Chapter 3: Reunited At Last...
Chapter 2 - Reunited At Last...
-(The Next Day)-With Naruto-
Naruto's eyes moved a little in response from the sun's rays, slowly opened them after. "Morning, already?" He slowly got up from a sofa that he was sleeping on, popped his joints then looked out of the window. The ninja and his new friends had settled in the apartment since Rei was exhausted and traumatized from her experience by the crazed man and Naruto knew that one's need rest to calm her state of mind. So the ninja persuaded the teens to rest for the night.
He looked down to see Takashi sleeping on the floor after letting Rei take the bedroom, so the former carefully moved around the black-haired boy and proceeded to the kitchen.
He opened the refrigerator, one of the few things he recognized in this world, took out a bottle of water and gulped it down to the last drop. After that, the swordsman walked over to the window where he placed Tenkaichi next to his hip pouch, shuriken holster, Takashi's metal bat and Rei's makeshift spear below it. Naruto equipped his hip pouch, his holster and stared at his clan's symbol dangling from the base of the hilt before he slung the sword over his right shoulder.
Then he heard movement and turned around to see Takashi rubbing his eyes then got up to stretch his joints from resting on the floor. "Morning, Takashi. How do you feel?"
"I feel better since we slept. I think a long rest was necessary after yesterday." He looked out the window with Naruto, both staring at the chaos-ridden world. Soon a frown appeared on Takashi's face. "It wasn't a dream, wasn't it?"
The shinobi looked at him and shook his head. "Unfortunately, no." This wasn't what the blonde was looking forward when he started his journey to receive the Keys, but he's here now, helping his two new friends to reunited with their group. "You should wake up Rei. We need to get moving if we're going to find your friends."
Takashi nodded in agreement. He picked up his bat and walked inside the room where Rei was sleeping to wake her up. A few minutes later, the boy came out with the female behind him with the latter waving at the ninja who waved back in response.
Naruto put his hand down. "How are you feeling, Rei?"
"I feel much better since we rested for the night…" The male duo looked at her when she didn't finish her sentence. "…Thank you, Naruto, for saving us. Especially me." Naruto had a frown on his face when he realized that the girl was still traumatized despite being a strong woman. An experience like she went through plus the chaos in their world must've pushed her mental state to its limit.
"You're welcome." Naruto sighed, then look out of the window, "We should get moving. As soon as we leave, the sooner we can locate your group." The two high schoolers nodded. Later, they went out of the house with Naruto armed with a kunai, Takashi with his bat and Rei with her spear. They located the motorcycle that was outside near the gate along with five of 'Them' in the area.
Naruto stopped and looked over his shoulder to glance at his friends. "Stay here. I 'll handle them." They were about to protest but Naruto gave them a look that prevented them. The latter faced forward and casually walked out in plain sight, waiting for one of the cannibals to attack him. But to his confusion, they didn't attack especially since one passed by him as if he wasn't there. He looked at his friends for answers with Takashi realizing the former doesn't know about the weaknesses.
"Naruto…Almost all of their senses are dead. They are sensitive to sound, no matter how small it is." The ninja was surprised, then he nodded as he proceeded to take out the threat. He quickly drew five shurikens and swiftly threw them at the five undead and was met with thuds in response.
"Clear!" said Naruto, calling to his friends. The latter two came from their spot and got on their motorcycle with the ninja standing beside them. "You guys ready?" He receives nods and looked forward.
"Let's go then." Takashi brought the motorcycle to life and hit the gas, heading to their meeting place at the police station with Naruto running alongside with them.
-Elsewhere Near A Bridge-
The road connecting to a bridge was overflowed with traffic of vehicles, people walking past them with backpacks filled with supplies. One of the vehicles is a bus that harbors two groups of survivors originating from Fujimi High School.
The driver was slouching against the wheel, bored as hell. She has long blonde hair extending to her waist, hazel eyes, ridiculous curves and her most prominent characters are her huge J-cup 'assets' and sporting a white dress shirt with a ripped brown skirt. She was the school's nurse and current medical examiner/doctor; Shizuka Marikawa.
Two rows behind her are two members of her group, or Takashi's group, sitting next to each other. An overweight teenage boy with brown eyes, black shoulder-length hair, sporting a uniform similar to Takashi's uniform and was doing what he thought best: sleeping against the window. He was Hirano Kohta. Next to him is the genius of the group, Saya Takagi. She has long pink hair tied into two ponytails on either side of her head, orange hairs, furrowed eyebrows, with a slender physique and F-cups or bikini model breasts. Lastly she sported glasses and a uniform similar to Rei's attire and their top fighter, Saeko Busujimi.
She was sitting behind the duo. The former has long, straight and shiny purple hair, blue eyes, and D-cups as well sporting the same uniform as Rei and Saya. Her eyes were closed as she was resting with her bokken wooden sword in her crossed arms.
Behind them at the end of the bus lies the other group led by Shido, a former teacher at their school. Currently he's preaching about the end of the world, and how he'll save them all.
Saya was thinking about something until she got irritated with the boy's snoring and decided that naptime is over. "Hirano, stop." The girl nudged him.
Kohta snorted in response before opening his eyes and looked at her. "Takagi, good morning. Is it daytime already?"
"Yeah, its morning," Takagi scoffed when she noticed a liquid coming from the boy's mouth, "And you're drooling."
"Sorry," as the latter then wiped the drool with his hand and looked out of the window to see the nightmare traffic jam. "Look at that. I think it's better to evacuate to the suburbs."
"Cars are the only way to get out of here." Saya pointing out the window and to the sky with an airplane flew by.
Hirano realized what she was talking about. "Oh yeah, the airport and the ocean, right." Then the genius talked about the American forces in Okinawa and the Special Defense Forces and their protocol to keep a small community to survive.
"I should've talk to Komuro if he was still here. He would have an answer or know what to do from this point." Pointed out Takagi since she knew that her childhood friend had answers in the current crisis they're in.
Hirano looked hurt by that statement and looked out the window. "Yeah, you like Komuro, I know."
Takagi blushed and defended herself. "Don't be ridiculous!" She then felt two presences behind and quickly turned to her left to see both Saeko and Shizuka standing there, still blushing from Hirano's comment. "What?"
Saeko looked out of the window. "I'm getting worried about Komuro and the others. I hope they can hold on until we meet up."
-Somewhere Else In Town-With Naruto, Takashi and Rei-
An explosion occurred near in front of a building next to a bridge overhead with several cars in the cars with space between them, people screaming from the terror that is upon them. A zombie was shot by a shotgun wielded by a shirtless, bald man with a bandage on his left forearm and a tattoo.
The man laughed manically. "That's right, run. Run like hell!" He continued laughing and shooting again.
Under the bridge was the trio whose objective is to reunite with their group. Rei was the first to speak when they saw what just happened. "This is absolutely nuts. It's-It's like a war."
"And we're in the front row center for it," replied Takashi as he looked at the ninja. He couldn't figure out how the blonde manage to keep up with a motorcycle and show no signs of exhaustion or fatigue, but he remembered his new friend's statement of telling them about him when they're back with the group and in a safe location and with that, he faced forward.
Naruto lowered his head a little as he silently remarked the girl's statement. "This isn't a war. This is absolutely nothing compared to what I went through." He raised his head to face the destruction and analyzed what is the best way for them travel through, but he couldn't finish when he heard Takashi about charging through the place and revved up the motorcycle.
The shinobi quickly got in front of motorcycle, surprising the duo. "Naruto, what are you doing?" He looked over his right shoulder and replied.
"I'll go first. Wait for five seconds and then go, okay?" Takashi was about to protest but realized that he wouldn't convince the blonde, so he reluctantly nodded in agreement.
Naruto faced forward and sprinted towards the carnage. As he got near the destruction and the crazed people as the dead, the ninja quickly drew shurikens in both hands from the shuriken holster and hip pouch respectively.
The ninja threw the spinning projectiles at them before they even noticed him and fell to the ground with the sprinter still running. Soon he stopped when he got to the other side, and heard the motorcycle coming closer and saw his new friends appear, stopping behind him. The two males nodded and the high schoolers continued onward with Naruto following.
Later after that, Takashi saw the bridge and his eyes widen when he saw something that wasn't right and took a left turn, confusing Rei and Naruto until the latter caught a brief glimpse at the bridge as he turned left and realized Takashi made the right call.
"Why'd you turn, Takashi? The bridge was straight ahead." The male stopped the motorcycle with Naruto stopping next to them on their left side.
Her childhood friend looked over his right shoulder. "I know, but did you see it?" His reply prompted Rei to take a closer look at the bridge and gasped to what she's seeing.
"At this rate," Rei and Takashi look at Naruto with his arms crossed, "we don't know when we'll be able to cross. Takashi made the right call."
The latter received a nod of praise from the blonde and said. "We'll head to Onbetsu Bridge and meet up with the teachers and the others."
"Lead the way," said Naruto. Takashi revved the motorcycle and the trio of fighters were off to their destination. Back at the bridge, police officers with water tanks were blasting those who were crossing the bridge without permission and warned the rest to heed their future actions.
-(Evening)-The Suvivors-Stranded Bus-
The bus was still in the traffic jam with the sun getting closer to dusk and everyone knows it's more dangerous to be out at night than it is at daytime. Inside the bus, Shido was still preaching to his group, talking about pride and how Takashi and Rei was unfit to be them, their 'family'.
At the front of the bus, Saeko, Saya and Shizuka were watching him, unconvinced about the guy's 'good' intentions. The pink hair then spoke to her friends.
"This guy is crazy for real. He's preaching like a maniac." Saya with her arms crossed.
"You got that right. He sounds like a recruiter for a religious cult," replied Saeko still staring at him.
Saya looked at Saeko. "He doesn't sound like one; he is. Look at the people actually listening to him." The duo looked at the group in the back to see expressions of 'we're saved'. "We need to get out of here."
The swordswoman looked over her left shoulder at the window. "Given the condition on the road, we're going have to leave the bus to evacuate," Saeko putting her right thumb and index finger to think, "We have to somehow cross Onbesto Bridge and head to the eastern police station. We're still supposed to meet up with Komuro."
Saya fixed her glasses. "You're sure worried about Komuro, aren't you? Aren't you worried about your own family?" The pink girl responded with a subtle tinge of jealously.
Saeko looked at her. "Of course I am, but my father is my only family and he's at the dojo overseas. So the only people that I need to be worried about are myself and Komuro." Saeko being oblivious to Saya's evil glare.
"So, where are everyone's houses?" asked Shizuka, changing the subject.
Saya replied. "On the other side of the bridge, and they're in the same area as Komuro's house." Hirano quickly caught their attention.
"My parents aren't in the neighborhood," the marksman with a tinge of blush on his cheeks, "but I'm willing to go anywhere as long I'm with Takagi."
"Eeewww." Takagi comically stepped away from the boy with a subtle creep-out look on her face, not noticing Saeko's smile. The latter then asked, "Hirano, where's your family? Are you close?"
Hirano closed his eyes and replied. "My father is a jewelry merchant, so he's gone to Amsterdam to buy supplies. My mother is a fashion designer, she's been staying in Paris and…" Saya interrupted him.
"What kind of ancient story is that? You expect us to believe all that crap?" asked Saya irritated. Shizuka laughed in amusement at Saya's outburst, then looked at Hirano grinning at her.
The gun lover asked her. "What about you, Shizuka? Anyone in the city?" He saw her shaking her head in response.
"I don't have any family and my other relatives live far away, so I'm coming along with you," replied Shizuka. "I know I shouldn't be saying this…but I think Mr. Shido is kind of a douchebag."
The trio smiled and smirked at her comment.
"So what do we do? I'm not very familiar with this area," said Saeko to Saya who crossed her arms to think.
"We really should check Onbetsu Bridge first," replied Saya. Their subtle conversation caught Shido's attention, so he turned around to face them.
"What's wrong, everybody? We're supposed to work together."
The pink-hair genius turned to him with a victorious smirk. "Thanks for the offer, but we have our own plans," Saya ignoring the glare from one of Shido's followers, "this isn't a school field trip, so we don't have obligation to stay with you. Besides I've never had any of your classes."
Shido interlocked his fingers together with a calm glare while staring at the opposite group. "If that's you've decided, then please go right ahead. I won't stop you, after all Japan is a free country. However…" Shido slightly opened his mouth and licked his lips while staring at the doctor with a lustful look, "I'm afraid you will have to remain, Miss Marikawa."
The nurse gasped in response while Shido continued. "Losing the doctor is a major blow to our current situation. Would you please stay?" The cult leader started walking towards Takashi's group, "there are students relying on you."
Suddenly something darted by Shido. The man felt a mark on his left cheek with blood coming out. His followers gasped upon seeing their leader clasping his cheek while looking at Hirano with his makeshift gun pointed at them. The teacher couldn't believe that he did this to him. "Y-you shot at me."
"I missed you on purpose, you douche-bag," replied Kohta sternly.
"B-but you're not a violent student, I-"
"Shut it!" Shido couldn't speak with the gun pointed at him. Kohta went on about the abusive teacher making fun of him and allowing other students to bully him and did nothing about it. Lastly he stated that he won't hesitate to kill living people and start with the ones who made fun of him.
Shido walked back slowly with fear in his voice. "Fun of you? You misunderstood my intentions, I-" He was silenced when Kohta pointed the gun at his face.
"Enough of your lies," He looked over his right shoulder, "Saeko, Takagi, Shizuka, you three head out. I got your back in case he tries to stop you."
Saeko had a faint smirk and stood in front of the doorway, then faced Kohta. "You're such a man, I'm impressed." Later, Kohta slammed the door shut and the group ran up the stairs leaving a very pissed-off teacher in their place.
-With Naruto, Rei and Takashi-
The trio stopped 200 yards away from another bridge that was the same like the others; overflowed and guarded by either the Special Defense Forces or the American army. Naruto wasn't expecting his first Bridge World to be in such chaos, but he is here and he's helping his new friends along the way. He was standing next to the duo on their right side as they continued to stare at the bridge.
Finally Rei broke the silence. "Should we try a different route or something?" Her childhood friend looked over his right shoulder to look at her.
"I'm sure they're all the same, possibly every bridge is blocked. What's the point of policing if they're going to block it?" Takashi irritated.
Rei frowned and Naruto caught it as well seeing the same look on Takashi's face. "Listen, you guys," the two looked at the ninja, "we'll find a way, okay? You can't afford to look down on yourself, you got to keep going."
The duo smiled a little when they heard those words. Despite only knowing the blonde teenager for a day, they feel they've known him for years and could trust him with their secrets. Takashi quickly realized something and pulled out a cell phone and looked at the time.
"Damn it, we got to cross the bridge and meet at the Eastern Police Station. Naruto, any ideas?" He looked at the ninja, only to find him staring at his phone with a dumbfound look as if he never seen one before. "Naruto?"
The ninja was brought out of his state. "Huh?" he saw both teenagers staring him, which made him uncomfortable. "I've never seen that before. What is it?"
Rei and Takashi couldn't believe that Naruto, a teenager around their age, doesn't know or seen a cell phone, but the former quickly shook it off. "Look, we'll explain that to you later and as for your statement, Takashi…it's easier said than done."
Then they heard a gunshot that startled the spear martial artist "Gunshot?" asked Rei.
"No, that sounded like…"
-Back with Takashi's group-
On the bridge, Shizuka was walking backwards in fear. "You know, maybe we should've stayed with Mr. Shido." Kohta shot another nail into one of them while Saeko was away from and knocked away another one.
"Hold on. You're the one who said that he was a douchebag," remarked Saya as she got closer to Shizuka. The nurse put her finger to her chin, thinking back what she said.
"Hm, I did, but he wouldn't be the first douchebag that I met." Kohta was slowly moving as he continued firing nails into a few of them while Saeko swung her wooden sword to knock another one away.
Kohta fired another one and said. " Just to let you know, I'm running out of ammo here." Saeko swung her sword to the right, knocking another 'them' out and spun around a zombie that was behind her and horizontally swung at the thing's head, making it collapse.
Saeko faced Kohta. "Do you want to borrow this?" She gestured to her wooden sword.
"No, I'm not fond of hand-to-hand combat," replied the gun lover comically.
The swordswoman smirked and faced toward her enemies. "I can't say the same. In fact, I'm actually quite fond of it," replied the purple hair with a sadistic glint in her eyes before she charged with her sword drawn.
-With Naruto, Rei and Takashi-
The trio was in the tunnel and in front of them was a truck with ramps facing upwards and the latter quickly realized what her crush is going to do. "Wait a minute, are you nuts?" She received no answer, but caught Naruto and Takashi sending subtle nods to each other as they continued forward as they get closer to the truck.
-Back to Takashi's Group-
One of the zombies was walking closer to Takagi who stepped back, but Shizuka bumped into her, causing both of them to fall. Consequently, their skirts flew up, revealing their undergarments and the gun lover saw them. The results were he became ensnared into a daze as he stared at them until Saeko noticed and called him out.
"Huh?" asked Kohta
"Look out behind you!" shouted Saeko as she swung her weapon into another 'them', then ran towards her ally.
The gun lover quickly turned around to see another cannibal close to him and shot another nail through its head, blood spurting from the exit hole. Another cannibal was walking towards and Kohta smirked as he pulled the trigger only to hear nothing. He quickly panicked, "I'm out!"
She was too far away to intervene until she was surrounded by a batch of 'them' and knew that they were too much. Then she heard a noise that caught the zombies' attention and her friends' as well as they look at the railing.
"That sounds like a…" Saeko looked to see a motorcycle jumped high into the air along with an unknown figure beside it. The girl looked closer to who was driving the motorcycle and smiled. "Komuro and Miyamota!"
The latter jumped of the descending motorcycle and thrust her spear into a cannibal behind Saeko as well landing on it then spun her spear in 360-degree circle, knocking out more cannibals. In mid-air, Naruto quickly drew his kunai and threw it at the cannibal close to Kohta. He smirked as the weapon lodged itself into the target's head and rolled to soften the landing, then slipped into a crouch with Tenkaichi drew in his sword arm.
Meanwhile Takashi landed on the bridge and drove towards Kohta with the pistol in his hand while running over a few undead. "Kohta! Catch it!" He threw the gun at the gun lover who caught it and a mad-crazy look appeared on his face. He fired two shots while Takashi passed him by, narrowly missing him and hit their targets.
Naruto swung his sword overhead at one of the cannibal's head, ending its rampage, but cursed himself as another one took its place. He was getting irritated since it's an endless cycle as he swung vertically downward, cutting it in half. The ninja looked around to see his friends regrouping as more cannibals was walking towards and he knew that they're too much for them, but not for him and his ninjutsu. He reappeared in front of his allies with his ninja speed, surprising them and quickly stabbed his sword into the ground, causing small spider-cracks and formed a hand-sign.
"Naruto, what are you doing? Help us!" shouted Takashi as he swung his bat to knock another cannibal away from the group, but he stepped back behind Naruto along with his friends as 'them' was walking closer to them.
The shinobi channeled his chakra. "Wind Style: Great Breakthrough." A strong gust of wind appeared out of nowhere and pushed back all of the cannibals with great force, sending them to the water below.
Everyone's eyes bulged out anime-style as they're trying to process what the blonde just did.
Naruto grabbed the hilt of his sword, pulled the blade out of the ground and fling it to get the blood off, not noticing the purple hair girl staring at the weapon with admiration. He turned to face Takashi's group and sheathe Tenkaichi, then waved at everyone. "Is everyone okay?"
He received no answer and was getting uncomfortable by the way they're staring at him. "Hello, Takashi, Rei, are you guys okay or what?"
Finally Rei answered. "H-how did you do that?"
"Do what?" asked Naruto innocently.
The pink hair girl shouted at him. "What do you mean 'what'? You just manipulated the wind to push back 'them' into the river. Plus, you appeared in front of him when you were on the other side. No human can do that." The ninja flinched to the girl's outburst and fixed his composure as he was looking at everyone to see any sign of injury while commenting at the girls' appearances.
"Man, these girls are something else. The pirky blonde one has the biggest bust I've ever seen beside Grandma Tsunade, the pink hair is fine as well but her outburst tells me she's crude and as for the purple hair, I think she's the prettiest one of all them with Rei as her rival." He was then surprised as he was shook crazy by the chubby boy with glasses.
"Dude, you're awesome! How did you do it? Are you a super-soldier? Where did you get that uniform, cause it's awesome." Demanded the gun lover still shaking the ninja until Takashi and Rei pried him off after snapping out of their surprised state.
Naruto fixed himself and waited until the chubby teen relaxed and felt everyone's eyes on him. "Look, I'll explain how I manipulated the wind as well about my attire once we get to a secure and safe place."
The pink hair girl raised her left eyebrow. "What do you mean 'we'? You're not part of our group," Everyone's eyes were on her, "How can we trust you?"
"Really? I just saved your group from those things eating you with Rei and Takashi," replied the blonde Sage deadpanned.
Saya felt a hand on her right shoulder and found it belong to her childhood friend, Takashi. "We can trust him. He saved Rei and I and also made a promise to get us back to you guys and to get all of us safe. He kept his word so far, so I'd give him chance if I were you." The leader then took his hand off the girl genius' shoulder.
Takashi's group knew that the black-hair teenager has natural leadership skills and they trust his judgment, plus the blonde teenager emits an aura of calmness that makes them feel at ease and he just helped save them from the cannibals. The purple-hair walked forward close to Naruto and smiled while extending her hand.
"Thank you for saving us. My name is Saeko Busujimi." The Sage smiled back and took her hand, shaking it then let go. Soon the others followed and introduced themselves to the stranger.
"My name is Hirano Kohta and I'm a long-range fighter."
"I'm Shizuka Marikawa and I'm a doctor. Thank you for your help and getting Miyamota and Komuro back to us," said the pirky blonde waving at the ninja.
Naruto looked at the pink-hair to hear her name and she reluctantly complied with the others. "I-I'm Saya Takagi and what's your name?"
The shinobi smiled. "My name is Naruto Uzumaki and before you start assuming, it means 'maelstrom', not 'fishcake'. Understand?" His right eye twitched little when he heard snickers from the gun lover and the busty doctor, but stopped. "So now that we're together, does anyone know what's our next move is, because the sun is setting."
Everyone widen their eyes and looked to see the sun setting and the light is slowly dissipating into darkness. They all know, at night, the city is more dangerous with the zombies prowling around and the risks of making sounds are greatly increased.
"So what should we do? The bridges are blocked and the river is too strong for us to cross. I think even heading upriver is pointless," said Takagi after observing the river below and the bridge they're on.
Shizuka quickly raised her hand. "I know. We could head to my friend's place, it's a short walk from here."
"What, your boyfriend's place?" quipped Takagi.
"No, no, it's nothing like that. It's just my girlfriend's place," Shizuka comically with a sweat-drop while getting funny looks from Kohta and Takagi, "She gave me a key, so I can look over the place while she's away."
Kohta put his finger on his chin, thinking. "Is the place a high-rise? Does it have a good view in the surroundings?" He received a nod from the doctor and she continued.
"Yes, there's also a store and a car. It's one of those military cars, the one that looks like a tank," Shizuka swung her arms, letting her assets juggled a little "It's this big!"
Saya sighed, putting her hand in the back of her head, "I don't care about a car as much as a shower. I've never felt so dirtier in my life." Kohta had hearts in his eyes as he stares lovingly at the pink genius.
"I couldn't agree with you more," said Kohta. A moment, he was kicked in the face by Takagi who took offense by the comment and the antic received a few snickers from the blonde ninja, but he stopped when Takagi gave him a death glare.
"I'm gonna go check the place out with her," declared Takashi, catching everyone's attention. He looked at Naruto, "Stay here with the others and we'll come back once it's secure." The blonde ninja nodded and he saw the boy and the doctor disappearing in the distance.
-Later That Night-
Takashi and Shizuka brought the group back as soon it was clear. They made it to the apartment with the automatic light sensor responded to their presence. The driveway's light turned alive, revealing a huge vehicle, making the gun lover squeal in delight.
"It's a Humvee and it's the military model too," said Kohta with small pitch-black eyes, his jaws hanging and his hands twitching.
Naruto couldn't help but whistle at the design and advancement of the transportation vehicle, even though he has no idea what it is. He then heard Takagi asking about how Shizuka's friend could've afford such a vehicle and Rei pointing out the fence would keep 'them' out.
The ninja tensed when he and the group heard groaning from upstairs and drew his black blade with his clan symbol dangling. He then noticed Takashi grabbing a weapon from Takagi and stepped in front of the group. "I'll take the front. Takashi; you cover the right side, Rei; you cover the left side, Kohta; you support the rear and Saeko, you cover the center in case. Understood?"
Everyone nodded in agreement and Naruto nodded back. "Let's go," as the spiky blonde sage kick-open the fence doors in front of him and the group charged forward. A few minutes later, the group had blood stains on their clothing, including Naruto with a few stains on his flak jacket, and some on his face. He wiped the blood from his face with a rag he had in his pocket and fling his sword to get the blood off, then swiftly sheathe Tenkaichi.
The young Uzumaki then turned around to face his new friends and nodded at them before turning his body forward. "Come on, guys. After what you've been through, you'll need a good rest." He received a quiet agreement and they proceeded to the apartment after two long days of fighting and surviving chaos, except the shinobi. Naruto was the last one outside the apartment and quickly formed hand-signs, before slamming his right hand on the ground. Fuinjutsu markings originated from his hand, extending to the outside of the perimeter of the apartment and to the closed fence.
After that, Naruto stood up and sighed while running his hand through his hair. "Nothing like an alarm system to alert you of trouble…Thanks a lot, Mito." The ninja smiled before he stepped in and closed the door.