Sleepless D: It's been awhile since I updated this, but hopefully the plot isn't missed and for those that have stayed loyal to the story will probably see hearts darken still. Whether it be this chapter or another in the future, it will come to pass and who knows. The more unique the story, the more interesting it becomes. Who wants to read the same story over and over again? They may have been in the Root base before, escaped battered, scarred and readers leaving. This time, they descend more into the depths of Root and their corrupt ideals. Will they escape unharmed, unbroken, and not lose any more readers? Probably not, best read to find out. Peace out.
A cough comes from the darkness. Movement soon follows and lights along the corner of the walls power up as Eri stands back to her feet. She tilts her head, listening and pondering. Her foot brushes the elevator door she smashed through before the elevator she was on collapsed from an unknown source. She finds some annoyance since she can't distinguish who is what sound in the higher levels in which to find Hinata. She steps forward, sensing the room as the slight buzzing coming from the lights was enough for her to map the room's echoes.
A crack comes from the wall ahead and a small tube slides out. "Testing, te-FUCK!" The voice yells, soon speaking nonsense for a few seconds before returning to talking. "Eri, saw you crash through the doors via cameras. Lucky save on your part. Hinata has gone on ahead, so Kim is saying you have the full go ahead on your search. I would say watch where you're going, but that's beneath me." Susumu chuckles as the metal recedes back into the walls.
Eri sighs a little as she begins to walk, giving the slightest shuffle to help her pin anything near her.
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The hall lights were close to being useless, giving a near sense of walking through black with faint white outlines of the edges of the halls. Several doors stand scattered across said halls, the slight glow from the other side of the door giving hints of their existence. Most were empty, but those few with content, lacked any importance. The most common contents seem to be sleeping chambers, containing, the 2nd most common were storage centres for mundane items, such as food, regulation equipment and crates with little within them.
Naruto and Hinata move cautiously down the ever-darkening corridors, stopping every so often to investigate a room. Naruto stops at the newest door, looking over to Hinata and shrugs, "Twenty-third time's the charm?"
Hinata stares at the room with her Byakugan, seeing only sleeping quarters and nothing else, "Sadly not; it is only another sleeping quarters."
"Damn it…" Naruto groans, walking on for several dozen feet and stops outside the next room, "Twenty-fourth time's the charm?" Naruto asks, sounding a little more hopeful. Hinata shakes her head, gaining another groan from Naruto.
Hinata giggles a little, somewhat finding Naruto's childish impatience a little charming. The two continue their way down the hall, soon reaching something that the two were grateful for a change of scenery yet left a hint of annoyance. A cross roads in the hallways. Hinata stops at the edge, scanning left, right and ahead. No signs or even hints of which hallway leads where.
Naruto stops as well, looking and swallowing a little worry and just smiles, "When in doubt, follow your gut." Naruto says, pointing left and smiling at Hinata.
Hinata gives a small smile back and nods. She steps forwards and suddenly stops. Her ears were picking up something outside the hum of the electric lights and Naruto. She activates her Byakugan and soon spots the culprits in the edge of her line of vision to the right. Her vision goes straight to them and she counts half a dozen Root ANBU heading her way.
"Naruto…we've got company." She tells him, readying herself in a stance.
Naruto stops, looking at her and then glancing in the direction she's staring off into. Moments later, he soon sees the figures and they stop several dozen feet away. The lighting isn't perfect, he can only see the outlines of the figures. A sudden danger fills Naruto, but it wasn't his signals calling danger, it was the Kyuubi.
The Nine Tails chakra seeps into Naruto and he hears the deep voice of the Kyuubi within his mind, 'That chakra…that human in the rear…it'll seal me tighter than that blasted former leader of yours…Uzumaki…'
"Wait, what?" Naruto asks, confused as his vision is improved drastically and he can see the figures clearer than ever.
There are four Root ANBU wearing ANBU battle uniform and ANBU masks (Fish, Eel, Dog, Cat) whilst the one leading the front wears a white cloak over his gear (Boar). The one in the rear gives a slight shiver to Naruto's spine. The figure is that of a woman, standing a little short of Hinata's height. She wears clothing like the ANBU, but entirely red. Her hair is tied back tightly, showing hints of both red and black colours of her hair. It was her face, or more specifically, her nearly blank mask. The number 11 is large on her face, showing the 1 digits on where her eyes would be while the marking # is shown on the top right corner, giving him a sudden familiarity towards Gaara's mark on his head.
"Crap…Hinata, we've got another of those people with a number on their face."
"Number Eleven? Yes, I noticed." Hinata tells him, scanning her chakra and finding something disturbingly familiar about it.
"Let's hope it means she's the eleventh strongest of those people." Naruto chuckles, clenching his fists.
The ANBU begins to whisper, catching Naruto's ears as they are heightened by the Kyuubi's chakra. "Danzo wants them alive. We ran into them sooner than expected. We're to delay them long enough for Number Two to reach our location. Number Eleven, if the opportunity presents itself…deal with the Jinchuuriki."
Number Eleven straightens and gives a confident thumb up, "I'll take him out like taking candy from a greedy baby, Hyo!"
"No, Number Eleven!" the one called Hyo calls out.
Number Eleven releases an absurd amount of chakra, causing the ANBU to hit the wall. The chakra pressure increases rapidly before Number Eleven launches herself towards Naruto and Hinata. Each step brings about a massive, destructive flow of chakra that demolishes the concrete hall along with the shattering of the limited elimination.
Both Naruto and Hinata are surprised by this sudden frontal attack with a large amount of power heading their way. Neither of the two gives signs of fear nor second thoughts at facing someone with that chakra level. The two have faced greater chakra levels and prevailed.
Hinata steps forward, releasing chakra and rapidly begins to rotate, "Rotation!" Hinata says, aiming to throw all the force back at the target.
Number Eleven doesn't slow down. In fact, she charges faster and jumps and begins spinning rapidly, "Adamantine Chain Rotation!" she calls out, releasing a large sphere of chakra with chakra chains spinning round it rapidly and lashing out with more devastating energies.
The two chakra spheres collide, and the hallways rapidly disintegrate. The chains on Number Eleven's Rotation rapidly wrap round Hinata's Rotation, causing it to cling and sparks to fly. Hinata notices the sphere rapidly decrease in speed and cease to exist and in placement were the chains, surprising Hinata greatly. Number Eleven pushes forward, sliding by the remaining chains that encircle Hinata. Number Eleven whips her arm across, making Hinata back up as the chain clashes to the ground.
Naruto's eyes widen as the chains around Hinata and Number Eleven slides through the chains and her forearms becomes wrapped with the chains. Her palms reach out and Naruto quickly retaliates and swipes his foot and collides with the arms and forces her to spin. Pain seeps into Naruto's foot and he looks down, seeing the chakra chain wrapping itself rapidly around his ankle. The pale heel of Number Eleven is seen at the corner of Naruto's eye, making him glance and his vision is all sole of her feet. Naruto's neck cracks from the sudden force and Naruto hits the wall.
Blue dots fill Naruto's vision and confusion sets in. A sharp pain comes from his ankle, soon feeling a sudden pull that forces him to hit the floor. Naruto feels the pull continue and friction going across his body, causing small burns on exposed flesh. Naruto's white t-shirt is being pulled off from the upward friction and hearing it tear from the drag. "Damn it!" Naruto yells, trying to twist his body to see what's going on and failing, only seeing the floor and the quickly fading crossroads from ahead of him along with Hinata. Panic sets in and he quickly smashes his fist into the ground, using any chakra he had to force a spin. Flesh comes off from his knuckle, finally manages to flip onto his back, giving his torso relief.
Number Eleven is several feet ahead of the direction he's being dragged, running at an increasing speed with chakra chains wrapped around her, linking to his ankle and tied tightly.
Naruto's hands reach for the chain, pulling and twisting it with all his might, "HINATA!" Naruto yells, trying to break free of the chain.
"Naruto!" Hinata calls back, quickly preparing to chase after him.
A flash of light came, reflecting the limited light and Hinata ducks. A few fibbers of hair are pulled/sliced from a bladed weapon. Hinata's Byakugan scans the area and the five ANBU that led Number Eleven launched themselves at her. Hinata sees their weapons drawn, all wielding tanto and slicing at her rapidly. Hinata's Byakugan is all she can do to predict their attacks and narrowly dodging them. They're not giving her any chance to counter attack, attacking in such ways that would prevent, or at least make it difficult to attack with Gentle Fist style. Two of the Root ANBU slash their weapons towards Hinata in a scissoring motion. Hinata steps back, feeling the cold, hard stone wall against her back. Hinata swallows and quickly sucks her stomach in as the blades cross, cutting through her shirt and cutting through a few layers of her skin. Hinata clenches her teeth and quickly tilts her neck and another tanto slashes at her head which narrowly grazes her cheek.
The clash of metal against stone with a hint of blood being imbedded into the wall. Hinata quickly lurches forward, trying to open her surroundings to retaliate. Hinata thrusts her palm at the nearest one, an ANBU with a Fish designed mask. Her finger tips collide with the ANBU's arm, but he shifted it at the last second and she narrowly misses the chakra point.
Two tanto slice across her back, cutting through her shirt and a light trail of blood slices out. The two ANBU (Eel and Dog) quickly dive to the side while the remaining two ANBU (Cat and Boar) find themselves either side of Hinata, staring at her sides and launching forward with their blades out.
Hinata quickly thrusts her palms forward, colliding with his torso, but her eyes narrow when she sees her chakra stop short of hitting their organs. The push throws her back, giving her enough space to narrowly avoid the blades colliding with her. She watches the tantos thrust forward, cutting a bit of her shirt a little. Hinata quickly thrusts her finger tips forward, hitting both attackers' forearms. Just the slightest of movements and Hinata hits off the target. Hinata realises something isn't right. Each of her hits have just been off target and her attempt to attack the internal organs failed.
Hinata's eyes quickly scan and the ANBU here are very coordinated and avoided all, if any damage from her Gentle Fist. Hinata quickly concludes they may have been trained to fight against it, yet the question brings to one; how can they? Gentle Fist is a specific fighting style and few people have studied the stance long enough to counter, yet all of them are avoiding all her attempts to harm them. Hinata swallows, narrowly avoiding another series of attacks, each one getting closer and forcing her back to the wall once more.
'I'll have to thank Eri for this.' Hinata says to herself. She quickly changes stance, lifting her foot ever so slightly and taps the floor.
The area around them explodes into smoke and rubble. Hinata dives out and launches herself down the corridor where Naruto was dragged off. The Eel masked ANBU quickly follows, having been less affected by the attack. Moments pass and two more ANBU launch out of the smoke, wearing a Cat and Boar mask. A second later and another ANBU rushes out of the smoke (Dog) and finally, the last ANBU rushes out, having a trail of blood running down the top of his mask and circling round his Fish mask's eye.
Hinata rushes down the corridor, her Byakugan trying to find the trace amounts of Naruto she could. Hinata coughs hard, her chakra level decreasing from the chakra she used to get away and her muscles feel weak. The image of the Eel masked ANBU quickly gaining on her from the rear and a small amount of dread follows with each step he gains on her.
Eel quickly lurches, lowering his body and his body rapidly gaining and closes the distance between him and his prey. He quickly tackles her, faster than she could counter and smashes her into the wall. The force of the collision causes the wall to crack and Hinata feels the left side of her ribs crack as well. Hinata coughs a little blood and quickly turns to face her attacker. The adrenaline in her body was helping the pain, but she twinges from the bits she felt with the twisting of her body.
Eel holds his arms around her torso, keeping her pressed against the wall. He feels her wriggle, quickly tightening his grip and locking his fingers together, ensuring she doesn't escape before his companions arrive.
Hinata clenches her teeth, smashing her finger tips and palms into Eel. She curses, realising his body armour is blocking off most of her attacks and only a small area is exposed. She continues to hit his exposed chakra points, yet that was doing little against unlocking his grip on her. She grinds her teeth and glances to the right, seeing the other ANBU shortening the distance and will be upon her within a matter of seconds.
She takes a breath; her muscles clench and her hands press down on Eel's back. Her knee quickly and sharply drives upwards, smashing into the man's stomach. She pulls her knee back and continues to deliver a quick series of knees into his chest, abdomen and a quick blow to his crotch. She felt a quick loosening and she knew she had the room. She quickly grips Eel's sides and quickly turns. "Rotation!" she calls out, quickly rotating and keeping her grip tight as Eel panics as she spins him. Once, twice, thrice and release. Hinata collides the man into the wall and they both go through.
Air, rocks and dust meet the two as they descend into a dark depth. Eel continues to fall, spinning and trying to regain his composure. A solid metal bar collides with his back. A sickening snap follows, and his world becomes as black as the pit they're in.
Hinata lands with a fumble on a stone bridge, quickly glancing up, her Byakugan still active and the ANBU is on the banister of a stone bridge above her. The pit they're in, it falls and rises into nothingness and on each end of the bridges that spiral the hole, an endless stream of corridors that seem to root its way around the world and she can't see which way leads where as they go beyond her range of vision. The other ANBU quickly appear at the hole she created with her rotation and start scanning for her, quickly spotting her in the darkness. Those that live in the shadows will always see those hiding within them. She must move before they do, to escape before she's cornered again, to vanish before her injuries begin to slow her.
She launches herself to the right, heading straight to the door. The Boar masked ANBU quickly motions for pursuit, making the Dog and Cat masked ANBU quickly jump and dive straight for her as she smashes through the door and quickly pursue. Boar quickly follows whilst the Fish masked ANBU stays for a moment, seeing Eel lay dead on the banisters.
"She'll pay for that…"
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Naruto yells in annoyance as he continues to fight against the chains as he loses a few layers of flesh from the friction he's has since Number Eleven caught him and has yet to stop. The constant movement, the lefts and rights have caused Naruto unable to remember the route which she took, and the main priority is to break the chain and find Hinata, kicking Number Eleven's ass is a secondary, only just and that'll soon reach priority as she's continuing to piss him off.
Number Eleven stops suddenly, quickly grabbing the chain linked with Naruto and she twists and pulls it with her strength, keeping him moving rapidly as she slingshots him ahead of her.
Naruto's eyes widen from the sudden move and feels a sudden relief that the chain releases itself from his ankle. That was short lived as his body collides with a metallic door which stops most of his velocity, being strong enough to remove the door from its hinges and leaves Naruto rolling away on the other side.
Number Eleven waits patiently as Naruto stands himself up, holding his damaged skin and glares at her. She seems to give a humorous humming as she begins to walk towards him, releasing more chakra chains from her back.
"What the hell do you want?!" Naruto yells, grinding his teeth as the Kyuubi forces more of his chakra into Naruto, yet less of a 'get angrier' and more of a 'get rid of her and I'll be happier' motive.
"Just following orders." Number Eleven replies, releasing more chakra as she enters the room she threw Naruto into.
Naruto's vision quickly scans the area, looking for a means of getting the advantage on her. The entire area was black, but the Kyuubi's chakra helped him see the edges of this closed off room. Several dozen yards above, a crossroad bridge blocks off most of the roof, yet small glimmers of lighting can be seen beyond that. That means little from his current position and holds little purpose to worry about since he'll not likely reach above there with Number Eleven still a threat. The doorway of which he was thrown is an easier means of escape, but again, the threat of Number Eleven will make it more pointless. The only way to find Hinata is to get through her, and he doesn't plan on failing that. Naruto clenches his fists, looking at her carefully and launches forward. The Kyuubi's chakra flows through his chakra network, overpowering his muscles and increasing his speed.
Number Eleven sees the increase of speed and she quickly moves into her stance and her chakra chains explode into a dome and launch out. The chains tore through the floor and the walls and continued to expand rapidly.
Naruto quickly ducks and weaves through the chains, getting closer and the rage within his eyes getting closer and closer to Number Eleven as the chains continue to whip out rapidly. "Adamantine Chain Rotation!" Number Eleven calls out, causing a sphere to chains to erupt from her and rapidly destroy everything within 10 feet of her and Naruto was only outside the destructive force and was forced back by the weaker destructive force of chains.
Naruto collides with the wall near the back, coughing hard and holding onto his chest as an imprint of the chains remained there and his healing factor was ignoring most of it. "Damn it!" Naruto yells, crossing his fingers. "Multi-Shadow Clone Jutsu!" Naruto yells, creating several dozen clones to launch at Number Eleven, joining in.
The clones pushed forward, several being destroyed when they reached 30 feet, even more getting destroyed within the 20-foot mark and nearly all gone before they hit 10 feet. Blood seeps from Naruto's nose as he pushes forward, his eyes focused on everything yet nothing as he takes a step, poof, another step, poof, one more. Raise arm.
Pain rips through Naruto as he feels his right arm break and he flies and smashes into the concrete wall. Blood seeps from his nose and his right eye is blood shot. 'That was close.' Naruto says to himself, holding onto his right arm and his eye twitches, realising he blocked a lethal hit to his neck. Beyond the destructive force, Naruto hears a bubbling. He looks down and his right arm is becoming cloaked in the Kyuubi's chakra. "No!" Naruto yells, feeling the Kyuubi getting angrier.
'You need my power to remove this threat, boy.' The Kyuubi whispers in his mind. 'This creature is worse than you and the former Hokage. I will not allow you to compromise your life and me losing my best means of escape.'
Naruto's mind wonders, not noticing his eyes turning red and slit. He looks at the sphere of chakra Number Eleven is emitting and he's soon noticing something. The destructive wave had shrunk. Before, it was damaging the entire room, but now it's within a 30-foot perimeter. As soon as he noticed, Number Eleven stopped her Rotation and waving her arms, causing chains to lash out. Spikes form and Naruto knew that was bad.
He quickly lurches to the right, rushing counter clockwise against Number Eleven, narrowly avoiding all piercing attacks. Snap! Naruto yells as the healing Kyuubi was giving forced his arm to unbreak. He quickly does a hand sign "Shadow Clone Jutsu!" he yells, exploding into a mass of white smoke that soon has Naruto's pouring out. 'Kyuubi! I've got an idea, just give me the chakra and make sure I don't pass out!' Naruto orders.
'You have an idea? Must be a concussion.' Kyuubi says, feeling some annoyance at being ordered.
'Just do it!' Naruto yells within his mind.
"Adamantine Chain Rotation!" Number Eleven yells, causing another sphere and chains to spread out and causing more destructive force.
'Within 30 feet…' Naruto says, seeing clones rush into the place, exploding rapidly as smoke begins to fill the area.
'Is that your plan? To use more chakra than her and hope she runs out before you? Pathetic.' Kyuubi whispers.
Naruto's nose begins to bleed rapidly, releasing more clones and his ear begins bleed and his eyes rolling back. The Kyuubi forces more chakra into Naruto, forcing his to stay conscious as the clouds get closer and closer to the sphere.
More blood seeps from Naruto's holes, some from the mouth and even his eye is tearing blood. "Any second now…any second…NOW!" Naruto roars in pain, exploding into a mass of smoke that fills the area rapidly.
Seconds pass and the smoke begins to clear up and the rotation stops, leaving Number Eleven to stop and scan the area. She gives a hand sign, "Byakugan!" she scans the area, counting a dozen Naruto and their right hands holding spheres of chakra. "Oh dear, what is a lady to do with so many boys? Boi!" she calls out.
The smoke begins to fade and they all launch forward. Number Eleven shifts her hands, making chains fly from her and piercing through 3 clones before they got within 30 feet of her. She flicks her wrists and her eyes go to the right, seeing a clone take a hit for another clone and a smile forms under her mask, 20 feet. She flicks her fingers back to the left, killing 4 more clones before focusing on the last cluster of Narutos, 10 feet, running at her full speed. Her fingers make gun shapes and she flicks them back. 2 clones quickly dive in front of them, remaining solid as the last 2 clones jump from their backs and straight at her, one hiding behind the other more, 5 feet. "Adamantine Chain Rotation!" she yells, erupting in chakra and chains that begin to destroy the area rapidly.
She is taken by surprise as one of the Naruto's is partially inside her sphere, seeing the Kyuubi's chakra shrouding him to limit the damage. Behind him, the other Naruto is grabbing hold of the stuck Naruto who both are holding onto their own Rasengans. The Kyuubi's chakra is slowly deteriorating from the Adamantine Chains and the Naruto outside quickly slams his Rasengan into the stuck Naruto before exploding.
The stuck Naruto is pushed further in, his sphere only a few inches from Number Eleven who continues to spin, trying to push Naruto out and sees his cloak waning. "Nice try, but not close enou-" Number Eleven begun to say before the Rasengan explodes into smoke and another Naruto takes its place.
The new Naruto is covered in the Kyuubi's chakra and his body has several deep cuts from the incomplete Rasengan sphere that he hid in with a transformation. The stuck Naruto explodes and the real Naruto's Kyuubi covered fist collides with the spinning mask of Number Eleven.
The area explodes and Number Eleven flies from the force and smashes into the nearby wall and slumps a little.
Naruto coughs hard, his injuries healing as he remembers not to do that again. It hurt a lot and took a lot of chakra to hide in an incomplete Rasengan that was weak enough to not vaporise him yet powerful enough to hide him with chakra. Naruto takes several breaths as he used a lot of chakra just to memorise her pattern of chains and attack movements. He saw her attacks were powerful, but very repetitive. He's now wishing he had a chair to sit on, but right now, he had to deal with Number Eleven before she regains herself.
The ground behind him explodes and he's sent flying forward and rolls to recover as he grabs a shard of floor tile to act as a blade. His eyes widen in shock and fear when he sees an obese woman in white robes and bandages wrapped round her wrists and feet. She stands taller than Naruto, dark brown hair covering most of her back and a plain white mask with the number 9 on one side of the face and # on the other.
"Target located." A new voice comes, making Naruto glance and more fear comes as another woman stands near Number Eleven, yet her clothes are oversized and covered in bandages on what little flesh that would've been seen as well as her hair from what little the hood showed. Her faceless mask holds a similar design but with # 6 printed on it.
"Fuck me…" Naruto says, holding the shard close.
Xxx
A large machine stands within a dark room, several screens show vital signs of unknown subjects. Two men wearing lab coats watch the screens. A sudden flat-lining comes from one of the screens.
"Number Eleven has gone unconscious…skull fracture and partial chakra poisoning from possibly the Jinchuuriki. Applying adrenaline now." One of the scientists says with a monotone voice.
The other presses a button. "Number Six and Nine are ready to engage target and will delay until Number Two reaches the location…Number Eight and Thirteen are outside orders and heading towards the Jinxhuuriki."
The first man checks signs and presses a few buttons. "Number Eight and Thirteen are currently injured, Number Eight is suffering from abdominal wounds, heavy bleeding and a few organs are damaged. Number Thirteen tracking is on, but everything else is offline...checking to see if her connection is disrupted."
The second man grabs a headset with a mic. "Number Eight, you are currently injured and are to report to the medical bay. Number Eight, do you copy?"
A feminine voice in the darkness. "You received reports of massive head injury from Number Eight and she flatlined. How is that possible?"
The second man quickly checks previous injuries reports. "Unsure, though possible chakra disruption and brainwaves might've been disrupted by Gentle Fist and could have glitched our systems. All previous injuries, minus head are accounted for. Maybe Number Eight is seeking redemption for their previous failure…unusual"
The first one speaks. "Unable to connect, they're about engage Jinchuuriki's location."
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Number Nine slams her foot into the floor, causing it to shake from her weight. Naruto swallows as he begins to think if he can outrun the two of them. His eyes glance at the exit and his heart sinks. Standing at the entrance is a woman wearing tight, black trousers, a black, leather jacket with long sleeves and the length reaching only as high as her lowest rib and her abdomen is bandaged around her waist and is stained and bleeding with blood. Darker grey bandages are tied tightly around her waist and hands are stained with blood. Her face covered by a mask with no markings other than '#13' in the dead centre and no eye slits. Her midnight blue hair standing long yet tied back in a restricting ponytail. In her hand appears to be a scalpel along with something hidden within her fingers.
Naruto looks around carefully, knowing #13 is covering the exit to his south. #6 seems to be guarding #11 to his west and big #9 was to his north. He begins to wonder if the bridge above his would be his best plan of escape.
Number Six speaks up. "Number Thirteen, you were not ordered to participate. Return to your chambers." She says, not leaving her sights on Naruto.
Number Thirteen looks at Naruto and raises the scalpel in her hand to her face, brushing it slightly and staining it slightly.
"Number Thirteen, you were-" Number Six began, but she saw Number Thirteen launch ahead, flying towards Naruto.
Naruto panics, quickly spinning and sees her bloody blade flashing towards him, he goes to counter, but is shocked at her speed and closes his eyes to embrace the pain he was going to heal from. Blood splatters on the floor and a heavy grunt comes not from him, but from behind him. Naruto opens his eyes, seeing no Number Thirteen and turns his head, soon seeing Number Thirteen's standing before Number Nine, elbow deep inside her belly and her robes covered in blood. It seems that no one, least of all the other Numbers expected that attack.
Sleepless D: Sorry for the long delay and I hope you guys enjoyed the update after at least a year and a half. Please review and I'll hopefully not take so long to update the next chapter.