Easily mistaken for a meteorite, a small spherical ship sailed harmlessly thru the vastness of space, heading towards a small planet, recently discovered by the radar stations.
Small as it was, it’s crash-landing among the mountains went completely unnoticed. The titanic roar that filled the countryside soon after was a little harder to ignore; when the mountains exploded no one could possibly think of anything else.
When morning came the land of wood was no more. There were no survivors.
Worried, the feudal lords of the surrounding countries called upon every hidden village they could get in contact with, to investigate what happened. No expenses were spared.
Sand sent their most experienced Jounnins, Cloud and Earth the sons of their Kages, Mist sent their finest assassins and Fire sent the Hokage himself.
It was largest concentration of shinobi in recorded history were they weren’t killing each other. Collaboration was of course too much to hope for, but the stakes were too high. The five great shinobi villages risked a massive war on their hands if offensive actions were taken, and the lesser villages risked getting crushed in retaliation or caught in the middle. So, an uneasy truce was reached.
The investigations turned nothing of value, everything was too destroyed, there were no survivors left in the country, it looked like it would forever remain a mystery, until the night of the next full moon.
Around a campfire two familiar figures wormed themselves.
“Should you even be here?”
“Ha ha ha don’t worry about it; the old monkey can keep tings running smoothly”
“I’m more worried about Kushina-san and what she will do to us once we get back to be frank”
“I’m still surprised she hasn’t marched up here yet to drag us back home.”
“The Daimyo did give us a lot of money”
“Whatever it was that happened on the land of wood he he wood, it has the nobles pretty spooked.”
“A whole country…” Kakashi mused aloud “do you know of anything that could do something like that Minato sensei?”
“There have been rumors of an army of puppets laying waste to a small country…”
“Like in seiran?”
RRRRRROOOOOAAAARRRRRR
“What the hell was that is Minato sensei?”
“I’d say that’s our culprit” he stood up “Well… Time to earn our pay. Genma! Raidō! Get up. We got work to do!”
Genma nervously chewed on his senbon “That’s something you don’t see everyday”
At the top of a cliff, the Konoha team looked on as a gigantic monkey laid waste to the countryside as it raged and destroyed everything in his path.
Knowing about the biju does not in any way prepare you to the experience of seeing one up close, not that they were anywhere close to the ting, but even from far away one could hardly believe any living ting chakra construct or not, could be that huge.
“Is that the Yonbi?”
“It certainty looks like it” Raidō calmly prepared his Kokutō “Shall we go? Time is money”
“It only has one tail” noted Kakashi
“What?”
“It only has one tail, it can’t be the Yonbi”
“So it’s the Yonbi’s cousin we still have to beat him. Any ideas chief?”
Their blond leader stood silently at the edge calmly analyzing the situation “It will be difficult with just us four… will you help us A-kun? Or do you think you guys can do it alone?”
All three ninja turned around drawing weapons at the imposing figure of A as he walked out of the shadows and crossed his arms “The size of the enemy does not matter! For the glory of Kumo I will crush this monstrosity!”
“Now hold on a minute dog! The other ninja by now. They should have sensed that guy. I say for now we sit tight. And let them join in the fun"
Minato shook his head while A was busy face palming “Unfortunately that’s not an option. There’s a town behind those hills, and the monster is headed straight for it”
“So what’s plan chief?” Genma had calmed somewhat now that they didn’t have to do anything alone.
“I got your plan right here kid! RRRAAARRRGGG!!!”
“Did he just jumped off the cliff?”
“My brother’s a bit rough. But that doesn’t mean he’s daft”
A took a moment to enjoy the freefall as he apparently plummeted to his death, before cloaking himself in raiton energy and kicking the side of the cliff from were he shot off like a bullet towards the beast. His plan was simple, to build up enough momentum and pierce the beast’s heart, he was small enough that he wouldn’t be noticed until it was to late.
Once on the ground he started a mad dash at top speed, enveloped with his jutsu his speed was unparalleled, he was a streak of deadly lighting running to his goal. When he was close enough he made a mighty leap turning his whole body in to a lethal projectile.
His plan had flaw though, and it became apparent once giant monkey casually backhanded him in to the side of a mountain. The beast roared a challenge and shot a massive stream of pure energy from his mouth in order to finish A off. Fortunately for him a three pronged kunai intercepted the attack and seemed to suck it in while in the distance a massive explosion could be heard.
“Do it now B!”
From behind the monster the giant form of the Hachibi quikly formed and used his tentacles to restrain the beast.
Meanwhile, Minato used the opening given to him by the struggle to bite his thumb and do a series of hand signs “Summoning Jutsu!” There was a cloud of smoke and then he was standing on the head of Gamabunta the toad boss of Mount Myōboku.
“Is that?”
“Less talking, more stabbing. Come on Bunta!”
“Right!”
Recognizing the situation as serious Gamabunta unsheathed his tanto and leap to it, intent on stabbing the enemy.
The giant monkey seemed sense the arrival of a new foe, and with a mighty roar tossed the Hachibi towards the toad, were they collided in mid air and fell to ground in a tangle of limbs. With the goal of finishing the fight, the giant monkey prepared to fire another blast when he was distracted by a shout of Shuriken Kage Bushin no Jutsu and had to shield his face from the countless number of fūma shuriken that tried to rearrange his face.
The rain of projectiles was brief, but it gave the downed Gamabunta and Hachibi the time they needed to separate. Gamabunta hopped to one side of the beast, Hachibi to the other.
And the fighting when on.
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