Disclaimer: Okay, I DON'T OWN NARUTO OR RANDOM APPEARING PEOPLE YOU MAY SEE. I OWN Nami Ishii and Micahamaru. Go sue someone else, I'm a starving writer. Chapter 46:

Suna

"HOLD!"

Gaara watched as the invading Oto-Iwa-Kiri and other nations charged. Kankuro was looking at his brother nervously for the command, but Gaara remained unmoving.

"HOLD!" the puppet master yelled out again.

Gaara watched as the first wave came closer and closer.

"Fire." He said in his calm voice.

"FIRE!" Kankuro roared and the message spread and all along the wall fire jutsu's arced out and struck the approaching ninja. The loud launch of the catapults heaving burning pitch and solid stone into the enemy lines.

"Their at the second marker." Kankuro said.

Gaara grunted and watched the enemy still advancing. "Signal the archers."

Kankuro nodded and sent off the message.

Down the wall Nami and the archers saw it and aimed and picked their targets. "Head, or chest shots. If you hit a shoulder, ignore them and try for a fresh, don't put more than one arrow into a target." Nami said.

Several of the Suna nin had bows, a lot had crossbows. "AIM!" she ordered and sighted. "FIRE!"

A volley of arrow flew from the Suna side of the battlefield and the sky darkened as the arrows soared. Many struck, many missed. Some were right on piercing heads and chests, others hit arms, shoulders or legs.

Nami saw this and sent the order. "OPEN UP. KEEP FIRING!" she sent numerous more arrows bringing down many invaders. She snarled seeing the nearly endless waves. "There's just too many." One archer said running out of arrow.

Nami refused to give in and grabbed several of the arrows she'd prepared earlier. "Thin them out." She ordered to those that had done the same as her and she launched the arrow and when it struck it exploded with the force of a dozen exploding tags, taking out the struck ninja and those around them.

Along the wall the archers soon ran out of arrows. Nami kept up her barrage as her quiver was replenishing like it was supposed to do. Her arrows hitting with pinpoint accuracy, didn't slow the advancing horde down, but she kept firing.

Gaara looked on and saw the archers were out save the lavender haired woman that had come with Uzumaki.

"They'll be at the walls in a moment." Kankuro said.

"Ready the oil, and prepare the traps." Gaara said.

Next to him Naruto was fidgeting, the blond nine-tail wanted to fight, Gaara understood, but knew that the plan had to go as it was outlined.

"Naru-kun, relax." Hinata said from next to him. she'd been moved up with him, as Neji said she would have been too concerned about him to focus on her task in the narrowed streets.

The blond looked at her and sighed. "I could be doing something."

"Soon enough." Kakashi said.

Mica returned and stopped seeing the wave of enemy coming. "Um, should there be so many of them?" the silver haired teen asked.

"Seems like Orochimaru press-ganged every nin from his allies and even hired bandits to fill his ranks." Itachi said standing to the side.

Mica looked at the approaching horde. "May I?" he asked Gaara. The Kazekage looked at him and then remembered the event when Mica and Naruto first arrived. He nodded.

Mica climbed up onto the edge of the wall and slammed his hands together in the shape of a ball.

"KA…"

Naruto smiled. Mica had mastered this attack, and while he couldn't pull it off yet, he felt it was a matter of time, but his brother mastered it first and that gave him a sense of pride. He saw Kakashi looking on.

"ME…"

the energy spun and condensed and Mica was drawing in air as well, those around him stepped back as it became harder to breath.

"HA…"

Along the wall the defenders heard this and looked towards the Kazekage's positions seeing a figure on the wall facing the enemy.

"ME…"

Nami paused in her barrage of arrows hearing the familiar chant and saw the ball of energy forming in her Mica's hands.

My Mica? She smiled at that thought.

Mica poured more chakra into the attack, remembering the ass kicking he'd just gotten and added his anger to it as well. I owe your boss you bastards, sadly you're the ones going to feel my wrath.

That's right young dragon…add my power.

Lightening soon arced into the chakra attack and Mica's reptilian eyes blazed.

"HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!"

The attack sped from his hands and as it went, it swelled in size. The charging army froze as its center was wiped out, totally annihilated. The sand they were on was blackened and glassy, nothing else remained of the center group.

On the wall Mica went to a knee, his vision was a bit fuzzy. What the hell? That took more out of me than it should have.

That's because you filled it with your emotions and my power. You'll be fine in a moment, your reserves are rushing up to full again, but I wouldn't use that more than four times a day kiddo.

Yeah, I think if I have to, twice a day is a safety limit. Mica agreed with the sword.

Naruto and Gaara pulled him back behind the wall, as Danzo, pissed over the loss of a couple hundred troops from such a devastating attack ordered a barrage of fire, rock and lightening jutsu's came from the invaders who were in range and returning fire now.

Mica sighed as he accepted the water from Naruto who looked at him in concern.

"I'm fine." He said to the unasked question. "Just in case, never let your emotions get the best of you when powering that thing, if you ever get it."

Naruto nodded.

Kyu hovered over his apprentices. "You both surprise me more and more. One of these days, I will find out all you learned from your other tutors."

Mica and Naruto gave the shade big grins.

"Should we tell him I taught you the shadow clone jutsu?" Naruto stage whispered.

"Nah. Should we tell him that we found new uses for it?" Mica asked back.

Hinata was looking at the pair and shook her head. "What am I to do with you Naru-kun?"

"Take me home?" the blond fired back without thought. Kakashi's snort of laughter caught him and he turned to see Hinata standing there with a look in her eyes he'd seen on some of the Vixen's back in the Underverse.

"Um…"

"Please your woman and her fantasies later kit." Kyu said as they peered over the wall to see the Iwa and Kiri nin at the wall and they were scaling it.

Gaara snarled and focused his will and a wall of sand washed them off the wall. He was targeted by a hail of stone missiles and his sand shield protected him.

"They're on the walls. Pull back to point two." He said.

Kankuro sent the word and they began to pull back as the first of the invaders reached the top of the wall. A group of Suna nin went to hold them back while the Kazekage and his group were moved further back.

"No." Gaara said and another wave of sand swiped the invaders from the wall. "They need to believe we are fighting for our lives."

"Gaara's right." Naruto said and he leapt into the air drilled a Iwa nin off the wall with a jump kick.

Hinata was at his side and her Juken palm thrust sent another enemy nin flying, this one with a palm sized hole in his chest.

Mica smiled as he drew Stormbringer. "Let's rock this joint." He leapt and landed in the middle of a group of ninja, the Hanzo sword a blur of motion and in seconds nine dead ninja lay at his feet.

He turned to block a Kiri nin trying to attack him from behind, but an arrow thru the throat dropped the enemy and Mica looked to see Nami standing on a rooftop picking her targets and smiting them down like an avenging angel. Mica smiled and nodded his thanks.

Kankuro was cursing his luck as his brother was determined to make the stand authentic and, and that meant he couldn't leave either. Yeah, like Temari would let me keep my balls if I leave Gaara behind. The puppet master thought as he was getting pissed and pulled several of the chakra strings and his three puppets exploded from their concealed places and slaughtered enemy nin with their poisoned tipped weapons. But, I have to admit this is fun.

Across the wall defenders were fighting and winning and dieing to make the trap believable and the enemy forces were falling for it.

For every Suna ninja that fell, they took at least ten invaders with them.

One Suna nin, poisoned, bleeding from several lethal wounds, showed he was wrapped in exploding tags and dove off the wall.

The explosion took at least thirty invaders when his body hit the ground below.

Danzo stood in his armor, at the back of the army. "Move in the third wave." He ordered, his hate filled eyes spotting the blond hair of the damned Jinchuriki from here, and his eyes widened seeing the tails.

"It is the demon."

Foolish Sarutobi. He would have made the perfect weapon, now however I will kill him like that whore of a mother. Danzo sneered thinking of the dead Hokage and the demons mother. You tried to hide who his parents were, and you succeeded in fooling the rest of the council, but my spies were very good in their jobs.

"Get the Iwa in there, have them use their earth attacks to open a breech." He ordered.

"Nine, beat that Neji-kun." Lee said as his blow sent a Kiri nin into a wall, the impact could be heard shattering every bone in the invader's body, and a human shaped crater in the wall.

"Seventeen." Neji said with a smirk as his Juken attacks took out another nin, ripping out the enemies throat.

"WHAT? NO! MY FIRES OF YOUTH WILL NOT BE DIMINISHED SO. I WILL TOP THAT NEJI-KUN OR…"

"You'll wear that outfit Ten-chan picked out to bed." Neji finished with a grin.

Lee paused, shocked. He then smiled and a backhand blow shattered a skull of a Oto nin.

"And if I win Neji-kun?"

A hail of shuriken cut down the ninja around the pair. "Twenty-seven." TenTen crowed. She then looked at the pair, "Now, can anyone join this wager loves, or is this just a personal bet for your play time?"

Neji blushed. "Of course Ten-hime, you are more than welcome to join us as always in anything and everything we do."

Lee smiled. "Besides, Neji-kun likes that thing you do with your mouth…and…" he saw them looking at him and he blushed. "NOOOO! Not that thing, the other thing…" he looked at Neji. "You're supposed to stop me when I'm saying something like that Neji-kun."

Neji smirked as he did a handstand, helicopter kick taking out two more ninja. "But you get so cute when you do that Lee-kun."

TenTen laughed at her lovers and popped the pantera claws as another group of enemy ninja tried to overrun their position. "Come on boys. IT'S CLOBBERIN' TIME!"

Both males watched as TenTen dove in, claws slashing. Neji looked at Lee. And with a shrug they followed, Gentle Fist and Iron Hand styles decimating all in their path.

Itachi was bored. The ninja that encountered him died far too easily, or some recognizing him turned and fled. He saw Kakashi was a blur of motion, the twin kunai in his hands taking lives where they struck.

Itachi knew that they were forbidden from using main attacks. He had been impressed with the attack from Naruto's friend.

Such power, and it can't be copied with the Sharingan. Simply amazing. If your friend is this strong Naruto, how powerful have you become in three years?

Itachi deflected a barrage of Kunai and went to aid in the defense of the Kazekage.

Doro ducked as another wave of invaders fired upon him. his whole squad was wiped out. He saw more of the invaders coming down his street and knew that he had to prevent that.

Putting his hands into position he activated the suicide jutsu and rushed out into the full street.

"FOR SUNA AND LORD GAARA!"

The explosion brought down the surrounding buildings and killed the ninja there.

"KAGE BUNSHIN NO JUTSU!" suddenly the wall was being protected by a hundred blond nine tailed Naruto clones.

"Pull back!" he yelled grabbing Gaara by the shoulder as they were being slowly warn down by sheer numbers.

"No…"

"Gaara, stick to the plan. We need to pull back. They have nearly a third of their forces assaulting the walls now. We need to pull back."

Gaara growled as he created several sand clones to attack the invading forces and allowed himself to be pulled along.

"I know, I hate retreating as well." Naruto admitted as he buried a kunai to the handle in the skull of a Kumo nin that lunged at him and Gaara.

Mica was at their side as they retreated, the Hanzo sword deadly as he along with Kakashi and Itachi made a wall of death between the invaders and Suna's Kazekage as they withdrew deeper into Suna.

"Lord Danzo, the wall is ours. While we are encountering heavy resistance, we can take the city." a Kiri nin reported.

Danzo nodded. "Move the rest of the forces into support. Any reports on our ninja encountering the demon?"

"Reports are sketchy as the fighting is heaviest, but he is with the Kazekage and it seems charged with his protection alone with Kakashi Hatake and a couple other ninja, we assume are either Suna nin or mercenaries."

Danzo nodded. "Report when you get them."

The nin vanished and Danzo looked on as his forces poured into Sunagakure. Lord Orochimaru will be pleased when I give him the Kyuubi to experiment on. And when his guard is down, it will be my turn. I will kill him and Konoha will be mine and they will hail me as their savior, and the Legacy of the Yondaime will be nothing more than a footnote in history.

Danzo looked to his left. Where the hell is Sai?

Wave

Orochimaru waited as the medics cleared him and he glared at Shang. "You knew who or what that brat is."

The sorcerer bowed his head. "He's a hanyou. Nothing of concern."

"Nothing of concern? He's forced us to go back around, and our travel time is reduced as we have ninja checking every inch of the way back and the second bridge for more traps."

Shang shrugged his cloaked shoulders. "Arrogance was your undoing here in Wave, Lord Orochimaru. The Hanyou is nothing."

The Snake Sannin snorted. "Nothing sorcerer? He's taken a chunk of my army out by himself. He's delayed our advance on Konoha to a crawl. He survived an attack by myself, Sasuke, Sakura and yourself. That indicates something, and I want to know what."

Shang was wondering what to reveal. He shrugged. "Perhaps he has some skill, but his attack was mostly surprise. As to his surviving, I believe it is due to the blade he carries. I need time to study, but I think it is one of the legendary nine."

Orochimaru looked at him. "Explain."

Shang shrugged. "Nine blades forged for the demon kings, in their ivory thrones." Seeing Orochimaru's look the sorcerer sighed behind the mask of mist and shadow. "In the lands I am from, there are special blades that were forged by the fallen angel Hittori Hanzo. Three blades for the Rivan Kings in the kingdoms of the sky. Seven for the Nomads that traverse the world, forever alone. Nine for the Demon Lords on their ivory thrones."

And the one blade that can rule all of the Underverse, the one that can kill an immortal, Mortal Edge, the black blade. Shang thought, but left unsaid, Orochimaru did not need to know about it, nor the Underverse.

Orochimaru narrowed his eyes. "And these blades…"

"Are thought to have been accounted for. The Rivan never leave the sky kingdoms, they live above the world and never interact. The Nomads are rumored to have broken their blades long ago. And the demon lords…" Shang shrugged.

The two would have continued their discussion, but Sakura approached. Shang drifted deeper into the shadows.

"Report." Orochimaru ordered the kunoichi.

"We can still take Kohona Lord Orochimaru. Sasuke has ordered that Kumo, Kiri and Mizu empty and every citizen be armed. He's sent runners. He believes we can use the civilians as fodder."

Orochimaru nodded. "And word from our…allies?"

Sakura held up the messenger scroll. "Konoha stopped the civil war and executed everyone. The Haruno clan made an escape attempt, but it seems they failed. Akatsuki member Hidan was killed by an unknown nin, Kakuzu escaped."

Orochimaru sneered at the thought of the once powerful criminal organization falling so low. "They can't even perform a simple retrieval mission without the aid of the leaders guidance."

He looked up and saw her reluctance. "There's more?"

"Messenger from Lord Danzo. They are attempting to take Suna."

Orochimaru paused. "If we make our fastest time, we could cross Suna and add Danzo's force back to our own." He thought. "Prepare the army to march. Tell Sasuke his forces can catch up. Have scout keep scanning for traps or ambushes."

He stood and sneered. "And when we meet our silver haired friend, I think I will enjoy his company."

AN:

Sorry about the rant last time. I am very glad of the reviews I do get, and try and keep most of you happy. (Shield jutsu to prevent rocks)

To those of you who PM'd me about Wave's location, my defense is I don't have a map of the Naruto world so (shrugs). I figure its connect with another bridge to another part and so on, the Great Naruto Bridge I figure was its connection to the Land of Fire. For those that believe that everything needs to be gospel…you really need to get laid.

Stay tuned, the war for Suna continues. (my girlfriend figures I can make part one here at least 80 or 90 chapters. We'll see, as I'm trying to clean up the miniscule notes on napkins.) Well, next chapter…BELIEVE IT. (does Jiraiya's dance) So swears an Ero-Slacker.