CH 5: The Day the Weapon was Activated [5]

The four had united when they met during the funerals of their loved ones and quickly came to the conclusion that the monster should be annihilated while it was a defenseless child, because as it grew, they believed based on their fears, it would become more and more powerful, until it recovered the power that the Yondaime had taken away with its heroic sacrifice...

Fortunately for them, after their arduous work of observation, they came to the conclusion that, despite seeming otherwise, their best chance was that moment when the Futatsu Shio (Two Samurai) were at home, since they were certain that no one would try anything against that spawn if the two were watching him, so they unconsciously fell into overconfidence and assumed that nothing would happen.

The only difficult thing was to attract the beast's attention to the walled courtyard of the house to kidnap it without the women noticing, because as they knew well, there was a network of seals inside the house that would alert them immediately.

The idea was to discreetly replicate the sounds of birds, dogs and common cats, in order to encourage the feigned curiosity of the beast, which according to the four Ninja, pretended to appear to be a child and keep either deceived or controlled, the Futatsu Shio.

"All ready..."

Sora, with a special whistle, began to replicate the soft song of a bird near the wall that separated the Uzumaki house from the outside while at opposite points, Koushirou and Jyou watched. Once they both gave the signal, Hikari would jump to the other side of the wall to take the monster away. The signal that the Futatsu Shio would receive through the seal net would arrive a couple of seconds later: too late to prevent the abduction.

Kushina and Konan heard that sound and thought that the song of the supposed bird was very beautiful. After appreciating it for a moment, they continued preparing the feast for their adored child without suspecting what was about to happen.

Naruto also heard that imitation and moved by curiosity he approached the door leading to the garden. His adored his moms, taking into account that he made no real distinction between the affection he received from the redhead and the blonde, had left him playing with his new Ninja toys with which he imagined adventures where he was a hero loved and admired by all, as well as the Yōndaime Hokage.

The little boy slowly opened the door so as not to make noise, since his moms had forbidden him to go out. However, his desire to see the bird was stronger than that restriction.

He went out to the garden and after a few seconds, everything was darkness...

...

Little by little, little Naruto regained consciousness....

He was tied a couple of meters above the ground on what appeared to be a wooden pole, inside a small cave located in the middle of the extensive forest that surrounded the village. He was gagged and the spiked cable ties that kept him restrained were digging painfully into his skin as he had been held naked to humiliate him further. His little blue eyes reflected the deep fear he felt.

"Look, the spawn finally woke up...".

The four Ninja looked with dark glee at the result of their hard work: now he had the monster in his hands to take revenge for everything he had taken from them.

"Mmm...!" Naruto tried to struggle, but only succeeded in hurting himself by digging the spikes in further; soon he began to cry.

"Did you see," Hikari approached, now without the special clay disguising her face, "The beast is capable of crying!"

"Don't be shameless, you damn monster," Sora turned her face away with a slap on his left cheek, "Don't pretend you're a child!"

"But look at that... This filthy abomination is capable of suffering"Koushirou, no longer wearing his mask, coldly observed how the little one was rolling over in pain.

"Well, I think it's time to start for real..."A Jyou without that special makeup on his face, approached with sinister delight to the helpless little one, wielding a Kunai.

"Go ahead..."Whispered the leader.

Tachikawa was the first to attack the little one, thrusting the Kunai into his shoulder until it was stopped by the hardness of the bone. The poor little boy writhed horribly from the excruciating pain and his suppressed sobs could not lessen his suffering one bit. He stared terrified at his victimizers, completely overcome with fear and bewilderment.....

He hadn't done anything to them, so he didn't understand why they were hurting him.

"Don't cry, you damned freak!" Without caring that the barbs of the bindings were hurting him, Hikari gave him a violent blow in the stomach, which took his breath away.

They were humans and that was why they were indignant that that child, who they thought was the Kyūubi, was crying as if he was also human. That childish face suffering and shedding thick tears from pain and terror made them doubt....

And that was reason enough to be even more furious with that abomination.

Using an attachment consisting of artificial claws, Mochizuki began to gently scratch the right cheek of the almost unconscious little blond, who felt the blood dripping from his arm penetrated by the Shuriken. For the same reason, he was visibly frightened by those claws that subtly cut his little skin, but, he was not completely horrified. He was too wounded and the blood he was losing was reflected as an intense dizziness.

he practically stopped feeling when suddenly, Koushirou stuck those things into the little guy's skin and without consideration ripped off a good part of the left side of his face, even leaving part of his skull exposed. Needless to say, the little boy's eye was completely shattered.

And for a moment, seeing that chilling image of that infant with part of his face torn off and a lot of blood around him, the quartet doubted about their actions?

Then something unexpected happened.

From the agonizing body of little Naruto, specifically from the area near the heart, emerged several sealing formulas that, as fast as lightning, entangled themselves in them and imprisoned that group of Ninja in dark cocoons...

...

"W-Where... Where am I?"

The little blond was in a strange space, consisting of a huge set of pipes coming from all directions and oriented to the front of where he was. He walked along this dark path since it was the only available way...

He thought that that horrible scene where he was hurt by those Ninja had been a nightmare, because only that would explain why he was now in that strange place. He continued walking that gloomy path, until he reached what seemed to be a gigantic dungeon whose bottom could not be seen due to the deep and gloomy darkness it seemed to contain.

"Damn brat, the day has finally come for you to pay for it...!"

The little blond was horrified when a huge claw similar to that of a beast emerged from the darkness and when it crashed against the thick bars of that prison, it shook the whole place.

"W-Who... Who... Who are you?" he murmured visibly frightened.