474: The Great Ninja War Begins

Deep below the ground, Madara is standing on a podium before an army of shinobi in akatsuki robes. He slowly removes his mask as he stands before them but the darkness of the chambers only allows his eyes to be visable within the darkness. Madara claps his hands together creating a loud clap that silences everyone in the room.
Madara: “Several hours from now, you shall be arriving at your first target. Your mission is to eliminate all resistance whether it be man, woman, or child. You are to leave no enemy targets alive. Is that understood?”
Shinobi as one: “YES SIR!!”
The Images of Naruto and Killer Bee appears behind madara in large form.
Madara: “Good. While on your mission if you encounter either of these targets you are to take them prisoner as soon as possible and have them sent to here immediately. If they resist you are allowed to use any force you deem necessary but they must be delivered to here alive. Is that clear?”

Shinobi: “YES SIR!!”
Madara: “I expect the best results from all of you. That is all. Forward company move out! The rest of you get ready to march! You leave in 3 hours!”
Madara slowly vanishes from the podium as the shinobi march out of the chamber en mass. Madara is then shown watching the army as it heads out of the village from high atop a balcony. Zetsu appears and stands next to Madara. Zetsu looks down and his jaw drops as he watches them head out.
Zetsu: “How many are there heading out to battle?”
Madara: “Thousands.”
Zetsu is shocked and leans his head forward to look down at the passing shinobi.”
Zetsu: “Thousands?! How can this village produce that many shinobi.”
Madara: “It hasn’t. All of these shinobi are ones that akatsuki has manipulated through years of braindwashing and torture. Their minds which once favored their families or villages, now serve as fodder for this war. It will be by their manpower that we shall strangle the ninja world and destroy those who shall refuse to serve us.”
Zetsu watches as the shinobi head out by the thousands. The very street hidden under their massive numbers.

Killer Bee is running through the forest with raikage, shii, and darui. At the same time Killer Bee is with the hachibi evaluating the situation.
Hachibi: “So there is a ninja war incoming? Interesting. Its been a long time since something like this happened.”
Killer Bee: “I remember the last one. It was somewhat fun albiet short since my bro rarely ever allowed me to leave the village.”
Hachibi: “The difference is this time we have to deal with someone that makes hanzo seem like a genin.”
Killer Bee: “I know the stories of his shear strength not to mention the immortality are a little frightening but at least we don’t have to deal with him right away.”
Hachibi: “Speaking of which I can’t help but notice we have some incoming company.”
Killer Bee opens his eyes and stops at a branch. Raikage and the others notice and come back to where killer bee is standing.
Raikage: “Don’t tell me you think you forgot a sword? We are not heading back to there and thats final.”
Killer Bee: “Easy bro. We have some shinobi incoming.”
Raikage turns to look at shii. Shii kind of gets concerned and closes his eyes then reopens them.
Shii: “He is right boss. There is at least 20 individuals incoming.”
Darui: “The other villages mobilized their armies this quickly?”
Raikage: “No. Its way to soon for any of them to have set their forces in motion this soon but lets check who they are anyways.”
Killer Bee: “If their hostile let me take a shot at em. I would like to see what I can do with this samehada sword.”
Raikage: “That is a cursed blade. Its best to destroy it. There is no telling if akatsuki has any kind of booby traps on that blade.”
The group of shinobi start moving down below them. One of them looks up and suddenly they all as one look up and toss shirokens and kunai at the group.
Killer Bee thinking: “Lets do it!”
Hachibi: “This should be interesting.”
The ninjas below look up to suddenly see a figure come jumping down from out of the trees towards them. The figure gives off an unnatural scream as it races towards them from high above.
Raikage: “Damn it! Shii! Darui! Keep an eye on him. Make sure he doesn’t try to run away again.”

Sai’s clone is standing with Naruto, Kakashi, and Yamoto outside in the snow. Naruto has an extremely angry look on his face while Kakashi looks concerned and Yamoto looks angry as well.
Sai: “And that is what they are planning.”
Naruto: “I knew sakura was foolish to use false love as a means to get me to head home but this is just plain crazy.”
Kakashi: “What in the hell is shikimaru thinking?! He knows that the rookie nine together stand no chance against sasuke.”
Yamoto: “One of us had best return to the village and stop this foolish idea fast.”
Sai: “Its too late for that. Sakura is already trying to track down sasuke with kiba, myself, and lee.”
Naruto: “I think we had best split up and deal with this situation before it becomes a complete disaster.”
Kakashi and Yamoto: “Agreed.”
Kakashi: “I will stay with naruto and use the tracking hounds to locate sakura’s group. Yamoto you head back to konoha and inform the jonin of this foolish plot.”
Yamoto: “I will also see how things are doing back at the village. I know they needed my help to rebuild more of the village before we left.”
Naruto: “Sai. We will get this done I promise. You can disperse now.”
Sai smiles and the clone disentigrates into ink that blackens the snow.
At the same time, on the roof of the house a puppet looks down as it finishes listening to the conversation. It then jump behind the house and runs back to its master, kankuro. Garaa is sitting in hiding with temari as they watch yamoto, kakashi, and naruto in the distance.
Kankuro: “It seems there is some problems in the leaf village as well. Some of the rookie nin are going after sasuke.”
Temari: “We should just grab naruto, tell kakashi the news, and go. Im freezing out here.”
Garaa: “Patience Temari. This information is important too and besides we should at least allow naruto to do this one task.”
Temari: “But why not help them directly? At the very least yamoto could carry the information back to konoha.”
Garaa: “Its best we not ruin their plans right now by informing them of the situation. For now we will just watch them and keep an eye out on what they are gonna do.”
Unknown to Temari, Kankuro, and Garaa a clone of naruto is standing on a tree high above watching them. The clone smiles and looks off to see yamoto in the distance running in the direction of konoha while Kakashi is with several ninja dogs who are listening to naruto talk in a muffled tone.

Killer Bee is standing in the forest as the last shinobi stands looking in terror at Killer Bee. The shinobi raises his kunai and attemps to make a hand sign but his whole body is shaking in terror.
Shinobi thinking: “What are you? I must tell Madara about this immediately!”
Raikage looks down with Shii and Darui at the scene of killer bee facing the shinobi. The shinobi raises his blade and attempts to perform a hand sign. Raikage watches with shocked curiousity while the shinobi slowly tries to move away. Killer Bee pulls out samehada which slowly begins to transform into its full form. The shinobi looks horrified and lets out a scream as Killer Bee finishes him off with one slash. Raikage smiles and slowly jumps down along with Shii and Darui.
Raikage: “If this was home I would have you slapped in irons for a month for doing something reckless like that.”
Raikage examines the dead shinobi and notices several different village headbands including that of the cloud village.
Raikage: “This does not make sense. These shinobi seem to be from several different villages. Here is one from the leaf. One from the sound. There is even one here from the sand village.”
Darui looks down at one ninja and suddenly he recognizes the face of the shinobi.
Darui: “Boss! One of these shinobi is from our village. I recognize him as one of our people sent out to look for killer bee.”
Raikage is examining them but then notices that one of them is alive. Raikage moves over to the shinobi’s side and notices the shinobi is about to die.
Raikage: “Who do you serve? Where were you headed?!”
The shinobi coughs up blood but then smiles.
Shinobi: “I serve my master, Madara.”
Raikage is about ready to kill him but then stops. Raikage instead gets on his knees next to the body of the shinobi.
Raikage: “Where were you headed? Tell me and I may let you live.”
The shinobi lunges forward and whispers something in Raikage’s ear. Raikage’s eyes widen in shock and he immediately looks at the other with a nervous expression.
Darui: “So where were they headed boss?”
Raikage stumbles to his feet. He looks at Killer Bee. The shinobi starts to laugh but then his head falls to his side and he dies as blood trickles from his mouth.
Raikage: “Our home. Akatsuki has decided to launch their first offensive by attacking our village.”