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Lee was beginning to emit small snoring noises. It was about midnight. The sounds of the mountain changing from howling of winds to eerie quietness. The sky was cloudy and the moon light only showed occasionally. But when it did, it gave Renai quite a serene view. The only other distraction for her being the different kinds of snoring noises made by the three of her captors at some distance and one above her on the tree branch.

Well. At least its not the bug-boy or the two-legged dog. Renai rolled her eye and scrunged her nose looking above her at Lee's hanging head, the sleepy, drooling fountain of enthusiasm soundly asleep. Don't you dare drop your spit on me gelato-speeder. She hissed at his slouching form. Ironically, he did drop something on her. Fortunately, it wasn't his drool. It fell from his pocket, hitting her on face and landing at her lap.
"Huh!!?"

***

It was an hour past midnight and the shinobis from the Root kept constant observation on the pack of four leaflets and one prisoner, all sound asleep.
The one with cat mask crouched low behind a big rock, a little far from the snowy clearing. He kept his Chakra inside and absolutely undetectable, moving as little as possible. The leaf nins he was keeping an eye on had two sensory types and Genma is not the one to be underestimated either.
He tiredly wiped away the fine trickle of sweat running down his hairline. Being so sharp and inconspicuous at the same time for such long duration is a tough job. Even for a well-seasoned Root shinobi such as No. 31. The frosty wind and long night was getting the best of him and he resisted the urge to fidget.

"No. 31. Is there any news report on team Genma?" the electronically hollowed voice of his captain echoed through the earpiece.

"None so far. They are all sleeping."

"And the one they captured?"

"Negative. She hadn't moved in the last four hours."

"Must be asleep. Keep watch though and wait there until we get conformation from headquarters about the one we found. As per our knowledge, he's an Akatsuki and they had been seen together just before that blast by one of our men."

"Roger that. Over-n-out."

As soon as the line disengaged, No.31 fell face first on the frozen ground. He immediately got up started and shivering to find nothing but a swarm of fireflies surrounding him.

Panicked, he looked back at the clearing. The four men lied there completely still. He ran to them stumbling and panting, his legs aching from being in the same position for so long and his heart beating at unmatched speed. He reached there to see the gruesome deaths of all the four. There bodies lying there, dull, lifeless and thoroughly sucked out.

He crouched low to check Genma's pulse, but suddenly the corpse started swelling up and then erupted, splattering speckles of human mush and gore. It stained the entire area and no.31 all the same. He fell back screaming mercy and scooted away from the fresh bloody carcass. Air left his lungs and he threw up all his stomach held.
The worse feeling of nausea and horror hit when he saw those sprayed speckles of bloody human flesh swelling up forming bubbles. His body froze stiff as stones when they bursted with audible pop. What came out of them would scare him for the rest of his life.

Fireflies.

***

Drip.

Drip.

Drip.

The drops of salty water kept falling on the battered flower of Yamanaka clan as sher shivered in the tub filled with ice-cold water. The numerous cuts on her naked body burned from the salt added into it. The once proud kunoichi of hidden leaf sat there with her head resting on her hands over her knees pulled to her chest, devoid of her dignity.

Ino heard multiple footsteps, heavy and light, approaching her. "So, now you are one of them, eh Sakura chan?"

"I am not here to chat. Just to ask one simple question and you will answer in one simple word." Sakura's hold tightened on the Katanga given to her "Who. Killed. Him?"

A smirk crept on the young Uchiha's cryptic expression hearing the morbid ferocity in Sakura's voice. She seemed so serene and unfazed for her sixth kill of the day. No doubt Madara's incredible visual prowess did a good job on her. He looked forward to learning more from the godly Devil.

Ino gulped sensing the harsh coldness in her voice. This wasn't the Sakura she knew.
"L...l-listen t-to m-me f-first Sakura. Whatever t-they told you is a n-not what you t-think it w-was. L-le-"

"I don't want an explanation Ino. I just want the answer of my question. You only have three seconds."

"Sakura please listen to me onc-"

SPLASH.

Her decapitated body submerged in the tub still shaking from the impact of its death making bloody ripples, each one darker than the previous. Her head drowning in the scarlet water.

***

Kisame walked through the scattered limbs, taking in the massacre and desolation. "What do you think happened here?"

"Hm. Looks like a wild beasts' work." Itachi crouched low to turnaround a man's body. His face was half eaten and a good portion of his chest and stomach was missing. "Or maybe more than one."

"Almost the entirety of the population is massacred. What kind of wild animal can do this?" Kisame says walking around. He stepped in a puddle. "Eww. Someone's guts are all over my shoes." He dropped Deidara's limp body on the ground and bent down to clean his shoes with a rag.

"I wonder. Since there are no such animals found in these areas except one. And The mountain leopards don't attack human civilization like this."

"Wow. You are one hell of a genius." Kisame rolled his eyes standing up. He saw his partner looking at him with his eyes narrowed and Sharingan activated. "Uh... Don't get so riled up. I didn't mean it in-" the big shark-man, while stepping back slowly, stumbled upon the body of his unconscious colleague a fell backwards. "Fuck."

Itachi sunshined with a flick and reappeared with a subtle gust of wind in a few moment with Renai on his shoulder knocked out cold. He dropped her beside Deidara and Kisame just looking at her dumfounded. The girl's clothes were in shreds and she was soaked in blood and smelled like ash. An old looking scroll rolled to his feet from her hand as she hit the rocky muddy ground.

"Of all the frightening things I have seen in my life, I guess this one will win out."