Escape From Konoha

The northern seas of the Land of Earth.

Kumogakure's offensive was extremely fierce. When the war first started, it had captured several islands in the northern waters of Earth Kingdom. Using several islands as temporary bases, it continued to harass and attack the borders of Earth Kingdom.

The battle with Kumogakure has lasted for several months. Under the leadership of the Third Tsuchikage Onoki, Iwagakure only used a defensive posture to resist Kumogakure's attack.

After all, fighting Kumogakure in the sea area would be very detrimental to Iwagakure.

Because of the unique style of Iwagakure Village, the ninjas in the village mainly practice earth escape ninjutsu. Taking advantage of the terrain of the earth, in previous ninja wars, there have been many examples of defeating more with less. However, once the advantage of being based on the earth is lost, the advantage of earth escape will plummet, and the strength of the Iwagakure ninja will also decline very seriously.

Coupled with the characteristics of Thunder Release that restrains Earth Release, a head-on confrontation with Kumogakure ninja will undoubtedly put Iwagakure into a dilemma.

For this reason, the Third Tsuchikage Onoki did not advocate taking the initiative to attack Kumogakure. Instead, he ordered the Iwagakure jounin and chuunin who were proficient in earth escape to build a fortress on the northern coastline using earth escape ninjutsu to use large-scale earth escape. The attack method is mainly to defeat the Kumogakure ninja.

Under this situation, Iwagakure could not end the battle here immediately, and similarly, Kumogakure's main force could not invade the territory of the Land of Earth.

In the camp of Iwagakure.

The third Tsuchikage Onoki was sitting in the largest tent, with a letter sent by Kumogakure in front of him.

Onoki picked up the letter, pondered for a moment, and said to the Iwagakure jounin sitting at the conference table: "Kumogakure wants to negotiate, and we hope that we can return the body of the Third Raikage and the Six Paths Ninja tools, they will immediately end their entanglement with our Iwagakure."

"However, let's not forget that we have not completely solved the secret of the Third Raikage's body. Moreover, when we obtained the body of the Third Raikage, we did not find any so-called Six Paths Ninja Tools."

An Iwagakure jounin spoke up.

His words aroused the recognition of the others, and another jounin also said: "Indeed. We besieged the Third Raikage that day, only got his body, and did not see any six-path ninja tools. And just It was a siege against the Third Raikage, and our side also paid a heavy price, how can we expose it with just one sentence?"

"That's right, it's not that easy to get a white wolf with nothing. Others are afraid of them, Kumogakure, but we Iwagakure are not afraid of making trouble. If you want to get the body of the Third Raikage back, you must make compensation and apologize according to our rules. After all, Ultimately, the cause of this incident was that they provoked it first.”

If he only wanted to get back the body of the Third Raikage by giving the concession of being willing to stop the war, then this kind of concession would undoubtedly add the label of 'timid and fearful' to outsiders in the eyes of outsiders.

Not only that, Iwagakure also needed a reasonable explanation from Kumogakure for the large amount of resources and ninjas it lost in this war.

If they cannot give a satisfactory answer, they will never return the body of the Third Raikage.

The losses lost by Iwagakure were recovered from the corpses of the three great Raikages.

After all, it is the body of Raikage, one of the Five Kages, and many secrets can be deciphered from it. Especially since the third generation Raikage still retained the integrity of the corpse when he died, this corpse becomes even more precious.

"Although it is my original intention to stop the war with Kumogakure. But to cover up my faults so lightly is indeed a bit disrespectful to Iwagakure."

Onoki snorted lightly.

Although it was a good thing to end the war with Kumogakure now, Kumogakure did not mention anything about compensation in the letter. Instead, he avoided the important and covered up his despicable invasion, which made Onoki feel angry.

Kumogakure's military strength has always been among the best among the five major countries, second only to the strongest Konoha Ninja Village. But it is far from qualified to force Iwagakure to make concessions that would harm his own interests.

"But this way, we won't be able to participate in the battlefield in the Land of Rain. I'm afraid that Sunagakure will be alone there."

An Iwagakure jounin said.

Now that Iwagakure and Sunagakure have formed an alliance, if Sunagakure can invade the Country of Fire in March this year, then the situation on the battlefield in the Country of Grass will also change dramatically.

Konoha's Jiraiya forces must retreat back to the Land of Fire. If they do not retreat, they will encounter a double attack from Iwagakure and Sunagakure, resulting in the complete annihilation of the Konoha troops in the Land of Grass.

Retreating back to the Country of Fire is tantamount to opening the door to the Country of Fire to Sunagakure and Iwagakure, allowing Sunagakure and their Iwagakure to achieve the biggest strategic goal of launching the war.

However, now that Kumogakure is eyeing the northern waters of Earth Country, Iwagakure must divide the main force in the village into two, one part to fight the Konoha ninja, and the other part to contain Kumogakure's troops. Otherwise, not only will the strategic goal of invading the Land of Fire be unable to be achieved, but one's own land will also be trampled and ravaged by foreign ninjas, and the situation will be seriously unfavorable to Iwagakure.

"There is nothing we can do about it. We are being restrained here by Kumogakure. And that Hanzo seems to be planning to lead Yugakure to fight against Sunagakure. The situation on the battlefield is really changing."

"The rest of Amegakure are nothing to worry about. Hanzo is the real threat to the change in the situation in the Land of Rain. What is Chiyo of Sunagakure doing? Doesn't it mean that everything has been arranged? At this time, Hanzo is involved, and the original There is no way the plan can be implemented smoothly now!"

An older Iwagakushi Jōnin clenched his fists, and his tone was full of dissatisfaction with Chiyo, Sagakushi's senior adviser.

"According to the message from Sagakure, it seems to be a well-designed conspiracy by Konoha, intending to use Hanzo's power to mess up the situation in the Land of Rain."

"Hanzo is not a brainless person, and he will not be easily fooled. Now that he is going to war with Sunagakure, Chiyo must have touched his bottom line, otherwise he would not have made such an unwise move."

Seeing the helplessness and anger on the faces of many Junin, Onoki also knew the aggrieved and annoyed in their hearts.

The sudden intervention of Kumogakure and Amegakure completely disrupted the joint layout of Iwagakure and Sunagakure, resulting in the complete failure of this year's plan to invade the Land of Fire. It is inevitable that they will blame Sunagakure's unnecessary actions in their hearts.

Onogi coughed, and said to the Iwagakushi Kaminin who were working: "The matter has come to this, we have no choice but to..."

Before Onoki finished speaking, the curtain of the tent was suddenly blown up by the wind, and a figure silently avoided the guards outside and appeared in the field of vision of Onoki and other Iwagakure ninjas.

"Your Majesty Dokage seems to be very distressed, what's the matter, do you want to start a new cooperation?"

The figure stood still, with the corners of its mouth slightly raised, and smiled at Ohnoki who was sitting firmly on the chair.

"Who are you……"

Many of the Iwagakushi Shinobi here recognized the identity of the visitor at once.

The other party was a young young woman with long black hair and pure white pupils.

This kind of eyes is the blood succession limit called "white eyes", which is unique to the Hyuga clan of Konoha Ninja Village.

And now that Konoha is fighting with their Iwagakure, this woman can't be a Konoha ninja.

Although she has the surname Hyuga, she has long since departed from the clan and the village, and is now an extremely dangerous S-class defected ninja in the ninja world——Hyuga Ayane.

"Hmph, come in without saying hello, young people nowadays really don't know what politeness is."

Ohnoki sat on a chair, very dissatisfied with Ayane's uninvited approach, but he just gave him a verbal lesson and expressed his opinions a little bit.

After all, the previous year's cooperation, due to Ayane's intervention, caused the Konoha ninjas of the Grass Country to suffer a lot. Even the root of the ninja led by the darkness seemed to have lost a lot of people.

For such a powerful bounty hunter, Ohnoki doesn't mind what her past identity was, as long as she is not a traitorous ninja of their Iwagakure, they can cooperate.

Ayane didn't care about Onogi's pedantic tone, just smiled and looked at Onogi.

"Your Excellency Tukage is dissatisfied, so let me say sorry first."

"Are you the only little girl? I remember that the other two members of the White Fang team also defected to Konoha. Of course, the medical ninja is not important. If Sharingan and Byakugan can temporarily serve as Iwagakure's power, then It couldn't be better."

Onoki did not hide his philistine face at all, with a sinister smile on his face.

"Your Excellency Tsuchikage is really greedy. Indeed, it is a fact that she is stronger than me. But she is not interested in being a bounty hunter. If you want to hire her to assist Iwagakure, you can only ask Your Excellency Tsuchikage again. Please say sorry. I remember that I should have explained this matter to the Loess Jōnin before, so it is better not to have such expectations, Tsuchikage-dono."

Ayane turned her head and thought for a moment, then said to Onoki.

"That's such a shame. I really want to see what the combined power of Sharingan and Byakugan looks like."

Ohnoki really regrets this.

The Sharingan is a blood successor that is as famous as the Byakugan, and has priority over the Byakugan in terms of offensive capabilities.

To a certain extent, these two bloodline boundaries can complement each other.

If the Sharingan and Byakugan can be brought to Iwagakure's front at the same time, it will have a greater effect on Iwagakure.

Although it is a pity that he cannot win over the Sharingan ninja, with the Byakugan, he can achieve good results for Iwagakure. Therefore, Onoki quickly picked up his mood and began to cooperate with Ayane in the form of employment.

Ayane also seems to be familiar with working with Iwakaku, and is no stranger to it. After all, this is not the first time we have cooperated. The employment contract has not changed from before, but the difficulty of the work she is asked to complete has increased. Of course, as the difficulty of the work increases, the deposit and remuneration provided to her by Iwagakure will also increase.

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"Damn Tsuchikage! How shameless you are using a traitorous nin to provoke!"

At the conference table at Kumogakure camp, a dark-skinned man was extremely angry and used his fist to make a big hole in the conference table, sending sawdust flying everywhere.

The muscles wrapped in dark skin began to flash with dense electric light, and the hair stood up and spread out slightly because of the dense lightning.

The Kumogakure Jōnin who witnessed this scene were shocked that he had such powerful chakra.

"Lord Raikage, please calm down."

In the conference room made of rock, the Kumogakure jounin, who was about thirty years old, wore an eyepatch and spoke calmly to persuade the angry Kumogakure ninja.

He is also the fourth generation Raikage of Kumogakure Village.

Long before the third generation Raikage left for the Land of Earth, a high-level meeting had been held to determine the candidate for the fourth generation Raikage.

Therefore, Kumogakure did not engage in cruel internal fighting for the position of the fourth Raikage due to the sacrifice of the third generation Raikage.

This young man, who looked to be no more than thirty years old, was the fourth generation Raikage of Kumogakure. He is also the son of the deceased Third Raikage, and his attainments in Thunder Release Ninja Taijutsu are no worse than those of his father, the Third Raikage, when he was young.

"How does this make me calm down? As one of the Five Shadows, Tsuchikage is so shameless in taking advantage of defecting ninjas. It is really unforgivable! And what is going on in Konoha? Why don't they send out a hunting force to kill the defecting ninjas as soon as possible? Eliminate it? Konoha must be held accountable for this matter!"

The Fourth Raikage's anger still lingers.

In the past few days, there have been frequent reports of attacks on the Kumogakure patrol force, and the person who carried out the attack was none other than the S-class traitor Hyuga Ayane, who had already decided to defect to Konoha.

Because it was too coincidental to target the Kumogakure ninja, and the opponent had also assisted Iwagakure on the battlefield of Grass Country before, the Fourth Raikage could immediately confirm that Hyuga Ayane was once again hired by Iwagakure's Tsuchikage Onoki to target him. Cloud hidden.

"Although the Tsuchikage's actions are indeed tantamount to smearing the faces of the Five Shadows, now is not the time to hold them accountable."

"Of course I know this kind of thing. Tutai, mobilize the troops immediately, I will personally eliminate that woman, and you can also get a pair of white eyes by the way."

The Fourth Raikage ordered the Kumogakure Jōnin who was wearing a one-eyed patch.

Even in his anger, he maintained a certain calmness. He also understood that this was not the time to pursue responsibility, but from another perspective, it was not entirely a bad thing for Byakugan to appear on their battlefield in Kumogakure.

If he could get his hands on these eyes, his previous losses would be completely negligible, and Kumogakure would gain a huge amount.

"This is too reckless, Raikage-sama. The enemy's ability is still unknown."

Tutai frowned.

Although compared to ordinary jounin, the fourth generation Raikage who had just become Raikage could indeed be called powerful. But compared to the deceased Third Raikage, his strength is still a bit immature.

According to some information obtained by Kumogakure, Hyuga Ayane was in the Country of Grass, and she caused the Konoha ninjas there to suffer so much that they were almost forced to withdraw to the Country of Fire.

It is said that he later encountered the root encirclement and suppression led by Shimura Danzo in Ninja Darkness, but survived unharmed, and caused heavy losses to Konoha Root, and Shimura Danzo even lost an arm.

Even if the specific details of the battle are not known, judging from the final result, the opponent is likely to be stronger than the Fourth Raikage who just became the Raikage.

"I have my own opinion on this matter. Although my Thunder Chakra mode is still a little behind dad's, in terms of speed, I have an advantage over dad. Dad said that in the ninja world, no one You can keep up with my speed.”

Fourth Raikage's tone was full of confidence in his own speed.

His father, the Third Raikage, gave up some advantages in speed and concentrated his power on defense and attack, thus achieving the reputation of the strongest shield and the strongest spear.

But he is different. In the past, he knew that no matter how hard he exercised his body, his physical fitness could not be on par with his father's third generation of Raikage. Therefore, at that time, he decided to give up certain defense and attack capabilities, and concentrate his advantages on the speed that he is best at.

Tutai sighed helplessly, seeing that the Fourth Raikage had made up his mind, he knew that no matter how much he tried to dissuade him, it would be useless.

Not only the fourth generation of Raikage, but also the three generations of Raikage who have sacrificed. Once things are decided with enthusiasm, it is difficult to reason with them.

But also because of this resolute attitude and the spirit of taking the lead in every battle, it can maximize the morale of the Kumogakure ninja and defeat the enemy from the front.

"I understand, Lord Raikage. Since you are determined to do this, then let me follow you. The opponent is a ninja from the Hyuga clan. Her soft fist can ignore your thunder armor and hit the heart directly."

The soil platform looked serious.

Agreed to the willful request of the fourth generation of Raikage, but also in exchange for participating in the war together.

"It's up to you. Be quick, I can't wait to get those white eyes."

Tutai nodded, and began to go down to select Yunyin's elite ninjas, and assist the fourth generation of Raikage to complete the white-eyed task of hunting.

However, in his heart, Tutai does not think that this mission will be a great success.

Master Lei Ying is still too impatient to do things, he should let the rest of the team go to test the opponent's ability first. Tutai sighed inwardly.

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"Is this next?"

In the forest of a huge island, Ayane avoided the eyes and ears of the patrolling ninjas around Yunyin, and started to move towards the destination.

After several attacks, she had already investigated the patrol pattern of the Kumogakure team. With the help of Byakugan, it was not difficult to avoid the eyes and ears of Kumogakure ninjas.

Ayane started to go deep into the hinterland of the island according to the road map provided by Iwagakure.

The white eyes are open, and you can have a panoramic view of everything within a radius of ten kilometers.

There are about a thousand Yunyin ninjas gathered on this island.

Half of the ninjas gathered in a camp, probably protecting something important.

Ayane knew very well that it was the Yunyin supply point marked on the road map.

In order to obtain information about this supply point, Iwagakure sacrificed a total of more than ten earth escape ninjas who were proficient in infiltration before finally locking the location of this supply point.

In the final analysis, the Ninjas are only fighting an economic war.

If the battle is not based on annihilation, destroying the enemy's supply points at the minimum cost is undoubtedly a common tactic for winning the war.

During the Second Ninja War, Konoha also adopted this tactic during the battle with Sunagakure.

"Um?"

While moving forward, Ayane suddenly noticed a very unusual chakra among the thousands of Kumogakure ninjas.

That extremely huge amount of chakra suddenly overshadowed all the Kumogakure ninjas and became the main target of Byakugan.

"Tailed beast? No, it should be a little bit worse."

Ayane has seen the power of tailed beasts going berserk.

Although the chakra of this Kumogakure ninja cannot be compared to that of a tailed beast, it is definitely not far behind.

Ayane was a little surprised that this Kumogakure ninja had such a huge amount of chakra, and the same was true for the Third Raikage who had sneak attacked before.

The chakra is so huge that it can be mistaken for a tailed beast.

He fought with thousands of Iwagakure ninjas for twenty-six hours, keeping the Thunder Chakra mode fully activated, and finally died of exhaustion.

It can be called a walking humanoid tailed beast.

I didn't expect to meet another ninja with the same huge chakra here.

"Did you spot me?"

The corners of Ayane's lips raised slightly, showing a calm smile.

With his Byakugan, he can intuitively see that this Kumogakure ninja with huge chakra is rushing towards him at an extremely exaggerated speed.

Ayane had expected this. After all, they had gone deep into a place like this, and there would definitely be powerful sensing ninjas around to prevent the enemy from sneak attacks on important supply points.

The wind whizzed past her ears, and she continued to increase the speed of her feet. The soles of her feet stepped on the branches of the trees. Ayane took a deep breath, and chakra began to circulate at high speed in her body.

"Empty Palm!"

The cannonballs formed from the air hit the person directly in the face.

The opponent's body flashed with intense electric light for a moment, and the surface of the body was also covered with an extremely thick layer of blue chakra feathers. In Ayane's wide eyes, he suddenly disappeared from before his eyes.

The air cannon hit a tree in the distance, broke with a loud sound, and hit the ground, causing dust to fly.

Ayane quickly lowered her head, and the Kumogakure ninja, whose whole body was flashing with electric light, slashed through the hair of Ayane who lowered her head, cutting off a few hairs and falling to the ground.

Ayane jumped to the side, keeping a safe distance from the Kumogakure ninja, and put on a soft fist posture, her eyes slightly focused.

This Kumogakure ninja has condensed muscles all over his body. He is tall and his skin is the usual dark color of the Land of Thunder. He looks a few years older than himself. The chakra feather coat is covered with extremely terrifying blue thunder and lightning, which is densely flashing.

"Who did I think it was? Isn't this Kumogakure's newly appointed Fourth Raikage? No wonder he has such exaggerated speed. He almost didn't react just now."

Ayane smiled and recognized the other person's identity at a glance.

Although he is the newly appointed Raikage, he is still a ninja with the name of "Five Shadows". The moment he succeeded the Fourth Raikage, his personal information had already spread in the ninja world.

The Intelligence Department of the Kingdom of Ghosts also has a lot of information about the Fourth Raikage.

Like his father, the Third Raikage, he is a troublesome ninja who is very good at thunder escape ninjutsu.

Based on the moment of fighting just now, Ayane judged that the speed of the Fourth Raikage was faster than that of his father, the Third Raikage.

"Being able to dodge my attack in the first place, it seems that you, a woman, are not just relying on your white eyes to fight. I will not miss the next blow again."

What you see with your eyes and whether your body can react quickly the moment you see him attack are two different things.

The Fourth Raikage had a cautious look on his face. His nerve reaction speed was comparable to his own, and he also had the all-round observation ability of Byakugan. This woman was very troublesome.