that thing," remembered Kushina as she looked at the massive desk. It had carved inlays with both the clan symbol and the symbol of the Leaf village. "I wanted something brighter like cherry but you had to go with oak."
"I know but this is my office after all, you had the rest of the house." explained Minato as the two of them shared a small laugh as they moved into the hallway. Like the office it had not seen use in years and was covered with dust and spider webs, however it was better maintained then they thought it would be. It was clear that someone had repainted sometime in the past and all the furniture had plastic covers over him or her to protect them.
"I am going to have a hell of a time cleaning this," stated Kushina as she pushed open one of the doors, she stepped in to find the nursery, which Minato had painted himself for their son. The room was sky blue with fluffy cloud wallpaper. They had prepared so much for Naruto's birth, they had bought a house renovated it and they had not even spent a night in it. They were planning to move in after Naruto was born, there was even unopened toys sitting in his room waiting for a day that never came.
"We will do it as a family, now let's go find our son." said Minato as they walked past the large kitchen which was necessary for the master chef of Kushina level. They walked out of over the overgrown front yard and they headed toward apartment complex on the far side of town where their son's apartment is.
As they headed away from the house another group landed down the block from them. They used the walls of a nearby Yamanka clan house as cover; Neji checked the area with his byakugan before they headed toward the house.
They pushed open a sliding door and stepped into the large house. The dining room and kitchen combination was larger than the apartment Naruto had grown up in.
"Whose house is this?" asked Naruto, the whole place was covered with a fine layer of dust. There was some pieces of furniture located in the attached living room but they were covered with plastic to keep the dust off. He could make out a stone fireplace, with a wooden mantel over it but it lacked any photos.
"It was one of the clans main houses but before I was born they built new ones," explained Ino "They gave the homes to other members of the clan but they sold this one to someone else."
"Who?" inquired Sakura as they moved into the massive kitchen, it was clear that whoever had lived here was into cooking, some really expensive cooking supplies where sitting siting in new boxes on the wall counter.
"No idea, no one ever lived here but my clan always took care of it," explained Ino "We cleaned the yard and made sure that everything was kept in a good condition. I think they even redid the paint one or two times. I asked my father way but he never said why, only that it was their duty to do so."
"I know why," said Naruto as he moved toward the kitchen island.
"Why?" inquired Ino as Naruto brushed off the layer of dust the island only to show a clan seal which had been placed into the island counter top with colored tiles. Most of the titles where white but in the center the tiles took on a symbol, it was an silver circle with reddish orange flames dancing around the bottom of it.
"This." said Naruto as he looked at the colored tiles.
"I saw that years ago, what of it?" inquired Ino as she tried to place the information.
"That is the Namikaze clan seal." explained Shikamaru as he remembered his history lessons.
"Namikaze clan?" said Ino as she tried to remember it.
"4th Hokage." explained Kakashi he remembered standing in the corner of the living room while a pregnant Kushina ordered the movers around. He still remembered the lay out, it was truly a massive house at least four bedrooms not counting the master bedroom, two bathrooms, a massive kitchen, home office and a large living room with a stone fireplace. There was a downstairs basement but his sensei had not gotten around into renovating that yet. There was also a large backyard, which included a swing set and a covered training field. For a moment, he thought about tell Naruto that this would have been his home but decided against it, it would cause a scene and they needed to get away.
"Wow the 4th Hokage would have been my neighbor." exclaimed Ino as she put her hands on her hips "That would have been so cool."
"But why would the 4th need a house like this, he didn't have a family. He could have lived in the Hokage's quarters in the Hokage building like Lady Tsunade does." inquired Neji as they looked around. "This is a large house for only one person, in the Hyuga clan only married couples who were expecting or planning for multiple kids would get something like this."
"And the 4th didn't have any kids." confirmed Tenten
"Well that can't be true since there is a nursery down there," added Ino as she pointed down the hall. "And if I remember correctly it is blue so the 4th must have a son. Wow I could have been his neighbor and it was said the 4th was handsome, I wonder what his son would have looked like."
"Either that or he lost one, I never heard of him having a kid." added Naruto as he pocked his head into the nursery, the bedroom was larger than his own but that wasn't saying much his apartment was tiny. Kakashi watched as Naruto moved toward the crib, which still sat where he and Minato had placed it all those years ago. He watched as Naruto looked around not knowing that he was standing in what should have been his own room. "We need going where is this tunnel?"
"Over here, Choji and I found it when we were kids." explained Ino as she lead them into a large office with a dark wooden desk. "It's built into the wall behind the bookcase."
"How did you find it?" inquired Tenten
"And how come I didn't know about it?" added Shikamaru
"We were messing around here on a day you were sick and we stumbled upon it," explained Ino
"Someone was here." Said Sai as he placed his hand on the desk "See take a look at spot where there is no dust."
Kakashi's eyes widened as he looked at the finger marks in the dust, for some reason down in his gut he knew that it was sensie's hand which had made that mark. Now his son was standing in front of his desk and he did not even know it.
"A better reason to get going." said Tenten as Ino found the hidden latch and the passage opened up. "And this leads out of the village?"
"It did years ago when Choji and I explored this tunnel," explained Ino as she saw that the lights where on in the tunnel.
"Let's get moving." ordered Kakashi as they moved into the tunnel, Naruto was the last one to walk out and before he left he gave one last look around the room before closing the door behind him.
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