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Juni 1944
Eastern Europa
The sun set before Bagration
After their mighty defeat at the battle of Kursk, the German war machine is spent. A year has passed since with fighting and death never before seen in the history of war on the Eastern Front. Army group south lays utterly exhausted from the constant siege of the momentous rolling soviet tide. However; the army to the northeast; on the Belorussian front, Army group center. Has stayed intact desperately holding out with sheer determination, and fanaticism. Despite, two major soviet offenses on well fortified army. They stand on the brink. The Fuhrer Adolf Hitler has ordered that all German forces are to hold till the last man if need be. Current indications from German intelligence shows a massive soviet offensive aimed at the sputtering army group south. German high command follows suit allocating what reserved panzers, soldiers and aircraft they have left on the Belorussian front. In order to counter the expected soviet attack to the southwest…
Chapter 1
On the eve of the twilight
"This is fucking crazy, This is absolutely fucking nuts, I have had it with the field marshals bullshit! Fuck the Fuhrer and fuck this godforsaken country!
Yelled a panic stricken German soldier as he throws his helmet over the trench he is sitting inside. Ragged and hungry he has finally reached his breaking point. He proceeds to run out of the trench into the direction of where the enemy was residing.
" Günter stop don't do it!? Gunter come back!"
Yell's the man's young comrade in the trench. The trench is filled with countless youthful soldiers with more than half of them being barely over the age of eighteen. The once hardy wehrmacht soldier happened to be a veteran that has witnessed the horrors of the battle of Smolensk and Kursk. Kursk was the last hope for the Third Reich, three-thousand panzers were unleashed on the soviet defenders. And yet the mighty offensive ended in utter failure. The writing was on the wall after Kursk, the Nazi's were doomed! The mentally broken man stayed together thru hell more than once. But now he had reached is breaking point. After Seeing more than a third of his veteran comrades being relocated to defend the Romanian oil fields. All hope was lost for him. Death was what he wanted instead of the dreaded anticipation for it.
'An old soldier fighting alongside babies? No more! NO MORE!
Under an aimed scope he is being closely watched by the feared sniper ace of the Belorussian front. With his trusty automatic rifle on a knolled hill. He proceeds to take aim with his deadly Gewehr 43. Staying appraisingly frosty and ever lethally quiet. He takes aim. His rifle ready to pierce through the deserters head with lead, without a second thought. His Waffen SS training made sure of that.
"Come on take the shot already."
The sniper say's nothing as his rifle remains silent.
"Come on Sasuke, take the shot!"
The Automatic rifle remains quiet as the trench full of youthful wehrmacht soldiers begin to stir, in panic. Suigetsu reaches for his beloved canteen and throws it at the silent snipers leg. Wetting, 'the hawk of the third Reich's' trousers.
Sasuke loads his rifle with a fresh clip, As he steady's his trigger finger. Taking aim he pulls the trigger killing the deserting man. Skull debris, brain matter, and blood spurts outward in a artistic fashion of death.
The veteran soldiers body falls like a bag full of bricks onto the swampy woodland battlefield. Suigetsu sighs, shakes his head as he picks up his heavily spilled canteen. Putting the end of his old and trusty beat up canteen to his mouth. He drinks the leftover water. Suigetsu then throws it to the ground cursing the world around him.
"We knew this would happen. We we're convinced it would not happen this much. But this is the third time in the last hour! And that was a grown ass man this time. Who knows what that poor son of a bitch has seen! Talk about setting a great example for the fresh meat below. Huh, Sasuke"?
"Humph, courage doesn't come with age Suigetsu, You either have it or don't, Suigetsu. If only our Fuhrer understood that better".
Sasuke stands up locking his rifle and placing it on a dirty near empty ammo box. Kicking a few pots and pans away that are close to his feet. The famed hawk of the 'Totenkopf SS' takes a seat where he has slept for the past two weeks. He places his camouflage helmet back on his head. His entire attire is camouflage. With two rectangle lightning bolt shaped S's apparent on two areas of his attire . One on the collar of his jacket and the other on his helmet. Where the S's are outlined inside of a white shield like shape colored in camouflage. Sasuke eyes relaxed stairs back at Suigetsu waiting for his retort.
"And you call that completely factual? Huh, hawk boy? And I bet God chooses who lives' and who dies in this war as well?"
Sasuke reacts with Suigetsu's response with a hypnotic stare.
Suigetsu shakes his head annoyingly, crazy thoughts erupting in his mind.
'I hate it when you stare at me like that. Sometimes, I think you're a raving homosexual under that hard ass exterior of yours. But if you are then you are the most badass poop hole pumper I have ever seen?! Yeah, I bet he pitches and receives in that regard!'
Suigetsu laughs out loud as he lights one of his last matches. Starting a fire on the small fire pit at the center of the small knoll.
" Don't be a fool Suigetsu and keep that fire low. If it goes over the knoll's edges we're DEAD!" Snapped Sasuke.
Suigetsu just sticks his tongue out at his SS comrade in response to his command.
"Yeah, and we have not seen a commie Airplane in more than two weeks, I'm sure we can be warm before we die at any fleeting moment", Snaps Suigetsu.
"Suigetsu, you fool! If you didn't notice we no longer have any recon planes. We don't even have half of the planes that were stationed hear a month ago! And the Luftwaffe at that time was already outnumbered one to four! And if I die, you will certainly die shortly afterward!"
Sasuke quiets himself looking over into the woods were the red sun is seen gleaming just under the forest tree line. It was eerily quiet in the woods, Sasuke eyes than averted to his rifle. As Suigetsu remained silent making sure that the fire was indeed a small one.
Night time is before them as the low inaudible sounds of the men at arms on the field quiet down to nothing. Sasuke finally response's to Suigetsus thoughts on God, once the fire begins to dim.
"No, I don't have an opinion on the matter of who lives and who dies. All I know is that I was gifted with a father that pushed me to be like my brother, his prodigal son..."
"His favorite son. And this dead eyed three hundred yard shooting talent that I am before you came to past. Leaving my infamous mark of death, On the many men and boys I have killed. I am considered a hero of the fatherland. Yet, I could never go home and look my mother in the eyes again the same. Or-."
Sasuke makes a lengthy pause thinking of the nurse he's in love with. He sigh's as he finishes his statement with a tinge of sadness in his tone.
"Or, her"…
Suigetsu laughs uncomfortably thinking of Karin. He reaches into his small back pocket and takes out a small copy of 'Mein Kampf'.
"You are so full of shit. I seen with goggles you hit a raven close to five hundred yards away. 'The red eye of death' is what the Reds call you. They also call you 'The terror of Kiev' and the 'Devil of Stalingrad'.
Sasuke looks up with apparent anger on his face. With disgruntlement clearly being read in his eyes. Speaking grudgingly and pointedly he states simply
"I almost had him!"
Suigetsu just waves at him with a mocking gesture with his free hand
"Yeah, Yeah, and you killing the great Vasily Zaytsev would have seen us on the other side of the Volga? And this once mighty army, that is a shell of its former self. Would have found itself beyond the gates of Moscow?"
"The Bolshevik cancer eliminated from this good earth? And the spread and settlement of are people in the farmlands of the Ukraine? Please, don't make me laugh hawk boy! You maybe the best sniper in the Reich. But you'd certainly make a terrible comedian."
"Second best" Sasuke quickly responds. Stating it again firmly making sure Suigetsu hears him loud and clear.
"Second best!"
The bluish-white haired man does not respond to Sasuke as he takes the book he was reading and shuts it with clear unease. Looking over his shoulder down at the pack of soldiers sleeping downhill from himself and Sasuke. He takes a good look at small fire in front of him. Silence had fallen over the duo. Soon after Suigetsu throw's the book into the fire.
"Heil Hitler" He states with all the melancholy he can still show.
"The Fuhrer really bit off more than he could chew did he not?"Suigetsu shutters as a sudden sobbing fit contorts his face.
"And now, we have less than half of our strength left to defend this God forsaken swampy tundra? Goddamn, if this was France my ass would be in there prisoner camps already. Sasuke we're fucked! And if this army falls. Our Fatherland will be next to fall. All that will be left to do is wait for the Soviet Hordes to bury us under their artillery. Then flatten us under the tracks of their Panzers
Suigetsu paused as the light from the flames flickered through his teary eyes. He was waiting for the moment to let the true horror out with his words. So he could truly settle his troubled mind.
"They are coming and they're bringing there Godless ideology with them"
With that Suigetsu rolled over to his blanket. Doing his best to calm himself down and get what sleep he can.
"Hope to see you tomorrow hawk man. As always God save sacred Germany… If he exist."
Sasuke remains silent not threatened over Suigetsu ranting defeatism. Taking his helmet slanting it down over his heavy eyes. Thoughts of his brother come into his conscience. The SS sniper famed with over six hundred confirmed kills. Itachi 'The Eagle of the third Reich' fought at Odessa, Sevastopol and the third battle of Kharkov. Sasuke had not received a letter from his brother after the red beasts counter offensive at Kursk were the soviets all but destroyed field marshal Manstein's army.
'Are you dead brother? A fleeting memory along with the many lost? Or are you alive?! Tough, and composed as like always. Would we even recognize each other after all of this? Would we be happy if we ever managed to go home? Or will this war follow us forever? Will we be slaves to our own guilt? Or will we be proud for fighting?
His thoughts of family and friends came into his mind next; Naruto the SS Gruppenfuhrer serving under Kakashi the SS Oberstgruppenfuhrer in Lithuania. Juugo the tiger panzer commander deployed on second line of defense just a few miles down on the Minsk/Smolensk highway. Sasuke paused for a minute in thought as tranquil feelings began swelling threw him. And the thoughts of Sakura and Karin who served as nurses at the field hospital. Seven miles away from the Belorussian front. Thinking of the one he love's he smiles as he let sleep overtake him. Freeing himself from the dreaded war. As he lets the hopes grow within him that he may return home with the woman he holds dear to his heart to his home in Dusseldorf. Falling asleep he begins to dream the night away.
Author notes: Re- uploading this story after tweaking it a bit. Will continue to Redux the first two chapters. Thanks again and enjoy.
See yeah next chapter!