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Opening A/N:
Writer's block is a bitch, ne? Sorry took so long, I totally got stumped. I hope I wrote these jutsu scenes out correctly…For those of you who have forgotten some things that have lead up to this point, here's a bit of a recap for you (An idea I've gotten from a few other FF's I've read recently).

Recap:
"Sakura! We need you at the hospital, now! Several of our shinobi have been severely injured by a group of Otogakure ninja! I'm almost out of chakra so come on, we need to go now!"

Sakura's eyes widened as her brain processed the information that Ino had just given her. She wondered to herself what the hell was going on, but Naruto managed to beat her to asking the question.

"Ino, calm down. What happened exactly?" Naruto shook Ino who was in shock and staring wide-eyed ahead at him, her expression pale and frightful.

"Look…" Sakura whispered, her eyes widening in shock as she pointed her index finger in front of her.

Sakura's entire outstretched arm began to tremble in sheer horror at the gruesome site that stood before them. Finally, she could understand the meaning behind Ino's horrified expression and the reason for the intensity of her panic at the terror that had become The Hidden Leaf Village.

The fires had begun again, and the entire village was in chaos. The sun had been setting and the sky looked as though it were burning, a hellish glow of orange and reds painting across the horizon.

The hokage monument in the distance had been surrounded with explosive devices that were detonated the moment that their front door swung open. Naruto gazed up in horror as the only remaining—but currently crumbling—face of the Yondaime Hokage was the last of the bits from the monument to fall.

"Otou-san!" Naruto screamed in anger and sadness as he watched the last bit of his father's statue falling down to the remains of the village below. The few buildings that had remained standing were now covered in the debris and rubble of the stone faces of the hokage's before him. Naruto's fists clenched in anger as he and Sakura stepped outside the front door.

Had all of that happened in such a short period of time? When had they come in? What village were they even from? None of them had headbands on their heads, but from the looks of it, they were all very powerful shinobi, most likely rogue ninja.

What looked like tens had turned to hundreds in number, the newest attack to boot coming from Amegakure's armies, as well as their new allies, Otogakure—Sound. Sakura grimaced at the the site before her, the blood of many more of Konoha's villagers and shinobi alike being shed throughout the village streets in both fights of defense and fights for their lives. The villagers were dropping faster, however, than the shinobi, as expected. Sakura could see at that point that there had been about twenty stray bodies, most of which were either dead or near-death with fatal wounds, strewn about the streets.

Nearby, Shikamaru had managed to catch about ten of the attacking Rain Nin in his Shadow Sewing Technique, several ANBU agents forcing them into submission by knocking them unconscious and binding them.

Shikamaru seemed to be drained from the multiple capture though as he was panting heavily. Ino ran from Naruto and Sakura's apartment pulling several medic tools from a pouch strapped to her hip. Among them were soldier pills. Ino shoved one of the energy-replenishing drugs into her teammates mouth and he dry-swallowed it quickly, his energy replenishing to its fullest.

Shikamaru gave his former teammate a small smile and thanked her for giving him the pill. Ino nodded her head in a silent acknowledgement and the two averted their gazes back on the attackers. Ten down, several hundred to go, Shikamaru mused to himself as he stood from the ground, Chouji joining his side and getting into a battle stance.

Ino and Sakura began running towards the hospital at a speed that could rival a pace enhanced by chakra. The two women ran into the emergency department to see a frantic staff pacing about as the rooms began filling up with injured shinobi and villagers.

"What the hell happened in here?!" Sakura shouted at one of the medical shinobi whom had been sprinting past the pink-haired woman, before Sakura grabbed her shoulder and pulled her backwards.

"Haruno-san, they've all been attacked by the enemy Rain shinobi! Please, I have to get to one of the rooms! I have a critical patient to attend to!" The brown-haired nurse pleaded.

The nurse was going to treat a 5-year-old child whom had been merely a bystander during the attack and had been hit with several shuriken in several dangerous locations on her small body.

The nurse truly needed to get to the child. Sakura, understanding the urgency, released the woman's shoulder with an understanding nod and the brunette ran towards an examining room.

"Ino, go get our two Genin teams! We need extra staff members stat! You're almost out of chakra from taking on so much of the healing and we need our teams as back up for the both of us!" Sakura shouted at the blonde shinobi.

Ino, however, had no reason to object. Her friend was a completely different and professional person when it came to being a medic and she honestly could say that she trusted all of Sakura's decisions—or at least the hospital ones.

"Hai!" Ino shouted as she ran out the door and towards the Academy where their female students were supposed to be having "Kunoichi Training" at the time, had it not been for the attack. The male students weren't many so she had no problem with grabbing them after getting the many females for assistance.

Meanwhile, back at the center of the attack, stood Naruto, Shikamaru, and Chouji, whom had been joined by the Sand Siblings and the rest of the Konoha 11, minus Ino and Sakura, of course. This attack was definitely a surprise attack and was well planned out. The forces were most certainly there for revenge on Pein's death and there would most likely be a bloodbath if Naruto didn't intervene.

"Byakugan!" Neji shouted several feet from Naruto as he scanned the area.

"Dammit," Neji cursed as he looked at the chakra channels of the enemy shinobi. He had been hoping for at least some shadow clones to be within the large army. But of course, they were real. Who would fight shadow clones in a war?

"What is it nii-san?" Hinata asked her cousin before activating her Byakugan herself and looking at the enemy shinobi.

After understanding her cousin's concern, she inwardly groaned at the site of the apparently rigorous battle ahead of them all.

"Hinata, Neji," Naruto began, but before he could finish his question, Neji cut him off mid-sentence and gave him the answer.

"None of them are shadow clones – each and every shinobi out there appears to be actual individual shinobi. Their chakra paths are also fully primed for this attack. This is going to be a difficult task for us to complete. Do you think that there are enough of us, Hokage-sama?"

Naruto's eyes scanned the area quickly before he nodded his head once in confirmation.

"We've done good so far, haven't we? How hard can it be?" Naruto chuckled a bit, though the gesture was obviously forced and not at all genuine. In fact, it was more sarcastic if anything, but even so, Naruto was confident about his shinobi's skills.

"Shikamaru, how is your chakra supply?" Naruto asked looking over his shoulder. Shikamaru was now standing next to Chouji, his features looking completely composed and lazy as usual, as indicated from his hands that were shoved into his pockets.

"I'm good for a bit longer. Ino gave me a soldier pill, so I should be able to last for a bit longer. I don't know how much longer though. Otherwise, I feel pretty okay sans the sudden energy kick. This is going to be troublesome."

"Alright. Good." Gaara noticed that nobody seemed to be attacking and realized the urgency of the need to attack the enemy nin.

Gaara knelt to the ground in front of the Konoha and Suna shinobi, his hands coming in front of him. His hands clapped together once, indicating that he he had begun performing hand seals for a jutsu.

Boar. Monkey. Rat. Horse. Monkey. Horse. Ram. Horse.

Gaara clapped his hands together a final time and the Earth beneath him began to rumble and erupt into grains of sand. The sand rushed in front of them, all of the other shinobi both ally and enemy looking at the jutsu in wonder as a large mountain of sand resembling a waterfall rushed towards the front line of the army, though Gaara knew it wouldn't be enough to eliminate them all.

The large waterfall of sand that had just formed before the shinobi lunged forward at the enemy shinobi standing in the front line of the large pack of enemy nin whom were looking at one another in surprise, though mostly underestimating the technique.

"Sand Waterfall Imperial Funeral!" Gaara said with a glare towards the thirty Rain shinobi before him whom were all clearly underestimating his attack. As he released the jutsu's name, he slammed his palms onto the ground which had turned to sand beneath him, the Earth's particle's of rock and dirt being crushed to form the sand he needed for his attack.

The enemy shinobi of the frontal line were crushed by the sand as Gaara fell into a choking fit, exhaustion of having reached his limits on his own chakra quickly taking place. The technique could have eliminated that entire army had the Shukaku not been extracted by the Akatsuki. But now, Gaara's chakra had been put to a limit and he would most likely be bedridden for using this technique just once.

"Gaara!" Temari shouted as she ran to her brother's aid. Gaara was panting heavily with exhaustion barely even able to sit up on his own and Temari threw him up over her shoulder just as he lost consciousness. She looked at Naruto and the rest of the shinobi and informed them that she was taking the Kazekage somewhere safe (and hidden) so that he could rest, his body holding no further injuries other than exhaustion. Naruto nodded his head in understanding and turned forward to the enemy.

"Kage bunshin no jutsu!" Naruto shouted as five shadow clones appeared beside him, all of them darting different directions; all three getting heading out of harms way. One of the shadow clones went to the Hokage monument nearby and to go into their meditative stance to perform his Reversal Summoning Technique, sending itself to Myobokuzan.

Bright orange rings formed around Naruto's eyes as the iris's of his eyes turned to yellow slits. Naruto had finally had to resort to Hermit Mode, but considering the situation, it was necessary. There were simply too many enemy shinobi to risk his own task forces.

Shikamaru put his hand on Naruto's shoulder, his eyes holding unspoken yet apparent concern as he silently questioned Naruto of the necessity of the extreme technique, to which Naruto nodded his head in agreement.

Shikamaru responded by releasing his shoulder and resuming his battle stance, but not before nodding his his head and silently telling Naruto that he would be watching his back.

Naruto glanced back at Shikamaru in acknowledgement before refocusing his gaze on the enemy nin before him. He pulled a scroll from his hokage robe, before unraveling it and biting his finger. Fresh droplets of blood seeped from the tiny wound as he made his blood contact the paper, contracting his two large summoning toads Gamakichi and Gamatatsu.

"Toki, Shiro, Amaya, Mara – you four cover patients in rooms four, seven, nine, and thirteen!" Sakura shouted at the four Genin students. Toki and Shiro were both her personal students, while Amaya and Mara were Ino's. However, everyone in the hospital was directly under Sakura's command at the moment.

"Hai, Sakura-senpai!" The four students shouted in unison as they all scurried off in different directions towards their patient. Sakura had assigned them the patients with the most minor injuries due to their shortened medical knowledge.

"Ino, Hana – you two go directly to trauma room two! Are there any ANBU agents here with any medical training at all?" Sakura shouted loudly among the crowded hospital corridors as stretchers holding wounded shinobi rushed past her. Three masked ANBU stepped towards her dawned in the standard ANBU uniform.

"You three, go into rooms one, three, and five. All three of those rooms have basic flesh wounds."

"Hai, Sakura-sama!"

Slowly but surely, the chaos was gradually becoming a bit more handled, and Sakura had assumed that the others had been taking care of getting rid of the Rain shinobi efficiently without getting injured. Suddenly, the main emergency room doors burst open in the hospital with a frantic looking head of blonde hair holding a limp body dawned in Kage robes.

Wait—Kage robes? Gaara!

Sakura ran towards Temari and took helped take Gaara's unconscious body from her grasps.

"Kami, what happened to him?" Temari was panting heavily, and Sakura could tell that she had obviously ran the entire way to the hospital with Gaara in her arms. Finally, after a moment of panting and regaining her composure, Temari responded.

"He's okay…he's…just exhausted…He needs somewhere…Safe to…Rest…" Temari said between deep breaths as small droplets of sweat dripped down her forehead before being wiped away by the backside of said woman's hand.

"Hai. Come on, there's a special room reserved for the Kage's in these situations."

Sakura began walking down a long hall and made a sharp turn into what seemed like an endless, dim tunnel.

"This is it?" Temari asked warily looking at the narrow pathway as she hesitantly followed Sakura, whom had still been carrying the unconscious Kazekage with his arm wrapped around her shoulder for support.

"Hai. It's at the end of this hallway. Come help me, we'll have to walk at an awkward angle for a bit but I can't carry him alone. Damn, Gaara, you're heavy." Sakura mumbled that last bit a tad bit more to herself than anything. Temari giggled a bit and rushed towards the pinkette to assist her in taking him to the isolated hospital room.

"My apologies Sakura-san, I didn't realize that you were so weak," Gaara mumbled but Sakura heard him and stopped abruptly. Temari's eyes widened a bit at his words, clearly able to tell he was attempting to make a joke from his sickly and forced chuckle. Sakura, having realized his intentions, laughed a bit herself.

"Oh har, har, Gaara-kun." Sakura rolled her eyes at the barely conscious Kazekage as she and Temari continued walking down the long corridor. Finally, they reached the end of the tunnel-like hallway and came to a room that had been painted a robin's egg blue. There wasn't much in it other than the basics – medical supplies, a hospital bed, and things like that.

The room was created as protection for the Hokage's if they had been by chance injured during warfare. It's purpose was to keep the Kage's whereabouts secretive and keep them out of potential further harm until their injuries had been healed. But, considering the living arrangements among the Sunagakure shinobi and the Konohagakure shinobi, the room would be occupied by Gaara if need be, like now.

"So, how many did you get since you've used a technique that obviously left you nearly running on empty?" Sakura asked as she and Temari hoisted Gaara up onto the hospital bed.

"Thirty, more or less." Sakura's eyes widened in surprise before she nodded her head.

"Nicely done. How's everyone else holding off the rest?" She asked hesitantly, her voice laced with worry and obvious concern for her friends, but most importantly, Naruto. Her question directed more to both Gaara and Temari this time, but both simply shrugged in unison.

"I have no idea. Naruto was about to perform some technique when I ran off with Gaara to come here." Temari responded. Sakura nodded her head in silent understanding, her mind drifting to the well-being of her friends.

Naruto. Be careful…

Meanwhile, Naruto's pair of shadow clones had been Reverse Summoned to Myobokuzan by Gamakichi, where they currently were now alongside himself and Gamatatsu on standby. Naruto had told them to wait there until he signaled them through a third shadow clone, that would disperse as his way of relaying the information between the two locations.

Naruto glanced up at the numerous shinobi whom seemed to be in an army that went on for miles and miles. Something seemed a bit off though about this entire encounter. From what the village's intelligence had told them, Amegakure wasn't that large of a village.

In fact, Konohagakure had been the largest shinobi village in the five great nations, so how was this army all original versions of the Rain shinobi, and at the same time, quadrupled in number? Did Rain build up reinforcements or join with another village? What was going on here?

Shikamaru had been thinking the exact same thoughts as Naruto. Albeit, he was racking his brain at top speed for quite a bit of time now, but ultimately, even the commonly-proclaimed genius couldn't locate a proper answer. What was going on?

Neji and Hinata's pearly-white orbs glanced around again, both of their byakugan's activated and observing into the depths of as many of the enemy's chakra channels as the could see, trying to hopefully find some sort of answer to the questions that had been pondering all of the shinobi's minds by now. The two failed, however, to notice any abnormalities, but that didn't stop them from continuing their trek to find something.

Chouji decided to make a move and charged in front of the thoughtful shinobi. Apparently, standing around wasn't working for him and he decided to tear a page out of the book of Naruto and be spontaneous for a change.

"Spiked Human Bullet Tank!" Chouji shouted as his tumbling body began to swirl towards the shinobi army, abruptly hitting about thirty shinobi in his path before he had become exhausted and returned to the group of Konohagakure shinobi. Naruto looked at Chouji in amazement before his eyes softened with gratitude at his shinobi's efforts to protect their village using their everlasting Will of Fire.

"Chouji," Naruto said in more acknowledgement to his action rather than to gain his attention. Chouji grinned at Naruto as he tried to regain his composure, having been a bit out of breath from using his jutsu for too long.

Tenten looked up at the two shinobi's exchange and decided that it was her turn to charge forward. She pulled out the large scroll that she usually kept strapped to her back and but her thumb, signing the summoning contract as she shouted out her jutsu's command.

"Dragon Scattering Destruction!" She screamed and a downpour of weapons ranging from kunai, senbon needles, explosive tags, and to shuriken erupted from the air, hitting about thirty more of the enemy targets. However, the army still looked strong, though there had been a clearly visible decrease in the number.

Finally, a bold enemy shinobi stepped towards Naruto, causing all of the other shinobi to get into a defensive position around him, guarding their precious hokage from any attack said enemy might be planning to make on him.

The enemy shinobi happened to be an older man with grey hair, indicating that he was probably in the same role as Shikamaru – observing the enemy mostly, deriving plans and moves for his army, and giving commands, also while attacking when absolutely necessary.

"I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't seen it with my own two eyes," the old man said as he looked at Naruto nonchalantly and calmly.

Naruto's eyebrows furrowed with frustration as he racked his brain to try and grasp what the hell the old fool was talking about.

"So easily you could be mistaken for Konoha's Yellow Flash, but you're far too young and I'm way too old to make such a mistake."

Konoha's Yellow Flash? Naruto thought questioningly to himself as he stared at the old man in confusion.

"However, I heard that The Yellow Flash died seventeen and a half years ago, after the Third Shinobi War ended. But that resemblance…there's no mistaking it…that you must be the Jinchuuriki for the Kyuubi no Yoko, eh? The Yondaime Hokage's son?"

Naruto's eyes widened. The old man clearly seen the resemblance in Naruto that he held to Minato and wondered if Naruto held even a fraction of his father's skills. This could be very bad, or very successful; the outcome, however, could be anything at this point.

"Well then boy, let's see what you've got. Water Style: Shower Of One Thousand Senbon!" Suddenly, a downpour of senbon needles occurred that was similar in resemblance to Tenten's Dragon Scattering Destruction jutsu, only the senbons were laced heavily with the elder gentleman's chakra.

This man was clearly a Amegakure elder at best, and if any of the Konoha nin were to be hit with those senbon, they would inevitably be killed from the force of them.

"Mushi Kame no Jutsu!" Shino shouted his bugs created a large shield around the Konoha shinobi, guarding them from the attack. Once the bugs dispersed, Naruto is seen crouched down on the ground with his bleeding finger hovered over his summoning scroll. Flashing the old man his foxy grin, he swipes his signature across the scroll in blood, his eyes gaining orange rings around them as Gamakichi appeared in a puff of smoke.

"You summoned boss?" Gamakichi asked as he looked ahead at the army standing behind a frightful looking old man.

"Summons, eh? You really are the Yondaime's son. I haven't seen the likes of Toad Summoning in roughly…I'd say, eight and a half years. The last one was that old fool, what was his name? The Sannin guy? Oh yeah, Jiraiya." The old man scoffed. He clearly had no respect nor common sense, from the looks of it.

He obviously feared Minato's skills and he was aware of Jiraiya's—to what extent, Naruto did not quite know at this point—but even so, the old man spoke to him as if he were a mere child. He was the friggen hokage for kami's sake!

"Sensei," Naruto whispered to himself as he glared at the old man—hard—who in all honesty, was probably about Jiraiya's age, or at least in that age group.

"Well you old fool, you wanted to see my skills huh," Naruto chuckled darkly to himself before continuing, "then your wish is my command," he finished as the rims around his eyes turned bright orange and his irises slanted into yellow slits.

Smashing his fist forward, his feet never moving, Naruto emitted his sage chakra and sent the only man flying.

"Y-Y-You're a—B-But how?" The old man stammered slowly easing himself away in terror. He had heard of very few capable of being able to do Sage Techniques. Adding to the fact that Naruto was a Jinchuuriki, plus the fact that he had mastered True Hermit mode, as his eyes were a dead give away in itself, the old man realized that he was no match for the son of the Yondaime Hokage and Kyuubi-container.

"Everyone! Retreat!" He shouted at his army, and they did so. Naruto smirked as he thanked Gamakichi for his assistance. Naruto dispersed his clones and his eyes returned to normal as Gamakichi disappeared in a puff of smoke. Naruto began to walk towards the hospital to alert everyone that it was safe to leave now.

Villagers hiding in their homes and stores peeked their heads out as the Rukodaime Hokage walked down the streets of Konoha. Naruto had a smile on his face, but couldn't help but be slightly disappointed at the Rain shinobi's sudden retreat. After all, Naruto was always one for a good fight and had been looking forward to kicking some ass. However, his village's well-being mattered more and he felt comfort in knowing that his precious people were out of danger.

When he arrived to the hospital, he found Sakura sitting in the lobby with her chin resting on her hands. When she noticed Naruto she sat upright and he waved at her and grinned.

"What happened?" She asked, her face etched with worry as her eyes scanned his entire body for signs of injury.

"They retreated." Naruto shrugged his shoulders in disappointment at the easily-won battle, still unable to completely brush off the easy victory.

"Retreated?" Sakura asked in confusion. "Why?" Naruto scratched the back of his head and chuckled a bit.

"It's a long story. Can we go home? I drained a lot of my regular chakra for nothing and I'm beat." Sakura looked hesitant but decided to comply, understanding how he felt, but keeping the fact in the back of her mind that he would be recuperated and as energetic as ever in a short amount of time. Either way, she walked with him outside of the hospital and to their apartment.

A/N: So, how was that for Sage Techniques for someone who doesn't read manga (I research)? Did I do good? Lemon in next chapter due to A) my stupidity (on not being able to figure out how the hell you work the document manager) and B) Because I can. =P

Promise ^_^ So sorry for keeping the update so long too, I've been totally writers blocked on this story (its a toughy, trust me).