Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Hidden Truths ❯ Base Raid Part One ( Chapter 6 )

Chapter 6: Base Raid Part One

“Where are we headed now?” Shikamaru asked, his feet moving swiftly along the ground. This was getting old: run, rest, run, rest; it never ended did it?

“One of our scouts found one of the enemy’s bases. We lost contact with him a few days ago and they want us to find his current status. They believe him captured. They also think that we’ll be able to scrounge up some Intel on the whereabouts of Drake.”

There was a screech high above their heads and they stopped. A massive bird was circling overhead, it was far too large to be native. It touched down in front of them bearing its black chest, a white ring covering the majority of it.

“It’s from the Council. This is the fastest bird in the nation, it must be important,” Alek observed. He walked up to the bird and circled around to the back and pulled out a large scroll.

The bird took off and Alek opened the scroll and smiled. He picked up four large stones and placed the scroll on the ground, pinning down each corner with the stones.

It was a map, a very detailed map at that. It showed two separate buildings, a watchtower and a fortress of some sort. The fortress was then divided into two smaller buildings with a separate map to show the two floors and a basement.

“Study this map carefully,” Kay commanded them. “After we memorize it, the map has to be destroyed; can’t afford for the enemy to know we’re on to them.”

“Any ideas for a plan? Shikamaru? Kakashi?”

They each studied the map more closely.

“I have one,” Kakashi declared. “But first tell me how our objectives are supposed to be accomplished.”

“Well it would be wise to use as much stealth as possible, but since the information is likely to be heavily guarded along with our scout, it would be better to use a sneak attack. And since they would be able to detect a Kinjutsu, it would be best not to use them.”

“I thought so. Okay, here is the plan. We want to hit them fast and hard, take out as many as possible in the shortest amount of time. We’ll each split into groups of two. Sasuke, you’ll be alone. I want Alek and Naruto together, Kay and Sakura, Neji and Shikamaru, and Tenten and myself. Sasuke, we’re counting on you to be a diversion, I want you to…”

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(Note: I’m going to be switching from character to character so unless it says they’re together, they’re all in their separate teams.)


Night was falling upon the base and it was almost time to execute the plan. They were all hidden in various areas of the woods around the base. Their orders were simple, or at least the way Kakashi had explained them. Who knew how many guards there were in this place?

The sun was setting painstakingly slowly, as if it wanted them to wait there all night only to rise a few minutes later and reveal their position. But now the final bit of light had receded from the horizon., it was time.

The fortress itself wasn’t much to behold especially in terms of defense; there were windows on the bottom floor, definitely poor building planning. The entire place was made of wood and could be blown to smithereens with a few well-placed explosive tags. But that wasn’t what they wanted.

Sasuke had carefully made his way up to the top of the watchtower silently as instructed. He slowly lifted the hatch and peered through the crack. There was a pair of feet facing in the opposite direction. He jumped out and the man spun around. “You killed my friends you stupid bastards!” he yelled and charged at the man. He punched him in his gut and then tripped him then ducked down to fight him on the floor.

Outside, the guards had seen this and could here the two exchanging punches. Then it was silent and they waited for someone to stand up. It was the guard, and on his shoulder was the unconscious Sasuke.

“You always get the action,” one of the other guards told him.

He smiled. “Yeah, but this kid was nothing, he surprised me that’s all. He was definitely a loner though, yelling something about his dead friends. I must have killed them and he thought coming here would be any different from his friends. What kind of idiot raids a base alone?” he replied, dropping Sasuke’s body over the edge where it landed with a crack. He smiled again, “I hope that broke his neck, he was still alive, but he’ll think twice about coming here next time if he’s still alive.”

There was a loud smash from below. They all leaned over the edge to see that the wooden gate had been shattered.

“What was that?” one of the guards asked.

The watchtower guard smiled as he ran over the crosswalk toward the rest of them. “That would be my friends!” he yelled as his body transformed into the boy they had seen before and began to take out the closest guard and began towards another.

***

“The door’s been broke,” Alek stated. “That’s our cue. Now, we each go into a different window. Hopefully the guards will have heard the door and we’ll be clear.”

Naruto dashed through the clearing and stopped at the window, lifting himself in and looking around for any signs of a lingering ninja. But like Alek had told him, the room was empty.

They darted to the door and opened it slowly. Inside there were a few guards still running out to the courtyard to fight Kay and Sakura who had just annihilated the doors with one of Sakura’s freakishly powerful punches.

The last of them filtered out of the room and Alek motioned for Naruto to go through the door. He opened the door the rest of the way and crept in.

Not two steps through the doorway, he was greeted with a piece of cold metal against his throat and a deep voice that said “Nice try. But we aren’t as stupid as you think. Did you actually think we’d be so stupid that we couldn’t realize a diversion when we see one? You’re too obvious.”

“Really? Then it looks like you missed another diversion,” answered Alek’s voice from behind the man.

“How did you get here?”

“I took the stairs,” Alek replied sarcastically. “Now if you don’t mind, we have an agenda to complete and you aren’t a part of it.” He grabbed the man by the arm and pulled it away from Naruto’s neck and began swinging him around like a rag doll before slamming him into the wall, collapsing the wood and sending him flying into the barracks where he hit into one of the metal poles of a bunk.

“That was a bit loud, don’t you think?” Naruto asked.

Alek merely shrugged his shoulders and replied, “It’s not like it matters, they’ll have enough trouble dealing with the girls to pay attention to a crash.”

“Hey, what are you two doing here!”

They turned and realize that the door had been opened and there was another person standing in the doorway. But just short of attacking, a hand reached at the man’s shoulder and pulled him back.

Kay’s head popped out of the doorway and smiled. “Sorry about that, he was a straggler. They’re like running away from us, the little babies.” She appeared to be holding back the man as her head was moving back and forth. “Will you stop struggling you idiot, you already lost! Hey! Get your hands off my ass you pervert!” she yelled and disappeared behind the door.

“She’s scary,” Naruto remarked.

“Nah, she’s just a bit crazy. You’ll get used to it. But enough interruptions, we‘re behind schedule.”

***

Kakashi and Tenten had made there way in without a hitch and were waiting patiently in the armory, gathering various weapons they would need later on in the mission.

The door clicked open and in walked Alek followed by Naruto.

“What took you two so long? You’re two minutes late as it is and you still have to help us gather weapons,” Tenten said, picking up a bundle of kunai.

“We ran into some interference.”

“So we heard. Don’t you think that was a bit loud? You could have attracted attention,” Kakashi scolded them.

“We did, but Kay took care of it.”

“You have jeopardized this mission with that little stunt of yours.”

“Please, gramps, if we wanted to, this whole base could be destroyed in all of ten seconds. Learn to live a little. What’s the point of being a ninja if you can’t break the rules a little bit? Or did u not tell your teammates that those who aren’t willing to bend the rules are also scum?”

“When I said that, I meant that those who aren’t willing to break the rules to help another teammate are scum.”

“Same thing, I was just saving Naruto’s neck.”

They finished getting the weapons they were supposed to get and left the armory and headed out the door. They were standing in a hall and walked straight through a door, then hooked a right and walked to the stairs.

***

“How you doin’ over there Neji?” Shikamaru asked, knocking out another of the attacking guards.

“Can’t complain, not much competition though,” he replied casually. He jumped to avoid a punch from both sides and landed on their arms, grabbing tight to them and letting himself fall ground-ward sending the two attackees spinning onto opposite benches.

It felt awkward fighting in a mess hall, but it was great if you where outnumbered, plenty of opportunity for the creative mind. The two of them were outnumbered about six to one but this gave them plenty to work off, a missed kick could easily hit another person. Not to mention that most of the opposition was at the Genin level which made it all the more easier.

There were only three of them left now, all they had to do was take out one each and gang up on the third who seemed to be completely unaware of this fight. Either that or he didn’t see much use in fighting.

He was reading a book and hadn’t yet taken his eyes from it even when Shikamaru had launched one of his comrades at him; he merely raised his fist and gave a hard jab which stopped all the momentum in the person’s body and probably snapped his neck.

Shikamaru gave his opponent a series of kicks to his chest and a sharp uppercut to finish him off while Neji simply thrust his palm at the boy’s chest and kicked him as he bent down to try to suck the air back into his lungs.

“Hey, you. The one reading the book, come and fight like a man,” Shikamaru said.

The boy ignored him and flipped the page of his book.

“Hey, I was talking to you.”

“Save your breath, he’s not gonna talk,” Neji said. He ran toward the boy and brought his leg up to his face.

The boy lifted his hand up and extended a single finger, catching the force of the kick onto it. “You’re in my light,” he remarked dully.

Neji dropped his foot and brought the other up to the side of his face. The boy sagged to the floor and sat down. Neji took another swipe at his head but the boy flopped onto his side, still not taking his eyes off the book. Neji swung his fist at the boy but he rolled so the back of his head was flat on the ground and his legs, still folded Indian style were parallel to the floor.

He unfolded his legs and grabbed onto Neji’s head like a monkey and swung his body in the opposite direction, hurling Neji into a wall. “I told you to get out of my light. It wasn’t a difficult task,” he said, rolling back over into his reading position.

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The beginning of the base raid has come to a conclusion, for those who haven’t noticed. For this chapter and the next, I actually drew out the base and where each team would go, where they’d meet up, in what rooms they’d have to fight, etc. (I was bored and I like architecture.) I hope that those of you who have read this chapter enjoyed it.