Chapter 47 The Fall Part 3
The sky was filled with smoke and fire filled the night sky over the Leaf, Naruto Namikaze sat on top of a large stone on top of a hill overlooking the village. His mind was racing as he tried to figure out what angle the demons where playing. They hadn't restrained him or his pack and while he was getting some dirty looks from people most of them where smiling and thanking them on a job well done. What that job was he wasn't aware of, however whatever it was it probably wasn't good.
"How are you doing Sakura-chan?" asked Naruto as she sat down beside him, the rest of his family was getting something to eat.
"Strangely well." answered Sakura as both of them looked out over the burning Leaf village "It is strange I feel sorry for them but yet I don't."
"Kind of feels like they deserve it?" asked Naruto as Sakura nodded her head.
"Ya." answered Sakura "I just want our friends to make it out safe but…."
"On some level you want them to be demons?" asked Naruto
"I would admit it would be nice if our friends are demons since we could still talk to them." Said Sakura "But I can understand why they would want to remain human."
"This is wrong." said Naruto as the flames went up higher as he watched his old apartment complex fall down.
"What is wrong?" asked Sakura
"There has to be a way to save humanity and the demons." said Naruto
"You still want to save the Leaf?" asked Sakura as she wondered how he could say that after everything the villagers had done and how he killed a villager to protect his pack.
"The Leaf no…humanity yes." answered Naruto "How many humans need to be turned to bring the races back?"
"We are talking about nine demon races." said Sakura "I would have to say most but I would have to see internal numbers to come up with a number."
"But not all." said Naruto "Maybe we can save humanity if not the Leaf."
"I think they will want as many humans as they can get so that they can save the race, they will take every human they find." stated Sakura "I don't think they will talked out of getting them."
"Then maybe we shouldn't talk them out of it." said Naruto
"What are you talking about?" asked Sakura
"I will have to talk it over with my Dad but it may just be possible." said Naruto as a scream filled the air as Naruto and Sakura turned their heads a bit to see humans being taken toward the transportation seal before the place where they would lose their humanity.
"Do you see anyone you know?" asked Sakura
"A few faces but no names." stated Naruto "Either they have already been processed or they are still in the village."
"Or they made it out." whispered Sakura
"Maybe, but let's not tell the commanders about that." whispered Naruto back as Sakura placed her head on Naruto's shoulder as they watched the final moments of the Leaf village come.
The Leaf village was in a state of panic as the forces which had spent so long defending the village were pulling back to an area just over a mile radius from the Hokage building. The entire area was filled with ninjas some wounded but most ready to fight. In the mass of people stood Tenten as she looked around for any sight of Neji but she couldn't find him. Suddenly she felt a hand on her shoulder as she spun around to see Neji standing there with a deep cut on his forehead.
"Neji." said Tenten as she wrapped her arms around him. "I thought you were taken?"
"I almost was." said Neji as he just held her close, they were pulled apart when he felt a hand on his shoulder. He turned his head to see Sai standing there with blood running down his leg.
"Looks like you had trouble too." said Tenten
Flashback
Sai was thrown back against the remains of a wall; blood was running down his leg from a near miss against one of Sasuke's attack.
"You know I have orders to bring you in alive but I can always make a mistake." Laughed Sasuke as his tail moved in front of him, he took a position which looked a lot like a snake a person sees in the woods. The rattle on the tip of Sasuke's tail was rocking filling the air with a semi creepy sound.
"If I go down I will take you with me." stated Sai
"Like you could harm me, when I was human you stood some chance but now." laughed Sasuke "You might as well try to stop a thunderstorm with a kunai."
Sai was about to charge Sasuke when suddenly four giant rock walls shot up around Sasuke before a fifth came over the top forming a box trapping Sasuke inside.
"Sai run." ordered Karin as Sai looked toward the wall to see Karin with a Chidori Senbon needle in her shoulder however she was still forming a hand sign. For a moment Sai just looked at her "I can't keep him in there for long."
"Thank you." said Sai as he ran back to where the ninjas where going to make their last stand.
End Flashback
"Yes, run in with Sasuke and you two need to report to the Hokage tower." ordered Sai as he wondered what happened with Karin and the others who were pinned. He didn't know why but Sasuke didn't seem to go after Sai after he made his escape.
"Why?" asked Neji
"You two are getting out of here." stated Sai
"What about you?" asked Tenten
'I will just be a hindrance on this leg." stated Sai "I am staying to give you time to escape. Now get going the more time you stand here talking the less likely you are to get out of here."
"Thank you Sai." said Tenten as she hugged her friend goodbye.
The Leaf forces where still falling back into their last defense line, ANBU demolition teams where the last to fall back blowing up buildings as they moved down. An ANBU team had just finished blowing up a building in front of the advancing army. They were moving on to the next target to exploded when they spotted a group of maybe a dozen people sitting inside a bar drinking.
"What the hell are you doing?" yelled the ANBU into the bar
"Having some fun before the end come." answered one of the women at the bar as she downed an entire bottle of Shake at once.
"Come on leave them for demons." said the ANBU as they moved off leaving the people to their drinks as the demons came closer.
At the main Gate demon commanders stood where only a few hours ago the Leaf commanders stood, they looking over a map of the Leaf village. Large portions of the map had marks on it where the demons had cleared out any human fighters and had total control over the area.
"How are we doing?" asked a voice well known to the people of the Leaf village as Temari walked up in her human form.
"Why do you want to look like a human?" asked a wolf "You shame your new race by walking in human form."
"The man I love is out there and I want him to be the first to see me as a demon." explained Temari "Now I ask again how are we doing?"
"We have taken over almost two thirds of the village." stated a snake
"But the humans have now have amassed in a single area and they are holding on to that tight." stated a horse "They are stopping us from advancing."
"As I figured they would." said Temari
"If you are so smart then how do we break their defenses?" asked a horse
"Simple they have too many people in a single area, to take them on regularly. The Leaf and Sand forces will fight as long as they can." said Temari "All we can do is shortening that time."
"How so?" asked a Bear
"We take away their hope." stated Temari "Hope is one of the most powerful things a human or a demon can have. Once hope is gone a massive blow will win."
"How can they still have hope we are crushing them." stated a snake
"Hope is wasted on the hopeless." laughed a horse
"If you let us send in Sasuke again we could crush the humans." stated Snake commander
"Sasuke has too much history with the Leaf; he would kill people who we want." explained Temari "The humans he did brought in where almost killed. Has any humans gotten out?"
"No, we have caught all humans escaping." stated the horse
"The tracking wolves?" asked Temari
"Nothing." stated the wolf
"Are you sure, because Shikamaru would have a way out apart from those ANBU tunnels." stated Temari
"Nothing." stated the wolf
"Could they be too deep to hear?" asked a horse
"They would have to be very deep underground and from the reports state our scouts can hear nothing but water." stated the wolf as Temari rested her hand under her chin
"Alright then." stated Temari as she looked toward the Hokage building her eyes locking on the small figures on top of the building, she could just make out a figure who she was almost certain was Shikamaru.
Up on the Hokage building Shikamaru was looking over the current positions of the Leaf forces, the demons weren't pressing their lines as much but he knew what it meant. They were gathering for a final attack
"Shikamaru, where is Tsunade?" asked Neji and Tenten as they landed on top of the Hokage building.
"She is out with the troops." explained Shikamaru as Kiba and Akamaru appeared along with Neji and Tenten. "Good all of you are here."
"What is going on, I was about to lead an attack against the demons." stated Kiba
"Your attack would have been pointless." stated Shikamaru
"We are fighting to save the Leaf." yelled Kiba
"This was never about saving the Leaf." yelled Shikamaru back as Kiba, Neji and Tenten looked at him "We knew we lost the moment the demons showed up."
"Then what has all this been for?" asked Tenten as she looked toward her burning village as a large multiple story apartment building fell to the ground.
"To buy time for teams of ninjas and villagers to get out of the village." explained Shikamaru "We got twenty groups out, we had hoped to get at least third out by now but there is no more time. One more attack and there is at least an 84% that our lines will break and we will be overrun. The last groups are leaving and you three are going."
"What?" asked Kiba as he grabbed Shikamaru by the neck color "You are giving up on the Leaf?"
"Call it what you want, what matters now is humanity not a single village." stated Shikamaru
"I understand." said Neji as he looked at Tenten and Kiba "We need to get going."
"You make me sick." growled Kiba as he let Shikamaru go.
"Go down to subbasement six and you will find the other groups heading out." said Shikamaru "They will also have instructions for you."
'Goodbye." said Tenten
"You may see me again." said Shikamaru "However I will likely not be human."
Out on the front Raeni Uchiha moved with a pack of demon wolves, they had pushed though another downed building.
"Raeni check out that building." Ordered the pack leader as Raeni followed her orders and kicked down a solid oak door with a single powerful kick. She stepped into the room and instantly smelled alcohol mixed with death. She looked around the room only humans lying on the ground holding empty beer containers with foam coming out of their mouths.
"My God." whispered Raeni as she stepped over the body of a young woman, her baby maybe only a few weeks old lied died in her arms killed by the same poison that had claimed her mother. "Why would they kill themselves?"
"Because they didn't want to become demons." said a voice as Raeni looked toward the sound to see her brother Itachi kneeling over an older man, he was closing his eyes. "They wanted to die on their own terms."
"What a waste." said Raeni
"That is what war is." answered Itachi "And while some may not call this a war it is."
"What do we do?" asked Raeni
"We save as many lives as we can." answered Itachi
"Raeni what is the situation in there!" yelled her father's voice from outside.
"The humans are dead…killed themselves." answered Raeni as her father entered the room; however Itachi had disappeared without a trace.
"Well too bad these humans killed themselves." said Fugaku as Raeni looked around the room trying to figure out how he had gotten out of the room without her even hearing him.
"I guess." said Raeni
"Come on I got word something you don't want to miss is going to happen." said Fugaku as his daughter walked out of the room. The moment she stepped into the street a massive explosion rocked the village.
The remaining Leaf village ninjas looked up to see a cloud of smoke rising from the Hokage Mountain. There before their eyes the stone faces of the five Hokage's began to break apart and fall down. The stone faces which had looked over the village ever since the founding where disappearing. The faces which had taken months each to build were removed in an instant, when the smoke cleared only the pure rock remained.
"Now that we took away their hope lets crush them." hissed the snake commander
"Begin the final assault." ordered Temari as every demon along the line charged forward, there was no grand plan. The human's hope was crushed now they just had to take them.
For a moment the ninja force was stunned as they just looked up at the mountain. The demons didn't even wait for them to look away before they started taking them down. It was as if all the fight had disappeared from the ninja core, some simply surrendered while others tried to make a break for freedom which they didn't get. Still others tried to take their own lives to limited success. All military order had broken down, it was everyone for themselves.
In the middle of the panic Sai moved toward the hospital knowing that is where Ino would be. The area was a mess with people rushing away from the coming demons.
"Ino!" yelled Sai as he spotted Ino half carrying a wounded boy. She turned her head as she somehow heard his voice over the mass of screams and crying.
"Sai!" yelled Ino as she handed the boy off to another nurse before moving to his side. "What happen?"
"Sasuke." answered Sai as he put his arm over Ino's shoulder as they started moving though the crowd.
"We need to get to the tunnels." said Ino
"Won't matter, they have orders to exploded them." said Sai as Ino and him stopped in the middle of the road. "We are trapped."
"At least we are together." answered Ino as she pulled Sai into a kiss, as tears ran down her face knowing their time as humans was at an end.
"I love you." said Sai as he ran his hands though her hair.
"How beautiful." said a female voice as Ino and Sai turned their heads to see a large female black wolf with deep red eyes. Ino was the first to realize who it was.
"Kurenai?" asked Ino as the shewolf smiled
"Now that I have you where is Shino, Hinata and Kiba?" asked Kurenai
Up on top of Hokage building Shikamaru just stood there watching, he could make out a figure standing by the main gate. The rest of the command staff had left either for the tunnels or to find their families before the end of the Leaf.
"I believe this is checkmate Shikamaru." said a male voice behind him.
"It may seem that way." said Shikamaru as he crossed his arms, not wanting to turn around. "I was kind of expecting Temari to find me not you, Asuma-sensei"
"The commanders are keeping her busy." explained Asuma as he placed a hand on Shikamaru's shoulder. Shikamaru's eyes moved toward the hand to see the razor sharp claws. "Shikamaru I know you may be upset with Temari but she did this to save lives and to get you."
"No offense Asuma-sensei this is something I have to talk to Temari about." said Shikamaru
"I understand." said Asuma as Shikamaru turned to see the deep black wolf demon that had become his sensei. "Now where is Choji? You two would be almost inseparable in situations like this."
"He is part of my last play." said Shikamaru with a grin.
"So he made it out of the village then?" asked Asuma as Shikamaru simply smiled.
Over a hundred yards away Tsunade was throwing punches left and right as she sent demons flying with each punch. She wanted to use some justus but the enemy was close that she had no real time to run though hand signs, if she had tried she would have been overran before she could have finished the justu. She winced in pain as bear claws ripped across her forearm; the bear was sent flying into a snake.
"Come and get me." yelled Tsunade as she charged forward, it was as if she was last person fighting out of the corner of her eye she could make out villagers and members of her ninja core being retrained. Blood was running down her arms from claw marks and her knuckles where covered with blood from when she punched the demons. She had just sent a horse demon flying when she felt a sharp pain in the back of her lower leg. She spun around to see that a snake had lunged forward and sunk her fangs into Tsunade. Reacting instantly Tsunade kicked the snake away only a second later to feel her leg go numb. She didn't need to be told what was happening, the venom from the snake was shutting down her muscle groups and if she didn't do anything it would more than likely shut down her chest muscles and shut down her breathing that is if she didn't stop and extract the venom herself.
"I am the Hokage, I am going to die in the Leaf." thought Tsunade as she didn't even attempt to pull the venom out. Soon she couldn't even move her leg as the venom shut down all her muscles in her leg, soon she couldn't move her hips and finally her breathing became shallow as she fell to the ground. She looked up at the sky as it lightened with the coming dawn. A figure appeared over her, her eyes had started to lose focus so she couldn't make out the figure. For a moment she wondering if it was a guardian spirit of heaven but then she felt a sharp pain in her chest as her breathing started to return.
"Did you think we would let you die that easy?" asked Orochimaru's voice as the figure stood back up "Make sure she is sent to the process center long term storage, I will take care of my old teammates myself."
Well I hope you liked this chapter and the fall of the Leaf village, the fate of Naruto's and his friends will be revealed in later chapters including what race Temari became. Some people have been sending me messages asking when I will start a new story. I have to admit I haven't really been working on another story apart from this one. See I was a late comer to the Mass Effect series so I am currently playing my way through all three in a row and I have an idea for a Mass Effect story but I want to finish the games and see the new ending they are working on. Now until next time I would like to ask that you keep reading. Thanks Wilkins75
