Chapter 38: The Destruction of Iwagakure

As the 15 Konohagakure shinobi walked towards Iwagakure they heard the Iwagakure alarm go off and Naruto looked at his 14 soldiers, "Kakashi, Kiba and Neji come with me to talk to the Tsuchikage, you all stay here to get ready too attack."

They all nodded and Naruto, Kakashi, Kiba and Neji all ran towards the Iwagakure front gate and as they approached they saw the Fourth Tsuchikage standing there as Naruto approached. Naruto got close and smiled at the man and held out his hand, "I am Naruto Uzumaki, the Sixth Hokage, I am hoping that we can rationally talk this out."

The fourth Tsuchikage looked to be around the age of Kakashi and shook hands with Naruto, "I am Taku, the Fourth Tsuchikage and there will be no discussions. The Iwagakure way is to destroy the one who kills the previous Tsuchikage."

Naruto sighed as he retracted his hand and scratched the back of his head, "I tried to get the Third Tsuchikage to leave but he wouldn't listen to me either. The Third Tsuchikage almost killed my son and that is why I killed him otherwise he would have been given too you all as a sign of good faith but I am tired of my family and friends being threatened, if you don't cease these actions of war I will kill you all."

Narutos eyes turned red and became his Kyuubi eye and Kakashi unmasked his sharingan, Kiba got into a offensive position and Neji activated his Byakugan. The Tsuchikage started to laugh at Naruto, Naruto found that the arrogance of the man extremely disrespectful and kicked the Tsuchikage back and flashed towards him while he was in the air and drew his katana and beheaded him as he looked back at the other Iwa ninja that were standing by the Tsuchikage as Kiba and Kakashi killed them both, "Send up the signal Kakashi."

Kakashi nodded and flew threw the hand signs and shot a fireball into the air and signaled for the other 11 Konohagakure shinobi to commence their attack. Everyone moved in, Kiba started to destroy buildings using his Fang over Fang and Naruto stood on top of the Iwagakure Tsuchikage Building and yelled, "Leave Iwagakure now or you will die!"

The citizens all ran out and the shinobi of Iwagakure all stayed and tried to fight them but it was seeming to be futile. Every time they tried to get Kakashi he just mimicked them with his sharingan and similar to the reaction Naruto saw with Zabuza all those years ago he psychologically beat them and finished the jutsu before them.

Lee and Gai were living up to their reputation as being the strongest Taijutsu fighters that Konohagakure had to offer and were even breaking the rocks that the Iwagakure Shinobi used on them with their bare hands and nunchucks as they opened their inner gates. Naruto smirked as he heard Lee yelling about the power of youth to Gai and they fought more and more.

Neji and Hinata were using their mastery of the chakra network and their Hyuga style attacks to neutralize enemies as Inoichi and Kurenai finished off the people that they stopped. There were giant snakes roaming around and everyone knew that was Anko and Naruto saw Kiba leveling all of Iwagakure with his Fang over Fang still. Naruto leapt down from where he stood and flashed at a group of Iwagakure shinobi and drew his katanas and flashed through them all and put them back into their sheaths and looked back as blood started to shoot out of them all.

Naruto looked over at another group of Iwa ninja that were getting ready and then they were killed and ripped to shreds as Kiba and Akumaru came through with a Fang over Fang. Kiba smirked as he looked over at Naruto and then saw a barrage of kunai rain down behind Naruto and they looked up too see TenTen killing a bunch of Iwa ninja but being surrounded as well.

Naruto and Kiba both flashed over to her as the Iwa ninjas circled around her laughing thinking that they were going to kill her, "Well if we are going to all die we are taking some of them with us."

Naruto appeared behind them and smiled as he had his hands in his pockets, "I can't let you all kill my sons godmother. Plus he seems really pissed you threatened his girlfriend."

Naruto pointed over at Kiba who looked pissed beyond belief and he ran and did his Fang over Fang with Akumaru in a circle around TenTen killing all of the Iwa ninjas that were threatening her. As his jutsu stopped he ran over to her and smile at her, "Are you alright TenTen-chan, your not hurt are you?"

TenTen smiled at him and gave him a quick kiss and said she was fine, they leapt off too continue the siege. There was less and less resistance and then Naruto saw a flare go up, it was the emergency flare for Tsunade, meaning someone was fatally injured. Naruto rushed over too find Anko pierced through the chest by 4 katanas and Tsunade trying to heal her as Naruto leaned down by Anko he looked at Tsunade, "Can you save her?"

Tsunade pushed more and more chakra through her hands and then stopped, "I can't she is already gone, they hit 3 vital organs."

Naruto sighed as he took off his Hokage coat and covered Anko and handed her to Tsunade, "Get her body out of here, back to the cave we used then come back. This should almost be over so hopefully we wont need any more healing."

Tsunade nodded and Naruto ran with her giving her cover as she retreated carrying the corpse of Anko and ran through the gate back towards the cave and Naruto leapt up on top of a tall building again and activated his sage mode, "I will finish this."

Naruto gave the signal too pull back and summoned 8 shadow clones and had 3 of his clones go to the north east corner of the village, 3 go to the north west corner and 2 stay with Naruto as his other shinobi joined him and all 3 groups of Narutos made rasen shurikens. Naruto looked around at all of his friends and smiled at them, "With this, I will end Iwagakure and they will not be a threat to us for a long time while they have to rebuild what we have destroyed."

All of the Narutos threw rasen shurikens and the real Naruto and the members of his war party all leapt back and ran back about 100 yards from the gate as the three rasen shurikens met in the middle of Iwagakure. As the three collided they formed a massive bomb that destroyed everything in Iwagakure, as they all approached the destroyed remains of Iwagakure they couldn't help but be reminded of what Konohagakure looked like after Pain had attacked. They looked around and saw none of the remaining Iwa ninjas that were in the village had survived the blast and they all started back too the cave where Tsunade was with the corpse of Anko still. Naruto looked at everyone as they were tired and he smiled at them, "I will leave the choice to you all, we can start to head home now or rest for a day."

The group all elected to go home and they nodded and Kakashi put the corpse of Anko over his shoulder as she still had Narutos Hokage cloak over her body. They all ran towards the Kusagakure border and they passed through there with no interference again, another lucky break in Narutos mind since most were almost out of chakra. Naruto was bringing up the rear of his team since he still had all of his Kyuubi chakra at his disposal and had about 200 yards in between him and his group.

They traveled all night at a steady pace and as dawn broke again they saw Konohagakure out in the distance. They had been spotted by a patrol of Konohagakure shinobi when they were heading towards Konohagakure, Naruto had placed safety lines in case they had failed. They had reported that the war party was returning but there was bloody corpse being covered by the Hokage cloak. The news got to Ino and Minato and they rushed to the front gate to wait and they saw everyone land but Naruto who was still bringing up the rear and when they didn't see him and the bloody corpse of Anko still covered by the Hokage cloak Ino fell to her knees with tears streaming down her cheek, "My...my idiot..is dead?"

All the people in the war party looked at each other and then realized that Naruto was farther behind then they had originally thought and the they couldn't see who the corpse was. TenTen and Kiba came over to Ino and helped her up and TenTen smiled at her best friend, "That isn't Naruto, we lost Anko in the siege."

Ino looked at TenTen then looked over at the group again and Kakashi lifted the cloak to reveal the face of Anko. As bad as Ino thought it sounded she was happy that it wasn't Naruto, Anko was someone who was important to their village but she didn't know what she would do without her idiot husband, "Then where is my idiot at?"

Naruto landed in front the war party and stood up straight as he looked at his wife and smiled at her, "I'm not even back a minute and your already calling me an idiot, that isn't very nice Ino-chan."

Ino looked at Naruto and smiled then ran and tackled him too the ground making him laugh as he held her. Ino quickly covered his lips in a kiss and he kissed her back as he held her close to him and when she broke she smacked him, "Ow, what the hell Ino-chan!"

Ino glared at him as she pointed at Anko being covered by the Hokage cloak, "Are you trying to give me a heart attack! Why would you do something like putting your Hokage cloak over her and being so far behind them when they arrived! I should kick your ass right here and now Naruto Uzumaki!"

Naruto looked as his wife started to tear up again and he sat up and pulled her in close to him and stroked her hair, "I'm sorry Ino-chan, I didn't mean to scare you but I had the most chakra left to protect them from anyone attack from the rear. I didn't think that it would be right to leave Anko exposed like that so I covered her with my Hokage cloak, I didn't mean to scare you."

Ino cuddled into him and put her arms around him and held him tightly, "Don't scare me like that again Naruto-kun or I will hurt you."

Naruto smiled as he looked at her and pulled her into another kiss and when they broke he looked into her blue eyes and kept smiling at her, "And I believe that you would do it too babe, how are you feeling?"

Naruto rubbed her stomach and looked at her with concern and she sighed, typical par her for idiot, he gets home from a battle and he is worried about her. Ino loved that about him though, she loved everything about him and she smiled at him as he moved her hair from her face, "I am fine Naruto-kun, but I think you should carry me home."

Naruto smiled and lifted her up and held her in his arms as he looked over at Minato and smiled at him, "Thank you for taking care of your mother for me buddy."

Minato smiled at him and nodded his head and Naruto looked over at the members of his war party, "You are all dismissed, we will hold a funeral for Anko in a couple of days."

They all nodded and they dispersed as Naruto continued to hold onto Ino and smiled at her, "I love you Ino Uzumaki, lets get you home."

Ino smiled and nodded at him as she wrapped her arms around his neck as he carried her and Minato walked next to them and she leaned into his shoulder. Ino sighed happily at the secure feeling she always got when Naruto carried her like this and she smiled, "I love you more Naruto Uzumaki."

Naruto smiled as he looked at her and carried her home, he needed to get some rest and he wanted to hold her while he slept.