The Battle Of Shi Ravine(1)

The reinforcements were ready to accomplish their task. Yuno's plan was very simple, it was just to overwhelm Suna's army with all kinds of earth style jutsu. The terrein was in their favor.

The reinforcements were keeping themselves low, there was a forest two hundred meters away from the ravine. From this position, they observed Suna's army.

"This is no joke, you guys really gave a hard blow to them. How many do you think you've killed?" Yuno could see the state of every enemy shinobi, some were even lying down gravely wounded.

"We layed traps while we were retreating. Then, we made the bridges of the ravine explode after hundreds of them crossed." Jurou had already explained this to Yuno, but he explained it again for his brain to try and guess how much they could've taken down.

"Captain Yuno, the numbers I'm going to give you now are purely a guess. Five hundred to one thousand died under the many traps and explosions. Now, there are so many who are gravely wounded. Suna does not have healing outposts like we do. In a matter of hours or days, those wounded will succumb from excessive bleeding." Yuno rubbed his chin.

"Do you suggest we take the wounded out of the equation? How many men do you think we'll have to face?" Yuno wanted to have as many tips and suggestions from the Jurou, because he had already fought against Suna's army.

"If we take the wounded out of the equation, then we'll have to face a total of five thousand men. I've taken three thousand men out of the equation." this sounded good to Yuno. If it proved to be a near exact number, then they should have no problems with driving Suna's army away.

For the next thirty minutes, the reinforcements only observed Suna's army from far away. They were trying to make a bridge, this was what Yuno thought because they were cutting trees.

"Captain, do we go or not? My hands are itching, I want to kill the bastards." Shiba could not endure it anymore, he wanted to take revenge on Suna's army.

"Yes, we'll go now. Let me and my clan start the assault. When our attack lands on them, it will be the signal for everyone to attack too." Yuna stood up and motioned his clansmen to follow him.

The Ichika clan, one of the noble clans of Iwa. For centuries they have lived in The Land of Eath. In the warring period, the Ichika clan became very influential, as influential as the Fujimoto clan.

They were renowned for their great talent in Taijutsu and Ninjutsu. Most of the clansmen when they reached adulthood, could wield two releases. The earth and fire release. It was no surprise to see some being able to wield three. That is why Kentaro chose them specifically to become instructors in the academy.

'Ichika Style: Falling meteor Jutsu!' the two hundred Ichika came out of the forest and stood next to each other in a row.

They each spewed great balls of red flames in the air, those great balls of flames traveled towards Suna's resting and inatentive army. The Ichika clan was not done.

Each of the Ichika formed hand seals, chunks of earth ripped and levitated before each of them for a matter of one second.

From their waist hanged a little pot, they took the little pot and opened it. They spilled oil all over the big chunks of earth, they then flew towards a red flame ball each.

They ressembled meteors falling down from the sky, Suna's army looked at the two hundred meteor looking attack coming down on them.

"BOOOOM!" the two hundred earth pieces crashed down on Suna's army, they crushed many and burned hundreds. The fire was spreading in a portion of their ranks due to the oil.

Five big kunais flew above the two hundred Ichika towards Suna's army. Yuno didn't know who used those kunais. But one thing was sure, they were at least five meters long.

The reinforcements came out of the forest and roared, they each used long range attacks. The earth shifted, it created a fairly large bridge that connected to the other side of the ravine.

"Charge! Make sure to not fall down!" even so, many managed to fall down. Only God knew if they got impaled by the earth spikes.

"Wind Furry!" the sound of puppets resounded, fifty of them appeared on the other side of the ravine. Bartu's puppets opened their mouths, they fired powerful wind blasts, powerful enough to tear limbs.

"Get out of my way!" Shiba who was crossing the bridge, pushed a shinobi who was in front of him to the side. He jumped up and swiftly slashed his two axes horizontally.

"BOOOOM!" some of the wind blasts were dispersed with one explosion. Unfortunately, many wind blasts managed to strike the crossing men. They fell down and were inadvertently impaled.

"Jurou! We have to take care of that puppeteer! Let's go-" a gust of wind blew in front of Shiba's face, he looked to his left. He saw Yuno using incredible speed to cross the bridge in a matter of seconds.

"Earth Style: Earthquake Jutsu!" Yuno slapped his two hands on the ground. The ground trembled, the shinobi of Suna's army started to lose their balance. Bartu, the puppeteer, fell to the ground.

"Earth Style: Soil Suction Jutsu!" Yuno clapped his hands, Bartu started to get suctioned into the ground. In the meantime, all the reinforcements managed to cross the bridge.

Before he could get completely suctioned, Bartu freed himself by dispersing the surrounding soil with a powerful gust of wind.

"Captain Yuno, do you perhaps need help with this bastard? We, The Explosive Duo shall assist you!" Yuno turned around to see the figures of Jurou and Shiba.

"I don't need your help, you two need to kill the fodder while I take care of the puppeteer." Jurou and Shiba didn't insist, they executed what they were asked of.

Bartu was visibly the strongest enemy present, it was odd to The Explosive Duo to see Yuno wanting to take care of him by himself.

"Come at me, puppeteer." Yuno stood in fighting stance, he was looking forward to measure himself to Bartu. As the group leader of the Hunting Group, Yuno had only being training for the past years, in the wait of missing-nins to appear.

Today, he would finally be able to unleash all of his jutsu upon an enemy of the village.