Chapter Twenty-five
The second great shinobi war started up between the five great nations for territory and such. To me it felt like a pointless war, as the smaller countries became the battlegrounds.
During the war, I was put into a team with Storm, Sage and Fall as part as a long range and collateral damage team. Taka was on a team with Bolt, Fire and an Akimichi at my request to be away from him, much to Hiruzens suspicions.
My team and I were running in our wolf forms. My ten tails waving behind me as we all took the forms of proper sized canines. My purple tinged fur was splattered with mud and other unknown substances.
I didn't know how long we had been running through the gloomy day as we ran through a country called Ame. Immediate back-up had been called as they were slowly being annihilated after a large group of Kumo ninjas decided to join in the brawl between Konoha and Iwa and they both targeted Konoha.
We ran across no mans land as weapons rained down on us. I used the iron pellets from my blood to cover us as we slid into the trenches and came face to face with Sakumo, newly named Konoha's white fang because of his white chakra tanto that glowed, well white.
"Where the hell have you been?" The young man shouted at us as we transformed back again.
"We got way laid by a group of Suna ninja's advancing on our territory and we had no choice but to finish them off first and besides any other team would have taken longer." I argued back as I passed soldier pills to my team and Sakumo's.
"Where's Light?" Storm asked.
"He's on the side with the Kumo ninjas and half this team." I replied quickly.
"Please tell me you have a plan Sonea because I have run out and panicking." He said nervously.
"Is Team Hiruzen around?" I asked quickly starting with my first plan.
"They had to leave a while ago when Hanzo showed up." He said as we dodged a rain of kunai coming into the trenches.
"Shit. Okay, pull everyone back and I mean everyone. Storm, create storm release; dark clouded mist. Fall, use your chakra veil to keep them from advancing as well as you Sage, and use your earth element to create a maze. I will use my blood limit to kill them with my iron pellets jutsu. Let's start. Storm?" I commanded as Sakumo alerted an immediate retreat.
"Storm release; Dark Clouded mist." Storm said as Fall unravelled her veils and Sage started with hand seals, jutsu after jutsu.
"Blood arts: Rapid blood haematopoiesis justu." I said as I over created blood cells to replace the ones that were dying as I pulled hundreds of pellets out of my skin. I nodded to my team as I took off into the sky with my trail of iron.
"Blood arts; Iron rain!" I said in the middle of the battlefield as the pellets rained down and swarmed throughout the battlefield. I was happy that Storm's jutsu was in place so I didn't have to watch. I made sure that all chakra signatures had disappeared before I landed back into the trenches and told my team to release their jutsus.
A field, littered with dead bodies everywhere and pools of blood was all that was left. A few of the people in the trenches with us actually threw up what little they had in their stomachs. My team just looked on, emotionlessly as a messenger came up and said that our team was to move to Kumo's side and everyone else had been ordered home.
I nodded to Sakumo, as we left our separate ways. My team and I headed out in our smaller wolf forms again, following the feel of Light's chakra. I saw a movement in the distance and stopped and headed towards the two figures cautiously.
It was Tsunade and Orochimaru. We stopped and looked at each other and I spoke first.
"Where is the knuckle head?" I asked.
"He stayed behind with some orphans. We are returning to Iwa's side." Orochimaru said in his creepy voice.
"No need. We finished them. You have been ordered to return home." I said noting their injuries.
"Who gave you those orders?" Tsunade demanded. I then decided to transform to my human state while I told the others to stay as they were.
"My name is Sonea Storm Shadow and this is a direct order from your superior." I commanded. They both seemed to loosen up and started to head home. We took off again to Kumo's side and performed the same trap.
We managed to perform the same trick multiple times before we started to get counter acted throughout the years and our names started to become as well known as the Legendary Sanins and Konoha's White Fang. We gained the name of Konoha's Iron Storm which made us laugh when people tried to retreat when they realised the story of four wolves appearing and then a dark cloud appeared before a giant snake of material and then the iron rain.
The war finally ended with all sides visibly damaged and Konoha came out as the best out of the Five Great Nations. Jiraiya returned at the end of the war after staying in Ame to take care of three orphans he found after fighting Hanzo the Salamander. Tsunade lost her brother, Nawaki, as well as her newfound lover, Kato Dan. She left as soon as his niece was finished in the Academy, being diagnosed with Haemophobia after she tried to save Dan's life. She could no longer be a shinobi or medic nin. Orochimaru had one student left and seemed to spend his time in his labs.
My team and I were walking back to Konoha, as we suffered heavy injuries with our last ambush against Iwa. They had put sensory type ninja on the team and had been ordered to kill the people in the trenches before they took care of the iron user that they couldn't reach. A soon as the cloud appeared they ran like mad men, following Storms chakra. Luckily Fall was a sensory type to and managed to take some of them out before they made it to the other side. Sage took them from a long range while I had to take them from a close range. Fall concentrated on her veil in the cloud that Storm was occupied with holding. Finally finishing off the sensory ninjas in the trenches, I used up the last of the chakra to create my iron rain.
I ended up with heavy lacerations and stab wounds which was why I was currently on Storms wolf form back and walking stealthily so as not to jostle my injuries and tear them open.
They took me straight to the hospital despite Fall's healing when she trained with Tsunade. I was diagnosed with chakra exhaustion as well as all of my cuts and stab wounds. I try not to rely on the Jyuubi's chakra in battle because of Taka's plans that seem to involve the Jyuubi's powers that I have plus the beast seems to find it very funny that it's chakra refuses to heal me straight away anymore or even allow me to use it's chakra for my blood line healing.
Of coarse I still healed quicker than a normal person but that's not the point. When I woke up in the hospital I did my usual counting of the tiles on the roof. This room was slightly smaller with five hundred and twenty-five tiles on the roof but at least these were straight. A knock on the door broke me out of counting the tiles for the seventh time that day.
"How are you doing Sonea?" It was Hiruzen, he came in and sat down on a stool next to my bed, he was dressed in his Hokage attire.
"Just a bit of chakra exhaustion. I'll be back on my feet in a few days." I said staring at the roof again. "How's war going?"
"Because of your team dominating the battlefields, we won and war has ended with great losses to all sides." Hiruzen said sadly. "But I have come here to discuss something with you."
"Oh? And what might that be?" I asked with forced curiosity through my tired body.
"Uzumaki Mito fears that her life may be coming to an end. She wants to find a suitable new jinchuuriki for it before her time comes." Hiruzen said sadly at his Sensei's wife is the last thing he has of his sensei and his brother.
"What exactly have you come here to ask Sarutobi?" I said too tired to beat around the bush.
"I will be sending you on a mission as soon as you are out of the hospital to retrieve the new jinchuuriki from Uzushio. Her name is Uzumaki Kushina, a distant relative of Mito's." He finished.
"Is she a very distant relative of Taka?" I asked with rage poisoning my voice.
"Apparently she has very few ties to that side of the Uzumaki clan." He said making me feel better about giving the Kyuubi to her.
"I will take the mission. Under which rank is it to be classified?" I asked already knowing the answer.
"Under SS-class and ANBU, you will be going in as Raven and revealing your true identity to the family only." He said as he stood up to leave. "Come and take the mission when you leave the hospital." He said as he closed the door. I resumed to counting the tiles on the ceiling before falling asleep.