Konoha: Sage Body

After the ANBU ninja left Orochimaru's lab, he went straight to the liaison office in the military camp, and was the first to respond to Sandaime and Sarutobi Takashi about the situation here.

Although his personal strength was good, with the strength of an elite jōnin, he was only an ANBU squad leader, without the right to mobilize the other ninjas in the barracks, and if he wanted to intercept the ninjas of the Uchiha clan, he would have to rely on the strength of the other ninjas in the barracks.

Otherwise, relying solely on their ANBU's strength of more than twenty people here, it was impossible to be a match for those Uchiha ninjas.

Here, although the Uchiha clan's ninjas were few, there were thirty-five of them, and each one of them was an elite Uchiha ninja who had opened Two-Tomoe Sharingan or above, and their strengths were generally above the elite middle ninja, of which there were eight upper ninjas.

A messenger eagle soon flew out from the liaison office, quickly flying high into the sky before heading in the direction of Konoha.

Only, it had only just flown out of the barracks a short while ago when a Wind Release Chakra bullet struck it with precision.

"What Kirito-kun explained is done."

Hyuga Hanare looked at the messenger eagle that was rapidly falling from the air at that moment and said with a faint smile before she maneuvered the chakra plumes on her back and quickly swooped down to catch the messenger eagle before using Rasengan to completely shatter it and the letter it was carrying.

Spying on the people of the ANBU in the barracks as well as intercepting messages sent from the ANBU to Konoha, this was the task that Kirito had secretly explained to Hyuga Hanare with his Mind Body Transmission Technique.

After completing the task, Hanare continued to soar as she watched, using her Byakugan eyes to take in the military camp not far below.

Not long after, she saw a new Transmission Eagle fly out of the barracks, and not only that, there were four ANBU ninjas sneaking out of the barracks from different directions.

And not long after these ANBU ninjas left, an equal number of ninjas left the military camp.

Hanare could clearly notice through Byakugan that these ninja who were secretly trailing the ANBU ninja were all using the art of change and each of them were jōnin.

"Kirito-kun is just awesome, he managed to pull in so many jōnin so quickly, it seems that I don't need to step in."

Hanare saw this and exclaimed in admiration.

After Kirito became the frontline commander-in-chief of the Land of Wind's side, it was natural that he had recruited quite a few people these days.

As a matter of fact, some years ago, he had been doing work when he was in Konoha, secretly befriending many outstanding ninja through his position at the hospital, and also using his superb medical jutsu to form good friendships with these ninja.

Now, he has the strength and power, as well as money power, naturally, he can easily recruit some good henchmen.

The only pity is that most of these people are from the civilian class, and the jōnin he has recently recruited are basically civilian ninja who do not have much power in the military camp.

In the end, Kirito's own identity as a civilian ninja played a big role in the process of recruiting talents.

Many ninja from the Shinobi clan are restricted by their families and are not allowed to be free, and are still waiting to see what will happen, and only a few have the guts to make a choice behind their families' backs; only the young civilian ninja are fearless.

"Let me see your strength, I'm not a place where any cat or dog can come in."

On the high tower of sand outside the oasis, Kirito muttered as he slightly opened his eyes and looked in the direction of the oasis camp.

He then waved his hand, and in the sand dunes a kilometer away, a large, earth-colored snake was pulled out of the ground by a huge sandy hand and then crushed hard into a pulp.

Not long after, the four ANBU ninja were successively caught up by four jōnin who trailed behind them in the desert off the beaten track, and after a great battle, each of them won and lost, three of the four dark ninja were defeated, and the remaining one was defeated by Hanare who arrived later.

The news was completely blocked.

On the other hand, a group of red-eyed ninjas were converging on a crumbling ruin in the Devil's Desert.

Suddenly, a purple lightning suddenly appeared, and without waiting for the other red-eyed ninjas in the ruins to react, Uchiha Chizuru appeared at the highest place in the ruins, looking down at the twelve clansmen below.

"Lord Chizuru."

Uchiha Feng was also here, and when he saw Chizuru, he immediately greeted him respectfully.

Like him who greeted Chizuru, there were also nine young Uchiha ninjas, all of which were elite chunin.

The only two Uchiha jōnin just nodded coldly to Chizuru.

"I'll be in charge of this operation, if any of you are not convinced, you can attack now."

Chizuru slowly drew the famous sword at his waist, Lightning Strike, and said in a cold voice.

As soon as the words fell, one of the Uchiha jōnin with a flat head immediately threw a smoke bomb at Chizuru, utilizing the smoke bomb to block Chizuru's line of sight, and then attacked with Fire Release - Great Dragon Fire Technique, and followed up with Wind Release - Great Breakthrough.

The wind rises up the fire, Great Dragon Fire Technique power increased dramatically.

The two powerful ninjutsu in one breath, swift and incomparable, ordinary jōnin encountered this kind of aggression like fire rapid attack, even if not be killed, certainly will be made a mess.

However, Chizuru is not any ordinary jōnin.

A Water Release Water Severing Wave sliced the fire dragon in half, cutting a horrible sword mark on the ground, and finally stopped steadily an inch in front of the flat-headed Uchiha jōnin and disappeared.

When the flat-headed Uchiha jōnin saw this, his face became unusually ugly.

As a jōnin, how could he not see that Chizuru was being merciful just now, although he had the ability to dodge, he was already defeated in the head-to-head encounter just now.

He really did not expect Chizuru's young age, sword ability is actually so sharp, can cut out such a powerful chakra chopping wave.

And Chizuru will also be very rare in the Uchiha clan Water Release.

Really damn.

The flat-headed Uchiha jōnin was very straightforward, putting away his Kunai and bowing his head in salute to Chizuru.

Uchiha ninja do not like to honor the old and love the young that set, they will only show respect to the strong, do not bother to take action against the weak.

Since Chizuru used his strength to prove that he was above him, he naturally had to listen to Chizuru.

Seeing this, the other Uchiha jōnin pondered for a moment and also honestly bowed his head in salute to Chizuru.

His strength was half as strong as that of the flat-headed Uchiha jōnin, and judging from what had just happened, he definitely wouldn't be Chizuru's opponent either, so he didn't humiliate himself.

When Chizuru saw the two Uchiha jōnin bowing down, she took Lightning Strike back into its scabbard, then opened Sharingan, and used an illusion spell on the crowd of Uchiha ninjas below, secretly speaking out the battle plan this time in the form of a hallucination technique.

The battle plan was simple, it was to secretly infiltrate Sunagakure's main camp, and then use illusion to manipulate those hawk ninja on the list, so that they would launch an attack on Konoha.

Although the plan was simple, the difficulty was not insignificant.

It could be said that this mission was very dangerous, and if one was not careful, one would not be able to come back.

However, the group of Uchiha ninjas all wore excited expressions, and not one of them chose to retreat before following Chizuru's orders and quickly hiding, waiting for the night to fall.

During the process, two unidentified Hyuga clan ninjas joined the action squad, who were in charge of searching for the target, followed by two more Yamanaka clan ninjas who were in charge of liaison.

Soon, night fell, and a pair of scarlet eyes phased into the pitch-black ruins.

...

Sunagakure, Kazekage building, in Kazekage's office.

Sandaime Kazekage was reviewing a mountain of official documents with a haggard face, the poison in his body had been completely removed with the help of Chiyo's excellent medical jutsu, and there was no longer any major problem except for the fact that his body was still a bit weak.

Unfortunately, Sunagakure's current terrible situation didn't have time for him to rest properly.

The backlog of work that had piled up during the time he had been recuperating from his poisoning was now only able to be dealt with by redoubling his efforts.

By dealing with these documents on his desk, Sandaime Kazekage was well aware of how bad the situation of the Sunagakure was right now, and that it wasn't far from being economically bankrupt.

Because of the death of Ebizo and the snatching of the One Tail, Sunagakure's war with Konoha could basically be declared a failure, which led to Sunagakure's international prestige being greatly damaged, and along with that, the amount of missions was greatly reduced to less than half of what it used to be on a daily basis.

Coupled with the fact that Konoha's ninja forces have entered the Land of Wind, and that abominable Kirito Tosaka's hold on One Tail is getting stronger by the day, Rasa's gold mining activities have come to a halt.

Not stopping was not an option, if Rasa were to secretly go to the desert to pan for gold now, it was likely that he would never be able to return.

Sandaime Kazekage understands very well in his heart, if Sunagakure wants to rise again in the future, Rasa is the most important thing, now Sunagakure can have no one, except Rasa can't be less, once Rasa, the Kage level seed with amazing gold panning ability is gone, Sunagakure village will soon become history.

The amount of tasks is greatly reduced, Rasa also has no way to pan for gold to supplement the domestic, Sunagakure is now poor, after paying a large sum of necessary benefits, all Sunagakure ninjas are basically only able to eat grass for the next month, not far away from eating sand.

"Damned Konoha, damned Kirito Tosaka, I will definitely not stop."

Sandaime Kazekage thought of Sunagakure's current difficult situation, he hated Konoha with a passion, which focused on the extreme hatred of Kirito Tosaka.

After slightly sputtering and whining, the Sandaime Kazekage wandered off and regained his spirit to deal with the paperwork.

Now the situation is better than others, Sunagakure can only be weak, and continue to fight with Konoha will only lead to a dead end.

Although he hated Kirito Tosaka, but also clear that this abominable Konoha ninja is not the current Sunagakure can provoke, as for wanting to get back from the other side of the body of the one tail, for the time being they can only do daydreaming, the other side is not to fight over it even if it's good.

"I hope that Elder Chiyo this time will have a good result when she goes to Konoha to make peace, I think that Sandaime should not want to see Sunagakure forced to fight with Konoha to the death."

Sandaime Kazekage's heart was full of bitterness at this point as he remembered the shameful decision to use peace talks to stop Kirito Tosaka from launching an attack on Sunagakure.

He originally did not intend to have peace talks, wanting to wait for Kumogakure again, and then rely on Kumogakure to share the pressure from Konoha's side. As a result, Kumogakure had not been able to quickly defeat Amegakure, but instead had been met with stubborn resistance from Amegakure in the Land of Rain, and was caught in the quagmire of the war, with no victory in sight in the short term.

Kumogakure can afford to delay, but Sunagakure can not afford to delay, especially when he learned that Kirito Tosaka replaced Orochimaru to become the front-line commander of Konoha's side of the Land of Wind, he had to hurry to send Chiyo, a heavyweight figure of the Sunagakure to go to the Konoha to make peace, as a means of easing the pressure from the Konoha.

From the current point of view, this decision is a shame, but very effective, that hateful and powerful konoha brat is ultimately with a binding, and not be able to rely on the strength to do whatever they want.

"Bang Bang~"

The door of the room was knocked hard.

When Sandaime Kazekage heard such a big commotion, he knew that something might have happened that made him fret, and his head suddenly ached inexplicably as he frowned and said, "Come in."

The next moment, a mature and beautiful female ninja quickly walked in, it was none other than Chiyo's daughter-in-law Sara.

"Kazekage-sama, something big has happened, news has come from the frontline barracks that a number of ninjas have disappeared, and these ninjas are all extreme hawk ninjas who are strongly opposed to the peace talks."

Sara said with an anxious face.

Because she was so anxious, her entire body was now in a state of extreme anxiety, and the panic in her eyes was hard to hide.

When Sandaime Kazekage heard this news that hid a great terror, his brain instantly buzzed, and then his face changed drastically as he shouted, "Immediately send out all of the village's ninjas who are proficient in tracking to bring these people back, and absolutely not be able to allow them to fool around."

"Yes, Kazekage-sama."

Sara had already panicked a bit and was a bit disoriented, and subconsciously made a reply.

After saying that, she turned around and left.

"Wait, first go sound the alarm and order all of the village's ninjas to all prepare for battle."

Seeing this, Sandaime Kazekage hurriedly called out to Sara to add a new order.

As a Kage, he must now prepare for the worst.

When Sara heard this new order, her face instantly turned bloodless, knowing that the worst might actually be coming, she smiled miserably and said, "Yes, Kazekage-sama."

A few seconds later, a loud alarm sounded in the Sunagakure village, causing a large number of ninjas in the village to wake up from their sleep before quickly rushing to the Kazekage building for assembly.

Meanwhile, at the Sunagakure's frontline compound, a huge sandstorm was violently invading the place.

In just a few minutes, the yellow sand buried half of Sunagakure's base camp.

A large number of Suna-Nin were only able to helplessly hide inside the buildings to withstand the sandstorm.

In the face of this terrifying desert natural disaster, even though they were ninjas who possessed powers that far exceeded those of normal people, at this moment, they were only able to be shrunken turtles.

Suddenly, a terrifying and familiar chakra fluctuation appeared, causing all Suna-Nin to be shaken, and many of them gritted their teeth, revealing gazes of hatred, but more of them showed fear.

Because they knew that the abominable and powerful konoha ninja had come again.

And this terrifying sandstorm was the handiwork of the other party.

But in the next moment, they realized that they had guessed wrong, the creator of this sandstorm was not that konoha ninja, but an even more terrifying creature.

A deafening voice appeared in the wind, "Hahahaha~, this day has finally come, worms of Sunagakure, this lord is going to settle all the grudges between me and your Sunagakure today."