"Sir, I am telling you, we don't need the Rangers in on this!" Asuma said.

"Send in the Rangers. It's better to a large force of fresh troops then some spec ops teams have been fighting through the night!"

"Sir, we already have 3 of the 5 spec ops teams moving around the village. We can't just send in the damn Rangers! The operators can take out the village with surgical precision!"

"If you don't send in the damn Rangers, I am disrupting your command in this operation and taking it over completely!"

Asuma thought quickly. He had to find some way to stall this.

"Ok, sir. Just hold on. The Chinooks need to be fueled." was the best Asuma could come up with.

"Then get it done quickly!" shouted the old man.

Naruto radioed in.

"Asuma, what's the story on the Rangers?"

"I'm stalling him, but they are gonna get sent in eventually. It's just a matter of time now."

"Damn...we need to rework the op then. We're gonna have Sasuke take out some of Orochimaru's guys in the mountain next to the village using his sniper, to stall any reinforcements sent in by the obviously large amount of noise the Rangers are gonna be making. The rest of us operators are gonna have to work through the mountains and specific parts of the village to clear landing zones when the Rangers need extraction. Other then that, I guess we can't help. We'll just come back in on the Humvees and let the Rangers do the rest. They're probably gonna lose quite a few men..."

Asuma sighed. He knew the Rangers were gonna lose a few men.

"Are those Chinooks done yet?"

"...Yes, sir." said Asuma, grudgingly.

"Good. I imagine you know what orders to give then."

And the old man went off, to take a chopper back to headquarters. That way, he can just yell at us through a damn TV.

"What are we gonna do, sir?" asked one of the scouts from the scout team.

"Send in the fucking Rangers."

"Sir, yes, sir."

The Rangers were overjoyed. They began getting their equipment ready, making sure their guns weren't malfunctioning. Several Chinook choppers were ready to insert them into the village. They stuffed extra ammo into pouches and dumped the stuff they didn't need. They discarded their NODs, and several other things that would have been deemed useless.

"Keeping your NODs, Gaara?" Choji asked as he discarded his own and picked up some extra ammo.

"There's always a chance this could be drawn out into a long firefight. Best to keep the NODs."

"Your loss on extra ammo, pal."

Shino came over, equipped with a M16A4 rifle.

"I've been assigned to your Ranger squad." he said.

"The more, the merrier." said Choji.

Gaara remained silent.

"Most squads have 4 people. Where's our fourth?"

"Probably coming over any minute now." responded Shino.

They saw another Ranger coming over. He had bushy brows and a bowl cut. He was equipped with a SAW.

"Sir, specialist Lee reporting in, sir!"

"You can drop the formalities. The leader of this squad is Gaara, over there." said Choji, who then pointed at Gaara.

"Sir! I will make no excuse for my lateness. I apologize."

"You don't need to. Let's just load up into the damn chopper, if you're all ready." said Gaara.

They got into the chopper, along with another Ranger squad.

The rest of the Rangers, too, were loading up into their choppers. The choppers took off, flying into the sunset, into the village.

Asuma shook his head.

"Sir?" asked one of the scouts.

"That old man fucked this op six ways to Sunday..."

There was an impressive number of choppers flying, an impressive force of the mighty Rangers. A lot of the Rangers wanted to show off their skill, wanted to become an operator.

"Are we doing this in junction with the operators?" asked Choji.

"No. Highly unlikely. The operators were originally supposed to be doing this village op, though." responded Gaara.

"Huh. Why are we being sent in, then?"
"The old man that one of the operator teams extracted and Asuma were having quite the fight over the op. I didn't pick up much, but Asuma was clearly against our being sent into the village, while the other dude wanted us in there, ASAP."

"Ah."

Sasuke and Shikamaru set up a sniping position in the mountains. Naruto and Kiba were heading in a section of the village to clear out an LZ for the Rangers. They got within sight of the LZ, then hid and waited.

"What are we waiting for, Naruto?" asked Kiba.

"We have to wait for the Rangers to actually get in here. We shoot them now, we compromise the Rangers and ourselves before the ops even started."

The Rangers were approaching the village. Looking out the back hatch, Choji saw something.

"RPG! R P MOTHERFUCKING GEEEEEEEEEEEEE!"

The Chinook pilot managed to dodge the incoming RPG. Choji managed to take a shot and kill the RPG. Just then, another RPG hit the side of the Chinook.

"Shit. I can still control her, but I'm gonna have to set you boys down." said the pilot.

He got low enough, and they all jumped out the Chinook and landed softly into the dirt.

One of the choppers got blown to hell, and the Rangers in that chopper just took an impressive fall after jumping out. The Chinook that had been carrying Gaara and his team got blown up too. It crashed into the ground.

"Oh, shit..." said Choji.

"Come on. We're gonna go up this slope and find a way to flank into that mountain so we can take out those motherfuckers. MOVE!" said Gaara.

And so they got moving.

The other Rangers returned fire at a bunch of guys that came out of nowhere. Ambush.

"Oh shit. We've got several wounded! Drag the wounded into cover while we handle these guys!" Gaara and his team could hear in the distance. An RPG came at the Rangers, but missed. Lucky.

"Come on, hurry up, they won't last down there forever." said Gaara.

Sending in the Rangers was going just as bad as Asuma thought...

Authors note: I know there's not been much clarity as to what the operators and Rangers are fighting. They are essentially fighting a terrorist group, sort of like Al Qaeda, led by Orochimaru. Why they are fighting and where they are will become more apparent in the later chapters of the story.