Escape From Konoha

"So many people have failed?"

After a fierce battle with the Iwagakure ninja, the Fourth Raikage returned to the camp and got first-hand information about another battlefield.

A long time ago, Kumogakure's think tank had speculated on Iwagakure's next strategy. During the battlefield of Grassland, Iwagakure used Konoha's rebel ninja Hinata Ayane to press on Konoha step by step, and then Iwagakure The continuous pressure from the front forced Konoha's defensive range to become smaller and smaller, causing Konoha, the Country of Grass, to lose on the battlefield.

Based on this situation, it is inevitable that Iwagakure will not use the same method to deal with them, Kumogakure.

Therefore, a long-prepared trap was set up at the supply point in order to get those extremely precious white eyes.

Unexpectedly, with so many people prepared and a tailed beast, they couldn't even take down an injured woman, which made the Fourth Raikage very dissatisfied.

In this ninja world, the only ninja who can physically withstand the violent friction with the air caused by the Heavenly Sending Technique and still maintain his peak posture is his dead father, the Third Raikage.

According to his estimation, even a ninja like Ayane must have been seriously injured if he could withstand the high-speed movement of the Heavenly Sending Technique without dying.

In this case, the fourth generation Raikage would naturally be dissatisfied with the ambush troops because he could still let the opponent run away.

"Yes. This is the detailed battle situation on the battlefield at that time. Please take a look at it, Lord Raikage."

The Kumogakure jounin put a piece of information in front of the Fourth Raikage.

"Not only were no one arrested, one hundred and eighty-seven ninjas were sacrificed, and more than seven hundred people were injured. What on earth did they do?"

The Fourth Raikage was seriously dissatisfied with the statistics of casualties.

Although the reason why the other party was able to escape was stated in the end, there were too many suspicious places, and the Fourth Raikage was only half-convinced of the above data.

However, in that situation, he was still able to escape under the encirclement of more than 3,000 ninjas and one Jinchuuriki. The Fourth Raikage became more concerned about Ayane's affairs.

"If we don't get rid of this woman, sooner or later she will become a serious problem for us Yunyin."

That abnormally terrifying soft fist, coupled with Byakugan's farsightedness and clairvoyance ability, no one in the entire Kumogakure could stop her steps.

If this threat is not eliminated as soon as possible, sooner or later it will become a major problem for Kumogakure.

"Then do you want to contact Konoha?"

"Allowing the rebel ninja to wander outside for so long without cleaning up, and completely disregarding the responsibility and face of the Five Kages, you know that the Hokage and the Tsuchikage are the same thing. Even if he is condemned for allowing the rebel ninja to behave recklessly, it will only Just keep saying no."

The Fourth Raikage snorted, he had never placed his hopes on Konoha.

Not to mention that he is also interested in the number one position in Konoha. He does not want to share such an important blood inheritance limit with outsiders.

The things he grabbed were his and had nothing to do with Konoha.

"Step up to formulate a suitable strategy based on her intelligence. Even if we cannot eliminate her, we must limit her scope of activities. In addition, urge Bi to complete the training of the perfect Jinchuuriki as soon as possible so that he does not waste time on singing."

The Fourth Raikage let out a breath, stood up from his chair and walked out.

The Kumogakure jounin was left with a helpless look on his face, formulating a strategy against the Byakugan, in which he had no absolute confidence.

The only chance to get a Byakugan was wasted, and continuing to use other strategies to deal with ninjas of this level is just a waste of time.

If Konoha provided Byakugan information, a better combat strategy could be formulated, but given the current situation, it was impossible for Konoha to hand over such important information to outsiders for analysis.

As for urging the Eight-Tails Jinchuuriki to Rabbi, Kumogakure Jounin was even more silent.

Fortunately, I didn't tell him about Kirabi's large-scale concert a few days ago, otherwise Raikage-sama would definitely be furious. Yun Yin Shangren thought helplessly in his heart.

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Ayane spent more than a week recovering from her injuries before she considered returning to Earth Country. She spent another four or five days on the road.

What she didn't expect was that the place she was transferred to by the time and space ninjutsu would be the extremely distant Straits of the Land of Thunder. In order to avoid Kumogakure's sight, he had to take a long way and walk on land, which took a little more time.

When he met Ohnoki again, Ohnoki simply asked someone to hand over the remaining reward for this mission to Ayane. A total of fifty million taels.

Including the initial deposit of 50 million taels, the total reward is 100 million taels.

Although he was ambushed by Kumogakure, it was true that Kumogakure's supply point was destroyed.

Ayane felt at ease with a 100 million reward fee.

"Lord Tsuchikage, I need information on the Kumogakure ninja."

Ayane made this request directly to Onogi.

Onoki frowned.

"It's not necessary, is it?"

"No, I almost died this time. There are many masters among Kumogakure. They may not be well-known in the ninja world, but they all have their own unique abilities. If I know more about them, I can kill more for you. Lose a few troublesome Kumo ninjas. This is a very good deal, isn't it, Lord Tsuchikage?"

Ayane started to persuade.

After careful consideration, this was an opportunity for her to further cooperate with Iwagakure.

Onoki took a serious look at Ayane and felt that Ayane had another purpose in making such a request.

However, the other party is just a defected ninja who has no power and is wandering around the ninja world. Even if he gets the information, it shouldn't have any impact.

But by directly handing over the Kumogakure ninja's information to Ayane for reading, Onoki felt a little bit at a loss.

After all, this information was valuable data collected by Iwagakure after spending countless money, a lot of time, and ultimately sacrificing many excellent intelligence agents.

"What are you thinking about, Lord Tsuchikage?"

Ayane asked.

She was not worried that Onoki would refuse.

"It's okay to give you this information, but for the next two tasks, you have to provide free assistance to Iwagakure, so I will give that information to you for review."

"Yes. But you cannot falsify information."

"Of course. I just can't stand your fake smile, and the more you know about Kumogakure, the more helpful you will be to Kumogakure."

Onoki snorted, feeling that this little girl with white eyes was taking things too far.

Not only do they want to eat and drink for free here in Iwagakure, but now they even want to keep the extremely secret information as their own.

But what Ayane said is correct. Without understanding Kumogakure's ninjas who use strange ninjutsu, it is easy to suffer losses in the first battle. This time is a good lesson.

This is all to better cooperate with Iwagakure and repel the Kumogakure ninjas.

But Ohnoki still felt a pang of pain when he thought about sharing the extremely secret information he had finally collected with Ayane.

We can only hope that she can serve Iwagakure well during the cooperation period and defeat those Kumogakure ninjas.

Ohnoki acted very quickly. About an hour later, he sent someone to put Kumogakure's information into the tent where Ayane was, allowing her to preview the extremely secret information.

Ayane looked at the pile of documents in front of her, which recorded the names of Kumogakure ninjas. All of them were jounin, and they were Kumogakure jonins who had mastered special ninjutsu. Many of them were famous in the ninja world. The person with the surname.

Among them, the Fourth Raikage is at the top of the list. We have collected detailed information about his hobbies, personality, ninjutsu characteristics, etc., and formulated several very detailed strategies.

The rest, such as the Molten Ninja Tutai, the Magnetic Ninja Troy, etc., are also recorded in detail. Some are famous, some are unknown, but they possess extremely difficult secret techniques or blood inheritance limit abilities.

Some of them were even from Kumogakure ANBU.

From this information, Ayane can see Ohnoki's sincerity, and can also feel that Iwagakure has no successor.

To "compromise" to such a rebellious ninja like her, it can be seen that among Iwagakure, apart from the Tsuchikage himself, there is almost no second ninja who can take charge of himself.

Moreover, Iwagakure's combat strategy is also based on group earth escape. It is precisely because of this collective supremacy that individual capable ninjas have become so lacking.

Memorizing the information on dozens of named Kumogakure jounin and sending it back to the Kingdom of Demons at some time can save the Intelligence Department a lot of time and energy.

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In the Earth Kingdom battlefield far away from the northern battlefield of Earth Kingdom, the sudden intervention of Amegakure Village directly disrupted Sunagakure's original strategic deployment. While dealing with Konoha, they had to disperse their forces to contain Rain. Hidden ninja.

The Country of Rain is a small country that has been struggling for a long time. In the past, such a small country living between big countries had no dignity at all.

For example, in the Country of Grass, the domestic politics are corrupt and incompetent, and the Kusakuin Village relies on the support of the powerful Ninja Village to survive. It has no desire to clean up the chaotic situation in the Country of Grass.

Therefore, the people of the Rain Country, who have been oppressed by the great powers for a long time, can't help but secretly applaud the Ume Gakure Village's declaration of war against Sunagakure.

After all, their domestic ninja leader, Sansho Hanzo, is a powerful ninja that everyone knows.

It's like a person falling into the water, grasping the last straw around him, trying to make a final struggle.

Standing in the freezing rain, Hanzo stood on the edge of the cliff, with only his confidant Kanzo following him.

"Kanzang, have you gathered the manpower?"

Hanzo asked Kanzang.

"All the manpower that can be sent has been gathered. In total, more than 1,600 ninjas are participating in the battle, and another 500 are staying in the village. In addition..."

When Kanzang said this, he didn't know whether he should continue talking.

"What's going on besides that?"

"Among us, there are many small groups that gather together. One of them is called 'Akatsuki', which has about twenty people. It is also a good force. But their group called 'Yahiko' The leader seems not to agree with the use of war to resolve the internal chaos in the Land of Rain, and wants to negotiate with Sunagakure through peace talks. He has also repeatedly asked to see you, Hanzo-sama, hoping not to start a war. I sternly refused,"

Kanzo answered honestly.

"Yeah?"

Hanzo murmured, not knowing what he was thinking.

"Hanzo-sama, do you want to expel them from Amegakure?"

"No need. Since they are unwilling to participate in the war, let them stay in the village. Now that the Kingdom of Rain is in turmoil, the power of Akatsuki can always be put to some use, although their ideas are still very naive. Yahiko ...He is a young man."

Hanzo affirmed in a questioning tone.

His life as a soldier gave him a keen eye for seeing the essence of things. The only people who hold such innocent and cute ideas are those young people who still have hope for a great country and are easy to accept the idea of ​​peace.

Moreover, if he is an old man in the village, it is impossible that he has not heard of this name before.

"Yes, the people in this group are all young people under the age of twenty. The youngest seems to be only thirteen years old. There are rumors that their leader Yahiko is Jiraiya, one of the three ninjas. student."

Kanzang thought of something and said.

"Jiraiya?"

Hanzo was slightly surprised.

It was a young ninja name that brought back memories.

In the last great ninja war, among the Konoha ninja troops stationed in Amegakure, one of the three people who resisted him to the end, one of them was named 'Jiraiya'.

At that time, I appreciated that these three people had great abilities at a young age and were able to survive until the end under his power. So out of appreciation, I spared their lives and finally gave them the "Sannin" 'The name.

"Yes, a ninja as famous as Orochimaru and Tsunade is currently leading the Konoha troops to fight Iwagakure in the Country of Grass."

"Speaking of which, those three boys also grew up a lot after that battle."

Hanzo had a faint smile on his face and seemed to be in a good mood.

But then he saw the deserted village at the foot of the mountain, with a large number of corpses lying there, all ordinary villagers of the Land of Rain, and Hanzo sighed quietly.

These villagers did not die because they were affected by the fighting, but they died of starvation here.

Because of the corruption and incompetence of the daimyo and nobles, almost all of the materials used by Rain Country to keep civilians alive were donated to Sunagakure.

There is also a part of his sin in it.

In the early stages of this war, he issued the strategy of no resistance and no persistence, which led to the unscrupulous actions of these great ninjas here.

"Did Konoha give a reply?"

Hanzo calmed down his sad mood and asked Kanzo.

"Yes, Master Hanzo. Konoha has already given confirmation that they are willing to join forces and want to sign a joint document with us, Amegakure."

Kanzang stepped forward and said.

Hanzo sneered: "The so-called joint document is just a piece of waste paper. At this time, the Hokage is still playing this word game."

All alliance documents between big countries can be repented of at any time, let alone joint documents between big countries and small countries. Such documents will definitely be revised by the big countries.

As for the reason, you can just find an excuse that benefits you after revising it.

This is a trick that big countries always play. Only when their own interests are involved can there be a so-called spirit of contract.

Therefore, regarding the joint document submitted by Konoha, Hanzo did not believe a single word on it, which would only stain his eyes.

"The battle with Sunagakure will be a protracted battle. Tell Konoha that Amegakure's reserves are insufficient and they need to provide them."

Hanzo said.

"yes."

Seeing that Hanzo was determined, Kanzo nodded and went on respectfully.

After surveying and hiding, Hanzo continued to stand here in the rain for a long time before slowly returning to the camp to prepare for battle.

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At the same time, at the Sand Hidden high-level meeting.

Advisor Chiyo overcame everyone's opinions and said with a serious face: "Agyakure is nothing to worry about. The most powerful one is Hanzo. Even if his body is not as good as before and his strength has declined, as long as he joins in, even one person will definitely be a Uzumaki." center of."

The rest of the top ninjas were skeptical.

It's not that he looks down on Hanzo's strength. He was recognized as a demigod by the ninja world during the Second Ninja World War. It's definitely not a boasting of his strength. It was publicly recognized by the ninja world.

It's just that once too many troops are invested in Hanzo, it will be difficult for Konoha to suppress it, and the advantage finally obtained will collapse.

"But no matter what, Hanzo is only one person."

"His name is an insurmountable mountain for the current ninja world and the pinnacle of ninjas. I agree with my sister. If Hanzo is not restrained, the subsequent battle will be difficult to control. This is a last resort. way of doing."

Another high-level advisor, Ebizo, also spoke out in support of Chiyo.

Like Chiyo, he was an older generation of ninjas who had faced Hanzo directly, so he knew how powerful Hanzo was.

Both high-level advisors advocated giving priority to dealing with Hanzo instead of investing energy in Konoha, which naturally attracted the attention of many high-level jounin.

After all, it is obvious to all that Chiyo and Ebizou have worked diligently for Sunagakure over the years. Their approach must be based on the overall interests of Sunagakure.

Therefore, the senior management of Sunagakure considered dealing with Konoha first. After hesitating for a while, they began to move closer to the opinions of the Chiyo siblings.

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It’s early April, the spring season, and it’s still raining in the Land of Rain.

With Konoha providing sufficient supplies, Amegakure began his first battle with Sunagakure.

Konoha's troops stationed in the Rain Country, under the leadership of Orochimaru, launched a counterattack against Sunagakure in an attempt to eliminate Sunagakure's long-standing arrogance.

Facing the joint offensive of Amegakure and Konoha, after a period of panic, Sunagakure also began to fight steadily. He was not in a hurry to decide the outcome at once. He began to retreat many times and set up roadblocks to allow Amegakure and Konoha's ninjas to retreat. Exhausted.

"How cunning."

Orochimaru frowned as he looked at the position on the map where Sunagakure was retreating.

You know, after a whole year of squeezing, many of the materials in the Land of Rain have been eaten by Sunagakure. With the supplies prepared by Sunagakure himself in advance, he is qualified to fight a protracted war.

But Konoha is different. Hanzo threatens the alliance and asks Konoha to supply supplies to Amegakure.

After hearing Hanzo's request, Konoha readily provided free support to Amegakure because Konoha hoped to unite with Amegakure to quickly end the battlefield in the Country of Rain, evacuate from here, and then go to support the Konoha troops in the Country of Grass. .

However, Sunagakure's approach directly cut off Orochimaru's idea of ​​a quick victory and wanted to delay time.

After all, it is impossible for Konoha to provide free support to Amegakure for a long time. Even if there is paid support, to be honest, Orochimaru does not believe that Amegakure can come up with enough funds to purchase supplies from Konoha.

It is okay to provide supplies to Amekakure in a short period of time, but not in the long term. When the time comes, Amekakure, who lacks supplies, will definitely lose its combat effectiveness. Not only will it be unable to provide Konoha with combat effectiveness, it may also become a drag on Konoha.

Even after seeing through Sunagakure's insidious strategy, Orochimaru didn't have any good ideas.

Sunagakure shrunk into a turtle shell, just waiting for the alliance between Konoha and Amegakure to break down.

Supply points have been attacked more and more frequently recently. Sunagakure wants to further deplete Konoha's reserves of supplies, increase Konoha's material burden, and accelerate the demise of the ambiguous period of the alliance between Konoha and Amegakure.

"How are you going to deal with it?"

Danzo sat across from Orochimaru and asked Orochimaru what to do.

"The only way is to ask the daimyo to increase the supply of materials to Konoha, especially food."

"The harvests in the past few years have not been good, and the civilians of the Fire Country do not have much food to eat. Furthermore, the ninjas eat military rations, which are much more refined and expensive than ordinary food. Konoha can be self-sufficient, but it must be used to fund the rain. Yin, we must reduce the supplies for our own people, and this kind of funding can only last for three months at most."

Danzo analyzed it and said.

"Three months is too hasty and not enough."

Orochimaru said in a hoarse voice.

Sunagakure can't avoid fighting, and this is what he fears most.

Soon, Orochimaru thought for a moment and said to Danzo:

"In this case, let the village purchase grain from other surrounding countries. Coarse grain is also acceptable. As long as it is edible, buy it with money and give these rough foods to Yu Yin."

Although he knew that this was a huge challenge to Konoha's finances and frequently asked the daimyo for funds, the daimyo would probably complain a lot, but Orochimaru had no better way to deal with this matter now.

Konoha is currently on the battlefield in the Land of Rain and cannot do without the help of Amegakure.

Once they lose the ally of Amegakure, Sunagakure will immediately press the border with his army and charge into the Land of Fire with overwhelming force.

After hearing Orochimaru's suggestion, Danzo knew that this was the best solution at the moment and nodded.

"Okay, I understand. I'll contact Hiruzen right away."

Just as he was about to walk out of the tent, Orochimaru's voice sounded from behind again:

"By the way, ask the village to send a few more ninjas from the Hyuga clan over. I need their Byakugan assistance. Now that the matter has come to this, it's better to break the pot. Even if you want to cover up those scandals, it's too late."

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Shiraishi, who is far away in the land of ghosts, has temporarily put aside his attention to the ninja world and is doing an important research in his research laboratory.

In the huge glass container filled with green solution, there is a fiery red object similar to the heart of a creature, sleeping quietly inside, bathing in the rich natural energy in the cultivation container.

"Master Shiraishi's technique of creating clones is really special."

Lying on Shiraishi's shoulder, the living creature looked at the fiery red meat with strong vitality in the glass container and let out a sound of amazement.

In this container, it was a new clone of Shiraishi that was cultivated.

"It's nothing. It's just because I deeply felt that my ninja ability was insufficient, so I had to find another way to increase the means of fighting the enemy."

Shiraishi smiled modestly.

"Is the clone of fire created this time? I feel a blazing energy in this heart."

"Yes."

"But it seems that there is only a heart in the container. Is it a clone that can move without a body?" the living creature asked curiously.

"Well, because the body of the fire clone is a bit special, for now, I can only make its 'core' first and give it soul and life. I am not in a hurry to put a body on it."

The living creature didn't understand this, but he could still feel the extraordinary nature of this heart.

This unborn fire clone, like the other clones, must have its own unique magic system.

"By the way, live snake, let me ask you a question."

"What?"

"If I use the chakra of the nine tailed beasts and fuse them together, can I develop part of the power of the ten tails?"

Shiraishi remembered something interesting and asked with interest.

There were several white claw fragments in his hand.

It's the two-tailed claw that Ayane sent back from Earth Country as a precious experiment.

Currently he has collected the chakra of the three tailed beasts.

There are one tail, two tail, and the strongest nine tail.

Therefore, Shiraishi had a bold idea in his mind. Can he cultivate ten tails by gathering part of the chakra of the nine tailed beasts?

Faced with Shiraishi's extremely jumping question, the living snake was stunned for a moment, and replied slowly: "I don't know this, but the chakra of the Nine-Tailed Beast is only one part of the Ten-Tails. Simply use It should be impossible for the nine-tailed beast’s chakra to simulate the power of the ten-tails.”

"That's it."

Shiraishi nodded, his idea was indeed a bit whimsical.

However, even so, the chakra of the nine-headed and tailed beast is worth collecting. Such good material is very helpful for his clone research.

And there is also a great relationship with Sharingan and Baiyan. Maybe using the energy of these tailed beasts, Sharingan and Baiyan can complete the evolution.

But at present, it is only a theoretical hypothesis stage, which cannot be applied to practice, and there are too many uncertain factors.

For the research on tailed beasts, the progress has not been very fast.

Tailed beast research is progressing slowly, and the truth is here——

Next to the heart of the fire clone, there are two huge glass containers.

There was a sandy yellow tail about the size of a human body soaked in a container.

In another container, there is an orange-red tail of the same size, with orange-red chakra bubbles like pimples.

One tail and nine tails respectively.

It took more than a year from the initial lump of chakra to transform into this form.

And the more it is cultivated, the more difficult it will be.

Shiraishi conservatively estimated that at the current growth rate, it would take at least two hundred years to replicate the complete One-Tail and Nine-Tails.