Disclaimer: do not own Naruto, the character or the anime/manga, Feneris however is my own Character.
True Power
Chapter 23: Of Sound and Sand (Gennin Teams)
"War cannot exist without peace, just as peace cannot exist without war." Dagoth Teriath, God of the Blood Elves
The Genjutsu fell over the arena putting many into a trance. Feneris clapped his hands together and said, "Disjunction!"
The Genjutsu shattered putting the affected Leaf ninja back into action. The forces of the Leaf quickly engaged the opposing forces, as the battle spread out from the arena.
The fifteen gennin had just exited the arena, when it went up in flames. Feneris jumped out of the blazing inferno completely unharmed and began to yell things, in a language that Haku, Naruto, and Gaara identified as Elven, to four figures wearing jet black cloaks.
"Come on! Let's get on with the mission!" Haku yelled, as the Gennin took off towards the Academy.
"So what should we do to defend the Academy?" Naruto asked.
"We should try and channel the enemy forces through a chokepoint," Shikamaru suggested. "That way we can focus our resources one area."
"Sounds good, how are we going to do that?" Neji retorted.
"This might work!" Naruto said, pulling a scroll from his pack. "It's one of the Genjutsus I've been working on."
"Chokepoint Jutsu," Sakura read. "Creates the illusion that there is only one way to a location." Then she gasped. "This is a Jounin level Jutsu, and I haven't even heard of some of these hand seals!"
"I think I can do this," Haku said, glancing over the scroll. When the Gennins reached the Academy, Haku made a series of hand seals then said, "Chokepoint Jutsu!"
Then the first enemy ninja arrived, and all hell broke loose.
"Why are we retreating from battle?" Temari said, as her team crept through the forest.
"Because," Sunamoru answered, "whatever that blonde, Naruto, did to me hasn't quite wore off, that weird guy in green broke your fan, Temari, someone sabotaged Kankuro's puppets, and Gaara is fighting for the leaf! Do you want to have to face Shukaku?"
Temari stiffened at the thought of facing the tankui demon. "You're right, let's get out of here!"
Meanwhile at the academy… A couple of Sound Chunin suddenly found it impossible to move. They were even more alarmed when their partner yell out, "Okay Chouji, flatten these losers!"
Chouji ballooned up to the size of a bus and rolled towards the trapped Chunin. Shikamaru and Ino released their Jutsus as Chouji flattened the three ninja.
Kiba made a series of hand seals and tossed a pill to Akamaru. "Feral Affinity Jutsu!" Akamaru turned into a copy of Kiba, and both copies grew long claws, wilder looking hair, and more pronounced canine teeth. "Fearsome Gaze Jutsu!" the Kibas said as they sent out a wave of killer intent that froze their opponents in their tracks. Then they shouted out, "Savage Tsuuga!" When that was done all that was left of the enemy ninja, were a few bloody corpses.
Bugs swarmed around Shino in a protective shield. Two Sound Gennin circled around the bug user waiting for an opportunity to strike. Shino struck first. Bugs with a straight black shell flew forward and swarmed over one of the ninja. The ninja let out a scream of pain and began to thrash around. Then the thrashing stopped and the bugs returned to Shino; leaving nothing but the ninja's bones behind. The ninja's partner gasped then made a hand seal. A wave of sound flew towards Shino. Shino stepped out of the way and sent two bugs with purple shells towards the ninja. Despite the attempts to evade the bugs, they landed on his face an bit him. The bites swelled up in seconds and the Ninja began to gasp for breath. His face began to turn blue, and he suffocated in seconds.
Sakura had taken on a Sand Chunin with bandages wrapped around his entire body. Focusing pure mental energy, psion, she invaded the Sand Ninja's mind and took control. The ninja's two companions got the shock of their soon to be shortened lives; when their partner turned around and began to attack them. In moments the two ninja were dead. Sakura then crushed the last remaining ninja's mind, and let his body slump to the ground.
Tenten and Kai had teamed up against a larger group of Sand Gennin. Kai was guiding a windmill shurikin on chakra strings, through those that weren't fast enough. Tenten backed Kai up with a hail of kunai that managed to finish off any remaining ninja.
Neji was having difficulty fighting off a sound Chunin. That's until Lee delivered a spinning kick to the ninja's spine. A couple inches of bone did not stand up to the strength of Rock Lee. "Greetings, my eternal rival!" Lee exclaimed. "For once it is me who is saving you life!"
"Shut up," Neji growled, "If Gaara hadn't gone over board with beating me then I would have beaten you and him."
Hinata trapped several sound Genin in Genjutsu. She then proceeded to knock them out with Jyuuken strikes to the spine.
Gaara had attacked a unfortunate Sand Jounin and his two Gennin backup. "Shukaku wants your blood," he said, his voice taking on a fake psychotic tone. Then giant jaws made of sand, in the shape of Shukaku, burst from the ground and encased the Chunin and dragging them under.
"Die you demon!" the Jounin roared. "Take this! Great Wind Blade Jutsu!" A giant blade of wind flew towards Gaara; who merely blocked it with his sand.
"Desert Coffin." Sand encased the Jounin. "Desert Funeral." Blood stained the sand red, before the sand returned to the gourd.
The bodies of five Gennin and one Jounin surrounded Haku as he shot is needles at a Chunin. The Chunin dodged, but the needles scratched his skin. The poison coating the needles did the rest, as the Chunin coughed up blood and kneeled over, dead.
Sasuke and Naruto ended up facing two Sound Jounin. "Okay Looser, you take that one," Sasuke said pointing to a Jounin with a katana, "and I'll take this one."
"Fine, bastard," Naruto grumbled, before going to face the sword wielding Jounin.
"You don't know what you up against," Sasuke taunted the Jounin with; activating his sharingan at the same time. "Grand Fireball Jutsu!"
The fireball flew towards the Jounin before it was dispersed by a blast of sonic waves.
"Actually, it is you, who doesn't know what he is up against," the Jounin calmly replied, before initiating a series of hand seals. "Sonic Disruption Jutsu."
Sasuke felt the world spin, and promptly threw up.
"How pathetic," he heard the Jounin mutter. "A mighty Uchiha taken down by a Gennin level technique. Now die!"
"Flaming Vorpral Strike!"
Sasuke saw a flash of fire, and the Jounin's head fall to the ground. Naruto stood over the Jounin's corpse; flames danced down Pyron's blade, and behind him stood the corpse of the other Jounin. "Geeze, I can't leave you alone for two seconds," Naruto muttered to himself. "Well lets go, the flare went off."
He picked up Sasuke's disoriented body and headed towards the other Gennin.
"Okay that's the last of them!" he called out.
"Good, I'll summon a cat to cover our back," Haku responded. He pricked his thumb with a needle. "Summoning Jutsu!"
A large white tiger, with dagger like claws appeared in a poof of smoke. "What do you wish," the tiger boomed.
"Just cover our backs," Haku instructed.
With that taken care of, the Gennin rushed to a trap door concealed in the shrubs and slid into the tunnels.
"How? How, could I have gotten so weak," Sasuke thought as Naruto hauled his body through the caves. "First that bug kid Shino knocks me out like it's no trouble at all. Then, that looser Naruto saves my life. God damnit! I need to get stronger."
"Okay, we just need to ignite the blast notes," Shikamaru said, as soon as the group was out of harms way. He then lit a fuse. A rumble soon filled the cave, as the tunnel collapsed.
The Gennins then made their way to the main cavern where civilians and other groups of Gennin were gathered. "Finally, some rest!" Ino grumbled, as she sank to the floor.
The rest of the Gennin left to lie down, or get cleaned up.
Their part in the war was over.
Authors Note: Well there's the Gennins point of view on the attack.The Battlefield point of view will be in the next chapter, the attack is not done.
I just hope this chapter turned out okay… I suck at writing multi-party fight scenes even more.