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I DO NOT OWN NARUTO OR AVATAR THE LAST AIRBENDER OR THEIR SUCCESSORS IN ANY SHAPE OR CAPACITY. I ONLY OWN MY FICTITIOUS OC'S.

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Glossary: Scene breaks will be denoted by a line of X's

"Speech"

'Thoughts'

"Demonic or summons speech"

'Demonic or summons thoughts'

Jutsus shall be rendered in Japanese or English depending on which they are. For example, I will not be saying Almighty Push, I will be saying Shinra Tensei, or Rasengan instead of Spiraling Sphere. However instead of Raiton: Gian I will be saying Lightning Style: False Darkness

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"One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas." - Victor Hugo

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I apologize for the past chapter being so short and this one being delayed. I had trouble finding ideas to flesh out the previous chapter , and I doubt you would have wanted day by day breaking down of Narutos training. I originally had Ty Lees training, but I had not time to do the research about soft spots or Pressure Points in the body to describe some of the techniques. I can only hope to stretch this chapter out a tad bit, though I suspect you already knew this chapter would be lengthy. As for the delay, I had some people that I had cut from my life attempt to drag me into judicial bullshit so I had to deal that that. Now, shall we get to the aftermath? Till the epilogue,

~Ardent Chronicler

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Minato couldn't believe what he was seeing, his village, mostly gone and in a giant crater. He looked to see his wife unconscious and bleeding from her forehead, running to her quickly he sighed in relief at seeing her chest rising and falling. Lowering the barrier he realized why everyone was injured, he was only a fraction to slow. Everyone had been flung about the barrier, even Muy was slightly injured. He watched Naruto and Muy both stand and looked between the two.

"Muy, I know I have no right to ask you to do anything for the village, but I need you to scout the outskirts of Konoha, there might be soldiers on their way." Minato watched Muy nod and vanish is a blur of pure speed. Minato knew the first step to a disaster event, he had no tie to check on his family. With a yellow flash he appeared inside of the back up council chamber that was hosted by the Uchiha clan. He saw Homura, Danzo, a bloody and barely breathing Hiruzen, and Koharu.

"Report."

"Hiruzen is out for the count, between his cancer and the wounds he sustained from the explosion the doctors are not projecting him living through the week."

"I'll be fine you fool."

"Danzo, what about ANBU?"

"Headquarters had been destroyed, the only surviving ANBU would be those on missions currently. The Hospital is gone, as well as the academy, orphanage, and the assisted living center."

"Koharu, I need you to go down and start a triage center is Tsunade has not already. We have a short window, you will have any resources we can spare at your disposal."

"Right away Lord Hokage."

Minato looked to the three men in the office.

"Danzo, take any civilian guardsman still alive and begin sweeping the rubble, your wind style is perfect for cutting through metal."

"It will be done Lord Hokage."

"Homura, I need you to rally the surviving citizens, we need a moral boost and frankly, you are the best political mind we have. I will go and gather the clan headsmen and will gather them for an emergency council. You both have your orders, so move."

Minato could feel his activ markers in all of the clan ground and flashed one by one taking count of the damage to their grounds. Shibi had been easy to locate, he was checking on his hives, Shikaku had been moving through his clans grounds helping to free his family. Tsume had been hit with a piece of debris and seemed to be missing an eye, though she was better off than Inoichi. No one had seen the clan head due to him working late, so until found he was presumed dead and Minato brought his eldest daughter Inoma with him. Mikoto Uchiha was MIA, Chouza was unconscious and Hiashi was better off than most due to their clans ground being far from the village center. Minato was exhausted mentally, this was not going the way he had hoped, but he needed to control the situation. Sitting down and beginning the meeting had been easy enough, they all knew what needed to be done.

"I need a report, Shikaku, what in your mind would the projected casualties be?"

"It depends, on if there were any bodies left. I would say due to the blast being askew and more to the north than the south that the projected casualties are in the ten million range. If Inoichi was here we would be able to have an accurate assessment in moments. I would project that the injured and missing are another two to two and a half million. Though where the blast hit hard on the Shinobi sector, the Jonin residency is gone, so we might have lost most of our Jonin ninja. I will get a team together to do a headcount post haste."

"Please do so, Chouza, what is the status of the food stores?"

"Well, rom what I got a look at we should be good for a few months at most, but if any of the granaries get damaged, were fucked."

"Inoma, I know this is your first meeting and first emergency, but I need you here. Do you think you could go to the hospital and help out with our clan in tending the wounded?"

"Oh, of course Lord Hokage."

"Tsuma, get your eye looked at and get a headcount of our Hunters, we may need them to fill other positions for the time being."

"Sure blondie."

Minato motioned his hand for them to vanish and as soon as they did Muy appeared.

"I scouted out for several miles in each direction, you need to go to the western gate."

"I don't have time."

"Even for Lord Ozai?"

Minato stopped in place and his eyes widened, he had forgotten in this rush, Lord Ozai was to be arriving tonight. He nodded to Muy and the two vanished in a flash of yellow.

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Itachi had finally made his way to the Uchiha district and his heart was shattered. HAlf of the district had been art of the crater, the other half lied in ruins. He ran with all his speed, passing screaming and crying men, women, and children and he finally saw it. His home, in shambles, half collapsed. He tore through the half broken door and looked around, making his way past the collapsed hallway and into the training area at the center of the house. He dashed for his rooms door that was slightly bulging, and he ripped the door from the slide. He saw a wall of debris and his nearly lost himself, he began to remove pile after pile of rubble, pieces of wall, dresser, his bed, everything. He had lost track of time before he finally saw a pale han sticking out from a pile of rubble he had moved, he created dozens of shadow clones and they all began to carefully move the rubble pile until he found her, breathing shallowly and barely holding onto consciousness.

"Izumi!" Itachi laid her on the ground and began to check her for injuries, nothing deep or major but to him and his mindset, they might as well have been deadly. Raising Izumi into his arms he had to get her to the triage unit if it had been set up yet. Running through the house he heard a cry of pain, and turned on his heel. It came from his mother's room.

"Mom!" Itachi made his way to the door but he couldn't slide it open so he broke the wood with a spare kunai and he saw his mother's face poking through a thick wall of debris.

"'Tachi, you have to get out of her. Find Izumi."

"I already have mom, I have her right here, gimme a minute and I'll have you out."

"No, no, get her out of here, her and that baby are all that matters right now."

"Mom, I can't just."

"You can, and you will. Now go!"

Itachi cursed as he lifted Izumi into his arms and vanished with a swirl of leaves his chakra stores dipping deeper.

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Naruto cursed, his sprained wrist singing pain to him. He had been working for two hours to clear rubble from the area surrounding his home, and was getting quickly tired. He hadn't seen Ty Lee since she and Zarehya went to check on the hospital, and he hadn't seen Kai since Inora was escorted to the Hokage mountain with the rest of the mostly unwounded Civilians. Naruto cursed, he lifted a large piece of plaster and saw another dead body, he pulled the body from the rubble and marked their forearm with a red x. Naruto felt a hand on his shoulder and turned around, it was an older teen in a standard Konoha uniform.

"Naruto Yu, you are needed by the North gate ASAP."

Naruto nodded and he felt the pull as his body traveled with the Chunin through a Shunshin technique appearing at the gate. He looked around and was wondering what was going on. His parents were here, Minato, Inora, Muy, Zarehya, his little sister in his mother's arms, the royals, this was a gathering of too many people to be anything unimportant.

"Naruto, by my right side, now."

Naruto immediately joined Muy at his right side, the elder man placing his hand atop Naruto's head. Naruto knew this was Muys way of worrying over his safety, but he didn't mind. Then he saw it, the banner, and that is when he knew that the Fire Lord was coming. Naruto was unaware of how his appearance looked till Zarehya kneeled down in front of him and took out a rag, wiping the right side of his face he saw fresh and crusted blood covering her rag. He then felt it the massive surge of pain that seemed to split his skull. Naruto knew he had flown head first into the side of the barrier but he didn't know it had been that bad. He watched his mother straighten out and rejoin the left side of her husband. Their faces were recognizable and Naruto once again was wracked with pain, but accompanied by nausea. Naruto couldn't contain it anymore and he quickly turned causing him to stumble and he vomited. He felt a strong hand on his shoulder that patted his back and helped Naruto stand. Naruto couldn't think straight, he was nauseous, his ears were ringing. He felt another wave of nausea and dizziness but his father's hand on his shoulder helped him ground himself for the time being. Naruto had to blink his eyes a few times feeling exhausted, though his father's hand helped keep himself grounded.

"Muy, it is good to see you, even if you look like you went a few rounds with a bear."

"My Lord, I apologise for our state of dress."

"It is understandable Muy, we saw the flash and felt the breeze, it carried the air of destruction upon it. Well, that can't be Naruto, he's too tall."

Naruto was trying to focus and bowed to the Fire Lord.

"It has been far too long Lord Ozai."

"It has, have my children caused you too much trouble?"

"No my Lord, though Zuko has proven to be even stronger than I remember."

"Indeed he has."

Minato watched the Fire Lords gaze settle on him and he stepped forward and bowed.

"Lord Ozai."

"Minato."

"If you would follow me, I can take you to the temporary headquarters."

"Please do, we need to get this situation under control."

Minato held his hand out and the Fire Lord placed his hand into Minatos and they vanished in a flash of yellow.

Naruto was having trouble standing and right as Minato vanished Naruto collapsed.

"NARUTO!"

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Minato looked around the chaos of the room had suddenly been silenced with the appearance of the Fire Lord. The whole room turned and bowed to the Fire Lord before returning to their duties, the roar of conversation began once again.

"Silence."

Minat watched as everyone stopped talking and looked to Ozai who spoke.

"I need to know what is happening, I need casualty numbers, military power still standing. What is the status on a triage center. We need to get this under control, and please keep your voices quiet, the roar of conversation will only serve to confuse others."

The three elders, Shikaku, Inomi, and Minato sat in their seats.

"One by one, give me your information."

"I am Koharu, and the triage center has been set up, though Tsunade should have died. She is being sustained by her seal and is undergoing an emergency surgery in our clean room. Shizune has been killed, and the rest of the doctors and inhabitants on duty were all killed. As of now I am head of the triage unit and we are managing to control the flow of wounded. Though most wounds are severe, most of the people we have received will be in working condition in three days at the maximum. The priority is Shinobi for now so we will have a stronger defence."

"It is good to see you again my Lord. Councilman Homura, I was in charge of keeping the opulus docile, and in allowing the uninjured to join in on the salvage operation we have managed to keep rioting off the streets."

"Danzo Shimura my Lord. Our Shinobi forces have been depleted to just enough to defend one sector of the village should anything happen. The ANBU have been wiped from the map, we have fifteen accounted for Jonin, sixty Specialist Jonins, three hundred and thirty-two Chunin, and fifteen thousand Genin in the reserves. There is only ten thousand civilian warriors able to fight as of this moment, and projected fifteen hundred more will join once they are well enough."

"I am the Jonin Commander Shikaku Nara. I have been leading the charge in finding and rescuing civilians and ninjas from rubble. So far we have had a ninety-nine point four percent death rate with only point six percent of those we find alive. We are projecting eleven million dead, and several hundred thousand ninja and civilian military dead."

"I am Inomi my Lord, until my uncle is found I am in charge of the Information department. As far as we have been able to tell the explosion that caused this was not caused b a single jutsu. The barrier would have picked up a point of origin, but unfortunately there seems to be no point of origin. The flames managed to burn hot and fast enough to create human shadows on certain structures. We have only been able to find traces of Earth Nature Chakra, and considering our state and the state of Iwagakure, we believe this may have been a preemptive strike."

"No, this was done by seals."

"Pardon my Lord?"

"My father Azulon was one of the people responsible for the destruction of Uzushiogakure during the past ninja war. The same thing that hit your city is an Uzumaki seal named the Atom of Amaterasu. It is a seal that causes an eruption of pure energy in a single blast, you are lucky it did not detonate on the ground. This explosion was detonated in the air, if it had been on the ground there would be nothing left in this city."

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Naruto opened his eyes, he was groggy, confused, and he couldn't think straight. He felt a tightness around his head and reached a shaky hand to his forehead, it was wrapped in bandages.

"He's awake!"

Naruto turned and saw Zarehya, Yin, and Ty all sitting near the cot he was laying on. He wanted to say something but he couldn't.

"Don't try to speak Naru, you have a severe concussion. Lin and one of the medical ninja have come by and tried to heal you, but they couldn't heal it all, you need to rest."

Naruto just looked around his eyes seemingly glazed, his eyes latched onto Ty Lees wrapped arm and he reached out.

"Naru, you shouldn't move, just lay back and rest."

"I need to move, I need to help."

"Naruto, you can't, if you wont listen to Ty or Lin, then listen to me. You need to rest baby boy, if you don't you could hurt yourself further and we can't heal anything worse than what you have right now."

Naruto didnt ignore her, he just had trouble processing information and he stood. He couldn't hear much of what they said and he began to walk through the area. Thousands of people groaning in pain, screaming for their loved ones, some dead in their cots. Naruto finally saw a black head of hair and rushed over to the person.

"Master!"

Itachi took his eyes off his fiance and looked to see his student, Narutos forehead and wrist being wrapped in bandages. He nodded to Naruto.

"I heard you have a concussion, you need to rest Naruto."

"Where is Aunt Mikoto, I need to know if she's ok."

"She is back at the district, she is trapped in her room."

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Mikoto had only cried this hard once before, she could feel the weight on her back, the rebar poles that stuck through her body. She was nailed to the floor and she knew she would never be leaving this home again. She would never get to see her baby boys, her grandchild, her sons success as a Hokage. She was angry, and tired, and she felt cold but she cried. She faintly heard her name being called and the next thing she knows she cut her eyes around and she saw them, her youngest and Kushinas son. She smiled weakly to them.

"MOM!"

"AUNT MIKOTO!"

Sasuke skidded to a stop seeing his mothers head and shoulders sticking out from the rubble, her body encased in debris. Sasuke began pulling piece by piece out of the pile, NAruto soon joined him in their endeavor.

"Boys, you need to leave. Leave and get one of the medical ninja to come and assist."

"I'm not leaving you mom."

"Sasuke, sweety, you need to leave, please."

"NO, I never got to see dad, I never got a chance to miss him, and I'll be damned if I'm not gonna give my all in saving the one parent I have left."

Mikoto felt weight lifting from her body her pain renewed as Sasuke accidentally hit one of the rebar going through her abdomen.

"GAH."

"MOM."

Naruto saw it and stopped Sasuke, he pointed to the rebar and the cloth it fell into.

"How many?"

"As far as I can feel, three. Two in my lower abdomen, and one in my ribs."

Naruto registered her words and worked through his grogginess, he began to carefully cut and remove debris from around the rebar and her body. Once clear they saw the mucky blood and the dust had mixed. Naruto looked down to Mikoto and nodded.

"This is going to hurt, a lot, but we can get you out."

Mikoto nodded, sh felt white fire in her body and gasped, she heard metal falling and saw naruto with a glowing dagger.

"The rebar have been cut straight, Sasuke we have to lift her part of the way up so I can cut the rebar from below. We can't remove the rebar completely or she will bleed out and die." Naruto saw Sasuke nod, his Sharingan open seeming to memorize every detail of his mothers face. The two settled on her sides and on the count of three lifted her several inches off of the floor, Naruto quickly cut the rebar and the two lifted Mikotos arms around their shoulders.

"We have to get her to the triage center, they can take care of this."

"Boys, I won't make it, you have to leave me here."

"We aren't going to leave you mother."

Mikotos eyes widened and there stood her eldest son, she was swept from the two younger boys and with a swirl of leaves Itachi began draining the last bit of his reserves getting his mother to the hospital via Shunshin. Crying for help she got a cot and was placed on her side, and she saw someone she never thought to be healing her.

"Elder Koharu."

"Be still Lady Uchiha, one move and you will die. Just let me work."

Mikoto felt as one by one her aches and pains were swept away, the burning and fire quelled and then it began anew when the rebar was pulled from her body. With a scream of pain she felt her blood flowing fast but it was staunched by Koharus healing.

"I have done what I can Mikoto, you just need to hold on till Tsunade wakes up."

Mikoto nodded and before she could even blink Koharu was gone and in her place there stood Itachi. She felt his hand in her own and she gave it a reassuring squeeze.

"Itachi, I don't know if I am going to make it till Tsunade wakes up."

"Mother don't."

"I need you to take care of the clan if I am not, and once you are Hokage, let Sasuke take over."

"Mother I can't do that, because you're going to be there, so please, just rest."

"No Itachi, I can't leave you two without giving you two something to do. Please, just promise me you will be a better dad than Fugaku."

"Mom, you are going to be fine, so just rest. We will talk about Sasuke taking your spot once you're back on your feet."

Mikoto wheezed out a laugh and nodded, she knew there was a chance she would live, but with the iron in her body for so long she knew she could develop an infection or heavy metal poisoning. She pulled Itachis hand to her lips and kissed it.

"If I do pass away, I want you to have my eyes."

"Mother, don't talk like you are going to die."

"Itachi, I know there's a chance, and I just need to cover my bases. IF I die, take my Mangekyou, get Tsunade to implant them into your eyes and you will never go blind. I want to be there, even if not in body, be there in spirit. Keeping you healthy and seeing clearly." Mikoto hld her sons hand to her cheek and she began to cry again, scared for the future, and scared for her babies.

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She was exhausted, they had been marching for days. She couldn't believe their goal, it seemed like a dream but that shockwave they had seen made it seem like a reality. Her father had been drilling her for her mission, she was to slip in, take out her target, and slip out once the fighting started. She had been caught off guard by the explosions, the rush of the wind and the smell of heat that came with it.

"Kurotsuchi, get over here now."

Kurotsuchi ran over to her father, she was nervous, she had never been in a full scale conflict before.

"You know your mission? Repeat it to me now."

"I am to infiltrate Konohagakure while the army distracts the village. I am to track down Kai Namikaze, Naruto Yu, and Inora Namikaze. I am to eliminate them and make sure the Hokage can find their bodies. I am then to assist in the destruction of as much property as possible and to assault the medical facilities."

"Good, now go, we will be starting in only a few minutes."

Kurotsuchi began to run, her nerves going haywire, she had only a couple minutes to slip in through the eastern gate while all attention would be towards the northern gate. She waited for the signal and she didn't need anything else when she felt the flood of tainted energy, the mission had begun.

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Inora held her son tightly in her arms, it had been less than ten minutes since the explosions happened, there were what felt like earthquakes every other second. People were being hysterical, they were shouting and screaming and it was taking all she had not to cry. She stood and lifted her son into her arms, she was going to go ask one of the Genin guarding them what was going on. She took one step when she heard the most monstrous yell she had ever heard. It was a sound similar to only one thing she had ever heard before, the Kyuubi but this sounded more guttural. Then she heard a deep voice booming across the hallway and she knew that voice well, it was Gamabunta! Inora began running towards the exit, the shaking was getting worse, explosions and sounds louder and louder. She saw an orange glow coming from the exit ahead, she picked up her pace. She was starting to regret not taking all of those Shinobi lessons from her husband, she saw the entrance and the Genin who looked fearful huddled around the entrance. She heard the guttural roar again and it shook her soul. She heard her baby boy screaming and crying but she pulled him closer and ran past the scared Genin. As soon as she stood outside the door she heard the yell louder than ever before, almost loud enough to deafen her. A rush of air from behind her, screaming and then silence. Turning the tunnel behind them had collapsed and the sound of crumbling she watched as half of the Hokage Monument fell to the earth. She turned the heat licking at her face, the sound deafening in her ears, and that moment was forever scorched into her memory. There was her husband, atop Gamabunta and they had a dagger the size of a building buried to the hilt inside of some white beasts chest. The roar it made in pain deafened her for the moment and she began to run, run towards the city below. She did not know how, but some way shape or form, she was going to survive this night. Just as she cleared the steps there was a second roar, one deeper and seemed to shake the whole area, and before her stood a four tailed gorilla.

"Oh my god."

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I indeed will be doing a double post on Thursday to make up for the lateness, though it may be two short chapters based upon fighting. I will try to flesh them out as much as I can, though if I can make a singular long chapter I may write a one-shot about Itachis first fight with Zabuza. I was saving it for later but it seems to be a god as time as any to complete. I do hope you enjoy the next chapter as it will shows several fights and action. I will see you next time,

~Ardent Chronicler