Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Naruto Present Tense ❯ Chapter 3: The wages of war: ( Chapter 3 )
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By: SDI Hypervelocity 
Anime/Manga: Naruto Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance / Action | Type: Continuation | Uploaded On: 02.24.2005 | Pages: 2 | Words: 3.0K | Visits: 315 | Status: Completed
Anime/Manga: Naruto Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance / Action | Type: Continuation | Uploaded On: 02.24.2005 | Pages: 2 | Words: 3.0K | Visits: 315 | Status: Completed
Chapter 3: The wages of war:
After that small bit of excitement, it was back to the expansive open road. Which was fine for the three of them as long as Naruto stopped for something to eat and Konohamaru could get out and stretch every 100 miles or so.
Konohamaru lent over the armrest compartment in-between the driver and the passenger seat to change the channel on the TV built into Sasuke’s dashboard. Naruto was driving, this time with out any objection, surprisingly it had been by Sasuke’s suggestion. Sasuke was sitting in the front seat watching Konohamaru flip through every channels he could get reception to.
He wasn’t necessarily looking for anything to watch, he just wanted to play around with it. It was actually a little amusing which was the only reason Sasuke was still watching. Yeah, it was quiet as usual, which was a good thing. Ebisu hadn’t been seen since Naruto took down his helicopter yesterday, but they knew they’d see him again eventually. It’s nearly imposable to evade someone that persistent with every resource in Konoha behind him.
Sasuke looked out of the window, seeing that they were now passing over a large bridge with two levels, the bottom was connected to a tunnel on both ends and the top was connecting the regular road above ground. This was obviously a highway, Sasuke could tell that much from the 4 lanes.
Not a back road or even a non-highway interstate road. That’s when the Uchiha’s mind turned on again, he hadn’t really been doing much thinking of his about for the last 2 days. Just enjoying this time in his usual silent manner and questing nothing but why Naruto had brought so much junk food when he could have spent that money on real food with some actual substance and nutritional value. He was surprised it lasted as long as it did.
Naruto glanced over at Sasuke, which he had gotten in the habit of doing occasionally. From his changed expression he could tell something had him in a slight dismay. “What’s with you Sasuke?”
Sasuke continued to look over the bridge to the lake below, “Why hasn’t there been any traffic on any of the roads we’ve been on?”
Naruto looked at him for a second, then at the road in front of him, Sasuke was right. “I don’t know, maybe all of them are still shut down from the storm. It probably caused a lot of damage to road signs and traffic lights or something. ”
That seemed like a logical answer, a quite good one in fact. Enough to shift the inquisition to the back of his mind…where it didn’t seem to want to fad, it still nagged at him. “No sea traffic either.” Sasuke knew that harbors around Konoha were usually busy, though he’d only been outside of the city few times because of the war. But there could be many other reasons for this.
Harbors and ports may not have been in a condition to accommodate any ships at the moment.
Pushing the question farther in the back of his mind, Sasuke relaxed again somewhat though he continued thinking. Not about anything in particular, just as something to do, what he always did. But this almost never ended up well, when Sasuke’s thoughts wondered, they always seemed to be drawn back to that day… as if it was imprinted into his mind and it would make itself known everyone and awhile just so he wouldn’t forget.
As if he really could.
The events of the past replayed itself to him as he glanced over at Konohamaru, the boy still seemed to be fairly content to continue playing with the TV. His long blue scarf fluttering in the wind behind him. His eyes were then drawn up to Naruto, who seemed completely relaxed, some how he managed to drive effectively, despite his size but pulled it off.
The expression on Sasuke’s face changed from relaxed and at easy to serious and somewhat melancholy when he watched Naruto after thinking about what happened…
Konohamaru pressed the button to return the TV back to in to the dashboard, then sat back again. “Hey, do you guys hear that?”
“Hear what?” Naruto asked, looking around for anything that could cause a sound or hoping to hear something besides the car. “I don’t hear anything.”
Sasuke too took a quick glance around his surroundings also, finding nothing on all other sides his eyes returned ahead. But that’s when he did see something, his eyes went wide, with his sharp vision he could before anyone could. “Something’s happening…” He said, pointing ahead, just above the trees on the other side of the bridge.
There was a small silence as Naruto and Konohamaru watched the spot, nothing unusual. Except for the fact that whatever sound Konohamaru was hearing became louder and louder each second. Everyone could hear it by then, hundreds of birds lifted from behind the cover of trees as a prelude to danger, similar to a fashion seen when an earthquake was about to hit an area.
This clearly wasn’t an earthquake, but what was it?
“What’s with the birds?” Naruto looked up questioningly, “Is that what you were hearing Konohamaru?”
The boy shook his head “No…It sounds like a really big engine or something like that.”
“?“ Driven more by curiosity, Naruto accelerated towards the end of the bridge in an attempt to reach a point where he could hear the same . The roar of the car engine rang through the air. Only to be muted by the louder roar of Jets engines in a ‘V’ formation of 6 Fighter Plaines passing over head. “Oh man, They look like they’re getting ready to attack…who where they?”
Before they could even look back at the passing jets, they heard a new, louder sound from under them. Sasuke jumped out of the car along with Naruto and Konohamaru, all of them running to the edge of the road and looking at the bridge under them. From the underground tunnel emerged a large Tank, a sound emblem on the side.
“The sound attack!” Konohamaru shouted in realization, being the president’s grandson he’d gained a lot of the country’s secret information. Including the not so secret intelligence information on a possible Sound attack, that knowledge was apparently true because it was happening right now. “We’re in the middle of it!”
Sasuke and Naruto looked at each other with wide, surprised eyes, immediately dashing for the car with Sasuke taking the wheel. Konohamaru jumped in and buckled up while Sasuke made a sharp U-turn and headed in the opposite direction toward the road that they had just come from at full acceleration and speed.
Sasuke slowed down abruptly near the entrance of the bridge, seeing that another tank was waiting on the road. It had come up from the tunnel road and though the car was behind and out of it’s vision the tank, they’d never be able to make it past. “Damnit! We have to get out of here…”
Sasuke shifted the car into reverse and tuned back the way he came, the other side of the bridge was relatively clear though it was heading into the direction the Sound forces where coming from.
“Oh man…we must be close to the Sound country.” Naruto said, glancing over the bridge to the waters below where speed boats, also with the sound insigne rushed under them. Those smaller boats, though armed with mounted assault riffles on the top and who knows what else inside. Seemed to be only an escort for much larger ships.
Half of Konoha was on the edge of an ocean, so an assault by water would be highly effective. This was going to be a full force attack, that much was clear. “Look at all of that…” Naruto said with an almost fearful tone.
“Damn.” Sasuke stopped abruptly again, seeing two black cars rushing full speed towards them. No one heard him though, they were all drowned out by the sounds of more fighter jet’s over head and the constant rumble of tanks passing below. At lest 30 of the fighter planes had to have passed over by now.
“What do we do now?” Konohamaru asked, watching as Sasuke sat idle, thinking for a few seconds before he began moving again. Pulling his 9mm handgun from his hidden holster he tossed the weapon to Naruto. Then he unbuckled himself and got out the car. Sasuke ran to the trunk, shifting past his S.W.A.T issue riffle, though he didn’t have enough time to grab the weapon or with 4 extra clips, the bulletproof vest or any of the riot gear stored.
It seemed he brought everything but what he was looking for “No…I left it behind.” Sasuke sighed abandoning his search for the item. closing the trunk and getting back into the car.
By that time the two black cars were already on the bridge, but surprisingly they passed him as if he wasn’t there. “What are you waiting for?” Naruto asked. “Let’s go--” He froze when he saw what those two black cars were leading. A huge trail of armored trucks all carrying Sound solders appeared on the road in front of them.
“There’s no way out…” Sasuke’s voice trailed off as he looked through the rear-view, still finding the tank blocking the entrance of the bridge. It became clear that that was it’s purpose all along, to trap them in, not much else was known about the situation though. “Fuck! I should have seen something was wrong before.” Sasuke slammed his fist into steering wheel out of anger.
Naruto sighed and put the gun into the glove compartment knowing it wouldn’t help him. “Don’t blame yourself.” Naruto said plainly. “And if your going to give up, let me drive.”
Sasuke looked over at him curiously, surprised when Naruto grabbed him by the shoulders and pulled him from the driver’s seat. In a jostle of grunts a curses Naruto made his way to the wheel and Sasuke ended up in the backseat with Konohamaru though he was originally intended to be in the passenger. “What the hell are you doing dobe?!” Sasuke shouted.
“If I’m going down, I’m going down fighting.” Naruto said, clinching the wheel and revving the engine before shifting gears and driving forward. Heading straightforward into the sea of incoming armored trucks. As soon as he made it off the bridge he was already going head first into one of the larger vehicles.
Despite his small size and, at first glance, his awkwardness when behind the wheel. Naruto was a decent driver, he turned to the left to avoid the first truck, then veered to the right to move past the second truck. Staying in the right lane, he past 3 more on coming trucks at full speed before he was force to break by one armored truck blocking both lanes. “Hey guys.” Naruto said, unlocking his door. “What do you think the chances are of getting away on foot?”
Naruto opened the door and got out of the car, only to find that on closer inspection the truck blocking their way was completely empty. The other vehicles flowed past undisrupted in the opposite lanes of the 4 lane highway, blocking them in completely. “What the hell?!” Naruto said, glancing inside the empty vehicle he expected men to come out what happened after that would be up to speculation.
The wind picked up unnaturally, and as if triggered by it., the line of trucks in the other lane stopped. Looking up, it could be seen that they stopped to clear a path for a black Helicopter that descended on to the road for a landing. “Why didn’t I see something was wrong earlier…” Sasuke said to himself, glancing down at Konohamaru who was standing next to him.
The boy didn’t seem fearful of the situation, though he knew what was happening. He was more curious then afraid.
The 3 of them watched as a man with long black hair and a pale completion emerged. He was wearing body armor of thick Kevlar body armor with the Sound insignia in the center along with blue pants made with at lest 10 layers of the material. Holstered on both of his hips were 2 Mac 11 sub-machine guns and an replacement clip for each.
The blue clad man walked over them, followed by 3 other men with assault riffles.
“Do we know you?” Sasuke snorted, looking over the man in the center leading the other 3/
“Uchiha Sasuke, Uzumaki Naruto.” The man smirked when he came upon Konohamaru. “And the President of the Leaf’s grandson.”
Konohamaru glared at him, the man didn’t even use his name, just ‘the president’s grandson’. He hated that…And who was this person that couldn’t even use his name?…Konohamaru’s eyes narrowed when he realized that he recognized him, he pointed angrily “That’s Orochimaru, he’s the guy in charge of the Sound Country…you were in charge of the unit who killed my parents.”
Sasuke and Naruto looked back at Konohamaru then at Orochimaru, things were making a little more sense now. “Ok, why the hell do you want us?” Naruto asked, Orochimaru clearly wanted to trap them, and he went about it in a matter so simple that Sasuke found it insulting to his intelligence.
Orochimaru smirked, lifting his hand and waving two fingers toward Naruto, Sasuke and Konohamaru.
! - ! - !
Kabuto lifted the Id card around his neck and swiped it through a card reader. A red light indicating the lock was in effect shifted to green and the elevator doors rolled open. With suit case in hand, the man walked inside, watching the doors close behind him. He hit the button for the bottom floor, and now that he was sure no one could hear him, he lifted his hand to an earpiece hidden behind his ear.
“What is your position?” He asked.
Whoever was on the other side responded readily “A half hour outside of Konoha, what are our next orders?” The man asked.
“Send the planes into stealth mode, I’ll disable the radar systems from here.” Kabuto said “But you’ll only have a 5minute window so be over Konoha in 30 minutes exactly. Has Orochimaru secured Konohamaru?”
“Yes sir.”
Kabuto sighed in relief, he was the one originally suppose to abduct Konohamaru. Around this time too, if everything was supposed to go as planed he had to kidnap Konohamaru at 10:45 a.m, 2 minutes ago. That would give him enough time to get to his current position, which was the lower level of Konoha’s national defense and armed forces authority center. From there he’d sabotage the radar systems and use a helicopter to escape the city during that 5 minute window the Sound air forces would use to get over the city.
Of course his plan hit a snag when Konoha suddenly disappeared from town, it almost threw the whole thing off. That attack on Konoha was only one half of it, Konohamaru’s capture played a large part in the plan. So naturally Orochimaru wasn’t too happy to find out that Konohamaru escaped, but with the Sound’s surveillance network he was able to find him again before it was too late. And this time he decided to take Konohamaru himself to make sure there wasn’t any mix up, by now he was taking him back to Orochimaru’s headquarters.
“Then have all of the ground and sea units go into stand by until the air strike starts.” Kabuto said, letting go of his ear and disabling the microphone when the elevator got to the next floor.
“Understood.” the man said.
He walked into a large room, the elevator was built in the center of it. It was full of computer terminals with 3 large screens sitting on every wall but the east one. Despite it’s size an the large number of equipment, there were only 6 people in the room at there post. That also was Kabuto’s doing, being a member of the president’s direct personnel he was able to draw away the other 24 workers before they made it to there stations. They of course ended up dead, which left only the rest of these men.
Kabuto reached under his suit coat and drew out a 9mm handgun with a sight on the top and a silencer on the barrel. He shot the closest person in the head, alerting the other 5 unarmed men. Kabuto was able to take out 2 more of the men before they had a chance to move while the remaining 3 went for the alarm system panic button. Of course they never made it, leaving all of the systems free for him to manipulate.
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After that small bit of excitement, it was back to the expansive open road. Which was fine for the three of them as long as Naruto stopped for something to eat and Konohamaru could get out and stretch every 100 miles or so.
Konohamaru lent over the armrest compartment in-between the driver and the passenger seat to change the channel on the TV built into Sasuke’s dashboard. Naruto was driving, this time with out any objection, surprisingly it had been by Sasuke’s suggestion. Sasuke was sitting in the front seat watching Konohamaru flip through every channels he could get reception to.
He wasn’t necessarily looking for anything to watch, he just wanted to play around with it. It was actually a little amusing which was the only reason Sasuke was still watching. Yeah, it was quiet as usual, which was a good thing. Ebisu hadn’t been seen since Naruto took down his helicopter yesterday, but they knew they’d see him again eventually. It’s nearly imposable to evade someone that persistent with every resource in Konoha behind him.
Sasuke looked out of the window, seeing that they were now passing over a large bridge with two levels, the bottom was connected to a tunnel on both ends and the top was connecting the regular road above ground. This was obviously a highway, Sasuke could tell that much from the 4 lanes.
Not a back road or even a non-highway interstate road. That’s when the Uchiha’s mind turned on again, he hadn’t really been doing much thinking of his about for the last 2 days. Just enjoying this time in his usual silent manner and questing nothing but why Naruto had brought so much junk food when he could have spent that money on real food with some actual substance and nutritional value. He was surprised it lasted as long as it did.
Naruto glanced over at Sasuke, which he had gotten in the habit of doing occasionally. From his changed expression he could tell something had him in a slight dismay. “What’s with you Sasuke?”
Sasuke continued to look over the bridge to the lake below, “Why hasn’t there been any traffic on any of the roads we’ve been on?”
Naruto looked at him for a second, then at the road in front of him, Sasuke was right. “I don’t know, maybe all of them are still shut down from the storm. It probably caused a lot of damage to road signs and traffic lights or something. ”
That seemed like a logical answer, a quite good one in fact. Enough to shift the inquisition to the back of his mind…where it didn’t seem to want to fad, it still nagged at him. “No sea traffic either.” Sasuke knew that harbors around Konoha were usually busy, though he’d only been outside of the city few times because of the war. But there could be many other reasons for this.
Harbors and ports may not have been in a condition to accommodate any ships at the moment.
Pushing the question farther in the back of his mind, Sasuke relaxed again somewhat though he continued thinking. Not about anything in particular, just as something to do, what he always did. But this almost never ended up well, when Sasuke’s thoughts wondered, they always seemed to be drawn back to that day… as if it was imprinted into his mind and it would make itself known everyone and awhile just so he wouldn’t forget.
As if he really could.
The events of the past replayed itself to him as he glanced over at Konohamaru, the boy still seemed to be fairly content to continue playing with the TV. His long blue scarf fluttering in the wind behind him. His eyes were then drawn up to Naruto, who seemed completely relaxed, some how he managed to drive effectively, despite his size but pulled it off.
The expression on Sasuke’s face changed from relaxed and at easy to serious and somewhat melancholy when he watched Naruto after thinking about what happened…
Konohamaru pressed the button to return the TV back to in to the dashboard, then sat back again. “Hey, do you guys hear that?”
“Hear what?” Naruto asked, looking around for anything that could cause a sound or hoping to hear something besides the car. “I don’t hear anything.”
Sasuke too took a quick glance around his surroundings also, finding nothing on all other sides his eyes returned ahead. But that’s when he did see something, his eyes went wide, with his sharp vision he could before anyone could. “Something’s happening…” He said, pointing ahead, just above the trees on the other side of the bridge.
There was a small silence as Naruto and Konohamaru watched the spot, nothing unusual. Except for the fact that whatever sound Konohamaru was hearing became louder and louder each second. Everyone could hear it by then, hundreds of birds lifted from behind the cover of trees as a prelude to danger, similar to a fashion seen when an earthquake was about to hit an area.
This clearly wasn’t an earthquake, but what was it?
“What’s with the birds?” Naruto looked up questioningly, “Is that what you were hearing Konohamaru?”
The boy shook his head “No…It sounds like a really big engine or something like that.”
“?“ Driven more by curiosity, Naruto accelerated towards the end of the bridge in an attempt to reach a point where he could hear the same . The roar of the car engine rang through the air. Only to be muted by the louder roar of Jets engines in a ‘V’ formation of 6 Fighter Plaines passing over head. “Oh man, They look like they’re getting ready to attack…who where they?”
Before they could even look back at the passing jets, they heard a new, louder sound from under them. Sasuke jumped out of the car along with Naruto and Konohamaru, all of them running to the edge of the road and looking at the bridge under them. From the underground tunnel emerged a large Tank, a sound emblem on the side.
“The sound attack!” Konohamaru shouted in realization, being the president’s grandson he’d gained a lot of the country’s secret information. Including the not so secret intelligence information on a possible Sound attack, that knowledge was apparently true because it was happening right now. “We’re in the middle of it!”
Sasuke and Naruto looked at each other with wide, surprised eyes, immediately dashing for the car with Sasuke taking the wheel. Konohamaru jumped in and buckled up while Sasuke made a sharp U-turn and headed in the opposite direction toward the road that they had just come from at full acceleration and speed.
Sasuke slowed down abruptly near the entrance of the bridge, seeing that another tank was waiting on the road. It had come up from the tunnel road and though the car was behind and out of it’s vision the tank, they’d never be able to make it past. “Damnit! We have to get out of here…”
Sasuke shifted the car into reverse and tuned back the way he came, the other side of the bridge was relatively clear though it was heading into the direction the Sound forces where coming from.
“Oh man…we must be close to the Sound country.” Naruto said, glancing over the bridge to the waters below where speed boats, also with the sound insigne rushed under them. Those smaller boats, though armed with mounted assault riffles on the top and who knows what else inside. Seemed to be only an escort for much larger ships.
Half of Konoha was on the edge of an ocean, so an assault by water would be highly effective. This was going to be a full force attack, that much was clear. “Look at all of that…” Naruto said with an almost fearful tone.
“Damn.” Sasuke stopped abruptly again, seeing two black cars rushing full speed towards them. No one heard him though, they were all drowned out by the sounds of more fighter jet’s over head and the constant rumble of tanks passing below. At lest 30 of the fighter planes had to have passed over by now.
“What do we do now?” Konohamaru asked, watching as Sasuke sat idle, thinking for a few seconds before he began moving again. Pulling his 9mm handgun from his hidden holster he tossed the weapon to Naruto. Then he unbuckled himself and got out the car. Sasuke ran to the trunk, shifting past his S.W.A.T issue riffle, though he didn’t have enough time to grab the weapon or with 4 extra clips, the bulletproof vest or any of the riot gear stored.
It seemed he brought everything but what he was looking for “No…I left it behind.” Sasuke sighed abandoning his search for the item. closing the trunk and getting back into the car.
By that time the two black cars were already on the bridge, but surprisingly they passed him as if he wasn’t there. “What are you waiting for?” Naruto asked. “Let’s go--” He froze when he saw what those two black cars were leading. A huge trail of armored trucks all carrying Sound solders appeared on the road in front of them.
“There’s no way out…” Sasuke’s voice trailed off as he looked through the rear-view, still finding the tank blocking the entrance of the bridge. It became clear that that was it’s purpose all along, to trap them in, not much else was known about the situation though. “Fuck! I should have seen something was wrong before.” Sasuke slammed his fist into steering wheel out of anger.
Naruto sighed and put the gun into the glove compartment knowing it wouldn’t help him. “Don’t blame yourself.” Naruto said plainly. “And if your going to give up, let me drive.”
Sasuke looked over at him curiously, surprised when Naruto grabbed him by the shoulders and pulled him from the driver’s seat. In a jostle of grunts a curses Naruto made his way to the wheel and Sasuke ended up in the backseat with Konohamaru though he was originally intended to be in the passenger. “What the hell are you doing dobe?!” Sasuke shouted.
“If I’m going down, I’m going down fighting.” Naruto said, clinching the wheel and revving the engine before shifting gears and driving forward. Heading straightforward into the sea of incoming armored trucks. As soon as he made it off the bridge he was already going head first into one of the larger vehicles.
Despite his small size and, at first glance, his awkwardness when behind the wheel. Naruto was a decent driver, he turned to the left to avoid the first truck, then veered to the right to move past the second truck. Staying in the right lane, he past 3 more on coming trucks at full speed before he was force to break by one armored truck blocking both lanes. “Hey guys.” Naruto said, unlocking his door. “What do you think the chances are of getting away on foot?”
Naruto opened the door and got out of the car, only to find that on closer inspection the truck blocking their way was completely empty. The other vehicles flowed past undisrupted in the opposite lanes of the 4 lane highway, blocking them in completely. “What the hell?!” Naruto said, glancing inside the empty vehicle he expected men to come out what happened after that would be up to speculation.
The wind picked up unnaturally, and as if triggered by it., the line of trucks in the other lane stopped. Looking up, it could be seen that they stopped to clear a path for a black Helicopter that descended on to the road for a landing. “Why didn’t I see something was wrong earlier…” Sasuke said to himself, glancing down at Konohamaru who was standing next to him.
The boy didn’t seem fearful of the situation, though he knew what was happening. He was more curious then afraid.
The 3 of them watched as a man with long black hair and a pale completion emerged. He was wearing body armor of thick Kevlar body armor with the Sound insignia in the center along with blue pants made with at lest 10 layers of the material. Holstered on both of his hips were 2 Mac 11 sub-machine guns and an replacement clip for each.
The blue clad man walked over them, followed by 3 other men with assault riffles.
“Do we know you?” Sasuke snorted, looking over the man in the center leading the other 3/
“Uchiha Sasuke, Uzumaki Naruto.” The man smirked when he came upon Konohamaru. “And the President of the Leaf’s grandson.”
Konohamaru glared at him, the man didn’t even use his name, just ‘the president’s grandson’. He hated that…And who was this person that couldn’t even use his name?…Konohamaru’s eyes narrowed when he realized that he recognized him, he pointed angrily “That’s Orochimaru, he’s the guy in charge of the Sound Country…you were in charge of the unit who killed my parents.”
Sasuke and Naruto looked back at Konohamaru then at Orochimaru, things were making a little more sense now. “Ok, why the hell do you want us?” Naruto asked, Orochimaru clearly wanted to trap them, and he went about it in a matter so simple that Sasuke found it insulting to his intelligence.
Orochimaru smirked, lifting his hand and waving two fingers toward Naruto, Sasuke and Konohamaru.
! - ! - !
Kabuto lifted the Id card around his neck and swiped it through a card reader. A red light indicating the lock was in effect shifted to green and the elevator doors rolled open. With suit case in hand, the man walked inside, watching the doors close behind him. He hit the button for the bottom floor, and now that he was sure no one could hear him, he lifted his hand to an earpiece hidden behind his ear.
“What is your position?” He asked.
Whoever was on the other side responded readily “A half hour outside of Konoha, what are our next orders?” The man asked.
“Send the planes into stealth mode, I’ll disable the radar systems from here.” Kabuto said “But you’ll only have a 5minute window so be over Konoha in 30 minutes exactly. Has Orochimaru secured Konohamaru?”
“Yes sir.”
Kabuto sighed in relief, he was the one originally suppose to abduct Konohamaru. Around this time too, if everything was supposed to go as planed he had to kidnap Konohamaru at 10:45 a.m, 2 minutes ago. That would give him enough time to get to his current position, which was the lower level of Konoha’s national defense and armed forces authority center. From there he’d sabotage the radar systems and use a helicopter to escape the city during that 5 minute window the Sound air forces would use to get over the city.
Of course his plan hit a snag when Konoha suddenly disappeared from town, it almost threw the whole thing off. That attack on Konoha was only one half of it, Konohamaru’s capture played a large part in the plan. So naturally Orochimaru wasn’t too happy to find out that Konohamaru escaped, but with the Sound’s surveillance network he was able to find him again before it was too late. And this time he decided to take Konohamaru himself to make sure there wasn’t any mix up, by now he was taking him back to Orochimaru’s headquarters.
“Then have all of the ground and sea units go into stand by until the air strike starts.” Kabuto said, letting go of his ear and disabling the microphone when the elevator got to the next floor.
“Understood.” the man said.
He walked into a large room, the elevator was built in the center of it. It was full of computer terminals with 3 large screens sitting on every wall but the east one. Despite it’s size an the large number of equipment, there were only 6 people in the room at there post. That also was Kabuto’s doing, being a member of the president’s direct personnel he was able to draw away the other 24 workers before they made it to there stations. They of course ended up dead, which left only the rest of these men.
Kabuto reached under his suit coat and drew out a 9mm handgun with a sight on the top and a silencer on the barrel. He shot the closest person in the head, alerting the other 5 unarmed men. Kabuto was able to take out 2 more of the men before they had a chance to move while the remaining 3 went for the alarm system panic button. Of course they never made it, leaving all of the systems free for him to manipulate.
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