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"Our estimations were correct, Orochimaru seems limited to a few hundred shinobi."

Neji, having used his Byakugan had finished his evaluation of the soon-to-be war zone. He had informed the rest of the layout of Orochimaru's hideout and any weak points he was able to spot with his long-range use of the Byakugan.

With a nod of thanks from Tsunade, he turned of his doujutsu and awaited further instructions. With a grim look on her face, Tsunade nodded, as if preparing herself for the battle that was to commence within the hour.

"Ok, everybody knows their part."

Though it was more of a statement than a question, she received nods of determination from everybody.

"Then let's go, but remember what I told you. Retreat if you deem the battle a complete loss, we don't want to loose more shinobi unnecessarily."

Tsunade laughed internally, she knew everybody would stay to the end – she just felt better leaving that option to them.

"Move out."

With that said, silence replaced the area once more.

Shikamaru sighed from his perch on a low branch of a dense tree, though it was troublesome, he knew it had to be done.

"Troubleso-"

He was cut off by a slap a perfectly aimed at the back of his head, courtesy of none other than Temari.

"Just do your smart thing, and tell us what you want us to do."

Sighing once more, he continued his speech to his team and their back up – preferring not to get another slap round the head from the blonde shinobi.

"Well, Ino, Chouji and I know what we'll be doing – our team is designed for this. We will head straight in, Temari I want you to the right of us, and Gaara I want you to the left."

He felt weird ordering the Kazekage around, knowing full well that he could easily kill him and that he was at the same level as Tsunade. Shaking his head to get rid of those thoughts, he looked towards the two siblings.

"As soon as they raise the alarm, or become alerted to us – I want you guys to come in. Make sure anybody who escapes us three is taken down, we only have one shot at this – and I want to get it right first time."

Temari was tempted to make a smart remark about him being a perfectionist, but thought better of it, given the seriousness situation and all.

"Ok, we have exactly one minute before the first of the teams are launched. Make sure your ready."

Silent nods from his team caused him to sigh, he was slightly glad that he had been put with his team, and his girlfriend. He would be able to protect them, even if he wasn't able to – he was sure that they would protect and support each other. 'Troublesome…'

"Ready?"

Neji received only nods of affirmation from his team and back up, nodding to himself he mentally prepared for the battle that would be commencing in a mere 30 seconds.

Shikato couldn't help but smirk slightly to his two friends; they had been doing things like this for years, though maybe not to this extent.

"Like old times, hmm?"

Two smiles from his team mates and two smirks from the Suna shinobi, whom obviously knew of the team's history to a certain extent.

"Troublesome."

Anko licked the edge of her kunai in morbid fascination, while a grin was plastered upon her face.

"Let's kick some Oto ass."

With a smirk from Tsume and shaken heads from the other 3 shinobi that were part of her attacking team, she looked towards the soon-to-be battle ground. Breathing in deeply, she prepared herself for what was about to come.

A rough wind whipped at the trees, as if signalling the shinobi that it was time. No noise was made as they began the attack; the only sound was the wind rustling the leaves that lay upon the ground.

"Kagemane no jutsu" (Shadow bind)

With that whispered, Shikamaru's shadow stretched and captured the seven sound shinobi that had been sat around a fire, and also two others standing slightly to the side.

In a flash the nine men's lifeless bodies dropped to the floor silently, each with their throat slit. Not even waiting for their bodies to hit the floor, Shikamaru made his way to his next victims.

Ino left Chouji to take out those ninja who got caught in Shikamaru's shadow; she took off slightly to the side of her team mate's path of destruction, intent on doing more damage.

"Doton no jutsu" (Earth release)

She disappeared under the ground, only to reappear at two sound nin feet; after pulling them under she rose from the ground behind another, cutting his ankle tendons with two kunai. As her opponent dropped to the ground with a faint cry, he was crushed by an enlarged hand. Another sound shinobi who was intent on yelling for help was met by the still-enlarged hand, crushing his bones instantly.

Temari cursed as she heard a sound shinobi yell, their cover was blown – now it was her turn. Gaara had the same idea as his sister, running forwards silently they entered the fray.

"Kamaitachi!" (Cutting whirlwind)

Sending a violent gust of wind forth from a simple wave of her fan, she lifted several enemy Nin in to the air as she cut them deeply with chakra controlled winds. Letting their bloodied bodies fall back to earth, she turned her attention to another batch of shinobi that had been alerted and were making their way towards Shikamaru who was in the middle of a technique.

"Suna Raishin." (Sand lightening needles)

Gaara's bored tone echoed through the minds of the eight sound nin that apposed him, upon looking to the sky they wished they hadn't. The sand that the kazekage had just thrown in to the air was now coming towards them at an amazing pace. The screams of pain echoed through the battle fields as they were pierced easily by the speeding needles of sand.

Tsunade cursed to herself, she was hoping that they would have had more time before the sound nin where alerted to their presence. Without a second thought, she leapt forwards with determination, closely followed by her make shift team. The other teams that had been holding back realised the situation also, after seeing Tsunade and her team jump in to the fray; they too followed in their leader's foot steps.

Hinata, though a soft and kind person at heart, seemed to be having no trouble in stopping several hearts a second. After the alarm had been sounded, sound shinobi tore out of the main building in large groups, making it easier for the Konoha and Suna shinobi to kill them. After stopping another heart, she moved her head slightly to the left and caught a kunai that had been sent her way. Twirling the offending weapon on her finger, she used her momentum to swing in a circle and send it in to the forehead of a woman who had been running towards her.

"Kaiten!"

Neji's spinning slowed down as several men flew back and on to the hard ground, before they could even attempt to rise, their vitals were hit with several well aimed kunai and shuriken. Neji disappeared from sight, only to reappear in front of Tenten who was now on the ground in a crouched position, obviously having anticipated Neji's move. Neji's hand stayed in it's position, against the man's heart as he looked down at Tenten with a small smirk, secretly amazed at just how well they functioned as a team. That said, a green blur appeared slightly to their right, they smirked as they recognised both the voice and the attack.

"Konoha Senpuu!"

As Lee landed beside his friends, he joined in their smiles as he heard a thud of a body hitting a tree. Within a second, all grins disappeared as they were forced to separate as the ground beneath them turned in to mud.

"Tsuuga!"

Several men and women were sent spiralling away from a kneeling Shino who had been covered from a surprise attack by his team mates own vicious attack. Nodding his head slightly in thanks, he sent more bugs towards an advancing team of sound shinobi. Kiba and Akamaru took off in the opposite direction, not going too far, but not staying close enough to get in the young man's way.

Naruto and Sasuke had been split up from sakura after she had used her monstrous strength to destroy a large portion of ground under several sound shinobi's feet. They ran forward, simply cutting at vital points of the enemy shinobi as they ran through their mass numbers. A large snake summoning stopped them mid-run, hitting the two towards the edge of the battle that was reaching it's peak. Both were on their feet as soon as their momentum slowed and allowed them to do so, looking towards the offending snake they noticed that it had moved on. Instead of the snake, they were now faced with a smirking Orochimaru.

"Hmm, I see you Konoha shinobi don't give up easily. How naïve of you."

Naruto gritted his teeth as Sasuke returned his sword to its sheaf. Nodding to each other simultaneously, Naruto leapt forward.

"Tajuu Kage bunshin no jutsu!"

Several hundred Naruto's appeared in the air before Orochimaru, whom in return simply grinned at the blonde's futile attempts. Many of the Naruto's simply landed and ran towards the battle that was continuing behind him, others continued to fall towards the sannin.

"Katon Karyuu Endan!" (Fire dragon flame blast)

The dragon shaped flame burst through the cloud of Naruto clones and made it's way towards the sannin, whom jumped just in time to avoid being burned. Sasuke, having predicted this had already shunshin'd behind the snake.

"Katon Goukakyuu no jutsu!" (Grand fireball technique)

Orochimaru was sent towards the ground, covered in the flames of Sasuke's jutsu. Naruto appeared above the large crater that had been formed, Rasengan in hand. Slamming the Rasengan in to Orochimaru as he tried to regain his footing, Naruto fell forwards as the sannin was replaced by a large rock. Cursing to himself, Naruto jumped back to join Sasuke as he landed at the edge of the crater.

"Hn, you two have grown a lot I see. I suppose I won't be able to play with you anymore, I'll have to get serious from the beginning, ne?"

Naruto growled as Sasuke narrowed his eyes towards the man, both thinking of the possible out comes of this battle. They both knew that they stood a slim chance of defeating the sannin even if they did work well together, Naruto didn't want to have to use the power of the Kyuubi as it would put the others at risk. Both just had to hope that they could at least hold the bastard off until help arrived.

"Kuchiyose: Edo Tensei"

Both Naruto and Sasuke eyes widened as Orochimaru announced his attack, only seeing it done once before – in his fight with the 3rd Hokage. Before the two Leaf ninja could attempt to prevent Orochimaru completing the forbidden technique, several sound jounin attacked them simultaneously, obviously wishing to prevent just that.

Having finally disposed of the batch of jounin, their attention focused back upon the snake and his summonings. The breathe was knocked from their lungs as they noticed that he had had enough time to complete the technique, they were now facing the 4 Hokage's previous to Tsunade.

Sasuke stole a glance at Naruto, gauging his friend's reaction to seeing the Hokage's. He knew of Naruto's lineage and had to admit, he didn't know what could be going through the blonde shinobi's head at the moment.

"Naruto-kun."

Orochimaru hadn't yet placed the tag on to the 3rd and 4th's bodies, obviously wishing to play with the mind of the young blonde before him. Without putting the tag upon the two, they were able to remember their past, and just who Naruto was to them.

Naruto's eyes began to water when the 3rd Hokage called out his name, a pained look formed on the two Hokage's faces as they realised what they were about to be forced to do.

"Naruto."

Naruto looked up at the sound of the fourth's voice, realising that it was the first time he had heard him speak.

"I'm sorry."

At those words, Naruto's knees gave way from beneath him – Sasuke did not react as he knew that the blonde had to get through this, instead he just glared at the snake who was smirking behind the four resurrected shinobi.

"Sorry to cut your reunion short, Naruto-kun. But I don't wish to waste anymore time on you."

Naruto's tears splashed on to the soft ground below him, as if mocking him of his uselessness. He had always wished to have had just one chance to meet his father, but now. Now he was being forced to fight against his own father, and his father had no choice but to kill him. A soft thud signalled somebody landing to the right of him, glancing upwards slowly, blinking rapidly because of the soft drizzle that made it's way in to his empty cerulean eyes. A large hand rested upon his shoulder as the owner glared at his former team mate, student and teacher.

Jiraiya helped his student to his feet as Orochimaru placed the tags on the backs of the Hokage's, signalling that the battle was about to commence.

"Naruto, you know what I have to do."

The blonde's heart seemed to drop from his ribcage, he had been informed about the only way to win against this technique – and he knew that Jiraiya was the only one who knew it. Wiping his eyes, a determined looked replaced his once empty one.

"You only get one shot, don't mess it up, Jiraiya-sensei."

Jiraiya couldn't help but grin at the name Naruto had called him, though his grin quickly vanished as the returned his attention to the people before him. As he released his grip from the young shinobi's shoulder, he could see Naruto look to Sasuke as if silently communicating to him.

"I know."

That was all Naruto needed to hear, as he nodded to his team mate a frown became evident on his tanned features.

"You'll pay for doing that, you bastard."

His cursing was directed to the snake that was still stood at ease, grinning manically.

"Now, Naruto-kun. That is no way to speak in front of your father now is it."

As soon as the sentence was finished, Naruto launched forward with an animalistic roar. Sasuke too disappeared from vision as he followed his team mate in to battle; Jiraiya simply sighed and looked towards the sky.

"I'm sorry Sensei, Arashi."

With that said, he too ran in to the thick of the battle, mentally preparing for what he was needed to do.

Was that enough action for one chapter for ya? Phew, took a while to write.

Next chapter should hopefully be out in a week.

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