Night City Legends

by DrunkenFicker

2074, Naruto awakens to find himself in a world much stranger than his own. One with no place for heroes, only dead legends. He'll find his place among the city and carve out a path of his own to become Night City's own living Legend... that is, so long as he doesn't go screaming over the edge. Story will cover Edgerunners Anime and Cyberpunk2077 Act 1 Complete. Act 2 in progress.

10. C10: Cause We Lost Everything

—-

Night City Legends

Chapter Ten: Cause We Lost Everything

—-

After returning to Pig Boy's Delight, Morton's favorite Irish Pub and their factions HQ in this little civil war, Rico was met by the General and the remaining loyal captains trying to figure out just what the hell was going on after seeing the news. Ortiz remained at her home, safely jacked into the Net and digging through what she could for any new info and trying to keep an eye out for the kid.

She was going to be so pissed to have missed the looks he got when he told them what happened.

The bar was pretty much closed down to the public and shuttered, it was owned by the gang anyway so the loss of business didn't matter now. The tables had been moved around and rearranged so that they had one big table to plan at, just like when they were planning ops during the war.

His arrival was welcomed but the sight of his bruised face and broken nose caused some concern which he brushed off, they had bigger issues to cover. The first being to find out what happened at that warehouse in Arroyo

"You mean to tell me that kid did all this?" Morton asked, genuinely shocked, "Holy fuck," the others in the room shared the sentiment and muttered amongst themselves. After all, they were still under the impression that the Shino was alone and it's not everyday you learn that one person was capable of a slaughter like what happened in Arroyo just hours ago.

Rico nodded and sat down heavily at the table, "Not exactly," he grumbled, lighting up a smoke, "Kid aint alone, he's got a team now,"

"The Shino's running a unit?" one captain questioned, a question mirrored by a few others as well.

"Oh yeah, probably just as skilled too," While the others continued to grumble, he didn't pay them much mind, he kept an eye on his choom, the General, to see his reaction. He looked thoughtful, contemplating the news and slowly starting to look pleased, "Before you get any ideas though, General, there's something else you should know."

Rico thought about the best way to put it before shrugging, "The kids done with us,"

"The fuck you mean he's done with us?" another captain scoffed.

"I mean, he's done. Out. He's finished working with us, no more 6th Street Shino." The man mused before pointing at his own face, "This shit right here, his handiwork." There were a few angry mutterings around the room, "and I doubt he'd be too thrilled to get any job offers from us for quite a while, honestly… we should just let it go and not bother fuckin with 'em."

"Rico…" the general was giving him a concerned look, reading between the lines, "What exactly happened?" The way he saw it, the 6th Street Shino was gonna be their heavy hitter, their Adam Smasher or even their Morgan Blackhand. The same way the threat of Smasher kept many gonks from fucking with Arasaka or how rumors of Blackhand working for Militech did the same for them. He wanted the Shino to be what kept the other gangs from going against them at all when they decided to actually expand in the future.

"Goddamn Gunner," he grumbled, ashing his smoke next to him on the floor, "Gonk motherfucker got the kids input flatlined." if it wasn't so serious, he'd probably have pulled an Ortiz and laughed at the looks he got when the bar went silent. "Kid got back to the city and found out that one of ours did it."

"Hold on, how the fuck does he know 6th Street was involved?" someone demanded

"She was Orta's little sister," that put an end to it. They all knew that a good part of their problems with the Valentinos right now stemmed from that. Yeah some Tinos were killed but Orta's sister wasn't a member and the unspoken rule was you never targeted family.

"God fucking damn it!" The man watched as his old choom lost his cool and whirled around, snatching a beer bottle off the table and launching it at the wall where it shattered. "Just what the fuck we need."

He continued, telling them everything, how he took his niece hostage with his team. How even with Ortiz on the lookout, one of them still managed to get the drop on her and how if it wasn't for her being able to convince the psycho gonk that it was Gunners group… Well, he was pretty sure they wouldn't be having this convo at all.

"Rico, do we need to worry about him coming after us?"

That question had them all looking back at him in silence, it was one thing to be on the lookout for some gangoons rolling up, you could usually see and hear them coming for you. But the kid was another beast entirely, he proved to be a ghost at the best of times and now… well, they all say the news.

"Honestly, the kids a fucking psycho… but I think Gunner has a lot more to worry about than us. If we just leave him and his people alone, I doubt they'll even bother with us now." The other captains looked at each other for a moment then looked to the general, afterall, he had the final say either way.

The man nodded slowly, "Fine, fuck it. So long as he dosen't fuck with us we'll leave em the fuck alone… at least the Gunner problem's gonna fix itself."

-xXx-

Rancho Coronado was a subdistrict of Santo Domingo, the Corporations that owned the factories of Arroyo planned and advertised the suburb as a place for their workers to raise their families and live the real 'American Dream' while working their souls away. Once upon a time, the suburbs probably looked like a dream to those sick of the city itself but unable to actually leave. Although most houses were identical, reminiscent to the cookie cutter homes of the early mid twentieth century, the district was pretty much self-sufficient with their own bars, restaurants, a school, parks, and shops so that a person could avoid going into the city itself unless they wished.

Looking out at the suburban decay, Naruto couldn't help but think back to some of the early images he saw while looking up the district months ago. Where there was once fresh green grass was now patches of half dead weeds and dirt. Many of the homes that weren't covered in 6th Street graffiti were surrounded by fences topped with barbed wire with signs threatening death on any that trespassed.

Only a couple hours had passed since he took out his first target, cutting a path through dozens of gangoons that got in his way and getting the location of his other two targets.

"Angel and Fatstack, huh?" he muttered to himself, rubbing his tired eyes as the previous adrenaline rush completely wore off, reminding him that he'd been up and going nonstop for… shit, he couldn't remember. Since he'd woken up and spoke to that monk a couple days ago?

*Beep*

'Jackie again…' he thought to himself, looking at the name that popped up before dismissing it. He'd call him back later, first he needed to have a talk with two gangoons.

*Beep*

'Again, really Jackie?' clinching his eyes, he sighed and looked around. He was perched inside a large holographic billboard that projected ads in a circle, the massive pictures revolved around it slowly and could be seen from halfway across the district. They hid him from any one looking from the outside as he leaned against the maintenance platform and looked down at the garage, planning out his attack.

"Jackie, I'm kinda busy dude." he started as soon as he answered the holo, Jackies scowling face popping into view.

He crossed his arms and stared at him for a moment with a frown, "Oh I heard hermano, hell all of NC's heard," The blond raised an eyebrow for a moment, "You made the News, didn't you know?"

Naruto reached up and rubbed the back of his head, "Haven't really been keeping up with the news lately Jackie,"

"Yeah, more like making it,"

He ignored Jackie's grumble and cracked a small smile, the first one in what felt like forever, "You upset I didn't bring you along?"

"Fuck Holmes, putting it like that makes me seem like a child," Jackie gumbled, "But yeah, I thought we were gonna tackle this shit togethor."

Looking down at the garage, Naruto didn't see any movement but did see a couple vehicles parked around. The streets were also pretty quiet, likely due to everything going down earlier and the normal civilians wanting to stay indoors hoping a stray bullet didn't find them or any of their chooms. "Alright," he decided, focusing back on Jackie, "You want in?" Jackie nodded, face serious. "How soon can you get to Rancho Coronado?"

"Eh, depends on where," he muttered, looking thoughtful, "Rancho's Sixer turf, with the shit going down they ain't gonna like some random vato like me just strolling in." True, Jackie wasn't exactly the best at blending in just judging from his size and style alone and some random latino just showing up was asking for trouble.

"Im by the overpass on Gibson street, by the big holo tower thing"

Jackie looked to be searching for something, "Shit hermano, that's smack in the middle of sixer turf."

"The two that shot her are here Jackie, I managed to track em down."

"You found the ones that flatlined her?" his eyes widened before getting serious, "Listen hermano, Gustavo will help us out if we bring this to him,"

Naruto closed his eyes for a moment, still leaning heavily against the rail, "No Jackie, I'm not bringing the Valentinos here for this." if he let Gustavo come here, he'd bring a bunch of gangers with him ready to take on any 6th Street gangoons they ran across. "If you want in, I'll wait for you but I'm not about to let a war start in the middle of a suburb."

For a moment, Jackie could only stare at him, "Considering what you pulled in Arroyo?"

"This is a civilian neighborhood, Jackie!"

"Whoa, chill holmes." he said quickly after the blond snapped at him, "I'm just saying man, you've already started a war there, like it or not. People are already freaking out, hell there's talk of NCPD shutting down the bridges between Heywood and Santo."

Both men went silent for a few moments.

"Jackie, I told you before. You don't have to do this for me, I can handle it myself."

That made the man roll his eyes and sigh, "No, fuck that shit. I'm doing it for Camilla," his voice was firm, not wanting any arguments. "Besides look, I almost forgot to mention but 6th Streets getting backing from Militech, no telling what kinda hardware these gonks are gonna be packing… Look, just give me an hour alright, I'ma call in a quick favor and load up, just… promise you'll wait for me on this?"

Naruto stared at the other man before nodding, "Alright Jackie, I'll wait,"

"Alright, Ima delta soon. Give you a call when I'm near ok."

With that, Jackie hung up, leaving Naruto alone with his thoughts with the holographic ads lighting him up. That small conversation took the wind out of his sails, the last couple days of going non stop was starting to wear on his body and mind. 'Just three more,' he thought to himself, leaning his head down to rest his forehead against the cool metal of the rail, 'Gunner, Angel, and Fatstack,' he repeated the names over and over to himself before checking the time.

2:32am

Since he had some time to kill, Naruto pushed away from the railing and leaned himself back against a large metal container marked CONTROL PANEL and slowly slid down, resting his head against the metal housing. With a quick scroll through his implant, he set an alarm for 1 hour and closed his eyes, hoping to catch a quick rest.

-xXx-

"Ok Jackie, vamos maldita sea," he straddled his bike and pumped himself up, this wasn't his first rodeo but damn if this wasn't his biggest gig yet. Cruising in solo to back that blond hombre up so he didn't get himself zeroed and possibly facing most of the 6th Street gangoons in Rancho? That's some afterlife shit, he just hoped that today wasn't the day he'd end up drawing the ace of spades himself. Just another chalk outline in the streets like the rest of the Welles boys.

With the scratch from Naruto, he'd bought himself some new iron, mainly a pair of .45 Nue pistols and a DS1 Pulsar submachine gun for its high rate of fire and small size, making it easy to carry on his bike. The rest of the jack went towards his new jacket or rather the armored inserts it had sewn around the chest, pricy and a bit on the heavy side but he had to admit, it looked badass on him.

Wheeling his bike out, he stepped off just long enough to close and lock the door before turning to find his mother walking down from the back door of the bar, arms crossed with a small sad smile on her face. For a split second, he felt like a kid sneaking out of the house at night and half expected her to come at him with her shoe.

"So…" she started before coming to a stop next to his bike as he climbed back on, "Off to save him eh mijo?"

He nodded, "Yeah, gotta go pull his ass out of the fire," he joked before leaning against the tank with a grimace, "Just talked to 'em over the holo mama, vato looked rough,"

Mama Welles uncrossed her arms and wrapped them around him, "Be safe Jackie," she whispered, hugging him close while he returned the embrace, "and if you have to, knock some sense into that boy ok?"

"Hehe, I'll try to mama," he chuckled, "on both parts,"

She stepped back and looked him up and down, "Now go on and give me a call when you get back. Me and Pepe just finished closing the bar so I'll be heading home ok."

"Drive safe ok," Jackie hugged her one more time. "Love you Mama,"

"I love you to Mijo,"

-xXx-

Cami's laugh was like music to him as she held his hand and walked in step with him down the long flight of stairs, "Gotta say Naru, you're probably the only person in Night City to wanna take his girl to the park!" she giggled as they passed a small group of people leaving Reconciliation Park.

With her holding his 'ganic hand, Naruto squinted and scratched his cheek with his chrome fingers, "It's not that weird is it?" he asked, half embarrassed.

"Mmm, for NC?" she mused before nodding, "Oh yeah babe, definitely weird." but the girl raised his arm and brought it over her shoulder, making him hold her close with a grin, "But for you though, I think it's cute." She kissed his arm and looked back at him.

The blond just grinned back and pulled her closer. "This place reminds me of home." he told her which really caught her attention, he never really talked about where he was from in much detail. "Well, for the most part anyway… there's ah… a lot less traffic for one," A car honked its horn above them and they could hear the sound of tires squealing.

They walked together through some of the winding paths through the park, he told her little things about Konoha without sounding insane while she listened or asked little questions here and there. The vendor selling scopdogs was close by so they grabbed one and a Nicola and went to find a bench to sit down and eat.

"Hey, wait a second." he told her just before sitting down, she looked at him and raised an eye at how he grinned, "I know somewhere even better, come on."

She followed him, laughing a bit as he pulled her along by the hand, "Slow down babe, I'm right behind you."

The ninja led her to the little out of the way area where he'd meditated with the monk and she gasped. Small flowers had bloomed here and there and the grass was thick and healthy looking like those old postcards she remembered her grandmother having when she was a child. "Naru… this is amazing," she couldn't help but whisper, as if it would all go away if she was too loud.

He led her into the little out of the way nook and they sat down together on the ground next to a tree and laughed at her expression as she wiggled, the grass tickling her thighs. Hearing him, she looked at him with a raised brow, "What?"

"Nothing, just enjoying the view."

"You're staring at me."

"I know," he winked at her, making her laugh and wiggle closer to him. The pair ate their scopdogs together and cuddled against the tree in peace, just holding each other.

"Hey, Naruto?"

"Hm?" he leaned his head against hers only for her to ease away and stretch. She got him to slide down and lean against the tree so she could cuddle against his chest. "There we go, that's more like it. But I wanted to ask… your home, do you miss it?"

"Yeah, I do."

"Would you go back? If you could." Everyone knew that no one left NC for good, once you lived there, you died there. But it didn't stop people from dreaming.

"I… yeah." he said honestly, he missed Konoha, missed his friends. But at the same time, he'd grown attached to the blue haired vixen currently playing with the zipper of his vest "And if I could, I'd bring you with me."

"You couldn't get rid of me if you tried, baby," they laid there for a bit longer, "Tell me about your home."

And he did, he painted a vivid description without hinting at being a totally different world, told her about granny Tsunade and how Shizune-nii had to hide her alcohol to make sure she worked. Kakashi and how he was alway late. The Ichiraku family and how their ramen was the best in the world. The Hokage monument and how he used to sit on top of his fathers head when he fell down and needed to think. How he and his friends would get into numerous wild situations that made her laugh.

And all the while she stared, enraptured at how he spoke straight from the heart in a way that no one in this city ever did. No matter what, the people of NC never told the whole and honest truth. Oddly enough, she found it pretty hot.

"After I painted the monument, I led probably the entire security force on a wild goose chase for hours and- oh hello!" he twitched and looked down to see her looking at him innocently, fingers slipping under his belt, "I'm sorry, was I boring you?"

She kissed him, "Not at all, making me a little excited actually."

*Beep*

"Ignore it baby," she captured his lips again and bit his bottom lip playfully making him groan, "Gotta be quite Naru, don't want to get busted," she teased, nuzzling against him.

*Beep*

"You can see what they want later," she giggled, looking around, "For now, your all mine,"

*Beep*

Eyes wide open, he lunged to his feet with a gasp and looked around in a momentary panic, trying to find Cami and panting like a wild animal. After a few moments he finally realized where he was. He wasn't at Reconciliation park, he was in Rancho Coronado… and Cami was gone…

With a growl, he slammed his fist into the tower's control panel, smashing through the thin metal and breaking all the delicate electronics inside with a shower of sparks and making the holographic ads around him flicker and vanish, leaving him in the dark.

Jerking his hand back, he grimaced, both from the pain and how his hand looked. His knuckles were shredded and burnt, small shards of metal were embedded into his hand along with what looked and felt like melted plastic.

*Beep*

His holo went off again and he quickly answered it, seeing it was Jackie, "Yeah?"

"Wasn't easy, Holmes, but I made it." Jackie popped up over the link, grinning at his own luck. "Everything good there? Looks like one of those advertisement towers just blew its wad,"

Naruto glances back at the damaged panel, sparks still coming from it in sporadic bursts while a small emergency light above the panel dimly popped on. "Yeah, I'm good… just, give me a minute, I'll be there in a minute."

-xXx-

Getting to Rancho Coronado was a bit more difficult than he'd hoped, turns out that the fuzz had actually got off their asses long enough to try and quarantine Santo by shutting down the bridges and setting up roadblocks with their Pig-Rigs. From the looks of it, anyone remotely Valentino or 6th Street looking were told to fuck back off where they came from and luckily for him, he was able to skirt around the roadblock by blasting down the sidewalk at high speed.

From what little he heard as he flew by, the cops were more annoyed than pissed and the car full of Tinos they were in the process of detaining were cheering him on even as they were cuffed on the ground. Then from there it was simply a matter of not running headfirst into any Sixers, there were a couple of close calls where he had to turn down another road but in the dark early morning streets, he was able to manage and made it to the overpass Naruto said to meet him at.

After ending the call, Jackie continued to sit on his bike and leaned forward on the tank while he looked around for a bit, waiting for Naruto to show up. Barely a minute passed before someone landed in a crouch just a few yards ahead of him.

"Fucking hell," he jumped at the sudden arrival, pushing himself up and reaching for his gun only to huff when he realized it was the blond he'd been waiting for. "Don't just jump out like that eh cabron. Gonna scare the shit outta me." Jackie trailed off as he got a good look at him.

If he looked before and looked rough over the holo, Naruto looked like hell warmed over in person. He could see through his vest in spots where it looked like bullets tore through, the dark fabric around each hole looked slightly wet with what he suspected to be blood. Small burn marks marred places along the left side of his clothing and his left arm had splotches of dried blood while his fist looked burnt.

"Sorry Jackie, my bad." Naruto gave him a small grin and scratched the back of his head but the grin seemed half hearted.

As he stepped closer, Jackie could see the worn look on his face and whistled lowly, "Damn holmes, you good?"

"I'll be fine," he replied, waving off his concerned look and turning to motion towards the garage up the street on the corner. "I already scouted the place a bit earlier…"

The garage itself was a concrete building with two large vehicle bays, the place looked like it used to be a business but once the gangoons took over that quickly changed as the doors leading to the street were welded shut and the signage was torn down and left on the sidewalk without a care. The lot was surrounded by a chain link fence with a privacy lining and topped with razor wire, barbed wire's edgey and aggressive cousin. Inside the yard were a few cars, most of which were junkers but two were covered in 6th Street markings and parked beside a trailer also bearing the same treatment.

"-And the two shooters are inside the trailer," Naruto finished, laying out what he'd seen while scouting before Jackie had called the first time

"Hm, puta's got themselves a little compound eh?" Jackie mused while rubbing his chin and looking at the area, "You got a plan?"

"Kick in the door then kick in their teeth," Naruto muttered while crossing his arms, simple enough.

The man looked at him for a minute and shook his head, "Just like that?"

"Not exactly, since you mentioned that they have Militech backing them up I'm gonna cause distraction while you sneak around the back and hit them from behind. There's a dumpster in the alley you can use, just watch out for the razorwire and get on top of the trailer while I get their attention and draw 'em out."

"What kinda distraction are we talking about holmes?" Looking over to the blond next to him, Jackie grimaced, while the grin he gave before looked forced, the smirk he had now gave him chills.

-xXx-

'Oh, what have you gotten yourself into now Jackie-boy?' he kept asking himself while looking at the razor wire atop the fence in front of him, the edges gleamed in the streetlight just waiting to slice him open at the first wrong move. The roof of the trailer was right there, he could easily climb right to it but he needed to be quiet for the most part and getting tangled up in this shit was far from stealthy.

Lucky for him, he could hear loud music playing from inside so chances were good that the gonks inside wouldn't hear him climbing on the roof… he hoped.

'Just climb on up,' he mocked in his mind before huffing 'I'm no climbing diablillo you pendejo, I'm a gorila de tierra baja thank you very much,' after a moment he grinned at his own little joke before easing his foot up on the fence between the wire. He just had to take it slow and steady.

Easing himself up onto the roof, tugging his pant leg as it got caught, he let himself relax for a moment before creeping along and kneeling down to look out for this distraction while moving the Pulsar SMG from his back by the sling.

Considering the shit Naruto pulled earlier that landed on the news, he was a bit surprised that he was going on a more tactical route for this. Maybe because there were only two gonks to go after? Either way, he needed to be slick and not end up accidentally flatlining them by mistake, Naruto wanted them alive. The thought as to why he wanted them still breathing did cross his mind but he tried to ignore it for now, he'd cross that bridge when he got to it.

'Where is this distraction that's supposed to draw them out?' he wondered while looking down the road. Seeing a light flash in the distance, he saw a sixer van approaching and laid down flat, not wanting to be seen by the approaching vehicle, "damn, gonks driving pretty fast…" he couldn't help but mutter before the van jumped the curb and shot across the road, making a beeline towards the gate with it's engine roaring.

"Madre de Dios!" he grunted, eyes going wide as the black van sporting the 6th Street skull burst through the gate, breaking it from the hinges and sending one part flying into a junk car, the other bouncing along the ground before denting one of the garage doors.

Through the now broken windshield, Jackie could see the blond behind the wheel and realized just what he was about to do for his 'distraction'. "You crazy puta!" he cried out just before the van crashed into the trailer, jolting the entire thing and had he been standing, probably would have sent him tumbling to the ground.

Jackie was stunned by what he'd just witnessed, he'd seen some crazy shit growing up on the streets of Heywood but what the fuck? This god damn gonk was insane!

"What the fuck!" he could hear someone scream from inside the trailer, peeking over the edge, he could see that the front end of the van had pushed the trailer wall in a few good feet, probably breaking through the wall.

The door burst open and a chromed out woman in shorts and a tank top came charging out with a rather large shirtless man in only a pair of jeans storming out behind her, a large pistol in hand, "Who in the goddamn hell did this!?" he screamed, looking at the damage to his home.

The woman looked at the gate then back at the van, "Whoever it is, I'm gonna fucking zero 'em" she hissed out in a shrill voice, fists clinched as she stormed around to the driver side door, "Gonk you better not be dead in there! Not until I give you a fuckin tune up!"

She walked around the van, beating her fist on the side panels as she did when the back door burst open and struck her with a solid thump. The hit sent her stumbling and seeing this, the large man raised his gun to the van, yelling out, "Angel, babe!"

'Oh hell here we go,' Jackie thought, jumping from the roof and landing on the man's shoulders. The pistol went off, the round kicking up dirt near the vans back tire as both men tumbled to the ground. He'd thought about just shooting him but Naruto wanted them alive so the hard way it was.

Latched onto the Sixers back, Jackie groaned as he landed on top of him but quickly shook it off as the man tried to roll him off and scrambled to wrap his arm around the gonks neck where they struggled, rolling around in the dirt like a pair of dogs fighting.

Now Jackie was a large man and built like a bull, but this gonk had a good 7 inches and a hundred or so pounds on him so when he rolled, Jackie could only hold on and hope that his chokehold knocked him out soon because- "AH you fat chingada madre!" pulling back, Jackie started throwing punches with his right hand and snatched his left hand away, looking at the bloody bite mark on his forearm "You fucking bit me you cocksucker!"

-xXx-

Looking over, Naruto saw Jackie scraping with who he assumed was 'Fatstack' and turned to square off with the woman, 'Angel'. She was chromed out a lot more than most, her legs were replaced with a pair of sharp pointed feet that made her look like a ballerina. Even as she staggered back, she quickly regained her balance and glared at him.

"Gonna fuck you up pretty boy gonk!" she snapped, charging at him with surprising speed and to his shock, her forearms split and a pair of long mantis-like blades unfolded and carved deep gouges into the metal panel of the van as he dodged out of her way.

The blades sparked with electricity as she spun in place, chasing after him in a way he expected a genin to go after someone as he dodged slash after slash from the screaming chrome fiend. "You're half decent at this," he told her as drew two kunai and blocked each mantis blade with ease. The current hurt like a bitch as it coursed through his knife and down his arm.

The woman pushed down with all her might, "Says the cunt that can barely keep up!" she mocked before twisting and breaking the stalemate, performing something akin to a pirouette and slashing at him with her leg.

Naruto backrolled over the hood of one of their cars and threw one kunai at her which she impressively slashed out of the air with her mantis blades. "Neat trick," he mused while clenching his fists, "I got some tricks of my own." Steam seemed to roll off of him and with a growl, Naruto kicked the front end of the car, sending it skidding across the ground towards the now shocked Gangoon who just barely managed to flip over it, where it slammed into the back of the wrecked van.

"W-What the fuck are you?" she stuttered out, turning back to him only to panic and try to backpedal away from the attacking blond. A gash opened up across her cheek even though she swore it missed, another cut her chest. Each time he attacked she was so sure that she managed to dodge, even using her speedware like she was but no matter how fast she seemed to dodge another cut appeared.

"G-Get AWAY!" terrified now, she activated her sandevistan, bringing the world around her to around one fourth its normal speed, the chrome in her spine heating up faster and faster as she pushed it to the max and lashed out, hoping to kill the blond that was tormenting her like this. She grinned giggling madly that she was about to win and kill this monster.

*Shing* her mantis blades sang and her heart sank.

"Ninja-art: Bare-Handed Blade Block," Naruto grinned, seeing the look of terror she had as he caught both blades with his bare hands. With her held in place he jerked her towards him and headbutted her, breaking her nose with a visceral crunch then rared back to hit her again and again, slamming his head into her face until she fell limp with her face a bloody mess.

He knelt down next to the woman and grabbed a handful of her hair which made her groan as he pulled her half off the ground, "Still awake bitch?" he questioned half mockingly as her eyes fluttered. The woman groaned again and said something he couldn't understand before spitting. The blonde instinctively turned his head as blood and saliva splattered against his cheek and part of his face while she laughed weakly.

"You think this is over?" she rasped, wincing when his grip on her hair tightend "all this noise, you just wait till our chooms get here, your fucked," the woman laughed again.

Naruto grit his teeth and wiped his face with his free hand, leaving a small red streak down the side of his face. "You think so?" he growled, turning back to her, "We'll see about that, bitch." Seeing her move to spit at him again, he lashed out and punched her in the cheek before raring back again and striking her again, this time letting her head slam back down onto the ground where she twitched.

He wanted nothing more than to keep on swinging, to keep punching her until nothing was left, but he couldn't… at least not yet. She would pay with her life for what she did but first he needed information. Those blades in her arms were a surprise though, kinda cool too, maybe he'd see about finding one for his arm but for now he needed to secure her, he didn't think his zip ties would help when she could unfold a blade like that.

His thought was interrupted by the sound of breaking glass and he turned to see Jackie wrestling with Fatstack, who slung him around and into the side of a car door where he shattered the window with his ass. "You ok over there Jackie?" he called out, seeing the man slug his larger opponent before grabbing him around the back of his head, bringing it down on the roof with a loud thud.

"Muy bien!" Jackie grunted, quickly wiping a trail of blood from his nose as the larger sixer pushed away from the car and swung at him like a wild animal. "Got 'em right where I want him, gracias!"

Fatstack growled, veins pulsing in his neck as something seemed to change in him before he charged, surprising Jackie and catching him off guard. He clearly didn't expect the man to blindly charge and the pair ended up back on the ground, rolling around in the dirt while taking any opportunity to jab at each other. "Mierda!" Jackie growled out, "It's like im wrestling a goddamn MaiMai"

Naruto walked over, once again trying to wipe the blood from his cheek, "Not saying I don't trust you Jack but would you like some help with that?"

"No, I can handle him!" he called out before the man grabbed him by the front of his synth leather jacket, "Actually, yes!" he grunted, the man picking him up and bouncing him on the ground while still pinning his legs with his weight, "On second thought," he grunted again, "Fucking help!" The gonk must've been chipped with a Beserk or something, out of nowhere he'd gotten a hell of a boost and was knocking him around like he was just some punk. Next thing Jackie knew, the gonk sent flying off of him, flipping head first over him with a scream as he landed in a pile of garbage bags while clutching his rear.

It wasn't pretty and not exactly how the technique was meant to be performed, but Naruto channeled his inner Kakashi and used the dreaded 1000 years of death via kicking Fatstack in his fat ass.

"I had him!" Jackie groaned, arms flopping out to his sides as he huffed, "But thanks for the assist." Naruto stood over him and held out a hand to help him to his feet. "Now that we got the gonks, what's the plan?"

Naruto walked over to pile of trash and kicked the groaning man in his face, knocking him out completely, "gonna ask them some questions and one way or another they're gonna tell me what I want to know." he muttered before looking back at him, making Jackie nod slowly

"Eh ok… oh," he recognized the dark look in the blondes eyes, "Oh shit holmes, I ah… I don't know if I can be a part of that," he was all for flatlining them but if Naruto was planning on doing what he thought he was…

"Then don't," was his short, frosty response. The blonde reached down and grabbed Fatstack by the ankle, "You're free to go whenever you want Jackie, I appreciate the help. Stay or go… I'll pay you back either way." he told him, dragging the man out from under several filthy blue plastic bags.

Watching this for a second, Jackie crossed his arms and thought. They deserved to die as far as he was concerned, payback for killing Camilla, that's what this was all about. But if he was gonna torture them? He wasn't prepared to go that far, he didn't need that on his soul but at the same time he didn't feel like he should just delta and leave Naruto this deep in Sixer turf.

"Ah fuck it," he groaned, "I can at least help you get them loaded up."

"Loaded up?" Naruto repeated with a raised eyebrow, pulling the much larger man along behind him like he didn't weigh several times more than he did.

Jackie nodded, "Yeah you know, so we can delta?" he replied, "All the noise here, won't be long before we're up to our eyes in 6th Street gonks rolling in heavy wondering what went down here."

"I wouldn't worry about that Jackie," something about the way he said that gave him the chills.

He dragged Fatstack over to one of the garage doors, the one that wasn't dented in by the metal fence he'd crashed through minutes earlier, and raised it, revealing a typical body shop full of tools, "Of course your just gonna do it here," Jackie muttered followed by several curses. Watching Naruto drag him into the middle of the shop, the hombre turned to where the woman was and stalked over, he'd at least drag her over but that's as far as he was going.

Seeing the state the woman was in, Jackie couldn't help but whistle, 'Damn, vato don't mess around.' The woman was chipped with some impressive hardware from the looks of it, the guy was too for that matter. Just looking at her he could see the combat chrome she'd replaced her legs with, the mantis blades in her arms, a pretty decent set of optics, and if he wasn't mistaken it looked like she had some speedware of some sort.

Kneeling down, he started lifting her up and wondered about just how light she was considering all the chrome. But his thoughts were interrupted by the cliche sound of someone racking a shotgun, making him look up to see a small ragtag group wearing tactical gear thrown over a random assortment of clothes heading towards him. It looked like they had quickly thrown on their gear over whatever they had, one was even in a pair of boxers with bunny slippers on his feet while one woman had on a tac vest over a nightgown.

"Hey, the fuck's going on here!" the one leading the group spat out, shotgun in hand, "You think you can just come and fuck with our chooms ang get away with it!"

In a snap decision, Jackie hoisted the woman up and held her around the waist, holding her against him while drawing one of his pistols and jamming it underneath her chin. "Ah, Naruto!" he called out, "Might need some help out here holmes!"

"Put her down, asshole!" one of the sixers called out, "Your already fucked, make it easy on yourself and we'll make it quick!"

From the garage, Naruto stepped out making the gangoons switch back and forth between aiming at him and Jackie, "If you guys know what's good for you," he told them slowly while stalking towards them, "You'll turn around, go home to your families and stay there."

"Who the fuck do you think you are?" the one in bunny slippers demanded, stepping forward and leveling his rifle at the blond, "Your on 6th Streets ground, how about I just zero you right-" the rifle, a D5 Copperhead painted with the stars and stripes, clattered to the ground followed quickly by that goons corpse, a kunal buried in the back of his head.

The group looked around wildly, one or two kept aiming back and forth between Naruto and Jackie while the others searched for the attackers, "Anyone have eyes on!" one barked, sweeping the streets with his own copperhead rifle.

"Oh fuck," another gasped, "S-Sargent, the rooftops." Each soldier looked up and tensed, they were surrounded. Figures wearing White masks stood out against the darkness of each rooftop that they could see.

"Got seven… no ten on our six," one called out, on her knee with a scoped rifle. They were leaning or sitting on top of the houses across the street, houses that some of them had just left with their families still inside. "Sarge, they're on my house!" she muttered through clenched teeth.

"Five at our 8 o'clock"

"Ah guys, got one by the road," he aimed his gun at a lone masked man leaning against the corner of the garage by the road, idly spinning a Overture around on his finger. When the man pointed up he paled at the sight of four more looking down at them from the top of the garage not too far from them, "They got us surrounded,"

Hearing this, Jackie looked around his unconscious hostage and was just as surprised as the gangoons to see a bunch of gonks in masks looking down at them. He gripped his Nue tighter and gulped, "Ah… Naruto, these are friends of yours right?"

Naruto glanced back at him, "Yeah, something like that Jackie,"

"Ah… cool I guess, woulda been nice for them to help out earlier you know,"

"Who the fuck are you?" the 'Sargent' called out, the barrel of his shotgun noticeably shaking as the blond turned back to stare at him, "You think you can just roll up on our streets and pull some gonk ass shit like this? Your fucking with 6th Street!"

Naruto stepped foreward again, "You have one last chance," he reached down into his leg pocket and pulled out his original mask, "Turn around and walk… the fuck… away," he growled, stressing the last part while putting on the orange snarling mask. Naruto was gone and the Shino was out to play.

"Fuck this," the sniper whispered, her rifle clattering to the ground as she stood up, hands raised, "I'm going home to my kids. If that cunt Angie and Fatboy did something to piss him off then fuck those gonks, I aint fuckin with the Shino." The gangoon took several slow steps back away from her chooms before turning and heading down the street, trying to ignore the gonks watching her on the rooftops as she headed home.

Slowly, the other members of 6th Street slowly did the same, leaving their guns on the street and backing away until the Sargent was the only one left. His shotgun was visibly shaking at this point.

Naruto made his way right up to him and wrapped his hand around the barrel, steadying it, "Well, 'Sarge'." he mocked raising the barrel and placing it against his chest, "It's just you and me now…"

"T-the fuck are you doing?" the man asked.

Seeing this Jackie felt his heart sink down to his stomach, "Santa mierda, what are you doing!" he yelled. "You trying to get yourself shot by pendejo!"

"Do it," Naruto muttered, "Fucking put me out of my misery, do it!" he snatched the barrel around and stuck it to his forehead, "Free me from this hell! Send me straight to her. Pull the trigger, do it!"

When the man could only shiver and stare at him, stuttering incoherently, Naruto snatched the gun out of his hands, leaving the gangoon shaking in the street and staring at the snarling mask. He'd seen the BD and heard the stories about the 6th Street Shino and they were nothing compared to how insane he seemed in person. "Please, I'm sorry," he whimpered, unable to move as Naruto turned the gun on him and pressed the barrel against his head. "I-I'm… I'm sorry,"

Jackie could only stare, waiting for the inevitable and too nervous to speak himself, afraid that would be the trigger to make Naruto snap and flatline the poor fucker in the middle of the street. But it never came, to both his and the gangoons relief the blond just lowered the gun and jabbed the barrel into his chest, making him stumble back.

"Do you have a family?"

He gulped and nodded quickly.

Naruto hummed and stepped closer, his masked face just inches from the mans, "Think about them… and I mean really think about them. What would they do if I spatter your dumb ass across the street huh?" he stuck the barrel against his knee, "Or if I cripple you, what will they do then?" the man gulped. "Do you love your family sergeant?"

"Yes," came the whispered answer.

Naruto eased even closer, mask nearly touching him, "Then I suggest you turn around… go home and wrap your arms around them. Cherish each and every second you have with them, because you never know when some animal will snatch it all away from you… now go," he stared at the shaking man then pushed him roughly in the chest before barking, "I said GO!"

The man stumbled back, tripping over one of the fallen guns and landing on his ass in a panic before scrambling back to his feet and running as fast as he could, tears pouring from his eyes. In his mind he cried that he'd earn an honest living, he'd be a good man. He'd never risk something like this ever happening again for as long as he could help it. When he got home, he scared his wife by hugging her tight and crying, promising to be a good man for the rest of his days.

When he turned, Jackie shivered himself. "Ah… holmes?" he asked, slowly lowering his own pistol but not putting it away just yet, "are we… I mean, are you good?"

"No Jackie… I'm far from good," he whispered just loud enough to be heard before his eyes visibly hardened while looking at the man, or better yet, the woman he was holding, "Lets get her out of the open,"

Hoisting her up and over his shoulder, Jackie took a breath and followed after the blond and entered the garage, an anxious pit forming in his gut as he looked around the body shop. He lowered her to the ground and saw Naruto wrapping a chain around the fat man's arms, looping it around one of the arms of the lift.

"So holmes, ah," he cleared his throat and chuckled nervously, "The Shino huh?I knew you were a merc but damn, didn't think you'd made a name for yourself this quick. Especially, well… ah," the man trailed off with a nervous chuckle.

With the chain secure, Naruto removed the mask and set it down on the lift, "Jackie, you don't have to be nervous," he told him, his voice much softer than before, "I appreciate you, really… you're a good dude… a real choom."

The praise made Jackie chuckle and rub the back of his neck, "Thanks holmes, means a lot." he watched as the ninja came over and grabbed the woman's leg, dragging her over to the opposite side of the life. "Eh hey, ah… so what's the play here?"

Using another chain, Naruto wrapped both of the women's forearms, securing the hidden blades then attached it around the lift like he did the other one but leaving a bit more slack. "I'm gonna ask them some questions Jackie," he told him, stepping over to a small lever on the wall nearby, "there's one more person that's gotta pay,"

The hydraulic lift hummed to life and groaned as it slowly lifted itself up, bringing the two unconscious gangers with it, he continued raising it until the lift reached its maximum height, leaving them hanging by their arms. "Just question them?"

The look Naruto gave him said it all before he sighed, "Like I said Jackie, you've done more than enough for me… go on home, you don't need to be here for this."

"I don't know holmes, you might got your boys out there to back you up but I don't wanna just up and delta on you." the man crossed his arms, "I wanna see this through its just… " The look he gave said it all, he wanted to see it though but he didn't want to be a part of 'this' in particular.

A groan from the man suspended from the chain caught their attention.

"I understand Jackie, if you want to sit this part out then feel free to wait outside…"

-xXx-

Looking back, Jackie met Naruto's eyes one last time just before the blonde reached up and closed the garage door. While he never outright said what he was planning to do, Jackie just knew that Naruto was about to do some heinous shit and honestly, it scared him. Not only that but he was the 'Shino', the scourge of the scav population? He knew that he was a merc and that the Padre respected his skill but holy shit, now he knew why. Camilla really knew how to pick 'em.

When he walked back to his bike, he noticed that the masked hustle that Naruto claimed were his were watching him. Making sure nothing happened to him he hoped. It was right where he left it, safe and sound parked underneath the overpass.

Naruto being the Shino was a shock, everytime he thought about it he had to do some mental gymnastics. Camillas mainline was the Shino, a 6th Street heavy who had the gang's rivals nervous. Gustavo was afraid of the boogieman showing up to flatline him and that very gonk was his sister's lover, ain't that some shit? Although it did explain why the Shino hadn't actually hurt any Valentinos so far… wait did Naruto know that Camilla's brother was Gustavo? The more he thought the more his head spun.

Mounting his older model ARCH, he raised the kickstand and connected to the bikes system, deactivating the kill switch he'd installed to ensure that no one would be able to just start it and steal the damn thing. It rumbled to life and he just sat there for a moment contemplating before moving it back down the street closer to the garage to wait for the deed to be done.

-xXx-

"Ugh, what the?" looking around, Fatstack groaned and tried to rub his aching face, wondering what the hell happened only to realize he couldn't, "The fuck?" he tried pulling against the chains but to no avail, "What the fucks going on!"

Remembering what happened, he grit his teeth and struggled to free himself before noticing his girl hanging across from him limply with blood dripping from her face, "Angel! Son of a bitch!" he grunted, struggling even harder. "Just hold on baby, I'll help you,"

"Hm, about time you woke up," he heard over to his side, making him turn his head. "And to think, I was just about to slap you."

"The fuck are you?" he demanded, looking the blond up and down as he walked over before smirking, "And where's that cuck with the topknot huh? Run off to change his panties after that beating he got?"

Coming to a stop in front of the man, Naruto snorted, "Oh he's around, Jackies a good guy… too good to be involved with," he motioned between the three of them, "this,"

"And who the fuck are you?" He finished it off by spitting, making Naruto grimace and whip his face again, "When my boys get here, we're gonna string you and that tino cunt up."

"You spit again and i'm going to fucking hurt you,"

They glared at eachother for a second until the larger gonk accepted the challenge and spat again, laughing, "Fuck you little bitch!" he sneered, "Think I'm scared of-" Naruto backhanded him, spinning him around several times only for him to laugh. "Try it again pussy, didn't even feel a-" this time a backfist spun him in the opposite direction making him chuckle again at the blonde. "You dumb mother fucker, my pain editors active. Hehehe, didn't feel a thing from your limp wristed ass."

That surprised Naruto, "A pain editor?" he repeated slowly, "So you cant feel any pain at all huh?"

"Yeah dumbfuck," Fatstack mocked as the blond looked thoughtful, "Not a damn thing and if- hey what are you doing!" Seeing Naruto turn from him and walk over to his Angel, he growled and struggled against the chain again, "Hey you bitch, I'm talking to you HEY!" the chains didn't give an inch all he could do was glare and curse the blonde, "The fuck do you think you're doing!"

Naruto looked at the man over his shoulder, "There's more than one kind of pain," he told him then slapped the woman the same way he did the man making her groan as she spun around.

"You bastard, don't you touch her!"

As the woman's eyes fluttered, Naruto hit her again, making the man rage behind him as she sputtered, spitting two teeth out of her mouth and onto the floor below, "What the-" she gasped out, blood once again pouring from her mouth as she took in her surroundings. "The fuck?"

"Angel!" the man called out while the blond stepped away, "Baby are you ok?"

"Fuck, babe. That hurt like hell," she groaned, "What's going on?" By now she realized that she was chained in the air and began to struggle as well, trying to use her mantis blades. The internal mechanisms in her arms vibrated under the strain before deactivating, a small error message popping up in her optics. "Who is this asshole?"

"I'm" Naruto started while opening up the various drawers and cabinets by the work bench, "the one whos got questions for you to answer." he dug through one drawer, pushing aside several tools in his search, "And the first one is, who wants to answer my questions first?"

Fatstack snorted, "Go fuck yourself,"

"I'll take that as you volunteering." Naruto muttered, "Ah ha!" he turned and grinned at the pair, holding a roll of duct tape, "Now," the sound of the tape being snatched off the roll echoed in the room, "Since he's going first, I need you to stay quite,"

Angel struggled and tried to stop the blond from taping her mouth shut, she even tried to slash at him with her feet only for him to snatch back once the tape was secure, "Damn, almost forgot about those." she dangled helplessly, still kicking at him and cursing him through the tape, which only made him laugh, pissing her off more.

"You son of a bitch, when my crew get here-"

Naruto laughed again, "I wouldn't count on them, you see they're more afraid of me than you. I believe their words were, 'If that cunt Angie and Fatboy did something to piss him off then fuck those gonks'." he told them while walking towards the man, "Left their iron in the middle of the street and went home."

"Bullshit,"

"Well you'll just have to wait and see, oh and if you're trying to access your holo to make a call, I destroyed them already," the woman behind him kept yelling incoherently while the man growled. "Anyway, the first thing I want to know is… where is Gunner?"

"Who?"

Rolling his eyes, Naruto crossed his arms, "Do you really want to play this game?"

Fatstack shrugged, or tried to, "Don't know anyone by that name." His eyes widened when the blond reached down and drew his pistol, "hey what are you-" Turning, Naruto fired a round into Angel's leg just above her chrome into her thigh. At this distance, the round punched through with ease, blood splattering the floor behind her as she jerked in pain, screaming behind the gag. "You son of a bitch!" Fatstack yelled, veins bulging in his neck. When the blond cocked the hammer again he roared for him to stop only for another round to hit just below her hip with the same result as before.

Naruto winced, holstering his Overture and turning away. "Fuck, keep forgetting about that." he groaned, plugging both of his ringing ears with his fingers, wiggling them around. He just could hear the man yelling at him, calling him several colorful slurs over the girl's muffled screaming.

"Why the fuck are you doing this!"

His response was to raise one finger, "Just hang tight, be with you in a sec," He could feel the ringing in his ears starting to die down, he definitely needed to look into finding a suppressor for this… or another pistol that could use one if this one couldn't. "Sorry about that," Naruto turned back to the red faced man hanging there, "Now, as I said before… I want to know where Gunner is."

"And I fucking told you," the man growled back, "I don't-" when the blond once again went to turn towards his Angel, hand reaching for that fucking Overture, he quickly yelled out, "Wait, wait, fine just fucking stop!" he waited until Naruto stepped away from his output and took his hand off the gun, "He's hiding out somewhere since all this shit went down, only his captains know where he is."

"You're telling me what I already know, Fatstack," Naruto growled back, "You're one of his captains now tell me where he's hiding."

"Me?" the man snorted, glancing back at his girl who had stopped screaming and was left groaning from the pain, still bleeding steadily "You got the wrong gonk, I'm-"

"First off, compared to the other members of 6th Street, your chipped with some high end chrome," Naruto slowly started walking around the man, "Those arms, a pain editor, and from what my choom said, you seem to have some kinda Berserk mod too." he finished his loop around the man and started looking over the woman, "Your girl here, Angie… Angel or whatever… well where do I even begin huh?"

"You stay the fuck away from her you hear me?"

The Shinobi waved him off and continued looking her over, "Lets see, her legs are kinda obvious, oh yeah and the arm blade things… looks like she had some little speed boosting chrome too," he looked a little closer and noticed the cyberware lines half hidden by her shirt, "and looks like she's got some more chrome inside too. You two are packing much more serious hardware than your chooms so it's pretty obvious that you're higher up in the ranks."

"We just happened to get a lucky connection is all." he snapped back, making Naruto roll his eyes.

"I'm not finished. Not too long ago you were certain that 'your crew' was gonna come and help you but then again, I'm sure you'll say that's not how you meant it so let me move on to my next point. Your chooms already ratted you out." he continued stalking around the two in a large circle like a shark in the water. "Your choom, Grady Franko, was the one that sent me to you. You were the shooters that Gunner sent to zero Valentino leader Gustavo Orta, driven by Grady. You attacked him at a family gathering, failing to kill him but harming several others including his output. The attack also resulted in the death of a few bystanders, including… his sister, Camilla."

Fatstack tried to hide the shock he felt as this random gonk pretty much laid out the deets on how the hit went down, he missed the look the blond had on his face at the last part. "That's what this is about?" he questioned, "You suckin up to Morton and his 'old guard'? That worn out gonks time is through, Gunners the only one with the balls to do what needs to be done."

"I don't give a damn about any of that," Naruto's eyes narrowed, "Morton can fuck himself for all I care, the rest of you fucking animals can too for that matter." he stalked right up to the man and glared right up at him.

The thought of kicking him did cross his mind, but seeing his girl whimpering in pain behind that blond fucker put an end to that thought, for now all he could do was grit his teeth.

"Gunner will pay and anyone that gets in the way will suffer too." Naruto continued, staring him in the eye before turning to look around the shop, "Your little pain editor stops you from feeling the pain but like I said before, there's worse kinds of pain," spotting something, he moved around the other man and disappeared from his sight.

Hundreds of thoughts crossed Fatstacks mind while listening to the blond move something behind him. Where was his crew, had they really up and left them to this asshole? Why was he coming after them in the first place? His heart ached at the sight of his girl in pain, maybe he should just give up the general and get her to a ripper. Gunner was packing some serious hardware thanks to that Militech shipment, hell, he'd probably flatline this gonk in less than a minute.

"I'm done messing around with you Fatboy." he heard the gonk say from behind him. Naruto reached up and grabbed his orange snarling mask off of the raised lift, slipping it on over his head and letting it hang around his neck.

When the blond came back into view, his eyes widened, "Hey, what are you doing with that?" in his grip was a CHOOH2 canister, the liquid inside sloshing around as he carried it towards Angel who shook her head in fear, "Hey!" the man ignored his yell and pulled the lid off, "Fucking listen to me, stop! We can make a deal!"

The CHOOH2 sloshed around as Naruto splashed the woman with the liquid several times, drenching her from the chest down while the man screamed at him to stop, with that done, set the can down and grabbed a propane torch off a nearby counter, "You want to make a deal, fine. Tell me what I want to know and you don't get to watch her burn to death in front of you."

Seeing the torch spark as the man fiddled with it, the man's eyes widened, "I don't know exactly but-" the torch lit, a small blue flame hissing at the end, "Wait, wait, wait, please. I can find out. I can call 'em up, ask for a meeting. Tell 'em that…ah…" he quickly tried to think of something, his heart pounding in his chest, "That ah, I know how to hit Morton, that we can flatline him and his old blood. Just cut that fucking thing off."

Naruto did so, setting the torch down next to the CHOOH2 can and taking out his holo and disconnecting himself from it, "Do it." dialing the number the man growled out to him, he held it up to the man as it tried connecting, "Remember, fuck around and…" he trailed off, motioning to the soaked woman behind him. As he said this, the man's eyes widened, his gaze on the mask around his neck.

"Y-your the-" he stuttered only for Naruto to shush him, pointing to the holo ringing.

The Holo rang for several moments, the longer it rang, Fatstack felt his heart thudding against his chest. What would he do if the General didn't answer? Would this asshole actually light her on fire? The longer it rang, he felt his panic starting to boil over

"Who the hell is this?" He could've kissed that SOB for picking up this early in the morning.

"Hey General, it's Stack."

"Stack? What's with the new number?"

Looking at the deadly serious gaze the blond had he gulped. "Ah, had to get a new one, some kinda virus whipped my shit out."

"Ah, told you about playing those games on your holo. Anywhy, what's going on, why're you callin at… the ass crack of dawn."

"Yeah sorry Choom, but listen I need a face to face. Got some deets on how we can hit Morton, take that gonk and all his boys down together, show 'em who the real boss of 6th Street is."

The voice on the other line was silent for a second before laughing, "Preem, alright. Look, got us a setup over here in Megabuilding H6 floor 19. Gonna make this our new HQ, fuck that gonk ass pub Morton keeps dragging us to. See you soon brother."

"Yeah," he felt like a bastard now, "See you soon General."

Naruto ended the call nodding slowly and looking thoughtful, "Good work Fatstack," he mocked, reconnecting the holo to his own implant and putting it away.

"Just fucking let us go," Naruto looked the gangoon in the eye, "you got what you wanted, I need to get Angel to a ripper."

"I got what I wanted?" he shook his head slowly, "Oh believe me, I'm far from getting what I want. What I want is for none of this shit to have happened… but because of people like you and this bitch," he sneered towards the gagged, soaked woman before turning back to the guy, "I've lost probably the most important thing I had in this world."

"The fuck you talking about?"

He took out the picture of him and Cami, staring at it lovingly for a moment before walking over to Angel and letting her get a good look at it, making her pale. "You asked me before, 'Why am I doing this?' well it's simple really." stepping over to the male, he did the same, letting the man look at the picture making him curse. "Her name was Camilla Orta…"

"Look, I know how you feel but-"

Naruto growled, literally growled like an animal which made the hair on the back of their necks raise up. "You don't know shit…" turning on his heel, Naruto snatched up the torch, "but you will."

"No, no please!" struggling against their bonds, the couple knew what was about to happen and tried with all their might to escape. "Don't do this!"

The torch hissed once again, spitting out its superheated blue flame. Naruto looked at it for a moment then looked between the two. "I always thought I was stronger than this, above revenge… but maybe Nagato was right, 'Even the most ignorant, innocent child will eventually grow up as they learn what true pain is. It affects what they say, what they think… and they become real people.' You act like you understand me?"

Tossing the torch, it bounced off the woman's chest before she burst into flames, screaming and thrashing wildly. Fatstack screamed, cursing the blond who yelled back, "Do you know how I feel now?"

He let her scream for a moment then ended it, drawing his pistol and firing a single round into her head, killing her instantly. Her screams stopped leaving the man thrashing and crying while the CHOOH2 burned her corpse. "What else did he say?" Naruto mused, ignoring the ringing in his ears this time, "oh yeah, 'When we lose someone precious to us, hate is born'. Well I guess he was right, because I fucking hate you." he finished.

Smoke started to fill the air above them and Naruto holstered the gun once more, looking at the fire that slowly started to consume the work station where various tools and surfaces were already covered in flammable substances and material. "And I want you to suffer, even if it's only for a few minutes," he hissed, kicking the CHOOH2 container over and spilling gallons of it along the floor under the man.

When he slung open the garage door, the fire raged out of control, the air outside gave it more oxygen to feed on. For a moment, Fatstacks crying was heard but quickly turned to blood curdling screams as his pain editor gave out. His screaming would be heard all throughout the quiet neighborhood and soon, news would get out that they crossed the Shino and paid dearly…

-xXx-

Leaning on his bike, Jackie passed the time by listening to his radio via his link to the bike, allowing it to play in his ear. Partly as not to blast music in the middle of the early morning but mostly to drown out any noise he might hear. That scream he heard after those first two shots was gonna haunt him for a while.

It probably wasn't smart to be distracted like this, in the middle of 6th Street turf with his music drowning out the world around him but he kept an eye out for any movement and besides he felt somewhat confident that Naruto's crew was keeping an eye on him too.

Something grabbed his arm, making him jump. "The fu-" he stopped, seeing the haggard looking blond standing next to him and put a hand to his chest. "Santa mierda! You scared the shit outta me," Turning off his radio turned out to be a mistake, that screaming chilled him to the bone more so than earlier. Against his better judgment, he glanced over and saw the smoke pouring out of the open door, the screams slowly dying out while the flames grew stronger.

Naruto didn't meet his eyes when he looked back at him, "So… you get what you needed?"

"Yeah Jackie, I got the location. Megabuilding H6."

"So…" the man grimaced as he smelled the smoke, "We heading there now?"

Naruto rubbed his face, "Ah, no… not yet, gonna wait a little while, I need to rest."

Liking the blond up and down, Jackie couldn't help but agree, "Yeah Holmes, you look like you're running on fumes. Want a ride somewhere?" The guy looked dead on his feet as far as he was concerned, eyes bloodshot, covered in grime and blood, clothing a mess. "How about we run by mama's house, she'll whip us up some grub and you can crash on the couch."

"I don't-"

"Come on choom," Jackie half pleaded, "I tell you, her couch is something else. Something about it makes you sleep like a baby… 'sides, she'll smack me with her shoe if I just left you here… hell she'll probably come after you too." he chuckled a bit weakly, "Shino or not, gonks round here have nothing on her when she gets going."

"Not today Jackie," Naruto sighed, "I just need some time to think… about everything honestly. I'm just gonna head back to…" he paused for a split second, "To Cami's, and sleep, I'll call you in a few hours ok? We'll plan our attack then."

Seeing that he wouldn't convince the Blond, Jackie sighed, "Alright man, just promise to come see Moms soon alright. Want a ride?"

"Nah… I'ma walk, doubt anyone will mess with me."

That made Jackie grimace, glancing over to the burning building which was now a raging inferno thanks to all the chemicals inside. 'Especially after this,' he thought to himself. "Alright Holmes, just… take care of yourself alright? I'll be waiting for your call."

Naruto nodded and watched as Jackie cranked his bike, the engine roaring to life before purring as he shifted from park. "I will Jackie, drive safe." Jackie looked like he was about to say something but just shook his head before starting to pull away, giving him a small wave.

'Sorry Jackie, but I can't let you risk your life on this.' he thought while the man turned a corner. He'd already helped get payback for Cami as far as he was concerned, Gunner on the other hand was all his. Besides, if this was gonna be Gunners HQ then chances were that he had a bunch of muscle backing him up and he didn't want Jackie getting killed.

-xXx-

After the Fourth Corporate War, Megabuldings were constructed to house the thousands of displaced residents now rendered homeless thanks to the disaster caused by Silverhand when he went nuclear at Arasakas NC Headquarters. At the time, one building was designed to house approximately 128,000 occupants at maximum with over 8000 apartments holding 16 per apartment. Officially that's what happened, unofficially, many more than that were forced to stay in these cramped conditions while more megabuildings were quickly constructed, often with poor construction that caused multiple deaths in the following years.

Now a days, those that still remembered those early days found life in a Megabuilding much better as the overcrowding was… somewhat reduced along with new services being added to the common areas such as shopping, food service, and entertainment while the apartments themselves were upgraded as time passed, each one had mediacorp-promoted cable, radio, and even Net access nowadays.

Management of these buildings once depended on rented corporate cops to keep the peace but soon, they found themselves outnumbered by the criminals in the area which quickly took over in many places and either just killed the ones in charge of keeping the peace or kicked them out if they were lucky.

Standing at the front steps leading up to the 'ground floor' of Mega Building H6, Naruto scanned the area around him while looking at the massive monstrosity of a building painted a dull orange he could respect if only it wasn't worn and chipped, half covered in graffiti ranging from dicks to a freshly painted 6th Street Skull branded with a 6 between the eyes. A massive pair of pipes ran up into the structure, no telling what for, but every now and then it rumbled and vibrated against the wall.

Several people gave him a wide berth as they walked around him, either due to the state of his clothing and his looks or due to the gear he wore, most likely lumping him in with the other gangoons that claimed the area. Even now, he could hear some people muttering about 6th street gangers causing problems from a couple that walked past him, speaking in hushed tones as not to be heard and most likely beaten up and robbed.

Taking out Camis mask, he looked at it with a small smile before sealing it away and raising the snarling half mask to his face. He'd thought of wearing her mask for this, it would be a fitting tribute to her he thought, but they were afraid of the Shino and knew him by this mask so he'd show them just what he could do and why they were right to be afraid.

"Bro I'm telling you, Trav's got the best shit around here man," laughed a teen with blue hair sitting on the rail near the bottom the stairs, eyes lit up as he made a call over the holo, "I'm not walking about that gonk shit that fossils been pushing I'm-" he trailed off as Naruto stepped past him, five shadow clones behind him all wearing Cami's fox mask. "Oh fuck choom… no, some shits about to go down here… yeah, I'm gonna delta the fuck outta this place."

Halfway up a small group of three were standing around, two watching the third shadowbox, "-just like this and down he went, you shoulda seen-" the boxer stopped and backed away as he passed, pressing his back against the wall while his chooms did the same, backing against the rail going up the middle of the steps.

At the top, they spotted four gangoons surrounding a small service counter on the other side of a small set of tables, three were beating the shit out of the owner while the last riffled through the man's stuff, pocketing anything she found interesting.

"Please, I've already paid up this week!" the man cried, covering his face and head with his arms while the other three kicked and stomped him. Several folks around them tried to act like they didn't see what was going on, hoping that the gangoons wouldn't involve them next.

"There's a new general, didn't you hear?" laughed the woman, holding up a small roll of eddies and pocketing it, "Morton's days are numbered, you pay-" her throat opened up, blood spurting out as she gurgled and fell to the floor, hands grasping around her neck as she struggled to breath. Seeing this, one of the bystanders screamed, drawing everyone's attention to the scene.

"Vicky!" cried one of the Gangoons, "Who the-"

Three clones shot towards them, one sliding over the table between them, another jumping over them completely while the last springboarded off the wall. The first leapt onto his target, latching onto and bringing him to the ground before snapping his neck. The second, who jumped over the others, brought his heel down violently atop his target's skull, a sickening crack echoing down the corridor as the man crumpled to the floor. The third clone, kicking off the wall, struck his target with a roundhouse kick, which sent him face first into a vending machine while spat out several burritos in rapid order which fell on top of the unconscious man.

"What the fu-" another gangoon came around the corner after hearing the commotion, only to get pelted with several shuriken from all three.

"Oh god!" cried one person, "They're dead!"

"Let's delta the fuck outta here!"

"Dude'd you see that!" one of the teens yelled, "Preem!"

"Choom, you should see what I just witnessed, some Gato and his squad just rolled up and flatlined these gangoons,"

As Naruto passed, he ignored the panicked civilians scurrying out of his way and stepped up to one of the elevators, pressing the button to bring it down. Glancing to one of the clones, it nodded and broke off from the group, heading past the gates towards an area marked as restricted.

"Hey," He turned towards the voice and saw a small boy looking up at him with wide eyes, "Thank you for helping my dad," looking up from the boy, Naruto saw a woman fussing over the man that had been beaten up. "You guys were so nova!" the child cheered, grinning from ear to ear.

"Andy!" the woman tending to the man yelped, noticing where her son was. She rushed over to him and wrapped her arms around the boy, looking at the masked men in fear, "I'm sorry, he didn't mean to bother you,"

"It's fine," He responded, feeling a little amused at how the boy acted, "You should take him somewhere else for the day though, he shouldn't be around for what's about to happen."

That made her gasp and nod quickly, "Y-yes sir," she picked the young boy up and turned to rush back to the father, "Thank you," she said, stopping just long enough to turn back. As she rushed away, the little boy smiled at him over her shoulder and waved, which he slowly returned as the elevator doors opened behind him. The four clones piled into the elevator behind him, waiting for him as he watched the woman help the man to his feet and escape.

"Boss," one called out, snapping him from his small daze, "You coming?"

Shaking his head, Naruto joined them, the elevator was poorly maintained with stains and paint all along the metal walls, out of four holo screens mounted to the wall, only one worked, the others broken, one even had a bullet hole with what looked like blood smeared across the broken screen.

Facing the door with his clones behind him, one pressed the button for the 20th floor while he hit redial on the holo, since he was reconnected to it the display popped up on his optic so they'd see each other when they answered. It rang several times before Gunner picked up, his face filling the window. He was a tall, rugged looking older man with short gray hair and stubble with a few faded scars on his face.

"Stack, the hell's taken you so long?" the man grumbled before realizing that he wasn't talking to who he though, "You aint Stack, who the fuck are you?"

"Fatboy's charcoal," Naruto told him, his eyes like ice while the elevator took them up, "And so's his bitch, Angel,"

"You killed Angel and Fatstack?" The look the man had was amused at first before turning dead serious

"Grady too,"

The man glowered at him over the holo, "You know who your fuckin with boy… wait, I know you, your Rico's little pet ninja aintcha? The fucking 6th Street Shino, let me guess, you get tired of sucking Rico's cock now your coming after ol Gunner?" The man mocked, "You might be a sneaky little gonk but I bet you aint shit in a straight up scrap."

"Keep on talking," Naruto growled back as the elevator doors opened, "I wiped out your boys at that old power corp and burned your two attack dogs alive. When I get my hands on you, what do you think will happen?" his clones stepped out and started moving while he stood there.

"Not shit," Gunner laughed, "So you zeroed a few of my boys, I got hundreds more ready to step up all over the fucking city."

"That so?" Naruto pressed the display, setting the elevator to go down one floor, "Tell me something Gunner, out of all of your loyal goons, they willing to die for you," The

"Kinda gonk fuck question is that? 'Course they are,"

"Well I hope they are ready to prove it, for your sake" Everything went pitch black as the power to the entire building went out, a couple seconds passed and the emergency lights popped on, bathing him in a dim red glow that matched the red bleeding into his bloodshot eyes. "Cause I'm here,"

"Fuc-"Naruto cut the call short and looked at the gate, his timing had the power die before it could open, so now he'd have to force it.

-xXx-

"Padre, our contact in Rancho called,"

Running his finger down the edge of his well worn bible, Sebastian nodded at his Bodyguard/driver's words, "I see, what do you have for me Marcus?" He carefully closed the book, a relic older than most yet worthless to many in Night City. The man sat in his kitchen, enjoying his morning cup of Synthcoff while reading a couple pages from the good book just like he did every morning.

"We suspect the destruction on Republic way was caused by Mr. Uzumaki," he reported, his voice calm and cool as always, as if he were talking about the weather. "We managed to trace one of the people involved with Ms. Orta's death to the location but-"

"The boy already tracked him down,"

"It seems so,"

The older man hummed to himself, tapping his fingers on the worn cover for a moment before setting it down on his table.

It would seem that the lad had a capable information broker… but then again, he was affiliated with 6th Street so he'd have access to more information pertaining to them unlike any of his own people. The destruction he reaped at the old Electric Corporation building was… biblical to say the least and while he wasn't one to relish in senseless bloodshed he would have to look into seeing if there were any recordings for him to view.

"Any ideas where he is now, Marcus?"

"Not currently Padre," the man answered before clearing his throat, "Although, interestingly enough, Mr. Welles was spotted leaving his residence early this morning around 3am. Heavily armed compared to usual."

"I see."

"Tracked him to the bridge leading into Santo, it seems that he broke through the police cordon and escaped before he could be tagged."

That made the older man snort a little in amusement, "That's Jackie alright, I figured he might get involved. Anything else?"

"No Padre, but i'll let you know as soon as we receive anything new,"

"Thank you Marcus. Go and enjoy your breakfast, I'll be ready to head out at our usual time."

The man nodded and turned to exit his kitchen, no doubt to go down the road to the little diner where he would flirt with the waitress there, leaving Sebastian alone with this new information and his thoughts.

So not only could the lad sweep though like a ghost but could deliver destruction upon his enemies like the wrath of god. Last he heard, the estimated cost to the city was over 30 million eddies to have the overpass repaired, the cost was inflated no doubt by greedy 'public servants' planning on pocketing a good amount and skimp on the repairs. The more he learned about the boy, the more impressed he was… and troubled.

"They will be entangled among thorns and drunk from their own wine. Let them be consumed like dry stubble," he muttered, "you are my war club, my weapon for battle- with you I shatter nations, with you I destroy kingdoms,"

'Naruto Uzumaki, your origins are a mystery… it is as if the Lord has put you here to be his instrument of change, and change things you have…'

-xXx-

"Hey Gloria, look alive partner,"

Opening her eyes, the woman looked around for a moment before yawning, "Sorry Danny, this doubles been rough," she groaned, stretching what little she could while in the passenger seat of the ambulance. "Hell of a night huh?"

Her partner nodded, "You're telling me, I'm just glad we don't have to deal with that shitshow on Republic anymore." They had both been called in to help with the mess that went down in Rancho Coronado and arrived not too long after the overpass collapse, expecting to help deal with all the corpses that kept being hauled out onto the street or patch up anyone that might've just gotten hurt. Not even half an hour in, a dozen or so Militech trucks came barreling down the road with a couple armored AVs, the Corpo goon inside rounding them up and pretty much kicking them all off the scene while some blond Corpo bitch told them that this was now a Militech issue and for them to fuck off. Like literally told them to fuck off.

Gloria was both annoyed and grateful, grateful now that she didn't have to try and drag some gangoon out from under the rubble but annoyed because she spotted a couple preem pieces of chrome just waiting to find a new owner.

'Oh well' she thought to herself, feeling the weight in her EMT jacket pocket. Before the Corpo squad rolled up and made them unload the bagged corpses, she managed to snag some gangoons severed cyberhand with what looked like some built in tech hidden in the fingers. Probably wouldn't get much for it but she wouldn't be leaving the scene empty handed.

"Sorry 'bout waking you though," the guy told her, "But we got another call, waited till now to wake you at least."

She looked around, "Please tell me it's not some kinda disaster again," she muttered, half expecting to see another road collapse or something along those lines.

"Nah, got a simple cleanup, three corpses… callers said it was a shop fire on the corner of Gibson in Arroyo." when he saw the look she gave him, he nodded, "Yep, right smack in the middle of 6th Street territory. Good thing we got these vests just in case."

Gloria looked down at the armored vest she had on under her hi-vis EMT jacket then at the pistol on her thigh, "Hell of a day when we're armed like this," she huffed, reaching up and brushing a strand of red hair from her face.

"True but at least 6th Street ain't like those Maelstrom gonks," he shrugged, "Sixers at least leave us alone, we're like the only service that actually comes around here to help folks."

The ambulance pulled up and they saw a small group of said gangers standing outside of a smoking garage, "And speaking of the gonks," Danny grumbled, he pulled up closer to the gate where one of the armed goons waved them over, "Alright Gloria, let's do this." As soon as the doors opened, the smell in the air nearly made them gag despite being veteran EMT techs. They powered through though and climbed out of their rig.

"Hey ah, thanks for coming," one shaken looking ganger told them, his tone surprising them. "I'm Sargent Chambers, second in… well, actually I guess I'm in charge now. There's three bodies, two are in…" he nodded to the open garage, "-there. The last one was on the street, we moved him just inside before any kids saw it."

Gloria looked towards the street and saw the blood staining the streets, probably just a drop in the bucket compared to how much these streets have seen in the past before. A trail led past them and through the broken gate where they noticed several more gangoons hanging around looking at the open garage with varying looks of grief and worry.

They went in to assess the situation first before dragging anything out.

Aside from a few mutterings from the group, they left the pair alone while the Sargent followed them in. The first was laying just out of sight from the road with a OD green military style jacket draped over him. "Corporal Kellsi, damn fine soldier," the Sargent stated as they neared, several goons around muttered the same in agreement, "Rest in peace bro,"

Gloria lifted the jacket and nearly flinched when she saw his face looking right at her, eyes wide and unfocused with half dried blood trailing from each nostril and his mouth. Upon further inspection, she found the cause of death being a wide stab wound in the back of his head. "Single wound to the back of the head," She observed while Danny took notes on a small tablet for their report, "Death was instant, gone before he hit the ground." The last part was mainly for the gangoons around them, telling someone their friend died instantly always went over better than saying they suffered in agony before dying.

After a few more notes, the pair headed towards the open garage door, they could still see some of the foam used to fight the fire coating various surfaces.

"I'ma wait out here," the Sargent grumbled, "seeing them once was more than enough for me…"

Looking at each other, they stepped inside and gagged. Smelling it was one thing but… they expected burnt corpses sure but the implications… Handing from the lift, arms bound in blackened, soot covered chains was a large man and a woman.

"Dios mio," Gloria gagged, "Danny these guys were-"

"I know," he grimaced, forcing himself not to be sick, "Don't say it. Lets just-" the man paused for a moment, covering his mouth, "Fuck it, lets get the masks."

Both left the garage and jumped into the back of their rig and grabbed the respirators stored inside, "Let's take these notes and delta, get 'em to the morgue and be done with this alright,'' Gloria whispered to the man, who nodded and unhooked the stretcher while she grabbed three body bags. The less they had to be near this legit crime scene the better.

With the masks in place, the pair didn't have to fight the vomit inducing smells as they returned and quickly set about taking notes.

"Female shows extensive cyberware, she's damn near borged out," Danny muttered, Gloria taking the notes this time.

"Cause of death," she asked, "Let me guess, the fire?"

"You'd think so," he pointed to the woman's head, "Single shot to the head, at least whoever did this flatlined her first. Big guy on the other hand… looks like he suffered till the fire zeroed 'em. NCPD should be here honestly, this wasn't some accident… this was torture and an execution."

Gloria glanced behind her to make sure none of the gangoons were near, "I know the cops don't come around here at all but…" she looked again and stepped closer, "Why are they here and not hunting the gonks that did this?"

Danny gave her a puzzled look before blinking, "Oh yeah, I didn't tell you since you were sleeping. They're pushing for this to be swept under the rug, and get this as an accidental death."

"Accidental?" she snorted, "The one outside, maybe. But these two? They just chained themselves up and she just so happened to shoot herself before the fire started?"

"Whoever's responsible," Danny started, stressing the 'whoever', "They got the guys outside scared. Did you see how they looked at the place? I don't know about you but if they got 6th Street soldiers scared, I don't want to know anything else about 'em."

-xXx-

"Hey, who knocked out the light!"

"I don't know but when I find 'em, I'll kill 'em!"

All over the Mega Building, people groaned and cursed the outage as their mornings were disrupted, laundry stopped, half nuked food stopped cooking, jerk machines stopped mid tug leaving guys with a case of blue balls and all in the dark before the red emergency lights popped on.

As his optics quickly readjusted to the dim light, Gunner ran out onto the outer balcony and yelled out at the top of his lungs, "Look alive you gonks!" he yelled, whipping out his pistol and firing it into the air, "We're under attack!" Several gangers stumbled out of their apartments, half dressed and barely awake, "I said wake the fuck up!" he yelled again, emptying the mag into the open air above them. "We got-"

The building's alarm sounded a shrill screeching alarm running on the emergency generators.

"All residents, please return to your rooms and seal the doors," An automated female voice announced, the emergency system activating for the first time in a while. "All residents, please return to your rooms and seal the doors,"

"What they hell is going on!" yelled one sixer, stumbling into the common area in his boxers before the sound of grinding reached his ears over the alarm, he had to squint as he looked due to the dim lighting but he found the source coming from the barely open elevator door and saw what looked like someone forcing it open, "Hold on, hold on, I'll help you out dude." he groaned, thinking that it was a fellow gangoon caught inside.

He staggered over, still half asleep and passed one of his chooms, "Hey Devin, come on and give us a hand huh?"

The man groaned, "Yeah sure, give me a minute…"

Devin reached into his apartment and started sliding on his boots, "You know what the hells going-" he glanced over to the elevator door, seeing his choom look through the gap. *BANG* Part of his head turned into a pink mist before his body fell like a drone after an EMP. The gunshot echoed around much like the ones before and after a second, he shook his head and dived headfirst back into his room, scrambling for his gear screaming, "We're under attack."

His girl shot up in bed, wide eyed and tits out, "What?"

"Get your ass in gear!" Devin growled, "Mel just got dusted!"

She rolled out of bed and scrambled for her clothes, forgoing panties and just pulling on a pair of pants and one of his tank tops while both threw their tac gear on over their heads. "Who's attacking!"

"Fuck if I know!" he grunted back, checking his shotgun before opening his door and checking around the corner "But they don't know who-" he was cut off as a hand jerked the shotgun and yanked him out the door.

"Baby!" she yelled, snatching the liberty pistol off the nearby table and running outside. Just outside, she spotted Devin struggling against the wall, the shotgun pinning him to the wall by his neck by a masked man. "You fucker, get away from him!"

Naruto used the shotgun like a staff, nearly crushing the gangoons throat with it when he heard the woman scream and raise her gun to fire at him from point blank. Thinking quickly, he adjusted his hold on the grip and pulled the trigger, pulverizing her upper body as buckshot tore through her less than six feet away.

"Baby no-" the man tried to cry. Naruto cut him off again by slamming the weapon against him once again, this time crushing his throat with a visceral crunch. When he fell to the floor, choking and grasping his neck, Naruto racked the gun and finished him with a single shell.

From the floor above, his clones swung themselves over the edge near any enemies they saw and began cutting them down one by one while they tried to figure out just what the hell was going on. Between the alarm, the automated announcement, screaming and gunshots, they weren't too sure of what to do as panic started to set in.

Several gangoons started pouring out of the various apartments, looking around wildly before spotting him standing over two bodies. "There!" one yelled over the alarm, pointing his rifle in his general direction and open firing.

Naruto ducked and dived out of the way as a few dozen rounds impacted the area he'd been, chipping the concrete and further damaging the two corpses he'd left behind. He scrambled back to his feet and pressed himself against the wall next to the door, waiting for the bullets to stop before hearing something bounce by his feet and grimacing.

"Shit,"

It was a grenade.

He scooped it up and tossed it back, hearing and feeling the explosion moments later. Just then he got the memories of one of his clones and wondered what killed it. It had taken down several gangoons, dodging several rounds from one that had been hiding in his room, only for the bullets to curve midair and slam into his head.

Several more explosions shook the megabuilding, making the dim red light flicker several times.

"SHINO!" someone screamed out over all the chaos, "Come on out and die gonk!" thundering gunshots echoed through the air making him wince as another clone fell, ripped apart by several large rounds fired from a heavy machine gun. "Your fucked ya hear!" the voice screamed during a lull in the fighting before another burst of high caliber machine gun fire.

Several more clones popped into existence and sprinted from the room, followed by several more, then more. Some died shortly thereafter, killing a few more 6th street goons before falling but using their memories, he knew where the shooter was.

Bursting from the apartment, Naruto sprinted down the corridor as Gunner trained the massive gun towards him. The thundering shots kicked up dust around him, brass raining down to the levels below as he rained hell towards him. He kept ahead of the bullets fired at him, the ground behind him being torn to hell and taking massive chunks out of the floor and walls. Gunner didn't even bother stopping as the blond passed any gangoon, his Mk.31 HMG willing to rip friend and foe alike to shreds while the man roared out his battle cry.

While it may have felt like an eternity, less than a couple minutes had passed since the battle began and even less time had passed since Gunner opened up on him with that HMG which soon ran out of ammo. "Not bad Shino!" he yelled, everything much quieter now after he'd unleashed hell with that weapon. "Not fucking bad at all boy! Can see why folks fear ya!"

Naruto turned the corner to find Gunner alone in what looked like a dining area with a few picnic tables and abandoned, damaged stalls. The man tossed the massive gun to the ground and picked up two rifles while facing him, "Your finished Gunner,"

"Oh ya think so huh?" the man chuckled, "Well it's gonna take more than some pussy ass ninja to take down ol Gunner," he fired the two rifles blindly in the blond's direction.

Naruto's eyes narrowed as the bullets seemed to move slower before veering towards him. 'Fucking homing projectiles!' he thought, sprinting behind cover. While they could curve towards him they didn't actually lock on too well, once he put something between them or got past them they couldn't make any tight turns or go around objects. "I will make you pay for what you've done!"

"What I've done!" he mocked, "Gonna have to be more specific boy! Ol Gunners done a lotta bad shit these days."

Naruto leaped over his cover, a waist high concrete bench and weaved his way past the slower moving homing projectiles as he himself homed in on the man. Several bullets found their way to him, punching into his leg, a couple drilled into his gut but he was too close to stop. The last round curved towards his face taking a small chunk out of his cheek and ear before he was too close.

Gunner tried to fight back as the guns were wrestled out of his hands but Naruto proved to be too strong, even breaking one of the man's fingers as he twisted one of the smart guns from his grip. "Goddamn boy, the fuck are you made of huh?" he demanded, drawing a knife and trying to stab him.

Naruto caught the blade, the sharp edge tearing into his palm. "Better shit than you," he growled, headbutting the man in his face while snatching the knife away. It clattered to the floor as he continued to step closer while the man backpedaled away.

"Better than me?" he laughed, raising his fists, "Gotta have a big ol pair to claim you're better than me boy." Gunner threw a punch, which he slapped aside countering with a punch of his own to the older man's gut. The man hunched over, staggering back with one arm clinched protectively around his gut. "Lucky fuckin shot boy."

"Lucks got nothing to do with it old man," he growled. Naruto countered another swing, one after the other before Gunner found himself backed against the railing. "I'm just better than you."

"Fuck you, aint no one better than me!" he huffed, nose bleeding and lip split. "I'm the General of mother fucking 6th Street you hear me!"

"You're just a tired old dog that should've been put down years ago." his hands shot out and wrapped around Gunners throat, "Should've killed you months ago, but no… They wanted to avoid splitting the ranks." Naruto growled, eyes now fully glowing red, "If I'd have just stamped you out she'd still be alive!" Gunner grabbed his wrists, struggling to breath. "I'd still have her! She's gone because of you!"

Naruto clinched his teeth and grinned pressing down on the man who started to sink to his knees. "This, all of this is your fault!" Gunner's eyes widened then narrowed, his red face turning purple and arms going limp. "Just die, just die, just fucking die, huh?" he felt something and looked down to see Gunners arm open up, a large barrel pointed at his stomach.

*BOOM*

Naruto felt himself be thrown back from the force of the explosion, his body slamming through several tables and rolling to a stop as a burning pain engulfed his torso. It took him several seconds to shake off the daze and push himself up only to see all the blood around him, his stomach was shredded, charred and bleeding profusely… and was that one of his ribs?

"Goddamn boy…" he heard the man rasp and looked up to see him staggering to his feet, "Really put this ol boy through the ringer," he looked like he'd taken some damage from the blast as well but nowhere near as much as him, "But like I said, ain't one better than ol Gunner, hehehe." he grasped his arm and reloaded it. "What was that you said… something about a girl? Well don't worry, I'll do ya a solid and send you right to the gonk bitch."

"Don't call her that," he grunted, pushing himself up and back onto his feet, blood pouring from his wounds that were slowly trying to heal.

"Tough little shit aint ya… well tough shit boy, a bitch is a bitch no matter how you look at it. Hehehe and to think, all of this was caused by some stupid little whore, musta been some preem pussy to make a man go this far."

"Shut… your goddamn mouth,"

"Or what, you'll bleed on me?" Gunner coughed a few times, "Too bad she's dead, might've tried her out my-"

Naruto saw red and charged, Gunners arm mounted PLS firing again only for the blond to reach out and swipe it from the air with his right arm where the projectile exploded, destroying his cyberarm. He roared, pushing himself forward through the pain, through the explosion, and through the smoke to wrap his hand around Gunners throat once again.

The older man grunted as his back slammed into the railing just before the blond crashed into him, sending both over the ledge where they fell to the ground 20 floors below.

-xXx-

To be continued…

-xXx-

Ugh i'm getting sick again, sorry about the cliffy…

I hope you enjoyed this. I'm slowly writing longer and longer chapters, this one is a little over 18k yay! Gonna start on act 2 next so I hope you look forward to it and dont mind my mistakes lol. We're getting closer to Edgerunners now and Naruto has some mental issues to deal with now that he'll have to look back at what he's done and come to terms with it.

Anyway, like I've said before, I'm pretty sure I've made plenty of mistakes here so I hope you forgive me and enjoy the ride. Love you guys. Feel free to message me if you want, can't promise I'll get back to you in a timely fashion but I'll try.

Also, feel free to review too, promise to read them all.

With love, Drunkenficker…

Hmm… thinking about it, that name is not all that applicable now. I've nearly quit drinking for the most part.