Hi and welcome to the next chapter of this story. I don't have much to say other than I hope you readers enjoy this continuation

Chapter 101

~Kage meeting room~

After the attacks when everyone was celebrating the allied forces became well aware of the fact that the war was still going on. So, with this in mind everyone got back to their respective jobs and this included the kages. At this moment all of them were discussing in their regular room.

"Has the results from our scouts come back yet?" Tsunade asks looking through some papers.

"It seems like they just have. But I can't believe those idiots still want to fight." A grumbled but chucked a scroll over to Tsunade.

"For once we agree. But at least with Orochimaru gone at least their S rank fighter is gone. We might even be lucky enough to all the reanimated ninja disappear as well." Mei says. For after they got informed of the Konoha hidden jutsu they all knew that if the caster died then the jutsu's affect would fade as well.

"We can only hope…but after all of this ends all traces of the reanimation jutsu should be scrubbed from the records." Gaara states.

"Indeed the brat has a good idea. Last we need is some other upstart finding it again and summoning old kages again." Onoki says while nodding. For the group could only fight to a stalemate with the kages Orochimaru summoned last time. So, they could only dread what would happen if they had to fight several at the same time no matter how weakened they may be.

"Tch, I'll be honest after we finish this, I am going to try my hardest to get rid of anything related to the bastard." Tsunade states. She then rolled up the report and looked at the group around them.

"So, it seems that the Sound village has been rather chaotic for a while with random groups trying to attack random places without any real form of battle formation. My guess is whoever managed to keep control of the village is stuck trying to figure out what to do. Meanwhile the goons that they keep are trying to make some quick money from looting what they can. Though they must have some sort of hidden ace left seeing as the common goon would care more for their own life than the village." Tsunade explains.

"Or they somehow don't know we took care of that snake bastard…wish we could have collected his body. I'd love to greet them with his head on a pike in front of their base." Onoki states darkly.

"Not the most pleasant of ideas but it would prove to have some promise." Gaara states. "While we can't show them proof, we can at least put doubt in their minds by telling a few of them that 'manage to escape from us'"

"Hmm, it does sound like a fine idea" Mifune states rubbing his facial hair. And with that input they all quickly agree and add it into their plans to recovering the bases that were lost.

~Base near sound village~

"Kekeke I still can't believe those guys didn't even bother to keep guard of this base. It was WAY too easy to get rid of those idiots…well except for the ones we kept." A random sound village grunt stated happily while he walked around the base walls. He then looked down where other grunts were happily throwing knives at a tied up allied force ninja.

A ninja that already had several knives stuck in his flesh but he bit back his reactions to be as small as he could to not give the tiny bit of satisfaction, they wanted that he could control at the moment. Meanwhile all around him were people talking and drinking as they watched his pain.

"Man, I wish that I could be down their betting on who kills the sucker…Karuso always manage to land the unlucky blow so I could make some easy cash." The grunt on watch mutters looking wishfully at the party. Sadly, due to this he didn't even have a chance to see the kunai that was shoved into his throat ending his life. And he would never know the irony that he was killed by the very thing he laughed at others for.

Though the Anbu that killed him paid this no mind and instead used sign language to give orders to the rest of the team around him. And within seconds the highly trained ninja infiltrated main base and quietly killed all of those they saw in the building itself focusing on the important looking people first. They worked quickly and efficiently until at least eighty percent of those inside of the base while the party went out outside with no one the wiser.

"Captain, it seems that our mission has gone smoothly. Unfortunately, most of the people we have found don't seem to be anyone of noticeable importance." One of the anbu states as they all reconvened in a room.

"That is fine. Our main goal wasn't even to take out these minor leaders it is only the icing on the cake. Now, let's get the true objective started." The captain states. They then went to the last room they purposely hadn't cleared and filled into the room making sure that they made enough noise to at least alert those that were still alive. None the less they all found themselves in a small room where one single man was busy writing on a piece of paper.

With the noise they made though the man was able to notice their presence and glanced over at them stunned for a few seconds before finally reacting.

"What are you doing here!?" He yelled out and tried to react. Sadly, the man was far too slow and found himself completely restrained.

"We are here to ask you a few questions. You see we are very curious why you sound bastards think you have any chance to win after we killed Orochimaru already?" the captain asks smirking underneath his mask as the man he held dramatically widened his eyes in surprise.

"0-Orochimaru-sama is dead?...Impossible Kabuto-sama said that he was recovering in his room…but boss did say he wasn't allowed to even visit him." The restrained man muttered somehow completely forgetting the 'interrogation'.

Thankfully it was at this point that a group of ninja entered the room and wasted no time realizing the anbu was enemies and attacked. Something that forced them to release their captive and fight back. In this fight the anbu being stronger and more trained quite easily pushed them back but before they could a good chunk of the grunts left along with the official, they tried to talk to. So, soon enough the anbu were left alone with nothing but corpses.

"Now our mission is complete." The captain states happily.

"And it couldn't have gone better." Another member states clearly cheerful as he grabs an unopened bottle of sake. Something that made the rest of the group look at him. "…what? We have to wait till people come to occupy this base again anyways." He states and pulled his mask to the side and took a big swig of the sake. Meanwhile the rest of the group looked like they wanted to say something but eventually left the man to himself and started to clean up the mess around them.

~Sound village~

After escaping from the anbu the low level captain didn't stop running until he was in the safety of his own village. Only then did he take the time to catch his breath and truly think about what happened.

"…that bastard tricked us! If those cock suckers were right and Orochimaru-sama is really dead then why the fuck are we still trying to fight here? The boss is strong but not strong enough to handle a kage that is for damn sure." He growled out and went to his leader as soon as he caught his breath.

"Sir!" he called out only to be glared at.

"Why the hell are you here? You were told to keep track of the base not come back here you idiot!" His boss yelled at him throwing a glass near his head.

"B-but sir! The base was over run by the enemy again and I was only able to just escape." The man states but quickly starts talking again seeing as his boss's KI was quickly growing. "I-I had to come because I have information for you sir. According to the enemies they have supposedly killed Orochimaru-sama. Meanwhile Kabuto has only told us he was injured and not let us see him." He stated making his boss surprised as well.

"Dead eh? Hmm I was wondering why four eyes wasn't letting us see him…but I will have to confirm this for myself before I do anything too rash." The boss states thinking before walking away without even bothering to look at his minion again.

"G-good luck sir." The man muttered out but was really just relieved that he yet again avoided a painful situation for himself.

As for his boss the man quickly made his way deep into the labyrinth that was their base until he finally reached Orochimaru's personal quarters that had two guards like normal.

"Move aside I gotta see Orochimaru-sama" the man stated firmly. But the guards merely looked at each other for a moment before looking back at him.

"I'm sorry even for a vice-general like you Rucco-san we can't let you in. Kabuto-sama will have us face something worse that death if we don't listen…you saw what happened to the last two that didn't keep Orochimaru's stuff safe." The guard stated with a shiver of terror.

"First I AM THE general now that my old boss lost his life in the battle at the allied forces base. Second, I don't give a damn what happens to you two! I have business here and I will show you just why my rank here is never questioned." Rucco told them pointing a finger at one of the men.

"I'm sorry but" the guard started only to be smashed into the wall. After this attack his partner could hardly get over his surprised before he found himself in a similar situation. Rucco then calmly walked through the door the men were guarding yet again not sparing them another glance as he decided to do what he wanted believing himself to be strong enough to not have to worry about any consequences.

With that confidence running through him he slowly looked all throughout the room finding no signs of anyone using it for at least a few days. He then continues looking around and even looked through Orochimaru's lab only to see the same thing.

"Fucking four eyes did lie to us!" Rucco yelled out in rage.

"Yes I did…but it did give me enough time to complete my goal." A voice stated behind him. So, he quickly looks behind him and sees Kabuto's new form.

"..what the fuck are you?" Rucco muttered seeing the now snake like man.

"I am the 'four eyes that you were talking about." Kabuto states confidently.

"Man I thought you were ugly before this but now. Man now the you before this was a beauty pageant model. What the fuck did you do to yourself?" Rucco asks but quickly rethinks his question only a second later. "Actually never mind you can become a snake completely for all I care. What I DO care about is why the hell were we not told that a MAJOR power was taken from our village." Rucco asks glaring at the still smiling Kabuto.

"Kukuku if I told all of you then I would have to deal with people defecting from the village." Kabuto explains.
"Damn right I would. I'm not going against S class ninja without some bastard being crazy enough to distract them and power enough to do it." Rucco states confidentially.

"Yes…well that is why I did not tell all of you. But now it does not matter. For I am more than able to fight on par if not better than Orochimaru." Kabuto states confidentially.

"…right…because I totally believe that a lackey that could only stay in his bosses shadow is somehow strong enough to face ME let alone against monsters like those damn kages." Rucco states rolling his eyes. Soon after this though he found himself hit in the chest hard by Kabuto's tails smashing him into the wall behind himself hard enough to create a crater. Rucco stayed in his indent for a few seconds before gravity forced him back onto the ground where he hacked up quite a bit of blood while being on his hands and knees.

Kabuto walked slowly over to the man still on his knees and leaned over to him. "Do you still think that you are stronger than me?" Kabuto asks with a cocky smirk.

"Fuck you." Rucco coughed out still trying to recover from the heavy blow.

"Good glad to see that you know where you stand." Kabuto states completely ignoring his remark. "Now you have two options here. One try to tell people that I lied and I will show them that I am more than strong enough to keep everyone in control with or without Orochimaru. With this of course leading to me killing you as painfully as possible as an example. OR you could be a good boy and just keep following orders like normal and I'll let you keep the power you think you have over this village and even some rewards after we win." Kabuto states then stands up. "The choice is yours alone. Either way the only thing I have to lose is one moderately strong minion…something that isn't that important with the immortal army. But either way I look forward to seeing which path you want to take." Kabuto states and walks to the door of Orochimaru's quarters before turning around again. "Oh and I'll be nice enough to forgive the fact that you came into this place without permission…after all it's kind of hard to get right now kekeke" Kabuto states laughing at his own joke as he leaves the room.

*cough* "Fucking monster. Why did boss ever mix our gang in with these demented monsters…a good portion of this village can't even be considered human anymore." Rucco muttered to himself still on the ground. Eventually he regained himself enough to stand back up and limped over to the hospital finding that he had several broken ribs just from the one blow.

Time past and thanks to Rucco backing down the rumor about Orochimaru was only spread by the very few that overheard his minion making it easily ignored. Instead, most of the sound village was yet again focused on the fact that they were losing ground even faster to the allied forces with every hour seeming to give another footstep closer to their front door. Everyone could tell that the war was coming to an end and it stressed them out seeing as there were clear signs that they were not on the winning side at the moment.

But at this time, they could do nothing but fight on. If the grunts tried to flee, they would have a good chance of being caught by their leader or one of their still loyal peers. With either leading to rather sever punishments and all most definite use as cannon fodder in the near future. While sub leaders were all too focused on their own greed and too use to letting the lower grunts do the work to be fearing for their lives. Finally, the gang leaders of the sound village were a different case. With their abilities they were the cream of the crop in the eyes of the general sound village public. While in reality they were decently competent fighters that lead to most of them being easily aware of what they could and could not handle…but sadly the poison that Kabuto happily used on them was still not fully out of their system and as long as the antidotes kept coming, they all had no choice but to take them fearing the consequences of not doing so. Thus, being caught under Kabuto's thumb without any really good options to escape. With the fact that the researchers were so disassociated with anything but research that they treated Orochimaru and Kabuto as practically gods for allowing them to do practically any project they wanted with easy funding and no repercussions. Thus making even those that could possibly look into the poison not want to just because they were told not to by their 'cash cow'. Though no matter what the reason was the Sound village was trying everything they could to repel the allied forces.

Meanwhile in the throne room of the village Kabuto was happily sitting in the throne with a smirk on his face.

"Ahh it is good to be in the boss's chair finally. After all the hardship I've had to go through and all the bullshit I had to put up with I finally have completed my goals." Kabuto things happily grabbing onto the armrest of the stone throne. A stone that quickly crumbled and got crushed under the strength of his grip. "I have the position I deserve AND enough strength to silence anyone that dares oppose me…it feels good. But I can understand Orochimaru's own desires. After getting a taste of this power I just can't get enough. Luckily with my preparations complete and an undead army at my beckoning I can finish what he started…come you foolish ninja I will vanquish all those that try to oppose me and become ruler not just of the sound village but of the world!" Kabuto thought and then began to laugh manically as he was lost in thoughts of absolute control.

=Allied Forces =

While a good portion of the sound village was slowly becoming more and more desperate the allied forces were in a much better state. For while there were still loses and problems thanks to daku and reanimated ninja they were still taking ground. Not to mention that unlike before they haven't had any more bases taken over and the retaliation from the sound was minimal. So, even though most just wanted the war to end everyone was in good spirits.

"The plan of having them fall apart due to Orochimaru being dead doesn't seem to have worked but at least their fighting ability has dramatically reduced. Hopefully they don't have a nasty surprise waiting for us at their door step" Jiriaya states while looking into the distance from the camp they currently had set up.

"Yea I wouldn't doubt that they have something nasty brewed up in that village. After all from what we have been seeing the sound village is filled with nothing but the truly demented and crazed individuals that the other villages refused to house. And that's saying it lightly seeing as each village would more than happily take almost any mission for the right price or reward." Kakashi agrees sitting in a tree near Jiraiya with his book in hand.

"At least on the good side for once most of the ninja world has come together rather than trying to kill off each other…maybe peace can really be achieved after this." Jiraiya states making Kakashi close his book and look at him.

"I don't even know if the ninja world is capable of peace but after this war and the last one, I could do without fighting at least for the rest of my life." Kakashi states seriously. "But enough of that we need to meet up with Lady Tsunade. Even if she decided to come closer to the battle field she still needs her guards." Kakashi states jumping down from the tree and walking back into the camp with Jiraiya following after still lost dreaming of a peaceful ninja world.

But even he knew that before something like that could happen they must finish things here. Something that seemed to be coming rather soon with even several of the kages choosing to come closer to the battlegrounds. Sure it was a risky move but each one of them was for the most part the peak of a ninja's strength. So, if some unexpected trump card came up this close to the end of the war they were determined to take care of it as fast as possible; even if it took them personally coming to the field to do so. Course they weren't foolish enough to all come out just in case the worst case scenario happened but even with a few of them and the rest of the people from the villages they thought they had more than enough man power to finish things once and for all.

"Rest well proud ninja and samurai. For tomorrow we finally reach their doorstep and wipe out the rest of the bastards that dare think that they are better than the rest of the world. Prepare yourselves to show those cocky bastards just what real ninja can do!" A calls out determinedly getting cheers from some of those around him.

"Well, it's far from the best motivational speech I've heard but at least it seems to have worked." Tsunade mutters taking a swig of sake before passing it to Mei who sat beside her.

"A never has been a man that relied on his words. Such a shame that all of the strong men seem to be such hot heads or weirdos." Mei tells her taking a sip herself.

"Feh, you just need to get out there and make them forget you are a kage. Just let them focus on your looks and those and you'd have no problem." Tsunade tells her taking the bottle back from her after pointing at Mei's breasts

"Tsk, if only it was that easy to find a decent man." Mei grumbled.

"Heh, well you didn't say decent. I can't help you there. The few men I am close to are either irredeemable perverts or annoying brats." Tsunade tells her with a smirk. "When you find a man that is you find that isn't completely annoying let me know I've been looking for fo…years"

Sorry its short but this did seem like a good spot to end it…not super happy with the ending of this chapter but we will see if I can change it up a bit in the little time I have before it's due to be posted. At least right now it's useable

And this is where I am going to be ending this chapter. Now as you can see I am bringing this war towards an ending. While I have no idea if you find the jumps through the war to be smooth or just rushing from point to point I don't know. But honestly the war is filled with a bunch of smaller fights that give 'new' characters and old ones back but in the end most of it could be considered a filler like thing. Now I don't mean it is ACTUAL filler but it did give a bunch of extra episodes to the anime. Something I could do but quite frankly I don't want to have to write up a lot of the chunks that don't do anything to the story and I don't want to stretch this story out more.

What I do want to write/feel I need more of is the relationship parts of the story. But honestly besides side stories a war isn't a good place to put sappy moments other than moral support for each other. I am sure there is some opportunities for loving situations but in a spot of blood and death I just can't think of them. Not to mention to truly do the relationship stuff I want to practice I can't really do it in harem stories like this. It seems that there is too many girls (big surprise I know) for me to make sure each get proper amounts of screen time. For I will be the first to admit that while I have been making loving scenes in this I have also basically introduced characters only to have them disappear into dust.

To be honest I did have plans for characters like Fu being with Shino and stuff like that but after writing this one story for so long I want it to be finished and to work on other things (seeing as I am making chapters so slowly) to finally finish other thoughts I've had after years of neglect. Now I am sorry for the rambling I did here even though I am sure that most readers don't even bother looking at these…which I am at blame for as well at times I will admit. But for now Ja Ne.