Perhaps had the two resurrected Hokages been able to battle Sarutobi the fight would have been different.
As it was now Orochimaru had only gotten a lucky shot when Sarutobi had decided to put an end to the battles that had been going on. The old man had known it would come down to this; the Edo Tensei was a jutsu that only had a few counters that worked. And the only strategy he could use was to seal the Shodai and Nidaime Hokage's using the Shikki Fuujin, the same jutsu that had been used to help seal the Kyuubi inside of Naruto.
The Snake Sannin looked up to see the robed and purple skinned Shinigami floating behind Sarutobi, it's hand plunged deep into the old Hokage's back, going through the man like a specter and into Orochimaru himself. Orochimaru could feel his soul leaving him as the seconds ticked by; it was the singular most painful thing he had ever felt, like his very being was getting burned by fires that were even hotter than the black flames of Amaterasu. He looked back towards his old mentor and mentally cursed the man out with every word he knew.
"I will not let your ambitions ruin this village anymore Orochimaru!" Sarutobi panted out as blood began to dribble down his mouth, "Both of us will now be going into the belly of the Shinigami, where we will face each other in eternal combat as our souls are consumed!"
"Curse you old man! I will not be dying here!" Orochimaru twitched his fingers, trying to make the sword in Orochimaru's back dig itself in deeper. It did not budge much but he saw Sarutobi wince. He looked back down at the arm plunged into his chest, and saw that his soul had moved back in a little bit. However, much to his displeasure, it was pulled back out again.
"My ambition will not die here you old coot! This will accomplish nothing! I will still watch this village burn to the ground! Everything will be consumed and I will not be satisfied until I have destroyed everything you have ever held dear! This village will crumble before the days end!"
The elderly Hokage stared at his student for several long seconds, before he smirked, "You should know better than to underestimate the shinobi of this village Orochimaru. Each one of them is fighting to protect their home! Giving their all and letting the Will of Fire burn within them! They will not be defeated so easily! Even should I die, so long as there are still Konoha shinobi left to fight, you will not win!"
Within one of the market districts in Konoha, dozens of Oto ninja ran through the now nearly deserted streets. The place had become eerily quiet, however all that was about to change.
Several hundred shuriken suddenly poured at them from above, killing many Oto ninja with strikes in the head and injuring many more. Those who had survived looked up to see a female ANBU kunoichi with purple hair and a cat mask, along with a dozen other ANBU ninja. The one in the cat mask raised her sword, "This is for Hayate-kun!"
Several dozen Suna and Oto shinobi were surrounding a man with long white robes and white eyes with veins popping out of them. He watched calmly while his enemies moved around him, not bothering to look behind since his eyes already knew they were there.
"Come on! It's just one man!" An Oto ninja yelled out.
This had the effect of all the ninja charging at him. However, in that single second the man began to spin as chakra poured out of all of his tenketsu points.
"Hakkeshou: Kaiten!" a large blue dome of chakra appeared around him, blasting the Oto and Suna ninja away with enough force that when the ninja smashed into rocks and trees, they ended up going right through them. When the attack ended, the only sign it had happened was the round trench that surrounded the man.
Hiashi looked to see all of the enemy ninja were dead and allowed a small, almost unnoticeable smirk to grace his features, "The Hyuuga are the strongest clan in Konoha, remember that."
"Baika No Jutsu!"
The loud voice sounded out as Akimichi Chouza, the father of Chouji, grew several times larger than the buildings he was walking amongst. He held onto his halberd in one hand and made a swipe at his feet, almost similar to someone sweeping the dirt away with a broom. And like when that dirt was swept away, so to were the many Suna and Oto ninja who were in the way.
On a building just a few meters away, Nara Shikaku, Shikamaru's father was facing off against several enemy shinobi, "Man this is so troublesome; know that this is the end for all of you. Kage Kubi Shibari No Jutsu (Shadow Neck Binding jutsu)!"
The four ninja who had been captured by the man's previous jutsu, were now subject to getting their own necks snapped by their very own shadows.
"Shinranshin No Jutsu (Mind Derangement Jutsu)!" came the shout of Ino's father, Yamanaka Inoichi. As soon as the name of the technique was called, one of the Suna shinobi he had been battling began to attack his comrades, lunging at them with a kunai.
"What the hell do you think you're doing?" Screamed one of them as the kunai was plunged into his stomach.
"I-I don't know! I can't control my body!"
Soon the sounds of screams were all that was heard as the Suna ninja killed his own teammates, before he himself was killed by Inoichi.
With the attack finished, Shikaku appeared next to his long time teammate, while Chouza stomped over to them, still standing several dozen feet above his comrades.
"It's just like old times isn't it!" Chouza guffawed with a booming laugh.
Shikaku smirked, "You said it, nothing like the reunion of the old Ino-Shika-Cho trio."
Within one of the forests owned by the Aburame clan, Shibi and his son Shino watched impassively as their Kikkai bugs swarmed over the Chunin who had tried to attack Konoha, only to retreat when Konoha began fighting back. They did not let the screams of their enemies bothered them, whilst their bugs sucked the enemy ninja dry of chakra.
When all of the ninja were dead, Shibi turned to his son, "You have done well son."
"Thank you father," Shino said, his tone impassive, much like his dads.
"Gatsuuga!" The cry came from above, and the three Oto ninja only had time to look up before a spinning drill slammed into each of them. The ninja cried in pain as they were ripped into small chunks of flesh. The spinning drills soon revealed themselves to be three dogs, which quickly jumped onto the roofs and joined two female kunoichi and a much larger and older canine.
"That was a nice attack Hana," Inuzuka Tsume complimented her daughter, before turning her attention to her companion. "Are you ready Kuromaru!"
"Of course Tsume-sama!" The aging dog with the eye patch barked.
Ibiki looked at the giant snakes in consternation, not at all happy with their inability to take them out. Right now many of the ninja with him were trying to stall the giant triple-headed snake, launching jutsu after jutsu at them. But this did not seem to have any visible effect on it, other than to make it mad and lash out against the Jonin attacking it. The snake was slowly but steadily making its way into the village, and with that giant Tanuki already here, he did not want another large creature to get in and wreak havoc.
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