Before The Battle Begins [Short Story]


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Just like any day Leaf aviary was busy and full of noise from all the stamps and pens of chunin working nearby. The job is usually not that hard at least compared to fighting it was rather easy for a chunin but even then compared to other days only a few letters came today. Some of them were about land inquiries and some about mission requests but nothing special. 

Suddenly a harsh noise came from outside the building all chunin stood up in unison in a battle stance. The sound was approaching closer every second. Then a hawk suddenly crashes onto the floor surprising everyone in the room. A chunin quickly dashes and examine the hawk letter.The chunin takes the letter in his shaking hand seeing the current state of the delivery hawk. It could be anything. Every one of his muscles tenses up as he opens the letter carefully in an attempt to not damage the letter or further freak out the scared hawk. 

The letter was of bad quality and a little burned the writing was horrible almost as if written in a hurry. The chunin read out the letter to the other chunin.

"We are under attack! Our patrolling group was attacked by an army of sand ninjas near the dark clearing currently heading to the leaf village."

 

The chunin handling the letter was shocked and rushed to the Kage office with all the strength he could gather. In little over fifteen minutes the state of the leaf village changed the usual shops busting with customers all closed down in a matter of minutes. The joyful sounds of children playing vanished without a trace. All that was left was the grim expression of trained ninjas ready to fight.The action taken by the current Hokage was quick and he manages to gather most of the active forces in leaf such as the military police force, Five out of twelve guardians, and many chunin and jonin.

The current force gathered wasn't the full power leaf could provide but it also wasn't too bad. The real problem was that sand was nowhere to be seen. The Kage quickly sends some scouts to find sand traces but they were nowhere to be found. Many questions were revolving inside the leaf ninja's minds such as "did they leave without fighting" or "was the information about coming to leaf wrong?"

Everyone seems worried not only because sand was missing but also regarding the content of the letter sent by the unknown leaf ninja. Even if situations are dire leaf ninja always sends an encrypted letter but this one was not further it doesn't contain any useful information about the number of sand coming or anything else.But still, a delivery hawk delivered the letter which means it was indeed sent by a leaf ninja. The delivery hawks are trained for years before they are ready to work. They only take letters from leaf ninjas even if they are about to die but there is a loophole that sand can easily exploit the hawks never betray the leaf village but humans could easily.

 

The Hokage's calm and relaxed expression changed to an angry one as he shouts 

 

"FORMATION 12!"

 

As soon as shinobi hear the Kage command they rush out and spread. Till now they were guarding the entrance to leaf village against a threat that was nowhere to be found. But the situation was different now the threat might already be inside the village. The sand village is famously known for its techniques related to invisibility Jutsu. They are the most advance when coming to any type of cloaking ability and changed the simple technique to absolute perfection granting them perfect cloaks. This means they might have already invaded the village and just waiting to eradicate us in one single attack.

All the shinobi took positions around the village ready to fight but nothing happened the sand army still was nowhere to be seen and everyone's stress was only increasing over time. One hour went by and still, nothing happened everyone was still in position. They could do nothing but wait until they are given further orders. Many random thoughts started plaguing the minds of ninjas such as "maybe someone just did it as a joke? And in reality, no one was coming to invade us and everything will return to normal soon."

Each minute feels like an eternity when you know you can die at any moment but here two hours already passed and there was no movement to be seen some thought that maybe they left because the Hokage quickly figured out their plan but some were more skeptical about the situation and believed that this is what sand exactly wanted and was trying to make everyone tired.The sun was setting down soon and everyone's worries were only getting bigger with each passing second. The fearless ninja who rules over everyone whether a chunin or a jonin started to feel the instinct of every living being of trying to hide from predators. The exhaustion from waiting for extended periods knowing full well that they might be attacked at any given moment was the worst feeling they could experience in their life. The ninjas who once killed thousands in battles and forgot about the fear of dying were slowly regaining the fear back as death approached. 

Finally, When the sun set down a huge clang sound passed through the leaf village. Everyone face turned toward the blast almost as if they were part of a hive mind knowing exactly what was about to happen. 

The Kage signaled a group of four military police forces to collect intel on the enemy. They all sprinted toward the unknown sound at full speed and then one of them exploded everyone was caught off guard by the scene they were witnessing in front of them. It was unbelievable one of the skilled ninjas and an honored member of the military police force was defeated so easily by traps set up by sand.

 

Soon more sounds and explosions could be heard all around the village the scream of villagers could be heard loud and clear. The Kage singled to go but one of the jonin stops him and said 

 

"Hokage Sama we shouldn't go they are just trying to lure us into their traps!"

 

The Kage looked straight into Jonin's eyes but no words came out. The Hokage didn't say anything but everyone already knew how the Hokage was feeling. The Hokage treats everyone as part of their family and seeing them die in front of him and not able to do anything was weakening his mind and soul. He was about to do something reckless moving right where the enemy wanted us but at the same time, The explosion and suffering we were witnessing was so horrible and inhumane that many of the ninjas even knowing full well that it was not a good idea to go help still wanted to go even if they die in the process.

It was a tough decision but in the end, The jonin who said not to go was able to convince Kage from doing something so reckless. all the higher-level chunin and Hokage started to make plans and discussing on how to handle the situation. Every second they used to discuss how to defend was resulting in hundreds of death.

After 3 minutes or so everyone stopped they finally came up with a plan and started to move. From what they gathered so far was that they were near the entrance of the leaf village but the sand was already deep inside the village causing havoc and Leaf can't fight them straight on because all the traps spread like a minefield between them.

The Hokage and other high-rank ninja order everyone to go inside the leaf sewer which confused some low-ranking ninjas they knew that the leaf sewer contains a passage that leads to outside the village but then why are we going?

As they move further inside the sewer some ninja confusion was only growing further but they didn't say anything because they trusted the Hokage with their lives even back then if the jonin didn't stop the Hokage they would run into the traps without a single shred of fear. The passage that led to the outside leaf village was near but then a strange thing happened the Kage took a strange turn and went toward a dead end. Everyone looked in confusion not knowing what was going on.

Hokage touch the wall but nothing happened but then after a few seconds, The wall started to shake and opened everyone was surprised and looked confused the Kage went inside and ordered everyone to follow the strange place. What they entered was the ANBU base they only heard about in myths and stories as a child was right in front of them. The Kage clapped his hand taking everyone's attention and directing it toward him and said 

 

"the sand village surprised and attack us and caught us off guard and we can't fight them head but with this, we can win! We are currently inside the leaf ANBU base which contains a secret passage that allows us to go behind the leaf village quickly. We are going to do a surprise attack. Is everyone ready?" everyone trusting the Hokage nodded in succession. 

 

The Sand village was causing havoc around the leaf village and was surprised that leaf didn't come to protect it but most ignored it saying they prob got scared. But the Kazekage standing on top of the building looked confused he knew very well that leaf wouldn't just sit back or hide he fought them a thousand times and knew the Hokage better than anyone. A huge scream came most people didn't think of it much and just ignored it as another scream from one of the people they killed but then a lot more could be heard they all looked back and leaf was attacking them from behind they were caught off guard.

They trusted the plan too much and thought leaf was helpless to do anything now.

A huge fight began behind the lines most sand ninjas were not ready to face an attack from behind. The formation they were in gave them a huge advantage if leaf came from the front but now that they somehow appeared behind them everyone was confused and didn't know what to do. An all-out battle begins both sand ninja and leaf ninja started dying. The battle was a legendary one the leaf with their strategy gave them a huge advantage but the sand still fought with everything they got. The battle lasted more than forty-five minutes. After that sand ninjas retreated and left the village with the help of their cloak ability.

 

All that was left was the dead body from both sides and a huge trail of destruction. Most leafy were happy that they were able to defend the village when they thought it would be impossible before but many still looked sad and wondered when the war will end.

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