"Naruto Uzumaki, Hinata Hyuga, Sasuke Uchiha, Ino Yamanaka, Shikamaru Nara, Choji Akimichi, Shino Aburame, Kiba Inuzuka, Neji Hyuga, Rock Lee, Tenten Takahashi." Tsunade addressed each of us with her no-nonsense tone. All of us have never been called into her office for a mission at the same time, something big must be happening. Kurenai and Asuma were on their Honeymoon while Kakashi and Gai were out of the village on an S-ranked mission so we were left to our own devices. The village was short on Jounin and Chunin capable of leaving the village as of now, the borders were heavily protected and many ninja were off somewhere we didn't know.

"Here." We all chorused, standing to attention in the missions office. Iruka looked pale as he read over the scroll in his hands. There was a tense air between Iruka and Tsunade, they must have argued about something. Most likely doing with Naruto because his worried brown eyes kept looking over at his son.

"This has been kept under wraps for obvious reasons but for the past few years relations between Konohagakure and Kōrigakure have been tense and as of 3 months ago they have declared war on us and we have been engaged in battle since. We planned on finishing the war before it could become harmful but the tides of the war were changed to befitting Kōrigakure. if they advance out of their territory it is possible for them to ally with Iwagakure and Kumogakure which will start yet another great war, one that with the advancements of Kōrigakure, we would face heavy casualties. We have lost many good shinobi to this war and it is time to end it."

"Wait, we're at war? Why did none of us know of this?" Tenten questioned and most of us nodded in agreement. I knew there were small battles going on throughout the world but I had no Idea Konoha was at war with another village, especially such a small one. They must be strong if Tsunade is this worried. I feel so ignorant, it was such a naive thought that I wouldn't go to war until the 4th Great Shinobi War. In a world that thrives on the violence and bloodshed it was bound to happen and being faced with it now, it's terrifying.

"Tensions rein high between large and small villages alike, there are often smaller wars being fought that never escalate past a skirmish." Shikamaru drawled, god the genius knew everything. I guess in his training as the next Jounin Commander he was bound to learn all of the secrets none of us ninja were given until it was pertinent for us to know. It made sense though, it was kind of stupid to think that the only wars Konoha was involved in were large and grandiose. We probably didn't learn of the smaller ones in class because they were always taken out before the smaller villages could fight back.

"Shikamaru is right. To finish this war before it blows up further I am sending you out as the cavalry for those already fighting." We all nodded, the high from hanging out last night was gone and a somber aura took over all of us bar Suigetsu who looked itching to fight. "Team 7 and Team 8 you will be going together to backup Shizune's team who are fighting on the inner areas of Kōrigakure. Provide the necessary reinforcements and heal as many as you can. Crush their forces from the inside, Hinata you will take point." Iruka's disdain was crystal clear now, he was against sending us, his students the kids he still sees as children, to war.

Naruto was so kind, Iruka knows war will hurt him, it will be the factor to decide if Naruto will thrive and become Hokage or break from the hurt of the slaughter. This isn't Naruto fighting for the world against the Akatsuki, this is him being a regular (OP) ninja of Konoha where he kills people he doesn't know and kills those who fight for the same things we do, they just happen to be against our village. When Kuruma did a partial takeover and Naruto had his first kills, he was so distraught after, I don't know how this war will affect his psyche.

"Yes Master. We won't fail you." Honestly, I don't know how a war, a real non world ending war, will affect all of us.

"Team 9 and Team 10 you will be back up for the former Akatsuki duo's Hidan and Kakuzu as well as Sasori and Deidara who are fighting to keep the waves of ninja from making it out of their village. Make sure they stay loyal to our village and heal as many as you can. Let nobody escape, Shikamaru you will take point, Neji you are backup commander." Shikamaru's shoulders slumped, sighing at his position. He muttered a troublesome before straightening back up, his resolve solidified.

"Yes Lady Tsunade." Iruka handed Shikamaru and I each a scroll, his smile strained and his eyes sad. Neji looked over to me, he believed his job was to protect me and for us to go to the same war and being forced to separate was hard to swallow. I was still his baby sister, the main family member he was charged with protecting. No matter what, I have to live so they don't activate his seal for failing to save me.

"These scrolls have the details of your job and what you will be up against. Study it thoroughly, all of you. Do not be hasty or rash, their numbers will vastly outnumber yours so think, be smart, and use your strengths. Make plans but expect them to fail, just...make sure you don't die out there."

***

"We will travel together for the first 5 days until we reach here...about 86 kilometers from the border of the battlefield." Shikamaru placed a finger on a marked point on the map. "Then we'll split up, my squad will enter directly into the village, creating a racket too keep the attention off of Hinata's squad and to alert the Akatsuki of our arrival." His team nodded, Lee making a promise to arrive there and make the biggest show he was capable of. The lazy genius looked up to me and I turned to my squad making sure they were looking (well making sure Naruto and Kiba were paying attention at least). It was early as hell but we needed to leave as soon as the sun was risen over the horizon.

"We will be going around through to the back of the village...right about here." I pointed to a plane of icy hills that we were planning to sneak through. "And from there we will travel into the village and head straight for its heart. There is where we will hopefully meet up with Shizune's squad." Sasuke activated his Sharingan, easily engraving the map into his memory to make our movements that much easier. "We will go over what we are going to be up against when we set up camp tonight."

"Move out. Formation Beta." Shikamaru called out and we all got into position, shooting off at a relatively quick pace from the village. We traveled through the southwest area of the land of fire until we were reaching the edge. After over a full day's travel, there was less than 40 kilometers between us and the border of The Land of Fire and we bunkered down to rest. Naruto set up barrier seals and we cooked fish, needing to replenish our energy for another long stretch of travel.

I had my sleeping bag set up and was sandwiched between Neji and Kiba who blocked off anyone else from sleeping beside me...both going into big brother and protective best friend mode. No boys allowed. None of us missed the closeness between Lee and Tenten's bags and the lack of her smacking him for being overzealous...they're cute. I opened the scroll to assess what we were up against. Honestly I couldn't believe what I was reading.

"Team Hinata, take a look and tell me what you think." My team read over the scroll and varying stages of disbelief took everyone's features.

"Shit man, is this for real?" Kiba's slitted eyes met with mine, he was just as shocked as I was. There was that spark of feral excitement though, he was slightly excited to test his skills against our...interesting opponents.

"No, we were given a scroll with fake information to go to war with." Shino spoke so dry, he had no intonation but the sarcasm dripping off of him was amusing. I could always count on him to keep Kiba, and his massive mouth, in check. The description of the battleground was something I didn't expect in the slightest. Basically, the area Tsunade is sending us is filled with Kōrigakure's specialist: mechanic shinobi.

If the details are accurate, we are going to be fighting against, not only a mass of shinobi and robot people, we are going up against a more technological sound village with giant chakra powered...Transformer's? I don't know any other way to describe the things.

They have technological warfare on their side and that, pared with all of their ninja joining the fight, has been the main factors in creating such an issue for Konoha in the war. Not only that, they are pulling a Russia, letting us come to them and freeze our asses off in the frozen and barren climate. It's not called the Village Hidden in Ice for nothing. Everyone on our side looked slightly relieved, with fighting against technology, most likely we will have to kill less than Shikamaru's squad will be required to do.

"We're going to kick robot ass 'ttebayo!" Naruto grinned, his eyes blazing with a furious determination to end this war. Kiba held his hand up and they slapped hands, making it echo slightly.

"Hell yeah we are, right Akamaru?" He gave a fanged grin to the pup, getting a yip and lick of assurance in return. I rubbed behind Akamaru's ears, the soft pleased growl and fluffiness of his fur was calming.

"Hn. What's the plan, if their advancements are true, going undetected will be relatively impossible?" Sasuke's dark eyes were calculating as he thought over the battle. He was thinking over something, stuck on trying to find a solution to a problem he hasn't even vocalized. Whatever it is, it's going to be conducive to our success.

"Then we fight. Our plan is to find our allies as soon as possible but now we need to go in with the expectation of being seen. We will fight streamlined, break through a single path straight to where Shizune said her location was stationed last. As for taking down the metal beasts, It says hard enough force will crush them, find the weak points of them and they will be useless. Naru, can you alter some of your paper bombs to make the seal more like a compression?"

"Eh? Compression seals?" Sasuke shot him an exasperated look, leave it to Naruto to not know what compression was.

"It would be like the force of your gravity seal but amplified. Ok put it this way, if you squeeze a can hard enough what happens?"

"It crushes in on itself....Wait, that's genius 'ttebayo! If I mix the force of a paper bomb with the inverse affects of gravity seal it'll crush them!" He was grinning widely, his mind whirring with the possibilities.

"Apply that to the joints and they go down." Naruto opened a scroll and lay out a pile of seals, getting to work on re-formulating to try and create the compression seals. "Kiba, you and Akamaru have enough spin force to bust through almost anything, using that you should be able to total some of the larger weapons. Just make sure they don't catch you in a predictable attack pattern, I'm guessing these robots can process faster than most human minds and if they find you moving in a pattern they will stop you."

"Got it! Those bastards won't catch us." His fangs were sharp and ready to rip an opponent to shreds, Kiba was wild but that was to his benefit for opponents like we're going to face.

"Sasuke, you're stupid fast and those ground troops seem to have insane speed as well. They are fast but I bet your eyes are faster so while they take down the big stuff, you are going to be taking down the little speed demons. They have overwhelming numbers but you have the largest arsenal of jutsu to take them out and with Naruto watching your back, you two will have the least chance of being overwhelmed."

"Hn." Sasuke was extremely pleased with my compliment. Naruto and I were both worried that after Danzo died Sasuke would feel like he had no point in life, his eyes still sometimes went blank and lifeless but he was still the same smug asshole Sasuke, just a bit less set on what his future goals were going to be.

"Shino, you and I are fighting against the living. Your Kikaichu are the best at eating through a persons chakra, take that away and the robots will no longer have someone to add more when it runs out. They are also not mindless robots and seem to definitely be strong but you're smart and sly. You stay more levelheaded and will have the least issue with doing what needs to be done. With us teaming up to defeat the brains behind the scrap-metal, we should be able to crush them completely."

"Of course, I do not like killing but it is necessary. I will not be defeated, why my Kikaichu will keep my chakra full and I will not lose another teammate of mine."

"Awe man, why'd you gotta go and bring that up?" Kiba whined, his eyes saddening slightly in remembrance of their fallen teammate. Shino hummed in response and Kiba seemed to understand what his thoughts were. A tanned, sharp clawed hand gripped around Shino's, they shared in their grief and determination together. They would not fail one another.

"I will fight with Shino and wherever else needed. I also have to make sure everyone is in fighting condition, I will heal who I can after we make it to the base camp. With the addition Shizune and whoever else is already fighting, we will have more allies to win this damned thing. This wont be easy, it will be bloody and we're all probably going to be fucked in the head when this is over but I believe in all of you, I believe in Shikamaru's team as well. We will win this and stop this war for good."

We spent a little while longer, until the sky was lit only with the glow of the moon, going over plans and re-assessing our skills to one another. Naruto and Sasuke both liked to talk themselves up but if their skills were even half of what they said, they are damn close to already making themselves the most powerful Shinobi in all of history.

For guard duty, we decided everyone would work in two person teams, each set needed a sensor keeping watch. Shino and Lee were taking the first shift, Neji and Tenten, and last was going to be Kiba and Sasuke. The next night Naruto and Choji were first, Shikamaru and I were slated for the graveyard shift. Ino would finish off the shift with whoever pulled the short straw. We would repeat this until it was time to split up and go off to battle.

***

Six days of travel, we were finally nearing the war-zone outside of the snow country. It was obvious by the drastic drop in temperature and the mountain landscape covered in white. Everyone was dressed in winter gear now. When Tsume found out about our leaving, she gave me her thickest coat, the fur lined jacket was insulated and kept me warmer than anything the Hyuga clan had. Plus it smelled like her and it was a good, comforting smell.

Anko, with her growing motherly instincts, gave me her old ANBU gear for when she would travel to areas like this, the gloves, hat, and leggings were chakra infused to keep my body warm. I looked like a marshmallow but felt warm against the frigid cold. Only my eyes, cheeks, and nose were exposed, the skin was flushed pink from the biting weather. Everyone else looked much the same, fighting in such bulky clothes should be harder, but with the lightweight thermal gear it was not as constricting and I believed it would be.

Night was the worst, being cold while sleeping was one thing but being close to hypothermia was another. Naruto, bless Kuruma inside of him, ran extremely hot so he was like our mini heater and we'd all take turns to curl around him at night for some of his body heat to keep us warm.

Tonight was our last night as a full group, tomorrow would be when we split up and finally enter the war, tensions were running high for all of us. Ino, Tenten, and I were together right now saying our farewells and just getting some much needed girl time before leaving.

"Just be safe ok, I love you and when this is over, we're going out for sure. Watch out for the boys, we all know that can't take care of themselves so that's on you guys. Ten, make sure Lee doesn't open his gates unless it is absolutely last resort and please don't let Neji-nii take on more than he can. You know his skills better than anyone else, don't let him overwork himself even if he thinks he can do more."

"Of course, I won't let them kill themselves." I curled into Tenten's side, she was patting my head as we talked. As the oldest, by a year, she was usually the most mature and was so warm and loving even if she was a badass weapons mistress. She always managed to make me feel more calm and I loved her dearly even when we haven't gotten to spend much time together in the last few years.

"Ino, I know you'll protect them, you are leader even if Shika makes all the plans so, just keep them safe. Don't let Choji's sweet heart be his downfall, it will be hard but at this point it's us or them. Same with Shika, if something goes awry, don't let him fall into blaming himself."

"Duh, who do you think I am?" Ino smiled wryly, it was tense but she was right, she wouldn't let them do something stupid. "Ok, enough of this sappy crap. Time to play a game before all hell breaks loose." Tenten and I exchanged wary glances, Ino's games were either great or horribly embarrassing, no in-between.

"What game?" Tenten asked, her chocolatey eyes narrowed in suspicion. I looked the exact same as we looked at the blonde.

"Fuck, Marry, or Kill." I huffed out a laugh, this would be interesting. Ino was pleased with my reaction, her ability to read a situation and her understanding of the psyche, she was perfect at getting people to feel what she needed them to. That made calming down a situation, or riling it up, that much easier for her.

"I've got one!" I grinned. "Izumo, Kotetsu, and Iruka-sensei."

"Fuck Izumo-kun, he's hot and seems like he'd be good in bed. Marry Iruka-sensei, that man is the most caring adult I've ever met and would be a great husband. Kill Kotetsu-kun, he's a bit too childish for my taste so he's gotta go." Ino needed no time to formulate her answers and spouted off her reasoning with ease. I agreed with her reasoning though, Iruka will be the best husband whenever he gets married. I laughed at the idea of her marrying her academy sensei, he raised us when we were such little shits.

"I'd switch Kotetsu-san with Izumo-san, Kotetsu-san is so exciting he seems like he'd have good stamina and make things super fast and fun." Tenten responded, a bit more reluctant with answering but deciding against caring either way. It's not like they would ever find out about this. We were all smiling after a few rounds this was the perfect way to get our minds off of tomorrow.

"Kakashi-sensei, Gai-sensei, and Asuma-sensei." Tenten looked very pleased at her choices for us.

"Fuck Kakashi-sensei, he's got a nice ass and is always reading porn so he's gotta be good. Marry Asuma-sensei, the way he is with Kurneai-sensei and his unborn child means he's going to be a good husband and father. Kill Gai-sensei, the dude wears green spandex...for fun."

"Ino it sounds like you have a thing with wanting to marry one of your sensei's." Tenten snickered and Ino looked away to where the boys were sitting. Her face softened to a lovestruck smile.

"Nope, I'm going to marry Choji-kun." her blue eyes shifted to me. "Your turn." I laughed at the thought of my choices.

"Fuck Gai-sensei. There is no way he doesn't have insane stamina and he seems like the type to cherish you the whole time." Tenten paled, her mind going to her sensei in that way and she shivered. Though, she seemed happy I still thought so highly of her awesome teacher. "Marry Kakashi-sensei. He's a loner but he is so hot and he has puppies, I love his dogs and they love me. He's also pretty caring in an awkward way so I think he wouldn't be the worst husband. Kill Asuma-sensei, I couldn't think of marrying him when he has Kurneai-sensei, not even in fantasy."

"You're a freak Hinata. You chose Gai, the man would probably start crying as soon as you started." Ino deadpanned at me, my choice of Gai and reasoning made her re-think my sanity. I mean, he's nice. A lot dorky, but Gai is awesome.

"Probably." I shrugged uncaring and we all busted into fits of giggles.

"Ok ok, how about... Lady Tsunade, Anko, and Fū-san." Tenten and I both 'oohed' at Ino's choices, this was a hard one. I thought about it for a second before breaking out into the biggest shit-eating grin.

"Fuck Anko, her sensei was Orochimaru and she's with Zabuza-sempai, she's gotta be a freak. Marry Lady Tsunade, her boobs could smother me and would make great pillows to sleep on every night. Kill Fū, she's drop dead gorgeous but I don't know her well enough yet."

"You are such a freak, my god. Why are we even friends?" Ino was hiding a smile as her eyes stared at me like I was insane.

"You love me Ino." I blew her a kiss and Tenten and I laughed as she waved it away like I was going to give her germs.

"I guess I'd do it with Fū-san, her hair is pretty and she seems like it would be fun. I'd marry Lady Tsunade, she's the coolest and yeah, she'd make a great sleeping buddy each night. Kill Anko-san because she's scary and she uses snakes. That's a big no." Ino nodded in agreement with Tenten, neither of them were fond of snakes. I shouldn't be but they are still cute little creatures even if they had a bad summoner for a while.

We played for a bit longer, getting more personal with people we knew but by the end, we were all crying laughing at our reasoning and responses for everything. We settled down into our sleeping bags when it was too cold to even try to do anything more. Shikamaru took one side of me and Ino took the other, we were all pressed together trying to conserve body heat with the inability to light a fire and give away our location.

The morning was tough, we packed everything up and went over our plans one more time before readying ourselves to split up and depart.

"Bye Neji-nii." I smiled at him and he placed a hand on my head, holding me to him. "Be safe focus all your energy onto winning and surviving, don't worry about me, I'll be fine." The war Neji was in, he died. That wasn't going to happen again, hopefully without me being there he will be fine and can put all of his focus on himself and not me. I can't even let myself think he'd meet the same fate in canon, this is not the same war so he'll be fine. He has to be fine, he's Neji the prodigy of our clan.

"Goodbye Hinata-hime, be safe. You are strong, I do not believe it will be your fate to die in this war. I will be there as soon as this is over to take you home." Him and his fate stuff, even toned down, it is still there. Maybe Zabuza needs to insult it out of him again. Neji placed a kiss to the crown of my head and left to go be with Lee and Tenten.

"Hinata." Shikamaru's deep drawl was so unmistakably him and I turned at the call. He was standing there, face bored but eyes sharper than ever. He pulled one hand out of his pocket and I ran into his arms, burying my face into him. "This is going to be a drag...You ready?" He mumbled and I nodded. "Do what you need to do to win, don't play hero, and don't die. It'll be too troublesome if we lose you because then I'd have to get revenge, Ino would cry, and my mom would be so sad so don't be stupid." I rolled my eyes and let out a hoarse laugh.

"I'm sorry that my death would be so troublesome for you." He sighed in response. "You too, don't die out there, I'd cry. You can't die ok? You're smart and you have a lot of power on your side so survive and make sure nobody else dies. You are a good leader, I believe in you." We pulled away and I was instantly colder. My face hardened and I commanded my team into position, us waving one more time before rushing away from one another.

***

We could hear the war before we could see it. Bombs and explosions were going off, the sound waves echoing to our position. I was stationed at the back of our platoon, my Byakugan constantly monitoring 360 around us. I finally saw the battlefield but from my position, there were hardly any chakra signatures in the vicinity.

We came in though the back, reaching a half day after Shikamaru's platoon did. That meant a lot of the action going on in this area was refocused to that area, giving us at least a bit more time to push to the center of the village before getting noticed. The houses in this area were abandoned, evacuated. There were a few dead, Konoha shinobi. They were frozen over from the cold. They weren't dressed in attire suited for this climate. Sasuke burned them and we never looked back.

"Naruto, Kiba clear a path! Sasuke, Shino make sure nobody can hit us from the sides! Save your chakra, they are only assessing our skills!" I screamed out orders, our group of 5 moving like a well oiled machine as we made our way to where Shizune's bunker was held. We were noticed about a kilometer into entering the village. Small, humanoid robots descended on our position and we were fighting through them.

They were the weaker level, just used to gage our strength. The were like Sasori's puppets had a love child with i-robot. They were not able to break us off path and we continued moving straight towards Shizune. I slammed my fist into the icy tundra floor, releasing my chakra on impact. The ground being frozen gave me an advantage because there was less absorption when I cratered the earth. The ground shook and splintered out before collapsing and eroding, sending the bots off balance and taking them out. It also made so that it would be that much harder to come at us from behind.

A bot sliced a Tantō down in my direction, I brought my own to counter and forced my chakra into it's weak point. My Byakugan could see the chakra flow so finding the point where the chakra was strongest was easy. That point was where it's controls were located, different on each, and when that busted the whole thing shut down.

A burst of chakra to my left, Naruto activated a seal and bots were sucked into it, disappearing into nothingness. Shino swarmed the bots with his bugs, they entered through all the openings and ruined the bots from the inside out. Sasuke plunged his Katana into a bot, lightning running through the blade so it cut through the metal like butter. Akamaru would pounce, his size pinning a bot while Kiba shredded through them with his claws.

Within an hour, we were close to the real battlefield. Kiba gagged, Akamaru whined, Naruto covered his nose. There were bodies strewn around us, some from Konoha, some robotic limbs and ninja dressed in the Kōri, ninja attire. There was blood frozen to the ground, weapons and holes littering the floor. It looked like an ambush, Konoha had the upper hand but something went wrong, there were craters like that of the ground just disappearing, scorch marks around the holes. The more inward we moved, the stronger the stench of death became, the stronger the chakra surrounding me was, the more we were attacked, the more buildings popped up.

"Sasuke, where are we?" My eyes burned, I shut them off for a bit to make sure I would be able to use them when we reached the real battles. The ground shook in the distance, we were close. The attacks on us were harsher now, larger weapons, stronger robots, some even had access to Justu. They were all under the control of their masters chakra but they didn't need to be with them, it was impressive and terrifying on how much more advanced they became. Like waves of a video game.

"Change direction to 3:00." We shifted our course slightly and pushed forward, my lungs were tight, my legs were screaming, we all were breathing heavier now. Naruto slammed his fist into a bot, the brass knuckles denting the skull and making it stumble just long enough for his other hand to grab it, pulling the head clean off.

My senses burned, a different chakra entered and it was inhuman, something I'd never felt before. Sasuke shot his head the direction I felt if from.

"Fuck, move!" he commanded, and moved forward faster than before. We all followed suit, augmenting chakra into my muscles to propel me forward. Right after that, a bright light, infused with chakra hit where we were once standing. The ground was gone, where the beam hit, scorch marks marring the now thawed tundra surrounding the hit. A blast of heat hit my face and my gut clenched. They have lasers activated with chakra. What the fuck.

I activated my Byakugan once more, looking the direction the beam came from. There was a smaller version of an AT-AT like thing, building up chakra that matched the last laser beam. There was a chakra inside the machine, its handler. The reports weren't kidding with this village being the most technologically advanced.

"We take this out first." I moved, heading right towards the thing. The uneven, rocky terrain made it so it was impossible to see until we made it over the peak. Just behind the vehicle, the war was raging. There were Konoha shinobi fighting against waves of robots and Kōri shinobi. it was horrific to see, there were comrades and enemies alike being struck down, others already dead. I'd never seen something so horrible.

I imagined it to be everyone together at the same area but with a quick scope, there were people scattered throughout the lands, one small group fighting against the larger numbers of Kōri weaponry. It wasn't all people together, fighting against one another one side versus the other, war was everywhere, surrounding everything. There was no clear left versus right, just one person battling what seemed like 50 others, everyone split and spread.

The screams were audible, a sound I'd never be able to forget. I could see and hear the sound of metal again metal, everywhere felt unsafe, dangerous. The Kōri Shinobi were pale, fitting the chill of their land. They fought violently, attacking with high tech, chakra weapons I had never seen. We didn't have much time to take in the scene, to accept that this was war, to make a plan, we just had to go. The laser was aiming for us once more, getting closer to firing.

"Shino, plug up the laser, Kiba I'll take it off balance and you drill it to the ground." Shino's bugs moved in a swarm, surrounding the laser and filling the cannon hole, eating away at the chakra as fast as it was being produced. I jumped from the top of the hill, aiming downward at the ground surrounding the weapon. I swung my heel down in an axe kick, slamming it on top of a shinobi who was fighting.

He went down, his body crushed beneath my force, the ground following suit, chunks of ground ebbing away and smashing around me. Kiba followed right behind the attack, right as the Laser weapon swayed to the left from my impact, he and Akamaru drilled into it, it went down, the insides being shredded with the Fang Over Fang technique.

"Fry the bastard inside!" Sasuke released a large electric field, covering the conductive metal in its entirety. The man inside screamed, his chakra flared in pain before it was gone. An arrow entered the field of vision behind me, I turned and caught it, the tip slightly slicing my finger but nothing more. The man looked stunned, he was aiming for what would normally be a blind spot. I was on him in an instant, stabbing the arrow into his chest, he spluttered, blood foaming past his lips. A set of mid-ranged robots went down, their chakra provider was dead and so were they.

Sasuke made quick work of those who went down before another could activate them. My platoon stayed within the range of one another but fought our own opponents and to protect our outnumbered comrades. Blonde clones were everywhere, placing tags or acting as a shield to protect someone from death by kunai. Kōri nin were yelling about taking out the blonde, there was so many of him doing so much damage.

There were 8 surrounding me as I rushed to find the dwindling chakra of a Konoha chunin. He was clutching his leg, or what used to be one. It was shredded and burned, blood flowing out of the wound. It was Yato, a boy a few years my senior.

"I'm going to cut the rest of this off and seal the skin, then you'll get on my back and direct me towards the barracks." I spoke calm, trying to keep the crying man—boy calm. His friend, Hanatara who was in Neji's class at the academy, was lying beside him, eyes glazed over and frozen open even after death. I surrounded my hand with chakra, cutting his leftover flesh off with a chakra scalpel was easier than a kunai.

"No, no please. Just let me die. Please, let me go with Hanatara!" He gripped my shoulders, pleading with his eyes. They were dark and dull, lifeless.

"Let me heal you, find a reason to live." Another clone popped behind me, I laid him back, ready to work but had to stop when a wave of kunai entered my chakra field. Before they could reach, a clone sent a Great Breakthrough and the kunai clattered uselessly to the side. The clone popped and I sent a small Water Bullet to the robot, crushing through his core.

A fireball shot beside me, burning into a shinobi who screamed and wailed until he went down. I turned back to Yato, he did it, but my heart dropped. He had plunged a kunai into his heart, he took one out with him but decided to die either way. Is this what war reduces people to?

I scrambled back to stand up after the force of an earth pillar jutsu slammed into my side, sending me sprawling to the ground. Another one followed, this one with spikes. I dodged, flexibly contorting my body to avoid the array of spikes and pillars aiming for my head. One tore through the cloth and netting of my calf, slicing into the skin. It wasn't too deep but it hurt like a bitch, I could feel the hot blood oozing from my calf.

"Die like your comrades, Konoha filth." The woman spat at me, gesturing to Yato. He was pierced with one of her pillars, hanging limply in the air. He was dead and she still stabbed him through like he was nothing. I attacked her, she was fast but I was faster. Her leg aimed high at my temple, I ducked, having to roll as she twisted to bring a Kunai where I had ducked.

Each Tenketsu on her body seemed to glow brighter than before. I shifted my balance, lowered my stance and attacked. Her arm pressed to the ground so she could spin and aim another kick, I stalked forward, jabbing, forcing my chakra into her body to stop the flow of chakra to her leg.

She growled in pain, cursing at me, readying another earth justu. It was obvious in the dirty coolness of her chakra what she was going. I moved before she completed her sequence, striking her arms, rendering them useless. Her cry brought another to fight, he had a long curved blade and swung, I shoved her into the line of fire, her blood sprayed in an arc as the sword cleaved her body in half.

"Kayama!" He shouted for her. I wasted no time, I picked her lower half up, throwing it so he'd move. That left him open and my palm slammed into his chest, Instead of blocking the coils here, I forced more chakra than he could handle to flow into the Tenketsu. The coils around his heart burst, and his heart ruptured.

Shino was beside me again, his trench coat had blood on it, his hair was matted as well. There was a rip in the arm of his coat but no blood, there were no wounds on him and his chakra was full. Flowing through him steadily as the Kikaichu buzzed beneath his skin. I probably looked the same. We pushed forward, no time to think about what we were doing, no time to regret anything.

The bug user fought in a way that nobody noticed him until it was too late. The best part of him being seemingly invisible was he was written off or forgotten and that made it so he could have set his bugs on them before they knew he was there. Shino was cool and collected the entire time, any cut or taunt was ignored as he took out people one by one. His bugs were like a cloud of death, sucking the chakra from the surroundings without a way to neutralize them.

Shino was good, he was scary good at what he did. He could be beside a person and kill them without the person realizing it, he killed with ease, not from not caring but from his practice and training as an Aburame. His temperament was so calm it was scary to those he was against, it was a deadly calm, one that comes from him knowing he was going to win.

Off in the distance, Naruto was moving away, being driven back by a mass of weaponized metal. There were so many of them, large and small attacking him. A shout, the numbers were evened out with clones. It was a blonde hurricane. He placed a seal tag on one of the Robots that continuously spewed out fire. It glowed with the blue of his chakra before the metal collapsed in on itself, crushed from the seal.

Another seal placed by a clone launched a mass of ground and robot into the sky. Naruto attacked with a variant of the Wind Cutter jutsu, it was more violent, stronger and shredded everything being forced to hover in the sky. Clones attacked with Rasengan, some landing their mark and others being destroyed before they even had a chance.

Even when something or someone came close to him, he was ready to fight. Naruto was a brawler. He was strong his movements unpredictable. He never seemed to tire, he was an abundance of stamina that close or far away he was better than who he fought. He had cuts here and there but that stopped nothing. He was fiercely amazing, his determination to protect his comrades after seeing so many died made him that much more dangerous. Naruto was a force, an army all on his own.

Sasuke had his sword drawn, cutting through those made of weaker alloy and using variants of chidori to destroy those that were stronger. Fire flew from his mouth sometimes, blazing the ground and burning what stood in his path. His eyes were glowing red, each attack against him consisted of waves of fast foot soldiers, all of which he was able to assess and avoid accordingly. He slashed with deadly grace, Zabuza's ferocious strength with a sword was obvious in Sasuke, but he had his own style.

Sasuke attacked with Kunai and Shuriken, tying ninja wire to the weapons and electrifying it to make them slice through stronger metal. There were scratches to his skin, the numbers of the enemy allowed them to get hits in but none were fatal or hindered Sasuke from working. A sword impaled into his shoulder and Sasuke cauterized the wound by burning it closed, not even taking a glance to the injury.

Sasuke used his snakes as well, they slithered and constricted around whatever they could find, crushing the enemies until they were scrap metal. He was deadly, graceful, beautiful, and ferocious as he fought. Nothing slipped his sights, he was Sasuke, a warrior; An Uchiha, a Shinobi and he was not going to lose.

Kiba and Akamaru were different than Naruto and Sasuke, they weren't slated to be the strongest and didn't have the reserves to do it but they were a force, a game changer all on their own. Together Kiba and Akamaru fought with a perfect, feral synchronistic, attacking and defending one another from all angles. Their insane sense of smell gave them an advantage. A large stationary Tank shot off a gas that blocked all light. The enemies they were facing didn't have eyes, only fought with chakra but that did nothing.

Kiba could smell them and together he and Akamaru shredded them to pieces before the smoke was even fully cleared. Akamaru was hit, punched by one of the large bots and let out a whimper. That set Kiba off, he moved fast, feral, animalistic as he struck the thing down. They combined and a few of the large weaponized catapults were destroyed by a singe attack from Kiba and Akamaru. They drilled into large metal, shredding through it in a way that should have been impossible. They were strong and wild and hard to track even for robots.

We were death walking, we were the cavalry and none of us were going to lose this war.

A/N: Ok so part 1 of the first war arc is done.. I hope you like it. it is getting a bit more dark and bloody because it's war but that's that. They will meet with Shizune soon and hell will happen! I hope you enjoy this, I'll add a bit on the Shikamaru front maybe next chapter as well. Enjoy, thank you for reading.

Question: Who would you Fuck marry kill between Kakashi, Naruto, and Sasuke canon?

My answer: Fuck kakashi because damn and he's too emotionally unavailable IRL to marry. Marry Naruto because he would be a good husband and is a sweetie. Kill Sasuke because he's a dick and I don't like him.