Konoha: Sage Body

Kirito naturally did not keep the White Zetsu clone in Land of Water, he maneuvered the White Zetsu clone to leave a shadow clone with enough chakra to last for a week in Amegakure Village, then quickly flew back to the middle of Amegakure Village.

Relying on the shadow clone left in the Amegakure village to handle daily affairs, he had already understood the current situation of the Amegakure.

Not so good, extremely bad.

Kumogakure is worthy of being a ninja village born from bandits, everyone is a natural born bandit, very talented in burning, killing and looting, and very dark, completely without the big ninja village's kind of honor that is concerned about the honor of not taking action against the weak, once they strike, it is to beat them to death.

Because of this, Land of Rain has already had many villages and cities turned into white land, even the farmland used for cultivation is not spared, completely a tendency to drive out all the people.

If we continue to let Kumogakure continue like this, in less than a month, the Land of Rain will be finished.

Amegakure village, underground Abyss Division base camp, Kirito just control White Zetsu clone back to the Abyss Division leader's office, a hurried purple-haired girl quickly rushed in, it is the White Zetsu clone played Hattori Masanari's secretary Violet.

Violet, who was an excellent sensory ninja, had sensed Kirito just as he returned.

"Lord Masanari, you're finally back, Hanzo-sama has given me instructions to ask you to go over and see him immediately."

Violet said to Kirito with an anxious face.

"Don't be anxious, relax, there's no use for you to be anxious, why don't you calm down and do your work properly, and don't be too tired, take a proper rest, if you fall down, my work will be heavy again."

Kirito looked at the thick dark circles on Violet's face and advised.

After saying that, he then patted Violet's shoulder with his hand and continued, "Don't worry, there's still me to carry the sky when it collapses, with me here, Land of Rain and Amegakure Village can't be destroyed."

In the next moment, without waiting for Violet to say something, he used his water shunshin technique to disappear in the same place.

Seeing this, Violet then closed her mouth, and then the anxiety on her face not only didn't diminish due to Kirito's reassurance, but instead it became even more intense, and her eyes showed a strong concern.

Kirito knew exactly where Hanzo was right now, and in no time at all, he arrived at the highest part of the central tower of the Amegakure village.

Hanzo of the Salamander was standing quietly in the rain.

"Masanari, the Land of Rain is crying again."

When Kirito approached, Hanzo spoke, his voice revealing deep sadness and exhaustion.

Three days had passed since Kumogakure had initiated their retaliation, and during those three days, he had been going around the Land of Rain like a firefighter, but in vain, he had been unable to contain the atrocities that Kumogakure had inflicted on the Land of Rain.

Watching the civilian population of Land of Rain and those young Ame-Nin who had not yet grown up die by batches and batches under the butcher's knife of Kumogakure, Hanzo, even though he had long been accustomed to seeing the parting of life and death, still felt his heart cut as if it were a knife, and it hurt very much.

"Being in the key place of the chaotic world, but without the ability to protect themselves, the fate of Amegakure and Land of Rain has long been doomed, Iwagakure and Konoha side still do not have half a bit of news?"

Kirito sniffed and sighed.

"Do you think you were right to raid the village of Kumogakure?"

Hanzo didn't mention the matter of providing support to Iwagakure and Konoha as he turned to Kirito and questioned him coldly.

The reason why Kumogakure had gone so crazy in the Land of Rain was precisely because of Kirito's big mess with the Cloud Hidden Village.

Hanzo regretted now, regretting that he shouldn't have agreed to Kirito's raid on the Kumogakure village to establish his authority.

Kirito was silent and didn't answer Hanzo's question right away, but instead turned his gaze to the Amegakure village.

Because of the atrocities that Kumogakure had committed all over the Land of Rain, a large number of refugees from all over the Land of Rain were now pouring into the Amegakure Village.

At this current time, there was no place in the Land of Rain that was safer than the Amegakure Village.

Even though Amegakure Village was large, the influx of nearly a million number of refugees at once also seemed very crowded, so more refugees were excluded from the outside of Amegakure Village, and eventually a large temporary camp was formed.

Land of Rain is a country with many disasters, for a long time, capable nationals basically fled out of Land of Rain, leaving behind those who are incapable as well as those who are hard to leave their homeland.

Perhaps it was because of this that the character of the nationals left behind were generally very tough, they were like weeds in the wasteland, as long as they were given a little sunlight and rain, they could continue to thrive.

Therefore, although most of the people in the refugee camp site outside the Amegakure Village were dressed in rags, their spirits were still very good, and a gleam called hope still existed in their eyes.

"Take a look at those people down there, and you should understand if I did the right thing or not?"

Kirito leaned on Byakugan to take in the situation in the refugee camp before speaking to Hanzo.

When Hanzo heard Kirito say that, he not only became bitter inside.

How could he not understand Kirito's words.

About the matter of Hattori Masanari leading fifty Amegakure to raid the Land of Rain has long been rumored, this matter is naturally a great boost to the morale of the Land of Rain, the reason why the Amegakure village hasn't been crumbled by the Kumogakure until now is that there is Hattori Masanari to bring up this breath of air in.

Many Ame-Nin and Land of Rain people think that they still have hope of victory, and have not completely lost hope in this war.

It's just that when there is a serious imbalance of power between the two sides, a boost in morale can't sway victory or defeat at all, it just increases casualties in vain.

"Hanzo, do you think that if I don't raid the Kumogakure village, Kumogakure won't deal with the Land of Rain like they are doing now?"

When Kirito saw that Hanzo was silent, he knew clearly that Hanzo did not approve of his words in his heart, and asked rhetorically.

The purpose of Kumogakure's invasion of Land of Rain had long been known to everyone.

It was nothing more than the intention to step on Amegakure's shoulders to boost their morale so that they could deal with Konoha.

But how could such a thing as war be so easy to control, as Kumogakure fought, their purpose began to change.

Because they found out that the Land of Rain was richer than they thought, the original idea of just defeating Amegakure and using it to boost their morale to attack Konoha became mainly looting.

There were signs of this, after Kumogakure broke through the Amegakure fortresses at the border, they started to loot the rich border towns, like locusts crossing the border, several rich border towns were destroyed by them, and there was no telling how long it would take to rebuild them.

"At least it won't be as ruthless as it is now."

Hanzo retorted.

"So you're just going to let Amegakure live on their knees!"

Kirito said coldly.

"I didn't say that, I just don't think we should use such overkill against Kumogakure, admit it, you're doing it wrong, Kumogakure isn't the Konoha, fighting with them to be ruthless will only make them even more ruthless, and you know very well that we, Amegakure, are small, and we won't be able to wear them down."

Hanzo stepped forward, angrily pulling out Kirito's collar and shouting curses.

"I didn't realize that the man who dared to draw a sword on Konoha in the beginning had become like this, you're really getting more and more cowardly the more you live, Hanzo, so what if you can't wear them out, the bloodline of Amegakure can't be lost.

Do you think that the three major powers around us will let us develop our strength properly? Even if Kumogakure doesn't strike at Amegakure now, Iwagakure, Konoha and Sunagakure will strike at us sooner or later.

If we are not able to teach Kumogakure a hard lesson this time, so that the other ninja villages will understand the bloodthirstiness of our Amegakure, and be clear about the price of completely provoking us, if we Amegakure don't even have bloodthirstiness left, we'll no longer have a bit of resistance in the future when we face Iwagakure, Konoha, and Sunagakure, is this the Amegakure that you wish to see?"

Kirito taunted as he pushed Hanzo away.

"You will only bring Amegakure into the abyss faster, those great Shinobi villages will not let you go."

Hanzo rushed up and gave Kirito a hard punch to the face, cursing.

"Let them, I won't die if you die."

Kirito nonchalantly returned the favor, also punching Hanzo hard in the face, knocking him to the ground.

For a moment, the two most powerful men in the Amegakure village were fighting like little children, continually beating on the faces of their counterparts until both of them collapsed with bruises and swollen noses.

"Masanari, Amegakure is hopeless, neither Iwagakure nor Konoha is willing to do anything, and Sunagakure even took the opportunity to take advantage of the fire against us."

Hanzo was lying on the ground with his face drenched in rain, he covered his face with his hands and said in agony.

Without any reinforcements, Hanzo who knew that Amegakure was currently caught in a troop shortage could not see the slightest hope of victory, he was about to despair.

"I hadn't planned to count on them, at this time, Iwagakure and Konoha didn't fall on their swords even if it's good, but don't jump to conclusions so quickly, I contacted Kirigakure's side, I think there is a lot of hope, as long as Kirigakure is willing to make a move, there is still hope for us."

Kirito heard Hanzo say that Iwagakure and Konoha are not willing to make a move, his heart has no fluctuation and comforted.

Hearing that there was a chance on Kirigakure's side, Hanzo instantly got up from the ground and said excitedly, "Really?"

"Well, there's a high probability that Kirigakure will make a move, because Kumogakure is very close to them, and I've even intentionally flaunted my wealth in front of them, I'm pretty sure that they definitely don't want Kirigakure to swallow Amegakure's wealth and grow, and then threaten themselves.

Lastly, Kirigakure also needs a big battle within itself to reshuffle the cards."

Kirito nodded in mock certainty, giving Hanzo a morale boost.

The Abyss Division that Kirito had set up in the Amegakure village using Hattori Masanari, played by the White Zetsu clone, was in the business of intelligence, and coupled with the Night Organization's intelligence network, he was more aware of the current chaos within Kirigakure than he had been in his previous life.

The Blood Mist Faction, with the support of the Land of Water daimyo, and leaving aside the Kage level combatants, is already strong enough to compete with the Anti-Blood Mist Faction.

If that Sandaime Mizukage was not yet determined to carry out a purge, the Blood Mist Faction would sooner or later come to power.

This is the helplessness of the shadow of a village, the palm and back of his hand are all flesh, with empty power, but is bound by all kinds of things, not able to easily go down to the field to strike, only able to sneak behind the scenes to use all kinds of reasons to root out dissidents.

"That's good, that's good then, as long as Kirigakure makes a move, we'll really have hope."

Hanzo received an affirmative answer and said with a grateful face like he was relieved.

In the absence of Hattori Masanari, the pressure of the Land of Rain had all been on him alone, and he had thought that he could carry it off, but the power of Kumogakure had really made him feel intimidated.

For no other reason, in this war, his personal greatest strengths could not be brought into play on the battlefield at all, that Sandaime Raikage was too strong and had mastered jutsu that very much restrained him, and his best assassination technique was of no use at all in front of the other party's armor of thunder and lightning.

The most he could do was to hold back that Sandaime Raikage on the battlefield, and still take his life to do so.

Moreover, Kumogakure was different from Konoha, the people of Kumogakure were very united and bloodthirsty.

Facing such an opponent, Hanzo really couldn't see the slightest hope that he could defeat Kumogakure.

"You go ahead and take a rest, I'm back, the pressure can be shared in half, I'll lead the Abyss Division with all my might to assist you next."

Seeing that Hanzo was finally somewhat at ease, Kirito clapped his hand on his shoulder and said sincerely.

After saying that, he turned around and left.

Hanzo looked at Kirito's back, and a flash of color flashed in his eyes before he finally closed his eyes and said aloud, "Don't die."

As soon as the words left his mouth, Kirito used his Shunshin Technique to disappear into thin air.

"Let's hope you made the right choice."

Seeing this, Hanzo murmured as a ghostly light flickered in his eyes.

In the next moment, he waved his hand, and two ANBU that exuded a ferocious aura appeared in front of Hanzo, both of them staring coldly at Hanzo.

Hanzo looked at the two Amegakure ANBUs and was silent for a moment.

Suddenly, a flash of ghostly blue blade light appeared.

The two ANBU Dark Sectors' necks instantly splattered with a splash of blood, looking at Hanzo with unbelievable gazes, and one of them pointed a finger at Hanzo as he tried to speak, but ended up spitting out bubbles of blood before collapsing with a look of resignation on his face.

"Who made me see hope again, this is your life."

Hanzo said with an expressionless face as he looked at the two corpses in front of him that were rapidly losing their life.

He then touched a seal and made some sort of Fire Release jutsu, burning the two corpses to ashes.

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On the other hand, within the Land of Wind, in the temporary battlefield base camp of the konoha in a certain oasis.

Kirito main body put down his hand a newest order book from Konoha, said with some displeasure: "Sandaime what this guy is trying to do? At this time, he doesn't let the army attack Sunagakure, instead, he lets me stay here quietly, it's really tough to do that."

Through the White Zetsu clone, he already knew about Sunagakure's invasion of Land of Rain.

In response, the first thing he did when he got the news was to ask Sandaime for troops to attack Sunagakure.

Sunagakure had been beaten up enough by him recently, generally only able to passively defend, and now they actually had the heart to go to the Land of Rain to steal chickens, simply not putting him in his eyes.

Since Sunagakure now dared to die and split his army to invade the Land of Rain, of course he would not miss this good opportunity to ruthlessly clean up Sunagakure.

To be honest, with his current ability, he might not be able to exterminate Sunagakure single-handedly, but there was already no problem in beating it up.

The reason for this was that the One-Tailed Shukaku inside him hated Sunagakure so much that he would very actively provide chakra when he heard about attacking Sunagakure, so that he didn't have to worry too much about chakra consumption.

Unfortunately, although he wanted to teach Sunagakure a lesson, the Third Hokage rejected his request to send troops, giving the reason that Sunagakure had already sent people to Konoha to discuss the matter, and it was not appropriate to continue to increase the conflict between Konoha and Sunagakure.

"That's quite a move, Sunagakure, using peace talks to avoid getting beaten."

Kirito sneered as he manipulated the sand to create a sand sculpture of Sunagakure on the ground.

In the next moment, he ruthlessly crushed the sand sculpture of Sunagakure with his foot, his eyes showing a fierce light.