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The Worst Genin Team, take 2
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(Shinrei's going to be okay. Elaise isn't going to believe anything else.)

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(Amajina is... Not going to dispute that. Not right now.)

Naruto's moving around a lot in her senses - he's got a massive number of clones active, and apparently the him she'd sensed near Chihiro had been a clone, too - so she leads them to Chihiro, first.

They can kill any enemy shinobi they see on the way in, too, of course, and Amajina isn't gentle about that - but it's not their focus, and they're trying not to draw too much attention.

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Chihiro is guarding some sort of command post. She indicates they should stop some distance away.

"Identify yourselves."

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"Asano Sayuri, Amajina, and Kaguya Elaise, genin of Kiri. We're still working on orders from our Mizukage to assist Konoha. Elieyha of Suna is with us, too. She defected to our side."

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She relaxes slightly.

"You made it back."

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"Yeah."

"I'm glad you're still okay - what's going on?"

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"S-rank confrontation on the northwestern perimeter, with frequent incursions to grids F3 through G13. Confirmed participants are Orochimaru, the First and Second Hokage, Uchiha Jakuan, the Mizukage, and Asano Shinrei. The Third Hokage has been incapacitated. Uchiha Tobirama- is dead."

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Sharp breath.

"Where can we help?"

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"Suna and Oto have chunin and jounin forces throughout the village, supplemented by preplaced explosive traps and summons." Glance at Elaise. "Oto forces include at least one holder of the Kaguya bloodline."

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"What."

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"Identified as 'Kimimaro', last known location grid I7."

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She very carefully doesn't say 'maybe we can tell him about sensei and he'll get himself killed by a kage.' Nope. Does not say that. It'd be a terrible joke.

She does, however, glance at her team. "Elaise, what's your call here?"

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"If Konoha is coordinating from here, they'll need sensors. Amajina, that's you. Medics too, Sayuri, or wherever else the fallback position is. Elieyha, you should stay and guard them."

"I'm going after Kimimaro."

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"Roger." She glances at Chihiro, then. "Can you tell us where to go?"

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"And where Grid I7 is."

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Chihiro provides directions for Elaise, and then ushers the others inside.

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Falling into the medic rotation is a bit easier - she can follow directions with the best of them, and they're used enough to recruiting helping hands to be decent at rapid on boarding. She's good, and fast, and quiet, and - she gets to work, stabilizing as many people as she can, getting shinobi back to the battlefield where possible. (Mostly - they're trying to get people ready for evacuation. Not healed, not all the way, they don't have the time, but - ambulatory or safely transferable, at least.)

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Getting pulled into an information-command circle is a bit bumpier, but - it helps that Kakashi knows her and Chihiro is vouching for her.

Amajina's sensory powers are pretty good, especially when she's focusing, and she and Isobu can turn their minds to different parts of their range at once. She mostly sets Isobu to background monitoring for unexpected changes, while she seeks out information actively desired by the command center.

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Keeping track of the stealthier jounin is the main priority, if Amajina can assist with that. And giving any advance notice they can of the Kages' fight breaking back towards the village.

(Looking at the map... Kakashi is obviously trying to clear a couple corridors for evacuation, not organizing a counteroffensive.)

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Isobu's better at 'sneaky,' but - her senses are through him, and bijuu sense along a different axis than humans. S-rank shinobi can sometimes hide themselves, but... Not really normal jounin, and even a lot of S-rank shinobi don't hide from Isobu consistently. (The humidity in Konoha helps. The water bursting from pipes in shattered buildings helps. Unfamiliarity doesn't help, but, well, she's been here a month already. She has a rough sense of who belongs.)

So, yeah, she can track a significant portion of the battlefield, identify the power levels of who's moving where, what they feel right now, if they're alert or tired or angry or frustrated or sadistic... And she can definitely keep track of the Kage fight - Isobu's very familiar with the fighting styles of both the Shodai and Shinrei, too, for different reasons, and that gives them more warning than they might otherwise have -

The Mizukage and Shinrei are doing a rather impressive job of holding off the two Hokage, especially given the lines of dangerous chakra - black fire, she learns, from some report - scattered across the battlefield (Uchiha, Isobu whispers) - and she's able to tell them, too, that some of that chaos on the outer reaches is Uchiha Jakuan attacking Orochimaru - that fight is veering far more wildly across the land. Neither shinobi involved cares where they wander, nor cares to minimize broad spread attacks.

" - You'll want to keep Naruto away from his attention, Isobu thinks Jakuan has the Mangekyou, and that can control bijuu - " she says, without really noticing, between other things - and flows back into the rhythm of the battle.

 

(She... Agrees with Kakashi about evacuating, as awkward as it feels. She doesn't want to question if Shinrei can survive, but... Amajina would much, much rather get the village evacuated so her sensei can break and flee, too, than try to make a stupid attempt at a counteroffensive. Does he want reports about the conditions in the directions he's evacuating people, too? Between more active battlefield updates.)

(This fight is not going well. Amajina can feel that. A constant, steady stream of reports from an exhausted Naruto as he dismisses and forms new waves of clones reveals that. It's better to make sure some people survive.)

 

She asks what's up with the Hokage, in between. (Maybe it'll help her predict them... Their chakra is acting weirdly.)

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Orochimaru stole or reinvented the Second's Edo Tensei technique, as best they can tell. He's raised them from the dead.

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Brow furrow. "But they don't feel really alive..."

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"They act alive and they've got all the right jutsu."

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"Their chakra isn't running down at all, though, and some of their techniques are behaving differently than Isobu thinks they did in life..."

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Kakashi sighs. "Look, unless you can come up with some actionable intelligence from this line of thought, I have to keep moving." He pats her on the head and moves on.

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