AN:

Thank you GlidingOne, FireheartedNinja, Deadzepplin, and WolfDemon1000 for reviewing!

Glad that most people seemed to enjoy the previous chapter!

Just a casual thought: I do not believe that Kakashi has trained any of his dog yet in this timeline (he is 10).

Also, while Sage mode is awesome, I felt very awkward writing this fight, considering the shinobi are on a whole different level than the Middle-Earthlings. Technically, they are Gandalf's level, but they can do more than the wizard could. The reason the ninjas haven't been very kickass is that they are basically showing up the heros of LotRs, and I am not very comfortable with that.

I hope this chapter is satisfactory, and let me know if it is good/bad/ugly.

Thank you!

Eldarion slowly opened his eyes and looked up. First he saw a warg with a black face and a light brown body, which seemed to be smiling at him. Being unable to see anything else, he pulled himself to be sitting up. Then he saw the rider.

"Violet hair, brown eyes, necklace, chainmail, yep its-"

"ANKO!" Eldarion jumped as his internal tally was snapped by the entire team yelling at the young kunoichi. The tall boy took the opportunity to stand up, wincing as some of his muscles protested. Aragorn had joined them, looking very apprehensive.

"What are you doing here?" Eldarion asked after dusting himself off.

"Running from thirty or so Warg Riders, that's what!" she screamed.

Aragorn and the others seemed to process the information faster than the shinobi did. The ranger's eyes widened and he promptly ran back to inform Theoden. Out of the corner of his eye, Eldarion saw Legolas take his postion and begin to shoot some of the approaching enemies.

Kakashi's eyes narrowed dangerously. "You led them right to us," he hissed.

Minato put a hand on the Hatake's shoulder. "Now is not the time to point fingers," he said in a commanding tone. He turned toward Eldarion. "Nor is it the time to hold back,"

Eldarion knew what that ment. Up until this point, he and the other members of Team 7 had refrained in displaying any of their jutsu. But going all out had the potential to save lives. If he remembered correctly, this 'ambush' had crippled the Rohirrim a bit.

The was the sound of a horse behind him and everyone turned to see Aragorn.

"I informed Theoden King of your powers, and it was suggested that you go in ahead of us and we will mop up the survivers.

Minato nodded grimly. "Thank you. That should work perfectly."

He turned to his team and Anko. *"Let's go,"*

Legolas was perched on the crest of a hill, shooting as many of the filth as he could. The elf was waiting for the Rohirrim and his companions to arrive to assist him. He was so focused on shooting the beasts and their riders that he jumped when a hand was put on his shoulder.

"You may stand down Legolas," he turned to see Minato standing beside him. "You have done well but we will take over from here,"

The elf looked at Hoshi, who gesutured with his Guan Dao toward the base of the hill.

"The backup is down there," he said quietly. "I suggest you join them,"

Legolas frowned. "I will stay right here,"

The shinobi sighed. "Suit yourself," The boy pulled out his headband and tied it around his forehead. Everyone tensed. Minato pulled out his strange knives, and after what seemed to be a moment, he threw them.

All hell cut loose in front of the elf's astonished and horrified eyes.

As soon as Minato-sensei threw his kunai, Obito shot down the side of the hill. He made eye contact with Hoshi as ran downhill.

"Horse, Tiger, Ram, Monkey, Boar, Horse, Tiger," The two Uchihas mirror each other, inhaling deeply. "Katon: Gōkakyū no Jutsu!"

Both orcs and wargs panicked as the two fireballs came flying toward them on their left flank and right flank. They attempted to escape it by moving in towards the center, causing some of the wargs to trip over others. While several riders got burned, most somehow were left unscathed. Kakashi seemed to be preparing a jutsu of his own.

Lightning sparked in his hand, then extended to a long bolt that took the shape of a dog. He jumped forward and lashed the bolt out like a whip. Obito yanked down his goggles, knowing what was coming next.

With a scream the onis exploded, splattering the hissing blood and guts all over their wargs and their companions. The Uchiha was impressed. Lightning techniques were not easy to control and often exausted their users. Rin stayed on the fringe of their formation, ready to provide any assistance. Hoshi had recently jumped into the midst of the wolves and onis, becoming a whirlwind of death. Minato-sensei was once again testing a jutsu he dubbed...

"Rasengan!"

Obito yelped as his teacher mowed down a riderless warg right next to him.

"Be on your guard Obito!" he cried, while teleporting to another one of his kunai.

The Uchiha didn't have time to say anything else as he quickly became surrounded by orcs.

Curiousity had gotten the best of Aragorn halfway through the battle. Although most tried not to show it, the Rohirrim were glad that they only needed to attack when necessary. But the ranger did not like to completely miss a good fight, so he climbed to the top of the hill where Legolas was sitting. The elf appeared to be in a state of shock. His blue eyes were wide with horror and his mouth was slightly open. Instead if asking the Legolas any questions, he followed the elf's gaze.

Aragorn's own eyes widened at the scene of ongoing carnage below them. The shinobi were fearlessly cutting and hacking through the wargs and their riders like it was nothing. He looked at the shinobi. Obito was burning the wargs around him with bursts of fire, and killing their riders through his throwing weapons. Kakashi had taken a warg for a mount and was charging at them, somehow causing the orcs to explode through his mere touch. Minato was a yellow blur, jumping from one place to another.

"These things can explode?"

Both ranger and elf jumped. He turned to see the short girl from before, petting the snoozing warg. Rin was sitting next to her, and both were looking at the fight.

"If you run a chakra current through them," answered Rin.

They were silent for a minute before the new stranger suddenly yelled at the top of her lungs.

"C'mon Hoshi! Move faster you slow poke!"

Legolas suddenly grabbed Aragorn's arm and pulled himself up. The Dunedain could see why. Every unoccupied orc and warg had begun to charge towards them. He grit his teeth in surpressed anger and he headed back down the hill. Theoden seemed to understand why he ran back down, because he promptly urged his horse up the hill. The rest of the Rohirrim soon followed.

Rin smacked Anko on the back of her head.

"You idiot!" she cried. Instead of responding in anger, the fellow kunoichi yanked her up on top her warg's back. The pug colored warg stood up, snarling. Anko quickly mounted the animal's back.

"Their target is me, and we have a bunch of people who are going to charge at them," she said with a feral grin. "So let's sidetrack them,"

Anko promptly yelled at the orcs. "Come and get me you gutless maggots!" then urged the warg off to their right.

"Hi-ya!" she cried, tugging on what appeared to be a pink leash.

Rin nearly fell off as the warg moved forward. But thanks to certian chakra holds, she managed to stay on.

The oni urged their wargs after them, so they were running parallel to the top of the hill. That was when the Rohirrim attacked.

Eldarion was not pleased to see that Anko and her large mouth had prevented Minato-sensei from slaughtering the remaining wargs and their riders. He sat atop a roan colored warg who seemed friendlier then the rest. Just before the Rohirrim and their allies charged over the hill, he heard something in the distance. More barking and snarls sounded from over another hill. His teammates noticed, too.

"Hoshi," asked Minato as they moved to intercept the backup. "Do you think you can do Suiton: Suishōha?"

Eldarion was shocked. "I-There is no water around here. Sensei, I don't have the chakra for this," he stammered. He looked at the approaching calvery and gulped. Minato pressed a pill into his hand.

"This will boost your chakra," he said, as the crossed the crest of the hill, out of sight of the others. Eldarion swallowed the pill and his fear. Moulding the extra chakra, he began to concentrate.

The Rohirrim had finished off most of the wargs and their foul riders. Luckily, their side had only one casulaty, a young Rider who had his hand cut off. Aragorn was looking around for the other shinobi, for he only saw Rin (who was treating the Rider's wound), the new foreigner, and the only friendly warg in existance. The girl, whose name was Anko was standing on the crest of another hill, looking over it.

"Aw HELL no!" she yelled, then turned around to Rin. "Rin, Hoshi just took a food pill!"

The girl shot up. "What!" she shrieked.

"And," added Anko. "The Wargs have reinforcements"

Aragorn knew it would be a good idea to stay where he was. Considering that four shinobi had completely destroyed a large percentage of the attack force, the ranger figured that they would be fine.

But the sudden roar of water surprised him and several others.

"I do not recall the river being up here," muttered an older Rider. Aragorn could hear the yelps and shrieks of the wargs and the orcs, and the water slowly quiet down.

Then there was a yell from Obito.

"Um, guys? A little help here!"

And so they charged.

When Minato saw Hoshi slump forward, breathing heavily, he knew it was a mistake to give the boy the pill. He was showing signs of chakra exaustion, as were Kakashi and Obito. Neither had a large amount of chakra, and neither were the best at chakra control, dispite Kakashi's chunin status. The gamble had worked and a good portion of the warg riders had been pushed off the cliff. But a lot were still alive, and all of them were pissed. In fact, one was headed toward Hoshi.

"Hoshi!" he cried, ready to teleport over to his student. Much to his surprise, the boy lashed out with his Guan Dao, slashing the orc open. The wound ignited into purple flames. He then spurred his warg forward it to what had just became a free for all melee. Minato sighed, and rejoined the battle. The Rohirrim were surprisingly good fighters, who knew when to attack and when to concede an orc or warg to him. Aragorn was doing incredibly well, beheading orcs and stabbing any warg that got too close to him. Obito and Kakashi had teamed up. Each one was atop a charging warg, holding several lines of wire. The Rohirrim wisely stood clear of them as they bisected anyone who was foolish enough to move between them. A couple of times, Kakashi ran lightning along it, but it was not often.

Minato sighed. Fighting oni was rather dull, as they couldn't block the attacks or even do much to retaliate. He had nearly attacked Rin and Anko because he mistakened them of an enemy. Neither girl was very pleased. Minato looked at his hands. Rasengan was not a very clean jutsu, so his hands were slippery with black blood. Oddly enough, the blood was eating away at his gloves.

A gruff voice broke him out of his reverie.

"You wouldn't mind helpin' a friend, would ya?"

He looked at a pile of carcesses, seeing that Gimli was underneth two wargs and an orc. Smiling, Minato lifted the carcesses off the dwarf.

"I will not ask how that happened," he said to the thankful Gimli.

"Good, it is rather boring," grumbled the dwarf as he ran off to attack some other warg. Exhaling, the jonin's blue eyes combed the battlefield, looking for Hoshi. He halted his search when he saw Aragorn get knocked off his horse by a riderless warg. The man was unhurt, so an entertained Minato continued to watch him. As an oni and his steed charged by the ranger, Aragorn jumped onto the creature's back

"Impressive," thought Minato as he lazily threw a kunai into the mouth of a riderless beast.

However, the orc was a good fighter, as he somehow pinned Aragorn's wrist to the warg and shoved him off the animal's back. While his conscience screamed for him to go help the ranger, Minato felt content to just watch the scene unfold. He admired the man's fighting skills. After all, not everybody could stab an orc in the throat while being pulled along backwards by a running beast.

But when the oni reached out and grabbed something around Aragorn's neck, Minato got worried. But then he threw the orc off, which made him stop worrying. Suddenly, he heard his name called.

"Minato-sensei!"

It was Anko, who was currently engaged in battle with a warg. He was about to assist them when Rin tacked something else onto the call.

"Help Hoshi!" she cried, while hitting an orc on the head with a broken spear.

His eyes widened in horror when he noticed Hoshi grappling with a warg, and it's rider. Along the edge of the cliff.

"Flying frogs," he cursed mentally. He activated Hiraishin and teleported to Hoshi.

Only to land several feet away. Minato was confused, but threw a kunai instead. Every second counted. Unfortuantly, his confusion cost him that second. Hoshi lost his balance, and fell over the edge of the cliff.