17 Entering the battlefield

Walking back to the makeshift Konoha commando base that was created on-site, Shinku enters quietly while inside you can see several jounin arguing.

"And you've already gone to kill the child".

Watching him come in, Tsume talks sarcastically.

"With that kind of wife who has the most likely that I will die before I even touch him"

Ending the conversation he joins the discussion about the upcoming battle against Kusa no Jitsu.

"We have information about the next fight"

"Yes sir, we received information from the base, they will attack tomorrow the Iwa command center to attract the largest number of people to the battlefield while we attack the members of Kusa no Jitsu"

"And what are the numbers of the enemy"

"If the plan works its number will be equal to ours, we will only surpass them in quality"

"We are still at a disadvantage, if Iwa leaves some of its members we will have to work twice as hard and perhaps increase the casualties"

Due to the sudden attack of Kusa no Jitsu most of Kusa's no Hana warriors were wounded and a few dead, most of Kusa no Hana were mostly civilians with few ninjas, barely if they rivaled Jitsu and with this attack, their numbers were lowered.

"We also have to keep people here in case they attack again, we can't leave them unprotected".

"But who we would choose to be, we cannot leave many people and they need to be strong"

Although it was unlikely that they would attack civilians, they can take them hostage so that Kuna members would not be withdrawn from the fight or move to the other side.

"How about we ask Hajime's wife if she can defend the place in our absence"

"I wouldn't know if they'd accept"

"Don't worry about that it will be fine"

"Why are you so confident"

"I trusted my instincts"

Seeing the dilemma Shinku and the others went through, Tsume makes her opinion, everyone here knows how strong Aino is and having her here would be a great relief to everyone because, with someone of that level to protect the cool serious place, and even though they didn't know the power level of his Aino companion they could say she was in the Jonin rank.

And it is because of this person that Tsume was sure of his cooperation, although she could not quite distinguish her scent he felt that she had known her. Still, she could not say for sure who she was, Tsume knew that she was an ally and not an enemy and that was enough for now.

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In the morning all the people prepared for battle, from the ninjas who would go to the front like the families who would stay in the place.

Ninjas could be seen preparing their weapons as families, preparing supplies for them, and energetic breakfast.

Shinku went back to Hajime's place to talk to Aino about the subject they discussed yesterday.

"Nice place to stay in this place"

"Thank you very much Aino-san"

"You don't have to thank, even if you didn't ask, I wouldn't let these poor families seeking peace enter the war"

With his goal secured Shinku retires to prepare everything.

"Well I'll get ready for the fight too, take care of both of them"

"We'll be fine, you're the one who has to be careful"

"Don't worry I'm stronger than I look"

Seeing the two of them so affectionate, Kushina could only wait aside until they were done.

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Departing for the base of Kusa no Jitsu all the ninjas went over the mission to be carried out.

"Listen we won't know how the distraction went and that so many ninjas are left in the place, the members of Kusa no Hana will guide us at the base will take care of how members of Kusa can still change and support us in the fight, they will also tell us who we can eliminate, this will be a tough fight for all the impediments we have, but if we can lower the number of lives poured in this fight we will do"

It was very difficult for them to kill their countrymen, the deaths caused in the previous attack were only by some of the most detested ninjas in the village who sought chaos, while those who only wounded the others were the ones who sought to change sides.

Although some of Konoha's members disagreed, most of them quickly accept it.

The closer they got to the place, the tension in all increased.

Arriving at the place the first to attack were the members of Kusa no Hana who separated the group in two, with which they peeled were the ones they should only subdue while the others could be finished.

With a clear distinction, the Konoha members entered the battle.

As they expected there were many people from Iwa still in place so their number of enemies increased a lot, the good thing was that the Konoha members were the elite in their respective grades so they fought the quantity with quality.

They were divided into several groups, to cover more ground, Hajime was alone.

Entering the place the fights were simple, as large jutsus could not be occupied because they could hurt their allies most of the fighting was hand-in-hand.

While peeling Hajime arrived at an intersection, To make it easier Hajime used his domain to visualize the entire terrain, with this there were no enemies who could escape it.

Since the level of melee skills were not as developed as the jutsus there was not much work unless someone came out at Kage level or with a strange kekkei Genkai there will be no problems.

While traveling around the place he was able to perceive two people with his dominion, one was a little girl and the other was a ninja, they were in a small house on the outskirts, the strange thing about the scene was that the girl was tied in ropes while the ninja stood to watch.

With so many changes in the timeline, I didn't know exactly if it was what I thought, but it didn't hurt to check.

/With ----/

The mornings were like any other for the little girl, she would wake up in the morning with her mother, prepare breakfast and watch her mother leave the house escorted by one of the men of the village, although it was not the best life at least her mother had improved health, suddenly one of the village ninjas quickly entered the house and without even letting the girl be bound and gagged for that man, without saying a word the man sits in the room.

"Let me go! where my mother is"

"Shut up a brat or I'll do it by force, if you want to know so much about your mother then I'll tell you your mother is helping us kill the enemy, as she's too weak to keep working we decided it was the least she should do"

"My mother wouldn't do that"

"That's why I'm here for your mother to hear all our words, and if she doesn't, let's get rid of you."

"And it happened to Mom and me."

"Who knows, your mother is very weak so that when everyone escapes they will abandon her and the ninjas in her anger kill her, as for you you will come with us to fill her"

The man stood and surcharged on the wall quietly as he smiled as he saw the little girl cry over his words, all the girl could do in that situation was wait for someone to come and help her.

"I have enough information with that"

Without her waiting long for a hand to come out of the wall grabbing the man's neck and pulling him out of the house by making a huge hole in the wall, from which a young man of simple appearance came in the only thing to highlight were his eyes so black that if you looked at them they seemed to have no end, the carrying a simple katana on the side next to which the man who was previously standing in his hand, seemed to have been knocked unconscious.

Leaving the man lying on the ground the Young Man slowly approaches the girl.

"Hello little my name is Hajime Hayashi and yours"

"K-Karin-n"

Answering automatically to the question of the young man who slowly removed the rope around him.

"Please save my mom"

Coming out of her surprise Karin frantically asks Hajime for her help.

"Of course don't worry we'll go for your mother, don't worry".

Placing little Karin in his arms, Hajime ran quickly, for his mastery ability he could see that everyone was gathering in a part of the base, separated into two sides, quickly heading to the place he could see that several ninjas were gathered, Karin's mother was almost in front holding a kunai around Hana Inuzuka's neck while Kakashi had one but on the neck of Hana no Jitsu's leader.

Both sides were behind their respective people and you could feel the enormous tenure in the air.

"What the hell is going on?"