HOT-WATER COUNTRY| YU VILLAGE

"They are all fortified deeply in there sir" reported the man with hands still locked in a ram seal as he reported.

Haruo nodded with a resigned understanding.

The Whirlpool ninja's gallivanting march directly towards the Yu village in a bold fashion had sent much fear in the hearts of civilians who had saw them in the wee hours of the morning and then to see the hundreds of ninja go unobstructed or stopped as they marched past made the right impression that Hot Water country was being invaded by Whirlpool.

As true as it was it brought on panic and some foolish civilian militias that attacked the moving army; to be outmatched and slaughtered as they moved on. Getting closer to their destination and mauling threw any obstruction until they were unobstructed by the petty attempts of brave civilians and a few animal attacks.

In the end it seemed the obvious plan of attack had raised Yu village's along with the country's alert level to absolute awareness and they clearly saw the impending attack coming.

With the nation knowing where the threat was coming from and where it was headed to it was very easy for Yu village to send many ninja to protect their Daimyo and capital city. As the growing trend of lessening the samurai guard, all country's kept on retainer and just leaving a country's military matters to it's ninja village had took hold strong in the country as it did with most others. Which left the Daimyo normally protected by thousands of samurai now just a few hundreds, a bit weakened and in need.

In what would be known as a unbelievably fast network of information sending, Yu village was able to alert it's Daimyo, recall all it's ninja while dispatching a great many to it's Daimyo then make any village with people near it evacuate for their safety.

Setting the stage to be able to defend from the invaders by holding up in their village.

Gold-flecked black eyes gazed at the Yu village. It looked to be unlike any place he had ever seen as it had a collection of pipes of red color densely packed with one another to create a wall he was sure served as a powerful defense for the place.

What that strange looking pipe wall did was no hard thing to figure out, if one had someone who had eyes that were x-ray that is.

"They are heating the pipes with steam. Anyone that goes near that wall will make them release the steam and melt the offender. I guess they hope we attack and be killed by that powerful steam." reasoned the byakugan wielding man.

"Yeah they aren't the type for direct combat. Strange to me though as I heard a tale of how this place had a bunch of crazy Jashinist living in it"

"Jashinist?" asked the man

"A bunch of crazy psychos who love sacrificing. The less you know the better really. Now tell me what is their leader up to?"

"It looks like they are situated in a cube looking structure. There looks to be one that looks to be the leader; about six feet in height medium build, grey hair,long beard and dressed in lavender striped red robes. He has squinted eyes of purple color sir. It seems he is surrounded by men who are pointing at maps of the area and where our believed presences are. . . I am reading their lips but they appear to be speaking in code."

"That is a enough of them now tell me where their main forces are and how to take down that wall." commanded Haruo looking intently at the red wall that looked like it started to glow more to a cherry scolding red.

The man with his one byakugan took a moment to report but did with humor in his voice.

"Remember your earth quakes idea sir. . . Well they have the same sentiment but just slightly different. They have under the pipes even more pipes that run to the center of the village where there is a large boiler. . . . Which is the heart of the pipes and is guarded. . . I see about sixty men guarding the thing. While one is working what seems to be levers that control it."

"I fail to see how their heat and water construct holds up to mine but. . . I guess everyone is entitled to their opinion. . . " murmured Haruo unimpressed

"Uh right sir. . . Well I see a few men over looking the inside of the wall while many others await in the house tops and in the streets. . . The main force of sixteen-hundred men I see is concentrated in the center of the village awaiting what looks to be. . . instruction"

"Yu village was said to have no more then. . . two thousand ninja. . . Are they all there?"

"No sir. . . it seems a few hundred are missing"

"Do any of these men have any strange weapons or anything special about them; higher chakra level or weird skills that seem noticeable?" asked Haruo eagerly wanting to know more.

The man took but seconds to answer "No sir. . . They all appear to have normal chakra signatures and wield the normal ninja weapons or a sword though some have fans and a few have tridents. Apparently not many even have a jounin level chakra signature."

"Once again I am not presented a challenge" huffed Haruo extremely disinterested.

"Orders sir?" questioned the man to the bored looking Uzumaki

Haruo looked pissed off at the village's wall then announced "I am going to kill them all. I will first destroy their stupid little wall; opening up their defense. Have the men lieutenant, prepare to launch long range wind attacks when they see the steam released. Make sure they act quickly and the steam be projected to sway directly towards the village."

"Sir but only a few of the men can do wind techniques-" interrupted the second in command jounin.

"I am well aware of that as the few nineteen men we have is all it will take. Have the few that I AM AWARE are earth nature shake the ground for a while to rattle them. Then have a wave of three hundred men began to circle the village but don't attack just keep the enemy inside of the village at all costs. The rest of the battalion should gather in a arrow point formation directly in front of the entrance of the village and wait on standby"

"What will you be doing. . .sir?" asked the man a bit fearful at questioning his commander again.

"I will be by then after the steam has been used against them, inside of the village. Now go! And do NOT mess up"

"Yes Sir!" replied the man deactivating his eye then running quickly away threw the tree tops to give out orders.

Haruo jumped down from his tree then grabbed his sword from his back and disappeared in a bout of what was pure unrestrained speed.

He ran as a blur along the sides of the pipe wall with sword planted deeply in to the steel structure and gliding threw it with ease all the while causing a evaporating wisp of grey smoke from the cuts to appear as pipe after pipe released pressurized steam from it's new opening.

One by one the pipes gained neat almost stenciled slashes threw them that split the metal cylinders.

Haruo was done with his task in less then a few seconds as he appeared back in the top branches of a tree where he had once been.

He watched with boredom as the pipes let loose a explosion of steam that poured out in a thick white vapor covering even him from his distance in a sauna like heat that was not being pressurized anymore. . . Making it completely harmless but a tad too hot.

Uplifted to a less bored mood by the feel of wind in the area being picked up, Haruo saw the white blanket of steam be sent in a wind jutsu in to the village; now victim of a thick blinding and hot steam.

Haruo nodded as he saw his opening was made and jumped from his tree to once again sprint to the pipe wall with sword in front of him. He stopped for barely a second to swing his sword to create a neat incision in the wall that was quickly punched out by his fist as he invaded the village.

"What the hell is going on!? WERE THEY ABLE TO GET PAST OUR DEFENSE?" yelled one voice

"Impossible! This must be some type of jutsu Or GENJUTSU! Kai!" screamed another

"BE ON GUARD YOU FOOLS!" screamed one voice clearly female

Haruo walked slowly threw the thick steam and heard the voices as he started to pinpoint them one by one.

"Pathetic. . . you beings are so weak. . ." he announced

"Aye did you hear that?!" shouted one man

"Yeah! I did they are inside! Warn Ginga-sama!" yelled a voice threw the dense steam-smokescreen

Haruo smirked as he felt the chakra seeping from his sword in to him. . . The ability his sword had to sense for other life forms indiscriminately what ever they were had been transferred to him.

The ability was quite crude and not really worth much sensor wise since it seemed he was granted the 'feel' of another around him yet not their chakra level or even their accurate but estimate distance from him which was not worth much but he luckily had mastered the feeling ability so he could utilize it in combination with the swords true greatness, the ability to destroy anything with a slash.

Making nothing really matter in the way of how strong or near it was. The targets destruction was almost always guaranteed.

As was the destruction of the blinded ninja who fumbled in the steam with him.

Hopping up to the roof top of one Yu ninja who instinctively was able to hear the foot steps of the arrival of another near him, struck out with a wide arc of his sword to kill anyone in his reach.

When the Yu-ninja retracted his sword he grew confused at the lightness felt in his grip, as if his sword had lost weight and looked at it closely to see it had lost what was a foot off of it's blade that had been cleanly cut away.

He immediately dropped the useless weapon as he reached in to his pouch for another but was stopped as a sword rammed threw his heart an twisted 180 degrees then quickly pulled out.

Haruo gave a grunt at what was probably the easiest kill he ever made.

With a turn of his body he then in a instant blocked a trident blow that was coming to him while simultaneously carving it in half easily, then walking forward to the half stunned user cleaved his blade straight thru the shocked attacker.

With disappointment he stepped over the gory remains to make sure he did not dirty his feet before he soon set upon victim after victim that proved to be easy kills to him or just relied too much on a weapon as a defense that quickly failed against his weapon then left them open to death by his sword.

A great tremor rocked the village making Haruo quickly jump from the top of a building that trembled under his feet and take to the ground which although unstable he was able to still get better footing on it.

While in the street of the village he was made aware of the few Yu-nin who actually were not confused by the blanketing steam and were still able to navigate all be it slowly threw the haze that blinded so many of their comrades.

'Now these guys might prove a challenge' the Uzumaki thought with a grin.

In the arrow formation that had developed at the front of the village the byakugan wielding man looked at the carnage from the point of the formation and was shocked.

His commander had just taken out now; thirty ninja with out much of a challenge, that being a understatement, and was getting closer to the middle of the village. An had just now killed a group of ninja who tried to attack him at once.

'My God! And that group were all JOUNIN!' panicky thought the man as he viewed the unending deaths Haruo was causing with that sinister grin plastered on his face.

"Sir. . . How is it going in there?" asked one ninja to the Lieutenant's left.

The man looked back at his subordinate and told the man the truth "He's in there. . . slaughtering them"

With a smirk the man announced with pride "EH! THE COMMANDER'S IN THEIR BEATING THEIR ASSES!"

Causing a chorus of cheers and rounds of 'kill'em all' to start to circle the group as many began to cheer Haruo on.

The Lieutenant on the other hand grew a bit more queasy as he saw Haruo literately cut a man in to small pieces with just a few flicks of his wrist.
After that the man had to deactivate his eyes as he could not stand to see anymore.

Haruo retrieved his sword from the mid-section of one kunoichi and watched her fall to the ground clutching her stomach with a anguished cry.

She would not feel pain for long as her hands slowly went as limp as her body from the blood-loss then death.

"This can not be all? I mean whatever but I was told there were Jounin in here or is Daichi truly not worthy of that eye he has. . . Or was Arata the third wrong in saying he had the second best control with those freaky things?" the man asked himself uncaring at the three ninja who surrounded him equipped with tridents.

"What the fuck are you!?" screamed the woman to Haruo's side.

The Uzumaki gave her a smirk as he replied "I'm one of a kind"

"No you ARE dead!" corrected the man behind the Uzumaki before yelling "Triple-point SLASH!"

Lunging the three pointed weapon at the back of the Uzumaki the Yu ninja was stunned as he saw the man disappear in a blur from his view.

"Whe- AGH!" cried the man as he felt a hole be made in his heart.

The other two Yu ninja were still in shock by the speed of their attacker and were taken off guard as a quick slash killed a surprised Yu ninja but a strong hand came from seemingly out of nowhere and choked the other last standing Yu ninja in to the air.

"Tell me Yu ninja what rank are you?" asked Haruo in a nice enough tone he could muster.

The choking Yu ninja tried to move his arm to direct the weapon in his hand to kill the man that had him lifted by his neck in the air but he just couldn't make his body do it.

It seemed pure fear had consumed him as he saw the predatory gold flecked eyes.

"I won't ask you again. What rank are you?"

Fearfully the man replied "I'm a chunin! Please don't kill me! I just got engaged! Please God don't! Please I beg you!" grovelled the man

Haruo was not fazed by the pleading "How long have you been chunin?"

"Two years. . P-please l-l-let me g-g-g-go!" he begged

"Really and tell me how many battles have you been in and how many missions have you completed?" asked Haruo calmly

Bursting out in tears the man became putty in the strong hand he was held in "I. . . A-a-an my team! You killed them. . . h-had completed over one hundred missions. I haven't been in battles without my team but we all fought together over twenty times. . . P-please j-just let me go!"

"Last question, is your leader stronger then me?" asked Haruo with a bit of hope in his voice.

The man looked as if his lasts bit of resolve or faith had gone to the wind as he spoke "N-no! You're the s-strongest g-guy I ever seen!"

A bit saddened Harup dropped the man from his grip "Go tell your leader and your people that. . . I am stronger then them and will allow them all to live if they surrender. Tell them it is a one time deal and because my leader will get mad at me if I don't extend this 'offer' even though God knows I hope you refuse it so I get to kill you all! I don't care you guys are so pathetically weak I will still be able to get some fun from y'all struggling. Now go!" commanded the Uzumaki as he turned his back and began walking away before he was attacked again as he headed towards the exit/entrance of the village hearing hurried foot steps behind him.

Within what was moments after dispatching another Yu-ninja, Haruo was on the outside of the still steamy village and to his subordinates.

Immediately the byakugan wielding Daichi approached his commander "Sir your orders?"

"We wait. . . Everyone in there I have encountered is weak. . . compared to me but to one of you guys they may prove a challenge. I'm gonna have to say though we got them outnumbered by a bit and I cut their numbers down a few. We could still suffer some many casualties in this battle. Hate to say it but I wish they rather surrender then we fight this out because if we do. . . we are going to need. . . Shuji's help" growled out Haruo very pissed off.

"They will surrender. . . You showed them they can't win. . . or made them think so sir" surmised Daichi with many nods from other ninja

"Yeah one would think that but. . . people and especially ninja can be very unpredictable. . ."

"All we can do then is wait and see. Is the boundary set up?"

"Yes sir. They are all in position"

"Alright then let's wait"

And so the Uzushiogakure ninja did just that and they waited staring at the still steam covered village.

Time seemed to pass by slowly but a rumbling of the ground ever so often kept them all on edge. Then a giant quake that was like a small earthquake lasting a long minute made many want to stop waiting around.

Then unexpectedly it happened. From the village carrying a white flag along with a wide scroll emerged a Yu ninja from the entrance of the village and slowly out of the steam.

Haruo immediately recognized the still shaking man and smirked as he said under his breath "The psycho killer approach always works"

THREE WEEKS PAST

A trying time it had been for the confident and if not at times over confident commander who had proved his invaluable worth in less then a day as he intended.

The impossible or from a strategic point of view the inevitable happened inside of Hot Water country and it's hidden ninja village.

With it's all be it soft but still crucial lost to the Uzu invaders from having been weakened by the assault of a strange mass of earthquakes then successfully having their village penetrated and their men one after another with a total of sixty three ninja of varying ranks being killed by JUST one of the Uzu-nin, forced a understandable. Unconditioned surrender.

That in itself paved the way for the Uzu-ninja to take over the Hot Water country in one great sweep as Commander Haruo had taken Yu village with not a Uzu-nin casualty on his side.

Commander Shuji having sailed up and down the nation's coast making sure to eliminate any aquatic threat the invaded country could pose. Quickly completed it's scanning then went directly to Hot Water Nation's capital and took it by storm making the Daimyo and the other lords surrender.

A true and actual three hours and forty-six minutes after the hidden Yu village's surrender.

And so both the country an it's village; supposed to be it's military in all things as well as it's protector having failed.

Hot Water nation and Yu had quickly been conquered and to many it seemed as if they were to be absorbed in to the Whirlpool country but it was of a different notion as it was not yet decided, though the thought of resistance of any kind was quickly swept from any Hot Water country's citizens mind. As it was said resistance would not be tolerated and any riots or rebellions would result in immediate mass penalties or executions.

Such was said publicly and promised from the mouth of Haruo who wanted to make sure that 'his' conquest went smoothly.

Commander Haruo then made sure and concluded the vassal nation had no more contact to Cloud village in any way and were made enemies.

Inevitably the Yu village ninja and kunoichi quickly bowed down to the power of Haruo, rather from him demonstrating his overwhelming power or out of fear to his growing name as Whirlpool's Reaper.

It had become very easy to reform the vassal country with it's people terrified thus completely willing to obey and was fully taken advantage of by the commander who immediately had many Yu ninja start patrolling the country in their uniform. Now modified with a large Uzushiogakure swirl crest upon their backs and in their forehead protectors a swirl sat higher then the made smaller circle with three wavy lines that was the symbol of the village and Hot Water country now under a Uzushiogakure symbol.

It was further pressed upon the ninja of Yu that they were also required to not only wear the new head band but to also even wear a Uzushiogakure headband that did not have two symbols except for just one, the Uzushiogakure crest. This was all explained to some who had the bravery to ask why this was necessary.

To show loyalty as Haruo had nicely put it but it was clearly: to show that the country and it's ninja belonged to Uzu.

FIRE COUNTRY| LEAF VILLAGE

The Second Hokage sat quietly as he read the reports one of his ninja had given to him.

It was very unbelievable what he was reading. A country and minor village had just been taken over by what was a supposed weak village. An the ninja a Uzumaki wielding a zanpakuto who was leading the attack was getting allot of recognition as being called the Reaper.

But common knowledge for those in the know, knew how powerful Whirlpool country was, not because of it's numbers but because of it's high rate of producing very powerful ninja especially from the Uzumaki clan.

Word of the Reaper did not surprise him at all, if anything it would be what he would call all of the Uzumaki who had one of those death swords. The world thanks to the Uzumaki and Whirlpool coming out of isolation knew nothing about and their power's.

Yes, those ignorant ones who knew little of Whirlpool could be shocked at it taking a country as large as it did in a single day. An be shocked that someone with the power to kill anyone not at their level leading thousands on a campaign then backed by another guy who too wielded a extraordinary weapon of death also possessing a ability to kill anyone who wasn't at his level too, leading a battalion of thousands of men as back up, did what they did.

But truth was that combination in itself could conquer countries. Being is disbelief by such a occurrence would be very foolish to anyone who thought Whirlpool couldn't fight in the big leagues.

This was something Tobirama had said when it was spoken to him would be a great idea.

With the coastal nation under the Whirlpool flag. Whirlpool and it's ninja would receive a boost in their ninja ranks, get allot more land and resources in the bargain.

Take a ally from Cloud by extension then being able to stage a mounting force against the mountain dwellers and getting bonuses of having their reputation increased to cement their prowess of not a village to be challenged.

"Sensei! Where has Whirlpool been hiding such power!" exclaimed a young boy looking to his teacher as he'd seen the report the white haired man was reading.

Tobirama looked up to the youth in front of him and spoke calmly "Saru, they have been hiding allot that will come out as wild cards in this war. I'm glad to see that Arata's plan was not a dud and went so smoothly. Though the real challenge I would say is if they will be able to keep control of the country. Bigger they are yes but now they are as easier to attack."

Hiruzen Sarutobi known for his smarts questioned curiously "I wonder why Yu village and it's country just collapsed to Whirlpool like that yet stood with Cloud so rigidly?"

"That is simple Saru. Cloud made a request for Yu and it's ninja to help them. Such a request that I will bet my best jutsu was worded very strongly and was veiled with offers they could not refuse. While Whirlpool on the other hand conquered them and they saw their power as well Uzu made no negotiations with them. They blatantly said to them they are under their rule do right be rewarded, do wrong an prepare to die. I think that hits harder then requests, besides the nation was facing destruction anyway. . . They sort of wanted a 'big brother' to lead them as they are surrounded by a bunch of hard hitters"

"Still! I just don't see how that many ninja won't fight for their home!" passionately spoke Hiruzen

Tobirama gave a kind smile "You can't always be victorious in the way you want. Yu and that country will be taken care of by Whirlpool they are not barbarians and when they settle with the idea of Whirlpool ruling them they will find many goods about it with perks. Also Saru be careful what you say you are talking about having one of our new allies fight it's new leader which is also our ally"

Sarutobi nodded but still felt a bit sour inside at the idea of a village let alone a country falling so quickly to others and not putting up a real all or nothing fight.

"You know the shinobi way Sarutobi. . . It also applies to ninja politics too" reminded Tobirama strictly