Hiruzen didn't become Hokage for his good looks, after a moment of confusion, he shook himself free, quickly jumping away from Shinkiro. Before he could look for an escape however, a large purple barrier surrounded the trio. Powered by the sound four, who went into the first state of the cursed seal, black markings spreading all over their body.

"Betraying your allies Shinkiro?" he demanded. "Don't act Innocent Hiruzen" Shinkiro replied coolly "You truly thought we would not find out about you bribing away Suna's missions?"

Hiruzen turned towards Kushina "And why are you attacking me?"

Kushina shrugged like it was a minor matter. "Betraying the whirlpool, allowing Danzo to reveal Naruto is a container, allowing my boy to be mistreated. Orochimaru had his own list of issues, but I am not going to name him. Although a special mention goes to your treatment of Anko, you like making scapegoats do you?"

Hiruzen could only sigh, now knowing there was no avoiding this conflict. He threw off his official Hokage garbs, revealing he was wearing battle armor underneath. "My old instincts where right, something would happen today."

He took a battle stance "The time for talk is over" he said sternly. Kushina lay a hand on Shinkiro's shoulder. "Good luck", the man merely nodded, and dropped two sealing scrolls on the ground, who unfurled and then released prodigious amounts of gold dust. Kushina dashed away, as she approached the barrier, she pulled a seal, the word 'Gate' prominently present. The seal touched the barrier, and a large hole appeared in both barriers, she smiled wickedly at the flabbergasted ANBU standing on the other side.


On Top of a spire overlooking the arena.

Kabuto had a magnificent view as Kushina and Shinkiro scooped up Hiruzen and cleared the balcony. Undisturbed by the explosion, he finished the last handsigns. "Temple of Nirvana." He spoke quietly, as feathers started to fall. He then set off on his own mission.


Arena

The explosion shook Gaara out of his enraged state, and reminded him of his mission. Sending a large unfocused blob of sand towards the distracted Uchiha to keep him away, he quickly ran over to his siblings, who jumped down from the alcove and made their way to them. The pain from his shoulder preventing him from getting caught in the genjutsu.

"Gaara!" Temari shouted, resisting the genjutsu that started to fall. Kankuro faltered a step, before recovering. "Sorry" Gaara apologized "I did not…" he started before a hug silenced him "It's alright, let's go. I'll look at it as soon we arrive at the target location."

Gemna, who was confused what the hell was going on, decided to stop the trio. "Stop, where are you going!" he demanded. But before he could do more, Baki appeared between them. "Go, do your mission." He commanded, before locking blades with Genma.

Sasuke dug himself out, caught off-guard by the huge blob of sand, nearly burying him alive. He looked confused at the fights breaking out around him.

Genma saw the boy as he clashed again with Baki "Sasuke, go proof that you are a chuunin, follow Gaara and stop whatever they are planning!"

Roles reversed, it was now Genma that intercepted Baki, who tried to score a quick kill on the last Uchiha.

"Go!"

Sasuke dashed off.


The moment the explosive tags went off, the hidden Suna and Oto ninja revealed themselves, slashing left and right, scoring many casualties in the surprise. Konoha's famous teamwork however quickly recovered and started pushing back, spearheaded by powerful combinations like Kakashi and Guy.

Naruto, who was caught off-guard by the genjutsu finally completely shook himself out of it. Getting re-aware of his environment, he only saw a snoring Shikamaru. Gazing to the arena that was slowly turning into a battlefield, he spotted a certain duckbutt haired boy giving chase to somebody.

Figuring he was after Gaara, Naruto gave chase himself.

Kakashi, momentarily not distracted, saw both boys give chase, and cursed. 'I can't trust Naruto to keep Sasuke safe, despite his surprising strength.' He glanced around, spotting Sakura looking lost and Kiba unengaged. Quickly summoning Pakkun, he called the two over.

"Sakura, Kiba. Sasuke and Naruto gave chase to Gaara. Gaara is planning something, go after them and back them up." He ordered. Kakashi wished team Asuma or Guy where around, but both broken teams teamed up with other genin upon the orders of other chuunin or jonin, and send on their own missions.

Pakkun, Kiba, Akamaru and Sakura carefully jumped off the stands into the arena, staying near the edge as more experienced fighters clashed in the center. Pakkun sniffed "Tomatoes and fox, I got them." He spoke confidently. Kiba and Akamaru sniffed too, agreeing.

The group followed the tracks, the fighting hadn't started outside the arena yet. But Pakkun, with his experience and advanced senses knew it would happen soon. And quickly led the genin and dog after Sasuke and Naruto.


Jiraya sighed as he disappointedly gazed through his telescope, the hot spring he was peeking on was quite empty.

'I don't understand why sensei needed me here.' Jiraya thought 'This is the third hot spring that is empty.' Collapsing his telescope, he hoped the next hot spring he had more luck 'I don't understand what he worries about, aside from suddenly attacking the Uchiha, Oro-teme has been silent for quite a while now. He might have helped build Oto, but the current unknown leader is far too kind to his subordinates.'

A sudden explosion from the arena shock Jiraya out of his thoughts. 'Wonder what kind of genin could..' he started to think, before his thoughts where interrupted by the alarm bells from the walls. His confusion grew when he heard the familiar sound of war from the arena.

Stuck between deciding to rush over to the arena, or find out the disturbance was at the walls. Jiraya stood undecided for a second, before a loud crashing noise made the choice for him.


With a final burst of chakra, the cabal of summoners completed their task. And in huge puffs of smoke. A gigantic two headed snake appeared, easily towering over the great wall Konoha. Flanking the massive beast where two large 'normal' snakes. With a roar, the snakes charges forward.

Below in the shadows of the beasts, the assembled forces shot forward, most rushing towards the gates. Others kill teams rushed out towards the most likely location of nearby patrols. Several teams followed behind the large snakes more sedately, letting the normal forces take the brunt of the damage, they had specific targets to kill. Most of these teams where from Oto.

The snakes sudden appearance alerted the guards upon the gate. Who quickly sounded the alarm. Before they could do anything more, the leading two headed snake bodily slammed through the wall. Spraying debris all over the buildings behind it. The other two snakes slithered over the wall, cracking the wall under their weight.

Konoha ninja on the walls and behind them instantly started to pepper the large beasts with projectiles and jutsu. But their thick scales shrugged them off. Soon after, they also had to contend with the invading force. Who followed the snakes through the breach.

Ibiki, who was trying to track Zaku, after nearly losing him thanks to the henge took command, cursing in his head all the while. 'I knew it, Kabuto, Zaku… only question is if Naruto was involved, Hokage protection be damned, I am going to get some one on one time in my playroom with the boy.' He thought bitterly. He hated it when he didn't get the truth on time.

Thanks to Ibiki's leadership, the Suna/Oto troops where slowed down, but nothing Ibiki or his men could do would hinder the snakes. Until suddenly a giant red toad wearing a black kimono, wielding a sasumata in one, and a light yellow shield in the other, appeared in the sky above on of the giant snakes, crushing it under the toads weight.

Ibiki sensed Jiraya land next to him "Jiraya-sama, you are just on time." Ibiki said. "No, I am not" Jiraya replied grimly, his face stern while he pointed to a concentration of ninja making their way past the ruined entrance. "Gamaken, take care of the other snakes." He shouted. "I will, although I am very ungraceful" the toad replied. Stomping forward to the remaining single headed snake, who coiled up, and shot forward. 'Snakes.. so he is involved.. I was wrong' Jiraya thought.

Gamaken blocked the snake with his shield, handily diverting it to the side, overstretched, the snake couldn't move in time as Gamaken used his sasumata as a large club, strike the snake with the pointy prongs. Dispelling it.

The two headed snake watched this, and slithered slow circles around Gamaken, crushing buildings as it went, who recovered his stance, shield forward, sasumata pointed as a spear. The two large summon watched each other wearily. Suddenly, the left head shot forward like a lightning strike, fangs poised, Gamaken moved his shield accordingly, and blocked the strike, ground shuddering under the combined impact.

Attempting to counter with his sasumata, Gamaken was forced to abort his strike, lest he kept himself open for the right head, who poised to bite his weapon arm off.

As the two enormous summons did battle, the Konoha forces used the created no-go area to recover. However the Suna/Oto forces where not interested dueling their counterparts, and flowed around the battle area, into Konoha proper to complete their missions.

Jiraya cursed 'Why did I not see this coming, where is Oro-teme?' he asked himself. "Spread out, stop them from completing whatever missions they have." Ibiki added "Be careful, there will be infiltration teams present!"


As Kushina cleared the barriers, which closed up behind her, she launched several snakes with her right hand, while her left palm shot a multitude of wickedly spiked chains. Who like the snakes from her other hand wrapped themselves around the ANBU, the spikes cutting and burning into them, causing them to scream in agony as they bled to death.

The few ANBU who managed to survive the onslaught leapt forward, drawing blades as they went. Kushina broke free her left hand, her chains going up into flames as she disconnected them from her, and hovered behind her lower back. A hidden seal glowed, and Kushina revealed the Kusanagi. Blocking the first strike while bending away from the second, she used her swords sharpness to cut through the tanto the ANBU was using, the blade digging deep into the ANBU's chest.

Pulling free, Kushina released the snakes on her right hand, and quickly jabbed the second ANBU in the chest, unbalancing him until she could right herself, and with a mighty swing, cut the ANBU from shoulder to hip. The last ANBU, seeing his comrades quick demise, hopped back and started to make handseals, finishing in a tora seal.

Fire belched forward, and in response Kushina raised her right palm, a multiple bundled chains shot forward towards the fireball, blossoming into an hallow sphere around the offending ANBU, blocking his attack and enveloping him, the sphere suddenly compressed, blood spurting out between he spikes.

Quickly moving on the next part of the plan, Kushina resealed the blade. And knelt down to carefully ripped off three lengths from her dress. She lay the three pieces down, revealing they were large sealing tags, and with a burst of chakra, two coffins appeared and a set of kunai. With a quick push, both lids came free, revealing they were empty, but wood edged with sealing formulas.

Kushina walked over to the ANBU she had stricken with snakes, and was pleased multiple ANBU where alive but paralyzed by venom. She picked up two, and tossed them carelessly into the coffins. She closed the lids and started to make handseal. At the end, she clapped her hand, and put each hand on top of a coffin while intoning "Kuchiyose: Edo Tensei"

Screams where heard from the coffins, but the soon ended in a pained gurgle. Kushina meanwhile calmly walked towards the kunai, double checking the seals wrapped around them. Both lids suddenly exploded away, and two people rose, their bodies cracked, eyes blank.

Before they could do anything, Kushina rammed a kunai in each head, which sank deeper into them. Both men turned like puppets. Revealing themselves to be Senju Hashirama and his brother Tobirama. Both looked disapprovingly towards Kushina, while just smiled slightly that her technique was a success.

She initially planned to also use her dear husband too. But upon experimenting to reincarnate him in the lab to severely torture him, she failed. Kabuto later theorized he was not in the pure world, but in truly in the shinigami's stomach, and thus could not be revived.

Kushina knew there was a way to free him, but she needed the location of the Uzumaki Shinigami temple, which she was never told despite being her clans property. Her other experiments showed the dead subjects could talk, something she saw as an undesirable trait, so she modified Orochimaru's original tags with her Uzumaki seal brilliance, making them both more powerful, and permanently shutting them up if she wished so.

'Glad I did that' she thought, looking at the disapproving looks she received from the first and second Hokage. 'Both of them probably would have complained their heads off, I am ordering to destroy their own hard work.'

"Hashirama, destroy the Akimichi compound and the emergency food storages, kill any Konoha ninja along the way. Tobirama, flood the Nara deer ranch and then destroy all the medical supply reserves they have."

Both kages dashed off. As they disappeared, she heard a surprised "Kushina?"


Gaara, Temari and Kankuro ran into the warehouse. The sounds of war dimmed as the trio moved in further. As planned, the warehouse was empty, and the floor was broken up, allowing Gaara direct access to the earth.

"Gaara stop" Temari ordered. "Kankuro, hand me the bandages you use to hide your puppet." Kankuro raised an eyebrow "Those aren't clean" She shot him a glare. "Do you want Gaara to bleed to death then?" Kankuro shook his head and unwrapped his puppet again, handing Temari the bandages. While Kankuro was unwrapping his puppet, she had quickly inspected the wound, it was very shallow, but the glancing nature lighting attack had broken a lot of skin, causing it bleed profusely.

Temari carefully bound the wound, staunching the bleeding. She finished, and gave her youngest brother a quick hug, who started to fidget for worrying his siblings.

The wall suddenly exploded inwardly, and out of the smoke walked Sasuke, arrogant smirk present. "Here you are weaklings, prepare to feel the might of the Uchiha clan!" he declared proudly, black wisps of chakra emerging from the seal. Gaara stepped forward to fight him.

"No Gaara, prepare to transform, we will handle him." Temari ordered, she and her brother stood in front of Gaara, fan and puppet at the ready.

Gaara hesitantly walked to the broken up floor, sank into a lotus position and started to draw upon Shukaku's chakra and pushed it into the soil below. Grinding it into fine sand, charged with the beasts chakra.

Sasuke, wishing to finish the fight with Gaara, convinced he could turn the tables of the fight before the explosion happened, charged forward, sharingan blazing. His eyes easily predicted the slashing wind Temari shot his way with her fan. Before dodging a multitude of senbon from the puppets mouth.

Sasuke, quickly going through the handseals, puffed up his chest and belched fire with a cry of "Katon: Gōkakyū no Jutsu" towards the puppet, forcing Temari to halt her attacks lest the strengthens the flames. Kankuro pulled his puppet back hard, barely dodging the flames. The fireball flew on unimpeded, and struck the roof, setting it alight.

Both Kankuro and Temari retreated away from the burning roof towards their brother. Temari unsure if using her wind jutsu would worsen the fire. Kankuro busy trying to figure out how the fire would spread, and how he would keep his puppet safe.

Sasuke laughed, interpreting their retreat and hesitation as a victory. "Hahaha, see that weaklings, you don't stand a chance against me, now out of the way. I want to fight Gaara!"

Kankuro gritted his teeth, thinking Gaara needed more time. "I say screw the order Temari, just kill the guy." He spoke in soft tones. Temari grimaced, not a fan of breaking orders, but seeing no other option. As the pair prepared to attack, their brothers voice, deeper than normal, spoke up.

"Temari, Kankuro, move. I am ready."

AN: Its invasion time, and I will invade with double chapters during it!

I hope despite all the scene switching, you have a decent idea what is actually happening. If it's too confusing, I blame war, war is confusion, sue Khorne. (internet cookie for who gets it)

I know it where just 3 normal oversized snakes in the original invasion, but I wanted to try a write a decent summon battle. So I needed a 'flagship' kind of summon. (I also changed the toad for that reason)

Honestly, the Suna trio, Sasuke and Naruto fight was supposed to go waaay different, yet this is what came out, muses are a funny thing.

kage88: Kage, you should know by now I aint spoillering such things. Just tease you mercilessly, after all, Naruto has so many pretty ladies to go around in Oto…. Who knows what he will do~

Von Kreuz: I suppose I was a bit blunt with that foreshadowing. Or everybody caught the others and kept a silent and smug about it.

Guest reviewer: I am taking a different path.

Dregus: As you can see, there is some edo-tensei action. How Hiruzen meets his end… well, I know, you don't ;) Perhaps he'll survive the invasion!

Wyrtha: Nope, he is still there. I needed him there, why? Well read that in the coming chapters ;) The initial attack is more powerful in my story. And instead of rampaging snakes, we got a toad and snake duel it out. Yes,Konoha will have suddenly room for some parks when the invasion is over /tease.