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The research facility was easily as high as the Hokage Monument, easily noticeable by its high ceiling. This must have been the largest level due to the research and non-human experiments that were constantly conducted, day in and day out. What really drew Satsuki's attention were the large machines and pipes that were built on the far side of the room, taking up most of the area, and being overshadowed by the balcony and the railing. Then there were the researchers, each going over their respective data on what looked like large screens connected to machines with pictures, numbers, statistics, and charts on them.
This was strange. Satsuki only knew the basics of machinery and technology because they were used in hospitals for medical conditions that could not be healed by medical ninjutsu alone. They were used to keep the patients alive, read their vital signs, and help them breath, because a nurse or doctor couldn't watch over them twenty-four hours a day. Hana was quite fanatical about their usage and development, that was the only reason Satsuki was so well-informed about their purposes. Though she had never seen machines as large as these and they looked to be for a purpose other than medical purposes, evidence of this was that their were no medical patients in the facility. And just what were those machines that the researchers were typing into? Her scouting brought more questions than answers.
Satsuki quickly burned these images into her mind with her Sharingan before moving back into the corridor where Mikoto still was. It looked as though the people stationed here were researching more than the normal person could comprehend. If that was the case, then they couldn't just blow up all this important research and documents. These machines were likely to be the only of their kind, so she and Mikoto should at least try to recover any and all information, not just regarding the cursed seals, that they could in the short period of time that they had.
"What'd you find?" Mikoto asked her daughter who was now fully back in the narrow corridor.
Satsuki's only response was to look at her Mother's Sharingan with her own, replicating the actions of Naruto, albeit at a much slower rate. After all the memories had been transferred, Mikoto could only stare at her daughter with an incredulous expression marring her face. In all her years as a kunoichi, she had never seen machinery such as this before.
Satsuki nodded vigorously after seeing her mother's expression. It seemed that the young girl had been enthralled by the devices that the researchers were working on, as her Sharingan had been replaced with stars in her eyes. She seemed to be voicing the words 'I want!' over and over again silently to Mikoto. She was acting like a child in a toy store, something not so out of character for her.
Mikoto also had a mischievous look in her eyes as she gave a small smile and a nod to Satsuki. She lifted up three of her fingers on her left hand, using them to slowly count down for her and Satsuki. Satsuki drew a single kunai from the holster on her thigh...three fingers...Mikoto unsheathed her tanto from the scabbard strapped to the small of her lower back...two fingers...The two female Uchiha looked each other in the eyes and nodded...one finger...They set aside and nervousness that they may have had in order to finish the job swiftly and silently...Mikoto put her final finger down just as the two of them disappeared from view in their own respective Leaf Shunshins.
Mikoto reappeared right behind the researcher on the furthermost right-side of the room, as he was sitting at a screen behind his fellow researchers on that side. She charged her chakra-conductive tanto with fire chakra as she covered his mouth, pulled his head back, and decapitated him as he finally realized what was going on and began to struggle.
The kill was delivered silently, so not one of the others in the room bothered to turn around and see what was going on. The blade of the tanto cauterized the wound as it delivered the only strike, therefore, not a single drop of blood stained the research documents on the desk.
She quickly jumped over the normal-sized desk and drove her blade into the head of the female researcher who had been steadily typing into her keyboard. The blade erupted out of her forehead, drawing only the smallest amounts of blood, as she displayed an utterly shocked expression on her face. She hadn't even realized she had been killed, so her brain was still recording the final moments of her life.
Since the desk the woman had been working at was facing a diagonal direction, Mikoto didn't even have to avoid the desk as she extended the fire chakra surrounding her blade until it grew to the size of a regular sword. The slight crackling sound caught the attention of the male researcher, who had been inputting some statistics into the screen in front of him, causing him to begin the motion to turn around. However, he was stopped dead in his tracks, literally, as Mikoto rose the ethereal sword above her head and swung down with a single, decisive strike, bifurcating the man in the process.
He had yet to process what had happened to him as he sill displayed a neutral expression on his face before his body slid unevenly before falling to the ground in two separate directions and erupting in a fountain of blood. Though it should be noted that the blood splattered all over his chair, Mikoto, and the floor, while not a single spec landed on his research documents.