disclaimer: i am not responsible for any deaths of liked characters... just warning you now
"I'm going to go talk to old man Hokage, wanna come with? Your old man is up there." asked Naruto, both brothers declined, but as Naruto moved to leave, a tendril of sand wrapped around his right wrist.
"I don't know if it's still on, but there is an invasion set for today. You're like a brother to me, and you have been more help to me then my father ever has. I'm telling you this now so that my brother and sister are safe, any sooner and all 3 of us would be detained." stated Gaara, a tiny hint of sadness and regret in his voice.
Naruto smiled at his friend "Don't worry, we got a tip a couple of days ago that this might happen. All I ask is that you 3 run as soon as it starts. Konoha ninja may be nice in times of peace, but there's no telling what will happen when it starts." Naruto took out a scroll and wrote something down, then handed it to Temari.
"These are the directions to a bunker owned by my family. It's out of the way and only locks from the inside. On your way there, protect as many civilians as you can." ordered Naruto, getting a blush and nod from Temari, no one has ever been this nice to her, let alone cared enough to do something like this.
"Ok, I'm going to go see the old man. Shino, can you relay a message to your father using your bugs?" asked Naruto.
"Yes" was his simple response. Naruto mentally chuckled at that, all Aburame were the same.
"Ok, tell him the commander says that the job of the clan heads and clans is to evacuate and protect the civilians, their second job is to capture as many sand shinobi as possible without killing them. Understood?" Shino just nodded and lowered his head, apparently talking to his bugs.
"Uzumaki, my father doesn't smell like snakes..."
-Kage box-
Naruto appeared next to Sarutobi, back in his fox ANBU outfit. Sarutobi shot him a look and immediately picked up on the switch tactic that Naruto had been running by himself to throw off any spy's. But where was there a spy?
"Ah, Fox. Puppy has informed me you ran into some trouble with the young ninja. Have you found the source of the disturbance?" asked Sarutobi, he had figured it was nothing, but you could never be too careful.
"Not yet sir, but it turns out you were correct, we just received word that they are on their way, should arrive sometime today." stated Naruto in coded speak, allowing the passage of information safely.
"Good, maybe they will get back to see the final match." he then whispers "Who gave you the information?"
"Gaara, he would have told us sooner, but choose not to, because he wanted to protect his siblings, also, he told me his father never smells of snakes, right now, the Kazekage smells just like Orochimaru." stated Naruto in a whisper, though you could still hear the absolute hatred in his voice as he spoke his name.
Sarutobi's eyes widened."Send news to all shinobi, war is on the cusp of breaking out. Naruto, you are the troop leader for this, everything will run through you. You are the best tactical leader the ANBU has ever seen and I put my full trust in you. Go now, start the preparations." stated Sarutobi, pride evident in his voice. This would be the test to see if he was truly ready.
"Understood sir"
-With Kakashi and other senseis-
The senseis, plus Anko who had dropped in to watch Naruto's match, had sent all the students to get food for the next round, lucky, because Naruto had to tell them all his orders.
'Fox' appeared in a poof of smoke, to the jonin credit, none of them flinched.
"What can we do for you 'Fox?'." asked Asuma.
"Code 749. There is an invasion planned for today, probably some time during the tournament." stated Fox getting a shocked look from all members present. "I was just appointed the leader of the forces by Hokage sama."
Naruto then dropped his henge but kept his serious expression. "Asuma, you and your squad along with Kurenai's squad will help with evacuations and guard the civilian bunkers. Kakashi, Zabuza and Gai, you will work as a 3 point barrier squad with your teams, start in the arena and slowly spread out. Kill every enemy you come across. Haku, your a chunin, so you have command of any genin you come across. Every genin not pre assigned to a task will go with you. Go to the academy and protect any students that didn't make it out. Once there, search for Iruka Umino, he's a teacher there and will lead your squad from that moment on. All of you, any Leaf ninja you come across, tell them to head to the village walls or if they're a jonin, to form squads and kill any hostile. I've already informed Ibiki and he is setting up all the available ANBU to protect the storage buildings, the Hokage tower, the dayimos or the Kages through the secondary earpiece. Any questions?"
"Yea, why would we listen to you? Sure you WERE an ANBU, but now you're a genin." asked Kurenai. Kakashi and Anko instantly paled, this was going to end badly.
"Kurenai..." stated Naruto, no emotion in his voice, then an unfathomable amount of Killer Intent focused on Kurenai, and just Kurenai. "You will listen to MY orders. I was appointed by the Hokage himself, and to disobey my orders is treason. You will follow my instructions... Or I will kill you myself!" Kurenai was on her knees, emptying her stomach in a bag that Kakashi had handed her before Naruto started bombing his Killer Intent at her.
The scary part was that, even though Asuma and Gai were on either side of her, neither of them seemed the least bit affected, meaning that his killing intent was solely focusing it on her.
As soon as it started, it stopped. Kurenai looked up to see Naruto had gone. She looked around, only Haku was even remotely affected, and that was only because she had never seen a jonin forced to up chuck from killer intent alone.
"My advice? Is to never ever disobey Naruto when he is in charge. I saw him turn one of Danzo's puppets into a sniveling little girl in under two minutes. He's every bit his father's son, mix that with Lady Kushina, well, you just felt what that's like."
-20 minutes later-
"Welcome back, this is the first match of the second round, would Gaara of the desert and Naruto Uzumaki Namikaze please come down to th-" Genma was cut off as Gaara appeared in a swirl of sand and Naruto just appeared, no flash, no elemental swirl, not even a blur, he was just there.
Genma was surprised by the sudden presence of both genin. "Are both fighters ready?" asked Genma, both nodded "Then fight!" Commanded Genma who then got the hell out of the way.
"How would you like to start?" asked Gaara, even though Naruto was a true friend, the first one he ever had, he was still compelled to see what the blonde could do.
"Hmmm... I'm guessing you don't use Tai or Genjutsu, do you?" asked Naruto, Gaara shook his head no. "How about you start with your sand and I'll start with my swords?"
"Sounds fun"
In an instant, Naruto was behind Gaara. His stance was the same one he had come up with while training with Zabuza, his Claymore in a normal grip in his right hand, for stabbing, slashing and parrying. The Nodoichi was in his left hand, reverse grip, so that the blade was almost resting on his elbow, putting it in perfect position for slashing and blocking.
Naruto went for a slash with the Nodoichi, only for it to be blocked and then pushed back by the sand.
Naruto speed up, using more and more of his freakish speed and agility to bob and weave through the sand defense from all angles, as he was approaching low jonin speed, he finally got a couple marks on Gaara, only to discover that the cuts were filling in with sand.
'A secondary armor? what the hell? Baka fox only gives me enhanced senses!' thought Naruto, he always wondered why he had the strongest Bijuu and yet only got enhanced senses, as all Jinchuuriki had some form a healing ability.
-Kage booth-
"Hmm, this is a pretty good match. Bee, do you recognize that sword style?" asked A. It was a style he had never seen, but his brother was really the expert in the "family" when it came to Kenjutsu
"His style is prime, just like mine. Seems he mixed two signal blade styles together, he can attack and defend whenever" answered Bee who then pulled out his notepad and jotted down some raps he had just come up with.
"You actually managed to rap that? Thank kami, you must be getting better." stated Yugito, it wasn't that she hated rapping, it was just that she hated Bees terrible rapping.
On the other side of the Hokage, the Kazekage/Snakepedo, decided it was time. 'They'll never expect him to transform now, not after that damn brat fixed his seal, though it was because of his new ability to sleep that I could put the slave seal that Sasori taught me in the brat. Slave Seal, Activate!'
-in the arena-
Naruto was just about to charge Gaara for another round of dodge sand, when he saw the Suna ninjas forehead glow with several gold kanji, he recognized two of the 3 seals right away, the mind control seal, and a "Channel" seal, that allowed something to pass threw something else.
Gaara dropped to a knee, holding his head, after about 5 seconds, sand started erupting from his gourd and from the ground, forming around him. In less than a minute, Shukaku was out.
"Hahaha! I'm free! Hey I know you! You're the one that sealed me! I'll kill you first, then have my fun! Hahaha!" bellowed Shukaku, as he finished transforming, feathers started to fall. The invasion had begun. In moments, the arena was swarming with Suna and Sound Nin.
Naruto saw the genjutsu. He built up a huge amount of chakra, so much so that even Shukaku was looking at him wearily. "Kai!" shouted Naruto, as a huge wave of chakra erupted from him, it covered the whole stadium and more, releasing everyone captured in the genjutsu and stunning the one tail.
Naruto used this time to summon the 3 battletoads and the toad elders, who other than knocking over the wall into an empty lot on the south side of the stadium, all fit in the immediate area.
"Holy shit Gaki, you weren't kidding when you told Kichi there would be a war." stated Gamabunta as he looked around. Almost everyone in the stadium stopped to stare at the 3 huge battle toads, and we're even more shocked to see Naruto or as several older ninja thought 'The Yondaime!'
"What are the orders Naruto? You know we can't fight well in this cramped space." asked Gamahiro
"One of you each go to an entrance, kill ANY Sound or Sand shinobi you see, Orochimaru is involved in this, so be ready for snakes. Bunta, the south entrance, Hiro, you take the east, Ken, you get the north, it's the most wide open, so you can afford to be a little clumsy. Go!" commanded Naruto, the three huge toads Nodded and took off, leavening Ma and Pa "Could you two get to Jiraiya and help him fight? He still needs you two to get to sage mode, and I don't" both frogs nodded and left to find Jiraiya.
Before Naruto knew what was happening, he was slammed by a huge arm of sand and sent through the wall at the far end of the stadium. "Don't you fucking ignore me! Or I'll kill you!" shouted Shukaku. He was going to kill him anyway, but he still like saying it.
Naruto crawled out of the hole his body had just made, and saw that most of the civilians had been evacuated and the rest were being moved out. The Dayimos we're being guarded very well by ANBU, and the Kage...
-Kage box-
"So Orochimaru, we meet again" stated Sarutobi in a dead voice. They were on the roof of the Kage box, apparently, A, Bee and Yugito had somehow been forced away before this weird Purple barrier was set in place around them.
"Hokage Dono!" shouted A from outside the barrier. "What do you wish us to do?" A was not about to let this alliance go to waste, he was willing to fight for The leaf.
"Find Naruto! He's the leader right now, he will tell you what to do!" shouted back Sarutobi, Orochimaru took this time to attack, only for the god of shinobi to dodge and get his own strike in on the snake sannin.
"He's good Hokage Dono, but can you trust to lead an army?" asked A, he had no problems with the Naruto, Far from it, but he was only 13.
"He is the one I chose, he will be the leader should I fall!" shouted Back Sarutobi, this gave Orochimaru pause.
'Surly that old fool didn't name the brat his successor... Oh well, it matters not, by the end of the day, the village will be in ruins and I will be standing tall.' thought Orochimaru
That hit A like a ton of bricks, to everyone else listening in, he was just appointing him temporary field general, but A knew what he really meant. "Bee, Yugito, we have to got to Naruto"
-Naruto vs Shukaku-
Naruto was charging a massive amount of chakra to his blades, wind on the Nodoichi to increase his slashing and lightning on the claymore to help with the stabbing. Unfortunately, it wasn't enough, as every gash and every puncture was closing almost as fast as he made them. The only thing he had going for him was that he was faster than Shukaku and could avoid most of his attacks.
"Stay still! Air bullet!" shouted the huge sand demon, Naruto dodged, but the shock wave had thrown him off balance and he was hit by a swipe of sand, sending him flying once again into the wall. "Hahaha! Got him!"
Naruto tried to stand up, but found his right leg was injured "Shit. I need to go sage mode. Shadow Clone Jutsu!" Naruto made 2 clones and had them sit in the hole he had made in the side of the stadium. "Go into sage mode, the second you activate it, dispel. The second one to make it, dispel in five minutes, got it?" both nodded and sat down inside the hole, a genjutsu covering them.
Naruto emerged and resealed his two long blades into his arm, they would do no good here. He reaches to his back and unseals the splash sword. He drops to his stance, leg throbbing in pain and begins to charge when A appeared next to him.
"What are your instructions for us, Naruto sama?" asked A. Yugito and Bee had to do a double take, because A never referred to anyone was sama, always San, Chan or Dono.
"Kill every signal Sand and Sound Ninja you come across. Start around the stadium and fan out." stated Naruto in a very serious voice. The pure commanding presence he held in front of the Kumo nins was shocking. All three felt like they were listening to their own Kage. The 3 nodded and left to fight.
During the conversation, one of Naruto's clones had dispelled, giving Naruto Sage mode. Naruto started channeling chakra to his palm, soon a Rasengan the size of a beach ball was in his hand.
Naruto disappeared from sight, splash sword in his right hand, Rasengan in his left. Shukaku had no time to react when the Rasengan plowed into his gut, tearing sand out of its was both it and Naruto passed into the beast's body. Then Naruto swung the splashsword. Shukaku was split in half by the series of large explosions that ripped through his body, and fell to pieces, just as Naruto's first sage mode wore off. Thankfully, the second clone sensed this and dispelled itself.
Naruto was about to deliver another swing to hopefully but the Bijuu down for the count, when all the sand came rushing back to the center of the arena, reforming a no very pissed off Shukaku.
"Oh you are fucking dead now! No one cuts me in half and lives!"
"Fuck" was all Naruto said as he began dodging Shukaku, all while forming a new plan. 'I have to take out Shukaku and get help to the old man, but how?'
-Kakashi and group-
The 3 jonin had just got done killing every ninja in and around the arena with the help of Genma, Tenten, Lee and a now recuperated Neji, Sasuke and Sakura. The total was Kakashi with 34, Gai with 33 and Zabuza with 37. It was amazing how quick the Konoha ninja had ripped through the sand and sound forces. They were now awaiting orders from either Naruto, or the ANBU that Naruto put in charge in his absence.
"Yo Kakashi!" called a Cat masked ANBU named Tora. As he walked up to them.
"Hey Yamato, what are our orders? Seeing as Naruto is a little tied up." stated Kakashi, he knew that there were ninja elsewhere in the village, but he always liked to be in the thick of things when it invoked a mission.
"Everything is under control, with the toad summons and Master Jiraiya at the walls and the Raikage and his two ninja taking down any enemy they came across, we've all but won, apparently some chunin that can use ice and a bunch of genin took out most of the enemies inside the village. They were all going for the academy and the chunin picked them all apart." stated Yamato, "the report I had gotten said that a chunin and 10 or eleven genin killed every enemy ninja outside the academy grounds and a teacher took out all the ninja that were inside the building"
"That's my Haku" both Zabuza and Sasuke said at the same time, getting a laugh from the groups and glare from Zabuza.
"Who was the teacher?" asked Ino, she didn't remember any teachers at the academy that were that strong.
"The ex hunter Nin." stated Yamato. He wanted to see if anyone knew who that was, but doubted anyone but Kakashi knew.
"So Iruka still has it huh? Good to see he hasn't lost a step being a teacher" stated Gai, he had been in a hunter Nin cell that was under Kakashi's command with Iruka. When a capture went bad an his teammate died, he had quit ANBU and went into teaching.
"Iruka sensei was a hunter ninja?" asked Choji, surprised the boring chunin could be so badass.
"Yep, one if our best. So what do we do? No one can get to lord Hokage and Naruto is the only one beside lord Jiraiya that could fight on a level high enough to even keep pace with Naruto, we would all just get in the way." stated Kakashi. Some in the group found that to be a hard pill to swallow, but what they had seen so far of the blonde, it did make sense.
"Well, I guess we just wait... The only other thing we could do is try to get into that barrier, though 5 of by men have already died trying. That barrier even protects against the Nara shadow Jutsu." reported Yamato, he had lost 5 good men trying to get through that damn barrier.
"What about that blue ball that Naruto just used? Could that get through?" questioned Sasuke. The Jutsu seemed strong, but why did it seem like he already knew about it.
"I don't know, the Rasengan is powerful, but Naruto and Jiraiya are the only ones who can use it, and I'm pretty sure only Naruto can use it to that level of power."
-Sarutobi verses Orochipedo-
Sarutobi was currently fighting the first and second Hokage, who had been revived by a Jutsu the Second himself invented. Thankfully, the Edo Tensei is an earth style Jutsu. Naruto had taught him a fairly useful lightning Jutsu, known as Lightning style, Shockwave Jutsu, which would basically short circuit the nervous system. He had just landed a hit on the head of the second Hokage and managed to dislodge the seal Orochimaru used to turn them into mindless zombies, allowing the second to talk, but he was still under Orochimaru's control.
"Saru" Tobirama, the Nidaime Hokage said. "The only way to beat this Jutsu is to either seal the sole, or let it come to peace with what it regrets most."
Sarutobi ducked a kick from the first and a punch from the second, both were still under control of Orochimaru "I don't have anything to seal you in, and I'd rather not resort to using Minato's Jutsu. What is it you regret most?" asked Sarutobi
"The fact that I never got to meet my son, grandson and now my great grandson." answered the Nidaime as he shot a blast of water at Sarutobi.
"I didn't know you had a son. Do you know their names? Or even what they look like?" asked Sarutobi.
Tobirama turned his head and looked at the young blonde fighting the one tail. "It seems fighting Bijuu runs in the family... First me and Hashirama, then my grandson and now my great grandson, quite the family I have."
Sarutobi's eyes widened, surely he couldn't mean... "Naruto? Minato and Naruto are your descendants?"
"Yep, and apparently it's the family curse that the father never gets to meet his son..." stated Tobirama in a broken tone. Though it was true, he had never met his son. His son never meet Minato and Minato only spent a couple of hours with Naruto. "Tell me Saru... Who was his mother? Was it someone from the Namikaze clan? I know his grandmother was, but I could never figure out who his mother was."
Sarutobi sent a mudslide mixed with a fireball at the Shodaime, "Kushina Uzumaki, the last of the royal whirlpool line."
Tobirama cracked a smile "My grandson was known as the strongest of his time... And my great grandson will be the strongest of all time."
-Naruto vs Shukaku-
"Hold still you little shit!" yelled Shukaku as he shot more air bullets at Naruto.
'This is my last shot, the combination of the two should defeat Shukaku, or put him out long enough to get that seal off of Gaara' thought Naruto.
"Shadow clone Jutsu!" 6 shadow clones popped into existence, Naruto turned to his clones "You all know your jobs, right?" the clones nodded.
Naruto resealed the splashsword and replenished his chakra with the seals on his back. The clones did the same as 3 of them started gathering nature chakra for sage mode.
The real Naruto activate the fourth level of his Doujutsu, giving him the speed and strength boost he would need for this somewhat suicidal plan. He charged forward, his speed so great that even Kakashi's sharingan couldn't keep up. To everyone who was watching, it looked like he had teleported to the hind leg of Shukaku. Naruto grabbed the foot of the great beast and in one ungodly show of raw power, threw the one tail fifty feet in the air.
-Kakashi and friends-
"Oh my god..." was all Kurenai could muster. Both hers and Asuma's groups had just gotten back after securing the the bunkers, when the ANBU relieved them, they came back here.
"S-So powerful... Is that really Naruto?" questioned Ino, after all, it's not everyday you get to see a Bijuu get tossed like a stuffed animal fifty feet into the air.
-Raikage and group-
"Good lord... So fast, so powerful..." was what A was whispering to himself as he watched Naruto move at speeds that could match his lightning release armor at full power, then watched as the blonde actually threw a tailed beast like a rag doll.
"Yo bro, did you see that throw?"
-Kage booth-
The fighting had stopped when they saw Naruto throw Shukaku straight up into the air like a toy.
Sarutobi was shocked silent, in all his years of combat, he had never seen anything like this. Tobirama was grinning from ear to ear, his great grandson threw a Bijuu, and it was still going higher, to the point that it actually blocked out the sun.
"What the hell is he?" yelled Orochimaru. He could not possibly be more pissed off than he was now. A GENIN was beating a Bijuu! His Bijuu!
-Back with Naruto-
"Now!" yelled the original Naruto, the clones nodded, the first clone, who was charging a Rasengan like ball in his hands, was thrown up to the same height that Shukaku was currently at.
"Rasencannonball!" shouted the clone as it fired the beach all sized, lightning infused Rasengan at the beast. The Jutsu lodged about ten feet deep in the demons gut, then it exploded in a wave of lightning bolts, shorting out Shukaku, who had let out an horrible scream.
"Now!" shouted the real Naruto again, and again a clone was thrown in the air.
This clone had a wind infused Rasengan that looked like a giant spinning shuriken that gave off a horrible continuous bell like noise. The clone hit its apex and then whipped the huge Jutsu at the Bijuu "Rasenshuriken!" it ripped into Shukaku, cutting it almost in half. Then it exploded. Almost all of Shukaku instantly disintegrated, a rain of sand showered to the ground, only its giant head was left intact. Though Shakaku was now only a head, he was still screaming "You little shit! I'll kill you yet! Go fuck yourself you little coc-"
The real Naruto and one of his clones jumped up and latched onto what used to be Shukaku's neck. Both shouted "Uzumaki style! Atomic power bomb!" both Naruto's used every ounce of strength to launch the head of Shukaku into the ground below, where it had disintegrated on impact, leaving only Gaara in a huge pile of sand. One of the clones rushed to Gaara and slapped a demon suppression seal on his forehead.
While still in mid air, Naruto's clone threw him towards the barrier. "Now!" he shouted as the last clone launched another Rasenshuriken, this one at the side of barrier that held Orochimaru.
"Old man! Get back as far as you can!"
-Kage box-
"Full power to the shield!" shouted Orochimaru, he didn't know what the fuck that was, but it had bad news written all over it.
"Saru... If you survive this, teach that boy Edo Tensei and have him summon me and Hashirama, I have a feeling that he would like to meet us, until then... Get behind me!" commanded Tobirama as he summoned a huge water wall.
The Rasenshuriken hit the corner of the barrier and after a brief struggle, tore right through, cutting the fat sound four member in half and then exploding, catching Orochimaru, the redheaded sound four member and both Tobirama and Hashirama in the blast.
After the blast died down and the smoke cleared, the bodies of four sound ninja were all that we're left. Apparently, the explosion had done something to reverse the Edo Tensei. Orochimaru and the other two sound four ninja were long gone, and Naruto was standing in front of Sarutobi.
"Hokage sama, Orochimaru fled, I sent the ANBU after him, but I doubt they will find him. Also Shukaku has been defeated and all areas secure." stated Naruto, still in sage mode, but just barely.
"Good, you did good Naruto, you've proven yourself. You are ready to fulfill your dream" stated Sarutobi in a very happy and somber tone.
"What? Are you alright old man? Your real pale?" asked Naruto.
"Naruto, you must protect those who have faith in you and who love the village, and train up to those to whom you can entrust the next generation… from tomorrow, you will be the Hokage…!" stated Sarutobi with a smile. He then coughed up a huge amount of blood and collapsed, a large slash acossed his back, purple liquid oozing out.
"Old man! Old man! Shit! Get the medics up here now! he's been poisoned!"
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