Naruto was sleeping in his bed with his mouth hung open and drooling all over himself when his door was knocked on. "Naruto there's an ANBU here for you." He could tell the voice belonged to Rin.

"I'm coming Rin." He said as he lazily left his room and approached the front door. "Can I help you ANBU guy?"

The ANBU silently handed Naruto a piece of paper and promptly left, "Real nice talking to you too." Naruto said as he closed the door. He looked at the paper read it once then his eyes shot open as he read it again.

"What is it Naruto?" Rin asked holding Kakashi.

Naruto looked at Rin showing the emotion he was feeling. "Yahiko has died. Nagato and Konan are requesting Obito and I in rain."

Rin gasped and put a hand to her mouth, "What are they planning?"

Naruto was now gripping the paper in a fist. "They are planning one last push against Hanzo."

Naruto went into his room and readied his gear, as he left the room he stopped in front of Rin. "Take this." He handed her a Hirashin kunai. "Just to keep one safe in the village."

Rin nodded gripping the kunai seeing how much Naruto now looked like his father made her feel emotional. "Stay safe Naruto." She said as she was putting Kakashi down and bringing Naruto into a hug.

"Don't worry Rin. I will be back." With that he left the house.

Rin sat down for a minute before a stoic Obito entered the house. "I've already heard Obito." She said to her husband who was attempting to hide his feelings.

Obito nodded, "Is Naruto ready?"

"He just left the house with his gear. What is the Hokage's plan?"

Obito took a breath, "She is sending myself along with the Leaf Village 11. This will hopefully be the last push."

Rin lowered her head understanding the circumstances. "So they're all going out to war then?"

Obito nodded, "They're ninja Rin. We were even younger than they were when we went to war."

Rin nodded trying to hold in the tears before turning to her husband with fury in her eyes. "You bring him back damn it Obito; you hear me? You bring him back!" With that the tears began to flow as Obito held his crying wife in his arms.

"I promise Rin. I will bring them all back home."

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Obito's squadron all were in the trees just outside of Rain waiting for their contact. He had Hinata and Neji watching from the flanks with himself in the middle so their dojutsus would work to their strengths. He was watching for their contact with the Akatsuki to show themselves when he saw a man with bright orange hair that was pulled into a ponytail walked out into the clearing.

"Obito I can sense you and your men." The man said to the forest.

The entire squad jumped from the trees in front of the man and Obito noticed the piercings all over his form. "Never met you before." Obito said crossing his arms at the man in front of him.

Without moving the man spoke. "I forget you do not know of my full abilities Obito." The man turned, "Follow me to our outpost."

The group followed but Naruto was uneasy with the man in front of him the shadows from the trees made it difficult to get a good look and feel for him.

XXXX

They arrived at a base when the man stopped before looking to the group. "This is where I leave you now. Konan will brief you on our plan."

Obito was shocked to what he had seen, he would have sworn the man had the Rinnegan but Nagato was the only person who had it; right?

The group entered the door that was built into the hill. He could tell this base was built from powerful jutsu, the thing that confused him most was how all the walls were sloped as if a ball expanded digging it all out. When he touched the walls, he could tell they were still made of dirt it was just compacted.

They entered the room with a table in the middle and saw Konan wearing the same black jacket with the red cloud on it. "Ah Obito it is good to see you." When she spoke her voice sounded almost dead and lifeless. Obito knew that Konan was the most reserved of the Akatsuki members but this woman was something else entirely. He also noticed she had a piercing on her lip similar to what the orange haired man had.

"What do you need from us?" Obito asked trying to mix his authority with kindness.

Konan almost smiled at the Uchiha but kept it under control. "We are planning one final push on the village to take out Hanzo. It's now or never and with you all here I feel our plan may just work."

Obito nodded a cocky smile crossing his face, "Let's kick some ass!" He shouted, when he looked to everyone's reactions he was upset. Sakura, Tenten and Ino were trying to cover their faces, Shikamaru, Neji, Hinata, and Shino were all acting like he said nothing. Kiba and Choji weren't even paying attention; but at least Naruto and Lee were acting excited.

"Yes Obito Sensei, I will show everyone the power of my youth on the battlefield! I shall defeat more enemies than anyone else." Lee screamed at the top of his lungs.

"Actually I hope you are wrong." Konan said casually looking at the boy deflate after her comment. "I have read all of your dossiers and have placed you all at strategic points to aid the attack." She looked at the group to tell if everyone was listening. "Rock Lee, Shikamaru Nara and Neji Hyuuga the three of you will stay behind to protect the civilians' in the base should things go wrong. They all are already aware of their evacuations route but your mission is to protect them."

The three that were mentioned nodded, "Tenten, Hinata and Choji I want you three to cause problems for the village." She said just as unenthused as ever. "Shino and Kiba you two are a team already your job is to get the villages people out of harm's way." Those two nodded, "Obito you and your team will be the diversion. The three of you are too put on as big a show as you can to make the villagers think the three of you are the main advancing force while in reality Nagato and myself will attack Hanzo ourselves."

Obito's eyes bugged out of his head, "You can't be serious! Just the two of you to take down what is essentially a one-man army?"

Konan looked at him the same bored look in her eye, "Hanzo shall know Pain." The entire squad shuffled from the definitive nature of the words. "The attack will begin tomorrow at sundown I expect your squad will be ready in time?"

Obito nodded, "Don't worry about it Konan that prick is going down!"

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Naruto and Sakura were sharing the same room in the base and Naruto was lost in his thoughts while Sakura was checking and logging all her medical supplies. "Don't think too hard baka you might hurt yourself."

Without looking at her, "Sakura we are going to war how can you be so calm?"

Sakura chuckled to herself for a moment before going to sit in front of Naruto. "I'm strong because you need me to be." She said with a gentle smile as she laid her hands on his.

Naruto smiled and was about to speak when Sakura leaned forward bringing her lips to his. Naruto was shocked for a moment but said nothing as Sakura pushed him so that he was laying on the bed then straddled him with a smile on her face. "We are going to war tomorrow; I can't imagine a better excuse to do something dumb." She said smiling at her dumbfounded boyfriend.

XXXX

Obito was in the war room again looking over the map when Konan entered the room. "I've looked over your plan and I can't figure out one thing." He said to the blue haired kunoichi.

"And what is that Obito?" She asked just as bored sounding as ever.

"How are two people going to be enough to handle Hanzo? Even the legendary Sannin which had three members and a whole battalion of ninja were unable to stop him.

Konan nodded, "I'm aware I was there."

That caught Obito off guard but before he could say anything Konan continued to speak. "Your numbers are wrong anyway it will be seven of us."

Obito held out two fingers, "You and Nagato. That's two Konan."

She held back a smile at the Uchiha as six people walked out of the shadows behind her that Obito had not noticed. His jaw was slack when he saw one of them. "Yahiko? I thought you were dead."

Konan didn't break the perfect porcelain face she had been holding. "Yahiko is dead what you see before you now is Pain."