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Sieg350 : I don't know how well this story will turn out but if it gains some good views and reviews then I'll keep it going. Enjoy and please Review so I know what yall think.
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Sieg350 : Well go
The shinobi world had changed after the Kyuubi attack on Konoha three years previous. They still used their swords, jutsu, and other weapons of the Old Ways, but they had moved onto more modern ways. In Suna they had adopted weapons like the Ak-47 and the AG-94 assault rifles. In Konoha they had adopted American weapons and German weapons such as the HK5, the M-16, M40A1, and other weapons from the Western world. But the Sound had adopted it all, they had everything from Russian and British to American weapons, including the vehicles and a few mercenary groups from unknown organizations. The other villages were slowly adapting to the modern weapons but soon the Sound was starting to take over, they already controlled half of the Lightning Country. With their hidden village in danger Kumo requested aid from the other hidden villages' armies, but with the new technology still too new for them Kumo was lost with little fight.
Now sixteen years after the Kyuubi attack and only thirteen from the Kumo Invasion, Konoha was finishing up its defensive upgrades with United States Marines helping them out. Suna was getting a little help from the Israeli people due to their knowledge of the desert areas. As Konoha's allies were about to lift their last squad from the ground and Suna's allies were gone Orochimaru attacked viciously and without mercy. Suna was caught completely off guard and were forced to leave their own city fleeing to Konoha for support; Konoha still having their Alliance with Suna welcomed their friends in with open arms. Konoha, Suna, and the squad of Marines were attacked in the dark of night with no help from any other villages or the rest of the USMC.
Our story begins three days before the attack.......
"Sergeant, let's finish this shit up so we can get some rest, it's a three day trip back on that helo." A marine with a silver bar on his helmet ordered.
"Yes, sir, you heard the man let's move it!" The Sergeant yelled at five other men.
The Hokage was standing next to the Silver Bar and was making it a point to not be seen by her assistant Shizune. Shizune, a kind but damn scary woman, was currently disposing of the Hokage's sake stash that she had found one day while cleaning the woman's office. The Hokage, generally seen in her casual clothes, was in the formal red and white robe the Third was always seen in. The Silver bar was wiping his forehead as he turned to the Hokage.
"Well ma'am the defense systems are up and rolling all you have to do is just turn them on." The Silver Bar said taking off his helmet.
"We appreciate your help in this Lieutenant." She said smiling.
"You can call me Lt Ma'am, when we do this work we just go by call sign." Lt said looking and pointing to each of his men.
"That one to the left with the huge grease stains is Greased, the one to his left working the radio is Schatten, the one on his right playing with that vial of venom is well Venom, to our immediate right messing with that helicopter is Birdman or just Bird, and that little fella over there tinkering with your APC is Blue." He finished inhaling deeply.
The lady Hokage was trying to memorize each of their names and to who they belonged to when yet another Marine approached.
"And this man here is K-Nine our second in command, can't keep his hands off anything with an engine in it." Lt said patting the marine on the shoulder.
The man just smiled and gave Lt a small document. When he looked at the piece of paper he went from a calm social person to a scared and instinctive soldier, he handed the paper to the Hokage whose eyes just widen. The paper was a report from an outlook post near Suna; the remnants of Suna's forces were fleeing towards Konoha with guns blazing towards a few enemy pursuit forces. The scouts radioed in and then assisted as advised from long range, they then gathered the forces and left two scouts while the other three guarded the Suna troops back to Konoha.
The message was sent two days previous and had just now arrived due to sloppy intelligence networks. Lt was looking to the Hokage for answers.
"Well Ma'am?"
"Call me Tsunade or Hokage Lt you don't have to ma'am me, and prepare for an assault or go back home." She said before rushing off to prepare the forces of Konoha.
Meanwhile a certain blond haired shinobi was giving his pink haired team mate a headache. The two of them along with Hinata were being sent back to Konoha with a couple dozen Suna soldiers in tow. Hinata was constantly scanning their surroundings for enemy soldiers while Naruto kept trying to get Sakura to go on a date with him. As Sakura reached her last nerve something caught Naruto's attention. There was a large amount of chakra being shot around to their right, but he couldn't locate from where exactly. He looked back to Hinata who was using her family's most famous technique, the Byakugan, to scan their surroundings. When he saw that he brushed the feeling off, but he couldn't stop staring at her.
'She's so beautiful.' He said to himself shaking his head at what he just said, he was in love with Sakura....wasn't he?
"Oi Naruto, eyes front my friend." Gaara said smiling for the first time since his village was taken from him, he was happy to see that his friend was in love.
The group came to a halt as the gates of Konoha was being opened, but not fast enough were they opening. Hinata picked up at least three squads of four men moving towards them with assault rifles and light machine guns like the M60E3, but as she turned to warn the others a man's head exploded to her left. The entire group hit the dirt, there was only one thing they knew of that could do such a thing. Two miles behind them there was a man low to the ground with a high powered rifle firing at them. Each of them kept glancing back at the gates as they slowly kept opening, meanwhile Sakura grabbed the radio from the dead man's back and began calling for help.
As Tsunade prepared Konoha for a war Lt prepared his men for battle, but before he could he called a vote. He asked each man to raise his hand on the matter, all but one voted to stay. Lt and the rest of his men geared up, they then got into an APC (Armored Personnel Carrier) and raced towards the preparation area when a distress call came flying over the radio.
"This is Fox Two we are under sniper fire outside of Konoha's -weapon's fire- West Gate we need backup,"
"Enemy units inbound with extra fire power-static-"
Lt looked to Greased, who was very happy to be driving something he fixed up, and loaded his M4A1. The men in the back did the same for their weapons, each looked at each other and smiled they were ready for action finally. The marines radioed into the Hokage and told her they were going to reinforce the group at the gates, they received no complaints. Meanwhile Naruto's group was under heavy automatic fire and was slowly trying to get inside the now fully opened gates of Konoha, but none of the soldiers were willing to jump up and run so they slowly crawled backwards firing their own weapons at the enemy soldiers shooting at them. Then all of a sudden they heard the roar of an engine and their hopes sunk, until an APC grinded to a halt with the back opened to them and five marines rushing out the opening and turning to fire at the Sound soldiers. Lt kicked his door open and started firing his M4A1 taking down one of the M60 gunners hiding in the bushes to his right, but as that one fell another one seemingly from nowhere replaced him. Greased slowly worked his way from the driver's seat to the heavy machine gun mounted on top of the vehicle, the fifty caliber machine gun was enough to rip through several men at once with ease. As Greased opened fire on the Sound soldiers the five that came from the back were helping the wounded into the APC and others into it.
"Lt we're loaded up get back in!" K-Nine yelled rushing back into the APC as Lt reloaded and slowly worked his way back into his seat.
As he reached the door he felt an immense pain start boiling up in his right leg and arm, but he still slowly crawled into the APC and slammed the door with his left arm as Greased floored it back into the gates. As they reached the gates in reverse the glass on the windshield cracked violently as the man two miles away fired again just barely missing Greased's shoulder. The man reloaded and proceeded to fire again when he was ordered back to Suna via headset, so reluctantly he packed his gear and hastily retreated back to Suna. The marines and the now smaller group from Suna went straight to the hospital with the cries of the wounded dampening their spirits. Lt, being wounded himself, felt their pain and was wishing they had moved sooner rather than when they did. The rest of the men were trying to cheer them all up by saying they'll live and that everything will be fine, K-Nine on the other hand was trying to keep a hold on his lunch from the amount of adrenaline he had pumping through his veins.
"Alright we're here unload and be careful." Greased ordered as K-Nine and Schatten opened the doors to the APC and helped carry the wounded into the hospital.
"Greased take this back to the factory and fix it up, I'll be in here seeing to my wounds personally." Lt said opening his door and falling out.
The others who saw this looked on with concern as the marine got up slowly, but no-one dared help the proud man. The other marines moved to help but were waved off by him as he used his rifle as support. Lt had lost a good but of blood from his wounds which he hadn't noticed until his adrenaline had calmed, but he was able to move and he wasn't about to look weak in front of so many wounded which were worse off than him. He limped over to a bench where he sat down so that he could begin patching himself up, but as he sat down he noticed that his medical supplies were missing. The marine had lost a piece of his gear during the battle, most likely from when he was making his way out of the APC it probably just got hung on the door and fell. A nurse from the hospital rushed over to him and he just pointed to the other wounded signaling he'd be fine for the time being. As Naruto stepped out of the APC he noticed Lt sitting on the bench and sat next to him as he signaled Sakura to come over. Sakura seen Naruto signal her over but was a little busy trying to heal one of the wounded. Hinata was giving her report to Tsunade at the Hokage Tower after being dropped off by Greased on his way to the factory. Three minutes after arrival Tsunade come down to the hospital to than the marines who had saved her shinobi and her allies lives, but found Lt unconscious due to minor blood loss and his men were playing a small game of poker waiting on the medics to finish their job.
"What are you five doing?" She asked looking at the men.
"Waiting on Lt to wake up so we can go back to being marines Ma'am." K-Nine said laying down his cards causing several of the others to frown and throw down their cards in a huff.
Tsunade chuckled at the marine's for being a little childish but they were the youngest squad to be drafted. Their youngest was Lt who surprisingly made lieutenant before the others, many of them thought he jumped through the ranks because of his squad mates who he says deserve it more than he does. The marines got up and went to get their MREs from their packs which they left by the room Lt was being healed in, when he woke up and came out the door. Lt stretched and asked for his pack, he wanted to eat with his men.
"Sleep well Lt?" K-Nine asked handing him his pack.
"Nope, had Sakura in there healing me kept thinking she was going to rape me." Lt chuckled making the other marines laugh as they opened their MREs.
"Damn it...beans again."
"Those ain't beans dumbass those are....what the hell are those?"
"Just eat it." The men were having a good enough time until Sakura, Naruto, and Hinata came into the area.
Naruto was coming to check up on and thank the marines for helping them out of a tight spot, Sakura was coming to check on Lt, and Hinata just wanted to make sure they were ok and be near Naruto. The marines noticed the girl's crush on the blond instantly and smiled while eating the food that could make a grown man cry. Naruto must have been an incredibly dense kid to not notice her feelings.
'Oh great they've noticed too......How come I just realize these things today while being shot at?!' Naruto mental yelled at himself for being so dense when the Kyuubi kicked in.
"Oh stop your bitching boy and just accept the love she wants to give you, confront her on it and you will see." The Kyuubi for once was being nice to the blond which scared him a little before he was brought back into reality by Lt shoving some of the most nasty smelling thing under his nose.
"Oh damn Naruto my bad I know it smells bad but not that bad." Lt laughed as Naruto jumped back and hid behind Hinata holding his nose.
"WHAT THE HELL IS THAT!?" Naruto asked pointing and yelling at Lt.
"I think its beans...at least that's what we all half way agreed on them being." Lt said finishing off the can of 'beans'.
Once the group finished chatting and eating the marines disposed of their garbage and went back to their little factory. Naruto and Hinata accompanied Lt and his men back since they had wanted to thank them for saving them, Naruto also wanted to make sure Lt was going to be ok. Lt, who was a generally patient person, was losing his patience with the nurse who was assigned to help sign him out of the hospital. The rest of the marines went outside and were readying their packs when they heard Lt screaming at the nurse, who wasn't very happy, and Naruto trying to calm him down. The marines laughed as Naruto and Hinata drug Lt from the hospital his knife in hand and screaming for a chance to stab the nurse, Greased who had heard everything from one of his teammates radios was laughing as well as he attempted to fix up the APC he was driving earlier. After their brief incursion with the nurse the group headed towards the small marine base made up of a small factory, a medium sized tent for a head quarters, a vehicle depot, and a small helipad for incoming helicopters. Their armory was a couple weapons lockers set up in the HQ. As they reached the HQ they noticed a USMC helicopter sitting on the helipad and several other marines from a few other units were posted outside the HQ. Confused Lt rushed ahead, but stumbled due to his blood loss.
"Lieutenant!" A man said walking out of the HQ with two stars on his helmet.
"G-General?" Lt asked waving back and forth as his vision blurred.
"Where the hell have you been?" The General asked walking towards the marine.
"H-Hos..." As Lt went to answer the General he blacked out and began to fall when Naruto, Hinata, and one more shinobi showed up to help him.
"Where is that fine marine you told me about General?" A man asked coming out of the tent to see the three Konoha ninja holding up said marine.
The man was curious about the marine so he went to go interrogate his men about him as Naruto and the others helped Lt into a chair after he woke up. The General wasn't happy about Lt and his men not being at their posts, he also wasn't happy about them going into battle without authorization. In the General's eyes they had all disrespected his orders and through his orders their country. The man that was with the General was happy with the squad of marines; he wanted to ask their leader something.
"General may I speak with the lieutenant alone please?" The man asked looking at the general as he came back into the tent.
"Of course, I'll be waiting by the chopper." He replied setting an envelope on a table.
"Discharge papers?!" Lt asked shocked as he saw the anger in the General's eyes as he left.
"No, look I've been looking for a fresh squad to recruit for a man named Orochimaru. I understand he's the leader of a powerful nation here in these lands-"
"He's a tyrant looking to control the world, he's the reason we weren't here at our posts." Lt cut the man off clearly angered at the man.
"He's offering ten times your current pay if you'll join him and his men." The man asked setting another envelope onto the table.
Lt wasn't getting any happier with the man in his HQ; he had already been pissed off enough at the retarded nurse in the hospital. Lt slowly rose as he pulled a pistol from its holster, this scared the man a little but he was used to this kind of treatment. Lt slowly caressed the pistol as if it were a baby not even taking his eyes off it when the man cleared his throat clearly angered at the marine.
"There is a .05 percent chance you'll live if I open up on you with this Glock." Lt stated pulling a long cylinder like object from a pack on his hip.
"There is no chance if I switch it to fully automatic." Lt finished as he loaded the pistol and switched the safety off.
The man gulped, he had never been threatened like this before. All the other times it was just a simple threat, not with a loaded weapon in the hands of a man known for his serious attitude. The man tried to slowly make his way out of the tent but was cut off by Naruto and the other two shinobi. Lt was smiling rather evilly now; the pistol was now on fully automatic. The man was sweating now as Lt crept closer slowly raising the pistol until it was eye level with the man. He was crying now, almost ready to piss himself, as he dropped to his knees to beg for his life Lt pulled the trigger.
"-click- Hahahahahaha Empty." Lt laughed reloading his pistol with a fresh clip.
"Now -clicks the clip into place- I have two choices, let you live and give you to the ANBU waiting outside this tent," Lt began smiling and chuckling at the man.
"Or kill you myself."
As he finished the man fainted, drawing laughs from both the Marine and the shinobi inside the tent with him. After they finished laughing they escorted the man out to the ANBU soldiers who then took him to the interrogators for questioning. K-Nine and the rest of their squad assembled outside the tent standing at parade rest, as ordered by their General. The General was standing in front of the men shouting at them for allowing their squad leader to disobey orders and go into battle, but as his face was turning red from shouting he turned to see Lt outside of his tent. Lt was just then holstering his Glock and as he looked up from it the General was turning to face him, apparently it was his turn to be yelled at. The General was absolutely furious with the marines; he wanted to Court Martial them all for disobeying orders and disrespecting a higher ranking officer. As Lt snapped to attention the General made his way over to him very quickly, almost jogging over to him. The General stopped right in Lt's face and began to yell at him about how he disobeyed an order and put him and his men at risk.
"Sir, I knew what I was doing. Each of us did and none of us disagreed with the plan, sir." Lt responded when the General stopped for a quick breathe.
"I don't know what's worse Lieutenant; the fact that you're an idiot or the fact that I can discharge you and your men." The General handed each man an envelope like the one he set on Lt's command table.
"Inside these envelopes are recruitment letters, issued by some organization that wants to aid this pitiful village in the upcoming war." The General said finishing his hand out and starting another.
"Inside the next one you're getting is your first paycheck and your last as United States Marines; these were issued by the President himself along with letters from him." As the General finished he headed straight for the helicopter that brought him and the strange man to Konoha.
The marines snapped to attention and saluted as the General left the helipad, but cheered as he left and as they started reading the recruitment letters. Lt went back into the HQ tent with a smile and picked up his letters, yet he opened the President's letter first. As Lt skimmed down the letter he laughed at how stupid the man was, the letter was thanking them for their services in the name of their country. Their country forced them to fight for it; it was fight or be imprisoned. The only thing they ever fought for was each other and the other men next to them. After he finished he grabbed a lighter he had gotten off a Russian soldier when he had been deployed there and he burned it, Naruto had come back into the tent at that moment. Naruto was worried about him still and had asked Hinata to come in with him, she followed soon after blushing as red as a strawberry. Lt was opening the other letter he received as Naruto placed a hand on his shoulder.
"You Ok Lt?" Naruto asked looking at the burning letter on the ground.
"The country that forced us to fight wants to thank us for fighting for it....To hell with them I say." Lt replied pulling out the other letter.
"Hinata and I have to go report back to Tsunade, Lt, we'll be back later." Naruto said starting out of the tent.
"Ok have fun on your date Naruto." Lt teased making them both turn beet red.
Naruto and Hinata rushed to Tsunade's office as ordered, she was not going to be happy with them for being late. As they got half way there they heard an explosion, it came from the direction of the Hokage Tower. They both suddenly had a very bad feeling about it.
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