Chapter 207

"So how are we going to do this?" asked Shikamaru as he Choji, Ino, Tenten and Naruto jumped through Konoha. They had been given the job of helping locate and safely escort any civilians who had not yet evacuated to the Hokage Monument.

Naruto looked at him and noticed the others were also staring at him expectantly. He realized they were waiting for orders. This was not something he had expected. "Erm…" He shook his head, right now these four were expecting him to tell them what to do, and even though he did not want to be the leader right now, he had to think of something.

Several dozen plans went through his mind before he selected the one with the best chance at succeeding. He put his hand in the ram seal and called out his most used jutsu, "Tajuu Kage Bunshin No Jutsu!" There was a puff of smoke and two hundred clones suddenly appeared around them.

"Shikamaru and Ino, I want you two to take one hundred clones and head off the two west! These clones will provide distractions and support for you! Tenten and Choji, same thing except go to the eastern sections!"

"What about you Naruto-kun?" asked Tenten with some worry. He was giving them all the clones, and that had to have been taxing on him.

"Don't worry about me," Naruto gave her a reassuring smile. He did not have as much chakra as he would have liked, but this many clones wouldn't drain his reserves too much. "I have still have a lot more chakra left. Now go!"

The others looked at him for only a moment before shooting off with one hundred clones following them.

Naruto's eyes hardened again as he took off towards the ninja academy, his instincts were screaming at him to head there. After all, the best way to insure your enemy can not fight back in later years to come, is to get rid of the future ninja the opposing village has.

Iruka along with several dozen other Chunin had barricaded the academy entrances in an effort to protect the students there. The evacuation order had come to them too late. Orochimaru had already foreseen that the academy may be evacuated before the invasion took place. And so he had given the order to destroy the academy the minute they tried to leave.

The moment Iruka and the others had attempted to evacuate, they had been ambushed by several squads of Oto ninja. Many of the Chunin had already died in an attempt to protect the students as they made their way back into the academy, and many more students had died because there were simply not enough Chunin to protect them all.

Turning around the scarred Chunin looked towards one of his comrades, "How are things looking?"

The Chunin slowly shook his head, "Not too good. We've only got about a dozen of us, and six are too injured to fight. We lost nearly fifty students in that surprise attack, nearly a hundred are injured and there is no way or us to get to the shelters."

"Damn," Iruka muttered, things were not looking good. "Those Oto ninja had expected the evacuation, almost as soon as it began they managed to storm us."

"Things are starting to look hopeless," The other agreed.

A little ways away Konohamaru and his two friends heard what they had said and were looking both worried and afraid. Looking around the young Sarutobi saw that many of the other students were also afraid, even more so then he was. Standing up Konohamaru peeked out of the window he had been hiding near, when he did he saw something that began to bring hope back to him.

"It's the boss!" He shouted, causing everyone else to look over at him, "Naruto-nii's come to rescue us!"

The other students and even the teachers looked out of the second story window and saw the shocking sight of nearly one hundred copies of a spiky blond haired ninja plowing through the enemy shinobi that had decided to remain behind.

Naruto was crouched on a roof as he looked over at the academy, using his talent for remaining hidden to avoid enemy detection. He moved the binoculars as he did a thorough sweep of the academy grounds. There a lot of dead instructors and many more students, along with nearly forty shinobi who were surrounding the grounds.

Seeing all the dead students made his blood boil. Konoha had allowed these people to come in here and participate in the exams, and this what they do!

He shook the thought off for the moment, getting angry would not help him here. As he looked at the forty enemy ninja he wondered why they had not attempted to attack the academy yet. Were they expecting some kind of trap if they entered? Or did they just feel that there was no need to rush things?

Whatever, I need to find a way to get rid of them, Naruto said to himself.

"Damn it, I wish I had not told Shikamaru and the others to go off," Naruto mumbled under his breath. In hindsight it might not have been the best idea. However there was simply too much ground to cover in Konoha, and his clones would dispel with on good hit, so they could not protect the population as well as Shikamaru and the others could.

"Well, I guess there's no helping it then," Not wasting a second Naruto came up with the best plan to defeat them. "Tajuu Kage Bunshin No Jutsu!" One hundred more Naruto clones puffed into existence, fifty of them jumped off and charged into the enemy ninja. They began to fight using fist, feet, knee's, elbows, head butts and kunai as they tore into the surprised Oto ranks. It took a while but soon the Oto ninja began fighting back, dispelling the clones faster than Naruto would have liked.

However there job was not just to fight against the enemy ninja, but to herd the enemies into a single spot so that they would be trapped for Naruto's planned jutsu. So in the end, it did not matter how many of them dispelled so long as there was enough clones to execute his plan.

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