IMPORTANT: This story will contain descriptive violence and prostitution. Warnings will be added, but will be mentioned first in notes. Nothing too explicit, and very, very few, curse words. If this is something you are sensitive to, please do not read.
A roar ripped through the air, rattling the eardrums of both sides of the battlefield. The source of noise, a man wreathed in a blood red light, soon gained another mirage of a tail behind him, whipping in the air in unison with the other eighth.
The appearance of the ninth tail caused his foes to falter, before charging forward with a new sense of desperation against the newest triumph card of the Leaf-nins.
Not so far away, a special jounin commander slashed and swiped and defeated wave after wave of enemies, simultaneously shouting out orders to the army behind him. A black haired comrade with distinctive red eyes fought with him, covering his blind spots.
With the support of their divisions, they made quick work of left flank of the army of shinobi that had come out to meet them.
After the blood had all but flooded the ground, a rumbling cheer went around as Konoha achieved the first major victory of the day (which, admittedly, only started about five hours ago).
In the few minutes they had as break to transport the wounded and deal with the hostages, they met to regroup. Still grinning with exhaustion, they were startled out of their elation when a monstrous roar sounded. The woman widened her eyes, and a wave of muttering broke out among the assembled ninja.
"You know what that means, right, Kakashi?" she asked, sneaking a glance at her fellow commander from where they were sitting for a few moments of much needed rest. A medic quickly passed them a set of bandages, and they started to bind their major injuries.
The man hummed in response, one eye still gleaming red, focused on the explosion of red chakra in the distance. "We're going to have to change our strategy if the ninth tail was released."
The woman simply blinked, still assessing the ravished battlefield and wrapping up where a kunai had stabbed her arm.
A pink haired woman came hurrying over to them, a young girl stumbling after her, her young violet eyes taking in everything around her. Both wore dirtied and stained white smocks with the symbol of the leaf stitched on.
"Sakura."
"Kurenai-san. Kakashi." Sakura gave a strained smile and a nod to each. "Here, Mina has your new soldier pills." The girl next to her scrambled forward, dropping small white and red pills into the two outstretched hands.
"Remember, only one every hour," Mina cautioned, causing Sakura to ruffle her hair affectionately before snapping back to the brisk attitude he had before.
"The injured need to be transported away," Sakura informed them. "The Kyuubi's chakra is interfering with the healing jutsus, again."
"Take four sectors with you," Kakashi ordered, not pausing to curse his blond student for using the Kyuubi's chakra so early in the battle. "As for the rest of us..." He turned to Kurenai. "Can you take half of those able to where the south point line is? There are quite a few skirmishes surrounding that area, as well as some S-class genjutsu users."
"You want us to take care of them." Kurenai nodded grimly. "Will do. And the rest?"
"I'll lead them to where the Kyuubi is, in Konoha. If the nine tails has to be used, it must be bad." Kakashi turned back to Sakura. "Can you send the report to Shikamaru?"
"I'll see what I can do."
"Dismissed."
Without so much of a further word, they all split, ready to do their next part in this war.
Kakashi got together the scraps of his army (ignoring the consistent pangs of guilt at the lost lives), and one of his operatives, a woman with huge chakra reserves and amazing control, did a mass shushin to get them all to their location. [1]
They stopped off to one side of the massive clearing created by overzealous earth jutsus, where most of the fighting was taking place.
Quickly spitting out orders to his shinobi, he swallowed a red pill and jumped into the fray, taking advantage of the primary rush of adrenaline the pill gave him before he had to depend on his own will.
Both sides were evenly matched; there were both obvious losses and obvious wins, as well as the three most destructive fights still going on strong: Tsunade and Jiraiya against the top forces of the New Akatsuki, Hinata along with Itachi (whom he still didn't trust) Uchiha fighting the hordes of White Zetsus and Naruto with Sasuke (whom he trusted as much as his brother) fighting Madara with the ten tailed beast.
The battles weren't as clearly defined, of course. Occasionally, Itachi would deflect a blow from his younger brother, or something similar. But Naruto and Sasuke were in a league in their own in the battle against Madara, clearing the area easily with huge shockwaves.
Kakashi rushed over to Naruto and Sasuke, who, despite the help of the Nine Tails, were being slowly worn out.
They barely had time to exchange a glance with their former sensei before they all were overcome with battle rush, turning into blurs of yellow, red, black, silver...
The Copy-nin fought like he never had before, causing mass destruction, and the soft voice in his head that worried about how much damage he was causing to the environment was quickly stamped out.
In comparison to Naruto, though, Kakashi felt like a gnat for all the impact he was making, and that's not even mentioning the enemy's own contribution.
Maybe it was all the dust from the carnage that caused it. Maybe he was instinctively dodging an unseen blow. Maybe his unhealed injuries were getting to him. Or maybe he should stop making excuses and admit that he was just clumsy.
Whatever happened, Kakashi hoped would never again, as it caused him to trip (something that hasn't happened since he was young and a brat).
He was sent sprawling to the ground. Twin yells reached his ears, as both Naruto and Sasuke desperately sent out jutsus to try and counter the ones sent by Madara, taking advantage of his moment of weakness.
He was halfway onto his feet when the jutsus all collided, hitting Kakashi with enough force to blast him back, out of the clearing and through the trees.
It all happened in a split second.
All Naruto and Sasuke knew, was that their first sensei and one of their closest friends had been sent spiralling away, most likely dead.
A roar of pain echoed through the country.
All Kakashi knew, was that one second he was alive and ready to fight, the next he was consumed by darkness.
A blast of chakra, visible to all, pushed upward like a beam, before dissipating.
[1] Honestly, just the easiest way to get them all to the site of the main battle. She volunteered her own chakra for others to use, and they all shunshined to the location she gave her chakra. Or something.
I've got 20,000 more words already written, but nothing really edited so. Don't expect anything for a while.
Never mind just decided to also post first chapter too ok brain stop changing.