Eye roll.

(...She is pretty sure techniques to make half dead people entirely alive are very incredibly classified and she will get in trouble if she tells the ?acting Kage? of a foreign nation about them. Especially if she isn't sure this is the type of thing that would work. Does... Sayuri have some kind of sense of who she can use her eyes on...)

(...Well, Elieyha's outside, and Sayuri's not in Kakashi's line of hearing hopefully, there's been lulls and waves for the medics, so she can just. Give a little nudge via the bijuu. Ask Elieyha to, next time there aren't any Konoha nin right next to Sayuri, quietly check in with Sayuri please to make sure she's alright, and, oh, incidentally...)

(Worded so, hopefully, no one overhearing it will think it's too suspicious.)

Anyways, monitoring Konoha. Everything is going terribly and not even the controlled kind of terribly, and at this point Amajina's just - hoping they can get her own loved ones out, in an exhausted sort of way. She hasn't heard back if Sayuri thinks the thing would work. Amajina doesn't even know how or if Sayuri can target that, anyways, Yagura stopping being dead wasn't very well explained, and maybe it would involve getting Sayuri incredibly close to the active Kage fight, which, uh.

(The Mizukage and Shinrei are getting close to 'actively losing' and not just 'fighting a delaying action in a battle they can't win' she's pretty sure. They don't have inexhaustible chakra reserves, and Amajina thinks Shinrei's attempted some seals, but she's not - sure.)

(And Elaise is bogged down in fight after fight, and Amajina's nervous and unhappy, and - she's getting increasingly tempted to just abandon her post - )

Sayuri is ignoring orders to be here.

That's the big thing echoing in her mind. She's ignoring orders. Not the ones given when the Invasion started, of course.

Older ones. From before Terumi Mei ascended to Mizukage. Even from before the circle of ex-Kiri jounin set to retake their country had decided who would lead them.

Sayuri resurrected Yagura years after the woman's death, as a small child. It knocked her out. Subsequent experiments have exhausted her, left her woozy with chakra exhaustion for days at a minimum.

They're not sure there's anyone Sayuri can't resurrect. It's not like resurrections aren't inconvenient, of course. There's a lag between individual resurrections, and that can be problematic in a rapidly changing political situation. Her resurrectees are weakened - not permanently, more in the way of a deep injury, that hinders chakra reforming, that makes thoughts distant. But Shinrei had pushed through it alright.

The oldest, longest lasting orders she's ever operated under are survive.

In a hopeless situation, Sayuri's only assignment is to flee. To stay safe. To return to Kiri, to receive orders from the Mizukage on triage of resurrections - to bring the Mizukage back first, if she's among the dead. She has everything she needs to resurrect every person Kiri considers critical on her own person, in a scroll only she can open. A much more extensive set is kept in the Mizukage's Tower. Their most powerful drawing a bright line in the sand in defense of a foreign village is a much, much milder risk, so long as Sayuri survives.

She isn't supposed to be in the thick of things, struggling hopelessly to keep people she has no duty to alive. She isn't supposed to still be here - to help Konoha wasn't their orders. Sayuri should have overridden her team. Told them that her orders were to leave, with whatever protection she can get.

Sayuri doesn't have what she needs to resurrect Chihiro. Not if she leaves. That's such a stupid, sentimental thought, isn't it? Surely it's worth risking her entire village's future for a pretty girl who's loyal to a potential enemy, isn't it? (All foreign villages are potential enemies; why wouldn't they be?)

She hasn't had a chance to steal an anchor for Chihiro while she's been here. She's mostly tried to keep her alive, to keep Konoha - 

Sayuri can't remake Konoha. She can't undestroy the village Chihiro's given her loyalty to. She can't turn the tide of battle; only clean up the ashes.

And then Elieyha passes on, awkwardly, stiltedly, a question from Amajina.

Are the two not-dead not-alive Hokage the sort of beings her technique works on?

Sayuri doesn't answer. (She'd have to uncover her Rinnegan to find out, anyways.)

There's a lull in the medical tent. Fewer people are making it alive to them. Sayuri isn't needed for a moment, and who'll question a genin medic stepping out of the charnel house?

She goes to find Chihiro, feeling almost in a daze.

(She can't turn the tide of battle, can't she?)

"...Is something wrong?"

"I mean. Everything is."

Pause.

"Konoha isn't - going to win, are they."

"That does not seem likely."

There's a blank in her head, an unreality. She's not sure if it's quiet or screaming.

"You - care about this village."

That's such a stupid statement. It's not even in question.

"I do."

Whatever she can do - she can't do nothing. She decided that when she disobeyed orders the first time.

There's no one right near her, she's pretty sure. No one to hear.

"I have - a technique that might turn the tide," she says, very, very quietly, stepping in close to Chihiro, "But I - don't - want it to be obvious it was Kiri, and especially not me, who used it, because - it's powerful, and using it always knocks me out for a while, and - "

"I trust you. I don't - really trust your village."

"I will guard you."

Deep breath. "Thanks."

" - It's - something I don't usually have nearly enough chakra for. Especially not - at a scale." Pause, then, very quietly: "It's a resurrection technique. Usually not useful in the thick of things, but - Amajina just passed on - she thinks the undead Hokage might be - valid targets. So - "

"I'm going to get Elieyha, but... I'm not sure how to get Amajina out of the command tent non-suspiciously, or - if it'd be anywhere near safe to draw on the Kyuubi through Naruto... And that's something I could use your help with."

She hadn't been going to say that, originally. She resurrected a kage from scratch as a small child. She can manage two mostly-alive kage by now. She doesn't really need the bijuu.

It's hard to target, though, she'd normally need to get pretty close, and -

Uchiha Tobirama is dead.

Sayuri doesn't know how to fix that while also getting the Hokage without area of effect, she doesn't even know where the girl's body is or have any anchors - and she needs enough chakra to cover an area that even the smallest possible transfusion might kill her, getting close enough to a kage fight to not need bijuu chakra might also kill her (if the Mizukage doesn't stop her), and there's a little steel core in her spiraling thoughts that says, might as well go all the way.

(Just two or three resurrections won't save Chihiro's village, after all.)

"...I will retrieve the other two. Fifteen minutes. Back here."

Tight nod.

She goes to find Elieyha, first, to say - she needs Shukaku's chakra, as much as Elieyha can spare, and she needs Elieyha to pass on to Amajina to go along with Chihiro. That Sayuri thinks it'll work.

...Elieyha will go along with it.

And sixteen minutes later, Chihiro has Amajina and Naruto.

Sayuri's unwrapped her Rinnegan - she's keeping her eyelids closed, mostly, to avoid the strain, but she wants to spend some time sensing the souls throughout Konoha while she has it.

There's a lot of dead.

She nods to the three jinchuuriki, explains what she needs - probably the Kyuubi and Shukaku's chakra filtered through Amajina, who knows how to modify the bijuu chakra to be less toxic...

Amajina makes concerned eye contact with her teammate.

Sayuri's lips flatten into a thin line.

...She nods, and walks Naruto through drawing on and transferring the Kyuubi's chakra. Anger will help, knowing Kyuubi...

Well, he has anger, and grief, and fear, and desperate hope, and hatred to spare, right now.

It might be a bit hard for him to be subtle, but - he tries.

Amajina helps.

And a tremendous amount of chakra becomes available to Sayuri.

She thanks them.

Takes a deep breath.

And -

The world opens.

It's like a great bell has been struck around them, but without noise - a jarring in their bones, a shaking in their chakra systems, a thrum in every soul -

The air's cold, and the dead walk beside them - lost, despairing spirits, drifting by the piles of bodies, scattered amount the collapsed buildings -

Sayuri's never used this much chakra before. It's heady, a palpable thing, and -

It's like new eyes are opening within her, new senses -

A pulse.

Rubble hovers, rising struck in the air. A summons thrashes into a building - it fails to fall, hanging suspended as the entire world quivers.

The dead roll over, gasping to life - see the stones that crushed them lifted away - wounds close, and chakra stores fill, and minds clear -

So, so clear, and every last one has been touched by the Pure Land, has brushed through that realm, and it isn't so much a scar on them, so the Rinnegan will not heal it -

The pulse expands. The command tent had been on just about the opposite side of Konoha from the Kage battle; Kakashi wasn't taking any risks that Konoha would lose the rest of its leadership.

It flows over every fight, every crumpled body. Even the living pause, struck, tears coming unbidden to their eyes, and weapons fall to the ground. Enemy summons lower their heads and dismiss themselves; allied summons cease the attack.

It flows over the Kage fight, too, near the end of its potency.

The world hovers, still, stricken, for another few long moments. Enough for the quick thinking to rescue anyone who can't get themselves out of the path of rubble about to fall - and everything hovering lowers, slowly, kindly, gravity only gradually remembering it's supposed to exist.

The thrum settles.

And Sayuri collapses, gasping breathlessly, blood on her lips and in her ears and on her cheeks, her eyes screwed shut -

Medical tent medical tent medical tent-

This here is a genin in a hurry.

Followed by another genin in a hurry!