Naruto: The Chosen Undead

Chapter no.125 Naruto

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Chapter 125 The Archer of Providence

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There were nights where the silence felt heavier than the hunger. The wind crawled across the muddy streets of the Wave like a dying man

Naruto slammed his face into the desk. "Wanna try again?"

"N-no, sir! My lord! G-great god, please, I wasn't thinking!"

"Map."

The man nodded rapidly and reached under the drawer—more carefully this time—retrieving a folded parchment soaked in blood. He smoothed it out with trembling fingers on the desk as Naruto loomed behind him, crossbow aimed lazily at the back of his skull.

"Mark every gang location you know of."

"A... and you'll spare me?"

Naruto didn't reply. He tapped the table.

The man nodded like a bobblehead and began marking the map, circles appearing in ink across the small island nation of the Wave.

"Every gang reports back to Gato through independent channels," he said in a desperate whisper. "It's a network. Decentralized. I only handle the Wave border, but this… this should be most of it."

Naruto leaned in close, silent. The man kept going. When it was done, he stepped back.

"That's everything," he said, still not daring to meet Naruto's gaze. "I-I swear. I'm just a middleman. I didn't kill anyone. I didn't."

"One last question before I leave," Naruto said, still standing behind him. The fat man nodded slowly.

"What's your favorite organ?"

"…What?"

He looked back, confusion twisting his lips.

Naruto's right fist plunged into the man's stomach—through flesh, through viscera, through resistance. There was a sound, wet and awful, like a sponge being crushed under a boot. Fingers clutched something wet inside the cavity.

The man's eyes bulged.

His lips moved but no sound came.

Naruto ripped his hand out.

A trail of intestines came with it, unraveling from the man's body like thick ropes of meat. The air filled with the smell of bile, copper, and feces. The man stumbled back, hands holding his stomach as if trying to hold in what had already spilled out. His knees hit the floor.

He twitched once. Twice.

And then he fell face first onto the map he had marked, blood spreading like borders drawn in red.

Naruto crouched beside the corpse, wiping his gloved hand on the ruined jacket.

"Why?"

The boy tilted his head. "Really? What made you think I'd spare you after all you've done?"

He reached forward and gently closed the dead man's eyes.

"But if it makes you feel any better… I'll be sending the rest of you to hell too." Naruto stood. "I wonder…" He paused, sliding it into his inventory. "…do you guys even go to hell once I absorb your souls?"

A glimmer of light coiled around the dead man's body. Naruto didn't even look at the soul as it entered him. He just turned, walked through the blood-soaked hallway, and down the stairs.

The ground floor reeked of death, yet there stood a cluster of women at the base of the stairs.

All the prostitutes stood frozen amid the carnage, their painted faces pale in the moonlight slipping through shattered windows. The woman from before—Red, the one with the cigarette and steel in her eyes—stood at the front, her mouth slightly open.

They had come back. Or maybe they had never left.

"You're still here?"

Red's lips pursed. "There's a lot of food and coin in this place," she said, gesturing vaguely to the corpses littered across. "We figured if no one's left to guard it, might as well feed those who haven't eaten in days."

Some of the women around her nodded. Others still stared at him like he was a ghost that hadn't decided if it would haunt or protect.

"Looting corpses, huh? Be my guest. Just make sure most of the food ends up in the hands of the people outside."

A heavy silence lingered in the air.

"So... you're one of those types, huh? The kind who steals from the rich and feeds the poor?"

"If that's the story you need to tell yourself, sure."

"Are you going after more of them?" Red asked, her voice quieter now.

"Yeah." Naruto's eyes swept over the group. "If I can't find the head… I'll kill the rest of the body."

He turned, crouched low, and with a sudden whoosh, vaulted up, chakra flaring at his heels as he vanished over the rooftops like a shadow breaking from the earth. The women stared at the empty space he'd left behind, hearts pounding.

"…Was it just me, or was he kinda… hot?"

"He was covered in blood," another whispered back.

"Yeah, but did you see his attitude?" a third added. "And that presence? Gave me chills."

"Think he'd take one of us with him?" someone joked, earning a ripple of laughter.

"He didn't even look at us like that," an older woman said with a sigh. "He looked at us like… people."

The laughter faded into something quieter. Thoughtful.

"Do we call him something?" one girl asked. "I mean, we can't just keep saying 'the guy in the mask.'"

"Robinhood," someone suggested.

Red snorted through the smoke of her cigarette. "He doesn't steal."

"Well, he did steal the show."

They chuckled, but Red just smiled faintly, watching the rooftops.

"No. Not Robinhood." She exhaled a long trail of smoke, the ember at the end of her cigarette glowing like a fading star. "We'll call him the Archer of Providence," she said softly.

What no one on that night knew was that the Archer of Providence would leave more than blood in his wake. His arrows would pierce deeper than flesh, splintering fear, shaking power, and planting something dangerous in the hearts of the forgotten: .

And from that hope, in time, the first stone would be cast by the people of the Wave, for the people of the Wave.

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