Legacy

Chapter 24/ Invasion

Chapter 24: Invasion

## Konoha Outskirts ##

About a half a mile outside of Konoha there was an ANBU team doing patrol. It was a regular mission and they seemed calm as patrol mission very rarely presented any trouble at all.

Although they seemed calm on the outside all of the ANBU personal was warned about the incoming invasion and as such they were all in high alert, they just didn't show it. Suddenly an ANBU of said team stopped and look around.

"Sense anything?" Another ANBU asked.

"No captain" the ANBU that stopped replied while replied another thing to his team leader using the ANBU sign language. "Possible shinobi group" the anbu said and the leader nodded.

The ANBU quickly and stealthily approached the encampment and say eight sand shinobi fathered in a circle. In the middle of the circle was kanji spread through it and stopping just near each of the sand shinobi's feet.

Each of the sand shinobis had a small scroll in their mouths and was going trough hand seals very slowly. From the looks of it the technique seemed awfully complicated and it seemed they must not get it wrong.

"Looks like a summoning ring" one ANBU said to their captain.

"Yes…we can't allow them to summon anything. Get in your positions" the captain ordered.

"I can't allow that" a voice suddenly said behind them. They all turned around and saw a man. He had auburn hair, dark eyes, he wore a simple black jacket and pants with mesh armor underneath. He carried a small canister strapped to his hip. It was none other than the Yondaime Kazekage himself.

Suddenly, what appeared to be sand started flowing out of his canister and quickly and swiftly it wrapped around all four ANBU crushing them to death.

"Let's get this over with" – the Kazekage commanded.

## Stadium - Crowd ##

"What's this?" Sakura asked as she watched feathers start falling from nowhere making her sleepy. "Genjutsu?" She asked right before breaking the illusion.

"Genjutsu?" Sasuke wondered as he also broke the illusion.

"We are being invaded by the Sound and Sand" Kakashi explained as he fought against a couple of Sound shinobi.

"WHAT?" Sakura yelled. "The Sand is our ally" she stated.

"They are no longer our allies. We knew about this invasion since the end of the second phase of the chunnin exams so we are prepared" Kakashi said trying to ease the worries of a fresh gennin.

"Then why didn't we know?" Sasuke asked getting pissed off by being kept in the dark.

"We had to keep it a secret so they didn't find out we knew." Kakashi said. Sakura was pretty much terrified from what was happening. She never had any real type of mission aside from the wave mission that got bumped into an A-rank so she was pretty fresh. Sakura was from a civilian family and as such she wasn't prepared from the hardships of a shinobi life and lived her life sheltered in Konoha.

Sakura was about to ask another thing when they noticed Gaara explode in Sand and showing his fully transformed bijuu. Sakura never got so scared in her life in seeing such a colossal beast right in front of her. In that moment she realized what people must have faced when the kyuubi attacked fourteen years ago.

"S-S-Sensei…G-Gaara" Sakura tried to say but her voice didn't reach her. She looked around and everyone from her graduation class as sleeping along with the civilians. Only Sakura, Hinata and apparently Sasuke managed to dispel the genjutsu. Sasuke is an arrogant kid but he isn't without skill.