Hi, I'm back with another chapter of In General. I hope you guys liked the prologue, it was very introducing. This chapter is focused on the main people actually involved in the war. Anyways, on with the story!

In General

It was the morning before Naruto and Anko spoke again. Naruto woke up first, eyes unfocused, but aware of its surroundings. The soft glare of the morning sun's ray's hit his face and he automatically squinted his eyes and made a noise of discomfort. Though he was quiet, his purple haired companion still heard it and instantly sat up, kunai in hand and eyes scanning the room. When her eyes landed on Naruto, her harsh gaze softened and she dropped her kunai next to her as she let her head fall back. Naruto sighed as he looked at her, shifting so his head was propped on his hand.

It was silent between the two shinobi as their minds woke up and processed the past week.

"Sorry"

Naruto raised an eyebrow as Anko willingly broke the silence with an apology.

"What for?"

"Two days ago when we were in Tanzaku Gai and I lashed out at you and blamed you for everything. It wasn't your fault that it failed- well it was partially your fault, but not all- and I'm sorry" Naruto smiled at her and moved so he was sitting up.

"It's okay. And it was my fault, but as you said the blame is not all mine. Though I want to know why it didn't go to plan and how it got messed up so badly. I mean, we did what we were supposed to-"

Naruto stopped as Anko swore. Naruto looked mildly confused as she sat up in the same position as him. She put her head into her hands and started shaking her head.

"What?" Naruto asked placing a hand on her back and looking at her concerned.

"No. We didn't do everything we were supposed to do. We couldn't because of those stupid, stupid kids. Lee died, Tenten was taking care of that kid, Kenta, or something and Neji was with the kid's sister and they couldn't go to District 5 and complete Object 12, when one was dead and the other two were babysitting some stupid person's children. Remember when we were wondering where all of enemies were coming from?" Naruto groaned and started to bang his head on the headboard of the bed he and Anko were laying in.

"Yeah, that was where. Because of the civilian populace, we lost the war, we lost half of our comrades and we have been forced to leave our home village in ruins. I can't believe this. It's always them. It's always the civilians that we have to protect and give our lives for and it's always them who screw shit up" she said angrily into her hands as Naruto stared up at the plain white ceiling.

This time, the silence stayed around longer.

After about ten minutes, Naruto finally threw the covers off his and Anko's body, making the brown eyed kuniochi lift her head to look at him.

"What are you doing?" she asked him as he stood up and looked towards the opened window.

"We need to find everyone"

Hatake Kakashi, Maito Gai, Sarutobi Asuma and Yuuhi Kurenai were in the back of a wagon going to Kirigakure. They were very quiet as the person smuggling them into the country, didn't even know they were there. Asuma tried his best not to groan out in pain as they reached a bump in the road. He had suffered a severe arm injury and they only able to get Shizune heal it partially before they had to flee. Their civil war had gone wrong- so wrong that it changed from a civil war into what could possible become the Fourth Great Shinobi War.

Though that was to be dealt with later, what they needed to do now, was to carry out their second objective: To get to Kiri and get to their contact.

They sorely needed to reach their only line to Naruto and everyone else. They needed to meet up and discuss what went wrong and what, when and where their next move would be. They have to take back Konoha and they had to do it by any means ne-

"Okay welcome to Kiri, we just have to check your wagon to see if you're hiding anything"

The three male Jounin in the back of the wagon turned to look at Kurenai, who already had her hand in a seal to make a strong genjutsu.

The road ahead of them was a long one and they needed to stick together no matter what.

Umino Iruka walked down the streets of a small town carrying bags full of medical equipment. Next to him was Uzumaki Karin who was holding paper bags containing food and drinks. They briskly walked down the streets, aware of their surroundings and very tense, just in case they were suddenly attacked. They passed people on the streets and mumbled back greetings as they headed towards the inn they were staying at and where Sasuke was currently sleeping at.

They arrived in the town last night after running from rest of the 'loyal' Konoha shinobi. Sasuke had been unconscious the whole time and they just barely got away.

The two shinobi reached the inn and hurriedly said hello to the old inn keeper, got their keys and basically ran up the stairs to their room. They weren't so stupid that they slammed the door shut, instead Karin bolted the door as Iruka walked over to Sasuke who was breathing heavily in his sleep. Iruka pulled a chair over to the bed and sat on it, opening up the bag and taking out the needed items.

As Iruka worked to get Sasuke back to health, Karin watched on with saddened eyes.

"Iruka-san… What do we do now?"

Iruka sighed and turned his head to look at the last relative to his surrogate brother.

"For now…we wait. And we stick together"

Temari sat in a corner of her jail cell with her chin resting upon her hand. She observed the dirty, wet cell and smirked. They deemed her such a threat that they had her jail cell underground. It was the right thing to do- she was a part of the rebellion after all- since she had earth around her she couldn't really fight her way out, because she was a wind user and they had her fan.

The blonde haired girl sighed as she sensed someone approaching her. She slowly got up and stood in the middle of her cell and looked out through the lightning enhanced jail bars. The person's footsteps were muffled by the mud, but she could still faintly hear them along with the person's laboured breath.

The person soon came to a stop in front of her cell holding a bunch of keys. The man had long, spiky, black hair and dark eyes. He had a strip of bandage running across the bridge of his nose and a marking on his chin the same colour of his hair and Temari didn't know whether it was a small beard or a mark. He had on the standard attire of a Konoha Chunin with his forehead protector in the correct place on his forehead.

The man looked at her for a moment before turning his head to the left to look into the distance. Suddenly, the nearly-invisible lightning disappeared completely and Hagane Kotetsu and Temari smirked. Kotetsu picked out a key from the bunch and stuck it into the lock of the cell Temari was in and pushed it open, letting Temari feel freedom after being caged in for four days.

The emerald-eyed girl stepped out of her cell and nodded towards the spiky haired man. The two walked away from the cubicle and were soon above ground where they met with Kamizuki Izumo. The partner to Kotetsu had brown hair and dark eyes. His hair was combed down and covered his right eye. He wore his forehead protector like a bandanna like a certain senbon-spitting Jounin and he had his Chunin outfit on with it going up to his chin like a special wood-using Jounin.

Izumo was holding her fan and the girl ran forward to get, gently taking it out of Izumo's hands and putting it on her back where it belonged. Together the three of them disappeared in a swirl of leaves and wind.

Tenten, Haruno Sakura, Aburame Shino and Inuzuka Hana were in the chambers of Sabaku no Gaara's house. Hana lay on the bed, deep in a coma as Sakura kneeled next to her, her hands glowing green as she tried in vain to heal her. Shino stood over his teammate's sister's body, shirtless as Tenten broke his shoulder bone and reset it back into its proper position. The Aburame sucked in a small breath- the only sound he had made since the Inuzuka went into a coma.

The door opened and the Kazekage walked in with a stoic expression on his face. No one turned around to see who it was because they already sensed him.

"How is she?" Gaara asked in a monotone voice as he glanced at Hana.

Sakura's eyes flickered to Shino and she took a deep breath as she saw him tense.

"She has two broken ribs, her left lung is filling up with blood, her left knee is fractured in four different places and her right leg is just useless at the moment. She's got brain haemorrhage and it's going on shutdown. And that's only from a brief check-up. I need to work quickly, and it would help if you got your best medical ninja here to help me get her in at least a stable condition, Kazekage-sama" Sakura said, a bead of sweat running down her head as Tenten put a chakra pill and a stamina pill in her mouth.

Gaara nodded.

"If there is anything you need right now, tell me. Ten of my best med-nin will be here in five minutes" he said before disappearing in a swirl of sand.

Shino swore quietly as he looked at Hana. He hoped she would live, but from what he just heard, she might not. The Aburame clenched his fists as he moved his gaze to the carpeted floor, trying to burn holes into it with his eyes.

Tenten- still behind him- squeezed the shoulder she just reset. He turned around to look at her through his sunglasses.

"Don't act like we're having a shisha no tame no sōsō kōshinkyoku, Shino"

Naruto and Anko were now on the road in the middle of nowhere, all of their belongings in scrolls that they put into their backpacks. They jumped quickly from tree to tree, avoiding branches and small animals. When there were no more trees to hop on, they fell to the ground and began to run at blinding speeds, leaving gusts of wind in their wake.

Side by side, they ran through the elemental nations with one destination in their minds.

The village that holds the secrets, the Village of Longevity, the land of Whirlpools, Uzushiogakure no Sato

Yep, I'm done with this chapter today and I'm happy about it, though I'm not particularly happy about the length. I want to put more in, but I feel like that would take another chapter to do. Anyways, this week I won't be doing the updates I promised, instead, I'll be doing them sporadically, meaning the next chapter for this might come out on a Wednesday with another fic. Also I like those horizontal lines, that's why I use them so much I my fics. I'm weird I know, but I don't care :P

Sei aru mono e no sōsōkyoku' was changed to 'shisha no tame no sōsō kōshinkyoku', because I can't remember what the first one meant.

Shisa no tame no sōsō kōshinkyoku- funeral march for the dead

Thanks, R&R,

Ja ne!