Chapter 26 The War Comes Home
Naruto's sword cut though another Rock ANBU as the forces under his commanded started to fall back toward the pass. "Take this." yelled Naruto as he threw four kunias with his free hand hitting four ninjas in the neck killing them. The ninjas of the Leafs didn't care about who was dieing they just jumped over the dead bodies of their comrades and kept going. Most of the time Naruto had more enemies around him then friends. "Sir we are ready!" yelled an Ice ANBU
"Do it!" yelled Naruto as he jumped back just in time to avoided a line of paper bombs going off taking another few dozen enemy ninjas with them.
In the rear lines Sasuke stood on the hill watching as man and women died in a giant fireball. "They are just holding off what can't be stopped." said Sasuke as he looked at an arm that had landed near him. "We will overwhelm with numbers."
"Sir they have fallen back to the pass and there numbers mean nothing." said Chouji
"They will run out of chakra and weapons before I run out of ninjas." said Sasuke
Across the world away from the blood covered battlefield Ino Uchiha was in the upper market place picking fresh fruit for super tonight. With Sasuke gone she could actual cook what she wanted instead of what he demanded. Her two younger kids were at their grandparent's house, her oldest 6 years old Fugaku Uchiha was currently being trained by an ANBU squad hand picked by her husband and Danzo. However it was a clear sunny Saturday afternoon.
"Something doesn't feel right." Thought Ino as she looked around the market she could see Kiba and Hinata shopping just like her other then that the market was strangely empty even though the upper market was only for the upper level clans it was still empty. "Probably just because our ninjas are gone to war."
She was about to return to her shopping when suddenly explosions rocked the village. "What the!" yelled Ino as she covered her face from the shower of small pebble sized rocks that came falling down. Slowly she stood up and looked around the wall the marked the border between the upper village and the middle and lower village was blown apart.
Out of the cloud appeared a person she couldn't believe was standing there. "Shikamaru?" asked Ino as she looked at her former teammate dressed in a battle uniform. She could see not one but two swords handles on his back. Slowly he reached into his vest and pulled a cigarette and a lighter. He light the end and took in a deep breath before exhaling.
"Did you really think you would get away with attacking our homes without any punishment?" asked Shikamaru as three more figures appeared beside him. Ino remembered seeing the uniforms before they were Ice Anbu. "If you attack our home we are going to attack yours."
At the same moment Naruto was fighting with two kunais in his hands after his sword was cut in half by an enemy sword. However Naruto and his ninjas were making them pay for every inch they took. In fact if it wasn't for the demon chakra's healing power it was likely that Naruto would be covered in blood from the multiple glancing hits he took. Suddenly a pair of Kunais hit him in the back as he spun around to cut another Rock ninja's neck.
"Looks like Naruto is going to die without me even needing to lay a hand on him." said Sasuke calmly "I always knew he was dead last."
"Sir, he killed about half of our advance forces if our main force hadn't shown up then we would likely be losing." Said Chouji as Sasuke glared at him.
"I am going to pretend I didn't hear that lard ass because if I did you little boy would be dead." Said Sasuke as he watched Naruto pull out the kunias and throw them at their owner.
"I may have no choice I may have to summon the Kyuubi." thought Naruto as he realized that they had already lost about half the valley opening and about half his ninja force. Suddenly an enemy ninja went down with a giant spear in his chest. Naruto could only smile as three people appeared before him They were tall well built man covered head to toe in armor two held spears well the other had a short straight sword. They all had helmets that covered all but their eyes and their faces. Along the top ran a line of red fur. The one with a sword had a flowing read cape and each one of them held a large shield. (Yes I based these guys off the Spartans)
"So nice of you to join us Alexius." said Naruto to the Warlord of the Village hidden in the Blade. The Leaf, Rock and Lightening ninjas were stunned at the sight of these strange looking ninjas.
"I see you started the fun without me Naruto." said Alexius
"Only you would call a blood bath fun." said Naruto as he whipped some blood from his face.
"I was raised to fight Naruto." said Alexius "Now if you don't mind I feel that it is my turn to have some fun."
"They are all yours." said Naruto as Alexius smiled "Just try to leave a few alive."
"Fine some may live….but I will take one of their arms or a leg in exchange." said Alexius as he brought his sword down on the first victim of the warlord blade. There was no stopping them as they pushed forward. Naruto just stood their as more ninjas from the Blade village filed past each one of them smiling even the few female warriors that were among them. Unlike most villages it was rare for a woman to be a ninja in the Blade village they normally stayed home and made up a defense group.
"Sometimes I wonder with the entire Blade village isn't made out of blood thirst mad people with an extremely strong since of honor." Thought Naruto as he watched Alexius cut a head off a Leaf ninjaall the will smiling like a little kid getting a new toy "At the moment I don't care I am just glade they are on our side."
"Shikamaru?" asked Kiba stunned to see his old friend
"It is kind of nice to see you guys again." said Shikamaru "How is the whole marriage thing working, Kiba?"
"Could be better." said Kiba
"Shikamaru are you here to rescue me for Naruto-kun?" asked Hinata as Shikamaru raised an eyebrow
"Wow….Hinata you still have a crush on Naruto even though you're married to Kiba?" asked Shikamaru
"And we have had two kids together." Said Kiba sadly
"You guys need couple's therapy." said Shikamaru "But Hinata really let Naruto go he has a wife and for the lack of a better term five kids to look out for."
"Wow he and Sakura must have been going at it like crazy to have five kids." Said Kiba as Hinata's heart broke again.
"Well only two are his and Sakura's. One is Sakura's brother and the other two happen to be kids he adopted when their mother died." Said Shikamaru before turning to Ino "I am surprised you didn't tell her this Ino."
"Couldn't bear to break her heart, now surrender." said Ino as she pulled a kunai
"Please Ino, when was the last time you fought?" asked Shikamaru as he pulled both his swords.
"I am a jonnin." Said Ino "And if Hinata and Kiba know what is good for them they will fight you and your ANBU along with me."
"They are not here to fight you." Said Shikamaru as he waved his hand though the ANBU "In fact these are only clones the real ones are seizing every little bit of money and supplies that belong to Naruto's family trading company."
"Then we outnumber you." said Ino with a smirk.
"Ino…Ino…Ino, I thought you knew me better then this." Said Shikamaru "Do you really think I would stand here and just talk to you?"
"What?" asked Ino
"Look down." said Shikamaru. Ino, Hinata and Kiba all looked down to see themselves trapped in Shikamaru's Shadow procession Justu.
"But I was moving?" asked Ino as she tried to move but found she couldn't.
"That is because I was letting you." said Shikamaru with a grin he was enjoying his payback on the Leaf just a bit too much.
Meanwhile on the battlefield Saaya and the rest of Ice ninjas had arrived just in time to see the Blade village ninjas push the enemy out of the pass and into open ground.
"Should we help them?" asked Saaya as she appeared next to Naruto.
"Your welcome but they seam to be enjoying it." said Naruto as he watch another ninja fall to a Blade village spear.
"Those people are mad." said Saaya
"Yes. There entire culture is based on war so they have been pent up for years and they are finally letting it out." said Naruto as he looked around to see the horror on the younger ninjas faces including his kids and Reiji. "They have never seen a true battlefield. They have only heard of war though the stories and the photos they have never seen what war really is like. They have never smelled the fresh blood as it soaked into the earth. They have never seen the true face of war."
"What is going on?" asked Danzo as the aging ninja walked into the Hokage's office. With Sasuke in the field he was acting as the Hokage.
"They are hitting the banks and the storage areas." Said an Jonnin captain
"They are robbing us?" asked Danzo
"In a way they appear to be going after only after what belongs to the Leaf Village trading Company." Said the Jonnin
"Crap…they are taking only that. Naruto is taking back only what belongs to his clan in the first place and since that damn Haruno has been telling everyone that Naruto Namikaze owned the trading company. They will see this as him just taking what belongs to him." thought Danzo "Stop them at all costs."
"At once sir."
"If they get away with that money and supplies say goodbye to half our village income and when you get unemployed hungry masses you get uprisings." Thought Danzo
"So what happens now Shikamaru?" asked Ino "If you are going to kill us then know you will be taking away a mother from three little kids."
"Ino…even after all this I still consider you like a sister to me." said Shikamaru "A sister I hate at the moment but still a sister…I have no plans to kill you. Your husband yes…you or your kids no."
"Then what are we doing?" asked Kiba
"I wanted you guys to see the gift Naruto brought to this village." said Shikamaru as he looked down at his watch "Should be in three…two…one."
With that another explosion happened only this time instead of a deadly bomb it was a massive paint bomb. They looked up toward the Hokage moment only to see Sasuke's and Danzo's face covered in paint just like Naruto used to do as a kid.
"You have got to be kidding me." said Ino as she looked at her husbands painted stone face. It was pink with a mix of blue and across his forehead in big black letters were the words "Sasgay."
"It's kind of funny." said Kiba as he laughed a bit.
"Shut it!" yelled Ino as she stepped toward Kiba to punch him only to realize she could move. She looked toward where Shikamaru should have been only to find him gone.
"So did we get everything?" asked Shikamaru as he stood in a tree outside the wall of the leaf village watching the chaos down below. Since they had blown up the walls dividing the village the have not were raiding the haves.
"Yes." said an ANBU as he looked at the rioting villages in the village below "And it looks like it is going to take them a while just to know that we are gone."
"That is the point, we need to get the cargo to the ship and then we can move on to phase two." said Shikamaru
"Cargo?" asked a female voice
"Sorry Mrs. Haruno." said Shikamaru as he looked at Sakura's parents "I meant no disrespect."
"I am just glade you got us out of there." said Kane Haruno "They had us on house arrest so that we couldn't do anything."
"Don't worry we will get you too our ship and then you can go to the Ice village." Said Shikamaru
"I just can't wait to see my son and daughter again." Said Kane
"Don't forget the grandkids." Said Rin Haruno
"Don't remind me, I still say I am too young to be a grandpa." said Kane.
"You will get used to it once you see them." said Rin
"Hold!" yelled Alexius as his ninjas came to a stop all at once. Behind them was a sea of dead body, so many that they could walk back to where Naruto and the others were and never have their feet touch the ground.
"Order all forces back." said Sasuke
"At once sir." said Chouji wishing he could have given the order a long time ago.
In the snow covered forest of demon country one of the three major villages burned. The Darkness village along with the Shadow and the Wolf village made up the unified tribes of Demon Country and now two of them were either burning or burnt. The real Sasuke Uchiha stood in the snow watching the village burn.
"Do we have it?" asked Sasuke
"Yes, sir." said the Leaf ANBU as he held onto a small chest
"Good then on to the Wolf village for the next piece." said Sasuke.
"You are a fool Naruto." thought Sasuke's clone with a grin as he looked out over the blood stained battlefield "You fail to see the true target and my true plan."
Well the first major battle is over with an Ice victory and Reiji parents are coming to the Ice. That is the good news. The bad news the next two weeks or so is going to be very busy for me. With projects and finals so I am not sure when or if I will be able to update again. Sorry. In the mean time I have posted on my profile four clips of stories that are in the front running to be written next. So please read them and vote in a poll I set up. You can also send me a message telling me what you think. Well Thanks for the reviews and I ask that you keep on reading and reviewing. Wilkins75.