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It's a Cold and It's a Broken Hallelujah
Chapter 4
"ANBU squad 110-120, move into position along the south wall,104 and 206 start moving civilians into the safe guard, you must not be seen, 100! Move all Genin and Chunin teams to the inner village, they are back up only! Jonin rank and higher shinobi move to the outer walls assume first defense formation, MOVE NOW!!!" orders like this where not uncommonly heard coming from the Hokage's mouth over the past day. Konoha's defenses where at maximum as the village hidden in the leaves prepared for war.
Uzamaki Naruto had turned from caring leader to slave driver in a matter of minutes after reading Mito Gai's mission report, inside he felt guilty knowing full well that if he had turned the Kitsune demons away the current situation could have been avoided and now the entire village would pay.
Of course the young Hokage realized that the foxes would hold true to their word and fight to protect the village along with the gathered ninja. However they where the jinchuuriki's final trump-card and he was in no hurry to reveal it, if only the village could hold out for a few days it would give him time to set the rest of the plan in motion.
"ANBU teams 121-130 have returned sir" a raspy voice came from the Hokage's right causing him to turn his head to face the faded red-haired old man who was currently crouched in a bow before the Hokage.
"Good and the news?" The man lifted his head slightly to look at the teenagers face, his eyes saw nothing.
"Not so good My Lord, the Okami army's have advanced to barely half a days walk from the village, ANBU team 129 was found and slaughtered, the medic ninja did what she could but in the end it just wasn't enough" Naruto hung his head, this was bad and getting worse, he still had no idea what the village now faced.
"Any ideas of numbers, Keiji?" The blond shinobi asked almost hesitantly, he was tired and stressed, he didn't need any more bad news.
"I sent Kohana out to scout for that one, she has yet to return, when she does you will be the first to know Hokage-sama" Naruto nodded and waved his hand dismissing the old fox, again Naruto was feeling guilty but this time it was for forcing the fox clan to assume human form inside the village when he knew that in human form, Keiji was blind.
"YUME, GET YOUR ASS DOWN HERE NOW" Naruto yelled dismissing his thoughts; the vixen appeared momentarily, yet again in human form.
"You bellowed?" she asked not seeming at all bothered by the Hokage's current mood.
"Find Kohana and take over her scout mission send her back here and tell her to report to me immediately upon entering the village, try to stall the Okami if you wish but do not get yourself caught, also if you can find her, send Amadare to find that blasted Uchiha and tell her not to get caught by Orochimaru in the process, she is to give Sasuke this" Naruto handed the vixen a green and red scroll, Yume nodded and disappeared.
'If this is to be the end of this village, then the end will be great, believe it!'
'Are you sure you don't want to know about the army of soles kit? It might help clear your head'
'Not now you dumb fox I'm busy'
'Suit yourself'
Kyuubi's voice faded and Naruto turned to look over the village, even now he couldn't bear to see it destroyed. Naruto lifted his eyes to the great cliff that carried the faces of his predecessors and looked at three in particular.
'Ojiji-san, Tsunade-baa-sama, Otou-sama, what would you do?' he asked silently, when he looked upon the faces of the previous Hokage's Naruto found strength and right now that's exactly what the young fire shadow needed.
A woman sat crouched in the spot where an upper branch of a tree joined the trunk, she was observing the entrance to an underground layer in which one of the most famous snakes in history lived. She knew that if she put one foot wrong now she was dead.
All day and all night she watched the entrance looking for one person in particular she did not dare to enter the layer for she remembered the Hokage's warning that was relayed to her through her sister, 'I must not be caught'
Finally a little midnight movement could be seen from the entrance of the cave, Amadare held her breath and curled her silver tail around herself, her ears and nose twitched slightly as she extended her scenes as far as she could hoping and praying that this person was the one she was looking for.
Uchiha Sasuke was famous for many things, he was the last surviving loyal Uchiha clan member, he was the former hero who betrayed the village hidden in the leaves and he was the student of another betrayer, the snake sannin Orochimaru. But perhaps most importantly, though this was not a well known fact, he was the old snake's worst betrayer.
As the Uchiha stepped out of the entrance to his 'master's' hide-out and into the gloomy clearing he became instantly aware of a presence hidden in a tree not far from where he was standing, he also became aware of the eyes that burned a hole in his forehead with a fierce determination to look beyond the opaque surface of his skull.
'So the dobe sent me a message did he?' Sasuke smirked and motioned for the messenger to come out, Amadare quickly complied.
"Uchiha-sama" she bowed politely to the Uchiha before telling him her purpose "Uzamaki-sama sent me to give you this scroll, he said it was urgent and he would appreciate a reply ASAP" Amadare frowned slightly as the words left her lips, she hadn't repeated the Hokage's message word for word, she knew that for her to say that sort of thing to an Uchiha, particularly this Uchiha or his brother, was suicide and she knew that the expression 'don't shoot the messenger' didn't apply here.
Sasuke snatched the scroll from her hand and bit his thumb, he ran the cut along the scrolls seal and as soon as his blood touched the surface the scroll snapped open. The young Uchiha read the scroll greedily drinking the information in as a scowl appeared on his face, as he read further the scowl turned to a frown and then a glare that made Amadare flinch in fear.
"Damn you Naruto" the Uchiha growled and proceeded to set the scroll on fire. "How long ago where you given this letter fox?" he asked rather rudely and Amadare immediately regretted her decision to be polite to the man who stood before her.
"About two days ago, the village was half a day of a major battle when I left I need to get back soon" she had already guessed what the letter was about, she wasn't stupid but it was better to be safe than sorry, especially when more than one demon clan was on the foxes tail.
"Damn, listen, run back to the village ahead of me and tell naruto I'll be there about four hours behind you" the Uchiha disappeared leaving Amadare alone in the clearing, 'feh how rude' she thought before dashing off as fast as she could towards her now surely war torn home.
The village of Konohagakure no Sato had been fighting non stop for a day-and-a-half and where already facing loses on the same scale of Kyuubi's attack nineteen years ago. The Hokage had just ordered the last part of his plan into action and hoped that the rest followed through.
"Ok so Defense formation one failed, Defense formation two was put into action then aborted, any idea why Keiji?" Naruto asked the blind fox. Yesterday Naruto had failed to count on one thing while setting up Konoha's defense, that mistake had cost him and the village dearly, the second mission, a sneak attack also failed as one of the lower-class demon displayed an ability that had evaded Kyuubi's memory, the Okami clan mainly commanded water.
"Hai, Hokage-sama defense formation one is mainly enforcing the inside walls of the village, to do this you use your native Katon and Doton Jutsu, this means it could be called 'Defense by Ninjutsu' the defenses created by these various Ninjutsu where made practically useless by the Okami's own Ninjutsu because of their Suiton Jutsu, we didn't count on that being a problem.
"And on the other hand defense formation two used Genjutsu, in this case 3 ANBU teams where sent out under the cover of Genjutsu and positioned around the invading force, first they used Genjutsu to confuse the enemy and Kenjutsu to finish it, however with the heightened senses of the Okami, yet another thing we didn't count on, the ANBU in question where quickly found and engaged and although they took many an enemy down with them the loss of ANBU team 093 was one we could not afford" Keiji finished glumly, Naruto nodded his approval of the answer.
"Exactly. So Keiji I want you to find a way to tackle these problems head on, my plans obviously amounted to failure and though I have one more trick up my sleeve my guess is it will take another two days to put into action, we need to find a way to hold for that long at least" Naruto stood and prepared to leave the office to re-join the front line, there where only a few hours of daylight left and every night as the sun went down the battle was put on hold and all ninja retreated back inside the village walls, come nightfall the village hidden in the leaves would once again be counting their dead that for now lay scattered across the battle field, the newly dubbed no mans land.
Glossary
Amadare: Raindrop
Dobe: my guess would be either idiot or dead last
Katon Jutsu: fire Jutsu
Doton Jutsu: earth Jutsu
Suiton Jutsu: water Jutsu
Genjutsu: illusion techniques
Ninjutsu: a move enhanced by chakra that is otherwise humanly impossible
Kenjutsu: as far as I know this is using weapons to fight
Ojiji-san: old man… I think
Otou-sama: father
Tsunade-baa-sama: granny Tsunade
And just to remind you:
Okami: wolf demon
Okane: monkey demon
Raion: lion demon
Note: All of the Kitsune demons can take human form or Fox form, it's the same for all other demons in this fic unless I say otherwise later.