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The Boy in The Orange Jumpsuit.
Chapter Twelve – Massacre In The Woods.
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Mizuki looked at the children.
"Which one of you wants to go first?" He asked coldly. The children didn't really understand what was going on. Guren and Konan stared in horror at the gun and looked at their Uncle Minato and Grandpa Jiraiya, who were both unconscious on the ground.
"You're a damn coward! You wanna shoot us, tied together and unable to defend ourselves and you call yourselves soldiers? You should be ashamed! All of you should be ashamed!" Konan yelled angrily. She had just realised that this was the plan all along. To take them into the forest and murder them. Other teenagers started yelling things also.
"Cowards!"
"Bastards!"
"Scum!"
Soon the children joined in. Mizuki glared angrily at the children. Then he raised his gun and fired it. The children screamed as the other men started firing. Fifteen teenagers fell to the ground dead. Another thirty two children were badly injured. Konan shook as she looked at the blood coursing down Guren's shirt from her chest. She placed her hand over her younger sister's wound and pushed down to try and stop the flow of blood. Some of the dead were friends of hers. All of them had been ones to yell along with her. Pein, Zetsu, Kisame, Kakuzu, Hidan and Tobi were all lying dead on the ground, along with other teenagers that she knew. Zabuza, Raiga, Amaru, Sora, Kin and Shion, were ones she had worked with hauling rocks and they were dead. She didn't know the other three dead teenagers. Another volley of gunshots were released, this time the children had the good sense to throw themselves to the ground to avoid the bullets. Konan threw herself over Guren to protect her from anymore bullet wounds. She heard screams from other children who must have been hit by bullets. She felt one enter her shoulder and another enter her leg and she screamed with the burning sensation that tore through her flesh. That was when chaos started.
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Madara, Kakashi and Obito got into position as they heard guns go off. They noted ten men left behind to take out the group of defenceless children.
"We need to stop this now." Kakashi hissed. Madara nodded, when he saw the soldiers raise their guns and start shooting again. Fifteen teenagers were dead and thirty-two in the group were injured. It was pure luck that there weren't more dead or injured. Madara raised his pistol and aimed at Mizuki. Kakashi and Obito aimed their own pistols at two other soldiers. When they fired, their shots were dead on the mark. All three men fell to the ground dead. The other seven men turned to look for their assailants. Kakashi aimed his pistol again and fired, killing another soldier. Now there were six left. Madara and Obito ducked to either side as guns went off in their direction. Kakashi leapt back, but a stray bullet caught his arm. Kakashi cursed as he aimed his gun again. This time he missed, too blinded by pain to aim properly. Madara took aim and shot at another soldier, hitting the back of his neck. The soldier fell limp to the ground and twitched. Madara then took aim at another soldier and fired, shooting him in the head. There were now four soldiers left. Obito took one out within moments but the others made to run.
"I'll go after them, bandage Kakashi's arm and then get these people out of here." Madara shot out hurriedly, and then he was gone.
Obito and Kakashi walked out into the sight of the men, women and children. Some of the adults had begun to wake up. However quite a few were unconscious. Obito quickly bandaged Kakashi's arm. Then they both came toward the injured. A man with blond hair looked up at them, and Kakashi recognised him.
"Uzumaki-San?" Kakashi asked. The man looked at Kakashi, whilst holding his head.
"Hatake-San?" The man questioned. Kakashi nodded. The blond smiled.
"It's good to see you Kakashi." The man said.
"It's good to see you too Minato." Kakashi said back.
"Minato-San?" Obito questioned.
"Obito? It's been a long time since I took you, Kakashi and Rin as interns." Minato said softly. "It has been a while. I never knew you were in one of the camps." Kakashi said. Minato saw the dead children then.
"The Will of Fire save us." Minato breathed out. Kakashi nodded sadly.
"We tried to get here in time to do something. But before we could act they had already started shooting." Kakashi replied. Minato nodded sadly. Kakashi cut his ropes.
"We could use your medical expertise." Kakashi stated. Minato nodded as he looked at one of the girls who was injured.
"Guren!" He yelled in horror, as he ran over to the girl. She looked pale and she was losing a lot of blood.
"Kakashi, have you got anything I can use to stem the flow of blood?" Minato asked. Kakashi handed him a small med kit with bandages, needle and thread. Minato bit at his lower lip as he did the best he could to stop Guren loosing blood.
"Konan, hold this against the wound and press down hard." Minato told the blue haired girl next to Guren. He handed her a compress of wadded bandages. She nodded vigorously and held the makeshift compress against Guren's wound. That was when Minato saw Konan had two wounds, in her leg and her shoulder. Both were bleeding.
"Konan, why didn't you tell me that you were hurt?" Minato asked.
"Guren was hurt more badly then me. She needed help first." Konan replied weakly.
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Madara had chased through the woods and already killed two of the three escaped soldiers. One was still eluding him. As he heard the snap of a twig in the bushes, Madara turned and fired. The soldier dropped before him, but was still alive. Madara almost felt pity as he shot the man in the head. But he knew that had it been the other way around, this man would have killed him. That was Madara's only consolation at that moment.
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As Kakashi ushered children into the van they had arrived in, Obito carried the injured, as well as Minato. Those who could walk did. Some of the children cried as they saw their fallen peers laying on the ground. Kakashi and Obito had just gotten everyone into the two vans, squashing everyone in, as was inevitable, when Madara returned. He ushered Obito and Kakashi into the vans, and soon they were driving.
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Once the group were within Kakashi's house, insanity ensued as Jiraiya was reunited with Tsunade, Minato was reunited with Kushina, and Naruto and Sakura got to see Guren and Konan. Guren was unconscious by this point. Kushina shuffled herself to the side of her nieces, horror written on her face. Konan was getting weaker from blood loss as well as Guren. At this point, Minato looked at Kakashi and Obito.
"Kakashi, Obito, I want one of you to work on Konan, she has two bullet wounds. Madara, Dad I want you to work on Guren. She's in a bad way. She's been shot in the chest but I have no idea whether the bullet is in her lung or her heart. There are other injured parties here and we need to do what we can to help them." Minato stated. Madara nodded his understanding.
"There are at least thirty injured children here." Madara stated.
"Thirty two children and twelve adults. I counted the injured while we were putting them in the van." Kakashi commented.
"We'd best get on with it. Tsunade, you should be able to decide the worst cases from the lesser ones. With your limited mobility that's my suggestion to you. Minato, dig out the bullet from Kakashi's arm and stitch it up, then you can both help with the injured. Obito, you work on Konan, and then if anyone else needs immediate surgery you'll carry on. I think both Jiraiya-San and I will be needed to work on Guren here. Kushina, sit with your husband and do everything you can to help him. Mikoto, go and help Obito as and when he needs it. Itachi, help Tsunade-San and Rin, you will come and help us with Guren." Madara stated. So everyone went to their tasks.
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After a tireless effort from everyone there, most of those who were injured were now out of danger. Konan was sleeping after two bullets were extracted from her shoulder and calf muscle. But Guren was still in danger. Madara and Jiraiya had found the bullet lodged in her lung and had removed it. However, Guren had lost a lot of blood, and she was extremely weak and susceptible to any infection that might come her way now. Kakashi, after having the bullet removed from his arm by Minato and stitched up appropriately, diligently aided ten children of the forty four people. None of them had been hurt too badly, and he was able to fix their injuries. One boy, Shino, had caught a several bullets in one leg, and the appendage was almost useless, but Kakashi knew it didn't need amputation. However, he also knew that Shino would most likely need to walk with the aid of a stick for the rest of his life. After all of this, Kakashi then helped tend to two injured women, and then Kakashi had to sit and rest due to his own loss of blood. Minato helped to tend to ten children. One teenage girl Hana, had been shot very close to the heart. Another young boy, who was maybe eight, Lee, had been shot in the arm and leg several times over. Minato was doubtful that he would ever be able to use his arm and leg properly again. The bones had been shattered and it had taken Minato over an hour to see to Lee. He also saw to two adults with minor wounds. Tsunade had tended to ten children and two adults, but she was exhausted by the end of it. It was just pure luck that none of her patients needed serious medical attention. Obito tended to six other adults. One of whom, was Gaara, Temari and Kankuro's Uncle Baki. However, the random bullet had torn through his lung and a major artery. Once the bullet was removed, Obito and Mikoto did their best to try and save him, but he bled out far too much, and neither Obito, nor Mikoto could manage to stop the bleed. So the Sabaku trio lost the only guardian they had left, having already lost their parents and their other uncle, Yashimaru, to the camp's exterminators. Another lost patient was the uncle of Lee, Gai Maito, who had not been able to protect himself from the bullets, had been shot several times in the chest and stomach. The bullets had destroyed several of his inner organs, and Obito knew that with his intestines destroyed and two out of four aortic chambers ruptured, there was nothing they could do to save him. The last patient that Obito lost was a woman called Akane, who was shot in several places while she lay on the ground, bound at her daughter, Ten Ten's feet. Somehow, she had managed to hide that she was pregnant, and Obito had managed to save the tiny baby girl, who Ten Ten named after her dead mother. The other adults were severely injured but not beyond saving. One severely injured patient was Tsume Inuzuka, Hana's mother, and she had also been shot close to the heart. Both female's lives hung by a thread, while the youngest of the family, Kiba, sat and waited. Hana had thrown herself over Kiba, to stop him from being hurt. Another was Shikaku Nara, and the last badly injured patient was Chouza Akimichi. The two fathers had been tied down, but were still willing to fight to save their children. After a long time working on Guren, Jiraiya and Madara worked on two other similarly afflicted patients. One, Yoshino Nara, was lucky to survive. The other, the mother of Matsuri, was not so lucky. She couldn't be saved.
Now that they had done everything they could, Kakashi had to show the non-injured and the not seriously injured people, where the annexes were, so that they could be hidden. Then it took the effort of Minato, Obito, Itachi, Mikoto, Madara, Jiraiya and Itachi to move the more seriously injured into the annexe that was hidden in the study. But this was just the beginning, now there were forty people that would need to be transported out of Oto and all the way to Konoha. Madara knew that after this night he would need to make the arrangements as quickly as possible, and hope that no one discovered them in the meantime.
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Okay, that was the end of this chapter. I hope everyone enjoyed it and all that Jazz. Please R&R and let me know what you think, I always appreciate any constructive criticism. Thanks again for reading.