Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or Dynasty Warriors or Romance of the Three Kingdoms they belong to Masashi Kishimoto and to Koei respectively.

I do however own this idea though xD.

This all started with an idea of a what if…a big one. What If Minato Namikaze, Fugaku Uchiha, Hiashi Hyuuga, Kushina Uzumaki, Mikoto Uchiha, and Hitomi Hyuuga were pulled into the Three Kingdoms Period? What if The Northern and Southern Mystic along with Zou Ci decided to pull in these six ninjas to help with the war? This is their story.

Also this story is AU. Times and personality will not match completely with the actual Naruto storyline. This story takes more in place with Dynasty Warriors/ Romance of the Three Kingdoms then Naruto anyways.

Yellow Turban Rebellion Part 1

Fight first; ask questions later had almost always been Kushina's philosophy to battle. So it was to no surprise to the others that the first to rush into battle headfirst was Kushina. Her quick movements making absolutely no sound, even at the speed she was running at. Kushina drew her tanto as she charged into the enemy soldiers, whom were more than confused at whom this weird woman was, let alone who was dumb enough to charge at them screaming and alone.

"Ha! One of the Han scum come to die of their own accord! Let's give her that wish shall we men?" The man in charge of this contingent of Yellow Turban troops laughed out believing Kushina's attempts to be futile.

Kushina let out a snarl as she ducked under the slow, untrained swing as a small smirk formed on her lips. She slid her tanto quickly across the man's stomach and flipped back away from a spear stab that went where her chest was a moment ago. Her feet expertly kicked the spear at the center point of the shaft, shattering the flimsy weapon with ease. The first soldier, if you could even call him that, fell to the ground as his entrails and blood began to leak out of his body. The second soldier was stumbling back in shock at having his weapon broken. The troops were beginning to feel a bit panicked; after all, women didn't fight. At least no women they knew of had ever fought before. Their underestimation of her was working greatly towards Kushina's advantage.

Kushina grinned toothily at her remaining opponents in this small squadron of troops. Out of the corner of her eyes she could see more troops coming to fight her and she knew that soon her comrades would be here to help…even the odds. "Ah…are you afraid of little ole me?" She asked sardonically, as blood dripped from her tanto. Her eyes flashed red for a brief second, "Well you should you bastards!" She roared out the last part as she engaged the remaining troops near her.

Hiashi watched all this with the calm face that tended to be the trademark of the Hyuuga clan. "She's going to get herself killed at this rate. Even if untrained, one should not underestimate an enemy ever. We do not know what these people are capable of. More so, since if they are so easily defeated, then why would the sages have called for our help at all?"

Minato simply sighed and nodded agreeing with Hiashi's points, as they were logical valid points. "However, we must do something. To watch these people die so horribly and do nothing would be cowardice. Below courage there is nothing." He followed that through by running right towards the battle, Hiashi and Fugaku running to his left and right respectively. Behind those two ran Hitomi and Mikoto, making the goose formation as they ran.

Kushina grinned as she stabbed her tanto into the chest of the man in front of her and spun the blade out of him brutally as she turned. Her blade rose up as she perfectly blocked the pike that came at her and kicked that soldier in the stomach. "Oh come on, at least give me a challenge boys~" she sang out grinning. She could sense the remaining men tensing around her in a mixture of fear and anger. She heard a scream from behind her as she turned to face the scream and her eyes widened.

A spear stopped an inch from her chest, and she saw the soldier suddenly crumple over dead. Blood dripped from the dead man's mouth as he fell and she could only sigh in slight relief that would have hurt if she would have been stabbed. Minato twisted the kunai as he ripped it out of the man's spinal cord, "Be more careful Kushina-chan! He almost had you."

Kushina merely rolled her eyes at Minato's worrying look, "Ah come off it Minato. I can handle myself… I ain't a princess in need of rescue. Dattebane."

Kushina and Minato went back to back to defend against the swarm of troops around them. Minato ducked under the swing of the peasant soldier in front of him and switched with Kushina as she stabbed into the man's gut, her foot lashing out to kick him off her blade and into his ally's bodies. Minato, having switched places to block the strike coming at Kushina's back, formed a Rasengan and jammed it into the man's sternum sending his corpse spiraling into his allies as well.

Around 100 meters away from their conflict, Hiashi and Fugaku were fighting side by side. Hiashi using his gentle fist style to slam his fingers into the enemy's hearts and kill them instantly. Fugaku would block the wild, untrained swings coming at them to allow Hiashi room to do his job. Fugaku and Hiashi both were fighting with the goal of conserving chakra. Neither knew if they would need their energy after this skirmish and wanted to be prepared just in case/

Meanwhile Hitomi and Mikoto were dividing and killing their opponents with ease as well. Mikoto's well forged wakizashi cut through with ease everything it hit, be it weapon or body. Hitomi would make this even easier by distracting the troops and then ducking behind them when they swung at her. Each time she got behind them, her kunai would end up buried into the backs of their necks. Each kill was quick and perfectly executed. As much as Hitomi disliked killing, she knew it to be necessary. That and her instincts screamed for justice for all the murdered innocent people in this now desolate village.

Not even five minutes after the six joined in, the Turban squadron was wiped out. The leader having been decapitated by Kushina's bloody tanto. With the commander dead, the few remaining troops were fleeing for their lives. Not that they made it very far before kunai ended in their spinal cords. As quick as the ninjas came, they left leaving only carnage in their wake.

Kushina scowled angrily as she looked back at the desolate village, "Damn it! If only we could have made it there sooner!"

Fugaku almost rolled his eyes at the sentiment; he barely cared about what had happened to the civilians back there. It's not like war was meant to not be brutal. Death was expected and as ninjas, it was their job to kill. Though, he amended mentally that typically they only killed to either protect their ideals or to help their village. He knew that the Yellow Turbans were not necessarily evil, just fighting what they believed in and in this case dying for what they believed in.

Minato just gave a small sad nod of agreement, "When wars are fought, it almost always the innocent who suffer first. However, now we come to an issue. Do we form our own force to do what the sages request? Or do we join with the Han forces to achieve our goals?"

Hiashi spoke up in an almost uncaring voice, "Either one caries problems Minato. If we form our own force, we risk exposure to the Han forces as being rebels ourselves. If we join with the Han though, there is no telling whether or not our goals will be discovered. Each path has its own problems, but you already know that do you not Minato?"

Minato actually let a smile form across his face before giving a sheepish laugh, "You got me Hiashi. Yeah, I know all that. I just wanted to get your opinions on this matter. We are all in this together after all. However, I personally feel that joining with the Han forces under the same banner would be the most ideal. Based off our combined earlier findings, this gives us a few options. One, we could just simply join the Han forces and hope they keep us together under the same lead general. Personally that would be the worse option though. Two, we could join those volunteer forces we heard about and fight alongside them. We'd have to obey less direct orders that way. Three, we could join under one of the many main rulers who are fighting in support of the Han. That has its benefits as well, but we'd have to obey many more direct orders of course."

During his analysis and up to the end of it, Fugaku, Hiashi, Hitomi, and Mikoto were all nodding along. Each one had their own thoughts on the idea and listened attentively to the points that were made by Minato. Kushina on the other hand, well she followed along but had trouble really understanding it. She was the first to speak up, "Eh. I don't care which we pick. So long as we get to stay together and kiss some ass!"

This of course brought sweat drops from the other five ninjas as they stared at her with near identical looks of amusement and disbelief. Mikoto playfully rolled her eyes at Kushina, "How did I know you were going to say that Kushina-chan? However, I feel that joining with an existing ruler supporting the Han would be the best. While we'd have to obey more direct orders, it is not like we are unused to that. Besides, all that actual order means a routine, which means we can form a schedule around that routine to suit our own needs."

Hitomi looked at Mikoto, "I agree, those are good points. However, I must disagree with your choice of action Mikoto-chan. I think joining the volunteer forces would be the most ideal situation in this case. We'd have to follow less direct orders and be left on our own much more. While we could use the routine to choose our schedule around, this way we are free to choose what we want except for a few situations. Besides we would probably do better with less direct orders and more open ended requests."

Hiashi shook his head negatively, "I'm sorry Hitomi-chan, and however I must concur with Mikoto-san. The more direct orders would be easier to work around. The only point

I wish to bring up is that under a general we have a higher chance of getting respect, higher ranks, more accurate information and perhaps better opportunities to recruit men and," as paused as he heard Kushina clear her throat and he rolled his eyes, "and yes woman to our cause."

Fugaku cleared his throat to speak, "Humph. I say volunteer forces. Hiashi here got his facts wrong. It'll be easier to recruit men and women to our cause if they are not already serving under a lord."

This caused Hiashi and Fugaku to begin to glare at each other, their clan and personal rivalry having caused much of the tension between the two. That and neither one liked being told in any way that they were wrong. Pride, Minato concluded from watching the two argue, was such a double edged sword.

Minato held up his hand to stall the furthering argument and said with a scowl, "Enough. We have to work together to achieve our goals, so stop this pointless bickering you two. I must say though, that each of you brought up valid points and it seems as if the deciding vote comes down to me." Minato considered carefully each point that was made before he opened his eyes. "I choose…"

Footsteps can be heard in the middle of an abysmally dark room, before the person walking gives a bow, "Master. It seems you were indeed right. The sages have summoned others to help in their cause."

Silence followed his words before the person spoke again, his young voice resonating throughout the seemingly empty room, "Yes master. I understand. It will take time to prepare though."

Another period of silence before, "M-master…you want to call upon his services? But, master, we have no idea whether or not he truly acts on your behalf or not. Do you think it wise to…" his words are cut off as a gasp leaves his lips, "Forgive me master! I did…not mean to question you…yes master…I understand." He gasps out regaining his breath slowly.

The person stands and turns as his footsteps again echo through the overwhelming, enveloping darkness.

As the heavy iron door closed and locked behind him, a single slit orange eye could be seen glowing through the darkness.

"Volunteer forces. You make good points Mikoto, Hiashi, but right now freedom of movement is what we need. If we had a more concrete base and more power, and already had people loyal to our cause we could easily join with a general…but for now, we need the freedom to act as we please." Minato said softly as Hiashi let out a huff at Fugaku's smirk.

"Fine." Says Hiashi giving a glare to Fugaku as if it would wipe the smirk off of his face, which it had instead the effect of widening his smirk. "So where do we have to go to join the volunteer forces?" He asked after turning away from Fugaku.

Fugaku spoke up here, "Right now they are stationed in the north, in a city called Ji. Apparently they just started to form up together to fight the 'Yellow Turban Threat'. We need to seek out a man by the name of Liu Bei…at least that is what the information we got from our…sources claimed."

Kushina grinned, "Then what are we waiting for? Let's go and sign up to kick ass!" With that said she ran straight ahead, only for no one to follow her. After a few minutes she returned, "I…was going the wrong way, wasn't I?" At their collective nods she groans, "Ah damn it! I'll get the directions of this place right sooner or later…Dattebane!"

Mikoto grinned at Kushina in amusement as Hitomi gently set her hand onto her shoulder. "Well. Let's get going in the right direction this time shall we?" Mikoto asks with a grin from Kushina, who flicked her off giving an annoyed face. Hitomi gave a giggle of amusement before Minato gave a soft whistle.

At that whistle the playfulness ceased and they as one cohesive unit moved to go to Ji. Even with their speed it would take them almost a week to reach from where they were located at.

It was six days later that they arrived at the huge gates of the city called Ji. Minato gave a nod as they moved forward, not bothering to use henge to disguise them. After all, it would not due to meet their fellow volunteers as fake versions of themselves that would dispel back to normal if hit at all. Minato almost scowled at the looks they received, he could hear the whispered words calling them freaks. After all, no one had ever seen anyone with their appearances before. He did admit that he was the only blond he'd seen since the start of this adventure.

They moved together, pushing through the bustling crowds and moving past the troops patrolling the city. Minato looked around, trying to figure out where the volunteer forces would be. He turned to the nearest guard, "Excuse me sir, but would you happen to know where the volunteer forces are? We want to sign up with them to end the Yellow Turban threat to the great Han dynasty."

The guard gave him an odd look at his accent, "Humph, are you from Japan or something? The volunteer forces are staying at and training at the barracks. The barracks is half a league from here and on your right. If you miss it, you're an idiot and do not belong in our great military…damn foreigner." The guard said under his breath at the end.

Minato pretended not to hear the last part and merely nodded his thanks to the disgruntled guard. The other five followed his lead as he walked towards where the guard had told him the barracks would be located at. Within five minutes they were standing at the entrance to the decently sized barracks. Minato led the way in, as the charismatic leader, it was decided he would act as their commander for this rather long mission.

Grunts and groans could be heard from the training troops from within the barracks. The six ninjas walked slowly and with a certain grace and confidence that made some of the practicing soldiers stop training just to watch these mysterious people entering their training grounds. As they moved forward they heard a loud growl and slash of weapons and as they got closer they could see two people fighting with the power and grace of seasoned warriors. Even to their amazing abilities, these people were moving with a strength and grace that left even Fugaku in awe.

A regal looking man with long green battle robes and iron armor turned to them. His cape billowed almost majestically behind him as he turned. His sharp brown eyes analyzing the new people entering the area before a smile broke across his handsome face. His brown hair swished lightly in the ponytail it was held in as he moved towards them. Each step made his swords held at his side swing a bit at the end. From what the ninjas could see, each handle was made beautifully with ivory, bamboo, and iron.

Minato smiled as the man approached and gave a bow to which the man stopped and said, "Now, now. There is no need to bow to a mere nobody like me…" he said giving a soft almost musical sounding laugh.

Minato smiled back at him and asked, "Are you Lord Liu Bei?"

The man gave a modest smile, "Well. I am Liu Bei, but I am just a mere commoner who wishes to see peace restored to our realm."

Minato gave a grin to the man; he seemed like a great leader and person, though he could sense a definite ambition from him. "I am Minato Namikaze. My comrades and I heard of what the Yellow Turbans were doing to the people of this realm and witnessed it ourselves. We wish to enlist with you to fight and save the Han dynasty from the rebellion threatening it."

Liu Bei gave a smile before his grin faltered as he looked at the three women and said almost jokingly, "Ah that is great. However, I'm afraid that the battlefield is no place for little ladies…"

Minato winced as soon as Liu Bei finished his sentence; he could feel Kushina's anger behind him and could hear her cracking her knuckles in anger. It was only through Mikoto and Hitomi holding her back, as much as they did not want to, that kept Kushina's fist stopped an inch from Liu Bei's nose.

At this Liu Bei gave a nervous laugh, "Eheh…forget I said that. Well, I would welcome warriors such as you into our army. Brother Zhang Fei, Brother Guan Yu come here for a moment."

The first of the two to respond was a giant of a man with a reddish tinted face. He turned to them and hefted his massive Guan Dao over his shoulder and stroked his long black beard. It actually amazed the ninjas at just how long this beard was. As the man approached, each step closer forced the ninjas to stare up at him more and more. The man was an absolute giant and completely towered even the tallest of them by at least a full foot. His clothes swayed around him slightly from the slight breeze blowing around the open area. His armor was well crafted and looked like it was made from folded iron. The ninjas looked over his armor, seeing the various designs worked into it, and noticing quickly the huge iron open mouthed dragon head coming from his right shoulder. "I am Guan Yu." He gives a bow to the new recruits that would be fighting beside them.

The second man to approach was built like a walking muscle. Over his left shoulder he hefted a massive eight foot long spear coiled like a serpent. He had short scraggly hair and a scraggly unshaven beard that made him look absolutely fierce. In his right hand he held a huge jar of sake which had been sitting on his hip during his spar with Guan Yu. He took a huge swig of it and growled as he cracked his neck; even from the distance they were from him they could smell the strong scent of rice wine on his breath. The man's clothing was more chain mail like then his brother's armor was and seemed to fit him like fur does to a beast. "Hmph! I am Zhang Fei! So, you're the new guys? Tsk…they don't look like much brother! Sides we are all you need to win against these untrained rebel rabble."

Minato scowled at the man's attitude as did his companions. Sure they could understand it but that did not mean that they had to like it. However, it seemed they would not have to put up with it much as Liu Bei turned to Zhang Fei with a glare. "Fei! They are our new comrades and allies, show them respect."

Zhang Fei just gave a grunt before nodding, "Fine. I'll try brother, but I still say they'll be worthless on the battlefield." With that he took another long gulp of his wine and turned cracking his neck again to go back to training.

Guan Yu looked apologetically at the group, "I apologize for my younger brother. He is impatient, but a strong and courageous warrior." He gave them a bow before going back to sparring against Zhang Fei.

Liu Bei gave a half annoyed, half amused sigh. "I apologize for Fei. Now, what are your names?"

"Namikaze Minato." Said Minato stepping forward.

Kushina stepped forward, "I am Uzumaki Kushina! And don't you forget it, Dattebane!"

Mikoto was the next to step forward and gave a polite small bow, "I am Uchiha Mikoto."

Fugaku strode forward with his arms crossed over his chest and stood regally like a noble born would, "I am Uchiha Fugaku."

Hiashi moved forward next, his white robes barely moving as he did, "Hyuuga Hiashi."

"And I am Hyuuga Hitomi. It is a pleasure to meet you sir." She said giving a soft smile.

Liu Bei blinked and then smiled back, "Well, those are unique names. You are not from the Middle Kingdom are you?"i He saw them nod and then smiled again, "Regardless, I welcome you to our forces, Minato, Kushina, Mikoto, Fugaku, Hiashi, and Hitomi." He gave a formal bow, and then stood up straight, "I will show you to where you will be sleeping for now. We move out in two days at suns first rays." He waited for them to nod before he led them to their rooms. Since the barracks was a small one, they'd have to stay in the same room as each other. This was no problem for the ninjas at all and they said so at Liu Bei's slight reluctance to put them into one room.

Liu Bei then, after making sure they were set, turned and walked away from the ninja's room. After a few moments Hiashi spoke up, "We are alone. We can talk now."

"It looks like sexism might be a problem here as well." Stated Mikoto with an annoyed frown.

"It should have been expected," retorted Hiashi, "even in our own home males were seen as higher than females. Based off what we have seen from the military here, women warriors are almost non-existent."

Mikoto almost growled, "Regardless, it will make it one more hurdle for us to get over now won't it?"

Minato held up his hands to attempt to stave off the ensuing argument. "Stop! This argument is getting us nowhere. We all knew this would not be easy. No need to get so stressed. It may be harder Mikoto, but we have overcome much worse. Hiashi, you know she is right though. This level of sexism was unexpected."

Hiashi nodded begrudgingly as did Mikoto, neither one really wanting to admit the other could have been right. Fugaku rolled his eyes as if acting that the argument had been beneath him. "So now we have been accepted into the volunteer forces, I suppose we should just go with our original plan? We still do not know what we are facing against. All we know is that whatever we are trying to stop is extremely 'evil'. Not much to go off if you ask me."

Kushina at this point had gotten bored of the conversation and interjected, "I still say we are worrying and planning ahead too much. We need to handle things as they come our way, Dattebane."

Hitomi sighed and laid back, "I say we discuss this later. I don't know about you all but I am exhausted. That and sleeping on a straw bed is better than sleeping on the cold hard ground. So, night."

Minato nodded in agreement, "You have a point Hitomi-chan. We should discuss this later. We all need our rest for the coming trials ahead." With that said he and his fellow comrades headed to their individual straw beds to sleep.

It was early the next morning when the first one of the group woke. The sun was just beginning to peak through the windows as Kushina sat up and rubbed her eyes letting out a yawn. She stood up and went outside to the training areas passing a few troops here and there as she did so. They leered at her as she walked by, and by the time she made it to the training grounds her good mood had completely dissipated.

"Well, well. What are you doing out here lady? Shouldn't you be over a pot cooking dinner now? Or maybe sewing some clothes for the troops? Little girls shouldn't be out here, that's for sure." Said the half-drunken Zhang Fei as he came out from the other side of the area. Each word he spoke caused Kushina's scowl to tighten more and more.

"Why don't you shut that drunken face of yours, you dumb bastard and fight me if you think you're so great!" Kushina snarled out, her face twisted into rage and her eyes flashing crimson.

Zhang Fei let out a guttural laugh, "Ah hahaha…you think you can take on me? The mighty Zhang Fei! You have guts…let's see if you're all talk." He said mockingly at her as she lowered his serpent spear at her form.

Kushina snarled and charged at him, tanto drawn already in her anger. She practically flew at him, her feet barely touching the ground as she ran. Her blade pulled along the ground ever so lightly caused by how low to the ground she ran at him. She slid her blade up and was blocked by his massive weapon. She rolled under his wide swing and smacked his spine with the flat of her blade sneering, "Dead."

Fei glared and growled, "Ah…you're not getting away that easily you bitch. I'm not gonna go easy on you this time!"

"Ah, you were going easy? I thought I was fighting a dumb drunken child who didn't know how to swing their weapon." Kushina taunted back grinning at seeing Fei's eyes narrow in anger.

Fei swung his massive spear at her and began to come at her with rapid thrusts and swings. Each swing became more and more wild as she ducked out of the way of each of his swings. "Hold. Still. You!" He roared out as each word was accentuated with a wild thrust or swing to which she continuously sidestepped, rolled under, or back flipped away from.

"What? I'm not too agile for you am I? Wow…so not only are you a dumb drunk, you're so…oh, almost had me…not~ now where, was I? Hm, almost again…wow you suck. You know, I have got to ask. You are a wielding a giant spear…are you overcompensating for your small natural spear?" She continued to mock and tease him, knowing that each swing he got angrier and at every taunt he got angrier. Best of all, the angrier he got the easier it was for her to tell what he was going to do and dodge his strong attacks.

Fei's swings did indeed become more and more wild as anger took him over more and more. Each swing was filled with a force that, if it would have hit Kushina, would have sent her flying into the walls of the barracks. However, between the force he was putting into the attacks, and the anger he poured into each move he made caused him to exhaust much faster than she did. Soon his swings began to slow in pace as she sidestepped a thrust he made. Fei could feel the cool metal of her blade against his throat and glared at her grinning visage.

"Not too bad for a little girl huh?" She asked with a sneer on her face. They suddenly pulled away from each other as clapping was heard from nearby. At once both turned to see a shocked Liu Bei, an amused Guan Yu, and her friends and comrades cheering, or in the case of Fugaku and Hiashi, clapping regally at her performance. Kushina rubbed the back of her neck abashedly, "Heh, guess you saw all that huh?" She asked only to get nods in return.

Liu Bei finally snapped himself out of his shocked state and grinned, "Well, that was an unexpected show. I must say, you really are as good as Minato has told me. I must apologize for the way we treated you yesterday, it is just different to see a women who can fight with the skill of a veteran warrior."

Kushina gave a bow and then grinned at him, "What can I say? I aim to please!" She laughed at Zhang Fei's unamused glare as she moved away from him and stood by Minato's side.

Liu Bei gave her another smile before he turned to look at the assembled men, "Everyone train hard! Tomorrow we leave to fight the Yellow Turban army and save the Han!" He heard the cheers of his troops and smiled brightly back, "Now break into groups and train between Guan Yu and Zhang Fei."

With that said he turned towards the six ninjas, "As for you, being that you are far too good to be regular soldiers, I want you six to train as you see fit. Know that tomorrow will bring a new day for us all, and I wish for you all to be prepared for what is to come."

The ninjas nodded to him and said at once, "Yes Lord Liu Bei!"

As the ninjas moved away then from the other soldiers and men, Mikoto could not help but to comment, "It is hard to not let our normal speech affect how we talk here. I think they might be confused if we started to use honorifics, insulted even maybe. After all, from what little information we have it seems that the Middle Kingdom is not to fond always of the land we 'come' from 'The land of the Rising Sun' (note 2). Since we need to fit in, it is best we act as much as we can like the people here do."

Hiashi nodded, "that is an astute observation, and from the appearance of the situation, I'd say it's the only real viable option. If we wish to finish this mission unhindered and if we wish to recruit people to our cause, we will need to exercise caution, and yes that means you too Kushina!" Kushina stuck her tongue out at him at that, "We do not need people getting at us simply for not fitting in."

Kushina grumbled back, much to Hiashi's chagrin, "Looks who's talking about fitting in…mister 'Always wears white robes, has girly hair and looks blind.'"

Fugaku snickered for a moment as he ignored Hiashi's angry glare. Hitomi raised her hands as she tried to calm down the situation. "Now now, let's be calm here. You know we love your womanly hair Hiashi." At that Hiashi twitched with a frown at Hitomi, his girlfriend for all intents and purposes, agreeing with Kushina over him…again.

Fugaku spoke up after Hiashi calmed down, "Well, I say we spar for a bit, and prepare ourselves for the battles to come tomorrow."

Minato nodded in agreement, "So how are we doing this? Couples vs. couples? Or male vs. female?"

Kushina grinned as she looked at Hiashi, "I vote male vs. female."

Hiashi groaned under his breath, not looking forward to fighting Kushina. It seemed as if she still had not let go of his much earlier comment on her intelligence being shocking. He winced seeing the rest nodding in agreement and cursed the heavens as he asked Kami just what he had done to deserve such a fate.

Kushina brushed herself off lightly as she stood and the five others got ready. As soon as Minato said begin, the spar erupted into a mass of movement from the six ninjas. Though the order that was in the spar, the little there was that is, disintegrated with an enraged scream from Hiashi as he glared at Kushina whom was snickering. Minato cocked an eyebrow before he as well struggled to keep from laughing.

For Hiashi's one black regal looking hair was now a hot pink color and his robes were cut perfectly to resemble a wedding dress. Hiashi glared hard, but the effect was lost thanks to his hot pink colored hair and wedding dress. Kushina rolled out of the way of his lunge. Within seconds the spar stopped as the four others collapsed to the ground in tears laughing at the sight of an enraged Hiashi chasing and trying to maim Kushina. It served to relax them from what they knew would be a bloody battle tomorrow. As much as they loved a good fight, the idea of such bloodshed was slightly nauseating to the group. Unfortunately it was reality, but this provided a temporary escape from the horrors they would soon face.

After the 'spar' the group had some meat buns for food along with some white rice and tea, or sake depending on their individual preferences. After that the group laid down to sleep, knowing once again that tomorrow would be one hell of a day and that they would need every ounce of sleep they could get.

To them morning came far too early for their tastes. Minato and Fugaku were the first to wake and were in a deep conversation before the rest woke up. Once they were all awake, they headed out to the main area of the barracks where Liu Bei, Guan Yu, and heavens forbid, a sober Zhang Fei were waiting. As soon as the ninjas entered the area, Liu Bei gave them a nod of respect before announcing, "Alright men, we move out to save our families, our land, and our country! For the Han!" The volunteer forces roared, "For the Han!" after him.

Minato commented in respect, "He may not even recognize it yet, but he is a natural leader. He has more charisma then I think he even realizes." He could hear to that Fugaku's ever normal, "hn." of agreement.

As the group mobilized conversation was non-existent, each warrior and ninjas was preparing themselves for the battle. After a long march, lasting around five to six hours the group made it to the destination. They could see the large Yellow Turban banners ahead of them along with the insignia of Zhang Liang, the middle of the three Zhang brothers.

The troops set up camp as Liu Bei conferred with Guan Yu and the ninjas about the plan for the battle. Zhang Fei had little to contribute and left the table with a grunt of, "When you come up with a plan let me know. All I need to know is who you want me to kill." That brought frowns from a few of the members of the group and unsurprisingly a light nod from Kushina who could understand the sentiment. She wasn't much of one for strategy either; she preferred to let her instincts guide her blade.

Liu Bei started with the known statistics, "We know that currently the rebels under Zhang Liang number around sixty to seventy thousand men. We need ideas on how to handle such a force. Our force barely contains six thousand men; they outnumber us at least ten to one. We need to find out more from what their movements are. Currently they are waiting for the battle to start tomorrow. I'm open to suggestions."

Fugaku was the first to speak up as he examined the map and traced his finger across it slowly, "An army of that size would need a huge supply depot to contain the rations for the army. We take that down, and they will be demoralized. I suggest that Hitomi, Guan Yu and I lead a raid on the supply depot with some men to take it for ourselves. Or burn it down, whichever works best."

Liu Bei frowned at the idea of just burning the food and wasting it, "Capture it if you can, then we can use the extra for ourselves and for the poor peasants of the area." Fugaku nodded as he stood back, his idea taken already.

Minato was the next to speak up with an idea, "I suggest a night raid. After Fugaku, Guan Yu, and Hitomi capture the supplies we spring a raid on their camp. We make as much noise as possible and fire, well fire arrows into their camp. Throughout the night we will pull back, beat the drums and launch fire arrows into the camp. The noise will make them think there are more of us then there really are. Perhaps we can even force a retreat and take what they leave behind."

Guan Yu spoke up, "We can light a torch and wave it as a symbol of capturing the supply depot."

Minato nodded in respect, "That would definitely work as a good symbol, thank you for the input Lord Guan Yu."

Liu Bei nodded as he looked at the map and smiled softly, "These sounds like great plans, and might even save many lives. Brother Guan, Fugaku, Hitomi, you three will take a force of 500 troops to capture their supply depot. Brother Guan, you are in charge. I respectfully request that you leave in a few hours' time so that the rest of us may leave for our part when the stars shine after the sun breaks out of the sky."

He received nods from the men and women around the war table and together they began to prepare for their individual parts. For the group, preparations were done quickly and the eve of battle was fast approaching. The air was thick with tension and worry. Many of the troops had never been into battle before, and many were peasants with little to know battle training at all. A few of the men could barely figure out how to properly hold the spears and swords given to them. It was a worrying sight, but there was little that could have been done. It was a good thing that the opponent's troops were all untrained peasants as well.

Fugaku and Hitomi were standing side by side when Guan Yu strode up. "The men are all prepared, we move out now. Hitomi, can you take the rear? Fugaku take the center of the formation?" At the two's slow nods he smiles, "Good." He then raises his voice and roars out, "Men, we move out now! Into arrow formation, we will break through their forces quickly!"

A roar came up from the troops as they raised their respective weapons and cheered. Guan Yu then moved out as the troops lined up in the arrow formation with Fugaku Uchiha in the center, Hitomi Hyuuga taking up the rear. This worked well, as Hitomi could use her Byakugan without being noticed as much, or so she hoped. She knew that caution would be her primary objective; it would be hard to explain why she looked different when it was activated.

The unit moved quietly through the cool night as the approached the depot. The men crouched down as they got closer, hoping not to be spotted by the sentries posted on the walls of the palisade. Guan Yu motioned the archers forward and waited till the men lit their arrows on fire. He then waved his arm forward when the arrows were lit, "Let loose men! Fire into their supplies, and burn it down!"

With quick and accurate precision the archers let loose the fire arrows into the enemy camp. They obeyed there instructions completely as the arrows were aimed specifically where the wall between the supplies and the men were. The main idea was to force the enemy to abandon the supplies without devastating the food as it could help the common people. This went all according to plan, thanks in part to Fugaku actually, as while the men were looking at the fire, he was preparing a jutsu. He whispered and thrust his hands forward, "Fuuton: Reppushou."ii As soon as he finished his technique the wind picked up and forced the fire towards the now panicked and fleeing troops rather than towards the supplies.

With the supply camp now taken Guan Yu climbed the nearest tower and lit two torches before he began to wave them back and forth. With that, the signal for the next part of the plan was given.

Hiashi looked to Liu Bei and Minato as he shut off his Byakugan, having hidden it using Henge to keep from his bloodline from being seen while activated. Minato nodded in return, "Lord Liu Bei, it seems that our forces have already taken the enemy supply depot, we are ready to institute the next part of the plan at your signal."

Liu Bei looked lost in thought for a moment before he slowly nodded as he looked at Minato first and then Hiashi. "Very well, please begin with your plan than Namikaze Minato."

Minato nodded in return and yelled out, "Bang the drums!" With that order, the men in the back began to beat the large drums and a few in between would beat a set of large drums to make it seem as if there were more men than what there really was. They next lit torches and the torch holders had devices on their shoulders so they could hold up to six torches. With this it made it seem like the small force of 2,000 men would seem closer to 10,000 men. With the loss of morale from the supply depots loss the enemy forces became even more shaken.

The Yellow Turbans were hardly what anyone would consider well-trained. Most were little more than angry rebellious peasants whom were infuriated with the governments corruption. Most had never even held a weapon in their life until now. Even the commanders were barely any better; they may have been outcasts from the military or people whom had little military training. While outnumbered over fifteen to one, the average Han soldier was worth at least six to eight Turban soldiers.

It was because of this extreme lack of training that the Turbans whom heard the loud drums and saw the many torches began to panic. To try and quell the troops a young Turban commander rode out to challenge the volunteer forces, "I am Bian Xi! Come and face me Han scum if you dare!"

Before Minato or Hiashi could respond to the challenge, Zhang Fei rode past them brandishing his large serpent spear. "I am Zhang Fei! Come and taste my blade!" He rode towards Bian Xi.

Bian Xi sneered back and raised his shoddy bamboo spear and kicked his horse to get it to charge Zhang Fei. He lowered his spear and did a swing, aiming for Fei's chest. Fei ducked under the swing and with a half-drunken, half-bloodthirsty grin. With a quick stab his spear plunged through Bian Xi's chest. Bian Xi looked down in shock before the weapon was viciously ripped out of his chest. He felt his blood spurt out of him and he looked at Fei shocked before his life left him and he slumped off his horse dead. Blood already pooling out of his already cooling corpse and with that the horse he rode on took off neighing as it did so.

Zhang Fei raised his bloody spear in the air and let out a roar of, "Anyone else want to taste the blade of Zhang Fei?"

As he roared out his challenge a second Turban commander rode out, "I am Pei YuanShu. Face me if you dare!" He yelled out and brandished his long sword as he did so.

Zhang Fei gave a grin as he turned to the next challenger, but before he could even think of riding forward a certain red-headed female ran past him. He blinked and growled in a bit of annoyance, as if it was not bad enough she showed him up previously, but now that damnable women was about to do so again.

Kushina grinned as she charged Pei YuanShu, however her grin was wiped from her face when he saw that he was not even going to take her seriously. She let out a growl from deep in her throat and lunged at Pei YuanShu, easily knocking the surprised man off of his horse. She growled at him, "Don't you underestimate me you ugly bastard!"

Pei YuanShu growled at being called ugly and angrily slashed at her, his swings wild and untrained. His stance was at best awkward and Kushina would not have been surprised if he never even trained for one day in his short life. "I'm gonna make you scream my name before you die bitch!"

Kushina snarled at that, as her hair practically flew up around her enraged. Already though Liu Bei went to move forward but Minato stopped him, "Wait Lord Liu Bei…she beat Zhang Fei remember, and now you will see why her nickname is the Red Hot Habanero!"

Liu Bei only looked confused by the weird name and he had trouble figuring out what a Habanero was as that was something he had never heard of before. Eventually he gave up trying to figure it out and just wrote it off that wherever they were from had a much different culture and language setting then there's. 'Obviously,' he thought to himself, 'there are more kingdoms then just the surrounding barbarians around somewhere past that.'

Kushina grinned sadistically and decided to toy with the bastard before killing him. Teach him to underestimate her and lust after her body, let alone threaten to take her as his. There was no way in hell he could handle her even in his wildest dreams, and it was time he found that out. Kushina pulled her tanto out and ducked under his sword swing, before kicking him in the shin.

Pei YuanShu let out a scream of pain as the kick shattered his tibia. He snarled and swung wildly at Kushina desperate to strike her arms or legs. Already he was beginning to think he might not be able to win this.

Kushina gave an almost sick grin as his tibia shattered from her hard kick. She leapt back as he swung again before sliding her tanto across the edge of his blade expertly to gain momentum. She slid the blade off of his at the last second before it would hit the hand guard and sliced it right across his left wrist that held his weapon. His wrist slid off with a squirt of blood as her blade severed his artery to cut through his wrist.

Pei YuanShu helplessly dropped his blade with a cry of agony as he clutched the stump where his hand and part of his wrist sat just a second or two ago. He felt his own warm blood drip through his fingers and with watering eyes looked up at the woman. No, she was not a woman, at least not to him. To him she was a demon, a monster…the very same demon he would die to. He let out a sob of not wanting to die before a kick slammed into his mouth sending him straight to the ground on his back hard.

Kushina snarled as the young man cried, sure he only looked like he was twenty but she had seen kids with more bravery in the face of death then this bastard. Of course she hardly considered the fact of the differing cultures, but she was not the type to let such logic control her thought patterns. She glared down at the sobbing man before slamming her bare foot into his chest, snapping two of his ribs with the force of the impact. She pressed down and grinned sadistically down at him, "I think you suffered enough bastard…now go to hell!" With that she coldly slid her tanto across his neck and watched him gurgle and choke on his own blood before he died.

Kushina turned and lifted her bloody tanto in the air as she walked past Zhang Fei and to Minato and Liu Bei. At the sight of the two dead commanders, the many torches and the fact of the lost supplies the Turbans lost all sense of morale. They screamed, dropping their weapons and ran as fast as they could to escape. Zhang Fei made to pursue them before Liu Bei lifted up his hand and ordered out, "Fei! Stop, they cannot do anything now, let them go."

Zhang Fei gave an annoyed grunt but nodded anyways in agreement before turning his horse around to go back to camp. Minato, Kushina, and Hiashi followed after him and behind them followed Liu Bei and his troops. At the camp already waiting was Guan Yu, Hitomi, Fugaku and Mikoto.

Once at camp they sorted out the supplies and got ready to relax after the harrying night. They quickly fell asleep as the various troops paroled the border of the camp just in case the bandits returned.

It was early when the men and woman of the camp awoke to the sounds of shouting in the distance. A messenger was riding through camp at a harrowing speed and stopped literally right in front of Liu Bei. Bei blinked at the sight and took a step back and asked, "What brings you here?"

"Lord Dong Zhou is surrounded by the Yellow Turban forces and requires aid; we respectfully request that you lend your assistance to save the Han general."

Meanwhile in the dark chamber:

Darkness was everywhere, before the torches along the wall lit up with an eerie green glow illuminating the dark hallway before the antechamber. A figure wearing a dark black cloak stalked through the hallway, his sandaled feet making not a sound as he moved. The doors creaked ominously open in front of him as he entered the chamber. He though did not kneel; he gave only a short bow to a figure chained down to a chair. "My Lord you summoned me?"

At this an orange slit eye opened up and stared at the figure before finally, after a long moment, a dark ominous voice became heard, "Ah you have arrived…" Though the figure could not be seen clearly in the darkness, the voice almost seemed to have a somewhat happy tone in it. Though it was less of a 'glad you're here' happy and more of an 'I'm gonna rip your throat out and love it' kind of happy.

"Yes my lord, apparently the sages forgot something important. By opening the doors to the other dimension, it allows your forces to branch out and grab more to help with your cause. At this rate your resurrection will be obtained in little time at all." The man responded before giving a dark laugh. A single eye could be seen of this man as well, a blood red colored eye with three tomoes spinning around the pupil in a slow manner.

"Good then, bring me more willing and strong members…I am counting on you." The raspy voice let out before its eye closed slowly.

The cloaked man gave a short bow to the chained figure and left the room a devious grin on his face as he entered the hallway again, "Yes….it has begun."

And End Chapter 1.

If someone can guess successfully who the two evil figures are to me in a private message then I will that person confer with me as to what other villain can join with the other two, or if you guess correctly then you can talk to me about an OC of your own you'd like to see appearing in this fic.

i China was often referred to as the "Middle Kingdom" because at in history the name of "China" would switch with each dynasty. The name "Middle Kingdom" was what foreigners would refer to China as; this was a way to indicate the power of China. Another point is that China of this time period believed itself to truly be the center of the world, thus Middle Kingdom.

ii Wind Style: Wind Gale