Chapter 29 Breaking Down
Samui eyes blinked open as she looked up at a bare concrete ceiling with a single light bulb contained inside a metal cage. Her head was pounding and her entire body was sore, she felt as if she had just been beaten to within an inch of her life and somehow beyond that.
"Samui are you ok?" inquired Karui's voice as Samui blinked, that was when the first sign that something was wrong happened. When she blinked a second semi, clear eyelid moved across her eyes from the bottom right corner to the top left corner.
"What happened?" asked Samui.
"Well I hate to say this but…" started Karui as Samui lifted her hand up into view, the arm that came into view was covered with scales in multiple different shades of blue scales with a few yellows mixed in around the wrist and around her fingers. Her eyes widened as she looked at her hand, her five fingers had become only three, the thumb was about the same size but it was if the other four had merged into only two. Short sharp finger claws each the color of gold came out of her three fingers.
"I am a demon?" inquired Samui as she lifted her other arm into view, like the other it had gone through the same change. "How…what?"
"When you and Tenten walked out of the store there was a some sort of plant creature which attacked you." explained Karui as Samui sat up and looked at herself. Her whole body was covered in scales and harden armored plates, she moved one of her hands back only to hit something, she turned her head to see that she had two large wings coming out of her back. "It turned you into something called a Rhyuu, basically a dragon."
Slowly Samui sat up on the bed and as she did she noticed more differences, a narrow tail moved behind her and her feet had also changed so two large claws stuck out of the front of her feet while a single one came out of the back. She had somehow lost her cloths and had somehow been dressed in a charcoal colored bra and panties.
"Where are my cloths?" inquired Samui as Karui who was standing in the corner of the room. Karui blinked at the strange question.
"You are worried about cloths; you lost your humanity?" said Karui "You hate the demons now you are one."
"It is so strange." said Samui as she closed her new clawed hands. "I feel…different, I feel good, I feel powerful and hell I can fly now. Now about my cloths?"
"Well…they were kind of destroyed when you were turned," explained Karui "Luckily before you were turned you dropped the scroll that you sealed everything in so I didn't have to find a bra to contain your ungodly large breasts."
"I see." said Samui as she stood up only to notice that the room seamed smaller, she turned to look at her teammate she now stood a head taller than her teammate closer to six feet then her normal 5'5" judging from the wing tips where above her she towered over her teammate by at least a good foot. She ran a clawed hand down her arm, she felt the scales which made up her skin but it felt good, natural to her. "Do you have a mirror?"
"Yes." confirmed Karui as she slowly backed away from her friend keeping a hand near her weapon pouch and moved to the sealing scroll. She unsealed a large wooden full length mirror which Samui had taken from the furniture store. Samui moved forward and looked at herself in the mirror while a cold chill ran down Karui's teammate's spin. Samui was checking herself out in the mirror with a large smile, she ran her hands down her sides almost sexually.
"I wonder what Darui became?" stated Samui to herself with a slight moan in her voice. Karui knew that her friend had a thing for the white haired ninja with black eyes and deep brown skin. Personally Karui didn't like him that much but to each their own.
"We aren't sure Darui is even alive," stated Karui all the while wondering what the hell was wrong with her friend.
"I am sure he is." stated Samui as she studied her face in detail, opening her mouth to show the sharp teeth and forked tongue. "The question is did he become one of these…what did you call me a Rhyuu?"
"Yes." confirmed Karui "From what Meiko told us, stories about dragons come from Rhyuus."
"What the hell happened to my friend?" thought Karui as Samui turned to view herself at every view possible, it reminded Karui of someone checking out a dress she had tried on in a mirror.
"Nice." stated Samui
"Um…aren't you going to turn back to a human?" inquired Karui
"Maybe later, this feels good. I will have to see what cloths still work with this new tail and wings. I can't wear this all the time," explained Samui as she snapped her claws only to have a small whirlwind of snow spin around in her hand. "Interesting, I didn't have to do any hand signs."
"Well I'll let Meiko come by and talk to you, she knows more about what you have become then any of us." explained Karui as slowly backed out as her friend who was cursing out the demons only a few hours ago was checking out her new demon form with a smile on her face. The moment Karui stepped out of the door she lowered a large metal bar over the door.
"What the fuck happened to her?" asked Karui to herself as she turned around to see Meiko standing there, she was used to seeing the red haired young woman as a human but she stood there as a Kitsune. She was still wearing the same cloths but she now had golden earrings sticking out of her pointed ears, two studs in each ear.
"The change." explained Meiko "Let me guess she is acting like she wants to either pleasure herself or jump on someone."
"Both." admitted Karui as Meiko nodded her head.
"That isn't uncommon, it is stronger in some people and lesser in other." explained Meiko "Did she ask about friends and family?"
"No, but she isn't a fan of her brother, our teammate Omoi died in the flu and from what could see our sensei killed himself to allow us to escape." explained Karui as Meiko nodded her head.
"So aside from you she doesn't really have any friends of family to have that pull on her," added Meiko as Karui raised an eyebrow. "When the changes happen there is a need to be closed to loved ones and turn them if possible. Also if you are in a certain age range a sexual pull, hell the demon council is counting on it to bring the population up after this is all done."
"I see and you want to turn your brother and us?" inquired Karui
"My brother, yes." admitted Meiko, she did not add Sakura's name because while she liked Sakura and would put safe money that both Sakura and her brother loved each other that was beside the point. "But I don't want him to be forced to do it, I want him to accept the change. I may not have the sexually pull of some of the older people but I have the need to save my brother's life and the only way to do that is to turn. In fact it will likely be the only way to save all of you because the red flu will come back and kill you."
"I see." Said Karui before rolling her eyes "That plant thing, do you have any idea how to control it?"
"None, I am not one of the priests or priestess who manage them." admitted Meiko "It will not attack a demon but it will attack and turn every human that comes near it. I do know there is a way to control what a person becomes on their second transformation but not the first and I don't know how they do it only a priest know how to do that."
"Are you going to go in and talk to her?" inquired Karui
"No, I need a bath and she will be more focused on her body for a while, better to talk to her after that is done." explained Meiko as she turned back into a human before turning to walk away.
"Why did you turn back into a human?" inquired Karui as Meiko turned and looked at her.
"It makes my brother more comfortable around me, hell it makes everyone more comfortable having me around." admitted Meiko "Not me personally, I like what I am. Do you think I sleep with a hedge on?"
"I guess that makes sense hedges are hard to maintain when your asleep but how did the demons who were sent in as spies keep it up?" inquired Karui
"Probably a stabilizer." stated Meiko as Karui blinked. "I never got one assigned to me but it some sort of item made out a certain metal, apply a special seal on it and as long as you wear it you can keep your hedge up."
"I see." said Karui before putting the idea aside "Now I am going to get a stiff drink."
Meiko shrugged before going back to her room to start unpacking all the items that she had brought down from the city above.
Elsewhere in the base, Karin was removing Samui's access code from the computer database which meant she was now in the same position as Meiko. She was stuck inside the base with no way out, it had not been decided if she would have to be fully imprisoned or she would be given some freedom like Meiko.
"Listen we need to talk with you." said a voice behind her as she turned to see Neji, Sai and Tenten standing there.
"Whatever you want it can wait, I need to get down to the medical lab." Stated Karin
"This is important, we were thinking that with the possibility that a turned loved one of someone who is down here and they may be tempted to go up," explained Neji as Karin leaned back in her chair with a board look on her face.
"So by your standard I should remove everyone's access code aside from myself, that idiot Suigetsu and Sasuke-kun, we don't have any family members or loved ones who could be demons that could pull on us to turn traitor," stated Karin with a grin as the Leaf ninjas glared at her. "However I don't think you will allow me to do that?"
"Actually we considering have it be require three pass codes required to open the door." advised Tenten as Karin nodded her head.
"Shouldn't be hard, we can do the same thing for the radio that can be just as important." Added Karin as all three of the Leaf ninjas nodded their heads in agreement. "Ok but you all have to figure out a schedule to keep an eye on the cameras."
"What cameras?" inquired Tenten as Karin pressed a button and the wall of TV monitors turned on to show both the hallways of the base and the city outside.
"Orochimaru patched into the police monitor system and so we can watch almost every part of the city. He used it for the occasional kidnapping job to get more subjects for his work down here but it will work for us." explained Karin as she stood up. "Since you all are not medically trained you will be of little importance until we find a cure so you can monitor the cameras to keep an eye out for demons."
With that Karin walked out of the room with a smirk which would have caused her to be slapped in most cases but in a way she was right. Apart from Karin only Sakura and to a lesser level Ino had medical training and it would be the three of them that would be key to finding a cure. Since Meiko and now Samui had been turned into demons they couldn't stand watch so that meant it fell to everyone else.
"Teams of two?" inquired Tenten, that was standard number but it didn't hurt to check.
"Yes, but you can't be part of it," said Neji as Tenten glared at him, before she could ask why he moved on. "We need you to work on the bronze we have to make weapons and you are the only one who can do that. That work is more important than this"
"I guess." admitted Tenten "I hadn't thought of that, with everything that happened with Samui I had forgotten. Hell, that could have been me, I was walking beside her. If I had moved to the opposite side then I would have been taken instead of her."
"It is just one of those twists of fate." said Neji as he reassured his girlfriend.
"And maybe it is for the best." Added Sai "Samui doesn't have the skills you do and if you had turned then we wouldn't have anyone who can forge weapons for us. Also she gives us more live sample to work with."
"But not counting Fu or Naruto who are human, we only have samples from what Meiko and Samui that is two out of 12 demon races." added Neji "It may not be enough, we may need more samples from the other races."
"I believe Hinata said something about Karui and Samui having a dead demon for a sample not sure what kind." added Tenten
"It may not be enough, we may need more samples." stated Sai "All these demons look different they must have different biological systems and to find a cure we may need more than three samples."
"So we send out hunting parties and hunt them down," offered Tenten as Sai shook his head.
"No, too much of a risk the parties could be taken themselves and they could bring them down on us." Explained Sai
"Agreed that means the only option will be to wait for a demon to come into the city with the cameras we be able to see them and get the jump on them." stated Neji only to have Sai shake his head again.
"That is one option but there is another." said Sai as he took a deep breath "If we have to get more samples we may have to use that plant thing."
"What capture it and sample it?" inquired Tenten not sure where he was going. "Meiko pulled one of its leaves of us and Samui was covered with that liquid. Not sure what else we can get from it without risking being turned."
"We can get more demons and possibly more different types of demons." added Sai sadly.
"You want to capture people and bring them here to turn them?" Snapped Tenten "That is sick we are trying to save humanity."
"No, not capture people use us." explained Sai "Aside from a handful of us we are not that useful if we have to get more samples then we may have to turn ourselves to get those samples."
For a moment neither Neji nor Tenten said anything only looked at him stunned.
"You want to turn us into demons?" inquired Tenten
"If it is needed to save humanity then yes, if it comes to that we will just have to hope that we can turn back." explained Sai "If I had to I would do it to save humanity as a whole but it may require more than just myself, it might even take most of us."
"Have you told anyone else about this?" inquired Neji
"No, and I shouldn't have told you but it is something that we have to consider." Stated Sai "It is a horrible option but it has to be considered an option. If giving up our own humanity saves the rest of humanity it is a price well paid."
"As a last resort maybe and even then it is a huge maybe, I for one would rather die then turn." stated Tenten as she put her finger in Sai's face before walking out.
"Shikamaru should be up in a couple of minutes to try to contact Temari, when he is done he will watch the monitors with you." ordered Neji as Sai nodded his head, technically Shikamaru was the highest ranking ninja so he should be giving orders to everyone else but that was an order Shikamaru wasn't likely going to fight.
It was a solemn journey to the grave yard where those who had fallen defending the village was located, more than a few newly turned people turned and looked at Minato and Kushina as they journeyed along with Kakashi, Rin and Hotaru. A few people whispered as they noticed the group, which journeyed up to the hill which led up to where the memorial stone which was the center of the grave yard. The once perfectly trimmed grass around the multiple gravestones were over grown with weeds so tall that they covered the names.
Finally they found Obito's grave marker and for a while no one said anything before Minato ran through hand signs as best as he could. When he finished the ground opened up to show an empty wooden box, since they never recovered Obito's body they never put anything into the coffin which would contain the ern holding his ashes. Slowly Kakashi bent down and picked up the box in his new demon hands. He slowly opened it the casket as Rin pulled a scroll and unsealed an urn. The urn had had silver inlays with the Uchiha clan symbol just into the metal. A single tear made out of fire ran down Rin's face as she placed the urn containing the teammate she had killed into the casket.
"She even cries fire." thought Kakashi as he lowered the box containing his friend back into the ground. He let his hand rest on the box for a moment before closing his eyes.
"Goodbye Obito." said Kakashi as he moved his hand away and stepped out of the ground.
"Do it Sensei." ordered Rin in a distance sad voice as Minato ran through hand signs again and the ground closed in on itself sealing Obito in his final resting place. For a long time no one said anything, they just stood there around the grave not wanting to say anything.
"I should feel more sadness over his death but I don't I already buried him once and I have seen so much death lately." thought Kakashi to himself as he turned and walked away, he moved over a small rise to look down on the far side of the hill. Just out of view of the small group of mourners was a mound of turned dirt, a few weeds where sticking out of the dirt with a crude wooden sign.
"650 buried here." It read as Kakashi was taken back to that day.
Flashback
There was a thump as another body bag was thrown into the pit, they were stacking the bodies up as if it was lumber instead of the remains of their neighbors, friends and family members. With each layer of humanity they placed in the ground, they cover them with oil.
"This is horrible," said Naruto as he and Kakashi stood back away from where the dead bodies were being put into the ground.
"It is about to get worse." Said Kakashi as the final layer group of the dead was stacked up. With that done one of the ANBU light a match and tossed it into the pile of the dead. Instantly the mound of dead caught fire filling the night air with a ghostly light. The two of them where far enough away from the bodies that they did not have the hoods and instead only had face masks with air lines to scrubbers. This allowed the ash to stick in their hair.
"I don't really see how?" countered Naruto
"The group we are burning are just from today and just from a single part of the village. There will be more tomorrow and the day after that." countered Kakashi as Naruto's eyes widened before turning back to the village. He could see large fires burning in places they should not, parks and training fields. All of those fires marked the funeral piles for the victims of the flu.
"Hopefully we find a way to stop this." said Naruto as the sound a wheels on pavement caused both of them to turn to see a cart full of dead bodies coming up the hill. "And hopefully we will have something left when this is done."
End flashback
"Well looks like we may have something after all this, Naruto." said Kakashi to himself as he noticed a group of demons, likely pureblooded ones leveling out a different mound of ash and spreading it out so that it blended in with the natural scope of the land. They were placing trees and grass sod on the ground, one of them removed a marker which showed the number of dead in the mass grave before putting down some grass.
"Kakashi is something wrong?" asked Rin's voice behind him.
"But we lost our humanity while doing so." finished Kakashi before turning back around and moving back down the hill.
Sakura and Ino where busy setting up the lab which had to be one of the darkest places either of them had ever been in. It was not that the room was physically dark, they could have dealt with that it was just that built into the very walls where multiple leg and arm restraints for holding down Orochimaru's subjects while he prepared to experiment on them. Every so often one of the two of them would brush against the cold hard metal and cause it to hit the wall filling the air with a twisted hollow sound. There were two operating tables with multiple restraints for the victim's body, there was even marks in the metal from where the restraints had rubbed against the metal.
"I wonder how many people died on these tables," stated Ino as she ran her hand across the cut metal. "That would be horrible."
"Not as horrible as the people who had to watch and know that your time is coming." added Sakura as she looked at the chains on the wall.
"Put that out of our mind," ordered Inner Sakura as she looked around at the lab. It was as Karin had said all the equipment was still here and while they were no longer on the cutting edge of technology they were still very good. They were the equal or better then everything they had in the Leaf aside from their brand new machines, which had just been installed. Either way it would work for them. She turned her mind back to the work at hand; she had multiple samples of the virus in growth plates so that they would have samples to work with. It would take time for the virus to grow, it would take about 12 hours to get the samples to the level they needed.
"I got the download of the Leaf files going, it should take about 10 hours to transfer everything." explained Ino
"Ok, once that is done see about making multiple copies so that all of us can have them in case we have to evacuated the base." ordered Sakura
"A waste of time." stated a voice from the doorway as both lead medical ninjas turned to see Karin standing in the doorway. "There is only one way out of the base and if the demons hold that then we already loss."
"We can blast our way out and swim to the surface, we are underwater right?" inquired Ino
"Yes, with a good twenty feet of rock above us and then with an additional 100 feet of water." stated Karin
"That isn't too bad." said Ino
"And according to that demon Meiko some of the demons have gills so they will be waiting for us." added Karin "Basically we are trapped down here and if we fall then humanity falls with us."
"I think we all get the point, so how about we decide what we are all going to work on." stated Sakura "I recommend that one of us work on breaking down the DNA structure of Demons, they are immune to the virus and it will be key in returning humanity to those turned."
"A good idea, you can take care of that," stated Karin before looking at Ino. "What sort of medical training do you have?"
"Not much actually." admitted Ino "I switched to the intelligence and counter intelligence field a couple of months ago but before that I served as a field medic and…."
"So basically you are worthless apart from cleaning up and set up." finished Karin as Sakura fought the urge to punch her through a wall.
"Why don't I double check Shizune's work to make sure she didn't hide anything from us," offered Ino in an attempt to cut off a possible fight between Sakura and Karin.
"Yes, that is where you would be the most useful." confirmed Karin "I will work on the cure by studying the virus."
"Maybe finding a cure is pointless," said a new voice as all three turned to see Hinata standing in the doorway.
"Do you want to die?" inquired Karin "If the story is true then we all have the virus in us but dormant and it will wake back up and kill us. Idiot."
"I wouldn't be as rude but she is right Hinata," added Sakura as her inner self grinned at the put down by Karin on Hinata.
"So why not find a way to keep it dormant?" inquired Hinata "Wouldn't it be easier to find a way to keep the virus from waking up?"
Sakura and Karin shared a look between the two of them as Ino laughed.
"You know that isn't a half bad idea," laughed Ino as she placed her hand under her chin. "It could actually work, it would not heal anyone who is already sick but it could work for those who have already made it through the first fight with the virus."
"No, it will never work we need to find a cure for everything." dismissed Karin
"Why?" thought Sakura "Most of the world has already been infected and it will save the lives of everyone who isn't infected long enough for us to find a way to turn demons back into humans. Why is she so against this?"
"We will look into your idea, Hinata." added Sakura "Why are you down here?"
"Well I don't have much to do so I am walking around seeing what the base has to offer." explained Hinata
"Looking for Naruto-kun." answered Inner Sakura
"Well it will take a few hours to get all the samples growing and the computer ready to work." stated Karin as she looked at her watch. "We should grab some dinner and get ready to bed early and start at 5 am. That is when everything should be ready and we can get to work."
"Kiba is going to smoke some of the fish for a group dinner, he is in the kitchen right now." Explained Hinata
"Sorry but I wouldn't trust Kiba's cooking skills." admitted Ino
"Generally you are right but…" started Hinata as she trailed off wondering if she should share this or not. "Smoking meat is one cooking skill Kiba is good at, his father taught him before he disappeared on a mission. It reminds him of his father and he has gotten pretty good at it."
The sun was just starting to sink below the horizon as Konohamaru looking out through the gaps in the wood planks that covered the window. He looked out to see, he could not see the sun, which was setting inland however it did cast shadows across the sand and the graveyard of ships, which sat in the harbor.
"Konohamaru, Moegi, Udon would you come with me I need your help moving some stuff in the garden?" offered Ayame as all three of them stood up and grabbed their packs. "You don't those."
"The demons may be out there, better safe than sorry." answered Konohamaru as Ayame shrugged.
"Ok, the choice is yours seems like a waste to me," said the cook as she guided the three young ninjas out into the garden. It was not much to see; it was as long as the side of the building and went out maybe fifty feet from the building before hitting the remains of another building. There was a couple of sad looking trees with even sadder looking apples hanging on the branches. The rest of the soil where different plants used to grow was over grown by weeds and knee high grass.
"I got a stack of firewood by the boat shed," explained Ayame as she pointed toward the stack of wood. "If we each grab a load we should be good."
"Ok." said Udon calmly as he moved forward. Konohamaru and Moegi followed behind each of them checking for something but seeing nothing. Udon reached the pile of wood first and was in the process of picking up a load when suddenly a shadow fell upon him. He spun around just in time to see the open mouth of some strange plant grab him and lift him up into the air.
"Udon!" yelled Moegi as she pulled a kunai only to see that Konohamaru had turned not to face the creature that had their teammate but to Ayame.
"You're a demon." said Konohamaru, he made the statement a fact not a question as Ayame began to change before their eyes. Her hands elongated and became skinner, so did her legs, her skin took on an unnaturally light blue tone. Her fingernails turned blue as streaks of neon blue began to run down her black hair. Two butterfly like wings appeared from behind her, the wings where semi clear but with highlights of royal and light blue.
"Yes." confirmed Ayame "And your friend is becoming one and so will the two of you, once that is done we will bring you back to the Leaf and go from there."
"We will never become demons!" yelled Moegi as the sound of someone throwing up caused both of them to turn. There on the ground throwing up was a creature which looked like a gaint snake, it had no legs instead it was a long tail, it's skin was made totally of scales a mixture of brown, sand and black forming a diamond like pattern with what appeared to be white under it. The arms where muscular and it had no hair what so ever on its head. A hood like a cobra came out of the top of its head and moved out before attaching back to the head at the jaw line before moving out to the tip of each shoulders.
The creature threw up again, a strange liquid along with teeth.
"Your friend has already become one," said Ayame as the creature turned it's head to show the scale covered face of Udon. "A Nure-Onna, a snake person, he may not have his poison sack filled yet. That takes time to replenished after each bite."
"My God." said Moegi as she turned to leave only to see that the two of them where surrounded, all the adults which had been in the boat club with them surrounded them.
"Traitors!" yelled Konahamaru as the two Harunos lowered their heads a bit.
"Sorry but we don't have a choice, it is the only way to get our daughter." explained Mebuki Haruno "Also looking at it in a certain light it isn't too bad, they are going to turn the world and those who aren't turn will be killed by the flu."
"So do you want to do this hard way?" inquired Ayame as Konohamaru pulled his own kunia.
"We will never give in to you," snapped Konohamaru, he never heard movement before it was too late. Udon had slithered up behind him while his back was turned, he grabbed him and with a toss Udon had never had before he threw him toward the strange plant that had turned.
"Konohamaru-kun!" yelled Moeji's voice in the distance as Konohamaru flew through the air, he was looking up toward the sky as he flew and he saw it. It had a mouth with strange flowers surrounding it, it opened up to show needle like teeth.
"Damn it." cursed Konohamaru as he began to run though hand signs but the plant mouth was already coming down. "I am not going to make it!"
Then he saw movement out of the corner of his eye, an arrow. The arrow passed between him and the plant, a paper bomb was attached to the arrow, it went off. The explosion forced both Konohamaru and the plant backwards away from each other. Konohamaru bounced off the ground and for a second he blacked out. When he came back around Moegi was dragging him away the boat club which was now burning, he could see shadowy figures moving up from the shoreline. A man dressed in an torn and dirty ANBU uniform ran up to the two of them a sword raised.
"Human, we are human!" yelled Moegi as she raised her hand to shield them from the sword strike.
"Prove it." Said the man as he lowered his sword slightly "Touch the tip of the blade."
"Why?" inquired Moegi
"It is edged in bronze and that burns demons." Said the man as Moegi reached up and touched the blade, nothing happened. Next he moved the blade down and touched Konohamaru.
"Alright, your humans now get to the boats. We can't stay long," ordered the ANBU as Moegi dragged Konohamaru toward the nearest small boat which sat on the shoreline.
"Who the hell are you?" asked the driver
"Survivors from the Leaf it looks like." answered the Guard as he moved to help Moegi carry Konohamaru onto the boat.
"Lucky SOBs if we hadn't hit this place you would have been turned." Said the driver
"One of our teammates was turned," answered Moegi "Who are you?"
"We are all that is left of the Kirigakure Ninja force." said a new voice as Moegi turned to see a tall woman with long brown that went down all the way to her knees. Her blue cloths where dirty and had stains on them from both sand and salt. She had a ninja vest over her large chest and while she wore a vest with the markings of a middle level field officer, the way the other two looked at her told Moegi that was a false front. In combat, it was not uncommon for high-ranking ninjas to hide their ranks so that they would not be targets.
"Lady Mizukage." said the guard as he snapped to attention only to get a death glare by the woman.
"It is time to get out of here," ordered the Mizukage before looking at Moegi. "Was there any other humans up there beside you?"
"No, not anymore…I think." answered Moegi as the woman nodded before reaching for a small radio attached to a clip on her vest. "Advance to contact."
"What I thought you wanted to pull back?" inquired Moegi
"Yes, but those things can monitor our radio communication by saying to advance it means to fall back. This way if they are listening they would think we would want to carry out something more then a hit and run." Explained the woman with a slight grin as the attacking ninjas began to fall back. "I am Mei Terumi the 5th Mizuakage of Kirigakure. Do not worry you will be safe soon…well safer."
"Take them back to base." Ordered Mei Terumi as the boats began to leave the shore, the Mizuakage stood on the beach and waited beside the last boat as the raiders returned, she was the last one to get off the beach after making sure that everyone had come back. The raiders plus two young leaf ninjas moved in-between the abounded ships before heading out to sea and disappearing into the darkening evening leaving the boat club buildings burning.
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