61 Finding the Swords (1/2)

Saito called Karin and Tsunade to consult with them about his preparations for the senjutsu chakra fusing. Meanwhile Suigetsu, Jugo and Fu were getting closer to their target. Before his death Suigetsu's brother, managed to get his hand on almost all of swords except Samehada which is with Kisame, Kubikiribocho which was with Zabuza and Hiramekarei is still in Kirigakure.

But after Mugetsu's death Orochimaru managed to get his hand on them, it was until recently that Suigetsu found some files in Danzo's HQ recording the movements of Orochimaru, apparently the swords where kept in one of Orochimaru's hidden labs. Soon they reached their destination.

Suigetsu: ”Finally, move carefully.”

Fu: ””What do you think we will find in there?”

Jugo: ”Knowing Orochimaru nothing good.”

The entrance was hidden behind a waterfall, moving carefully they started investigating the hideout, all the rooms were almost similar varying from holding cells and surgery rooms to chemistry labs, but no matter how much they looked, they couldn't find a sign of the scroll. This facility was most likely used to train and modify Orochimaru's follower.

After what seemed like an eternity they finally found a storage room, it was filled with weapons some were strange looking, Suigetsu was interested in them and started storing them in the scrolls Karin gave him before he left. After emptying they started checking the room for any hidden mechanisms, but just as they were about to move on Fu called them over.

Fu: ”Guys, I think I found something.”

Fu moved her hand inside the mouth of a snake looking statue, the hideout was filled with this type of carvings and are used to hold the light sources, but unlike the others this one didn't seem to have anything inside, but after Fu put her hand inside, they soon heard a clicking sound, and instinctively she got her hand out just in time to avoid having her hand chopped by the snake status that closed its jaw. Soon the wall opened up revealing new stairs going further down.

Moving carefully they found themselves at an underground cave, the place was illuminated by some weird glowing fungus, in the middle of the cave was an underground lake.

Slowly they started inspecting the area, but they found nothing. But just when Jugo was looking around the lake, his instincts kicked in and he moved out of the way barely managing to avoid a needle looking weapon from stabbing him in the head, Jugo released some of his power, while Fu and Suigetsu Joined him. They were prepared to face their opponent, soon a figure made of water jumped out of the lake. Suigetsu taught that it was a ninja like him who used the liquefaction technique, but he soon knew that he was wrong, it wasn't a human but an abomination, probably the result of one of Orochimaru's twisted experiments, the creature stopped using the liquefaction technique revealing it's true appearance, It had a human shape although numerous arms and legs were added to it as if stitched into it in order to keep its balance the legs where modified heavily making them look more like hooves, but the most horrifying thing was the face, it didn't have eyes and in the place where a mouth should be a hole with a long tongue, the nose was weirdly deformed and instead of ears it had two holes. They looked horrified as the abomination started moving at a crazy speed ready to attack them using the weapons it was holding in its hands. Suigetsu immediately recognized them. That was their target for this mission, but before he could speak the beast tried to pierce the using the needle like sword all while slashing with an axe and hammer tied together by a rope. The group scattered avoiding the fast attack of the monster.

Fu started making hand signs and soon released a barrage of dust particles that she then ignited creating an explosion but to her surprise that direct hit didn't even scratch the monster, Jugo was also trying to engage it in close combat but with its numerous arms the beast was a nightmare and if he didn't fully transform his body Jugo wouldn't dare taking the beast in Close quarter combat. Even Suigetsu was preparing his attack.