Disclamer: I do not own Naruto
As the sun was giving place to the moon. A group of shinobie of Konoha were fighting thousands of clan ninjas while slowly retreating.
"Don't concentrate on one, use area jutsu!" Yamato yelled as he slashed away the Hyuuga's attacking.
"They're not powerful, they can't use any of the clan powers, nor can they seem to use Ninjutsu." Shikamaru remarked as he was holding many Uchiha and Senju with his shadow possession, who was getting crushed by the enlarged Chouji.
"Well, Danzo did say they were only shadows." Kakashi said, "Naruto watch out!" He yelled throwing five shurikens on multiple attackers. Naruto barely managed to evade the Senju's katana. He was at a disavantage because he was carrying Hinata in his arms.
"Let me carry her Naruto, You're better at fighting." Sakura said. Naruto nodded and gave Hinata to her, "Show us how strong you've become." She said while blinking one eye. Naruto nodded with a smirk.
"Futon: Sokudo Agaru Kaze (Wind Release: Winds of Higher Velocity.)" He formed a triangle with his thumbs and fingers. Wind began to blow faster and faster, some of the smaller trees were reapped from the ground. Everyone were holding on the nearest tree's and with the speed of the wind, the army was pinned down, unable to move foward agains't the gust. He then takes something that ressembles a metal pipe. The pipe suddenly transformed into a human size, twleve pointed shuriken. He planted it into the ground, then started to form another hand seal, "Honoo Umu (Produce Flame)." The shuriken's blades instantly bursted out in flames. Naruto grabed the middle handle and threw it while letting out a scream. Before it hits the enemy, he formed a last hand seal,
"Shuriken Kage Bunshin no Jutsu (Shuriken Shadow Clone Technique)." The flaming shuriken that was now a flaming wheel began to multiply into countless others, burning all in their way.
"Stop the wind Naruto!" Sakura yelled, but the wind was too strong for her voice to reach him.
Shikamaru, who was holding on the same tree as her, smirked. Sakura saw his smirk and asked what was so funny. He then looked at Sakura, "The wind, Naruto grew smart." Sakura heard screams of death and turned in the direction of the screams.
Because the strong winds were feeding the flames, all that was in front of Naruto was now a world of fire, engulfing the entire army as they screamed out of pain.
"Well that takes care of that." Naruto said with a smile of accomplishment. The wind then returned to normal.
"Smart move Naruto!" Kakashi said impressed, then he started laughting, "But you've just condemned a large part of this forest." He said as he saw that only ash remained.
Naruto scratched his head with a smile of innocence on his face, "Oups!" The others all laughted at his childish reaction. But the laughter quickly turned to gasps as the clans army were rising from the ground, again.
"What!?" Naruto yelled in shock. "I thought I killed them for sure!?"
"You did, they are just being summon again, that meaning that Danzo is near" Yamato realised.
"We must stop the retreat, we can't let them enter Konoha!" Kakashi ordered, "We have two choice, to continue to fight until his chakra depletes, or we can divide our team and one group will search for him."
"We don't know how much chakra this justu use, so we better look for him." Shikamaru said with his arm crossed, cigarette in his mouth, "This is getting troublesome."
"Neji, Kiba,Naruto and Yamato, go find him." Kakashi ordered, "Hai" They all responded.
Sai and Ten-Ten saw the inferno from afar as they rush towards the flames
"What's happening over there, is it Danzo?" Ten-Ten asked.
"It doesn't matter now we know where they are, Konoha's in danger and we need to go get them." The Anbu said with a calm tone.
"Mokuton: Souzou Ki Sakura (Wood Release: Cherry Tree Creation)" Twelve cherry trees rosed up from the ground behind Yamato.
"Thanks Yamato-senpai." Ino, who was beside him, said with a smile of gratitude. Yamato nodded as he charged oncoming enemy's on his right.
Ino immediatly formed a hand seal, "You Sakura Kireru Buyou (Slicing Dance of the Cherry Trees.)" The pink leaves began to fall to the ground. Once that all the leaves where detached from the trees, they rosed up in the air behind Ino and came down in front of her like a giant wave. It rushed the enemy like a tsunami, slicing all that it touched. The clans warrior were full of blood from the countless cuts on their bodys. As they falled, other rosed from the ground.
"Neji, did you find him!?" Naruto said with a frown.
Neji had activated his Byakugan and was scouting the surroundings. Kiba, who picked up his scent, told Neji which direction too look, "No, I can't see him." He said discouraged.
"We need to hurry if we want to see the others again." Yamato said with a serious look, "Lets go east."
Behind a rock Danzo formed the hand seal for his forbidden jutsu for the third time.
"Damn, at this rate I'm gonna run out of chakra." He said clenching his fist. "I need to go before the Hyuuga boy finds me, but I need the girl."
A shuriken caught him off guard as it cuts the knots of his bandage behind his head, letting it fall to the ground. Quickly putting his hand over his eyes, he looked in anger at the four ninjas standing there with a look of determination on their face.
"Found you, now come with us quietly." Yamato ordered, pointing his fingers at the old man.
"Come quietly? Do you take me for a fool!?" Danzo said while revealing the part of his face that was under the bandages. All the right part of his face was burned, his eyes were closed.
"So the Warhawk reveals his face." Said Yamato. "But it's nothing special." As he was about to form a hand seal, Neji stood in front of him.
"Go back to the others, he's the reason Hinata suffered!" Said Neji while raising his voice.
"No!" Naruto yelled with his fist in front of his face, "Hinata is as important to me than she is too you!"
"Sorry Naruto, but the others need you. Please protect Hinata, this won't take long." Neji replied.
Naruto only nodded in agreement with a frown.
"Be careful." Kiba advised Neji before they all left him to fight Danzo alone.
"Brave of you Hyuuga." Danzo taunted with a smirk.
"Before we start, tell me why you needed my cousin?" The Hyuuga asked.
"I don't need to tell you." Replied to Neji, then forming a hand seal.
"Damn! What's taking them so long?" Chouji said as he was his normal size. The groups chakra had taken a terrible blow. All were fatigued, the clan shadows were not strong, but they keep coming back after one falls.
"We can't fall here!" Sakura yelled with determination, still carrying the passed out Hyuuga.
"Mokuton: Hayashi Sumushi (Wood Release: Living Dead Forest.)" Yamato yelled as the others turned to see him doing his seal. The trees around the army were starting to move, using their roots too move. They constricted most of the clans warriors. Then they slowly began to sink into the ground with the trees. After a couple of seconds, part of the forest was now a barren wasteland.
"Kinda flashy entry there Yamato." Said Kiba with a smile of determination.
"Where's Neji?" Kakashi asked as he saw that he was missing.
"He's fighting Danzo." Naruto said with hesitation in his voice.
Neji and Danzo were at the same level, battling for supremacy. Danzo's forbidden jutsu costed him alot of chakra.
"I don't have time for this, "Satoru Akuma (Demon Awake.)" A black chakra surounded Danzo. The charka then concentrated on his body, sending a wave of sound that debalanced Neji. The Hyuuga looked in shock when Danzo opened his right eye.
"How can it be!?" Neji muttered in disbelief.
Danzo's body statred to transform into a tree, a lcolossal tree. Danzo's body was attached to the center of the tree.
Neji snapped out of it when he saw a root erupting from the ground trying to pierce him, which he was able to barely evade. "Then I have no choice." Neji's hair started to glow silver, his hair were now straight, not braided and completly silver. White chakra surrounded him and his eyes were glowing pure white. "This is the true power of the Byakugan, the Shin Byakugan!"
He charged at the giant tree, but was shot in the air by a branch. He smiled with confidance " This will be easy, even in this form, I can see your chakra system." He was cut short as a branch arrows volley came his way, but with is was able to easily stop all of them with is new Byakugan, which gave him the power to not only see 360 degree, but to read the enemy's next move. "I don't have the time for this!" He said as he was starting to fall from the branch swing."Shin Kanjiru: Shou Nagakyo (True Sense: Long Distance Palm.)" Neji began to hit the air with his fingers, sending white chakra bullets to the chakra points of the Danzo tree.
Danzo began to turn back to his normal human form. He glanced at Neji, who was back o normal. "Used up too much." He said while smirking. "I guess you'll have to do for the time being."
From where the others were standing, they saw the tree, but didn't notice as they were still defending themselves. A bright white light blinded the whole area. When they regained their sight, the army was gone.
Everyone then had a bad vibration as they felt no chakra in the direction of Neji. Without saying a word, everyone ran towards the fight.
Sai looked at the wasteland of ash and dirt. "What happened here?"
Ten-Ten appeared beside him, "They've gone that way, lets go!"
Neji was on the ground, his face in the dirt. Ino and Sakura rushed to see if he was alive. To their relief, he was only out of chakra.
"Where's Danzo." Kakashi wondered.
Their Anbu friends appeared behind them with a look of distress on their face.
"What's the matter?" Yamato asked confused.
"This was only a diversion, we need to get back to Konoha now!" Said Ten-Ten.
"A diversion? " Naruto said with a frown.
"Their target was Konoha." Said Sai.
The party all froze in fear at the revelation.
"Lets get moving!" Said Naruto who spoked in rage.
It was dawn when the team arrived near Konoha. Jumping branch to branch.
"So Danzo knew I heard his conversation with Naruto, knowing full well that Hokage would've send all of us to back him up, leaving Konoha vulnerable." Kakashi said in disgust.
"They had it all planned from the begining." Said Shikamaru, who felt defeated in a game of knowledge.
Naruto was deep in thought, then he realised something. "Somethings not right, why taking Hinata hostage and keeping her alive for so long. And why the sudden interest of Hinata?"
Yamato reflected on Naruto's question, but before he was about to speak, Kakashi interrupted him, "They faked Hinata's death knowing that you would've just gone by yourself to save her. If they'd only kidnapped her, chances were that you would've gone ask for help before setting out."
Naruto interrupted him, "In the two cases, you all came. So why all the complication?"
Kakashi fought for a brief moment, then anwsered "That Ayoma absorbed a large part of your chakra. After that he and Orochimaru lost interest in Hinata and Danzo and got away, maybe they needed you to be the first here so they could've have less problem to take your chakra. But why, I do not know."
"But is Orochimaru connected to Tsuihousha?" Kiba asked.
"I don't know, but I don't see him working with others." Kakashi explained.
"Look!" Sakura said as she was pointing in the direction of Konoha, smoke was rising up in the sky.
Upon arriving in front of Konoha's gates, the village was in a bad shape, but nothing that a month of work couldn't repair. More suprising, they saw Temari and Kankuro leaving the village.
"Temari!?" Shikamaru said in suprise.
Temari and Kankuro was also suprised to see them, "It was about time you came, if we weren't here on business, your village would been gone by now." Kankuro said with a smirk.
"What happened?" Naruto said looking at Kankuro.
"And who are you?" He asked. After a moment of inspection, he realised, "Naruto?"
Temari looked at the once little boy was now a full grown man. "Hey there, its been awhile."
Kankuro was wearing his same attires, but he made himself an armor that ressambles Crow, his hair were like Crows, but it wasn't his real hair, it was really Crows hair. Temari had a ponytail with her hair kept long on the side of her face. Her hair came down near half of her body. She wore a breast half-plate and the same black robe she wore. Her midriff was only showing her right half. Her left leg was shown, because she only wore small pants under her robe.
"Sorry, no time to reminisce, Hinata needs to be healed." Said Naruto as he and the group rushed beside him towards the hospital, leaving only Shikamaru with the two Sand ninjas.
Kankuro sighted, "I'll start to walk, don't take all day, Gaara needs us." And then he started walking, leaving the two behind. Temari smiled as she walks over Shikamaru...
At the hospital, they saw Tsunade healing the wounded outside.
"Baa-chan!? What happened?" Naruto yelled.
Tsunade twitched when she heard the name, " Sound ninja's attacked, but they were at the second state of Orochimaru's Cursed Seal." She said.
"The casualty's?" Kakashi asked.
She looked at Kakashi with greiving eyes, "About thirty villagers, two Anbus... and a Jounin."
Before she could finish, she saw Hinata, "She's truly alive!? Come, I'll heal her."
Kakashi stopped Tsunade before she could get a hold of Hinata, "Who?"
She looked at him with the same eyes as before, "Might Gai."
This ends this chapter. If there is questions, then ask.
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