Chapter 8: Konoha vs. Akatsuki
Karin looked up at the man that turned her down and deserted her. Sasuke Uchiha. She knew he had married that useless pink hair kunoichi. Now was the time for revenge.
"Karin. What you guys after? It's not worth it." Sasuke told her. In her rage she lunged at him in a full head on battle (which Manda found insulting and stupid as he gulped her down).
"You're getting excited I see, Manda." He told his summon.
"It's been a while since I had fresh blood." Manda said as he took out more Akatsuki members when they tried to attack him together. Sasuke laughed.
"MADARA!" Nasuhi shouted at the spiky hair man who look so much like Sasuke.
"An Ayame." He snorted back.
"This is your last battle because this time, you're going down." Natsuhi said.
"You can try all you want, puny girl."
"I will succeed!"
The fight raged on all around them. Jutsus were fire off left and right. Kunais were thrown every direction imaginable. Shurikens were toss back and forth like a ball being kicked between two friends.
"Hidden Mist jutsu!" Natsuhi said and Konoha was carefully covered in a thick blanket of mist that would hide her movements from his Sharingan.
Madara smirked. "You can hide from the Mangekyou Sharingan!" Just then something bound him frozen and he couldn't move. "What?" he shouted as he struggled to break free.
"I never said it was for me to hide." Natsuhi said. "It's for me to control you with my Ket Tan. I may never be able to beat you but I sure can hold you for an infinite long time." She tightened her Ket Tan and sent a burst of her Ket Tan to invade his systems. He screamed in pain and her Ket Tan forced him into a vegetative state. She bounded him and lifted the mist jutsu to find most of the battle was over. What members of the Akatsuki that survived were being captured and those dead were destroyed by the ANBU.
They dragged all their prisoners to Lady Tsunade.
"Uchiha Madara." Natsuhi said. "Leader of the Akatsuki and working under the alias 'Tobi'."
"Good. What did you do to him?" she asked. The others looked at her expectantly.
"Because I knew enough medical ninjutsu I was able to utilize it into my own technique. I am able to force my Ket Tan into him and reduce him into a coma like state. I can wake him up any time. Because my Ket Tan is in his body, I could easily control him and stop his chakra completely or easily destroy him." Natsuhi said quietly.
Everyone looked at her shocked but her two teammates. "What?"
"Every Ayame has one unique ability that theirs alone besides from those we get from the Ket Tan. This is mine." Natsuhi explained quietly. "It's not a technique I normally would use because it results the people being a complete slave."
"Does Hikari and Hitomi have abilities like that?" Sakura asked.
"They have their own ability that is uniquely their own. Hikari has the ability that can return any attack that she received back to the inflictor in ten fold." Hitomi said. "While I have the ability to track anything. I track by chakra."
"Tracking by chakra? Is that even possible?" Naruto asked.
"To the eyes of Ket Tan wielders, everyone leaves a little chakra even if you are concealing. Everyone has a different chakra signature, that's what I track. I can tell where you have been for several years at a time. I could get any information I want if I touch you. My Ket Tan is sensitive in that way." Hitomi said.
"Why didn't you tell earlier about your abilities?" Shizune asked.
"We have registered it with the Hokage when we became genin and then we are free to hide it. Our secret abilities are our trump cards. We don't tell secrets." Hikari told them. "Our abilities are greatly feared and misunderstood like many other clans with Kekkei Genkai. Don't tell me the other seven clans with Kekkei Genkai don't have their own secrets."
"I wonder how much of what he told you in that cave were true, Sasuke, and how much of it was lies to benefit himself." Hitomi asked staring straight at a stiffened Sasuke. She looked grimly and held out her hand. She waited until her hand glowed purple before touch one finger on his forehead. "The first finger." She said. "second…third…four…FIVE!" she shouted. The moment all five of her fingers were on him, great gales of winds swished around them. She began forming hand signs with her free hand.
"I'm in." Hitomi said as her eyes turned red until the whites of her eyes disappeared. The room grew quiet as they watch her. Suddenly she screamed loudly and slumped back in a dead faint.
"HITOMI!" Hikari and Natsuhi said rushing over to her. She groaned and clutched her head.
"What's wrong?" Hikari asked.
"What did you see?" Natsuhi asked. Both were shocked when they say tears fall down.
Everyone in the room was shock. Tomboy Hitomi was crying! She stood up and turned hate fill eyes on Madara. "Kill him! He doesn't deserve to live! Make him repent for all his sins."
"WHAT?" Natsuhi asked. "Hitomi!"
"What did you see?" Hikari and Shikamaru asked.
"He's the reason everything bad happened to us! He was the one that started the rumor that the Uchiha was going to betray Konoha. He used genjutsu on the elders. The elders then turned the order to kill every Uchiha to Itachi. Itachi who had a small inkling of it, said they had to spare Sasuke. He's coward! Hiding behind that same genjutsu as he used the same stupid trick on the feudal lord of the Wind so that people like Gaara was created! He was the one that influenced Orochimaru from the very beginning telling him he could live long like he does on a mission. After all, he was the reason that Orochimaru went after the surviving Uchihas. He caused Sasuke to do stupid things like want to destroy the village! He was the reason the last of the great wars occurred!" Hitomi said shaking with rage. "He's the reason that Asuma sensei and so many other died including the third Kazekage and the Yondaime. He was behind it all! Uchiha Madara was using the demon statue to take all the chakra and power the bijuu have. He was the one that released the Kyuubi on our village 23 years ago! He caused all of the suffering that team seven went through and by extension all of us went through because Sasuke was a comrade and friend. That's not even all of his sins! What I said and saw doesn't even begin to cover the magnitude of his sins."
"He's a scumbag that doesn't deserve to live! He deserves the most painful of deaths!" Hitomi said as she wiped the tears of rage away angrily.
By this, the Konoha fifteen were ready to kill him. "Natsuhi wake him up but control his chakra. We need a confession out of him!" the fifth said shaking with rage. Her quiet rage was scarier than Naruto's.
"Hai." Natsuhi nodded and formed hand signs before her hands turned purple. She placed on her temple and the other on the center of his forehead.
Madara slowly woke to find himself staring up at seventeen angry faces (eighteen if you count Akamaru). He tried to moved and use chakra only to find a pain coursing through his body. Natsuhi said, "You won't be able to move. Stop trying, my Ket Tan is controlling you. It's pointless."
"Ket Tan…you're one of them demon brats from that accused family!" Madara screamed.
Hitomi slapped him hard. "What your mouth, scrum bag. I know what you did…all of it! Don't even start! You killed the Uchihas and you went after my clan! You almost succeed if it wasn't for pure luck that not all the Ayames were there!"
Hikari knelt down and looked at him straight in the eye. "You stupid moronic hermit! I'm got a score to settle with you. You mess with the wrong family! As for your underling Danzo…I've killed him! And I can kill you but that would just sullen my reputation…killing an old cowardly hermit. No you're going to face the charges of all the sins you have committed!"
Shino place a hand on Hikari and pulled her up against him. He leaned down to whisper a few chosen words to calm her down. Kiba place his hands on Natushi's thin shoulders to calm the shaking. Hitomi stood there staring at the man with murderous intent. He laughed. "I should have never underestimated you young'uns."
"No." the fifth said. "that was your mistake from the very beginning! Why did you do it?"
"Simple, this land shouldn't be divided. It's supposed to one! I wanted to unite it under one banner! Which meant all these villages had to be destroyed!" He screamed. "With the powers of the Bijuu, I could do it!"
He laughed. His laugh turned maniacal.
"Take him away for questioning! Call on Ibiki." The fifth said and two ANBU ninja took him away.
The fifth sat down on her chair rubbing her temples wearily. It was times like this the Konoha fifteen clearly saw the fifth wasn't as young as she seemed. In fact, they all knew it wouldn't be long before she would be handing the title of Hokage to Kakashi and felt saddened by it. None of them couldn't imagine Konoha without her; after all she was the Hokage since they were genins and last Sannin alive.
"Now that this done," she reached under her desk and carried a sleeping Hotaru out. She handed her to Kiba who held her close. "We have more pressing matters to attend to! First we've got to rebuild Konoha again, then strengthen it, and lastly turn it into a war state. I never thought I would live to see the five great shinobi states would go to war again. How nostalgic and horrific."
"What exactly will happen when Konoha is a war state?" Hitomi asked.
"Everyone's efforts will be turned into supporting the war. Food will be rationed. Konoha will be submerged in total darkness so that we can hide away. Everyone will help in some way to produce the gears and weapons that we need. So on." The fifth explained. "Difficult times lie ahead of us and all we can do is plow through it one day at a time." She continued. "Realize this, if the feudal lord calls us on for war, we will go to war. We are shinobis. This is our way of life."
The room's occupants nodded grimly. The fifth smiled. "I forgot your generations grew up in peace, never knowing or fully understood the meaning of war. Go on rest up. There is still time for hope and happiness."
She directed it towards all the couples in the room. "Shikamaru, I want you to go to Suna and see how things are. If the Land of the winds has already declared war on Earth, then we need to know the situation in Suna. Hitomi, I want you to go with him so that we can keep in direct contact with you and Shikamaru. Get pact and get going in thirty minutes."
"Hai!" Shikamaru and Hitomi said left the room.
"It's really happening." Shizune murmured.
"Yes. Konoha is going to war." The fifth said. "Rest up. You're dismissed."
"Hai." They said and walked out in grim silence.
"Kiba! Natsuhi!" the fifth said. They turned. "You two best make a move and have that wedding quickly."
Natsuhi turned red and Kiba said, "Lady Tsunade!"
She laughed and waved him off.