Danzo Daisheki, known to many as dastardly dee-dee, smiled grimly as he looked on at Shiogakure. The fools obviously had no idea what was about to happen to them, such a disappointment. It was almost as if they wanted to give him the village for free! He expected better from these people. He had been going under the assumption that this would be a hard thing to do. He suddenly saw many plumes of smoke begin rising from parts of the village, accompanied by explosions and mass chaos. He grinned evilly and ordered his forces to attack. Today was indeed a good day to gain his own private hidden village, for the good of Konoha of course.

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One week earlier

"We need a way to pull off an ambush without letting them into the village itself, that's too dangerous. One high powered jutsu going astray and hitting the dome could doom us all."

Shikamaru stood up and moved to the map of the area surrounding the hidden tide village.

"The only problem is that in order to stop this invasion with minimum casualties to our side we'll have to do just that. Letting him think he's won without much of a fight before springing the trap shut on him and his men." He pulled a chair over and sat back down in his 'thinking pose' while still staring at the map. "what do you want us to do, bring in another village and stick it in the valley for him to take over instead?" Naruto asked jokingly, only to receive a slap on the back of his head from Ino. "Ow! I was just trying to lighten the mood Ino. You didn't have to hit me!"

"As troublesome as it is, he's right Ino. It's the only way. But I doubt it'll work for very long so we'll have to rig the decoy to explode and have fighters standing by to mop up the rest of them." Shikamaru said thoughtfully.

"What do you mean Shikamaru? Naruto's never right about anything!" Ino said indignantly

"I mean exactly what I said: Naruto's right, we need to find some way to trick Danzo without him finding out until it's too late. And the easiest way to do that will be to have another village stand in our place. Though I doubt we can bring it in from outside, we'll probably have to build it ourselves...such a troublesome plan, but with a little tweaking it should work." Shikamaru explained.

The Shiokage, who had remained silent until now, spoke up. "It's a good plan, our only problem will be pulling it off within the estimated time limit." She said, then she began to muse quietly to herself, "Yes it just might be possible, I'll have to reassign a few people, and put off a few village improvements, but I think we can do it." She stood up, "Good job Shikamaru-san, we'll begin preparations immediately and start constructing the decoy using the original village layout as a template- that's probably the layout obtained by Danzo's spies since it's easier to get to, so that's the one we'll use for the decoy. All of of you should start training as if you are about to enter a war, though I doubt you will enter combat this time you can never be too careful, or too prepared." She turned to Mentoli's Jonin-sensei. "Subarashii, work with the Konoha Genin to familiarize them with the old village layout and any tactics you think they'll need to know if they are called on to fight. I'll be reassigning twin G to the building teams for the duration of this crisis, his earth control jutsus will come in handy. Dismissed!" she said with an air of finality.

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"So exactly what are we supposed to train in?" Naruto asked Subarashii when they arrived at one of the weapons training grounds inside one of the smaller domes that made up the outer village. For a supposedly minor village it certainly was extensive.

"We only have a week and ninjutsu won't help much anyways since we'll most likely be left behind to guard the real village entrance. So we'll just have to train with weapons, I doubt any of you have seen anything similar to Mentoli's weapon style in Konoha, and Twin B's is as rare as your own Naruto." Subarashii Yūjin said

"It will be good practice for you six to fight against a style unfamiliar to your village."

"What's so different about Mentoli's weapon style?" Naruto asked, genuinely interested.

Instead of answering Subarashii merely motioned to Mentoli, who produced a three foot long wooden cylinder from his jacket.

"My entire style is centered around this." The boy said.

"And? What's so different about that? Pretty much all you can do is beat people over the head with something like that." Naruto said, genuinely confused, not something he ever enjoyed feeling if he could help it.

"An attitude like that is precisely the reason why my fighting style is so effective." Mentoli said, "Nobody expects this piece of wood to do anything, and they would be right, if they don't know what to do with it." He held the cylinder in front of him horizontally, and Naruto's Byakuzen, which had become second nature after so many years of use, told him that he was channeling chakra into it.

The reason why became apparent a fraction of a second later when a straight double edged blade sprang out of both ends of the dully glowing cylinder.

"Does it seem harmless now?" Mentoli asked in amusement, "I created this weapon and fighting style myself, and it just so happens that I am the only one who can use it to any level of skill, for obvious reasons." He paused, looking thoughtful. "You could say that I'm a bit of a genius when it comes to creating and wielding weapons."

Most of the present Konoha genin were suitably impressed by his little show.

But not Naruto, he simply drew his tiger hook swords and got into his basic fighting stance.

"I'll admit that it looks impressive, but intimidation is only half the battle. It means nothing without the skill to back it up. So I just have one question: How well can you really fight with it?"

Then without warning Naruto attacked the self proclaimed weapons genius. Not to be out done Mentoli charged in a split second later. The other genin jumped to the safety of the sidelines just as the two met in a clash of swords, Naruto's twin swords stopped short by Mentoli's double staff blades. They disengaged, jumping away to land 20 feet apart.

"Good reaction time," Naruto said Jovially, "And here I was afraid that this wouldn't be any fun."

"There's more to me than meets the eye," Mentoli replied, "the real question is: Can you keep up when I actually try?"

He disappeared in a blur only to be stopped by Naruto's swords again, this time he attempted to disarm Mentoli by hooking the blades and pulling, but his opponent was one step ahead of him. He retracted his blades for a split second, freeing his weapon and throwing Naruto off balance.

The spar continued in this fashion for twenty minute, neither one gaining any significant advantage to take advantage of. After a suitable length of time had passed and the observer Subarashii had detected was gone, he stopped the spar.

"I think think that was convincing enough to any observers." he said jovially.

"What are you talking about?" Naruto asked, "aren't we supposed to be training for the invasion?"

"As exciting as a full week of nonstop training sounds, I doubt your skills will improve enough to help."

Seeing Naruto open his mouth to protest, Subarashii continued quickly, "if we really want to help stop the invasion then what we need to do is create a fallback plan."

"But why?" Ino asked in confusion, "Shikamaru already came up with a foolproof plan to stop it!"

"Because, foolish genin, we may have caught most of Danzo's spies, but we have to assume that there is at least one we missed, the only question is whether or not he will be able to access to the defense plans we've made and send them to Danzo. In order to be sure that our village will survive this invasion we need to have a fallback plan in place to counter the failure of our main plan. Because we need almost all of our forces to create the decoy village we are forced to rely on you to create the fallback plan that I will give to the Shiokage for final approval."

Naruto looked thoughtful (which was almost never a good sign), "why don't we just use Shikamaru's plan?" seeing the others about to yell at him for being an idiot he quickly explained, "i mean, they might expect one fake, but will they expect two? We'll just make more tunnels these ones heading out to sea add a few caverns with enough camping supplies to look lived in with hints of another few secret doors to convince them that they found the entrance to the real village and they'll probably call in reinforcements to help 'pacify' the village. We'll make the tunnels big enough to hold most of them, and after a large enough number of them have gone in we just collapse the tunnels behind them trapping them inside. But there's one problem, we need him to think that the first fake is the real one without losing very many shinobi in order to defend the real town if the second fake doesn't convince them, besides there's no point in losing any ninja at all if we don't have to. I can spam 500 shadow clones without feeling tired, let's use them."

Shino chipped in his support, "My ant summons can dig the tunnels and caverns needed without drawing workers away from the primary plan. I will need a chakra battery to summon enough of them though."

"My rats can set up the evidence of human habitation in the final cavern quite easily, with the help of a chakra battery of course." Hinata volunteered.

Subarashii looked impressed, "I know I asked you guys to come up with another plan, but I never expected you guys to actually think of one that would work! As soon as the Shiokage approves this plan we'll start, and then we'll get to some actual training."