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As Naruto, Koji and Mikoto reached the camp he clearly saw that it was a collection of tents surrounded by stones walls. The use of chakra was obvious on the walls, this camp was made using earth style jutsu. The three where greated by Sakumo Hakate who was in charge of the camp. They both gave him a nice smile and so did he. "Captain Hakate, Naruto Uchiha, Mikoto Uchiha, and Koji Inuzuka reporting as order!" Naruto told the smiling Captain. "You need to relax Naruto you are working with me again, no need to be so formal." Naruto was about to argue that he was not being formal, just behaving in a disciplined way. But as the last word was said, the growl from the stomach of both the Inuzuka and his partner nindog was heard. "Let me get this straight, Naruto pushed you three to get here in 1 day, when it usually would take a group 3 days? right?" Mikoto smiled, Naruto looked at the ground embarrassed, and Koji and his dog just looked upset.
"Look go and eat something alright. If those stomach sound any worse the enemy will find us that much easier. We have to deal with Suna Ninja, they are experts in Wind Jutsu." Captain Hakate ordered the three. Mikoto simply told Naruto to come with her to a nearby wall. When he got there he looked at two lunch boxes she had prepared the night before. "How about we eat together, I know you will love what I prepared."
Koji was very much like his nindog. They both loved meat, but in the climate there where at, it meant no fresh meats, so their meal was nothing more that jerky. Plain, unseasoned and dry jerky was not what most people would call a meal, but the nindog and ninja ate their with gusto.
It was fairly quiet and after the Captain finished his meeting with the rest of the Jounin, he assigned Naruto and Koji a tent and Mikoto could sleep with one of the medic kunoichi. Naruto was not to happy about it, but Mikoto simply joked that this way they would rest, and not be worried about giving in to their carnal instincts. This single comment made every ninja that heard it blush, somewhere there was Fugaku throwing a kunai at a picture of Naruto for the thousand time that day.
It was 6 in the morning when Naruto felt something odd, and he immediately sent a dozen shadow clones where he felt something. In a matter of 10 minutes the memories returned, he went to Captain Hakate's tent and sounded the alarm. The entire camp was up in arms and ready when he saw his Captain walk towards him and ask, "Is this a drill?" The serious look on Naruto's face was all the answer he needed. "How many and how far?" Naruto pointed at the direction. "400 sand ninja pupeteers and swords. They will be here in 40 minutes." Captain Hakate asked what was the delay. Naruto simply told him they where busy walking across his traps.
Mikoto and Koji did not look at all happy to receive that kind of wake up call, but as their Captain explained, it was within proper protocol. The camp was ready and Hakate had come up with a plan. They would use ninjutsu on the blades first, if they managed to get near they would switch to taijutsu and kenjutsu. For the puppets they do the same, except more ninjutsu heavy attacks.
It would have worked, except that the swords attacked alongside the puppets. Naruto simply smiled, "Captain Hakate, mind if I take care of this and you and the rest enjoy the show?" Captain Hakate could not believe what he said, from anyone else it would be a clear overconfidence. He simply walked to a nearby wall and climbed on top, One of the jounin asked what he was doing, he simply saw Naruto walk towards the enemy group that was walking towards them. Captain Hakate merely replied, "Getting a good seat for the show. What you expect me to miss it?"
Naruto simply stood there and in a puff of smoke 500 shadow clones appeared. He didn't even need to give orders. The clones rushed the now stunned enemy. The battle was fierce, between collaboration jutsu, and kenjutsu attacks the was little the enemy could do. Where there had been 400 proud sand ninja marching towards certain victory know stood a place covered in blood, broken puppets, and broken blades. The jounin in camp could hardly believe it if they had not seen it themselves. Naruto had single handily killed 400 sand ninja and he was not even breathing hard.
Captain Hakate would have loved to see the face of the enemy camp leader. They too had tried to look at the battle from a safe distance. The scouts were sure that they would report their victory, but what they reported was something from their worst nightmares. A man dressed in black and red samurai armor had use ninjutsu and kenjutsu in the most horribly efficient way. He had alone killed their attack force. Lady Chiyo was not to happy to hear that some of the puppeteers were students she herself had taught.
"Nice show, Naruto but maybe next time you let us have some exercise?" Captain Hakate simply joked. Naruto only smiled, "This was to test us. They will not make the same mistake again. So I hope some of you paid attention to the collaboration jutsu. They might be useful in the near future." Koji laughed at him. "Naruto if you are done acting like a professor giving a lecture, come on help me see what we can salvage of the enemy while we still can!" Naruto, Mikoto, and Koji went to where the bodies of the enemy were. They saw that they would need more people, some of the jounin and chuunin volunteered. It was the least they could do after what they saw.
It was latter that night that they realized that they had hit a mother load. Some of the enemy must have been idiots, because they wrote their command structure, who was going where, and when they would get reinforcements. But the thing that stuck him as even dumber was the location and layout of the enemy camp. Mikoto believed that it could be a trap, a simple case of misdirecting an enemy. Naruto having sent a wolf specialized in scouting believed otherwise. After the wolf told him what he was and what was there. He simply knew that that enemy was indeed that dumb or that confident in their troops.
Captain Hakate decided to take 50 of their ninja including both Uchiha, and an Aburame. Shikaku Aburame was a very young jounin, compared to the rest but he was only there to act as back up for Mikoto and Naruto. In a single attack they sent the enemy retreating. The sheer lose in their numbers made it impossible to hold that camp. Lady Chiyo was the only jounin that survived, but she was wounded. Captain Hakate did not believe that it was over or that this was the only camp that the enemy had, it proved to be true. Those collaboration jutsu had saved 45 of the ninja that stayed behind as the enemy also did a surprise attack. The force that had attacked lost 5 ninja when they did their surprise attack. The saw 105 dead bodies outside of the camp walls. Total the enemy lost 900 ninja in 2 attacks, but they lost 10 out of the 100 ninja gathered in that camp.
Sakumo knew that they had other camps, and that these battles were far from over. He had requested reinforcements but they would be there in 2 weeks. These were going to be the longest 2 weeks that they had ever lived.