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Third Person POV
The Land of Sound.
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Naruto flew over the Village and finally reached his companions, waiting in the same spot where he had left them with the inert body and the girl clinging to his neck.
Akame and Minato looked at Naruto and noticed the girl and the body, immediately giving Naruto questioning looks...
"Who is this?" Akame asked as Naruto placed the body on the ground, and Karin descended from him with tears in her eyes. She seemed cautious of the two in front of her, both wearing masks like Naruto.
"She is a descendant of the Uzumaki clan. She was to be used as an experimental subject and manipulated with the death of her mother... It's a shame we only got here after her mother's death... I decided to get her out of there," Naruto spoke calmly, wishing he had been able to save the Uzumaki woman but unfortunately, he was too late.
"Mother..." Karin murmured sadly, taking her eyes off those strangers with masks and looking at her mother's body, furious that she had died that way at the hands of people who had said they would protect her...
"..." Naruto remained silent, watching the girl cry for a while, a few minutes, then decided to act so as not to wait any longer; after all, they needed to leave quickly.
"Akame, can you put her mother's body in the scroll?" he asked. "We will give her a burial later," Naruto said, and Karin nodded reluctantly to that.
Akame nodded as she pulled out the scroll and made the sealing signs, storing the deceased body.
"And now, what do we do?" Kimimaro asked Naruto.
"We know our target is in the West. Let's look there, we'll eliminate him before leaving the country, but we need to be quick. After all, the Village will soon find our traces; we've drawn too much attention here," Naruto said.
Then, they prepared to leave, while Karin clung again to Naruto's neck as she could not keep up with them, and they departed.
Unable to leave her alone, Naruto needed to take Karin with them and keep her in a safe place. "Are you hunting that man who wanted to use me?" Karin asked, looking at Naruto and his mask.
"Yes, he is a criminal who fled the Leaf Village a long time ago. We are tracking him down right now on an S-rank mission..." he said, and they both bypassed the village and headed to the Western region.
Meanwhile, in a distant underground base, sat a man alone in a type of laboratory lit only by candles. He was stationary, as if pensive, gazing at the flame burning on one of the candles.
This was none other than Danzo, the former Elder of the Leaf Village, who had lost everything years ago, his men, his identity and status, and much of his power since he had lost all his Sharingans to Minato Namikaze and died that day, yet he sacrificed Shisui's eye for it, a price he paid to escape the village with his life.
The only thing that remained was his work for a man like Orochimaru in the country where he controls, keeping him safe, but his ambitions still lived on, burning within him. He wanted to return to the Land of Fire, dominate Konoha, and lead so that the village could put the entire ninja world under his feet, believing that only with him would the village achieve true glory.
His plans had been very clear from the start: to take down the Fourth Hokage and take his position, to create a force like the Root but much more expansive, and even to control both halves of the Kyuubi with its tails, but now without Shisui's eye, this would be difficult, but not all Uchihas were dead, he could soon take new eyes.
Now he had none of this within his reach, having to wait and unable to do anything at the moment, he had to opt for some extreme measures to regain some of his strength, one of them is the mark that had been placed on his neck, which Orochimaru had implemented in him and he underwent the ritual to reach phase 2.
"I will return to the Land of Fire one day, I will make everyone kneel and have my revenge. I will make everyone pay," Danzo growled in thirst for vengeance and anger as he looked at that candle.
He would wait a while while working for Orochimaru, doing a job here and there on his research, exchanging some information he had from the Root in exchange for safety and survival.
He was about to begin rebuilding, starting with the Uzumaki girl he was demanding from the Sound Village, with her mother's body, as Orochimaru had agreed with him. He planned to create the Root with her, making her a perfect tool.
Meanwhile, many kilometers away, Naruto landed at the entrance of a cave he had found with his haki. Kimimaro and Akame landed beside Naruto, while he still had Karin around his neck.
"I've never found our target, so we'll have to search personally through all the hideouts we find in this area. Let's start with this one. I sense a strong presence of several people with dark auras inside, so be careful," he said, and both nodded, while Karin seemed hesitant.
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Naruto noticed this and turned to her. "Stay calm," he said, and she felt it.
They began to enter, and it didn't take long for them to realize that the cave was a sort of underground laboratory with various human experiments conducted there.
"What is this...?" Karin looked scared; after all, as a sensor ninja, she could feel the chaotic chakra in many of those living beings there, some of whom were no longer even human.
"This is not just a laboratory... a sort of chair..." Kimimaro commented as he entered a corridor with various cells.
"It seems they conducted all sorts of experiments on these people here, if we can still call them people now..." Naruto remarked. He found it repulsive; he felt all those dark auras and saw these people undergoing experiments, many parts of their bodies transformed into monster-like features and some strange dark marks.
"They are no longer people..." Akame said as she watched a heavy iron door slam with a man inside trying to kill Akame as soon as he saw her, while the girl looked at him calmly.
Naruto didn't go down the corridor of the cells like Kimimaro and Akame; he was looking at a table in the room he was in, picking up some papers.
"Strange..." Naruto analyzed the drawings and some data there, "So they are transforming into these things because of this?" Naruto saw the strange mark in the photos of the victims, it seemed that all these people were experiments gone wrong... they were test subjects here who lost their humanity because of this mark.
Karin was still nervous with those animal-like screams, while she looked curiously down the corridor where Akame and Kimimaro were... analyzing those people or whatever they are now.
She didn't even notice when suddenly, a door behind her opens and one of these men, with an arm like a crab's claw, rushed at the girl. She screamed in fright when she realized it. However, Naruto appeared in a flash, cutting the man in half, causing him to fall dead on the ground immediately while Karin stumbled and fell next to the dead body.
"They were going to turn me into these things?!" She couldn't help but comment, stunned.
"I don't know... But we better get out of here, there's nothing here for us..." Naruto said to the girl who began to get up and looked gratefully at Naruto.
Karin was a bit scared, but Naruto understood and looked at his companions. "Let's get out of here, there's nothing here for us," he said, and they began to leave.
They continued running through the region searching for other hideouts similar to the last, using Naruto's haki, and found other laboratories, some with quite a bit of information about what they were doing, but still limited, nowhere near a main or important laboratory.
There were test subjects from all over, members of other countries, but mainly people from the country itself, as Naruto could tell, which was quite bizarre with these people being their own cancer in the Land of Sound.
"This is disgusting," Akame commented seeing more and more transformed people, some she couldn't even say were people at some point.
"Yes, it seems this Orochimaru has taken over this country to create these things..." Naruto said after reading some information in the last laboratories. Orochimaru, one of the legendary Sannins, was the chief scientist of all these experiments. There was also the name of a Kabuto and many medical reports on the papers.
But setting that aside, they again began to search in the next laboratory. It was only at the fifth location that they finally found their target.
Danzou was fiddling with his mokuton arm when he felt something strange; the entire corridor fell into a deadly silence with only the sound of the candles burning. He narrowed his only eye, looking towards the dark part of the corridor outside that room.
'What is this feeling...' Danzou couldn't help but comment with a furrowed brow. Not even in his dreams did he imagine that there was a group hunting him at this moment.
"Is it him, are you sure?" Kimimaro asked Naruto as they stood some distance away.
"Most likely, I can feel a very negative presence, more than I expected to find," Naruto spoke thoughtfully. "It could be Orochimaru himself... but it doesn't seem as strong as Tsunade or Jiraiya..." Naruto murmured.
He turned and saw Karin there, huddled up as she had just followed them all through the night, and it was now dawning on the eastern side.
Naruto sighed and turned his attention to Akame. "I want you to make clones to keep the girl safe at a distance... We'll handle this alone," Naruto said.
Akame nodded and created two clones to stay with the girl on that side. After that, Naruto stepped forward, followed by Kimimaro and Akame.
"Let's go, our target must be waiting for us," Naruto announced, and they headed towards the laboratory, underneath a mountain in front of them.
Meanwhile, Danzou had already sensed something strange, with them approaching every moment.
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