Walls Falling... Again!

(MC – POV, Konoha Shinobi Forces)

Standing under the cover of the knight, my second in command, Shibi Aburame, walked to my side.

"There are no traces of any enemy shinobi being on our tracks, though our spy reported that he spotted a large number of shinobi leaving the village an hour before our arrival."

'On the notice, I warned the Tsuchikage to come alone. With our tracking nin, he should know better than to just ignore my warnings… meaning it's a trap. The only reason for him to ignore our warnings is that we don't have sufficient leverage, the girl we took is not Kurotsuchi.'

And with no surprise, as I was thinking a tremendous tremor hit us as the ground shook.

As the shinobi managed to regain their foothold, everybody hurriedly got into their combat positions.

"It's time, Iwa is within sight and their defenses are weakened. Shibi, 1st to 3rd companies (ranged fire & wind users) to the front with me, 4th to 10th (close combat troops) on the flanks, and 11th to 13th (recon troops) cover the back." – I said as I turned my head towards him.

"Yes, Hokage-sama."

Not 5 minutes later the troops gathered into formation and a loud noise was heard.

*BOOM*

As I looked towards Iwa, I saw dust rise from the explosion on what I assumed to be the northern wall of Iwa… while we were facing the southern wall.

"Haa…." – I sighed as I looked at the astonished faces of the shinobi behind me.

"Might as well do this while we still have high morale… ADVANCE!" – I ordered as the shinobi moved behind me, closing in on the village.

As we ran towards the village, the gates closing fast, only a few guards yelling for reinforcements could be seen as we suddenly stopped at an appropriate distance.

Weaving through hand signs, more than half of the front line spewed out fire directly towards the wall and so did I.

Creating a clone I weaved through hand signs and fired at the wall, crushing the defensive Jutsu's of the defenders and only stopped by the wall.

"Sage Art - Fire Style: Majestic Destroyer flame."

"Sir, the wall is barely holding, we have to fall back, reinforcements won't make it in time."

As a giant torrent of fire spanning the length of the wall burned it together with the defenders, the other shinobi also weaved through signs, releasing numerous wind jutsus.

"Sage Art – Wind Style: Rasenshuriken." – two enormous Rasenshuriken took form above the clone's raised hands, as he threw them towards the wall.

As the defending shinobi saw the amount of Jutsu heading towards them, even though heavily outnumbered due to the surprise attack, they tried their best to defend, but most were still killed by the torrent of Jutsus.

As the Rasenshurkiens headed towards the wall, I doubled the ferocity of my Majestic Destroyer Flame, earth cracked below my feet as the torrent of fire doubled in both size and ferocity, crashing strongly into the walls as two domes of fire were created in front of us.

'And I'm out of chakra… that's a new one.'

'Sadly shadow clones pale in comparison to my real body… and I should probably learn how to gather nature chakra with my clones. Except for the initial chakra, I cant seem to replenish it as I do with my actual body.'

As I was lost in thinking, the domes of fire slowly died down as Shibi made his way towards me.

"Take the 1st to 3rd with you and start retreating towards the tunnel entrance and wait there for us. Use the pills if necessary but do not stop until you reach it."

"Understood Hokage-sama. Do be careful." – He said as he made his way towards the back.

"1ST TO 3RD RETREAT!" – Shibi announced as he fell back, 3 companies following in line, retreating as a tide and leaving a major gap in the front.

"4TH TO 10TH ADVANCE INTO THE VILLAGE!" – I yelled as the seemingly ragtag placement of shinobi moved fluently to take their places into the front and rushed towards the broken wall heading into the village.

Despite the Jutsu ending, the fires continued to spread inward, spreading from rooftop to rooftop, lighting entire sections of the village on fire.

As we entered, only groaning and burning shinobi and civilians could be seen, meaning the reinforcements had yet to come.

As our shinobi spread into teams and advanced rapidly I headed alone towards the Tsuchikage tower, just as a dragon made out of water rose and headed towards me… it was too weak.

"Water Style: Water Dragon Jutsu."

Planting my hand into the ground, using my strength I grabbed and pulled, throwing a large chunk of stone straight to it, breaking through the flimsy Jutsu and crushing the head of what looked to be no more than a teen. As his skull was caved in by the impact, his face was no longer recognizable.

"Earth Style: Got no more chakra left Jutsu."

As I moved forward a bit more I saw an Iwa shinobi stand down the road, his body twice my size, intimidating to people who saw him, but I was unmoved as I noticed more shinobi moving on both his sides, clearly trying to ambush whoever came through here.

Planting my feet into the ground, I launched straight into him, earth cracking as the Iwa nin quickly weaved through a few signs and planted his hands on the ground, a wall rising to block me off as I pulled back my arm back and it through the wall right until I could hear a sickening sound come from the other side.

*Squelch* *Crack*

Pulling hard I broke the wall and noticed the surprised and terrified looks of the shinobi who couldn't ambush me in time as I dragged the corpse of what I assumed to be their team leader or commander from the other side of the wall, my arm plunged into his throat and my hand wrapped around his crushed spine.

Looking through the number of ambushers I smiled.

"5 against 1. You clearly have the upper hand and I don't have any chakra left. Please go easy on me." – I said as I smiled at their terrified faces.