A/N: Hey everyone!

Thankyou so much for al the favourites follows and reviews I wouldn't have gotten this chapter out so quickly without them. One a side note I got back to school after the holidays a couple of days ago so updates will probably end up a week or two apart until mid July with a phew bonus mid-week updates here and there when homework is light.

Anyway on with the show

-Chapter 2-

Winds of war

"Kiyoshi, take half your troops and go towards the southern flank of the Wind army. Make sure none of the ones you take are earth mages it's an extremely exposed area. I mean they're all flocking to that one location." Izuki Shun strategy specialist of the standard divisions for the Shadow Kingdom's army spoke calmly on the other end of the line even bothering to include one of his classic –yet hopeless- puns on the end. Commander Hyuuga Junpei of the first battalion of the shadow army simply groaned at his old friends antics. He found the eagle-eyed strategists habit for making unfortunate puns annoying on a regular basis, not to mention he was in the middle of a raging battle at that moment.

"Izuki, stop with the puns." He didn't even feel sorry for yelling into the mouthpiece of his headset, the guy deserved it anyway.

"I don't know Hyuuga, you're a bit hard on Izuki." Kiyoshi Teppei joked as he came running past Hyuuga's left shoulder lines of troops following behind the tall brunet man.

"Shut up. We don't have time for this you heard what Izuki told you to do. NOW DO IT" The smallest of the pair glared after the larger retreating back as he yelled the remark.

"I know." Kiyoshi yelled back in reply before disappearing under a heavy layer of canopy obviously actually following Izuki's directions for once.

"Hyuuga get your troops and the remainder of Kiyoshi's to continue attacking from the front. You need to get as many of them to either surrender, retreat or die as possible before the reinforcements appear." The familiar crackling of the slightly out-dated radio transmitter in his earpiece was almost a comfort to the young commanders mid-battle nerves. Although the fact they were fighting the wind kingdom practically cancelled the effect.

The wind kingdom famous for having powerful attacks yet weak defences, famous for the beautiful architecture in the areas capital city of Shutoku. Not that he was one to criticize his own kingdom, Seirin castle and its surrounds were far from bland even to the most barbarian of Mages. However, compared to the other five kingdoms not even mentioning the capital Daichi the Shadow kingdom was simple yet elegant in design.

"How far away do you believe the enforcements are?" Hyuuga spoke into his mouthpiece before yelling at his and Kiyoshi's remaining troops to continue their relentless attack. They'd already come so far giving up now would be absolutely humiliating.

"5 minutes at absolute most probably somewhere closer to 2 or 3." Was Izuki strangely serious and somewhat sullen reply. "I need to break connection now but whatever you do Hyuuga, don't let your guard down."

"You don't need to tell my twice." Hyuuga spat back into the microphone before flicking the switch on the back of his earpiece that cancelled signal transmission between the different units.

"SHADOW ARMY, ATTACK!"

-Consumed by Shadows—

"How are they going Izuki-kun." The pun-loving dark haired teen jumped at the sudden appearance of his newly crowned King.

"Don't do that Kuroko-sama" Kuroko simply blinked down at him before sighing in exasperation. "Okay, okay, we are outnumbered however the battle will probably end in a tire. The Shadow kingdom owns a reasonable number of earth-types and wind cannot penetrate rock-walls at all. I mean really their rock hard nobody could break them.

"Now is not the time for useless puns Izuki-kun" was powder-blue haired male's simple reply as he turned to leave the control room located in one of the highest towers in Seirin castle.

Izuki turned back to the wall of screens set out in a semi-circle before him along with at least 5 different keyboards. The control room was an integral part of both watching what went on within the castle and on the battlefields as small cameras were installed into the helmets of all high-ranking officers as well as all ranged based attackers.

He would later be pleased to say that it looked like the Shadow kingdom had won the battle from the time the scuffle begun. His sense of self-preservation was the only thing stopping it from speaking out from the start anyway.

-Consumed by Shadows—

"Miyaji call off the attack. There's no chance of winning. Their earth mages have surrounded nearly the whole army." Miyaji Kiyoshi nearly growled at the seemingly cheerful voice on the other end of the transmission.

"Don't tell me what to do." He spat back only to hear a vaguely mocking chuckle in response.

"Well, if you want to loose part of our land instead of gaining some of the Shadow kingdoms a retreat is the smartest option." Miyaji didn't get time to respond to their resident strategist before having to mid air backflip out of the line of fire from a particularly strong earth-shadow mix mage that was hurling rocks in his direction.

"I'll take that as a no." The sultry voice replied in lieu of the blonde male responding himself. "So therefore call a retreat, their Shin-chan's orders not mine." Miyaji scoffed at the thought of their zodiac obsessed socially awkward king having better judgement of war strategies than Hawk their somewhat affectionately nicknamed strategist.

"Fine, on it Hawk." Was the short-tempered blonde's final reply before cutting the line.

To be honest if Miyaji looked at the scene with a completely objective view retreat truly was the best option. The shadow army was gaining slowly and the ranged units were all enclosed in a fortress briskly created by a small group of Earth-types. Not to mention it appeared the shadow guard had arrived to add extra chaos to the carnage. There was no winning once the shadow guard appeared. They were the Shadow kingdoms final card that was only used when the king got absolutely desperate.

"WIND KINGDOM, RETREAT!" The young commander was almost surprised at the shear force in his own voice. At the same time the Wind kingdom soldiers immediately ceased their fire upon the western front of the Shadow kingdom. Safe to say the Shadow soldiers looked ever so slightly confused. One of the commanders in particular –the tall brown haired one- looked like a kid who'd just had their ice cream stolen by a dog, the other just looked annoyed.

"Don't think this is over." Miyaji hissed back over his shoulder as he turned to leave his army filing behind in neat lines.

"Next time no fleeing punk." The glasses-wearing one of the Shadow commanders spat as he to turned to leave his soldiers falling into place with their leaders. "We don't answer to cowards."

-Consumed by Shadows—

"Shin-chan" Takao Kazunari affectionately known as Hawk to most of the Wind kingdom sing-songed as he barged into the kings office unannounced.

"What?" Midorima Shintarou resident Wind king spat as he turned to half-heartedly glare at his second in command and strategy advisor. Takao simply grinned sheepishly brushing a phew stray strands of raven black hair out of his eyes.

"I have news from the battle." The hawk-eyed team laughed sheepishly rubbing the back of his neck casually. "And well, we didn't exactly get any land though I wouldn't call it a loss. We didn't loose any land either and we did get a good look at the strategies the Shadow kingdom uses for when we launch a properly planned attack."

Midorima audibly groaned upon hearing the end of Takao's speech. The aim of the mission had been to take a slither of the Shadow kingdom's land in order to scare them, not barely keep part of their own. At that point in time the seventeen year-old considered firing his own commanders, though when he thought about it they were actually useful. He considered Takao critically making the slightly younger man squirm in response to his intense green-eyed gaze.

"In that case secure me an audience with Kuroko Tetsuya for a weeks time. We have to secure this land. The Shadow kingdom must not prosper." His voice was full of finality to the point that Takao couldn't find any words to reply with. Instead he settled for simply nodding for a moment before finding his voice.

"As you desire Shin-chan, even if I don't think it's a good idea." He stated casually as he turned to leave the stylishly decorated room. Even if he could feel Midorima's laser glare burning holes in the back of his jacket.

A/N: So please follow favourite and review as I stated in the opening note it motivates me to write more for you guys. Oh and also please give me constructive criticism particularly when it comes to characters being in character I'm a KuroBasu nerd but I struggle with the personalities of some of the more minor characters at times so if you spot anything really OOC please tell me.

Thankyou again.

-Angel