Before War part 3 : Attack on Konoha

October 1, One week before the war,

Hanabi was roaming with a Hyuga bodyguard along with a fifteen-year-old Rinji who was the adoptive brother of Hatsuyo randomly here and there. She asked, "say, Rinji, you should know the consequences after father returned".

He sighed, "well, technically, I'm not part of the Hyuga clan yet. So, I will escape the punishment. SHe replied "but your relationship with the clan will be worsened further. Now everyone believes you are a coward who refuses to go to war".

He replied, "well, it doesn't matter but someone must stay back and guard the village while the others fighting in the front lines. It's not like Akatsuki is the only villain out there. You never know when people might take advantage of this situation.

That's why a couple of hundred were still left at the village to guard it. The only difference between them and me is that they were ordered to do so while I asked for it. Don't worry about me. At worst, I will be kicked out of the clan.

It's not like I will be exiled from the village that I won't able to see you guys for a while". As he smiled while ruffling her hair, he sighed while looking around, "the village sure is peaceful".

Unknown to him, Hanabi blushed while he ruffled her hair and stealthily glancing at him from time to time while walking closely beside him and the Hyuga guard suppressing his killing intent, "this outsider, how dare he try to coax our little princess.

If he isn't Hatsuyo sama's brother, the hand that dares to touch her hair like that would have been cut off by now".

Suddenly, out of no-where, all the shinobi who were guarding the village began to gather and the villagers who were roaming in the streets looked up in the sky and found several dark gold-colored things were approaching Konoha.

Hanabi frowned, "there are people inside those things. enemies?". Rinji's face changed dark, "Hanabi, go and get to safety. I'll be going". After saying that, he ran off towards Hokage tower leaving both of them.

Hanabi shouted, "wait". but she was too late as he already disappeared. A while later, the things in the sky turned out to be some kind of winged mechanical devices enemies are operating to fly and attacking the village from the sky.

Rinji went to Anbu HQ and changed his attire to that of anbu and put on his demon mask and undid his transformation on his hair which changed to dark reddish and grew long. he tied it as a ponytail. While he is out, an anbu saluted him, "captain Demon, an unknown enemy attack.

shinobi who were deployed to guard the village are going with self orders as no commanding officer was being appointed. We, anbu were in the standby waiting for your orders".

Rinji nodded and pulled out a whistle and blew it. It didn't make any sound in the village but for the anbu who wore their masks got a signal through it as it vibrates indicating they were being summoned by the temporary commander of them at HQ.

As around twenty anbu gathered and kneeled on one leg as a formality, Rinji spoke, "I guess, everyone knows me and the situation in the village. I don't need to explain those useless things.

Judging by those mechanical devices in the sky, there's a high probability that our enemy is the land of the sky". One of the anbu was shocked, "what? impossible. they got destroyed in second shinobi war".

Rinji replied, "we already discovered their existence a while ago but since we're busy with war, Hokage-sama told to put that investigation on hold. As far as I count, there are around only 20-30 enemies. I believe this isn't all their strength.

Every one of you, just stay in the shadows and don't engage the enemy. The guardian unit will take care of those. We are after all heavy in number. You can save citizens and move them to safety without revealing your presence to the enemy.

Everyone put your wireless radios on and stay on channel 3. Further orders will be given according to the situation. Now, disperse..".

As everyone dispersed, he too disappeared into the shadows while waiting for the enemies' boss. Meanwhile, not only the enemies actively shooting down kunais from the sky at a fast pace with the help of their mechanical device,

but they are also throwing down several devices which upon contact explode ten times more than an exploding tag. As the guardian unit began to suffer casualties along with civilians as the buildings collapsing,

Rinji cursed in frustration, "damn it. I thought that we have overwhelming in number and they can only attack kunai from the sky but I greatly underestimated their technology". Then, he switched on the wireless radio and ordered them, "ok, we have no choice. Team A, B, and C.

Focus on destroying one of those wings. Team D, E, and F try to gather most of them in one place or at least near to each other. tell the shinobi of the guardian unit to do the same. Tell the graduated kids and genin as well as retired shinobi to help the civilians". "Yes, sir".

A while later, a few mechanical flying devices wings were destroyed, they began to fall in the ground. some shinobi of the guardian unit quickly finished them off.

Meanwhile, Hanabi, Konohamaru and a few of their friends who became genins, a few months ago, began to move the civilians to safe places. As an enemy targeted them while they were in the middle of helping to endanger civilian's lives,

Hanabi looked at the enemy seriously. She released the chakra from her tenketsu in her hand and gathered in her palm and motioned it towards the enemy, "Eight Trigrams: Vaccum palm". She instantly destroyed the machine.

After he fell on the ground, as he stood up, without giving him any time, She went into juken stance, "you are in my range". "Eight Trigrams: 32 palms". As he consecutively struck him and defeated him, she garnered the attention of a couple of others.

As they attack with Kunais, she immediately flew from there to protect the civilians. Two of the vehicles following her. worried Konohamaru ran behind her and after getting caught up with her, he spewed out gunpowder which spread around and clouded the vision of those enemies.

He tried to attack with fire jutsu combination which burns them but before he even did hand seals, they flew up a bit more and escaped it.

Later, they once again tried to attack with one more joined, the anbu who were following the orders brought the remaining ones near to both of them. Just then, a bit of distance away from them, Rinji landed and looked around,

"good, now let's finish them at once". without doing any hand seals, chakra based chains began to manifest from his body in all directions startling Hanabi and Konohamaru as well as everyone around.

The chains captured all of them tightly. The shinobi inside the flying devices panicked as their machine didn't move and as he controlled the chains to smash all of them down destroying them and inflicting heavy damage to the pilots.

He wasn't able to deal with the other two as they were out of his range but they were quickly taken down by others. Then, he disappeared into the shadows without glancing at Hanabi and Konohamaru.

Meanwhile, Hanabi whose byakugan was active was stunned and stood there like a statue as she found the red-haired anbu with a demon mask has two types of chakra inside him and one of them was extremely familiar to her. She mumbled, "Rinji?".