4 Genius plan

(two months ago)

Konoha. It was late evening and streets were void of people except for shinobis or ANBU who was doing his/her missions. Due to the war, a curfew was imposed.

Tower of Hokage. Inside a dimly lit room, three men and a woman were sitting on a tatami in a circle with candles giving light to the map in the middle. This was the map of Land of Grass.

- Is it true that Grass Diamyo offered money to Konoha and Iwa to move the battlefield to another country? - asked the woman for confirmation, though she read the reports beforehand.

- Yes, it is, confirmed a man. He was the famous "Professor", Third Hokage of Konoha. Then he continued – yesterday Kusa ANBU arrived with the offer.

- Can we confirm the authenticity of the letter? – asked another man.

- Yes. Our agents in Grass Diamyo residence confirmed it, said a man with bandage covered his half face. He was the ANBU commander of the Konoha – Shimura Danzo.

Hokage looked at Danzo thinking – when the hell did Danzo send a spy to the Daimyo residence or why the hell I did not know about this – but did not say anything as it was not the time for internal struggles.

- If the authenticity of the letter is confirmed, what will our future actions be? Do we accept their offer? – asked Koharu, an advisor of Hokage.

- Money is a crucial resource during the war. And this war is expected to continue for 4 or 5 years at least. We cannot just depend only on Fire Daimyo. Else he will start to demand unreasonable things after the war, answered Homura, another advisor of Hokage.

- Will not Suna interfere if we move the battlefield to the Land of Rain. If they will our shinobis will be put between a rock and a hard place, asked Koharu again.

- Land of Rain is environmentally disadvantageous to Suna shinobi, because most of them specialize in using puppets. After too much exposure to rain, puppets require more maintenance. Besides, our spies will immediately inform us beforehand.

- What about Hanzo? Will he take it lying down? – asked Koharu.

- Konoha is not weak. In case I will send my students, said Hokage. But we have bigger problems than Hanzo. You must have read the reports that Hatake Sakumo killed the enemy commander last week.

- How is it a problem? – asked Homura.

- He was a nephew of Tsuchikage and there are rumors that Suchikage was training him to be the fourth Tsuchikage. That stone bastard is sending a battalion of jounins to the battlefield, said Danzo.

- Should not we send a battalion of jounins ourselves? – asked Koharu.

- It will put a lot of pressure on us as war with Kumo is also escalating, protested Homura.

- Actually we can just send a battalion of Academy graduates and genins, smirked Danzo as if he thought about a genius plan.

- No. Danzo we already discussed this, said Hokage.

- But it is the best outcome we can get, Hiruzen. In case they will not attack, all of them will return back alive, protested Danzo.

- You and I know it will not happen, yelled Sarutobi Hiruzen with anger.

- Then what if I propose a plan that can kill all enemy shinobis at once, said Danzo mysteriously.

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Danzo returned to his base late at night that day. There were dozens of ANBU kneeling in front of him.

- Bear, how was everything, asked Danzo.

- Everything is done as you ordered. We told all clan heads to prepare genins. Except for Uchiha clan, we implied other clans that these genins might not come back alive, reported Bear.

- Extra sharingan never will be bad. Besides, I can find those eyes better use for the greater good of Konoha, murmured Danzo.

- Dog, we will send you as a new battalion commander for these genins. Do you accept the mission?

- Yes, Danzo sama.

- Good, Konoha will remember your sacrifice.

- Cat, prepare a group of ANBU who are expert in infiltration and give this letter to Hatake Sakumo. He will tell you what to do afterward. Also, this scroll contains Uzumaki explosives. Give it to Sakumo too. He will know what to do afterward.

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(the night when Konoha shinobi retreated)

After receiving orders from Hokage, Sakumo led the ANBU group sent by Danzo to the enemy camp. Although he did not like the idea of sacrificing children, he could not deny the fact that the plan was impeccable. If we… no, when we carried out the order, the revenge for your sacrifices will be delivered, thought Sakuma as if trying to convince himself. He did everything as he was ordered. He captured enemy shinobi when he was trying to inform Iwa camp about the departure time of Konoha via pigeon and made him change the departure time written on the paper by putting him under genjutsu and sent false information to the enemy commander.

After a few hours, Iwa shinobis left their tents leaving only dozens of chounins or genins behind. Because of the death of the previous commander, Tsuchikage demanded that they annihilate Konoha shinobis while they would be retreating.

As the agonized cries of kids echoed all around, Sakumo clenched his fists and ordered.

- We have only five minutes. Do not let sacrifices of our young brother… no COMRADES go in vain.

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