-_- Third Person Point of View -_-
Four years have passed since Naruto's death, two years since the return if Namikaze Minato, and a few months after Minato awoke from his coma. Why should this matter some of you may be asking. The reason is because everything has happened and with what happens comes the repercussions. For example, Minato coming back alive caused Konoha to become feared again, which caused Danzo to be happy and the rest of the villages to plot for a way to bring down the power house that is Konoha. With a legendary Sannin, two Hokage's, and a huge list of A to S rank shinobi, Konoha was truly the strongest village.
Sunagakure was just happy that they were allies with this power house for it brought a lot less to fear, but they still feared. They feared that Konoha would break their alliance and there truly wasn't much they could do against it. Out of the five major hidden villages Sunagakure was the weakest one, even though Kirigakure just went through a bloody civil war. The only reason Sunagakure was a major village was that it was largely better than the minor village strength wise, still not holding a candle to any of the other major villages, and of course Sunagakure being allies with Konoha doesn't deter them from their huge rank.
Why is this story explaining to us the strength and weaknesses of Sunagakure you may be wondering. When it comes down to it, when everyone fears someone they tend to want to team up against that something and take it down. The first example of this was the massacre that the Shodaime Hokage did when he eliminated Kage's and their soldiers. We have already gone into the Shodaime's strength in a different chapter, which if this story were to guess was chapter 17 if it's not do comment or leave a review and tell the author when it was. Minato however could not take the pressure as the Shodaime Hokage, or even close, with the Raikage coming close to him in speed meaning that Minato had a rival or someone who could tie him in strength that decreased his chances of winning by a lot. Even after the battle with Madara, which broke down his body intensely, Hashirama still didn't have a rival in power only his brother Tobirama beat him in the speed compartment.
Now the story knows that it has already gone over most of this stuff so you're probably wondering why the story is telling you this again. Well let's just say that the other four major villages are going to be teaming up against Konoha. Now before you ask, yes that includes Sunagakure. Will Konoha survive, that's yet to be seen, as the story just revealed where it's going and where it's going to go is a very fun place, but because the story is probably boring you with this monologue of sorts, the story has decided to give you a short flash back before the story continues.
-_- Flash Back -_-
Uzumaki Naruto stood in front of his adoptive father with a smile on his face. "Tou-San, we are going to be going on our first C rank mission." The second genius of the family states.
"I believe you will be able to complete the mission correct." The Uchiha patriarch states sternly.
"Of course Tou-San I won't let anything come into my way of completing this mission." Naruto reassures using a serious tone.
It didn't get rid of the bad feeling Fugaku had about this mission before though. "Just make sure you and Sasuke get back home alright." Fugaku orders.
"I wouldn't dream it any other way." Naruto replies.
"Good." Fugaku states feeling slightly better.
"Plus it's only a C rank missions, unless random bandits can beat us then we should be fine." Naruto replied in deep thought.
"Never think that you are above a kind of mission because you're a genius, use your skills and think straight, don't let arrogance take control of you." Fugaku warns sternly.
"Who would have thought that the leader on one of the most arrogant clans would warn their child about arrogance, that's quite ironic if you think about it Tou-San." Naruto replies with a smirk.
"Just get back home." Mikoto states entering the conversation.
"I will Kaa-San." Naruto states before heading towards his bed.
-_-Back to plot -_-
So the story may be thinking that the reader is wondering about how Naruto will be involved in this war. The quick and easy answer is that he won't, for the dead cannot take place in fights of the living, the story thinks it made it clear that it killed of Naruto without any regrets. Yes the story realizes that it was only three or four chapters ago, but it still means Naruto is dead! Now let's get back to Minato.
"Minato the other villages are plotting." Jiraiya warns standing in the window.
"That's disturbing." Minato replies looking worried.
"We haven't yet received word from Sunagakure of their involvement in the war." Jiraiya states.
"Jiraiya I want you to go to Sunagakure and hear their response, bring Kakashi with you and a dozen Anbu in the case that they want to make any hostile moves." Minato orders.
"It will be done Minato." Jiraiya states leaving from the window to get Kakashi.
Minato proceeded Jiraiya's leaving by ordering Danzo into the room. "Danzo I need your root ANBU for a mission." Minato states.
"Straight to business eh." Danzo states.
"We have a war brewing and Konoha will need every shinobi we can get, your Anbu root will be no different." Minato sternly states.
"I understand, may I understand the mission." Danzo requests.
"Jiraiya, Kakashi and the root members you will be sending are going to be visiting Sunagakure to find out if they are going to be helpful to us in the war, if anything hostile happens with Jiraiya, Kakashi and the root Anbu I think that they will be able to hold themselves until reinforcements come, now if Sunagakure decides to help us then we will have Shikaku make a new plan with Sunagakure's might involved." Minato briefs.
"Why do we need Sunagakure's help?" Danzo inquired with a critical eye.
"While Konoha may be the strongest of the major villages we can't alone take down three major villages and at least ten minor villages." Minato replies.
"That many villages are after us, never thought I'd see the day." Danzo states, even for his insane standards he knew Konoha wouldn't be able to make it in one piece without help.
"I never wanted to see this day, Jiraiya's ideals for peace are going to have to be postponed another war." Minato states sadly.
"The root Anbu will be for Jiraiya's assistance at the gate tomorrow." Danzo states before walking away.
"Now I see why Hiruzen kept Danzo around, paranoia is truly a pain in the ass." Minato grumbles.
The next day Jiraiya, Hatake Kakashi, and a surprising two dozen root Anbu were standing ready at the gate. "Minato only requested one dozen Anbu." Jiraiya states only slightly surprised by the amount of Anbu there.
"Danzo-Sama said to bring more in the case that we need more help." The commander root Anbu states.
"Understood." Jiraiya states, paranoia could be helpful should thinks become sour.
"Let's go top speed to Sunagakure." Jiraiya states before sprinting off to Sunagakure.
Everyone watched with sweat drops when Jiraiya left their sight, was he insane. Running at full speed to Sunagakure would leave them exhausted and with Jiraiya being the fastest one there, they had no chance of catching up to him and telling him that. Jiraiya eventually came back to the group, in which most members told him why it would be stupid to run at full speed, but even so they would be moving at a fast pace to bring a usual three day travel to around two days. When they finally arrived at Sunagakure instead of being exhausted which Jiraiya's idea would have done, they felt ready and aware.
"Halt, state your name, and business for Sunagakure." A Chunin guard states.
"I am the hermit of Mount Myoboku, it is I the toad Mountain Sage, the great gallant Jiraiya!" Jiraiya introduces.
The Chuunin looks up in shock, he hadn't expected a Sannin to be at the village gates. But what he saw made him even more surprised, he saw Hatake Kakashi and a few hidden Anbu members hiding among them. "You may enter." The Chuunin weakly replied.
"Thank you." Jiraiya states before walking in with the rest of the group, heading straight for the Kazekage's tower.
"Welcome to the Kazekage's office." The secretary welcomes.
"Thank you." Kakashi replies with his closed eye smile.
"Hello Kazekage-Sama." Jiraiya states slightly bowing when he entered the room.
"Jiraiya, it's a surprise to see you." Rasa the Kazekage replies.
"We have business to attend to Kazekage-Sama." Kakashi interrupts.
"That we do have Hatake Kakashi." Rasa admits.
"Let's get straight to the point, Rasa are you going to help Konoha in the next war?" Jiraiya questioned.
"We of Sunagakure have yet to fully reach a conclusion, but we have scheduled that last meeting for this reason later today, so if you want to stay until then you are welcome to join the meeting and listen to our meeting." Rasa offers.
"Are you sure it's wise to allow the Konoha shinobi to listen to a council meeting, what if it gets side tracked and they hear of our other plans?" A Sunagakure adviser asks whispering in the Kazekage's ear.
"I'm sure we will be fine." Rasa whispers back.
"I trust you not to make a mistake." The adviser states before leaving.
"When is the meeting." Jiraiya inquires.
"It is planned to be at around six later today, if you want to show up do not be late." Rasa warns, particularly looking at Kakashi, for he had heard of the man's tendency to be late.
"I shall show up 15 minutes before the recommended time, while I don't know if Kakashi will even be on time if he decides to show up, unless I carry him there that is." Jiraiya states eyeing down the Hatake.
"I will count on it." Rasa replies before Jiraiya left his office.
Later it turned out that neither Jiraiya or Kakashi showed up for the meeting, albeit there were a few Root Anbu lurking around the meeting. "Greetings everyone in the council, since Jiraiya and Kakashi have not joined us for this meeting we can talk freely about the plans." Rasa opens up the council meeting with a greeting.
" Are you sure we aren't being accompanied by different shinobi other than Jiraiya or Kakashi?" A council member questioned.
"Of course." Rasa replies.
"Okay now all in favor in helping Konoha in this hopeless war, please raise your hand." Rasa states already knowing how many people would raise their hands.
A few seconds later zero people raised their hands. "All in favor of helping the other villages destroy Konoha, please raise your hand." Rasa states again knowing what would happen.
Everyone in the council raised their hands except for the root Anbu hiding in the corner of course. "The decision has been made, Konoha shall be razed to the ground, so let's start with the Yondaime's student and teacher." Rasa states before plotting a way to kill the Sannin and Hatake.
When the plan is set in stone and the root Anbu got every bit of information they could, they ran back to Jiraiya to relay the message. "Jiraiya-Sama Rasa has created a plan to kill you and Hatake-Sama." a root Anbu began before filling Jiraiya in on all of the details to the plan.
"Thank you, for the details now send back a letter to Konoha telling Minato of everything that has taken place." Jiraiya orders.
"Of course Jiraiya-Sama." The root Anbu states before leaving.
"Kakashi you up for a fight?" The Sannin asks his companion.
"As ready as possible to face one of the great villages, two verses a village I always expected you and Minato-Sensei to be the ones doing this not me." Kakashi admits.
"We're both S ranked shinobi and Sunagakure is the weakest great village." Jiraiya states trying to raise Kakashi's morals.
"You're forgetting that this is still a great village and while we're both S ranked shinobi we aren't strong enough to take thousands of shinobi on by ourselves." Kakashi states.
"We don't have to kill each and every single one of the shinobi here, we just have to wait it out and kill as many as we can before reinforcements come." Jiraiya explains.
"The probability that we die is still high, even with the root Anbu here with us." Kakashi reasons.
"We just have to bring out our summons and we will have a distinct advantage, with a few giant toads, me in sage mode, a bunch of your dog summons, and you we will be unstoppable for a while." Jiraiya explains trying to get Kakashi out of the more pessimistic thoughts about how this fight will end up.
"I say we just retreat and strengthen Konoha shinobi's before the war starts, training the next generation." Kakashi replies.
"We will do that when we are done with this fight." Jiraiya states.
"You're arrogance is your weak spot Jiraiya, you may be a Sannin but this is a major village, sure you would easily take control of wave because they don't have shinobi but a major village is out of our reach, even if Tsunade was her and Orochimaru was still loyal and in this fight." Kakashi states.
"I'm not being arrogant, I know that I can't take this village on my own which is why we are stalling Minato is going to come later with the reinforcements and utterly destroy this place, all we have to do is weaken them up a tiny bit for Minato to come and finish it up." Jiraiya explains to his students student.
"What about the Ichibi, what if they release the Jinchuuriki onto us?" Kakashi questions.
"Me and Minato made seals that target Biju chakra and contain it to the point where it's completely useless." Jiraiya replies.
"Fine, but if you are to die then you shouldn't blame me." Kakashi states.
"I'd blame you if you stabbed a Chidori through me though." Jiraiya joked, before he remembered something.
Kakashi was shooting him a withering glare, he joked about one of the few things you shouldn't joke about. "I'm sorry Kakashi, I was just joking and playing around I kinda forgot about what happened." Jiraiya apologizes.
"You shouldn't have forgotten, I never will." Kakashi replies coldly before leaving the area.
"Well that was just great" Jiraiya complains to himself.
"You really did do a good job at pissing off my student didn't you?" Minato questions.
"Yeah I am good at doing that though." Jiraiya replies to his student.
"Tell me everything that has happened so far, and tell me whether Sunagakure will be helping us in this war." Minato ordered jumping straight to business.
"Sunagakure is not planning to help us, going as far as to help the other countries destroy us, It's Uzushiogakure all over again." Jiraiya jokes.
Minato glared at Jiraiya. "You are having bad luck with jokes today, too loved females in one day." Minato states glaring at Jiraiya.
"Oh come on she didn't even die by then." Jiraiya complains.
"I never met most of her family, and for a clan that the ability to live for over one hundred years that's saying something." Minato replies.
"I'm sorry Minato but let's just be ready, we were warned that they plan to attack us tomorrow." Jiraiya warns.
"I will be ready, I am already in the process of making more Hiraishin Kunai for this village's destruction. If we destroy Sunagakure under the pretext that they attacked Konoha and we acted in revenge, to use Sunagakure as an example as to slow down the chances of war for a little bit longer so we can better prepare our armies.
-_-Fin -_-
I hope that you guys enjoyed this chapter. I know that I went through things fastly and I rushed quite a bit of things in this chapter, but I've been hoping to possibly finish this story, that is if I can't think of something else to do after the war. I'm sorry about the quality of this chapter if there is stuff wrong with it, I'm truly sorry. My left eye is burning in pain right now so I'm going to sleep. I hope to see you with my right eye in the next update. - ForgottenOrange
Finished/ Published 4/9/17