This is a story about the final shinobi war, in the world of Naruto. It takes place thirteen years after the end of Naruto part I and ten and a half years after the begining on Naruto Part II. I will go into more detail over what has happened in this time skip in chapter two.

So that I don't get sued: I don't own the Naruto franchice or any of the characters from it.

Prologue

As the years passed them by the shinobi of the hidden leaf slowely relized the truth they couldn't bear to except. The old ways were never coming back. The war had continued on and on for nine years now. For nine long years there had been death and destruction. Innocents were slain and entire clans were wiped out. Mabye one of the hardest hits the Hidden Leaf took was the loss of their 5th Hokage, who had been beloved by many. Those of the Leaf new that, even if the war, in its physical seft, should ever end, never again would there be peace between the villages. This conflic would last until only one nation was left standing.

However, things were not always as bad as they are now. At the begining of the war the main villages chose sides and it seemed to be a three way battle; the Leafs were obviously assisted by the Hidden Sand who they were on good terms with due to the Sand's previous Kasekage, Gaara. The Hidden Sound, who some would consider responsible for the start of the war, made an early alliance with the Hidden Rock village, as they have always shared a common enemy. The five remaining villages that could produce enough shinobi to be considered worthy of participating in a war, joined forces, as they were frightened by overwhelming strength of the other villages. Those that participated in this particular alliance at the begining of the war are listed as follows: The Village Hidden in the Rain, Mist, Cloud, Grass, and Waterfall. This three way battle continued on for eight years until the death of the 5th Hokage, and the departure of the Gaara from the Sand. With the absance of Gaara the Sand betrayed the Leaf, and with the Leaf crippled, from the loss of their Hokage and their greatest ally, the Hidden Sound no longer saw them as a threat. At this the Sound broke all ties with the Rock and nearly wiped them out entirely. From this point on the war has simply been a mindless massecure, with no end in sight.

At this stage of the war we find the Hidden Leaf hopelessly defending a great tower built outside their village by the late 5th Hokage. If this tower was ever taken, simply put, the Hidden Leaf would fall. Their village would be invaded and wiped out entirely. The battle formation was always they same. An enemy village would attack the Leaf, and when they reached the border of the village, all the strength the Leaf could muster would surround the great tower of the 5th, up until now the Leaf had defended itself quite well, but recently their losses had caught up with them. As I said, at this stage of the war we find the Leaf once again defending the 5th's tower, trying with all their might to protect the innocents of their village.

Chapter 1: Defending the Tower

"Report, give an estimate of our current losses, and our death to kill ratio, and calculate our chances of surviving this battle."

The young chunin looked at her jonin superior and calculatedthe report quickly in her head.

"So far, we have lost an estimate two-hundred, mostly genin, and a few chunin. Up until the last hour of the battle our kills to losses ratio was 3:1, but it has recently droped to a 1:4 ratio, at this rate we'll only hold out for an estimate three to five hours."

"But, how? What changed on the field that our forces started suffering so many losses?"

"I have not been directly on the front lines sir, but I heard from a fellow sinobi that the Sound's general had entered the field."

"General? You know as well as I, that the term general could refer any number of jonin or even a skilled chunin. Be more specific."

"General Hatake, I was informed that the Sound's current general is..."

elsewhere on the battlefield

"Damn! We can't hold our possition any longer."

Just then a bolt of lightning strunk a leaf shinobi in the back of the neck, to the horror of a young gunin the man fell dead into her arms."Ahhhh!"

She dropped him and rushed to her superior. "This is pointless, we have to fall back to the village, at least there we can get aditional cover."

The jonin looked around him and saw his men falling right and left, as if the very shadows themselves were attacking them.

"Agreed, I will send word to the other jonin for a retreat to the village."

"Wait!", a young jonin ran up to the one who had been directing the front line. "We will stand our ground, I have been ashured that the neccicary renfourcments needed for our victory are on their way."

"What kind of renfourcesments?", the front line jonin asked.

"A two man squad has been disbatched: Gaara of the Desert, and the other is right above us."

All the shinobi within earshot looked up at the top of the tower.

The 6th stood at the top of his predicessor's tower, looking over the battle field. He took off his formal hokage hat, and loosend his robes. He saw the shadow move and strike another of his comrades. He followed the shadow until he found a pattern in its movement, and then, after backing up and getting a running start he leaped off the tower, and flung off his hokage robes. The young hokage threw a barrage of shuriken and kuni at the battle field. Because of his arial angle he was able to get perfect aim and avoid hitting any of his men. Eventually a shuriken made contact. The shadow stoped. The young hokage landed perfectly on his feet as if the fall had been nothing and faced the cloaked figure who's speed up until this point had made him visible only as a shadow.

"Impressive, for you to try an arial aproach."

The young hokage just looked at the shadowy eyes of his opponent, he knew him all too well.

"Not going to speak, fine, it seems you've finaly realized our fate."

Both shinobi quickly drew kuni from their sleeves, and they were locked in battle.

"I have nothing to say to you, my old friend."

"Ha, well, if thats the way you feel, but, you can't tell me this war hasn't assisted you in your goal, old friend.", the shadowy opponent said in a mocking tone.

The young hokage looked at him with disgust.

"Had it not been for this war taking your precious 5th, who knows if you would have ever acomplished your pathetic dream.

The 6th broke thir lock, both shinobi slid backward a few feet and stood, waiting for the next move to be made.

meanwhile

"Now that the 6th has "him" under control, we can take out the rest of those Sound nins."

The chunin girl looked at her jonin officer, "but, even if our forces are more skilled we are now far too outnumbered to win."

Just then a massive wave of shuriken came flying towards the frontline, just before they made contact, a wall of sand covering the entire frontline rose up and blocked the barrage, Gaara had arived.

"I'll take care of these peons", the former kasekage said. "Sand Burial!"

A massive amount of sand rose from all around and engulfed all the Sound nins in the surounding area.

"Desert Cofin!"

And at that word from Gaara, all those bound by the sand were crushed instantly. Gaara turned to the leaf shinobi. "From here on the battle is ours."

with the 6th

"Your still as formadble as you were thirteen years ago."

Despite himself, the 6th couldn't help but grin at the memories of his old rilvary.

"Lets settle this battle", the cloaked figure said, readying an attack.

"It looks to me", the 6th said, "like this battle is already over."

The cloaked figure looked around and saw that the 6th was right, barely a dozen of his men were still standing.

"Fine, I'll retreat for now, but know, had this been a private battle, and not one of armys, the outcome would have been quite different."

"I'm sure", the 6th said smugly.

The cloaked figure fleed into the nearby forest, along with his few survivors.

"Sir", a nearby jonin said to the hokage, "Is it wise to let him get away"

At this the young hokage seemed to have a change in personality. He went from his serious leader-like attitute, to his old well known self.

"Are you kidding? I could take that guy on any day, and its not like he's got any men to support him."

"Sir, you do realize that he will only return with more men the next time."

The hokage turned serious again

"He will be back, again, and again, and we will meet him every time."

He looked at Gaara, who looked like he hadn't broken a sweat, taking out nearly the entire Sound army.

"You know I'm just passing through", Gaara said, "I'll won't be able to assist you every time."

"Yeah, I know", the young hokage said, "but next time, I promise I won't be so late."

Well, there's chapter one. Please read and review. Also, I'm open to suggestions for "whats happened to a certain character in the past ten and a half years" so feel free to comment on that too. Note that this is going to evolve into a long story with many chapters, and most of them will hopfuly be a lot longer than this one.