Sleepless D: The world has a threat that makes the Shinobi world shake, how will they fight, can they win? Peace out.
It has been over half a dozen years since the Kyuubi attack. However, our story doesn't begin at the Leaf village. Several hundred miles away from the Shinobi lands, a large country/Nation stands farther than any Shinobi has ever gone over seas. The Nation has forests which grew larger than most trees, near the edge were large docks and a city which heads back to the mainland, almost seeming never ending and even larger than the woods. The city ran miles around the Nation, but the woods remained at the edge, covering the lands around.
Near the core of the city, a large building stands there, markings of an ancient language on the edge and several dozen guards stand watch. The guards stand there, wearing blue Victorian uniform with thin armour around their torso, hands and feet. They hold rifles and some of the higher ranking members hold a blade on their side.
Within the structure, an elderly man sits on a thrown at the centre of a dark room with thirteen armoured guards standing on the edge of the room. Their armour designed in the shape of an animal. The elderly man looks at a crystal orb in his hand, transfixed by everything he sees within it and sighs. "This world is weakening...there will be no peace if that country isn't dealt with..." The elderly man says. His clothes consist of a crown and royal purple robes which hangs loosely around his fragile looking figure. He looks down, seeing a man that seems to remain unnoticed. He stands there, watching carefully and wore unique armour that seemed to show their rank as the highest. "Take back my world...these mortals are weak..." The man orders him.
"As you wish...my god." The man says. The man's armour's design if mostly a black gold and markings on it and a skeletal design, he mostly was covered around his limbs and chest and black fabrics covering his skin, he wore a black cloak which covers his shoulders and back, he has a hood which hid his face. The man nods in response. "As you wish...my God." He tells him.
"Come now my oldest friend...no need to hide your face..." The man called 'God says.
The man nods. "As you wish." He says, removing his hood and shows his face, showing a young, featureless face. The only thing that stood out were his yellow eyes, his eyes were aged and experienced, despite the age he looks. His hair is very short and blond and something seems to be attached to the back of his head, along the spine, strangely enough, it looks like a spinal column, yet it wasn't within his body and hid under the cloak. "My God...for the world, I'll send one of the Generals and-" He begins, but the elderly man holds up his hand.
"Send everyone." 'God' tells him, making the man surprised. "I want that land immediately, so leave now and take what is rightfully mine...I expect to have that land soon...you're the best from my Generals, I expect you to win." 'God' tells him, coughing slightly as his General bows in respect.
"As you wish, my God." The man says, turning to leave. "Hopefully it'll go better than the last time we attacked that land, that damnable God of Shinobi, should be dead now." The man says, leaving the dark hall with the armoured guards.
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It has been a month since that day. The Water Nation is having its normal days, but the Mizukage is having reports that small villages round their Nation going silent. The young looking Mizukage, he has light-grey messy hair, pink pupiless eyes with a stitched scar under his left eye. However, every once and awhile, three comma marks appear in his eyes, but vanish a split second later. Only a few people have ever noticed this and one of whom is Zabuza Momochi.
The doors of the Mizukage's office smash open, making the Mizukage look up in slight surprise. "Lord Yagura! A few fishing boats have come to report that they've seen an army of ships coming this way. We sent scouts and they've confirmed their sightings!" A female Mist ANBU yells, having a slender figure, knee length, auburn hair and the traditional Mist ANBU gear.
"Is that so..." Yagura says, not caring that the Nation is at very high risks of being attacked. "What Nation has gained the courage to attack us on our own turf?" He asks her.
"No Nations that we can identify...but you need to see this!" She tells him, making Yagura sigh and stands up to follow.
Xxxxx
Yagura, the female ANBU and several dozen Shinobi of the Mist stand on a small wall and large tower that is close to the sea, most look in horror by the sight. There are large, metallic, steam powered ships, they are rare to see since they are incredibly expensive. However, the most frightening thing were the sheer numbers, there were even more boats then the Mist village had buildings, and that's just the ones they could see. "Where are they from?" One of them asks in fear.
"I don't know...but we will stand and fight." Yagura tells them, holding his weapon which is a large pole with a hook and flower.
"As you wish, Lord Mizukage-" One of the Mist Shinobi began to say, but small explosions were heard and they look, seeing large, metal balls heading towards them.
They panic and quickly did a few hand signs, creating a large sea wall that covers them and most of the Hidden village. They manage to block a few of the cannon balls, but they rip through the chakra infused sea water, destroying several buildings and people living their lives. "Shit!" One of the Mist ninja yells in shock.
"Evacuate the civilians!" The female Mist ANBU yells, her voice echoing and made the Mist ninja move back to save the civilians. The ANBU did several hand signs, soon making the sea wall thicker and becomes even larger, managing to block more of the cannon balls, but a few managed to get through, destroying more buildings.
"We will not lose!" Yagura yells, jumping off the tower while swinging his hook down, creating a large ice like mirror. A few cannon balls rip through the wall of water, a couple come from the mirror and they shoot towards the flying cannon balls, soon colliding with each other and are destroyed in the process. Most of the Shinobi were scared, unsure of what is going to happen.
Xxxxx
It's been half a day since the Mizukage saw the numbers of the fleet. The Hidden Mist village were taking heavy damage and losses, the attacking forces were taking heavy losses as well, but they advanced throughout the village. The Mist ninja were using any tactic and only winning a few small battles and a couple of large battles, but they were losing more than winning.
The enemy forces are wearing the same uniform from the Nation across the sea, about a third of them are wearing metal chest plates, some wear metal helmets while the others wore a blue cap and an army uniform of mid Victorians soldiers. Their weapons mostly consisted of rifles with blades on the end of it; they also had swords and/or spears that were used when the Mist ninja were too close. The higher ranking enemy held pistols and fancier uniform and were mostly the way they came, despite being the first into the battle. The enemy forces were being cut to ribbons, but they were pushing through the Shinobi of the Mist.
A large number of the citizens and Mist Shinobi are being captured left and right, some of the people were being killed/executed while some were managing to flee from the village. There are still having a couple of hundred Shinobi which also includes the Mizukage zre still in the fight, fighting to hold off enemies and guerrilla tactics. Several dozen Shinobi, including Zabuza Momochi fled the village when it seems too dire to change.
Xxx
Near the centre of the village which some buildings are burning the buildings while several bodies litter the streets, half being the invading army, others being civilians and Shinobi, but appear to be unharmed. A man stands there, he has a chain like spear and smashes the back of a Shinobi's head, having noticed one of the Shinobi waking up and knocks them out. The standing man has shaggy light brown hair, grey eyes and wears dark blue civil war military trousers, along with a black civil war jacket decorated with a golden Celtic cross on his back. He also has silver armoured boots, gauntlets that have crimson gems imbedded in them and had a crimson cape around his shoulders.
He breathes tiredly and soon stabs his spear into the ground and rests on it, scanning the area for any other people people waking up, none seem to be awake and he sighs again. After a minute of regaining his breathe, he hears scuffling, causing him to look and see a large group of civilians with a couple of Shinobi guarding them appearing from the nearest alleyway.
"Damn it!" One of them complains, being the youngest there and he has pale skin and Shinobi uniform, standing next to an elderly man with an odd looking moustache and glasses. "Sensei, you take the civilians-" The younger man began to say.
"Utakata, don't, you go and I'll fight-" The elderly man begins, but the invader raises his hand.
"Leave." He tells them, making everyone look in slight shock.
"Pardon?" The elderly man asks.
"Leave before anyone else finds you." The man says, gaining a confused look, wondering if he's just playing with them. After a few second, he gains a nod from the elderly man and the group quickly ran. The man sighs, rubbing the back of his neck and moves towards a bench with a few bullet holes in it before he sits down, tired from the fighting.
After a few minutes, a large group of his force marches down the street, taking cover ever dozen feet to scan the area before advancing. One of the soldiers stood out since she's a woman and isn't wearing a uniform like the others. The others soon reach the man's position, taking a defensive position, some looking at the man sitting on the bench. "Captain Mark, I know your Title is Sloth, but we're in a middle of a war here." The woman tells him, she has long, waist length shaggy midnight blue hair that looks like flowing water. Her pale skin seems to shine as fires grew around the buildings and her bright amber eyes also seem to glow. She wears a black-half-top and black sweats with a dark blue trench coat and metal gloves and boots. She looks round, seeing the bodies of her forces and most of the Mist Shinobi and civilians were still alive. "You really are pathetic, your men die and you keep the killers alive." She says while looking back at the man.
"Whatever you say Captain Midori." The man known as Mark says, looking at her and seeing her twin katana in her clenched fists, dripping blood from the fights she'd had.
Mark stands up, looking round the damaged village, some dead bodies that weren't caused by him are seen in the distance. Seeing this made him know that this day won't end anytime soon. "All units, all units, we found enemy force's leader, I repeat, we found their leader, require assistance, I repeat, require assistance. We're at large tower at the centre." A voice in their head pieces came.
Mark presses the ear piece. "Understood, be there in two minutes." Mark tells him before getting up.
"God! Captain Hiro has engaged the enemy leader! Need immediate assistance!" The voice says, unable to hear Mark.
Midori and Mark become confused. "I said I'd be there in two minute-" Mark began, but suddenly, a small explosion is heard and seen from the distance. They look and the tower the trooper mentioned is now gone, flames and balls of lava were flying in the air, having replaced the tower.
They were slightly shocked by what just happened. "That was...surprising...wonder if Captain Hiro is still alive." Midori says, walking down the streets, stepping on the unconscious Shinobi. "You're too soft Mark. Sooner or later; you're going to be called on it." She tells him, having her troops follow her.
Mark sighs again and runs towards the flames, aiming to save anyone he could. 'This is going to be tricky...' He says to himself.
Xxxxx
Buildings were ablaze by the lava, there were bodies in every direction, civilians running while some Shinobi are trying to save them. Mark left them to their work; he soon spots some of his forces, taking cover and holding their position against two Shinobi, firing rapidly to try and kill them, but lighting hits their position, killing soldiers rapidly. When only a few soldiers were left, one of the Shinobi lands near then, smashing them with a hammer and axe like weapon, crushing one with a single blow and slicing halfway through another one. The last one panics, firing rapidly with their rifle, but the second Shinobi lands near them and plunges two katana into his chest, puncturing both his lungs. The soldier looks in shock, coughing up blood and lands on his knees, the katana staying place before being ripped out and the blades hover to his neck, slicing through his head like a pair of scissors. The one that did the final kill wears an ANBU mask, the other has a dark-coloured beard and hair which he ties into a topknot. The remainder of his face appears to be rather angular and features a very protuberant nose. "Look at here Raiga, another one to kill!" The maskless one laughs.
"I see...you take this one Jinin, I've gotten bored." Raiga says, walking away and jumps on top of a building and vanishes into the distance.
"That's because you're weak Raiga, I always have to finish off your work." Jinin called to his vanishing companion, soon looking at Mark and charges forward, holding his axe like blade and hammer.
Mark grits his teeth and raises his spear, blocking the bladed attack, but became confused when Jinin brought the hammer down next, smashing the blade and the force made him fly back by the force. Mark smashes into a building, causing him to grunt in pain since he wasn't expecting an attack like that. "This might be more of a pain then I thought." Mark says with a grunt, looking round, now believing that Raiga isn't here since anyone would've taken this opportunity to attack.
Jinin began to attack again, but he notices a large shadow surrounds him; he quickly swings his hammer upwards, hitting a large man. The force sends the large man upwards and lands several feet away, causing the ground to shake when the person lands. "Mark! You must be rusty!" The large man laughs.
Mark looks forward, seeing a very overweight man with a ponytail, a small beard and green eyes. He wears golden trousers, metal boots, a large, open vest and his right arm was covered in metal, almost like a shield. "No Captain Beel, I was just taken by surprise." Mark tells him, looking at Jinin and holds onto his spear.
Beel laughs and raises his giant arm, smashing the ground and causing a large crater, Jinin jumps away as the crater grew and Mark did the same. "Kill him Mark!" Beel orders Mark, slightly bemused as he jumps from the crater, flying towards Jinin and pulls his arm back, aiming to punch Jinin in midair. The Mist ninja quickly smashes Beel's fist, feeling the two collide and the force causes them to fly in the opposite directions. Beel smashes into a building while Jinin went flying higher, Mark takes a breath and launches his spear at Jinin, flying like an eagle lauching for its pray and cuts through his side and hears him scream in pain.
After a minute, the two men land on the ground, although, Jinin hits and crashes through the roof of a building nearby. "...Damn it..." Mark says, rubbing his head and soon saw Beel rip himself out of the building he crashed into, laughing as he looks at Mark. "I need to get my spear back." Mark says, knowing that it'll be close to Jinin.
Xxx
Mark stands inside the ruined building, seeing Jinin trying to move, but he is in too much pain to do so. "Don't move...you'll bleed out if you move too much." Mark tells him, grabbing his spear which stuck out of the ground near him.
"Why...do this?" Jinin asks, coughing up blood and glares at Mark.
Mark looks at him, knowing what he's asking. "My...Leader wants control of this world...he's too dark...I just want to help people..." Mark tells him, holding his head in pain; however, he soon went emotionless and looks outside. He looks and sees more of his comrades' appear and march through the streets, taking position, barging through the remaining buildings and capturing people and attacking anyone that resists. "There will always be death...but I aim to save as many as I can...like you. Stay safe." Mark tells him, soon feeling the earth shake and looks, seeing a few Shinobi on the roofs, fighting for their village and trying to save any captured people. The soldiers take position and fire rapidly at the Shinobi, some soldiers being hit by a few kunai and some prisoners breaking for it, running down some alleyways, but a couple were shot at and killed.
In the distance, the mist starts clearing up a little, seeing several ships going pass the large island, already knowing that even more has passed them and there were more on the way. "I'll...kill...you..." Jinin says in pain.
"Well...I doubt that..." Mark says, seeing another ship stop near the edge of the village and knew the Shinobi village is done for, sensing that one of the Generals is on that ship.
Xxxxx
It's been over a few hours and only a few Shinobi resistances remained, having lost nearly all main areas of the village and only a few minor areas are remaining in place. They lost the village within a day and knew that the enemy forces were holding firm and advancing, only having a moment of pause with each battle taken place, the Mist village however didn't know that it was only a few ships that landed on the island. Yagura and several Shinobi and people were in an underground bunker, scared and tired, not knowing how much time they have left since they're hearing explosions on the surface and gunfire.
Yagura stands at the back, his eyes going weird for a long time now. After several minutes, he collapses; shocking the people as they quickly starts worrying and caring for their leader. "The enemy have found the door! They're breaking through!" A voice on a radio yells, making the civilians panic.
"What do we do!?" One of the elderly people cries.
"We'll protect you all, in fact...I believe that there's an escape route in this place...but only certain people knew about it...and they're dead or unconscious..." A female Mist ANBU says, feeling around the walls while looking at the Mizukage. She then remembers that it was a route which the Seven Ninja Swordsman of the Mist took, one in particular Fuguki Suikazan was rumoured to have hidden there while he was alive.
The bunker shakes, making people panic even more and they hear fighting, gunshots and screaming outside the steel door. "They're outside!" One of the people cries, hearing it continue.
"Everyone stand back!" One of the Mist ninja orders the people. The man's appearance consists of an eye patch over his right eye and blue hair and Shinobi uniform.
After a few seconds, they hear the gunshots stop and yelling stop as well, making everyone stop and feel nervous. "Ao, see what's going on!" The female ANBU orders him, feeling around quickly.
Ao did so, looking carefully and became nervous and confused. "The enemy have killed several of our people outside, and a man is doing something to the door!" Ao tells them.
The ANBU presses a section of the wall, causing a wall to open quickly. "Found it-" She yells, but the metal door explodes, making everyone take cover and hope they'll survive this.
"What happened?" A weak voice came, the smoke clears and Yagura stands there, holding his head in pain.
"Mizukage!" One of the Shinobi yells in joy, glad that the young looking Mizukage is alright. However, they hear footsteps, making them all look and see Mark walk towards them.
"Stay away! Or I'll kill you!" One of the ANBU yells, holding a katana.
Mark raises his hand. "I am here to save you...I just killed my own men to stop them killing you..." Mark tells them, holding his head in pain.
"What's happened?" The Mizukage asks, feeling pain and looks at Mark and finding his uniform odd.
"I am from the Sin order...my...god has given up on this world, he wants order and he will force it." Mark tells them, looking tired and pained groans came from behind him and Mark sees the escape route. "Take the wounded behind me and flee." Mark tells them.
The Mizukage was talking with the female ANBU, sounding confused and Yagura pushes her away. "What is their goal here?" He asks, looking tired and ill.
"They're aiming to kill the leader of this village, kill the head and the body will follow." Mark tells him, soon recognising Yagura from a destroyed statue in a ruined tower. "They want you." He tells him, seeing people move round him to get the wounded.
"I'll come...otherwise they'll keep killing 'my' people." Yagura says, making everyone stop and look at him in shock.
"But Lord Mizukage, we can't fight the enemy without you, you're our leader!" One of the Shinobi says in shock, looking at their leader.
Yagura looks at the female ANBU. "Mei Terumi...You are the new Mizukage...may you lead our remaining forces to the right path...I've been blind for years..." Yagura tells her, making everyone look in shock.
"I...but..." The female ANBU began, but Yagura limps towards the destroyed door.
Mark looks at him, slightly impressed by what he just said. "You're a brave man..." Mark tells him, wishing he could do something and walks with Yagura. He knows that he was going to be killed and saw the people escaping through the escape route, some praying for their Mizukage.
Xxxxx
Mark stands in the middle of the ruined village, seeing riflemen and melee based soldiers securing the areas and snipers taking to the roof, watching prisoners being taken away. The army takes a firmer hold of the village, only having a few areas of resistance, capturing more Shinobi and civilians every minute and making sure they didn't do anything stupid. "Mark Frey...you managed to capture the leader first, impressive." Midori says, sitting on a slightly burnt barrel while signalling her soldiers to keep moving to secure the area further.
"Yeah, I was expecting the General to get him...who's the General stationed here?" A man asks, having dirty blonde hair that reaches the back of his neck and falls into his eyes and has bright brown eyes that shine in the shadow of his hair. He wears black jeans with a dirty white T-shirt, specks of blood and dirt on them, also having steel boots and gloves like the others two.
"General Kim." Midori tells him.
"Oh, then in that case, Mark's the man." He says, looking at the young looking man while Midori glares at him.
"Don't act that way Hiro, we thought you died." The large, fat Beel tells him, laughing slightly as a few soldiers pile bodies nearby and drag the wounded from both sides away.
"How many did we lose?" Mark asks, looking at the bodies nearby.
"Not sure on the numbers, could be a thousand, this army sure are...unique." Hiro says, looking at Yagura. "Not a problem though, we lost about a third of the original army that attacked this village. Superior numbers and technology won over the blasphemers." Hiro says with a smirk.
Yagura looks at them, surprised by the man's lack of concern of lost men and women. "What are your numbers?" Yagura asks, looking at the three others since he doesn't care for Mark at the moment.
"We number into tens of thousands; we are superior to you in every way!" Beel tells him, laughing a little, gaining a disapproving look from Yagura, but he feels fear if what he says is true, but remains emotionless, showing no weakness to his enemies.
After a few minutes, a young person wearing dark golden armour and a matching mask walks towards them. The person with the armour has a whip on their side and dark blue cloak and hood, making it hard to see their hair. "Hey General Kim, Mark hascaptured the leader of this village." Midori says, looking at the smaller person.
Kim looks at Yagura. "Kill him." She orders, looking at Mark and made him look slightly shocked by this, believing that it was the General's job to eliminate the other's leader.
"W-What? Why?" Mark asks.
"Kill him, you captured him, you deserve the honour..." Kim tells him, making Mark look down at him, Yagura looks at him, no fear in his eyes and makes Mark nod.
Mark looks at the group, seeing them wait and Mark grinds his teeth, he grabs the jaw of Yagura and the top of his head. "I'm sorry..." Mark whispers, soon snapping Yagura's neck and sees the young looking Mizukage drop, hitting the ground and blood runs from him mouth.
"Well done Mark, we're off to invade the next few nations, should be easy, but slow..." Kim says, walking deeper into the village, seeing if anyone should die.
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It's been a few months since the Invasion of the Mist, other countries/Nations near their borders soon followed their fall. The farthest Nations heard about the invaders and were doing their best to prepare. Several thousand people were fleeing to get as far as they could, but the enemy forces were expanding throughout the Elemental Nations.
The Sin forces order is still expanding, occasionally being slowed down by heavy losses, the forces however never seems to decrease, they seem to be increasing and getting stronger. They are remaining strong enough to take villages within a day, despite preparations and enemy losses. More Sin forces are still landing within the Shinobi Nations, taking control and guarding the villages they take before advancing. At the very borders of the Hidden Leaf village, the Sin forces were getting closer and people were fleeing through the opposite end, already having about half the civilisation flee for safety with Shinobi escorts, many more just taking shelter in the bunkers while the others prepare for war.
The Third Hokage stands at the wall, having his forces prepare and ready for the battle that he knows is coming. He is sad since he believes that they won't win this fight, having heard word of their single day sieges and moving on. The Hokage has asked everyone, anyone willing to leave the village to do so, but only half the people agreed and only a few inexperienced Shinobi did, he ordered more Shinobi to guard the civilians while leaving and those that stayed behind to fight the forces. The Hokage set out plans so that the enemy forces would have a hell of a time getting here, ordering that traps be placed throughout the entire forest. The Sin forces are already going through the traps, but that wasn't discouraging them and the Hokage saw his Shinobi forces move around the forest, ready to fight for their lives, their survival.
"Lord Hokage...some of the clans are worrying about their family that are staying behind, they want to break the line to make sure they're fine and protect them." An ANBU informs the Hokage.
Sarutobi sighs at this. "Tell them that other Shinobi are focusing on protecting them as best they can...but if our line weakens, we'll risk losing more then we can give." Sarutobi tells the ANBU, hoping they will win, but knows that it would be a long shot. He looks to see Shikaku trying to plan against the unknown enemy strength. 'I hope everyone will be alright...' Sarutobi says to himself, suddenly hearing multiple explosion, looking to see a fast, straight line of explosions and believed that a scouting party went ahead to remove some explosions.
Someone soon shot out of the forest, surprising some un-expecting Shinobi, the person smashes their palm into the first Shinobi's chest, sending the man flying and crashing into the wall. Sarutobi became worried as the person begins attacking the others and seeing the Shinobi collapse, wondering if they're dead or unconscious.
"Hoheto, observe the attacker carefully!" Sarutobi orders, gaining a nod from the Hyuga and his Byakugan active, watching the person carefully, but soon has a shocked look on his face.
"Lord Hokage, the man attacking us is..." Hoheto began, but they became distracted and saw the attacker smashing Shinobi into the air, heading towards the wall, making them confused and saw several Shinobi charge towards the attacker. The attacker then jumps towards the wall, using the flying Shinobi as steps and was heading towards the Hokage and Shinobi on the wall.
He flies towards them, his arms at his side and raises his foot, smashing it into a Shinobi and causes the Shinobi to fly back, falling into the Leaf village before landing on the wall, shocking the ninja. The Hokage quickly bites his thumb and slams his palm on the ground, summoning Enma who quickly gets in a battle stance, soon seeing the attacker. "Who's this?" He asks, watching carefully.
"I'm not sure Enma, but he attacked the Leaf." Sarutobi tells him, seeing the man wearing a white kimono, unusual metal gauntlets and boots, holding a sheathed katana. He has pale white skin, midnight blue hair and looks oddly familiar; soon seeing his eyes and Sarutobi's heart seems to pause in shock. The man's eyes are that of a Hyuga, making him wonder where he obtained them or who he is, knowing that any rouge Hyuga members were hunted by their own and executed to protect the line. "Who are you?" Sarutobi asks the attacker.
The man stands straight, looking round carefully and spots Hoheto. "...Hyuga...the clan still lives?" The man asks, slightly surprised by this. "You were dying when I left." He states, looking round and spotting Shikaku. "And Nara...you all look the same to me. I believed this world to still be clan driven, but it looks like times have changed." He says and looks at Sarutobi.
"Who are you?" The Hokage asks again, firmer and threateningly.
"Captain Lucian, I am entitled Pride by my God." He says, looking at the elderly man carefully.
"Why do you have the Hyuga eyes?" Sarutobi asks, making the man chuckle.
"Because I am the original founder of the Hyuga clan...My God found me, I joined and I became his Captain." Lucian informs him with a very small smirk, seeing the Hyuga look in slight fear as he resembled their history of former leaders slightly.
Sarutobi became confused. "Then that will mean that you are older then I." Sarutobi states and gains a nod from Lucian who still scans the other Shinobi.
"Yes, joining my god gave me eternal youth...I am Pride. My God knows I am the best, I will obliterate you." Lucian tells him with a small smirk. "I won't even use my eyes." He states and stands in a strange stance, looking similar to the Hyuga stance. "Bring it!" He yells, charging towards Sarutobi and Enma and launches his palm at the two, quickly dodging the attack and a few Shinobi charges to attack Lucian.
Lucian spins around, smashing his foot into the side of one of the Shinobi, causing them to hit the wall blocking the outside which cracks greatly. Lucian quickly moves and smashes his palm into a Shinobi's chest, causing them to stop in before the back of his shirt and flak jacket explodes. The Shinobi coughs up blood before Lucian grabs their shirt and throws them back; soon hitting the metal railing and the Shinobi falls. Behind him, a Kunoichi swings an axe at Lucian's back, aiming to sever his spine, Lucian steps backwards, dodging the axe and feels the Kunoichi's arm to his his shoulder. The Kunoichi is shocked and feels pain in her arm before Lucian grabs her wrist and pulls downwards, breaking her arm and makes her yell in pain before pulling back, holding her arm as her forearm shakes from its socket. Lucian spins round, having the back of his hand smacks her cheek and a sickening snap is heard before she hits the ground
"Pathetic..." Lucian says, raising his forearm and blocks a large staff, causing the ground underneath him to crack under him by the force. Lucian smirks and looks at the Third Hokage holding the giant staff, sensing the pole was Enma and smirks. "Good, are you their leader?" Lucian asks the old man.
"Yes, and I aim to save my village!" Sarutobi yells, quickly doing a few hand signs with one hand and his cheeks puff up. "Fire Release: Fire Dragon Flame Bullet." Sarutobi says and has a large, dragon shaped flame, shoot out of his mouth and consumes Lucian and the dead Kunoichi before Sarutobi pulls the Enma pole away. 'Did I get him?' He wonders, seeing Shikaku wondering near Hoheto and some other Shinobi, ignoring the smell of burning flesh.
The fire explodes and Lucian charges forward, smirking as he swings his leg round, soon colliding with Enma as Sarutobi blocks. The Hokage is launched off the wall and soon crashes through some buildings and keeps going by the force of Lucian's kick. Lucian crouches, scanning Sarutobi's flight and jumps with a large amount of force, following Sarutobi and leaving the Shinobi staring in shock. "Quick! Send word that the Hokage has engaged a single enemy, try and support him as best as you can!" Shikaku orders over the radio, hearing the explosions and knew the enemy would be here soon.
Xxxxx
It's been half an hour, several Shinobi within the wall have been killed by Lucian for trying to interfere, so the Hokage has ordered not to be interrupted and remained in an empty area. The Sin forces are now outside the wall, using the forest as cover and taking heavy losses, but their numbers are remaining strong. Most of the outside Shinobi forces have been put down, some dead, but most wounded and captured. The forces on the walls were suffering a few losses, but protected by the walls better than they had expected.
Several hundred yards from the wall, a group of Shinobi were managing to keep the attacking forces distracted, but not enough as it appears. "I don't think we're going to last much longer." A Kunoichi says, holding onto her arm which has a bullet wound.
"Fucking cowards, using superior numbers to overpower us." Tsume says while bandaging up a cut to her leg while three other Shinobi look round carefully.
"I hear Aoba's team are going strong." A Shinobi with a large radio on his back says.
"Well their specialty is blinding and attack." Tsume says with an annoyed voice. "Anyone else?"
"Not sure, maybe two or three other squads...can't confirm, I heard some chaos and what seemed to be Hayate's group...not sure, they went silent." The man replies, looking at Tsume who nods. Gunshots are heard, soon gaining a scream of pain from one of the Shinobi before they fell off their branch.
"Shit!" Tsume yells, looking and seeing a squad of the enemy taking cover while a couple shoot at them. "Get them!" She yells, soon hearing the enemy forces yell in shock while a spinning force appears near them, slicing through them like butter and a wolf like dog lands, missing an ear and wearing an eye patch. "Good work Kuromaru!" She yells, but her nose picks up more enemy forces, soon looking round and curses, seeing over two dozen soldiers running their way.
Tsume looks down, spotting the Shinobi that was shot isn't moving, indicating that he's not alive anymore and grits her teeth. "Pull back!" She orders, soon having her forces pull back quickly.
Xxx
The Sin forces are still pushing against the wall, covering soldiers are they run for the wall and start planting explosives and holding their position from any Shinobi. If that fails, they're preparing to make a weapon capable of destroying the wall, but they want to limit the damage. The Shinobi couldn't get a clear shot at those below the wall since they'd risk getting hit by bullets and hoped that their reports reach the squads below.
Xxx
At one of the poorest parts of the village within the wall, a large apartment block lays in slight ruins while a team of ANBU were searching inside the apartment. "Where the hell is that brat?" One of them asks, wearing a tanned trench coat.
"I don't know...the boy lives here in one of these apartments...he may be hiding somewhere else though." Another says, wearing a dog mask and grey, scarecrow like hair. "Tenzo, any idea where he is?" The man asks.
"Not sure, this place has a lot of hiding places, but he's just a child, he may be hiding in his apartment..." Tenzo says, gaining a nod from the others before moving fast, searching for the boy's apartment.
Xxx
They soon stop near the top of the building, down to the last apartment that seems more damaged than the others. Two Shinobi stayed outside the window while two took the door. The two at the door nod at each other and smash through the door, hearing a yelp and look around. The apartment is ruined and dirty, knowing that no one cleans the place, not even the person that lives here. Movement is heard in a cupboard and they move towards it, opening it and seeing a skinny child with messy, blond hair kneeling in the back.
The grey haired Shinobi sighs. "It's alright Naruto, we're taking you somewhere safe...remember me?" Kakashi asks, looking and smiling under his mask.
"Scarecrow..." Naruto calls in a quiet voice, soon rushing forward and tackles Kakashi in a glad hug. "W-Where were you?" Naruto asks in a scared voice, having known this ANBU since he come to make sure he was safe for years.
"I was busy...we need to take you somewhere safe, okay?" Kakashi asks, feeling Naruto nod as he stands up and moves towards the door.
They stop when they felt the ground shake, soon having the glass windows shatter and Naruto yelling in shock. They look and spot the lower parts of the village walls explode, one near the apartment; they look in shock before enemy forces start running through the holes. Leaf Shinobi start going to the destroyed areas of the wall, aiming to stop the enemy forces and push them out of the village before they take a foothold. "What the fuck..." The female ANBU says, as more pour through the holes in the wall, quickly taking over buildings nearby and firing at any Shinobi that appear.
"We've got to get moving!" Tenzo yells, seeing the forces make their way towards their location while more Sin forces push through the wall.
"We're going to have to move fast..." Kakashi says, looking at Naruto and sighs. "Anko, take Naruto with the other two...I need to be on the front lines." Kakashi tells them, seeing Naruto get upset a little. "Naruto, I'll be sure to protect you in a different way...just stay with these people." Kakashi tells him, soon having the other two ANBU appear.
"You sure you want to go alone Kakashi?" Tenzo asks, gaining a nod from Kakashi. "Stay safe then." He tells him and the group vanishes with Naruto.
Xxxxx
Two hours has passed since them, Naruto's group were finding surprising resistance, the Sin forces were pushing through harder than they expected and people on both sides were dying or being captured. Naruto is scared as the blood stains the streets and the Sin forces keep getting pushed back, but they progress after the next line comes and push forward. Anko, Tenzo and the third ANBU are moving fast, keeping to the rooftops, along with most Shinobi forces since was the best cover they could get since it allows them to rest without too much trouble so long as soldiers/snipers haven't taken to the roofs.
Naruto's group ignored all other Leaf ninja since they've got their mission while the others had their own. However, they pass a burning house. A Kunoichi lays pinned on the ground, blood running out of their lips and one of her closed as while a person wearing a light green kimono, metal boots and gloves with claws on the end of the fingers. "I sense something powerful amongst them..." She says aloud, her hair a midnight blue, eyes grey and flawless white skin.
"F-Fuck you..." The bleeding Kunoichi says, grabbing her ankle and the woman sighs, looking down to see the pinned woman with only one eye which shows that she's a Hyuga.
"I envy you, having so much life, yet dying so slowly..." She says, a sweet smile on her face, but soon gouged her claw fingertips into the other eye to make her scream in pain. "Goodbye." She says and walks in the direction of where Naruto's escorts were going.
Xxxxx
In the middle of the village, two recognisable Sin force members are examining the area, seeing a large amount of damage to the buildings, most being bullet marks, others being flames and uneven earth. Explosions are heard, occurring near the Hokage Monuments, occasionally having a tree or person fly from the area. "Hey Mark, fifty quid says that Lucian is over there." Midori says with a small smirk, seeing a couple of soldiers taking position within buildings, some of which had a couple of dead soldiers visible from the building.
"You know he is, you just try and sort through this area. And remember, we've got reports of an old guy with toads causing trouble." Mark tells her, signalling other soldiers that appear to take position so that no Shinobi pushes their forces back. The man soon heads towards the area he believes Lucian and the Leaf's leader are fighting.
"Sure thing Mark, don't forget to kill!" Midori calls to him, but sighs afterward. She soon hears screaming and looks to see a scared female citizen running from her house, holding a family album in her arms while two soldiers walk out, having chased her. "Boo!" Midori says, making the woman faint and the two soldiers stop, shaking their heads before picking up the woman. "Too easy." She states, spitting onto a nearby tree, however, the spit is red and causes a small burst of flames and quickly starts to consume the tree.
"Captain...that could spread and cause more damage and chaos..." One of her soldiers mentions, but gains a glare from Midori.
"You try spitting lava all day...and besides, this is war, chaos is the least of your concern." Midori tells them and walks down the street, getting bored easily.
Xxxxx
Naruto's group suddenly stops moving, trying to get through without too much trouble. "Where we going?" Naruto asks.
"We were heading towards the bunkers...but by the looks of things, that's out of the window..." Tenzo says, seeing most of the escape routes near the tower which seems to be taking heavy damage. Fighting is heard in the distance and they knew the Leaf ninja are probably drawn to guerrilla tactics and pushing back hard since the enemy is still pushing through, despite their forces dead littering the streets.
"You think so?" Anko asks, cursing and looking to see if there was any other route. However, she becomes confused when she sees movement in the shadows, but it wasn't the usual. She looks carefully and spots a few Shinobi and children with them; she sighs and looks around carefully, seeing no enemy in sight. "Found some survivors, looks like escorts...could have an update on where we need to go." Anko informs everyone while pointing, making the others look.
"If they don't, we best inform them of the devastation if they're heading toward the bunkers." Tenzo says, gaining a nod from the rest.
They quickly jump down and move towards the group, taking cover before they interact, in case it was a trap. "Will!" Anko calls, making the group stop and look carefully.
"Fire!" One of the people call back, making Anko and her group go into the open and quickly joins them. "I'm glad to find someone else than the enemy." The person says, soon spotting Naruto and seems to pause in slight fear. "Why do you have that...thing with you?" The person asks.
"The Hokage wants him safe. We're his escorts." Anko says, glaring at him.
"Okay then..." The Shinobi says while sensing Anko's killing intent. "Have you heard anything?" He then asks them.
"The Hokage is apparently fighting the possible leader of the enemy force attacking us. The enemy troops are obviously spreading out for a full takeover and by the looks of things; they may have discovered the bunkers..." Anko informs them, gaining curses from the group and scared whimpers from a couple of children.
"Where's my dad?" A blond haired girl asks, Anko looks and sees that the girl is a Yamanaka.
"He's probably in the bunker, giving enemy movements as best he can." Anko tells her, looking and sees some large Akimichi in the distance, fighting as best as they can, but they saw that they are focused on a certain spot.
"But you said they found the bunkers!" The girl says in shock.
"Yeah, so?" Anko asks, walking down the alley and trying to think of an escape plan.
"So...what are we going to do? Cause it seems the bunkers are out of the question." The Shinobi says, looking at the direction of the bunkers and seeing fire.
"We may have to hide the children somewhere." Tenzo says, walking over to Anko and the Shinobi, trying to make a plan while Naruto walks over to the children. "Hey Ino...Kiba..." Naruto began, seeing a boy wearing a large jacket, recognising him but couldn't remember his name.
"Shino..." The boy replies, a slight annoyance in his voice.
"Yeah." Naruto replies, seeing the a few buildings burns while blood stains are covering the area, soon feeling sick and scared.
"How did this happen, my mum said we're the best village!" Kiba yells, kicking a large rock, gaining a nervous whine from Akamaru.
"Power in numbers, it is understandable, any village or army will fall if the enemy have superior forces." Shino says, still feeling scared, but didn't show it.
Ino has tears going down her cheeks, thinking that her family is dying. Kiba has a worried look on his face, knowing that his family is fighting on the front lines, but believes that they'll keep fighting and survive. Shino, well he did worry about his family, but knew that they were capable on their own.
"Hold on...I'm sensing something..." A Kunoichi guard states, looking around, soon looking up and then a glowing, blue arrow shot down and pierced her chest. She coughs up blood as her eyes go blurry, confused by what happened and falls to her knees, soon another arrow shot through her head, spraying the ground in blood and brains.
"What the fuck!" Anko yells, looking up and seeing a woman in a green kimono on the roof. Next to the woman is another female, wearing the Sin force uniform and held a blue bow and aims at them. "Who the fuck are you?"
"Captain Levia, entitled Envy, and this is my Lieutenant, Archer." The woman in the kimono says, smiling strangely as she watches the people, the ANBUs manages to see her eyes and became highly confused.
"She has Hyuga eyes...and she seems familiar." The third ANBU says, unsure how to attack someone with those eyes.
"What are we going to do?" The Shinobi asks, seeing a couple of the Shinobi he is with stand in front of the seven year olds, protecting them from whatever attack comes.
"Anko, take Naruto and the others, me and Tenzo will cover you and try and kill these two." The third ANBU says, breathing carefully.
"You sure?" Anko asks, seeing the green kimono wearing woman moving forward and seeing that she is about to attack.
"Move it!" Tenzo yells doing a hand sign and creates a large, wooden wall that blocks the women's view and any attacks from that direction. However, they see a large crack in the wall form within a few seconds.
Anko nods and looks at the lower rank Shinobi. "Follow me, make sure the brats follow!" Anko orders while running and hearing the wood shatter, knowing that the woman is trying to rip through the wall.
Xxxxx
It has been another hour, the village is fighting hard, but the enemy are taking large amounts of hostages easily since the Leaf ninja were more focused on keeping the people safe than killing the enemy. The enemy soon exploited this and caused several groups to surrender to ensure that the civilians weren't harmed. The Hokage is wounded badly, managing to exhaust and do some damage to Lucian. However, the two were still fighting, already destroying the district they were in.
Anko and her group are still moving fast, running round enemy footholds, dead bodies of both sides and using the remaining fighting Shinobi as opportunities to move without detection. They keep moving, carrying the children at this point since they couldn't keep up. The group come to a sudden stop when someone appears in front of them, all of them ready to fight if they've got the upper hand or run if it's bad. They stop however when they recognise the person, seeing his long white hair, two red lines on his face, red, bright colourful clothes and a giant scroll on his back.
"Lord Jiraiya?" One of the Shinobi calls, slightly in disbelief that he was here.
He looks and sighs in relief. "Thank Kami. I was a little worried that there was no one else but enemies. I was helping people and comrades within the first couple of hours, but no one else seems to be alive but the ANBU..." Jiraiya tells them, seeing Naruto and smiling. "I know of a secret entrance where you can take the children and flee." Jiraiya tells them.
"What? We need to secure an area and help recapture the village!" Anko yells, knowing that it'll take so much more to save the village and they need to hide the children before they can act.
"We can't save the village if we all die! The enemy forces have been capturing people and taking too strong a foothold around the village. I want to help save this village now...but we need to survive to fight another day, trust me." Jiraiya says, having a sad face and wanting to save his home and his Sensei.
"...Fine...but we will come back and fight, otherwise, I will kill you." Anko says and walks with him and quickly ran.
Xxxxx
The group are close to the wall, near the mountain where the Sin forces haven't occupied or come through. They had met some resistance from squads taking a chance to secure all round the wall, but they were easily dispatched, they are currently moving quickly through the alleyways. They stop when they hear fighting, seemingly excited for some reason.
They took a quick glance around the corner, but they pull back when several enemy forces were sent flying. "That is the youthful way to fight!" A voice yells.
"...Easy to tell when Gai is in town." Anko says, walking around the corner. "Will!" She yells.
"Youthful Fire!" Gai yells back excitedly, seeing a couple of Shinobi with him and some civilians and children, one that Naruto recognises.
"Sakura!" Naruto calls out, but stops when he saw her teary eyes and blood stains across the side of her face and bits on her clothes. Ino soon spots this, going over to her quickly.
"What's the matter?" Ino asks her best friend, not paying attention to Gai and the others talking and planning.
"M-My mum and dad...are dead..." Sakura cries, her knees shaking before she falls to her knees, crying hard.
Ino walks up to her and holds onto Sakura, shocked by this information while Naruto was slightly nervous, upset that he's seeing Sakura this way. "What happened?" Ino asks, feeling upset since she doesn't know if her parents are dead as well, but Sakura knew her parents were dead.
"My...my m-mum and dad...fought t-to save me...t-then a-a man came...k-killed t-the m-men that d-did it...he l-left and I s-saw him k-kill more as h-he left..." Sakura cries.
Flashback
Sakura is buried deep in her mother's chest as they run, Sakura feels fear while she hears her father yell, hearing a few other people screaming since they were at a bunker that was hidden inside a house since the main bunker was too far and too crowded apparently. The bunker was found and they've been running for safety. Sakura feels them come to a complete stop, sliding her head to the side to see and she feels her heart stop for a second. Two dozen soldiers stand in a line, half bent down and aiming their way while the standing ones stand behind them and aim the same direction.
Her father who has a dull-pink hair which is styled into the shape of a cherry blossom, he holds a kunai and a couple other men armed with makeshift weapons stand at the front. "...Mebuki...run." Her father orders, soon feeling her mother grow cold, but feels some movement, soon becoming a run.
Sakura couldn't see her father anymore, but she knew in her gut that her father and the others were running at the enemy, hoping to draw their fire from the others. Gunshots are heard across the area, screams soon heard and she suddenly feels her mother fall and she feels the hard ground below and her mother's weight on top of her. Sakura tries to scream, but her face is covered by her mother, she tries to push her away, trying to see if her mother's hurt and becomes panicked and scared, unsure what to do.
A minute passes and her mother soon gets off her, causing Sakura to feel relief since she believed her mother got up on her own. She soon stops thinking that when she sees a man in a strange uniform holding her mother's collar and looks down at her, holding a rifle which seems to smoke at the tip of it. "Lucky brat, bullet went straight through your mother and narrowly missed your head." The man says. Sakura looks up and sees blood staining her mother's chest, near her head and blood drips on Sakura's face, soon in complete shock, unable to do anything now. The guard looks carefully, seeing that she wouldn't move, even if she wanted to and tosses Sakura's mother, Mebuki to the side and aims the rifle at Sakura's face. "Bloody heretics, you sicken me." The guard says, his finger on the trigger.
"Sir!" A voice is heard, soon causing the soldiers to look and salute, the one aiming at Sakura looks, salutes lazily before aiming at Sakura's head.
"What do you think you're doing?" A voice is heard, Sakura can just see the man in the corner of her eye, seeing a man with brown hair and a cape, holding a odd looking spear in his hand.
"We're killing heretics and pathetic beings sir." The soldier tells him. "As ordered from Captain Lucian, sir." The man says, looking from the man to the girl.
"...She's just a child...god wouldn't ask for a child's life." The man says, looking at the girl and his eyes shifting slightly before holding onto the side of his head and drops his spear from pain.
"Well, if she's worthy, then she can see god in person." The soldier says, pulling the trigger and Sakura's life flashed before her eyes, it was short and her eyes remain wide as the barrel of the gun is aiming to her side. The soldier looks in confusion as a hand holds the rifle's middle and looks at the man next to him. "Captain Mark! What are you doing!?" He orders, forgetting the ranks for a moment. Mark rips the rifle from the man's hand and quickly aims at the man's head, shocking him before he raises his hands. "Sir...think of what you're do-" The soldier began, but was muted by a gunshot.
The soldiers soon yell in shock as Mark aims round him, firing rapidly and gaining more yells of shock before everyone is silenced. Mark breathes deeply, tears running down his face. "I'm sorry..." He says, Sakura is unsure if he was talking to her or to them. "I'm so sorry...I can't forgive you..." He whispers and drops the rifle, soon grabbing his head in pain and looks at Sakura. "I'm sorry..." He whispers before bending down and picks up the spear and begins running.
Sakura slowly sits up, her heart racing and fear going through her as she sees the man running, decapitating more soldiers that come to the scene with a flaming spear. She stays there for several minutes before a Shinobi appears, seeing the dead and then Sakura, he picks her up and starts running, trying to save anyone still alive.
End flashback
Sakura cries even harder, having gotten over the shock and near death experience a little while ago. An elderly citizen went over and tries to comfort them as the Shinobi were making final decisions, getting up and hearing footsteps in the distance. Everyone went into a stance, but relaxes when they see a Hyuga with two children, breathing heavily and glad to see other people. "I'm glad that I've found someone..." The Hyuga says, looking to the right. "We'll have to move soon! Enemy forces are heading this way!" He yells and moves quickly.
Jiraiya curses loudly, soon pointing towards the wall behind everyone. "Move that way, we're close to the exit!" Jiraiya yells, nearly walking into a boy with shiny, black hair tied in a pony tail and think bushy eyebrows. 'Wow, found Gai junior.' Jiraiya thought and chuckles a little.
There are loud footsteps, making everyone pause and they see several dozen Sin forces come around a street, spotting them and charge for cover. "Move it!" Anko yells.
Xxxxx
They ran, fighting as they reach a back alleyway, Jiraiya opens a section of the wall and people were fleeing out of it, far from the war at the wall. The Hyuga with the two children were moving quickly near the back, finding it hard to keep up with two children. He soon feels a sudden force, having someone jump down from above and knees stab into his back. The youngest Hyuga hits the floor, crying in pain and screams when the person grabs the back of her neck. "Pointless...and Hyuga...only seen a few of you, other than Lucian." The person says, showing that it was Midori.
Two Shinobi charge at her, but she pulls out a small katana from her side and deflects their attacks and sends them away. She looks and spots Jiraiya, soon seeing him summoning a large toad to push her back. "Lady Hanabi!" The Hyuga yells, trying to grab the little girl.
Midori kicks him in the chest, hearing the other little Hyuga girl cry in fear and hides behind the nearest bin. "We best move back...consider this brat as payment." Midori chuckles, looking and seeing the other Shinobi kill off her troops quickly as they come. "Move back!" Midori orders, the troops doing as they're told and left the group.
Jiraiya breathes deeply, seeing that only a handful of Shinobi remain. "We better move..." Jiraiya says, but Gai raises his hand.
"I'm not leaving; I'm staying to help the people." Gai says, gaining a few nods from the others.
"But this village is going to be in a dark place, we need to move fast and prepare to try and take it back..." Jiraiya says, looking at the smoking village, knowing the damage is bad, it is probably going to be rough.
"No, I'm going to stay here, help people escape." Gai says, looking and seeing most of the others agree.
"I have to save Lady Hanabi..." The Hyuga says and looks at the little girl, becoming sad. "Lady Hinata...I have to save your little sister, go with the others, I'll come for you." He tells her, getting up in pain and looks, seeing Jiraiya and wasn't sure now, but sighs. "Lord Jiraiya, will you care for Lady Hinata while I'm away?" He asks the Sannin.
Jiraiya looks at the girl, shrugging and looks back at him. "Sure, I'll look after her." Jiraiya tells him, looking back at the little girl who watches the nervous looking Naruto who hasn't left the alley.
The group separates. Gai, the Hyuga and other Shinobi remain in the village to assist and help everyone they can. Jiraiya and Anko who was ordered to protect Naruto kept to following the order. They left with the citizens and children, moving deeper into the forest. They're planning and going to prepare for the future.
Xxxxx
Sarutobi lies on the ground, bleeding while the Monkey king Enma is in his original form and is worried, unable to move since he's beaten and bloody as well. Lucian breathes hard, coughing up a little blood as he looks at his left arm, broken in three places and chuckles at the sight. "It's been...awhile since...anyone hurt me...this much...Mamoru was...the last." Lucian says, smirking largely while picking up Sarutobi with his right hand and starts chocking him, seeing the Hokage's pale face go from pale to blue quickly.
Footsteps are heard coming from behind Lucian. Lucian looks and spots Mark walking towards him, unharmed, breathing hard and covered in blood. "Let him...go..." Mark orders.
"Sorry Mark...you already killed...a leader of...a village..." Lucian began, but stops when he feels a tearing sensation across his back. He yells in pain, dropping the Hokage and looks, seeing his blood drip from the tip of Mark's spear. Lucian chuckles and takes a deep breath, calming himself as he looks at Mark; soon having chakra come out and causing the air pressure to intensify. "So your true...colours show...we've known you were soft...but to go so far as...to attack someone on...an entirely different level?"
"I'm sick of this! We're killing and ruining innocent lives!" Mark yells, holding tightly onto his spear, causing his knuckles the pale and the palm of his hands to bleed because of his tight grip.
In the distance, several dozen of Lucian and Mark's forces watch, some in complete shock and unable to look away. One of the men seems to be wearing a higher ranking uniform and holds a revolver in his hand. He has icy blue eyes and light brown hair that blows by the force of the wind caused by the Chakra levels. "...What have you done Mark?" The man wonders.
"Second Lieutenant Ryusuke! What should we do!?" One of the soldiers asks in fear.
"All we can do is survive and watch..." Ryusuke states, watching carefully while the other soldiers hide and watch the scene take place.
Mark breathes deeply, soon seeing Lucian grab the hilt of his katana. This makes Mark think for a second, never actually having seen him use his katana, but disregarded it. "Bring it...Sloth, fight and know...why I am Pride." Lucian smiles as he seems to stop bleeding.
Mark charges forward. "The Second Circle: Lust!" Mark yells, thrusting forward, but Lucian pulls his katana out, showing markings on it and blocks the first attack easily. Mark curses and pulls back and sweeps it clockwise, still aiming for Lucian. However, Lucian blocks it again, but his katana shook slightly this time. Mark swung around counter clockwise, but it is blocked again, making the Katana shake even more. Mark pulls back and thrusts it at Lucian's feet. This makes Lucian jump while the spear head stabs the ground, causing the area around it to collapse. Mark smirks and shoots the spear upwards; hitting Lucian's katana and the force sent him flying several dozen feet into the air. "Sixth and final Lust shot!" Mark yells, pulling his spear back, knowing that it'll be a direct hit and makes his spear glow blue.
During the fighting, the Hokage coughs as he tries to move, soon having a few Shinobi appear. "Father!" One of them whispers in fear. The Hokage looks and sees Asuma.
"Asuma...I'm glad that...you're alive..." Sarutobi whispers, grunting in pain as his loyal follows pick him up to escape to a safe area.
Xxx
"Second Lieutenant Ryusuke! There are enemy forces on the field!" One of the soldiers yells, taking aim and Ryusuke looks, seeing the people take the Hokage.
"Leave them; it's pointless since the leader is probably going to die. Best not waste the bullets." Ryusuke states before looking back at the fight while the other soldiers cover from a sudden explosion.
Xxx
A few seconds before the explosion happened. Lucian spins in the air, having a small smile on his face because of Mark and his sword glows purple. Lucian looks to see Mark about to throw his spear. "Kami's Katana: World Slicer." Lucian says with a smirk, swinging his sword towards Mark, making a purple flash and everything stops.
The light vanishes, Mark stands there, his eyes wide and in shock, blood splattering across the ground before he drops his spear, hitting the floor and fell into a chasm. His arm becomes limp, blood leaking down his arm, he looks and sees the chasm go far behind him, seeing it go beyond the wall and knew many people died. Mark's lip trembles in shock, the entire village is nearly sliced in half, almost like a god did cut the land with a knife.
Lucian drops down to the ground, holding his right arm and has a confused look on his face, but he ignores it and walks over to Mark. 'What...the fuck was...that?' Mark wonders while his body numb and heard someone drop onto the ground behind him.
"Wow, Lucian sure is powerful, isn't he Mark?" A voice came, knowing now that it was Levia, feeling her claws move across his back. "And he wasn't aiming to kill you."
"Where have you...been Levia?" Lucian asks, putting his sword away and seeing Mark pale for two reasons, blood loss and feeling something moving through his body, thinking that it was Lucian's chakra.
"Was fighting against two masked people, one could control wood, but he managed to get away while my lieutenant killed the other one." Levia informs him, cutting into Mark's shoulders, making him fall to his knees while Levia rolls her shoulders in pain.
The soldiers soon came out of hiding while securing the area. Ryusuke walks out and looks at Mark, confused by his defeat, yet wondering why he fought back.
After a minute, Mirodi lands near them, still holding onto the little Hyuga. "What the hell is going on?" Midori asks, seeing Mark bleeding and her two comrades standing nearby.
"Mark has turned rouge, shame really, he had such potential." Levia says, rubbing her shoulders. "We're waiting for our General to-" She began.
"Appear?" A voice came, making everyone look to see a normal sized person stand there. He was wearing gold armour, a torn, brown cloak round his shoulders and blew in the wind and finally, a dark golden mask with yellow sockets around his eyes and messy, brown hair showing at the back. He looks at Mark and chuckles, walking over to him and kneels down to him, seeing Mark in pain. "You really are powerful, and I know I'll meet you again in the future...but right now, I have to send you into my own world and see you in a year." He says.
"S-Strife...t-this world...n-needs to b-be saved...from u-us..." Mark says in pain, gaining a sigh from General Strife while Ryusuke.
"Believe me, you're not the only one, but you do what you've got to do." Strife says, rubbing his thumb against a bloody spot on Mark, soon rubbing a cross on Mark's forehead. "Dimensional Rift: Time Warp." He says before grabbing Mark's forehead and the Captain was consumed in a dark blue, making him vanish. Strife coughs a little and looks round, seeing Midori tilts her head in slight shock while Ryusuke's eyes widen in shock as well.
"W-What did you j-just do to my Captain?" Ryusuke asks in shock.
"Sent him to be dealt with on a later date." Strife simply informs the second Lieutenant. "You shouldn't complain, you're the next in line to be the next in line." Strife tells him, soon noticing something. "What happened to this village's leader?" Strife asks in confusion.
Lucian looks and soon stays still. "Fuck!" Lucian roars.
Xxxxx
Several miles away from the village, Jiraiya, the now maskless Anko and the seven Academy Students, Naruto, Sakura, Hinata, Shino, Kiba, Ino and Lee. Jiraiya informed them that he and Anko will help train them, prepare for the world that is changing every second they talk. Half the group were hoping and ready to get revenge to what happened to their home and family, the other half were still nervous and scared by what will happen in the future.
Hinata is still crying over what happened, not knowing what happened to her family and wonders if she'll see them again. Naruto sees this and feels sad about her crying so much, but he didn't know what to do and sees Sakura and Ino trying to comfort that quiet Hyuga.
"I'll become the best ninja this world has ever seen...I'll come back and become the Hokage...believe it..." Naruto whispers, not wanting this to happen again.
Jiraiya chuckles as he heard Naruto and talks with Anko. "We'll train these kids to be the best...but we better get these civilians somewhere safe." Jiraiya says, looking at the other people that hadn't ran away as soon as they got out.
Xxxxx
The Leaf village has fallen; the remaining resistance has fallen and hidden amongst the civilians. The Second Lieutenant Ryusuke stands at the edge of the chasm, looking down as water pours into it. "Mark...you really do have a point..." He says aloud, his eyes shifting downward. He removes his uniform and only remained his trousers, showing a pale, muscular body with a few scars and a few revolver harnesses on his side. He takes a breath and steps off the edge and falls to the bottom of the chasm.
He lands at the bottom, water splashing across the area from the force. The water lever reached his abdomen and he raises an eyebrow and looks around. He looks through the water and he feels a metal shaft. "There you are." He says, pulling out a spear, the spear that Mark had before he vanished. "I don't know where you are Captain...I'll save you and follow what you'd want." He states, soon moving down the chasm.
Sleepless D: Hope you enjoy it, please review, and thank you Kaien Kurayami for Mark and helping me in this story with some things. And thank you for Ryusuke. Peace out.