(Temporary Deidara's POV)
"Is Sakura-sama alright, yeah?" I questioned, poking the fish in the fire. Kneeling closer, I turned the cooking fish over with my stick.
Itachi shook his head. We turned back to see Sakura-sama trying to cough as quietly as possible, but the blood still poured out like a river.
"She's getting worse every passing day. There's nothing we can do if even SHE can't heal herself. Sakura-sama is the best medic-nin in the whole shinobi nation, if she can't do it nobody can." He thumped a fist on the rocky ground. The small puddles of water splashed everywhere.
"Does it have to do with that bratty brother of yours, yeah?" I asked, flicking a dirty pebble away from the fire. "He broke her heart, yeah! It might've done something to the organs or something, too much mourning, yeah."
"That could be a possibility." Itachi whispered. He grabbed the stick from me and speared the fish with it, and took it out of the fire. "You're burning the fish."
Suddenly, one of my clay messenger birds popped out in a puff of smoke, and flapped down to my shoulder. A small and ripped piece of paper was clutched in its tiny talons.
"Idiots…they have almost unreadable handwriting!" I shouted, shaking the paper after I managed to decode it.
"Shut up and go report to Sakura-sama!" Itachi yelled from the fire while cutting the fish.
I hurried over to Sakura-sama and kneeled down. She was cleaning up the blood with her wand.
"Yes, Deidara-kun?" She turned to me and smiled. I smiled back. She was as nice as always!
"I have received word from Zetsu, my lady. They are arriving in fifteen minutes with the rest of the team and the revived Sasori, and the bijuu pills." I told her. She broke out into a wicked smirk that chilled my blood. I recoiled in fear, and managed to squeak a, "Yes, my lady?"
"I -"She started to say, but was interrupted by poofing noises behind us.
"They've arrived." I heard Itachi say.
"DEIDARA-SEMPAI!"
Oh yes. They have arrived.
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"We should put our defense right here, and our offense right there." I marked the two spots on the map of the school.
"No, Sasuke-teme the defense should be around the school, not just the front! How are we supposed to protect the whole school with just the frontline defense! It's the same with the offence position! What are you thinking?" Naruto yelled. He rubbed out the marks on the map and drew new ones.
"BAKA!" I roared, losing it. Grabbing a nearby instrument, I hammered him over the head with this. Screaming, he crawled away like the useless object he is and hid under a table.
"YOU SHOULD BE LOCKED UP, TEME!" Naruto cried, holding his bumpy head.
Snorting, I turned back to the map.
"Inside the castle, we'll place both offense and defense ambush parties composed of both shinobi and wizards." I told Dumbledore. "They won't be expecting it."
"Hmm…good plan, Sasuke." Dumbledore said, stroking his beard. "But what about the interior?"
"We'll arrange the volunteers in groups depending on their strengths and weaknesses, that way they'll balance out."
Dumbledore nodded gravely. "How will they be positioned?"
"20 over here, 30 over here, 15 over there, and 40 over there, since those parts of the school are the weakest." I said, frantically dotting the paper using my wand as a marker.
"We will have the beast units positioned on the bottom and the top floors of the school, the statues and the knights will be in the middle floors." Hyuuga said, tapping his wand on the map.
"We need to use your phoenix here, for the fire arrows that we will unleash if they break through the defense teams in the front. Would Fawkes mind if he gave some feathers?" I asked.
Dumbledore grinned slightly. "I suggest you ask him, Sasuke." He pointed to Fawkes, who chirruped.
"Er…would you mind if you gave us feathers?" I asked, feeling dumb. To my amazement, he nodded.
"Excellent work, my boys." Dumbledore sighed and got up from his chintz armchair. "I will go alert the staff and the students. You three prepare for war up here. Anything else you might need from here?"
"Can you conjure out some swords and weapons, professor?" Naruto asked quietly. Dumbledore stared at him with sad eyes, patted his shoulder and nodded.
"Anything else you might need besides weapons?" He asked.
I shook my head. "No, professor, nothing."
Without another word, Dumbledore opened the left. Outside, a black crow cawed and flew away.
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Sakura got up from her throne and walked over to the Akatsuki.
"Well, it seems that you have arrived." Her piercing acid green eyes surveyed each of them. "Where are your troops?"
"Here, Sakura-sempai!" A tall, childish man with a swirly orange mask that had one eye-hole shouted, and swept a hand behind him, revealing the summoned beast units, the poison troops, the armor troops, the offence and defense troops and the special attack troops, all together more then 4000 people.
"Excellent! With this number of people, Hogwarts will surely fall!" Sakura laughed, her fangs glinting in the moonlight.
"Is everything prepared, Sakura-sama?" A tall man with grey hair and pink eyes asked. Sakura switched her gaze to him, and nodded.
"Yes, Hidan-kun."
Hidan, the team's blood-thirsty masochist that wielded a long and powerful pronged spear with two sharp blades that almost always had dried blood on them; he was too lazy to wash it off.
"Have you got the bijuu pills, Sasori-kun?" Sakura turned to a tall, angelic-faced man with messy, blood-red hair similar to Gaara's.
"Certainly, my lady. It is crucial for the battle, is it not?"
"Of course, Sasori."
Sasori, the puppet human. Probably the world's most great puppeteer next to Sakura. Sakura was only person more powerful then him after he had passed down his skills to her because she had perfect chakra control. Now he didn't hide in Hiruko, his armor puppet because Sakura had destroyed it by accident.
"My lady, how is your condition?" A man that looked enclosed in a giant plant asked.
"I'm alright, Zetsu-kun. Thank you for asking."
Zetsu was a plant-man, with his body split into one half white and the other half black with a yellow eye. The black-half was a cannibal, and the other half wasn't. Sometimes both halves argue with each other.
"Where's Kisame?" Sakura raised her voice.
"I'm rite here, Sakura-sama!" A drunken voice yelled. Sakura looked to her left to see a very drunk fish-man.
"Drunk again, Kisame?" Sakura said. Kisame laughed and nodded.
"I tend to lose control when I -hiccup- drink, Sakura-sama!"
Sakura broke out into a fanged grin. "All the better, Kisame. I don't want anyone to hold back tonight. Today is when we destroy the rookie 9. I want to be there watching it happen."
Kisame was a shark-man, complete with gills and sharp teeth. He carried the legendary chakra-eating Samehada, which shaved and not cut.
"Dei-kun, Itachi, revert back to your true forms. Those bodies will do you no good now."
Deidara let out a happy whoop and poofed back to his original form. His machine eye whirred noisily.
"Glad to do so, my lady." Deidara whispered. Itachi hopped down next to him, his ponytail swishing from side to side.
Suddenly a black crow swooped down from the trees and landed in front of Sakura. It poofed back to a Sakura-clone, and whispered to her quickly before disappearing.
"This will be the plan, everyone, so pay attention! I want the poison troops to get out there and wipe out the pathetic defense teams! After you kill the defense, fall back. The armor troops, you will kill the offence teams once the poison troops are done. I will provide you with fire-proof protection. Those idiots are planning some stupid fire attack using phoenix flame." Sakura shouted.
"The rest of us will hide in the trees. Remember to mask your chakra, because there are ANBU in the school. They are getting reinforcements tonight, but I doubt many will come to their aid. We will lure them out, make them drop their guard by showing only 10 of us, and then we will destroy them. NO MERCY!" screamed Sakura.
"NO MERCY!" Her army screamed along with her.
"So…" Itachi raised the crispy cooked fish. "Anyone want it?"