Standing on top of the kage building, Kana looked at what remained of her Village.
"What a strange feeling," she said
Even though the last few years in the village had not been the happiest it was still the place where she had grown up.
Boom boom boom
The sound of explosions brought to her ears by the wind took Kana out of her reverie.
Using her mind eyes, she looked in the direction of those explosions and sighed when she sensed the chakra of another one of her clansmen flicker before disappearing.
"Another one dead," she whispered
The attack on uzushiogakure had been ongoing for more than a week now, significantly diverging from Akashi's premonition where uzushiogakure was quickly destroyed.
Since the beginning of the attack, uzushiogakure lost about 3,000 of their 5,000 ninjas, an absolute tragedy considering that all the ninjas of Uzushiogakure are members of the same clan, the same family.
This loss was even more staggering when you realize that in this world, most villages have less than 1,000 ninjas, and only the major villages have about 10,000 Ninjas in their ranks.
Konoha is the only village ninjas who, due to their vast resources, managed to cultivate and maintain about 20,000 Ninjas; this is one of the reasons why they are the most powerful village ninjas.
'we don't have much time,' she mused lifting her head to look up the weakened golden dome weaved by the combined power of 30 clanmen using their adamantine chains to surround the village.
It is the adamantine golden dome, the most powerful barrier of the Uzumaki, but even that powerful barrier was reaching its limit.
The initial attacks had been swift, brutal, and merciless, killing thousands.
While everyone was starting to lose hope, witnessing how their beloved Village was ravaged, realizing that they had been caught off guard by their enemies.
Something surprising happened, something magical, the princess Kana Uzumaki that they had ostracized and abandoned, the same princess that was not even supposed to be in the village at that moment appeared with three powerful highly respected members of their village, Maric, Hinako, and Kiba emerged leading a small force managed to stop the attack on the village, which allow the Ninja of uzushiogakure to regain some control on the situation and react, together they repelled the enemies that where destroying the village toward the forest outside.
"Is the help you've requested from Konoha really not coming?" The voice of one elder forces Kana to turn around to look at the people gathered in the room.
At that question, the gaze of everyone turned toward her expectantly.
Seeing that Kana just let out a scoff filled with disdain
"You delusional old fools still believe that you will receive help from Konoha. I have already told you it will not happen; we will not receive any help from them. I already gave you a pretty detailed account of the situation in Konoha..."
"And even if you still didn't believe me the way those invaders quietly infiltrated the island while avoiding all our defenses and detection system should be proof enough of Konoha's betrayal,"
"You-"
The old man's face turns ugly upon hearing the disrespect in the voice of the little girl in front of him, but in the end, he holds his tongue and says nothing.
It was true that Kana had already shared with them everything that she knew about the situation of Konoha, and it was obvious now that the attack was orchestrated by them.
Still, even though they knew that, some of them still held hope.
They also knew that she had requested help from their long-term ally well before the attack started, so if Konoha really wanted to help them, they would have already sent the ninja by now.
"If they have really betrayed us why have you left your child there?" Someone asked
"Because he is much safer than here with Aunt Mito and his grandfather. they know that I am here in Uzushio in that I am very likely to die in this attack, and once it's happened, they will have an Uzumaki prince with an Uchiha bloodline under control." She calmly me and explained her reasoning
"Do not worry though, I have plans to take him out of there once it is safe,"
"I can't believe that things turn out like that," one of the old men said, his fist clenched, head hunged low field with emotions.
"How can they abandon us like that, after everything we have done for them? We were there when they were nothing, we helped them create their Village, we shared our knowledge of seals with them, and we were them in the first and second wars, and this is what they do to us!"
"The only reason they are where they are is because of Us,"
Earring the anger of their comrades, everyone in the room could not help but shake their heads in indignation and bitterness.
At that moment kana's mocking voice cut through the complaints
"Oh my, if only someone had longest something like that was about to happen!" She said sarcastically scanning all the people in the room.
Under her firm gaze, they could not help but lower their heads in shame.
Oh yes, I did. Even went to each of you and individually, and what did you do, you call me a traitor. A crazy woman, delusional, a dirty bitch, a slut-"
Has Kana's voice started to rise due to her anger a tired voice sounded
"Stop!"
She looked well to the source of that tired voice, her father, the Uzukage; he seemed to have aged a lot in those last few days.
"Please, daughter, stop. Your anger is justified, and you have every right to hate us. But this is not the right time for this, we may very well be living our last days on this earth, that's not useful to use it to tear each other down, and let's refocus on the most important protecting our children,"
To that, Kana just scoffed
"Oh, now I'm your daughter again,"
"I'm gonna see how the work on the evacuation is progressing," with that said, she turned around and left the room while the other returned to trying to find another way out of their predicament.
They didn't have much time left. The uzushiogakure ninjas were still doing their best to hold back the ninjas of the four great villages.
"Crack,"
Kana looked up to see another massive crack appear on the golden dome; soon, she arrived in a room underground.
Soon Kana arrived in an underground room filled with Uzumaki.
"How is it going?" She asked the people in the room. All of them were working on a project that Kana had started since, even before she left the village, to create a safe place in the stomach of their summons beasts so that the citizens could be safely brought out elsewhere.
This is how she intends to complete the evacuation of her clan, but she had to admit that this wasn't an easy enterprise; luckily, now, with the complete support of the best mind of the clan working day and night to save their children, things move at a frightening speed.
But even though sealing was the specialty of the Uzumaki, creating a space for living humans remained safely is a difficult task.
"We are nearly done, but there are a few adjustments to make if we don't want the people evacuated to end up crushed in the beast's stomach, Kiba said, nudging his glasses; he and the others had been working on this for a week now, and the bags under his eyes could attest of it.
"Alright," she said, taking her place beside them, "we need to end this today; the dome won't last much longer, and once it crumbles, they will come at us with full force.
Outside the golden dome, thousands of ninjas from all four villages were stationed in camps all around the dome with thousands of ninjas present in them.
Hundreds of ninjas could be seen attacking the barrier from all sides with all types of ninjutsu and explosive tags.
"This isn't going to do, we have wasted too much time on that barrier," Chiho of Suna said to her brother in a tent near the dome "The more time flows the more the possibility of counter-attack grows,"
"But what can we do?" Her brother Ebizo asked, "They are literally maintaining that dome with their lives."
And it was true he had seen with his own eyes how adult red-hair Uzumaki would grow into decrepit white-haired old men by feeding their life force to the dome to stop their attacks.
"I don't know! You are the strategist here to find a solution. The kazekage is growing restless, and he is right, this operation should have ended on day one this is now the eight-day," She grumbled pushing all the responsibility on the matter onto her brother
With a sigh, Ebizo looked at his sister before saying
"I have a solution, yes, and this is quite simple in fact,"
"What is it?"
"We need to call all the other villages, and launch another targeted attack this time with full force using the tails beasts,"
***
In a traditional castle belonging to the royal clan, an old man opened his eyes.