A BLONDE TIME-TRAVELLER

6. HELPING THE INUZUKAS

The war between the Inuzuka Clan and the Shimura Clan was well known in the Konoha History Archive, but it was known as the War of the Bloody Fangs. The peculiar name came from the ferocity, the Inuzuka Clan showed, and the bloody violence the was inflicted upon them by their enemies. During the war, an Inuzuka would either be a defeated bloody heap, or primal survivor with the enemies' blood soaking his body.

The war had ended after eight months of battles that resembled hell on earth, it took the deaths of over a thousand Shinobi before a resolution was signed. In the end the Inuzuka agreed to leave their native Nation peacefully and the country would compensate them for their loss over the war. From what Naruto remembered in the history textbook, the money given to the Inuzuka were barely enough to sustain their significantly lowered numbers for a few months, but the feral clan had no choice but to take the money because if the war continued, they would be destroyed.

Naruto had personally worked a fought with powerful members of both clans back in his own time, so he knew their strengths and weaknesses very well, and he can conclude that the Inuzuka Clan was not inferior to the Shimura Clan. The main reason the Shimura Clan won the war was because they had Tsume no Kuni backing them up constantly with financial and physical resources.

"So, we are going to help the Inuzuka Clan in this war?" asked a serious Mito as she leaned down closer to the geographic map of Tsume no Kuni.

Naruto nodded as he mapped out the distances of various point within the country. "Yes, they are our ideal first ally, so we have to save them before they sustain too many losses."

Mito nodded in acknowledgement and continued to analyze the landscapes of Tsume no Kuni. "They've been in the war for about three months now, and they seem to be slowly losing ground." said the Heiress as she stood back and read out of the file containing intel on the war. "The casualties on both sides are rather even, but the Inuzuka's just don't have enough resources."

The blond man nodded. "Exactly, and that is where we come in." said Naruto with a smile as he turned back to a desk and retrieved a file on the Uzumaki's current supplies. "For the last two years, we have been producing sustainable farms and started to preserve most of their products for storage." Naruto inputted all the numbers into calculator and smiled when he saw the final number. "Based on what we have now, we can sustain a war for a whole year, and with our farms and manufacturers we can refill our stocks in six months, which is very good already."

Naruto and Mito had been researching and planning through their incoming mission for the last week, and things have been going quite well. Genryusai had officially tasked Mito with being the Commander of the Uzumaki Forces, and Naruto as he second in command. Official training routines had been ordered down to all Uzumaki Shinobi's, giving all of them a month to prepare for the war. The entire clan and all its sub-division were all working in conjunction with each other to prepare in the month's mark, and it was going off like clockwork.

Naruto had made use of a large office inside the main commander building of the village and filled it almost to the brim with information of all sorts, from geographic readings to weather patterns in the area. Though the room was quite large, only Naruto and Mito worked inside it. There were other lieutenants in the village, but they were mainly focusing on training the troops and left strategy and logistics to the Commander and Naruto.

"We are going to be moving into the country with about a five hundred people at first..." muttered Mito as she kept punching in numbers into the calculator. "Based on the speed will we traveling at and the distance between us and Tsume no Kuni, it will take us about five days to get there."

Naruto sighed. "That is not fast enough, we should force a faster speed floor."

Mito nodded. "We can do that, but our troops might use up too much energy before the battle."