We've established our outpost in the area next to the border between The land of lightning and the land of rice. The conflict mostly rages inside of the land of rice, since the borders of both lands are heavily guarded. Our plan going forward is to spend a day destroying their military encampments, Hinata searching for them with the Byakugan and then blowing them from the inside with her arrows. Afterwards we go to our outpost, rig it to explode and move to another area near the border before repeating the same plan until they manage to form countermeasures. Hinata will of course also be using shadow clones, each provided a single explosive arrow, more than enough to destroy one of their encampments on its own.
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Hinata forms two shadow clones, hands an explosive arrow to each and they all promptly take aim. They all fire into the visible enemy encampment. Two thirds of the encampment are engulfed within the explosions, the other third merely severely damaged instead of completely destroyed. I form ten shadow clones and send them to kill any strays running away. Hinata and the clones proceed to snipe any enemy jonin, the arrows being more akin to sniper bullets on steroids than anything that should be coming out of a bow.
In less than ten minutes all of the enemy shinobi are dead. The jonin were sniped by Hinata and all of the others either killed in the initial explosions or hunted down by shadow clones.
We proceed towards the next encampment. We have two more targets planned for today. Tomorrow we move further along. We started on one side of the border and will slowly move through all of it. They will either surrender or we will proceed to open the gates for a full invasion.
-next day.
We don't bother investing a lot of time into building our outposts, we're not planning on staying in any of them for long. After we're done we just rest for the rest of the day. It's poker day today.
-five days later.
We're preparing our supplies for when we go out again. I am sealing jutsu, Sakura is progressing on her heal-Tattoo idea and Hinata is training her Byakugan. The day before the attack we will just rest. We always rest the days before and after our deployments. The time in between we either prepare for combat or train.
-two days later.
Hinata fires the explosive arrow into the underground encampment, cracking it open like bursting cake. Enemy shinobi begin exiting the attacked encampment. Jonin are relentlessly sniped, The precision of the Byakugan forbidding them any attempt to dodge. The genin and chunin are faced by my shadow-clones, any that look in their eyes are instantly turned into brain-dead vegetables. Those who are wise to avoid such find themselves either decapitated or cut in half.
In five minutes they are all dead. Onto the next.
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We decide to capture some of the Kumo Shinobi for this raid. After killing almost all of their force, Hinata and I make three shadow clones each, sending them to capture enemy Chunin. Sakura, Hinata and I then proceed to capture the leg-less jonin, Hinata having easily blown off both of his legs.
Interrogation informs us of multiple supply convoys. Shadow clones will allow us to strike all of them.
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We spent the following two months like this. A cycle of rest, training and then murder. By now we have already traversed half of the border in this way. When we are about to leave and begin the other half Kakashi's summon arrives. The dog gives us a long awaited letter. It both relieves and brings us some confusion.
Kumo has surrendered. The eight tails jinchuriki is assumed dead. On our arrival in Konoha we will be promoted to Jonin for our war contribution.
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We are the first from the academy to arrive back in Konoha. Chunin and genin are constantly streaming through the gates. Some of them are wounded, some are crippled, others have brought prisoners and war-loot with them.
We make our way to the Hokage tower, on the way there we find out that a parade is scheduled to happen twentyfour days from now. To give time for all deployed Shinobi to come back.
When we arrive at the tower we unceremoniously make our way towards the hokage's office. The secretary informs us that Hiruzen is waiting for us in the meeting room. Upon our arrival we find the Hokage standing next to the glass walls, looking over at Konoha. When we close the door he turns towards us. "Please, take your seats."
We all take our seats at the table, after we make ourselves comfortable he continues "You are heroes of Konoha. Without your actions along the border we would have been unable to finish the war this quickly. For your valor and courage you have now become Jonin of Konoha. Stand proud".
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After our promotion I take Hirogi, Kurari and Karari to my house. It takes Sakura, Hinata and I five days before we decide to just move in together, finding ourselves unable to sleep without each other nearby.
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Ino just invited us to a BBQ. Apparently she is organizing a meet-up for our whole former class. Both graduated and un-graduated are invited. All three of us agree to go.