"I thought this kid couldn't fly that high. I miscalculated!"
Tsuchikage Onoki's face was as pale as paper, and his forehead was covered with large beads of sweat, but he heard the joking voice of Nohara Yuu from the opposite side,
"If you two had not abandoned your subordinates and escaped alone, the act of father and son going to hell together would have been praised by the ninjas of Iwagakure Village... Is Kurotsuchi going to be the Fourth Tsuchikage? No, no, no. You Ohnoki can't be a Tsuchikage."
"Damn you brat! Don't be too arrogant!!"
Even though Tsuchikage Onoki had a broken leg and was seriously injured, he still spoke clearly, "You abandoned your men and came here to intercept us - so what if our plan failed this time! Our Earth Kingdom will not be defeated! What's more, Don't underestimate the 'Shadow'! Otherwise, you will definitely suffer a big loss in the future confrontation with Sarutobi Hiruzen!"
Are you still driving a wedge between me and Konoha at this time?
Yuyu was quite surprised by this. He had just moved when he saw the father and son opposite him quickly forming seals with their hands. The two spit out a large amount of rocks from their mouths, "Earth Release: Gangli Style Technique!" The rocks passed by. After twisting and changing, it transformed into a dozen stone men two to three meters in size.
The stone people were flying after being exerted by Onoki's "Light and Heavy Rock Technique", protecting the father and son in front of them.
"Can these things only stop me?" Yuyu rushed over quickly, smashing all the stone men into pieces in a few clicks. The stones fell down and disappeared. He rushed towards Ohnoki and Huangtu again, but saw two people. One after another, they turned into rocks and fell from the sky.
"It's the rock clone."
Yuyu looked at the ground under his feet, guessing in his mind that the father and son had probably hidden in the stone man and escaped. There was no sign of discouragement on his face, facing such an old shadow with rich fighting experience, especially this Ohnoki. , it is good to be able to seriously injure him to the greatest extent. After all, he is just a shadow clone.
"Bang!" He formed a seal to make the shadow clone disappear.
On that battlefield, Yuyu's body, which was ruthlessly harvesting the lives of the enemy, received the message from the shadow clone. He nodded slightly. After seeing Ohnoki disappear just now, the three shadow clones set out to look for it together. There was a shadow clone. Have you successfully found and seriously injured him? Now you can maximize the results of this battle.
All operational troops of the Kingdom of Earth in the Kingdom of Fire must be withdrawn.
A few minutes later, the ninjas of Iwagakure Village who were present either dropped their weapons and stopped taking action, or they became one of the corpses on the ground.
Konoha Village has won this battle!
There were only over two hundred of them. Not only did they defeat more than a thousand troops led by the Tsuchikage, they also captured a large number of ninjas from Iwagakure Village. Even the five-tailed jinchūriki of Iwagakure Village were captured by Gaara. Many people They couldn't help but cheer loudly, and they looked at Youyu with even more admiration.
"Akimichi Hayabusa! Report the casualties on both sides!!"
"Yes! Master Yuyu!!"
After counting the number of people, Akimichi Hayabusa ran to Yuu Yu and bowed, saying, "A total of about 1,400 people came to Iwagakure Village! More than 800 people were annihilated by us, and 353 were captured! Escaped! No more than two hundred people!!”
"Well, what about our situation in Konoha."
"A total of 236 of us participated in the battle of Mount Tsukuba. Eighty-three were slightly injured, 31 were seriously injured, and eighteen people died."
Yuu Yu nodded slightly. After all, it was a large-scale war, and casualties were inevitable. Moreover, more than two-thirds of the group of ninjas led by Akimichi Hayabusa were genin. Ninjas of this level were very easy to die in the war. , this kind of casualty rate is already quite rare, and we cannot ask for any higher.
He saw Akimichi Falcon's expression was different and asked,
"What's wrong? Do you have any friends on the sacrifice list?"
"Master Yuuha, the jounin of our team, Taichi Sarutobi, is also on the sacrifice list. He is one of the two jonin who died."
Is Taichi Sarutobi... After Yuuyu was startled for a moment, his expression turned strange. As a jounin, it was not appropriate for him to die in such an almost one-sided crushing war. He knew this ape without having to guess. Why is the genius of the Flying Clan on the sacrifice list? It is probably because this person jumped out to command him before taking action and offended the thirty-two of them. Therefore, after seeing this person in danger, they even saved him Nor will I try my best.
"Okay, I get it now."
Yuyu said calmly, "Treat the injured with all your strength!"
"Yes! We're doing it!"
When they were clearing the battlefield, a large group of people rushed up from the bottom of the mountain. They were relieved when they saw that those people were Konoha ninjas. However, after this group of up to 600 Konoha ninjas arrived at full speed, they saw Our own ninjas who arrived on the mountain were guarding more prisoners than them. The corpses of ninjas in the surrounding Iwagakure Village were piled up in mountains. This exaggerated scene left them speechless for a long time.
They have been on high alert after receiving information about the mobilization of the Earth Kingdom troops within the territory. Not long ago, the intelligence said that the Earth Kingdom troops set off, and the direction was here. They immediately guessed their purpose - —Ambush the Konoha ninjas on Mount Tsukuba.
Under the urgent order of Sannin Jiraiya, he immediately set out to support this place as quickly as possible.
Didn't expect this to be the case! Tsuchikage Onoki brought a large number of troops to ambush their root leader, but almost the entire army was wiped out.
This glorious victory is really amazing. After many troops from the Earth Country invaded the Fire Country, the Fire Country's morale was dampened.
Now, this victory can definitely reverse the current unfavorable situation in one fell swoop.
And things turned out even better than they expected.
The next day, the good news came that the teams from Yanyin Village that invaded the Fire Country retreated directly and quickly exited the Fire Country.
In the afternoon, the sun was shining brightly. Yuu Yu led his men in a triumphant return. As the commander-in-chief of the Battle of Mount Tsukuba, he almost single-handedly won the ambush battle against them by the Earth Country. In the process, he was seriously injured. Tsuchikage Onoki captured the Five-Tailed Jinchuuriki of Iwagakure Village. This achievement shocked the entire Konoha Village. It was no wonder that he was welcomed by the entire Konoha Village. Not only the senior officials of the major ninja clans showed up. At the door, even Jiraiya was sent by Sarutobi Hiruzen to welcome his return.
"Yuyu, are you interested in taking over the command of Konoha's side of this war from me?"
Jiraiya seemed to be in a good mood, and said with a smile, "If you were to give the command, you could scare those people away. How about it? Do you want to do it?"
Yuyu knew that Jiraiya was joking, "Jiraiya-sama gives me a copy of "Making Love in Heaven" and I'll do it."
Jiraiya laughed loudly when he heard this, and his face turned serious: "Yuyu, you have also heard that there are some rumors against you circulating in the village. Don't pay attention to them. Your actions are the best response to those rumors. ! Everyone trusts you!"
"I know····"
Yuyu didn't want to talk to him about this, so he only said a few perfunctory words. After saying goodbye to him, he came to his parents who were waiting for him. Nohara Yoto and Minako did not talk about the serious topic of war with him, but just smiled and told him He cooked his favorite meal at home, and after meeting Gaara who was holding a weird rice cooker, the two returned home together, while Yuu took a hot bath after returning home and began to rest.
After a day of resting comfortably at home.
Yuyu got down to business.
These days, although he is not in Konoha Village, under the surveillance of the ninja dogs in Whirlpool Ridge, every move of Konoha Village is under his control.
After he came back, new rumors against him emerged. The rumor was that because he and Taichi Sarutobi had a fierce dispute before the war on Mount Tsukuba, he deliberately looked for opportunities to kill this genius of the Sarutobi clan during the war. This is not only a grudge, but also to attack Hiruzen Sarutobi and the Sarutobi clan, so that when he deals with Hiruzen Sarutobi in the future, Sarutobi will have one less helper.
Including this, there are already five or six rumors against him, and he already knows who is spreading them.
At eight o'clock in the evening, Youyu learned that the group of people had held a meeting and summoned his base to take action.
The people he summoned were not many, only more than thirty people, but several Uchiha were among them, Uchiha Shisui, Uchiha Tomoki, Uchiha Naoto, etc. These Uchiha knew what was going to happen next. After doing it, I was very excited! !
When they gathered and set off, the Anbu who were monitoring the village received the news and reported it to the Hokage Sarutobi Hiruzen.
On the way, Zhisui asked worriedly: "Yuyu, you have only been back for just one day, have you already found evidence that can arrest them?"
Youyu shook his head: "No need for evidence! What I said is evidence!!"
Shisui was shocked: "This... the commotion caused by touching those people is not small! Will it cause trouble?"
"Catch them and then look for evidence!!" Tomoki strongly disagreed with his statement, Nunu mouth said, "Shisui, you are too cowardly! You should be able to torture them and extract confessions after arresting them, right? No? Can you create some evidence?"
Yuyu nodded and praised: "Tomoki is right!"
Many people behind them were sweating on their foreheads, and they began to complain about the divine logic of the two people.
In the dark night, more than thirty people left quickly. In just a few minutes, they arrived outside a large house. They jumped into the courtyard of the house. Several guards in the courtyard were hit by several Uchiha Sharingan illusions. Finally, he fell softly.
"who!!"
The brightly lit conference room was at the back of the courtyard. At this time, the people inside heard the noise, and huge shouts came from inside.
Akimichi Shito, a member of the Roots, rushed over and smashed the door of the conference room with a punch. The situation in the conference room fell into their eyes. There were more than thirty people inside, all of them were jonins of the Shimura clan, some sitting and some standing. , they looked at the group of people outside the yard with astonishment.
"Nohara Yuu! What are you doing!!"
Shimura Yuuto, the current leader of the Shimura clan, stood up from his seat with a cold face and said coldly, "Do you want to rebel?"
Yuyu sneered twice, looked at him, and said, "It's not me! It's you people who want to rebel! Our roots received reports from the Konoha people today that you people want to rebel. There is already a lot of evidence! You all Come back to your roots with me and help with the investigation!!"
"!!!" Shimura Wada, the elder of the Shimura clan, shouted angrily: "Nohara Yuu, you are using your power for personal gain!!"
"Whatever you say." Youyu glanced at these people and saw the panic on many of their faces. He said slowly, "Should we take you away by force or should you go on your own? Choose one! "
"Nohara Yuu, you are going too far!"
The anger on Shimura Yuuto's face was obvious, "After the Uchiha incident, our clan has clearly chosen to give up a lot of power and keep a low profile. Why are you still refusing to let us go!"
"You keep a low profile and hold a high-level meeting of the ethnic group in the middle of the night?"
While Yuyu was speaking, he observed their every move and saw that one of their jonins was secretly using chakra power to burn the information in his hand. His eyes fell on the batch of information on the table and he yelled, "All of you, come out! Immediately! Immediately!! No unnecessary movements!"
"!!!"
Everyone in the Shimura clan in the conference room looked at their clan leader.
Shimura Yuto looked very ugly. He gritted his teeth and seemed to be thinking hard about how to make a decision.
The people in Gen looked on expectantly. Youyu's demands on them were not excessive. Once these people decided to resist with force, it would be a big deal.
At this time, more than a dozen people jumped out of the yard. All of these people were wearing animal masks. One of them looked familiar to them. He was the top ANBU codename "Xiang" next to Sarutobi Hiruzen. Xiang took a look at the situation inside the house. , came over: "Youyu, what are you doing?"
"Didn't you see that Gen is doing something?"
"What did the Shimura clan do?"
"Who am I to tell you that Anbu has no right to interfere in Gen's affairs."
After Xiang was silent for a while, he said: "Yuyu, I have already reported this matter to Lord Hokage. Lord Hokage means that it is a time of war and it is not appropriate to cause civil strife. If you discover anything, it is best to report it to him before taking action. Hokage-sama is already on his way here at this time."
Yuyu said: "Where is the official order from Hokage-sama?"
Xiang said: "No, but -" He looked at the few Uchihas who were waiting in anticipation, and then at the tense-looking Shimura Yuuto inside, and said, "The Shimura clan has been quite peaceful in recent months. Are you doing something wrong, or are you venting your anger on the Uchiha clan? To be honest, their clan has been punished enough!"
Youyu sneered, and seeing the people inside making small moves again, he waved his hand: "Action!!"
Gen's people immediately rushed in. Xiang and his people wanted to stop this internal conflict in Konoha, but Gen's people naturally did not allow it. The two groups of people immediately faced each other with swords. Yuu Yu formed three shadow clones, two He rushed into the conference room to deal with a group of Jonin there, and one of them pounced on the "elephant".
boom! !
The room exploded.
In the burst of gravel, several pieces of white paper flew out. Yuu grabbed one of them, glanced at it, and realized that it was a plan to spread the rumor that Yuu Nohara had assassinated Taichi Sarutobi... He touched it. He lowered his chin and thought to himself that this crime was nothing. He cast his eyes on one of the floors in the conference room and said, "Shisui, Tomoki, there is a basement down there! You two go search, be careful, there is a basement there!" Someone!!”
"What!!"
"Nohara Yuu! You're going too far!"
"We fought this brat!!"
The faces of the people of the Shimura clan changed greatly at this time. Many people were shouting angrily, and some people actually used large-scale ninjutsu directly. The elder of the Shimura clan who was close to Yuyu's body, Shimura Wada, quickly formed a seal: "Wind Release" ·Vacuum Wave!!”
He sprayed out a sharp wind blade like a sickle and weasel from his mouth and swept it towards Yu Yu.
"Earth Release·Earth Flow Wall!!"
Yuyu avoided this wind escape ninjutsu with a slight jump. The ANBU ninja "Xiang" behind him quickly blocked the attack with earth escape ninjutsu. He stared at Shimura Wada in disbelief and shouted loudly: "Shimura Wada ! Are you crazy! Use this ninjutsu to attack the root leader!"
"Xiang, didn't you see that he is very awake now!" Youyu sneered, "There must be something down there that can destroy their family! So, between choosing to let us go down or kill us together, they chose the latter!!"
"Susan!" Uchiha Shisui directly condensed Susanoo at this time, smashed the ground with a slap, and rushed down to the basement. However, after hearing a loud bang below, a large hole rushed out of the basement. The figure came, and the mask on the person's face was smashed by Shisui, revealing half of his face. It turned out to be Konoha's A-level rebel ninja, Aki Michio!
(End of chapter)
