It's been about 1 week since Konoha was destroyed.
Sidra had about healed from her injuries thanks to Karin's medical experience combined with Tsunade's advanced jutsu. In that mere week Uzushiogakure was rebuilt, some citizens even came to the city from the destroyed Konoha after they swore allegiance to the Akuzura. Meanwhile the Hidden Shadow village which normally moved around settled down in the west of the lands west of Suna and Iwa. The city would soon flourish and grow larger in a mere week. Suna helped Necra gain more profits with open trades between their countries. This newest place would come to be known as the land of shadows, known also from the fact that multiple large forests and plateau covered the lands in shadow, however the sun still shone bright. With Konoha destroyed Danzo retreated somewhere unknown with his Anbu forces. The Konoha ninja focused on rebuilding Konoha, which was allowed since Naruto trusted them to do so, and they could easily retake it if they tried to rebel. The empire as one would call it expanded.
Head Count.
Members of Akuzura
Hidden Rain Shinobi (Led by Pain and Konan)
Hidden Sound Shinobi (Led by Orochimaru)
Hidden Shadow Shinobi (Led by Daku and Yukiko)
Support of Hidden Sand Shinobi (Lended by Temari and Kankuro)
Support of Hidden Stone Shinobi (Lended by Onoki)
Support of Hidden Cloud Shinobi (Lended by A and Bee)
Support of Hidden Mist Shinobi (Lended by Mei)
Hidden Mist's 7 Legendary Swordsmen (Led by Suigetsu and his brother)
Jashinist Monks (Led by Hidan)
Hidden Shadow Six Samurai, FYI they are 6 talented shinobi using swords alike to the 7 swordsmen of the mist, they reside in the shadow village. The leader is Taka who uses an indestructible energy sword, and is Daku's younger brother. The others Tek, Jin, Lore, Chen, and Saico, each use a different sword style, execution blade, longsword, greatsword, double sword-edged staff, and 8 blades (like Killer Bee) respectively in that order.
Overall they had the power of about numbers into the million, and perhaps more.
Sasuke walked the country looking the glory Uzushiogakure was now in, he felt like destroying it just to get to Naruto, but even he knew he had no chance against the entire Akuzura force at once. He only kept on walking, and he trained like no tomorrow since in 1 week he would either be hunted down by the Akuzura for killing a main member, or be dead altogether. Obito taught Sasuke some more advanced moves, ones that Madara taught him, Madara himself even helped in the process, but his training ideas were more violent, but Sasuke liked that type of training.
Several nights later Obito, Madara and Sasuke talked. tomorrow was the day Sasuke had told Sidra to face him.
Obito turns to Sasuke. "Sasuke are you sure about this, my sister is quite tricky, and she won't be taken down easily."
"I know that, but I will kill her, even if I have to use all my chakra."
"She's not so easily killed, I've tried so much, if it weren't for me she would have came after you herself."
"Why's that?"
"Because, she still thinks there's time for me to change."
"To change?"
"To help her establish peace, instead of going with our plan for complete genjutsu."
"You should thank your sister, she has hope for you despite your crimes, however those people are just like Hashirama, and deserve to die, if they believe that they can seriously establish peace to this wretched world." Madara says, he continues speaking. "And, those who are like your sister, end up like my brother because of it." Madara's brother Izuna was killed by Tobirama in a fight long ago, this drove Madara to the point of pure insanity, but with that came with ultimate power and rage. "If you kill your sister, you will merely end up like me, however it will also give you power beyond what you know, it's how the Mangekyou is awakened in the first place." Sasuke mentions on. "I have all the rage I need, Naruto killed Itachi. In rage I killed Hinata, that whore deserved it if you ask me, but it was Sakura's idea, she wanted to cripple Naruto in a more mental way." Obito stood up and took his stand for some final advice. "Sasuke, if you are killed by my sister, I won't ever forgive you, which is why I ask you this, I will personally come with you and kill my sister, all I need is for you to weaken her enough." Sasuke didn't like that idea, but he assumed it was very important for Obito to kill his final family member. "Okay then, but I don't think she'll come alone, clearly some other members are going to come. Obito shook his head. "No, my sister lives up to her word, at the least she'll bring that Senju she calls a husband, or Naruto for his revenge on you, either of which will work so we can kill 2 or 3 birds with one stone." Sasuke agreed and went off to get some rest for the big day.
Sakura came up to Sasuke to talk to him. "Sasuke?"
"Sakura."
"Sasuke you don't have to do this, the last time we lost Itachi, if you do this I might lose you too."
"That's a risk I'm willing to take."
"But..." Sasuke crossed his arms. "This talk is over."
"At the least, let me come with you!" Sasuke closed his eyes. "You aren't going to give up are you?" Sakura violently shook her head. "Okay fine, just don't interfere."
Sakura goes sleep that night with nervous feelings, she knew Naruto would be really angry with her for killing Hinata. And Sidra would want to fight Sasuke to the death. It wasn't going to be pretty no matter who won the battle. Sasuke felt great anxiety about this, the other parts of him glad that he'll finally end this war with the death of Sidra and Dias and the capturing of Naruto. But Sasuke had his own agenda, he never really considered what after, was he supposed to let himself be swallowed by genjutsu, that wasn't his idea of peace at all, a fake world was a mere foolish idea in his eyes, he would deal with that later, but he was promised to have his clan alive in the genjutsu. He would take reality over fantasy if he had the choice. Obito in his mind told himself that the world was so ruined that genjutsu was the only way to achieve peace. Madara himself only wanted his perfect world that so many ruined for him.
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Leaf Village, Reconstruction process, campground.
Neji and the remaining members of the Hyuga had a long talk. "With Lady Hinata and Lord Hiashi dead we have no means anymore. Lady Hanabi and Sister Hikari seemingly in that Akuzura, and the fact that they managed to destroy the village with only 2 of their members, we should take a different course of action."
"You aren't suggesting that we give up, are you?"
"No, I'm saying we become allies, Konoha is doomed no matter where you look, I know Hanabi and Hikari will let us live as long as we swear out allegiance to their organization."
"But, that's like abandoning the village."
"The village is no more, I'm going, anyone else is welcome to join me, also, sister Hikari has figured out a way to remove the caged bird seal, we can all be free." Neji leaves the place, his life was over when it came to the leaf village. The branch family wanted to be free from the caged bird seal so they followed Neji. The main branch could have tried to stop them, but without an heir or lord they had no way to object, if they kept them in the leaf by force they knew Neji would find a way to get them killed by the Akuzura. With Neji's departure, Tenten was loyal to him as well so she followed, Lee and Guy did the same out of their own respects.
The remaining clans, Nara, Yamanaka, Akimichi, Inuzuka, Aburame and the other ninja they all had their own individual thoughts, perhaps Naruto would accept them as his people if they were allied, many of them turned to the thought of leaving the leaf, which seemed impossible to restore to its former state.
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Underground...Somewhere in the land of fire, not specified.
Danzo planned his counterattack, he had an army, but is paled in comparison to the large forces the Akuzura Empire had. There wasn't much choice he had to lay low, gather a bigger army and then take his village back and kill all those who chose to betray him, it could take years, but he would get around to it eventually.
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Naruto happily accepted his old friends with the Hyuga back since they left the leaf too, he let them settle in Uzushiogakure for now until they found another home. Naruto only had one more enemy since Danzo was out of the picture, that was the remaining members of the Akatsuki, once he got rid of them he could focus on building his empire and establish the peace he, no, everyone wanted.
Out of everything Naruto was at only 1 more priority, to find a way to make his wife full of life again, Orochimaru had offered him the reanimation jutsu, but Naruto didn't think having a corpse that seemed to be mindless was a very good way to live, plus the jutsu would wear off eventually. Dias came up to him with the only jutsu that he knew that could do it, a forbidden jutsu called the Rinne Rebirth, it revived the dead, ranging from anyone from the first hokage to even the smallest of genin, Hinata was an easily revive using it, but there was one problem, using the jutsu costed the users life, and only a Rinnegan user could perform it. Naruto refused to let Dias, Sidra or Nagato to die in spite of his wife being revived. Until then he would search for a way and wouldn't stop until he found it. Pain had an idea of his own, he wanted to steal the jinchuuriki back from Obito and by doing so will revive their former hosts in a reverse jutsu, one of which is Naruto's friend the Kazekage Gaara, that would also get the other lands permanently on the Akuzura's side of war, enough to end the Akatsuki.
That's all this chapter is fairly short. The next one might take awhile, you can already guess what it's going to be about.