Konoha Crush [2]

"Sandaime-sama. Here's the intel."

Hiruzen took the report. Using a flying bird summon, a Hyuga member was carried as high as possible and what he saw was… a flying fortress powered by a powerful chakra source - almost close to that of a bijuu.

And there were multiple chakra signatures of shinobi on them.

Hiruzen frowned. His brain instantly recalled the Land of the Sky that had once challenged Konoha during the Second Great Ninja War. His eyes widened as he realised the seriousness of this matter. But before he could make any other arrangements, the 1st phase of the attack had begun.

On Ancor Vantian, the Shinobi of the Sky wore their gears and machineries. Their goal was to cause as much destruction as possible towards Konoha. For their revenge!

The mere company consisted of hundreds of Shinobi geared up and jump down the fortress. The wings opened from their backs as they dived right straight to vilalge below!

Hiruzen received the report of those Shinobi actually launching an attack right at the moment! Hiruzen stood and quickly cancelled the Chunin exam, and asked every Shinobi around to protect all the civilians.

"WE ARE UNDER ATTACK! EVACUATE TO THE SHELTER! QUICKLY SOUND THE ALARM!"

In seconds, the alarm sounded. And just as they did, explosives were dropped from the sky.

The company of Sky Shinobis came in formation and in waves, each of them dropping bombs, using devastating machinery that shoots projectiles.

The sound of chakra guns shooting blade projectile, the screams of panic and fear, the smell of gunpowder and iron, the smokes and dust covering the sky. Blood spilled as civillians and shinobi defending fell.

An Akimichi used his Expansion Jutsu, swatting a few of the Sky Shinobi in fury, managing to kill a few in a single swat. But being bigger also made him an easier target as he was shot in barrage from multiple angles! 

"Ahh!" The Akimichi was bloodied and holed - eventually falling with a loud boom even causing a building to completely collapse.

Konoha Defense Team took out their own machineries, Kunai turrets kept shooting trying to take down the Sky Shinobi.

Chaos and explosions spread all over Konoha. Every Konoha citizen was running in panic, trying to reach the nearest shelter. While the shinobi's tried their best to defend their village. Many civilians were injured. Buildings went to smoke and few became rubbles.

Cries and fear were spreading. Death of loved ones, destruction, the smell of blood and powder - Shino stood on top of a building, laughing like a maniac as he felt the surging dark energy going inside of him and feeding into Reibi.

"HAHAHAHAH! JUST A LITTLE MORE!"

***

Danzo received the report and felt a trace of anger. He didn't expect Orochimaru to have a deal with the remnant of the Land of the Sky! But he still felt it wasn't that much trouble.

The sacrifices were still within acceptable range, at least. And the troops from those Sky Shinobi were only in a company size (hundreds). They only launched an attack towards the center of Konoha, and the damage was limited.

Hiruzen had his gear ready. A team that had the ability to fly via summoning beasts was assembled. And he's coming along even if his life was at stake! He wouldn't let the village fall to ruin!

But just as Hiruzen and the tens of Konoha Shinobi and a few ANBU's were about to take off… the ninjas from Otogakure suddenly appeared and surrounded them.

Kimimaro, Jirobo, Sakon, Kidomaru, and Tayuya - the Sound 5 were all assembled. And behind the 5, a woman with long hair licked her lips in crazed expression.

"What's the meaning of this!" Hiruzen had to ask, feeling the evil intentions.

"Hnhnhn… It's been a while, Hiruzen…"

"Y-you-!"

Hiruzen face darkened hearing the hoarse cold voice. It had to be him! Orochimaru teared the woman's face he wore, revealing that he had completed the Living Corpse Reincarnation as if taunting Hiruzen. And this day of destruction was Orochimaru's plan all along.

"I regret letting you go back then. To think you would come back to destroy Konoha… but why! Why are you harming the village? You only had a grudge against me! The village had raised you. Don't you have a heart at all for your home?"

Hiruzen was solemn. He realised just how much of a mistake it was to let Orochimaru go back then.

"Hnhnhn. You fool. I didn't hold a grudge against you... This world needs a wind of change. It's already too long that the wheels have stopped." Orochimaru acted as if his attack was a mere whim of his and wasn't personal.

Orochimaru's elite force, lead by Kimimaro used their curse marks, dark markings spread across their body and eventually turning them into monsters.

Kimimaro started the attack by using a massive wide range jutsu - Dance of the Seedling Fern!

The grounds shook as massive chakra was poured into the ground. Massive spikes of bones' meters high grew outward in an instant, creating a forest of sharp ash coloured bones.

Hiruzen summoned Enma quickly and used Adamantine Rod to defend himself and create a platform for him to stand on. However, half of his men were caught in the jutsu and received injuries. Blood spilled all over from the dead bodies and parts skewered by the bones.

Kimimaro wasn't finished yet. He seemingly melt into the bones - akin to Hiding Mole jutsu and launched an assault by moving stealthily from one bone to another!

Orochimaru and the other Sound 4 also began their attack. Orochimaru slithered and approached Hiruzen head first.

"Your opponent is me!" Orochimaru looked at him with bloodlust. Hiruzen was pushed back by Orochimaru. He was shocked to see the abilities of the Sound 5 especially the person with Shikotsumyaku Kekkei Genkai! Konoha's shinobi forces were spread out due to the chaos earlier. He needed to buy time for reinforcements!

Hiruzen summoned 3 shadow clones, using various means to fight Orochimaru.

Wind Release: Great Vacuum Blade! Fire Release: Dragon's Roar!

The combination of jutsu created a blade of roaring temperature heading to Orochimaru.

Orochimaru couldn't dodge and was cut in the middle from the flaming wind blade. The flames climbed up his body, trying to devour him into ashes.

But it was Orochimaru - his mouth opened wide - and from it spat out a new self before his original body was burned to ashes.

Orochimaru was a little solemn, seeing how Hiruzen hadn't lost his touch. "I really couldn't underestimate you, Hiruzen!" Orochimaru licked his lips and made hand seals.

"Living Corpse Reincarnation!"

Hiruzen eyes widened in shock and fear seeing that Orochimaru had indeed completed the Jutsu!

3 coffins appeared in front of him one by one. Lord 1st…! Lord 2nd…! Hiruzen quickly made hand seals and quickly stopped the 3rd coffin from appearing - because he didn't want to deal with Minato out of all people!

"Tch. As expected of you... You already figured the seals to stop my summoning… but I already have the first and second. You can't possibly defeat them on your own, Hiruzen!"

And just then, suddenly, a dark flaming barrier appeared all around them. The 4 of Sound 5 was given space by Kimimaro to help Orochimaru. Preventing Hiruzen from escaping and receiving any backup.

Everything went according to what we all know without much suspense.

***

"Damned old man!" Orochimaru had panic and for once, fear, in his heart. He felt his soul leaving his body, his limbs went limp, the Shinigami pulling his inside. But Orochimaru was not willing to die without a fight. Hiruzen was slowly losing his breath. He realised he couldn't completely kill Orochimaru… but at least…

"I will take your hands with me…!"

Hiruzen cut the soul of Orochimaru's hand and had it sealed into the Shinigami's belly.

"No! My hands!!! Damn you!"

Hiruzen eventually died, while Orochimaru made his escape.

***

"He managed to kill Hiruzen..." Danzo muttered to himself after receiving the report.

Although it was what Danzo had hoped, it would be a lie to say he didn't feel lost. Hiruzen was his closest friend, and the one who stood in the light while he was in the darkness.

Danzo remained still, processing that the day had really came…

"Hiruzen… if only it wouldn't have need to come to this…" Danzo genuinely think it was Hiruzen who had failed Konoha, and that his death was justified. He truly had wished their views aligned…

"Danzo-sama, Lord Third was killed. Do we make a move now?." A Root member spoke.

Danzo raised his hand to give signal.

"1st to 5th Squad, go and eliminate him at all cost."

Danzo wanted to 'clean up' the mess. And also 'avenge' Hiruzen while at it and get the name for killing the defector.

"Understood!" Half of the people from the group disappeared.

Danzo thought the attack on Konoha was over, since Orochimaru retreated because of injury, and the Sky Shinobi attacks were already over long ago since there were only hundreds of them and their weapons and chakra were used up. A hundreds of Shinobi couldn't possibly damage Konoha that had close to 80,000 populations in total.

But just then, Sai came to report urgently.

"Danzo-sama, there were huge chakra signature coming from the flying fortress."

Danzo frowned, realising they still had something up their sleeves.

"The rest of you. Take down that fortress. We already had enough losses. Tsuyu, go with them."

"Yes!"

 ***

Tsuyu arrived outside, her eyes widened slightly seeing the destruction at the center of Konoha. The smell of blood and powder. But seeing the number of shinobi still around, and the most civillians were at most injured - most of the combatants weren't affected and it wasn't the worst situation yet.

But all of a sudden, Tsuyu felt a forceful tugging in her consciousness. She found herself in her subconscious, where Kyuubi was seemingly restless and looking at her with almost panic.

"Hm?"

"BRAT! TAKE MY POWER! QUICK!" Kyuubi roared loudly, even holding out his hand to Tsuyu across the gap of the seal.

"What…?" Tsuyu was very confused at this suddenness and couldn't process what this fox was about.

"I HATE TO WORK WITH YOU, BUT I AM NOT GOING TO BURY MYSELF WITH YOU! THEY ARE COMING AT US! DONT JUST STAND THERE! A MASSIVE ATTACK IS COMING! BLOCK IT!"

Tsuyu noticed the commotion in the real world. A Hyuga was looking at towards the sky in horror, and something about an incoming attack.

The sky fortress had a nuke about to set off here?

Tsuyu finally understood the gravity of the situation and just as quickly reached out and extended her hand towards Kyubi. Floods of red chakra leaked out from Kyuubi, Tsuyu took it all in…

Tsuyu's iris turned red, her pupils became like that of a demon. Burst of red chakra pulsed from her body as boiling bubbles of chakra start to cover her body.

The chakra became darker and darker as it covered her entire body except her face. Bone like structures also grew out of her body, encasing her limbs and torso in it. Upper and lower jaw of a fox-like bones grew from behind her head - crowning her head and covering her jaws, leaving her face still open and visible. 1, 2, 3… 6 tails formed on her body as 5 appendages formed from her hair coated with dark red chakra and a single chakra tail as the 6th.

Her red demonic eyes turned to face the sky, where a bright light akin to a star was pointing in their direction.

***