AN: Okay, okay, it's been an inexcussably long time since i updated. I know I know...I'm sorry, I really am.

But now! The good news! I finally wrote the a fight scene and this is the single longest chapter I've ever written! (not that it really removes any blame) sooo...I'll shut up now and get on with the chapter.

Disclaimer: you know the drill thoughts, text, and i don't own naruto

An astounding number of Fang shinobi lined the outer wall, all ready in defensive positions. A few stragglers who had just finished saying goodbye to wives, husbands, girlfriends, boyfriends, and other family were still gathering at the gates. They were watching Naruto and Kai, waiting for a signal.

The two had finally taken a position at the wall's middle turret after checking, re-checking and triple checking everything they could think off. Now, all that was left to do was wait.

Behind them, Lina and Gyro were still leading civilians into the mountain's caverns.

Naruto frowned. It was taking way too long. Satarima would be attacking in less than an hour if Kai's estimate was correct.

He yawned loudly, sitting down next to Kai who was stretched out in the snow. He was staring at the clouds above, judging the amount of light they had left.

"We've got an hour and forty-five minutes of daylight left."

Naruto nodded. "And there's no moon tonight. Even the stars can't help us out because of the cloud cover. We'll be fighting in pitch black."

Kai frowned. "You think they'll still attack in the dark?"

"I'm positive. Otherwise they wouldn't have made themselves known so early. There's no way Satarima would give us the night to prepare for them."

"True. Man, I wish they would though. It'd be nice to get a decent night's sleep."

Naruto laughed bitterly. "I know what you mean." He scowled. "Gyro, that stupid git. It's his fault I felt like shit." "No offense eagle boy, but I really hate your dad right now."

Kai laughed, "That makes two of us. Although, I wish I had an incentive to stay awake like you do."

Naruto stared blankly at him. "Oh? What incentive do I have to stay awake?"

"A certain pink haired Konoha kunoichi comes to mind."

Naruto grinned in spite of himself. Kai was right. After years of chasing her, Sakura was finally his. And he'd be damned before he let some spine-less Satarima shinobi bring him down now.

Kai grinned, sensing his partner's determination. "Satarima won't know what hit them." Now if only his sister would hurry up and get the civilians into the mountain they could get on with this battle.

As if on cue, a pile of snow was dumped onto his head.

He heard Naruto laughing as he jumped up, screaming bloody murder at Lina. She fell back into the snow laughing hysterically at the sight of her brother dancing around the turret. "If that isn't the perfect revenge for the water bucket I don't know what is. I knew this cold wet stuff would prove it's worth sometime."

The rest of the Fang shinobi could only sweat-drop as their leader's son danced around the turret, cursing.

"Damn it, Lina! I've got snow in my underwear!"

Said fire user was too busy laughing to even hear him.

"Will all three of you shut up? This is hardly the time to be laughing. We have bigger problems than snow up someone's ass."

The three scowled as Gyro made his presence known. He ignored them, focusing out into the woods that sloped down below them. "Kai, how much daylight do we have?"

He answered begrudgingly, shaking the last bit of snow out of his clothes. "An hour and forty minutes."

Gyro nodded. "All right. We can't wait any longer. Naruto, Lina, as much as I hate to destroy part of such a beautiful forest, we need room to fight. Get on with it."

They nodded, knowing exactly what to do.

Naruto jumped up, shaking snow out of his jacket as he headed over to the edge of the turret. He took a deep breath, slowly building up chakra until he felt the wind begin to swirl around him. He crouched down, making a couple of hands signs before thrusting his arms forward.

The wind rushed passed him, following the course his chakra set for it. It whipped around him, rushing with all it's might towards the forest that was spread out below them. Naruto focused it into sharp invisible blades as the wind collided with the trees, turning the once proud wonders into unevenly chopped splinters of wood as it ripped a hundred yards into the forest.

Naruto stood up, grinning as the dust settled. The rest of the shinobi looked on with awe as the now massacred forest became visible.

Gyro stood impassively. "Lina."

She grinned. "On it, pops."

She flew through several hand signs before turning the wood into a blazing inferno. The dancing flames reflected in her eyes as she watched with fascination before Kai rolled his eyes and threw a snowball at her.

Effectively snapped out of her reverie, Lina scowled at him before putting out the flames.

Gyro nodded in approval as she turned around to face him, waiting for further orders.

"All right. I know Satarima isn't exactly the strongest village, but don't let yourselves think that this will be easy." He began, speaking to the gathered shinobi.

"Satarima has achieved a feat that should have been impossible. That alone shows that they have more tricks up their sleeves than we thought. You know where the hospitals are; watch out for one another. Naruto, station yourself near the southwest turret. Lina, take the southeast, and Kai, you take the south. Don't let me down."

The three nodded, heading off silently to their positions.

Naruto landed heavily on the southwest turret. He nodded to the surrounding shinobi as he took his place in the ranks. Nervously, he glanced back into the city, his eyes finding the building he knew Sakura was working in.

He smiled to himself before stifling a yawn. He groaned. Why did Satarima have to attack now? All he wanted to do was go back to Sakura and say all the things he'd wanted to say for so long. He wanted to kiss her again, to hold her in his arms again.

Lina's whistle snapped him to focus. That was the signal. They were here.

Naruto was not a happy camper. Not by a long shot. No matter how many ninja he took down, more took their place.

"What the hell?! Are they multiplying or something?!"

The blonde ducked as an aggravated Lina threw her giant boomerang weapon…thingy…whatever she called it, towards the group of ninjas surrounding him.

He heard a muffled 'sorry' before Lina turned her attention back to her own opponents.

Lina was getting increasingly frustrated as well. Her usual excitement and borderline obsession with a good fight were fading. She was tired, and her performance was slipping. She cried out in pain as one of the Satarima shinobi managed to embed a kunai in her stomach.

Lina swore loudly before charbroiling the man and those surrounding him. She ripped the kunai out and jumped back to the wall, taking a breather to heal her wound. She sighed in relief as her chakra flooded her system.

Lina glanced around her, observing the battlefield. Words could not describe how big of a mess it was. Even with her bloodline ability to see in the dark Lina could barely tell friend from foe.

The beginnings of a bright orange glow caught her eye as she heard a roar of frustration from the southwest turret. "Crap, Naruto's losing it."

Naruto stopped, reining his chakra back into his body. Now was not the time to lose control over the Kyuubi. He jumped back, avoiding a cluster of senbons thrown in his direction.

He grunted, grabbing hold of an arm that was attempting to punch him, twisting it until it snapped. He kicked the opposing ninja in the chest before dropping him to dodge another shinobi's jutsu.

The snarl of the king of foxes sounded to his left, and Naruto whipped around. Taka was busy dismembering a cluster of shinobi, his size twice that of his normal perfered mass. His dusty gray chakra glowed in the dark as it lashed out at their enemies.

Naruto stared for a split second, wondering what had caused the fox to flip out. He hissed under his breath as he saw the katana buried in the canine's right flank.

A blur of white crashed into his chest as Niagra tackled him to the ground, saving him from being impaled with the giant shiriken sailing through the air.

The wolf growled at him. "Get you head back, kid. If we're going to come out of this alive, you need to keep your sleep-deprived mind from getting distracted."

Naruto nodded sheepishly, ashamed of himself. He jumped up as soon as Niagra got off, wasting no time in resuming his attack.

Niagra was right. He couldn't get distracted, he'd promised Sakura he'd be fine. And he'd be damned if he let Satarima take him down.

Sakura chanced a glance out the window. Not that she could really see anything. It was pitch black outside, the only exceptions being the fires that had ignited from various ill-aimed fire jutsus.

She frowned, her brow creasing with worry. How would Naruto make it through this? He was running on empty.

She shook her head vigorously, Naruto would be fine. He'd promised her. And Naruto always kept his promises. Besides, he'd pulled miracles out of his hat in worse situations.

Sakura let the chakra flow through her hands as she focused on healing her newest patient. It was a never ending stream of the wounded and the dieing. She silently thanked her sensei for the endless hours of ER duty.

She smiled as she watched the wound close; the flesh flowing back together under her fingertips. Another life saved, another reminder of why she enjoyed being a medic-nin so much. She bit her lip as one of the nurses wheeled the patient away. Sakura looked out the window again. There was another fire on the horizon, burning at the south edge of the fight. "Kai…"

Something crashed behind her and her mind refocused on the task at hand. She took several deep breaths as she began working on her next patient.

She wanted so badly to be out there fighting with them; causing creators in the frozen earth with her fists. But for now, she would have to make do with fighting against the invasion in the only way she was allowed.

Kai howled in pain as he sat down in the snow, dousing the fire that had ravaged his pants. The hiss of water evaporating circled around his ears before the more dominant sounds of the battle resurfaced.

He jumped up, slamming his foot down on the ground as he landed. He sent his chakra through the earth, almost laughing as a slab of rock flipped up and collided with several shinobi. Almost.

He turned to face the flame that had injured him earlier. "Wonderful…now I'm a firefighter. Where's Lina when you need her?"

He bent down, trusting his near by comrades to cover him as he dug through the snow until he could feel the dirt underneath. He pulled up another wall of earth, letting the snow slide off of the slab and onto the fire.

He grinned at his handy work for a split second before remembering where he was. It was truly amazing really, his ability to forget that he was in the midst of battle. Even he admitted it was going to get him killed one day.

Kai dodged an incoming cloud of shiriken and swung his knee into the gut of a near by enemy. He dodged a fist as the man crumpled to the ground. Kai snatched the man's discarded sword off of the ground and began using it to continue cutting down the seemingly endless ranks of Satarima.

Naruto yelled in frustration. He formed a rasengan in his hand, throwing it into the Satarima ranks. Without his chakra flow to sustain it the sphere exploded like a bomb.

Niagra grunted in approval at his side. The wolf had joined him in the fight after Taka had retreated behind the wall to lick his wounds.

And they were still getting nowhere.

"Where the hell are they all coming from?!" Naruto shouted, not really expecting an answer.

"Wouldn't you love to know?"

The blonde pivoted, turning to face the voice. Auoshi was standing among the fighting shinobi, his hands stuffed nonchalantly in his pockets as if he weren't completely surrounded by war.

"How did you-"

Auoshi laughed. "Once again, wouldn't you love to know." He grinned wickedly before shifting his stance ever so slightly.

But Naruto noticed, he met Auoshi halfway, his hands all ready flying through seals.

AN: What did you think? I don't normally like to beg for reviews but I am seriously pleading for feedback on this fight scene, loved it, hated it, want to flame it, ANYTHING. I really want to know the honest truth on how I did and how I can improve.

So please click the purple-ish button bellow!!

I'm not going to finish the fight scene untill i get some feedback on the part I've already written, but hopefully I'll get some good reviews!! (and I'm all settled in my new house now with internet so I have no more legit excuses for not updating. I have no friends here anyway.)

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