Chapter 10 Battle for Konoha Part One

Jutsu

Summon Speech/Snarling/Thinking Jutsu

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Last time on Raikage

Within minutes of The Raikage giving the order to go, a fleet of twenty airships along with The Raikage's personal airship leading the fleet rose out of the crater of an extinct volcano. The Volcano was near the Kaminari no Kuni boarder and had been converted into a secret hidden military base.

At the same time that the airship fleet was rising up into the air Two massive doors disguised as large rocks at the base of the extinct volcano opened up, revealing a large wide entrance way. As soon as the doors opened up a force of well over two thousand Kumo Shinobi's started pouring out of the entrance at top Shinobi speeds and in tight formations.

Once both the air fleet and the army of Shinobi's were all out and in formation, The Raikage gave the order for all forces to move out. After which the air fleet and the Kumo force moved forward.

New Kumo and the Heavenly Alliance had now officially joined the Fourth Great Shinobi World War and were now on the warpath.

Leaving only one question…who's side where they on?

-Eight Days Later in Konoha-

For the past twelve days, since Jiraiya informed Tsunade of Orochimaru's major assault, Konoha had been preparing for battle. The surrounding forest had been filled with Shinobi traps, the hospital staff and equipment had been moved into the shelters inside the Hokage Monument as the hospital itself was not secure enough.

The village itself was fortified with dozen of houses and building made into temporary base's of operations and command posts for the different Shinobi groups, Shinobi's were also stationed around the clock on the Konoha walls. In the event that Orochimaru and his allies sent in a vanguard or raiding party to weaken Konoha before it had a chance to defend itself.

The Civilians along with all non-combatants were evacuated out of the village and brought into hidden shelters built into a nearby mountain and were guarded by a platoon of ANBU.

Many of the Shinobi's staying in the village had said good-bye to their parents, lovers, wives and children, when they left the village. Lee, Yakumo had left their daughter Fuku along with Kurenai's son Hiruzen in the care of Fuku's nanny, who was a member of the branch part of Yakumo's Clan. Shikamaru also sent his pregnant wife Shiho with Choji's wife and the other Civilians who were leaving so that both she and their child would be safe. Iruka and Anko also sent their daughter Aiko with the evacuees and left her in the care of some civilian friends of Iruka.

After about six days upon learning of the coming attack, Jiraiya arrived back to Konoha although he did not have much to report other the Orochimaru and his forces where getting ready to move. But he had received word from the Godaime Kazekage, Gaara that he and his forces would arrive the day that Orochimaru began their attack. He also stated that Gaara would be coming with three thousand of his Shinobi's, which was sixty per cent of Suna's military force. While leaving the remaining two thousand Shinobi's in Suna, to defend Suna in case they loss their battle and to give Suna a chance to still defend itself.

Gaara had not change too much in the past ten years, after the event with the Akatsuki and nearly dying, Gaara decided that he needed to get stronger so to better protect his village and his people. During the following seven years after his kidnapping Gaara trained in Taijutsu, Sealing and Kenjustu, where he became quite skilled in all three areas. (1) He also learned to control the Ichibi no Shukaku (One-Tailed Shukaku) power better and was able to use its power to its full extent, without the demon taking control over him, which was made easier thanks to the seal his mysterious saviours placed on him.

To give Gaara and his forces time to arrive in Konoha and be rested enough to fight in the coming battle, Tsunade had order Shikamaru's father Shikaku to create effective delaying strategies to delay Orochimaru and his allies, which he did. He had Shinobi teams destroy the main roads to Konoha, as well as set up effective Shinobi traps, like Genjustu fields so that if enemy Shinobi's entered certain area's they will either collapsed unconscious or become lost. He also stationed small Shinobi teams on the most likely travelled paths that Orochimaru and his allied forces would take, so that the teams could make small hit and run attacks against them, so to reduce their numbers and slow them down. At the same time about sixty or so Shinobi's from the Tsuchigumo Clan arrived in Konoha and were lead by Hotaru the Granddaughter of En no Gyōja, to help Konoha.

On the seventh day that the attack was learned by Konoha, Tsunade learned from her scouts along the coastal shore of Hi no Kuni (Fire Country) and the boarders of Ta no Kuni (Rice Field Country) and Kusa no Kuni (Grass Country) that Orochimaru and his allies were on the move, right on schedule.

When the invasion force from Kiri landed on the coastal shore of Hi no Kuni just south of Nami no Kuni (Wave Country), as they landed many of their Shinobi's were killed by exploding notes that had been planted underneath the sand of the beach. Shikaku had correctly calculated the correct position where Kiri's invasion force would land, as it was the best landing place for a force that size to land. As well near enough to Konoha so that they would surround Konoha with the other forces of the Orochimaru's coalition at roughly the same time

At the same time the forces from Oto no Kuni and the Hannya Clan moved from their bases in Ta no Kuni and crossed the border of Hi no Kuni. Where they attacked the Konoha outposts and bases along the border, but when they did, they discovered that the bases had exploding notes planted in them. So that when the invading forces entered the outposts and bases they would blow up, causing many casualties among the forces.

The same thing happened to the forces of Iwa and Kusa when they crossed the border between Kusa no Kuni (Grass Country) and Hi no Kuni. The three separate forces also came under several raids and hit and run attacks from Konoha Shinobi's as they headed towards Konoha, the teams were led by members of the Hyūga Clan, Aburame Clan, Inuzuka Clan and ANBU. These attacks along with the traps that Konoha forces set up and the roads and paths that they destroyed slowed the invading forces down by two days, given Konoha five days to continue to prepare for battle, as it would take three days on foot for the enemy to get to Konoha. This gave Garaa and his forces enough time to arrive in Konoha and rest up as well as integrate themselves with Konoha forces so that they could help with the defenses.

On the twelfth day upon Konoha learning of the attack, Orochimaru and his allies were now in positioned and ready to begin their attack on the village. They had placed their forces all around the village and placed all twelve large mobile volley guns, which Kiri had brought with them, and placed them around the village. So that they could bombard the village before they began their main attack, they even loaded new poisons from Kusa in with the volley guns so to weaken the Konoha, and Suna forces.

From a small hilltop looking over Konoha, Orochimaru and his allies, The Yondaime Tsuchikage, Ryoku, The Godaime Mizukage, Shiro, The Leader of Kusagakure, Doku and The Leader of the Hannya Clan, Shinrin, commanded their forces. The forces themselves were positioned in different areas around Konoha; The Kusa and Hannya Clan forces were on the Western side of the village, the Iwa forces on the Southern side of Konoha, Kiri forces positioned of the Eastern side of the village. While the Oto Forces were position in a hidden location behind the rest of the army, ready to move out on their leader's command.

As Orochimaru looked over his former village, he started to laugh, "Ku, Ku, Ku, Ku, Ku…I have waited for this day for many years".

"As have I" spoke Ryoku with a smirk of his face as he was going enjoy finally burning Konoha to the ground and taking his revenge of the once mighty village.

"As have we all", said Shinrin, as he too was eager to finally kill Danzo and reap his revenge on Konoha.

"So shall we begin?" asked Doku as he was eager to get started.

"Yes I believe we should", replied Orochimaru, were he then turned to The Mizukage, "Shiro-kun would you be so kind as to begin the festivities".

At this a sadistic smirked appeared on the Godaime Mizukage face and nodded where he turned to his aid and told him to fire the poison carried bombs. The aid nodded and then spoke onto the radio and told the Kiri forces below to be fire the first volley of Kunai with large pouches filled with the new poison powder from Kusa tied to them.

As soon as the order was given, the Shinobi's stationed at the volley guns unveiled the volley guns as they were covered in camouflage during the night after certain parts of the forestry were cleared to allow the volley guns to fire. After the camouflage was removed the volley guns opened fire their load and bombarded the village with the poison, covering it in a purple poisoned cloud.

Unfortunately though for Orochimaru and his allies, the poison had no effect on the Konoha and Suna Shinobi's, as during the initial raids against the advancing enemy coalition several ANBU agents were able to get a sample of the new poison from a Kusa supply convoy they had attack. Upon receiving the sample of the poison Tsunade, Shizune and Sakura used their combined medicals skills to quickly synthesize an antidote to the poison and mass-produce enough of it to give out to the defenders.

After the firing the poison into the village, the Kiri forces at the volley guns reloaded and began to fire an new bombardment on the village, hoping to level the village and take out most of it resistance.

For the first two minutes the village was under massive assault from the bombardment and many buildings were destroyed. But it did little damage to the Shinobi's inside the village as Konoha had several large underground bunkers made in different parts of the village, when the War first began. This allowed the majority of the defenders to stay safe until the bombardment ended.

After a few minutes Shikamaru, who was on the command post along the wall Western part of the Konoha wall, had one of the Shinobi's next to him send up a flare to signal Yamato and Sai to take out the Volley guns.

Shikamaru plan was to wait and have the village take the bombardment so that he could learn the number and locations of all the volley guns. Once he learned this and they knew the locations of all the volley guns, Shikamaru then had Yamato and Sai taken them out as they were the best suited to destroy them.

Hiding above the clouds on his large Ink bird, Sai waited for Shikamaru to radio him the positions of the volley guns and then signal him. Once he saw it he then had his Ink bird quickly swoop down on the volley guns, and drop explosives down on six of the volley guns and destroyed them, after which he then quickly returned back to the village.

At the same time Yamato destroyed the remaining six, where when he learned the location of the other six volley guns from Shikamaru through the radio and then saw the flare signal. He then used his Mokuton powers to send dozens of large wooden tentacles underneath the ground and covered in explosive notes. So that when the tentacles reached the locations of the volley guns, they would spring out of the ground underneath the volley guns and impale themselves into them. Before the exploding notes on them exploded, destroying the volley guns and killing their crews at the same time.

When the leaders of the anti-Konoha coalition saw this, most of them remained unaffected by what happened. Although Shiro frowned slightly, while Orochimaru chuckled as if amused at what happened.

"Ku, Ku, Ku, Ku …It seems that Konoha will put up a fight after all".

"Indeed, but that will just make our victory over them all the sweeter, when we crush them, as even if they and the allies fight on we will destroy them", spoke Ryoku.

At this the other leaders of the coalition nodded in agreement, where Ryoku then stated that they begin the main assault, which the other agreed to. After which, each of the leaders told their aids to inform their forces bellow to begin the main attack.

From there, small groups of Shinobi's from the different invading forces position themselves in summon seal formations and all had special summoning scrolls, where they each summoned their Giant summons to help the breach the Konoha walls from different points.

At the Southern side of the village several Iwa Shinobi's were around the summoning circle with a scroll in each their hands. Once they had gathered the necessary amount of Chakra, and had each done the hands seals. They quickly slammed their hands on the ground and cried out "Kuchiyose no Jutsu (Summoning Technique)". After which there was a massive puff of smoke appeared and a sloth (2) of five bears appeared (3).

At the same time at the Western side of Konoha a group of Kusa Shinobi's were doing the same thing but instead of summoning bears they summoned three, three headed Snakes, the same kind that were used in the attack on Konoha by Suna and Oto.

Also at the moment at the Eastern side of the village the Kiri Shinobi's, who were doing the same thing as the Kusa and Iwa Shinobi's, summoned four Giant Snakes.

As soon as all the summonses on the three sides had been all summoned, the summons charged forward, at the gates and walls in front of them.

The giants summons quickly broke through the gates and walls and started to destroy the surrounding buildings, meeting no resistance. As soon the Giants summons had broken through surrounding walls the forces on the three sides quickly sent in a hundred Shinobi's. So to see what kind of resistance, they would be up against, if there was any.

Soon after the trio of three headed Snakes had broken through the Western side of Konoha wall, they then began destroying the surrounding buildings, but soon enough a voice suddenly shouted out, "Raiton: Shichū Shibari (Lightning Style: Four Pillar Bind)". After which four giant rock pillars shot out of the ground around one of the three headed Snake, where they then shot bolts of Lightning, immobilizing it and started doing damage to it.

It was then when the Giant three headed Snake was immobilized, the person who caused the Jutsu appeared revealing him to be the ANBU captain. Upon seeing the Giant Snake summon trapped, the ANBU Captain then did a few more hand seals, where he then cried out "Doton: Nentsuchi Otoshi (Earth Style: Sticky Earth Drop)". This created an opening in the sky and dropping down onto the three headed Snake, a large amount of mud, covering it and subsequently immobilizing it at the same time.

The ANBU Captain followed up with another set of hand seals and cried out "Raiton: Jūrokuchū Shibari (Lightning Style: Sixteen Pillar Bind)". After which creating sixteen giant pillars around the mud covered Snake summon, which then formed a giant oven-like structure to trap the Giant Snake summon trapping it inside.

Once the Snake Summon was trapped inside the giant oven, the ANBU captain, then followed up with another set of hand seals and cried out, "Katon: Suyaki no Jutsu (Fire Style: Fired Pottery Technique)". This created powerful flames inside the giant oven and causing the mud that was covering the Snake's body to harden, further immobilizing him, and allowing the fire to cook the three headed Snake's body until it was burnt to a crisp.

Once the first three headed Snake was dealt with, a female voice shouted out Kuchiyose no Jutsu, where the Queen of the Slug summons Katsuyu appeared to face the pair of three-headed Snakes, with her summoner the Godaime Hokage Tsunade standing onto of her.

Also with her was the Godaime Kazekage Gaara, who now appeared alongside Katsuya in his Full Shukaku Form and was in complete control of it. Thanks to the new seal he had gotten from his mysterious saviours and thanks to the several year of intensive training he went through to suppress Shukaku influence and control its power effectively.

After appearing, both Godaime Kages of the two great villages went and attacked the two remaining three-headed Snake summons.

As this was happening of the Southern side of the village, the Bear Summons on the Southern side of the village, that the Iwa Shinobi's summoned, met with resistance. Where the ground underneath one of the Bear's exploded and the Bear fell into a massive hole, after which a large explosion erupted in it and killed the Bear summon.

After that Choji, his father Choza and three other Akimichi Clan members used their Chō Baika no Jutsu (Super Multi-Size Technique) to increase their size, where they then engaged the four remaining Bear summons.

On the Eastern side of the village the four Giant Snake summons, were rampaging through village and destroying everything in their path.

As this was happening, a voice suddenly shouted out "Kuchiyose: Yatai Kuzushi no Jutsu (Summoning: Food Cart Destroyer Technique)". After which Gamabunta the chief of the Toad summons appeared from the air and landed on one of the Snake summons and crushed it.

Atop Gamabunta was Jiraiya, who was now in the middle of his introduction dance and shouting out, "Listen up, you chicks! Open your beady little eyes and take a good look! Behold, the divine ninja Jiraiya's…Far east of Eden's…Wild dance!"

Upon seeing this, the remaining three snakes, did not know what to do, after seeing this and did not move.

Seeing that the Snakes had yet to do anything, Jiraiya continued on with his introduction, "You damn snakes that are frozen with fear in a Toad's presence, get out of here!".

It was after this intro, that two more Jiraiya's appeared where they the each did a few hand seals and cried out "Kuchiyose no Jutsu" and summoned two more of the Great battle Toads Gamaken and Gamahiro. After that the two Jiraiya then puffed away revealing that they were Shadow Clones.

When the three great battle Toads arrived, they quickly drew out the various weapons that leaped forward and attacked the remaining three Giant Snake summons.

At the same time that all this was happening, the advance forces of the Shinobi's sent into Konoha by the anti-Konoha coalition leaders to support the summons entered the breaches and charged forward. As they moved further into the village they were quickly engaged by the front-line defenders of each breach, the defenders were made up of a mixture of Konoha, Suna and Tsuchigumo Clan Shinobi's.

After a few minutes of fierce fighting the advance forces of Shinobi's that were sent in where being pushed backed. As they had not expected to meet up with such heavy resistance from the defenders, as they had believed that the defenders would be weakened and helpless from the poison gas fired into the village.

From their Command point on the hill Orochimaru and his allies watched the fight as it quickly turned against them.

"Impossible! ...How can they be able to fight so well? We used a completely different poison from the one we used at Nami no Kuni (Wave Country), so there no way that they could have created and antidote for it. The poison should have left them as weak as new born babies by now!" spoke Doku angrily, as he was both confused and angry at how an easy victory was now turning into a bitter hand to hand street battle.

"I found it wise in recent years, never to underestimate the resourcefulness of Konoha nor Tsunade's Medical skills. As clearly she has somehow found away to make her forces and allies immune to it", spoke Orochimaru seriously with a slight frown.

Deciding quickly Orochimaru and the others decided to send in the first Wave of Shinobi's as the Coalition forces around Konoha were spilt into five separate waves. With each wave containing about three thousand Shinobi's and each force at each breach sending in about thousand Shinobi's in at the same time as the other forces.

As the first wave charged into the breach's the Konoha Shinobi's and their allies held their ground and made the invading Shinobi fight for every inch of ground in the village that they took.

-With Tenten-

Tenten was currently at the Eastern side of the village wearing her standard ANBU outfit and Falcon shaped ANBU mask, she was leading her own team and several other ANBU teams in ambushing a platoon of Kiri HYDRA (4) members that had broken through the front-line there. Quickly Tenten positioned her teams in their designated places and once they were in position, they waited for the HYDRA members to arrive. They did not have long to wait, since only after a few minutes of waiting the platoon arrived. As soon as they did Tenten quickly gave the signal to the rest of her teams.

Quickly Tenten and her personal team appeared in front of the advancing HYDRA platoon and threw several Kunai and Shurikens at the HYDRA members, killing three of them and causing the rest of the HYDRA members to stop in their tracks.

"You will not take another step further into our village, so get out of here!" cried Tenten as she charged forward with the rest of her team.

At the same time the other ANBU teams that Tenten lead came out of their hiding spots and attacked the enemy platoon from all sides.

Tenten quickly drew out her Katana and slashed at nearby HYDRA member killing him, quickly spinning around Tenten threw a Kunai that had suddenly appeared in her hand, into the air. Where it then flew in the air with great speed and stabbed the HYRDA ninja in the neck, who was in mid-air and was about to kill Tenten with his Katana.

Within minutes most of HYDRA platoon had been killed by Tenten and her teams, but just as Tenten had killed off another HYDRA member, her Shinobi senses suddenly kicked in and told her to move.

Luckily for Tenten she listened to her senses and moved and just as she did a tall, thin, dark cloaked figure wearing a dark hat appeared in the spot she was just in and slashed at her. When Tenten landed a few feet away, the blade of her Katana split in two, while her ANBU mask split in half, where a small trickle of blood fell from her forehead, showing she had been cut slightly there.

Quickly the ANBU under Tenten's command appeared next to her to see if she was ok and to support her. "Tenten-taicho, are you alright?" asked Tiger

"I'm fine Tiger, just a cut", replied Tenten as she threw away her broken Katana and stared at the new arrival.

"Impressive, you were able to avoid my attack with only that scratch, not many people have been able to dodge one of my attacks like that, but then again I would expect nothing less from the famed Okami ken no Konoha (Konoha's Blade Mistress)".

"Who are you asked?" asked Bird openly and angrily.

But before the stranger could reply to Bird's question, Tenten answered for him, "His name is Udo Jinne better known as Kurogasa (Black Hat). He's the leader of the HYDRA division and is the last remaining loyal member of the current Kiri no Shinobigatana Nananin Shū (Seven Swordsmen of the Mist)". Upon hearing this, the ANBU members stiffened and prepared to fight, as they had all heard infamous Assassin of Kiri as well as his mastery in the Assassin sword style Nikaidō Heihō.

At this a sadistic and cruel like laugh erupted from Jinne, "So you've heard of me I flattered".

"Don't be, as from what I heard about you, makes me wish I hadn't", replied Tenten coldly as from the stories that she had heard about the man told her the he was a sadistic sociopath. He enjoyed killing and had no moral issues with what he had done and did not care who it was he had to kill whether it be men, women or children as long as he just got to kill.

"I have heard that you wanted to kill me for a while now", spoke Tenten.

At this Jinne smiled sadistically, "Yes I have, no doubt Raijuta told you that before he was killed by The Raikage at Nami no Kuni, which I glad he did as now I can have the pleasure of killing you myself".

"We won't let you!" cried Wolf as he and three other ANBU charged forward at Jinne.

"NO WAIT! ...STOP!" shouted Tenten as she tried to stop them, but it was too late.

Jinne quickly disappeared right before the ANBU eyes and like a blur slashed through three of the ANBU, with quick efficient slashes and without giving them the slightest chance to defend themselves.

After killing three of the ANBU, Jinne sped towards the Wolf with speed that could easily rival Gai and Lee without their weights, where just as he was about to sever Wolf''s head off. But before he could, Tenten appeared between them and blocked Jinne's slash with her Jian sword, after which she then slashed at Jinne with the spike ends of her of metal fan in an attempted to cut his neck open.

Jinne though narrowly avoided the slash, although he did have a slight cut on the side of his necks, which bleed a little.

Upon seeing this Jinne smiled sadistically,

"Not bad, it's been a long time since I've seen my own blood".

At this Tenten narrowed her eyes, knowing that this would not be an easy fight, and without even turning to look at Wolf or the other ANBU teams Tenten spoke to them.

"Wolf, I want you and the others to leave here and go help defend the village, while I handle him".

"Taicho, you can't be serious? …We can't leave you here, to fight him", spoke Wolf.

"That's an order ANBU! He wants me not you, and if you stay here you just get in the way as none of you stand a chance against him. I can handle him by myself, besides we need every Shinobi we have out there fighting if we want any chance of winning this battle so GO!" cried Tenten.

At hearing this, the ANBU nodded and moved out to the front-line at the Eastern side of the village.

When the ANBU left both Tenten and Jinne fell into their different sword stances, after which they said or did nothing and just stared at one another.

They continued to stare at one another, doing nothing, while the battle raged on around them and sounds of explosions going off in the distance. The two of them waiting for the other to make the first move, waiting to see which of them would make the first mistake. After a few minutes of just staring at one another, until Jinne decided to speak, "So shall we begin?"

At this Tenten did not reply and just waited, a moment later a massive explosion equated nearby, as soon as it did, both Tenten and Jinne charged at one another, with incredible speed, where they then clashed swords with one another and began their battle to the death.

-With Konohamaru-

Konohamaru was currently leading a group of Chunin's in holding back the several teams of Iwa Shinobi's that had broken through the main defence line at the Southern part of the village.

Konohamaru quickly engaged an Iwa-nin, where the two them, fought bitterly against one another, where they traded blows with one another. During the fight Konohamaru quickly flipped backwards to avoid a horizontal slash from the Iwa-nins Kunai, where as he flipped backwards he kicked the Iwa-nin right underneath the chin. Thereby knocking several teeth out of the Iwa Shinobi's mouth and sending him flying into the air and crashing to the ground unconscious.

Once he got back on his feet Konohamaru quickly turned to another Iwa Shinobi coming at him from behind. Quickly spinning around and ducking the Iwa Shinobi's Kunai stab Konohamaru quickly did a Rasengan in his right hand, and slammed it right into the unsuspecting Iwa-nin stomach, shouting out "Rasengan". After being hit with the attack the Iwa-nin was sent flying away and blasted right thrown a nearby wall.

Just as he defeated that Iwa-nin, Konohamaru's Shinobi senses told his to duck which he thankfully did, since as soon as he ducked a Kunai flew right through the spot where his head was just moments ago.

Quickly doing a hundred and sixty degree turn, Konohamaru quickly located the Iwa-nin that shot him, who was about eighty feet away on a rooftop with a Kuani.

Seeing this Konohamaru quickly threw a Kunai of his own at the Iwa-nin who was aiming to throw another Kunai at Konohamaru. The Kunai quickly flew through the air but missed the Iwa-nin and hit a pole next to Iwa-nin, thinking he was safe the Iwa-nin got ready to throw his Kunai at Konohamaru. But what he didn't know was that Konohamaru had missed on purpose as the Kunai had an exploding note rapped around the handle. Just when the Iwa-nin was about to throw his Kunai the noted exploded destroying the roof and killing the Iwa-nin.

With the Iwa-nin dead Konohamaru turned around to see the rest of his group battling the remaining Iwa Shinobi's. Konohamaru then quickly summoned Enma and had him turn into his Kongōnyoi form and was about to join the battle and help his men, but before he could, his Shinobi senses kicked in yet again and told him to move.

Konohamaru quickly jumped away, where as soon as he did a massive Zanbato came down on the spot that he was just on. When Konohamaru landed, he looked up and saw a bulky and well-built Iwa Jonin with shoulder length black hair, wearing a standard Iwa Jonin uniform and holding a massive Zanbato.

When Konohamaru got a better look at him he quickly recognised him as Berugu the Saiseki (Stone Crusher) of Iwagakure (The Hidden Stone), the son of the Yondaime Tsuckikage.

"Well, Well, Well, this must be my lucky day it looks like I've found the infamous Konoha no Enkōō (Konoha's Monkey King) Sarutobi Konohamaru, the Grandson of the late Sandaime Hokage and former Kami no Shinobi (God of Shinobi)", spoke Berugu.

"And your Berugu the so called Saiseki of Iwagakure and son of the Yondaime Tsuckikage", replied Konohamaru.

"Ah! So you've heard of me …good, since a man should who is about to kill him, your head will make and excellent trophy to mount on my wall of the Shinobi's I've killed".

"Just try it you bastard!" snarled Konohamaru, as he tightened his hold on Enma as he got ready to fight.

"With pleasure" sneered Berugu, after which he charged forward with his Zanbato.

"Let's go Enma!" cried Konohamaru.

"Right!" replied Enma.

After which the two Shinobi clashed their weapons against one another and began their fierce battle.

- With Hinata-

"Jūho Sōshiken(Gentle Step Twin Lion Fists)" cried Hinata, as she trusted two lion-shaped shrouds of Chakra that were around her hands, into a Kusa-nin body, which set him flying and crashing into a nearby house.

After sending the Kusa-nin crashing into the stone house, four mercenaries hired by the Hannya Clan surrounded her. "Don't be afraid of her she just one woman", spoke the leader of the four men, when they surrounded Hinata.

"Clearly you have, not fought a member of the Hyuga Clan, for if you had you would know that you should be afraid", spoke Hinata. Before she started to spin around and cried out "Hakkeshō Kaiten (Eight Trigrams Palms Heavenly Spin)" and sent the four ninja's flying into the air before crashing down into the ground.

When she stopped Spinning Hinata suddenly jumped into the air to avoid several Surikens throw at her from an unknown opponent. After which she quickly took out a Kunai from her pouch and used it to block a clawed metal clawed hand that was trust forward at her by her mysterious attacker. The mysterious attacker was still very strong though, since even though Hinata had blocked his attack, he was still able push her back, causing her to fall from the air and skidded backwards when she landed back on the ground.

When Hinata regained her footing, she was finally able to get a better look of her opponent, the man was very tall as he was about six foot three, and he was well built with pale skin and long read hair done in several long braided tails. He wore a Shinobi net vest with a gantlet on his left arms with a metal shoulder guard and side breast plate; he also had bandages on his right hand and a metal chain warped around it. He wore metal spiked knee-pads with metal clawed toed boots and heels, with black Shinobi pants with red flames and a red cloth wrapped around his waist.

"Who are you?" asked Hinata, as she did not recognise the man from any known Bingo book.

"My name is Fūma Kotarō of Kusagakure (Hidden Grass)", replied the man now known as Kotarō.

At this Hinata eyes widen slightly as she had heard about Kotarō from passing stories from other Shinobi's. From the rumours that Hinata had heard about him, he was said to be a merciless killer that held no remorse for those he killed and was an extremely dangerous Shinobi for anyone to fight. His reputation was said to be so fearsome that his own village and Clan were said to fear him.

"You're the Kaze no Akuma (The Demon of the Wind)?" asked Hinata openly and with slight surprise.

Kotarō of course only nodded in affirmation.

"I thought you were only an urban myth", spoke Hinata. As no-one who was said to have seen him outside his village and Clan had ever lived to describe him or get a picture of him.

"Well as you can see I clearly am not", replied Kotarō, "And I have heard a great deal about your skill and power, Hyuga Shikyo no Megami (Hyuga's Goddesses of Death) Hyuga Hinata, and I'm eager to see how much of those rumours I have heard about you are true?"

After which Kotarō the quickly fell into a fighting stance, where Hinata quickly followed suit as she knew she would have to be on her toes in this fight and could not afford to go easy or underestimate, someone like Fūma Kotarō.

For a monument or two neither of them moved, as they waited to see which of them would make the first move. But after seeing no movement from the other, they both simultaneous attacked each other, where they then began their vicious hand to hand battle.

From the small hill the anti-Konoha coalition leaders watched as the battle continue on, from there they saw that although Konoha forces and its allies were being pushed back slowly. They were holding strong, while their own forces had yet to make and real major breaks through Konoha's defence lines and were suffering heavy loses. They also knew that Konoha still had plenty of reserves held back, as from the reports they were receiving, they knew that so far Konoha only had about a third of their forces out in the fighting.

Seeing this Yondaime Tsuchikage, Ryoku suggested they should send in the second and third waves together to add on to the pressure on Konoha forces and reinforce their own. The other leaders quickly agreed, where they then ordered the second and third waves to attack.

Unfortunately what Orochimaru and the others didn't know was that they were falling right into Shikamaru's trap. As when the first and second waves joined the first wave in their attack on Konoha forces, they suddenly found themselves being attack by Suna and Konoha Shinobi from the rear and were now caught between two enemy forces on both sides.

The reason for this happening was that Shikamaru had calculated that if Konoha put up a strong defence then Orochimaru and his allies would send in another larger force to support the first wave. This was why he had Konoha forces be slowly pushed back and allow the enemy push deeper into Konoha instead of holding the line, so that when the second and third waves joined the first wave and were pushing the Konoha, Suna and Tsuchigumo Clan Shinobi's further back into Konoha. The several Konoha and Suna divisions that Shikamaru had stay hidden in the underground bunkers, (which were now behind the invading forces lines, since they had pushed deep into Konoha), came out and attacked the unsuspecting enemy Shinobi's, catching them in complete surprise and confusion. Once the enemy found themselves being attack from the rear the defending Konoha forces decided to take advantage of the enemy's confusion and began to push the invading forces back, pinning them between the two forces.

Upon seeing their forces being out manoeuvred and being attacked from both front and behind, the four coalition leaders quickly ordered the fourth wave of their Shinobi's forces to attack and help the other three waves.

Shikamaru although had thought of this happening and had several Shinobi teams, from the newly appearing Konoha defenders, to be at the breaching points in the Konoha walls and had them blocked the gaps in the walls with large scale Doton: Doryūheki (Earth Style: Earth Style Wall). This cut the fourth wave off outside and kept them from assisting the other three waves inside the village and isolated them from the rest of their army and basically cuting the anti-Konoha coalition army in half. As about nine thousands of their Shinobi's were now fighting a losing battle against Konoha and its allies, where without help they would be slaughtered.

When Orochimaru and his allies saw this, many of them grew concerned at what was happening as knew that if they didn't do something soon then they would lose over half their army very quickly.

"It seems Konoha has us a quite a quandary" spoke Orochimaru, who remained calm as he was not too worried at what happened.

"This must be the work of Konoha's Jonin Commander Nara Shikamaru, as he has a reputation of being a shrewd strategist", spoke Shinrin without much worry, as the forces he sent weren't of his Clan. Since in terms of numbers the Shinrin's Clan was the weakest member of the coalition, to make up for this Shinrin hired Shinobi mercenaries, which was what most of the two thousand Shinobi's he had assembled was made out of. He had also arranged for these mercenaries to be part the first three waves, and had his own Clan members, which numbered in about three hundred, to be positioned in the last two waves. This would make sure that many of the mercenaries would most likely be killed in the battle, while his Clan, would stay intact. It also made sure that he would not have to pay too many of the mercenaries, (if any survived), since the fewer that survived the better, as Shinrin's Clan did not have the money to pay all the mercenaries he hired. Hence as far as Shinrin was concerned, the mercenaries he sent in those first three waves were cannon fodder, as they were all weak Shinobi's who had left their respected villages because they were too weak or were simply kicked out.

"We need to do something now before we lose half our forces", spoke Doku.

"Agreed", spoke Orochimaru, where he then turned to Kabuto who was standing next, "Kabuto-kun contact Guren and tell her that to have our force move out and begin their attack".

Kabuto quickly nodded and began to tell Guren so on the radio.

At the same time Orochimaru turned to Godaime Mizukage Shiro and asked him to contact his other forces and have them attack.

Shiro of course nodded and turned to his aid and have him give the order.

-With Shikamaru-

Shikamaru was currently now standing at the top of the Hokage's Residence, watching the battle unfold and ordering the different defending forces to different position to defend the village. The reason he was doing this was because he was the best person to be doing it, as the Hokage was leading the battle on the Western side of the village.

Shikamaru watched from his new position as his hidden forces came up behind and engage the unsuspecting enemy, catching them completely off guard. He also soon saw the massive walls of earth rise up from the ground and cutting the invading enemy forces from the rest of their army.

Upon seeing this Shikamaru prepared to send in half of their reserves, (who were located in the centre of the village, waiting to know where to go), to finish off the enemy already inside the village quickly, before the rest of the invading army could destroy the earth wall and join up with those inside the village.

Unfortunately though, just when Shikamaru was about to tell one of the ANBU next to him, to give out the order for half the reserves to move out and attack. Several massive blasts of Water suddenly erupted into the air from the behind the Hokage's Residence and directly below the Hokage monument. The blasts of Water came from the large spring pool directly below the Hokage monument, once the Water fell down Shikamaru and the ANBU with him saw five Giant Sea Serpents (5) in the large spring pool.

The Giant Sea Serpents, quickly then began to fire several highly pressurized streams of Water from their mouths, which tore the building around them apart.

Soon after seeing this, a Chunin Ninja appeared in front of Shikamaru,

"Report!" order Shikamaru.

"Sir, five large Sea Serpent summons have appeared in the spring pool directly below the Hokage Monument and are destroying everything around them. Also a division of Kirigakure's (Hidden Mist) SHARK (6) unit has appeared with them and are currently fighting three of our squads located there. We believe they must have used the underground spring from one of the nearby mountains to appear in the spring pool behind us and infiltrate the village. Sir! We need reinforcements there, as we can't hold them back for long" spoke the Chunin.

"Damn it, Orochimaru must have known how that underground pool in the mountains feeds Water to the spring behind us, and he must have had the Mizukage send his SHARK-nins to swim through the underground Water tunnels. So to reach the pool and have them summon those Sea Serpents to attack us from behind along with those SHARK-nins" thought Shikamaru annoyed, before he then turned to the Chunin.

"Go and tell the four Suna Platoons that are under the Kazekage brother, sister, wife and former Sensei command, along with a few our own platoons, who are in reserve and have them go and attack the SHARK division", ordered Shikamaru, to which the Chunin and went.

"Hopefully Temari and the others can hold off the SHARK-nins long enough for our forces to deal with the other forces first", thought Shikamaru.

After finishing thinking this, a dozen more explosions erupted in the centre of the village.

"What is it now?" said Shikamaru angrily out loud.

When the smoked cleared he could see twelve Giant Snake summons appeared out of the Ground in the centre of the village and started to destroy the village and attacking their reserve forces.

"Sir Look down there!" cried one of the ANBU.

When Shikamaru looked below the Giant Snake summons he saw Oto's entire army of five thousand Shinobi's coming out of the holes that the Giant snake summons created when travelling underground and attacking the reserve forces.

"Shit they bypassed our main defenses by going underground and used the Snakes to create underground tunnels for them to travel under, so that they could sneak up on our forces from behind, as they are too busy fighting the main force all around us…Crap, Orochimaru and the others have planned this well, as the only chance we have in containing them in using our reserves in the centre and since I sent some of the reserves to fight the SHARK-nins. I have to divert forces from the main lines to fight the Oto forces in the centre, thereby weakening the main lines", muttered Shikamaru in anger and annoyance.

And just when Shikamaru thought things couldn't get any worse, yet another explosion happened and the other ANBU next to him cried out and pointed over to something "Sir Look!"

When Shikamaru looked he saw the giant Earth walls being destroyed one by one either by powerful jutsu's or powerful exploding notes. With the Earth walls down the fourth wave of invading Shinobi's from the different villages of the anti-Konoha coalition started to pour in through the gaps.

"Shit" thought Shikamaru, before he quickly regained himself and the turned to the ANBU on his left side,

"You Bull, I need you to go the Hokage, the Kazekage and Jiraiya-sama and tell them that we need their help at the centre to fight off those troublesome Snakes". "Hai" replied the Bull masked ANBU before he then left.

After which Shikarmaru then turned to a Turtle masked ANBU on his right, "You Turtle, go to the communication centre and radio our forces that are attacking the rear of the first three waves of the enemy, and tell them that they are to either run through or fight their way through those forces and fall back to our lines. Before the fourth wave attacks them from behind and they're slaughtered by them", said Shikamaru.

"Hai" replied the Turtle masked ANBU before he then Shunshin'd (Body flickered) away.

"This battle has just gotten a whole lot more troublesome, and if things keep going like this we're gonna lose", muttered Shikamaru. Before he jumped off the top of the Hokage's residence and headed for the Southern side of the village were Ino, Choji along with his and their fathers were and joined them in fighting against the Iwa forces.

Upon receiving word from Shikamaru about what was happening and seeing the twelve Giant Snake summons in the centre of the village themselves Tsunade and Gaara quickly headed for the centre of the village.

Gaara had already killed one of the Giant three-headed Snake summons by using his Fūton: Renkūdan (Wind Style: Drilling Air Bullet), leaving only one left, which Tsunade left to her summons Katsuyu.

When Jiraiya heard about the sneak attack, he too quickly left with Gamabunta, who had just killed another Giant Snake summons himself by using his Gamadosuzan (Toad Sword Beheading Technique), after which he left the remaining two Giant Snake summons to Gamaken and Gamahiro.

At the same time as that the Konoha and Suna divisions that had snuck up behind the enemy earlier were now making a break through the enemy forces and making their way back to their lines. So that they could help deal with the Oto Shinobi's, who had appeared in the centre of Konoha, right behind their main defence lines.

Although those Konoha and Suna divisions had made it back to their own lines they had suffered losses as they fought their way back to their lines. Where they either lost Shinobi's as they fought through the enemy, or some of them were cut off from the others and isolated from them and then killed. But even still most of them made it back to their lines, where they then preceded to go to the centre of the village and fight off the Oto-nins that were trying to attack the main defence lines from behind.

When the three Kage level Shinobi's reached the centre, they quickly went to engaged the Giant Snake summons.

Jiraiya quickly got Gamabunta to fire a Gamayudan (Toad Oil Bullet) at one of the Giant Snake summons, after which Jiraiya himself then fired a Katon: Endan (Fire Style: Flame Bullet) with the Gamayudan. Thereby igniting the oil and creating an effect like a flamethrower, and creating a conflagration of far greater power and magnitude than the original fire ninjutsu used on its own could have. The enhance Fire ninjutsu quickly flew at the Giant Snake summons and quickly burnt it alive, leaving a chard remains that puffed away soon after.

At the same time that was happening, Gaara engaged the Giant Snakes summons and once again used another Fūton: Renkūdan to kill another Giant Snake summons, but as soon as he did one of the other Giant Snake summons snuck up on him by going underground. Where as soon as Gaara had killed one of the Giant Snake summons, the other appeared out of the ground and rapped itself around Gaara's full Shukaku form and keeping him from moving for the moment. Once it had rapped itself fully around Gaara'a full Shukaku form the Giant Snake summons, opened its mouth and went to try and eat Gaara, who was on his full Shukaku's form head.

Seeing what the Giant Snake summons was about to do, Gaara quickly deactivated his full Shukaku form, causing it to fall apart, into a large mountain of sand and allowing him to move out of the way and avoid being eaten by the Snake summons.

After avoiding being eaten Gaara quickly used the Sand that had originally made give up his full Shukaku form and use it to create a Sabaku Rō (Sand Binding Prison) to capture the Snake summons. Once he captured the Snake summons inside his Sabaku Rō he then used his Sabaku Sōsō (Sand Waterfall Funeral) and crushed the Snake summons, killing it instantly.

Once the Giant Snake summons had been dealt with Gaara then went to help deal with the Oto Shinobi's that were now inside the village.

Tsunade did her own part in the battle against the Giant Snake summons, where she used her Chakra to help her leap up high into the air and used her Tsūtenkyaku (Painful Sky Leg) to hit one of the Giant Snake summons on the head, stunning it for a few seconds. After which Tsunade then quickly did a mid-air spin kick and hitting it, stunning the summons in the side of its head sending it crashing into the ground and knocking it out.

With another summons dealt with Tsunade then quickly went to help take care of the Oto Shinobi's that were now infesting her village from underground like the cockroach's they were.

-With Yamato-

Currently fighting on the Eastern side of the village Yamato was currently leading three teams of ANBU against a platoon of Oto Shinobi's that had made their way to the Eastern side of the village and were trying to attack their forces from behind.

Yamato and his men quickly intercepted the force, where they then engaged them in battle.

As Yamato battled an Oto-nin, the Oto-nin quickly did a few hand-seals and the cried out "Doton:Kurassryu (Earth Release: Dragon Crusher)" (A), after which a massive Dragon made entirely out or earth erupted out of the ground and headed right for Yamato, reacting quickly Yamato did three quick hand-seals and cried out "Mokuton: Mokujōheki (Wood Release: Wood Locking Wall)".

With that, a large dome-shape appeared in front of Yamato and blocked the attack and protected him from it.

Once the attack was stopped Yamato quickly did several more hand-seals and the cried out "Mokuton:Ne no Sashi (Wood Release: Impaling Roots)", after which several large roots appeared out of the ground pierced the Oto-nin chest and impaled him.

Once the Oto-nin was dead, Yamato was about to go help the rest of his men until suddenly he heard someone cry out "Shōton: Kesshō Hari (Crystal Release: Crystal Needles)", upon which dozens of long, sharp, and pointed bright pink and white crystals shot out of the ground around Yamato, where they tired for pierce him. Fortunately though thanks to the many years in ANBU and to the training he went through there, Yamato was able to use a Kawarimi no Jutsu (Body Replacement technique) to replace himself with a piece of wood, before he could be pierced by the sharp crystal points.

When he landed several feet away, he suddenly heard someone laughing; when Yamato looked around he couldn't see anyone, until the person in question suddenly appeared in front of him.

When the person appeared, Yamato saw that his assailant was in fact a woman; the woman was a tall woman with dull blue hair tide in a short ponytail and wore short red pants and black boots. She also wore a long green coat with a white furry collar and a large with flower design on it and had a yellow rope around her waist, tied in a bow.

"Impressive…you were able to dodge my attack like that, but then again I should expect nothing less from the famed Mokuton no Tenzō (Tenzō of the Wood Release)…not to mention that you are a former experiment of Orochimaru-sama", spoke the woman.

"Who are you?" asked Yamato openly as he narrowed his eyes.

"My name is Guren, I'm the Commander of Orochimaru-sama forces here…and your executioner if it comes to it", spoke the woman named Guren.

"We see about that!" replied Yamato as he took out a Kunai and got ready to fight, which just caused Guren to smirk mercilessly.

"Yes we shall", she replied, after which she then threw a dozen or so peculiar looking Shurikens that resembled snowflakes, at Yamato.

Quickly dodging some of the Shurikens and block the rest, Yamato then quickly did several quick hand seals and the cried out "Mokuton: Mokupai (Wood Release: Wood Spike) (B)", where a large wooden spike shot out of the ground and towards Guren.

Seeing this Guren quickly sent out a wave of chakra and shouted "Shōton: Kesshō Jinheki (Crystal Release: Crystal Encampment Wall)", which then turned into a large crystal wall in front of her. Where it blocked the wooden spike and to Yamato's great surprise it started to regenerate from the damage it suffered from the wooden spike.

"You're a Shōton user?" spoke Yamato in surprise, as he had heard rumours, about a Bloodline that allowed a person to use Crystal ninjutsu, but he had always thought it was just that, a rumour.

"Correct and what more Earth, Water, and Wood techniques are useless against it, as Shōton can crystallize any physical material and substance including the moisture in the air around us…which means that all your Ninjutsu are worthless against me as all your Ninjutsu are Earth, Water, and Wood based ones", said Guren. As she knew all about Yamato abilities, as Orochimaru had order her to capture Yamato, or at the very least bring back his body so that he could find out what was it that allowed Yamato to survive his experiments, when all the others failed. So that he could then know how to create other Mokuton users and prepare another new vessel in the future.

Upon hearing this Yamato frowned as he had heard the same thing, about how Earth, Water, and Wood Ninjutsu were worthless against a Shōton user. But regardless if it was true or not he wasn't going to run or give up, he was going to fight and defeat her no matter what it took.

Upon seeing Yamato falling into another fighting stance Guren just smirked, "So you still going to fight me even though you know that your elemental ninjutsu is worthless against me?"

Yamato didn't answer, and got ready to fight.

"You're brave…foolish…but brave", spoke Guren as she then a few one handed hand-seals, much to Yamato surprise and cried out

"Shōton: Suishō Tō (Crystal Release: Jade Crystal Blade)", where two blades made of crystal formed on her both her arms, after which she then fell into her own fighting stance.

After a minute or so of just staring at one another the two race towards one another a high Shinobi speeds and clashed their weapons against one another.

Guren quickly used her left Suishō Tō to block Yamato's Kunai, and then brought up her right one to slash at Yamato's abdomen.

Seeing this Yamato quickly jumped away to avoid the slash, and although he was able to avoid it from seriously wounding him, Guren was still able to slash his flack-jacket and make a small cut on Yamato's stomach.

When Yamato looked at Guren he saw her bring up the Suishō Tō that cut him up to her face and started to sniff at it, after which she started to laugh sadistically "Heh heh, I love the scent of blood".

Not to be intimidated by her scare tactics, Yamato just fell into another fighting stance and got ready, Guren quickly did the same.

After a moment or two of staring down one another, the two of them started battling again.

-With Orochimaru and the others-

From their command point on the small hill Orochimaru and his allies watch as the Konoha forces along with their allies were struggling under the weight of numbers against them and the fact that they were being attacked on all sides.

Orochimaru then turned to Mizukage and the other anti-Konoha coalition leaders, "Gentlemen, radio your men and have them fall back, please".

At this the Mizukage and the other leaders nodded knowing what Orochimaru was going to do next and turned to their aids to have their forces temporally fall back, after which Orochimaru then turned to Kabuto.

"Kabuto-kun, please inform the three curse seal divisions that we have in reserve to move forward, now that our allied forces have soften the Konoha forces enough on the three fronts, for our curse seal users to break Konoha's lines there. After which we will send in all our forces in one final attack and utterly destroy Konoha, one and for all.

Kabuto acknowledge Orochimaru order and began to give out his order of the radio over to the leaders of those divisions.

The curse seal divisions were three divisions made up of Oto Shinobi's and former prisoners that Orochimaru capture and placed curse seals on, turning them in vicious, brutal, bloodthirsty monsters, that would not stop until either there enemies were dead or they themselves were killed.

The reason why Orochimaru was having his allies fall back was because; his cruse seal warriors would be just as likely to attack their own allies as they were to attack their enemies. The only way Orochimaru was able to control them was because of small groups of Oto Shinobi's in each of the three divisions, who were still able to retain their minds after getting the seals, and who were placed in command of the three divisions to keep the other curse seal warriors in line.

Once the Iwa, Kiri, Kusa and Hannya Clan forces had fallen back on their three fronts, the three curse seal divisions moved in and started to wreak utter havoc and destruction on the Konoha, Suna and the Tsuchigumo Clan forces causing heavy losses on the already weaken defence lines where they begin to crumble. As thanks to the curse seal the curse seal warriors, strength speed and power went far beyond the average Shinobi's power, the seal also made it very hard for the Konoha, Suna and Tsuchigumo Clan Shinobi's to kill. Since in their monstrous forms the curse warrior's skin became extremely strong and tough, where only high level or powerful justu's could kill them.

After an hour and a half of bitter fighting the Konoha forces and their allies, had somehow held their lines, but just barely and had just about killed the majority of the curse seal warriors, although there still many left that were fighting, but still most of them had been killed. But it had come at a heavy cost as many of their Shinobi's had been killed or were too wounded now to fight, leaving them in a bad situation for the now refreshed enemy forces that were to come in.

Seeing this from their command point Orochimaru and his fellow leaders ordered the first four waves to reengaged the weaken Konoha defenders, while holding the fifth wave in reserve, in case one final push was needed. Once the anti-Konoha forces reengaged the Konoha defenders, Orochimaru then turned to his fellow leaders.

"Gentlemen, I believe it's time that we ourselves joined the battle and finish off Konoha once and for all…don't you all agree?" asked Orochimaru, where the other leaders of the anti-Konoha coalition nodded their heads in agreement.

After which all five leaders and their aids headed off into Konoha.

-With Sakura-

Currently in the centre helping with the endless number of wounded Shinobi's, Sakura, was desperately trying to do her best at stabilizing as many of them as she could and hand them over to emergency medic teams. That would deliver them to the emergency hospital in the Hokage Monument, although that in itself was a dangerous mission as with the HYDRA ninja's fighting below the Monument with the Suna and Konoha forces, where the medic units transporting the wounded could be caught in the crossfire or attacked by HYDRA ninja's.

After sending another wounded Konoha Shinobi with a medic team back to the emergency hospital, Sakura was attacked by three curse seal warriors, that were still alive and had somehow broken through the main defence lines and had reach the centre of the village.

All three of them were hissing, growling and snarling at her like wild bloodthirsty beasts. Seeing this Sakura quickly prepared herself for battle and fell into a Taijutsu stance, which was none too soon, since as soon as she did the trio of monsters charged forward and attacked.

Reacting quickly Sakura charged an immense amount of her chakra into her fist, and cried out "Ōkashō (Cherry Blossom Impact)!" and slammed her fist into the ground pulverizing it into miniature pieces, and blasted the three monstrosities away.

Once the three curse seal warriors were shattered away from one another, Sakura quickly charged forward toward the nearest one to her, where she then quickly jumped into the air and cried out "Tsūtenkyaku (Painful Sky Leg)!" Where she did a falling axe kick, down on the cruse seal monster, where thanks to her super human strength she caused a gigantic crater killing the cruse seal monster she hit instantly at same time.

As soon as she hit the monster Sakura quickly did and one eighty spin around on her so to face the second cruse seal monster that tried to jump at her from behind, where when she did. She charged up her fist again and slammed it right in the face of the creature and sending it flying into the air and into several buildings a hundred feet away.

With the second curse warrior dealt with, Sakura quickly looked around for the third and final curse seal warrior; she did not have wait for along as she saw the creature charging at her from her right hand side.

Quickly charging forward Sakura ducked under the curse warrior's claw swipe and used her super human strength again to do a powerful high kick, while shouting out "Sakura no Jōshōku (Rising Cherry Blossom Kick)! (C)" Blasting the curse warrior high up into the air, after which Sakura concentrated a large amount of her Chakra to her feet to, allowed her to jump up to the mid-air curse warrior. Where once she did, and was slightly above it, she brought up her leg and once again cried out "Tsūtenkyaku", hitting the creature dead on and causing it to fall rapidly to the ground and causing a large crater once it hit it and killing the former human instantly.

When Sakura landed back on the ground, after defeating the third and final curse warrior, she suddenly heard someone clapping nearby. When she looked around for the person, she saw none other than Orochimaru right hand man Kabuto applauding her with an arrogant smirk on his face, as he leaned against the wall of a building near where Sakura was fighting, where he been watch her the entire time.

Upon seeing the silvered haired traitor, Sakura narrowed her eyes.

"My, My Sakura-chan you have certainly improved a great deal, from the silly little fan-girl I first met in the Forest of Death, who could barely fend for herself in a fight, let alone defend her team-mates", spoke Kabuto in a playful like manner, while still smirking.

At this Sakura just growled, "Kabuto, what the hell are you doing here? …Shouldn't up be off being Orochimaru's little lap dog and licking his boots", spat out Sakura.

"Tisk, Tisk, Tisk, Is that anyway to greet an old friend, how long has it been since we last seen each other five, six seven years I think … one would think that you would greet me with something other then hateful remarks", spoke Kabuto, without Sakura's insult even phasing him.

"You're no friend of mine…teme!" spat Sakura out as she glared at him.

Kabuto just continued to smirk as Sakura glared at him, "It seems that Tsunade-sama has not taught you to respect your betters".

"As if I even respect you", retorted Sakura as she got into a fight stance.

"Oh! …So you think your good enough to beat me?" asked Kabutoi feigning surprise, which Sakura refuse to respond to.

After getting no response from her Kabuto just smirked again and did a few quick hand seals and activated his Chakura no Mesu (Chakra Scalpel), which Sakura quickly copies.

For a moment or two the two medic-nins just starred at once another, where Sakura glared at Kabuto, while Kabuto continue to smirk arrogantly at her.

Soon after though the two medic-nins charged forward and began their battle

-With Tsunade, Jiraiya and Gaara-

Currently Tsunade was battling several Oto SONIC ANBU ninja's (7) by herself on the rooftop of one of the larger buildings in the village. Just as she had killed her fiftieth Oto-nin, a curse seal warrior leap behind her and tried to attack her.

Seeing this Tsunade quickly spun around and was about to deal with the creature, but before she could a voice suddenly spoke up "Suheki (Sand Wall)" (D), where a wall of Sand appeared and blocked the cruse warrior's attack.

When Tsunade looked around she saw Gaara standing not far from her, to her left, with his arm stretched out.

Gaara quickly then held his hand out and spoke out again, "Sabaku Kyū (Sand Binding Coffin)" where he quickly had his sand encase the curse creature in a large amount of his sand, immobilizing it. He then used his sand to lift the now encase creature into the air, where he then spoke out calmly "Sabaku Sōsō" causing the sand to implode and utterly crush the creature inside.

"You should watch your surroundings more Hokage-san, Konoha can ill afford to lose its Hokage, at this time", spoke Gaara calmly, Tsunade only nodded her head in acknowledgment and thanks for his help, even though she had not needed it.

When Tsunade turned around to her right she saw Jiraiya, (who had jumped off Gamabunta not long ago), finishing off several Oto-nins that had foolish thought they could take the Toad Sennin by themselves.

At the same time Tsunade saw Gamabunta severing the head of one of the Giant Snake summons with his Katana, where after doing so he went and continued battle with the other remaining seven Giant Snake summons by himself.

After seeing this Tsunade then saw Jiraiya appear next to her and Gaara on the rooftop of the building, "Things aren't looking too good for us hime, our forces at the front are on the verge of falling apart. Thanks to those curse warriors that Orochimaru let lose on them and the first four waves of enemies are recommencing their attack on them. Not to mention that we're barely containing the Oto forces and the HYDRA-nins that are attacking us here. We need to do something now to contain these forces here, and get back to the main lines before its too late", spoke Jiraiya with urgency.

"Yes I know that Jiraiya, but these Oto trash are like cockroaches, where if we kill one, ten more appear", rounded Tsunade, before she quickly calmed herself down, as the last thing she needed to do now was lose her cool. After which she then turned back to face Jiraiya, "Jiraiya, can you and Gamabunta try and contain the Oto forces here by yourself, while Gaara and I go back to the front-lines and try and help out there".

"Are you kidding hime, these Oto clowns won't know what hit them, as none can handle the overwhelming might of Jiraiya", sneered Jiraiya confidently.

Tsunade just nodded her head, as she knew Jiraiya could handle things here by himself, after which she then turned to Gaara who just nodded his head in understanding and was about to go with her back to the front-lines. But before they could they suddenly heard and familiar laughter, coming from somewhere, before they could even look around to see where the laughing was coming from, Orochimaru, and his allies, The Yondaime Tsuchikage, Ryoku, The Godaime Mizukage, Shiro, The Leader of Kusagakure, Doku and The Leader of the Hannya Clan, Shinrin, appeared in front of them.

"Ku, Ku, Ku, Ku, Ku …So nice to see you again Jiraiya-kun and Tsunade-hime and you Gaara-kun as well, although I never had the pleasure of meeting you in person", spoke Orochimaru with a sickening smile.

"Orochimaru!" snarled Tsunade, "What thehell areyou doing here?"

"My, isn't it oblivious, we've come to kill you all, and put on the final nail of Konoha's coffin" replied Orochimaru.

"Like we will let you do that", growled Jiraiya, as he quickly fell into a fighting stance.

At this Orochimaru only laughed, "You make it sound like you have a choice in the matter, Jiraiya-kun…But still I can't help but feel nostalgic, it been about ten year since the three of us were all here like this, back when I tried to get Tsunade-hime to heal my injured arms. Although I think were missing someone that was there that day, young Naruto-kun, if I not mistaken...perhaps I should bring him back, as I can do that, and then we will have everyone", said Orochimaru with a smirk. As he knew what this would do to Tsunade and Jiraiya, as well as with Gaara, at the mention of Naruto, as he hoped to spread salt on a old wound.

"Don't you dare mention his name, you have no right, you twisted bastard, and if you even try and use that jutsu, I swear I won't stop until your nothing but a bloody stain on my fist " snarled Tsunade angrily as she was barely able to restrain her rage, at how casually Orochimaru mentioned Naruto's name, and reminded them of how he was dead, not to mention the thought of him using "that" Jutsu to bring Naruto back. Jiraiya growled at little, while Gaara kept up his emotionless expression on his face, although Orochimaru could tell that the young jinchūriki was also angry at the way his sand was moving about and looked ready to attack.

"It seems that you stuck a nerve with them, Orochimaru?" sneered Shiro, as he found the situation very amusing like the others.

"Indeed", spoke Orochimaru, "As Young Naruto-kun was yet another victim of Tsunade-hime curse necklace. It even more amusing, since he was betrayed by the very village he swore to protect, which just shows how decrypted this village as become".

Upon hearing this Tsunade was about to charge right at Orochimaru for what he said, only to be held back by Jiraiya.

"Tsunade control yourself! He goading you…he wants you to lose you temper and attack him, that way you be easier for him to kill when your unfocused and blinded by your rage…so calm down!" said Jiraiya. While still glaring at his former team-mates, as like Tsunade he wanted to kill Orochimaru for what he said as Naruto was a sore subject for not only Tsunade but for him as well. Considering that Naruto was his Godson, and how he had not been there for Naruto when he should have been when Naruto was growing up.

Soon enough though Tsunade calmed herself down, still glared angrily and hatefully at Orochimaru, after what he said. Orochimaru of course, ignored her glares and turned slightly to his allies,"So Gentlemen, who would you like to fight?"

"I want Jiraiya", spoke Ryoku, as he took off his Kage robe and hat to reveal his bare chest showing off his hulk physique along with several numerous scares on it. Also as well as showing his Black Shinobi pants and large gold belt on his waist with a bear's face engraved in the centre. The Yondaime Tsuchikage knew that Jiraiya was the one who had trained the Yondaime Hokage, and wanted to have the pleasure of killing the man who trained his arch nemesis and the cause of his disgrace, as well as erase any trace or connection to Yondaime Hokage from the world.

"I shall deal with the Kazekage", spoke Shiro, as he took off his own Kage robes to reveal his blue samurai like armour and Black cape. Shiro had always wanted to test himself against the famed ultimate weapon of Suna, as he heard that very few Shinobi's could stand up to the jinchūriki Kazekage.

"I shall handle the Godaime Hokage", spoke Doku, as he was eager to test a special poison he had, in the hopes of using it against Konoha's Hokage.

"I will also take the Hokage", spoke Shinrin, as he was hoping to deal a deadly blow to Konoha, by killing its leader, just like how Danzo had killed his father, who was his Clan's leader.

"Very well then, and I believe I will take Jiraiya-kun as well, if you don't mind Ryoku-kun", spoke Orochimaru with a smirk.

"Fine, but don't get in my way or I crush you along with him", grunted Ryoku.

Orochimaru of course just continued to smirk and he fell into a fighting stance.

Soon enough though both sides faced off one another and prepared to fight, where after a minute of staring at one another, the eight leaders of their respected groups and village's attacked.

-With Tenten-

Currently panting heavily with several cuts on her face, Tenten was staring at her opponent Jinne, who was panting slightly and had a few cuts on himself as well, but was also grinning manically as he was enjoying this fight.

"Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha …this is it, this is the fight I have been waiting for, fighting, someone who can match my strength and skill, and can actually kill me, I can finally test the true extent of my limits", spoke Jinne as he continued to laugh.

"You insane", said Tenten as she stared at the laughing mad man.

"Perhaps…or perhaps the whole word is insane and I the only one that is sane, as I'm true to what I' am and I don't try and make myself to be some kind of hero. Shinobi's are cold murderous assassins, our purpose is to kill and murder those that we are sent to kill and if we enjoy what we do then that's all the better", spoke Jinne.

"Your wrong Shinobi's are more than that, the Shinobi's of Konoha protected their own and will lay down our lives to defend the people and this village if need be, we are nothing like you", retorted Tenten.

"Well then I guess we are of a difference of opinion, so let's decide this little disagreement by finishing our fight, where the winner will be the one who was right", said Jinne with a sneer, as he got his Katana ready to fight again.

Tenten of course did not reply to Jinne's challenge, and just tightened her grip on her jian and fan, as she readied to continue the fight.

Soon enough the two of them clashed their weapons against one another once again, each time they either blocking or dodging each other's attacks, in some kind of sword dance of death.

As Tenten blocked Jinne right side diagonal slash with her Jian, Jinne quickly used his Haishato (Backwards Wheel) technique, which involved surprising his opponent. By passing his Katana from one hand to the other behind his back real fast, allowing him to switch his attack whenever he wants, and surprising his opponent.

Hence taking advantage of Tenten's unguarded left side, where he tried to cut her head off with the slash. Fortunately though, TenTen was able to bring up her metal fan and block his attack. Wanting to gain some distance from him Tenten quickly channelled her Wind Chakra into her fan and cried out "Sevuāfū (Severing Wind)" (E), and created a large slashing blade of Wind and sent it flying towards Jinne with great speed.

Seeing the attack Jinne quickly jumped up into the air to avoid the attack, but that was what Tenten wanted and she quickly threw her fan and chain at Jinne which rapped itself around Jinne's Katana as he was in mid-air. Tenten then sent her Lightning Chakra through her chain to her metal fan wrapped around Jinne's Katana, shocking him and forcing him to let of it.

Once Jinne let go of his Katana, Tenten quickly pulled her chain to bring back her metal fan that was wrapped around Jinne's Katana. Whereas she did the fan and chain loosened and the Katana fell and stabbed into the ground several feet behind Tenten.

Not wanting to miss a good opportunity, to finish the fight, Tenten quickly charged forward with her metal fan and Jian sword at her top speed, and slashed at the unarmed Jinne.

Although when she did the "Jinne" turned into a large piece of rubble, realising quickly that, Jinne had used a Kawarimi no Jutsu (Body Replacement Technique), and replaced himself with a piece of rubble from the village, Tenten quickly turned around. When she turned around she saw that he now had his Katana back.

Not wanting to give him the chance to use it again, Tenten quickly channelled more of her Wind Chakra into her metal fan and threw it, causing it to spin like a disk at Jinne, when she threw her now spinning fan she cried out, "Fūton: Kaiten-fū disuku (Wind Style: Spinning Wind Disk) (F). Jinne quickly dodged the attack, although when he did Tenten just pulled on her chain to come back and come at Jinne from behind.

Seeing this Jinne quickly leapt into the air, whereas the spinning fan and chain passed underneath him, he quickly drew out several Kunai and threw them at the chain. The Kunai's hit the links of the chain with pinpoint precision, pinning the chain along with the fan to the ground.

As soon as he landed back on the ground Jinne took full advantage of Tenten's surprise at what happened, and raced towards her at astonishing speed with his Katana ready to deliver the final blow. By the time Tenten realised that Jinne was coming at her, he was just about to slash her with his Katana, Tenten was barely able to bring up her Jian sword to block Jinne's attack. Although, even though she was able to bring her sword up in time to block it, Jinne's slashing attack was so strong that it broke Tenten's sword in two and still slashed her in the chest.

But thankfully though, Tenten was able to dodge the Katana blade just enough to avoid the cut from killing her, or from being too serious, but was down on one of her knees panting heavily. As the cut was still serious enough, where Tenten knew that if she didn't get medical treatment soon, she would die from the blood loss of the wound.

As Tenten put her hand over her large wound and ruined ANBU armour, that had helped protect her from a lethal cut, she heard Jinne laughing manically several feet away from where she landed, after jumping away to avoid Jinne's previous slash.

"Hah, Hah, Hah, Hah …impressive you were able to avoid my slash that much…but still with that wound now, you won't last very long and this fight will be mine", said Jinne as he continued to laugh.

"Don't beat on it teme" said Tenten, as she ignore the wound and stood back up on her feet, where she then lifted up her arms slightly showing a silver bracelets, with a large red jewel in the middle of it (8). She then quickly rubbed some of the blood from her wound that was on her hands and spread it across the jewels of both bracelets, where as soon as she did the bracelets expanded and turned into a large metal gauntlets with spike arms on their sides.

The bracelets had been created by Tenten's father who after learning the special expanding technology developed in Kumogakure (Hidden Cloud), created the bracelets to give Tenten a hidden extra weapon to use.

As soon as Tenten's Gauntlet appeared she quickly slammed her metal fist of her right hand Gauntlet into the ground and using the super human strength she had learned from Tsunade, and destroyed the surround street around her, causing Jinne to jump away to a nearby rooftop. Upon seeing the entire street destroyed Jinne could not help but laugh again.

"Ha, Ha, Ha, so the rumours are true you do possess Tsunade-sama monstrous strength".

"My strength not quite at the level of Tsunade-sama or Sakura's…pant, pant…but it's still enough to deal with the likes of you", spoke Tenten. As she was panting slightly as she knew that she would not last long in a drawn out fight due to the amount of blood she was losing.

"Good, that the kind of talk I like to hear, as the more definite and determined you are the better the fight, which will make killing you all the sweeter", said Jinne as he prepared himself and signalled Tenten to come at him.

Tenten just responded by activating her wrist-blades on her Gauntlets and channelled her Wind affinity in her left wrist-blade, while she channelled her Lightning affinity in her right wrist-blade.

Upon seeing this Jinne smile grew bigger, "Hoh, Hoh, Hoh, I can see now why your called the Okami ken no Konoha, as you always seen to have some kind of bladed weapon on you, and by the look of this, this fight is about to get all the more interesting".

Tenten only response to Jinne's comment was to jumped forward into the air cry out "Sevuāfū" creating another slashing bladed of Wind and sending it at Jinne, who quickly jumped to his left to the next building. Where as soon as he did, he saw the building he had been just on a moment ago was cut in two, right down the middle by Tenten's attack.

"Impressive!" commented Jinne with a smirk, when he saw it.

"If you liked that how about how about this?" cried TenTen, as she landed on one of the halves of the building she had just cut in two and trust her right handGauntlet forward and cried out "Raiseibā (Lightning Saber) (G)". Sending out a powerful blast of Lightning toward Jinne, who narrowly avoided being hit and being blown to pieces by the powerful attack, although the roof of the building he was just on was completely destroyed.

As Jinne dodged Tenten's attack he charged forward at her so not to give her the space she needed to use her jutsu and went to engaged her in close combat. While at the same time, covering his Katana with his Chakra, so that it could stand up to Tenten's, Lightning and Wind enhance blades.

For several minutes the two clashed blades with one another, where Tenten showed that despite her wound she was still able to fight well, as she and Jinne traded blows with one another, where they either blocked or dodged each other's these few minutes Jinne found it hard to find any openings to attack Tenten, as she had proven she was equally as deadly with her wrist blades, as she was with her Jian sword and metal fan. He was also finding it hard to protect himself as he had only one Katana, while Tenten had two wrist blades.

Soon enough though, the two of them broke apart to catch their breaths as they were both panting quite heavily.

"Pant, Pant ...while I have to hand it to you...Pant,Pant... Okami Ken, you certainly surpassed even my wildest expectations...as I didn't think I have this hard time with you...pant, pant...I don't think I've had this hard a time with anyone, outside the Kiri no Shinobigatana Nananin Shū (Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist)", spoke Jinne as he panted tiredly.

"Don't go talking like this fight…pant, pant…is over as I'm not done yet!" declared TenTen, although, right now she in a sorry state as she was still bleeding baldly from her wound and was feeling dizzy. "Oh! ...but I'm afraid it is as I'm about to show you the secret Technique of the Nikkaido Heiho" spoke Jinne.

"What secret Technique?" asked Tenten.

"Allow me to explain", replied Jinne, "As you know the most well-known and feared technique of the Nikkaido Heiho style is the Shin no Ippo (One Side of the Soul) technique. Where by using my Kenki (the spiritual energy that a warrior develops in a combat, on his opponent), I can penetrate my opponents mind, putting him in a paralyzed state and prevent my opponent from retaliating. Much like Killing Intent, but unlike that Shin no Ippo can also be used to kill my opponent. By concentrating all my force on his opponent, I can paralyze every muscle and every nerve in his body, causing them to stop breathing in a few minutes. But unfortunately this technique is useless against someone who is equal or strong than me in fighting strength, hence why I can't use it on you…" spoke Jinne, but was interrupted by Tenten before he could finish.

"What's your point?" said Tenten angrily as she already knew all this and was in no mood of listening this.

"I was just about to get to that", said Jinne with a smile as he brought up his sword to his face so to have the side edge facing him. "You see the Technique I'm about to use is called the Hyoko no Jutsu (9). By using the Shin no Ippo on myself, with my blade, I can hypnotize myself. This causes my reflexes to improve, and my strength to increase tenfold, making me invincible…Allow me to show you" spoke Jinne. As he brought the side of his blade to his eyes and cried out Shin no Ippo, where his eye glowed and there was a flash of light.

Once the Light died Tenten watch with horror as Jinne muscles started to grow and expand.

"Now you see no-one can stop me" cried Jinne manically.

Seeing this Tenten knew she was in trouble, and knew the only chance she had of beating Jinne was to use the Hachimon (Eight Gates).

Tenten had learned how to do Hachimon after many years of hard and intense training with Gai and Lee, although unlike them, TenTen could only open two of the gates. But still she believed that would be enough to defeat Jinne as the second Kyūmon (The Gate of Healing) forcibly increases ones physical strength and temporary re-energizes the body and that was what she needed. But the only problem was that with her body in its given condition she would only last a few seconds, hence she would have to make it count.

Deciding to go for it, quickly going into a horse stance Tenten began to open the first gate, as her Chakra started to flow around her Tenten began to open the second gate. As she was doing this Jinne looked on in surprise as he saw the now visible Chakra surrounding Tenten and then, and how her muscles started to grow and she seemed to regain her energy.

Upon seeing this Jinne started to laugh loudly "Hah, Hah, Hah, Hah…yes even now in your wounded condition you still have this much strength to fight, this must be the famed Hachimon…Yes grow stronger Okami Ken, grow stronger so that the moment I kill you will be a moment of pure bless…Hah, Hah, Hah".

Quickly Tenten after finishing opening the second gate, she knew she would have to finish this fight with one finally strike, if she wanted to win, as he body would not last long. "Let's finish this Jinne with one last attack and we see which of us is the stronger", spoke Tenten.

"Heh, Heh, Yes lets, SO COME AT ME WITH EVERYTHING YOU GOT OKAMI KEN NO KONOHA!" cried Jinne as he charged forward to attack, as did Tenten.

"CLANG!"

"CLANG!"

"CLANG!"

"SLASH!"

"SLASH!"

"SLASH!"

Within a blink of an eye the fight was over, both Tenten and Jinne were standing at opposite ends of where they had started and had their backs to one another and not even moving an inch after their attacks. For a moment or two neither of them moved, until suddenly Tenten fell to her knees spitting out blood and cradling her side that had a new wound. As she fell Jinne smirked without even turning, "I got you!"

"Y-Yes, Yes you did, but I got you as well", replied Tenten painfully, which just caused Jinne to smile more.

"That you did, but tell me what was that last move use used?"

"Juumonji Giri (Cross Slash) (H)" replied Tenten.

At this Jinne's smirk grew even bigger, "Aptly named…...well done Okami ken no Konoha, you won" said Jinne, before his Katana broke in two and two long cuts appeared. One going down the middle of his face to the middle of his legs, while the second going from one side of his stomach to the other forming a cross like shape, after which a fountain of blood burst out of him. Before he fell to the roof floor dead with a smile of his face, as he believed it was a fitting end to a murderous assassin like him.

Once Jinne was dead, Tenten also fell to the roof floor bleeding badly, but even still despite the pain Tenten had a smile on her face, even when she lost consciousness from the loss of blood, but before she did one word went through her mind "I win