Chapter 76: Chapter – 74 A Pity!
The four members of Team-11 were not too alarmed or panicked by the arrival of the enemy forces, each took out their weapons and took a defensive stance.
At this time, Yugito Nii's gaze swept on Kuroto's face, and her brows frowned slightly as if she suddenly remembered him, "You? You are a member of the Hyuga Clan?"
Yugito Nii suddenly remembered the last time when she encountered Kuroto during the task of recovering the scroll of forbidden Jutsu stolen by Shinno. That is the first and only mission she failed to complete, and it was because of that ninja she encountered, so he left an impression upon her.
And now because Kuroto isn't wearing his goggles, she managed to recognize that he is of the Hyuga Clan.
As she swept her gaze past Kuroto, she also noticed another kid with the Sharingan and muttered, "One Byakugan, one Sharingan, no wonder it is so difficult to deal with your group. It turns out that both of the Dojutsu of Konoha were here!" then checking over to Kakashi and Guy, her eyes narrowed again on Kakashi, but she didn't say anything to them just hummed softly, "Just right, new account and old account, all will be calculated this time!"
Ignoring Yugito Nii's words Kuroto looked towards Shisui and Kakashi and said regretfully, "It's Nibi's Jinchuriki, a pity!"
Shisui also shook his head in disappointment, "Yes, so Kuroto-San are you going to do it?"
Kuroto nodded.
Listening to the conversation between Kuroto and Shisui, Yugito Nii suddenly had a bad feeling and immediately shouted: "Everyone Retreat NOW!"
Boom… Boom… Boom…
However, before her voice could reach the other ninjas, a series of explosions sounded in the cave. The impact was loud enough for the sound to reach miles away!
In the explosion, the entire cave collapsed, and the small mountain range where the cave was located, collapsed and along with it, a dozen cloud ninjas that were inside.
As the smoke and dust cleared, the huge figure of a two-tailed cat engulfed in blue-flames jumped out of the collapsed mountain range.
The ninjas that followed her here all managed to barely survive thanks to Nibi covering them within her.
Whoosh… Whoosh… Whoosh…
Attracted by the impact of the explosion, a group of figures arrived here one-after-another, and their leader wasn't someone else but the Yondaime Raikage-Sama himself.
Raikage-Sama glanced at the injured figure of Yugito Nii along with a dozen ninja and asked with annoyance, "Where is the enemy!?"
Yugito Nii, who already released her tail beast cloak coughed violently, and said, "Cough-cough… This was just a trap. I am afraid they have escaped long ago Raikage-Sama!"
Listening to Yugito Nii's words, Raikage-Sama fell into deep thought, he seems to be considering something as he cast his gaze into the distance; after a little of thinking he finally said with some emotions; "It seems that Konoha Village isn't as weak as I expected. Maybe it's time to end this conflict."
Yugito Nii was surprised by Raikage-Sama's words and quickly said, "Raikage-Sama, please give me some more time, I swear I will definitely kill them!"
However, A shook his head, "I am afraid the situation isn't as simple, I have received the news from the frontline, Hokage himself led troops and conducted a series of surprise attacks on our camp. With you here, B couldn't resist and had already begun to retreat. Not only that but the intentions of Rock Village are also unclear. With Tsuchkage's character, he would definitely bite if the situation allowed, we are falling into a disadvantage."
Forces of the rock Village have already been gathered at the border of the Land of Grass. Tsuchikage-Sama is sitting quietly while watching Konoha and Cloud fight each other, if Cloud reveals even a small flaw, Onoki wouldn't hesitate to strike.
Yugito Nii was taken aback by the sudden turn of events and murmured, "Does that mean all the efforts were in vain?"
Raikage patted Yugito Nii's shoulder: "Don't be discouraged, there will be plenty of opportunities in the future, as long we increase our strength, Konoha will have to fall!"
Yugito Nii still grumbled and cursed Team-11 while gritting her teeth in frustration, "Damn it, Konoha Team-11 bastards!"
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Eastern Coastline of the Land of Hot Water
The four people of Team-11 were galloping along the coast in the direction of Konoha.
Suddenly, Kakashi, Kuroto, and Shisui stopped and looked at each other with signs of regret in their eyes.
Shisui sighed in disappointment, "Sigh… I didn't expect her to arrive in the cave, such a shame."
However, Kakashi wondered, "Her reaction was too extreme, right? They just came to deal with the four Anbu members, why to bring such heavy forces? And how come Nibi's Jinchuriki wasn't at the assault force? Raikage-Sama being in the Land of Hot Water is already too strange, not to mention the Nibi's Jinchuriki too? Doesn't it appear to be too weird?"
Obviously, Kakashi didn't know of the havoc Kuroto caused in the Tenseigan Chakra Mode. Not only he killed every being alive in the valley but even flattened it entirely, so, him being puzzled by the extreme reaction of the Cloud Village is natural.
Listening to Captain Kakashi's words Shisui glanced at Kuroto-San from the side and thought silently, 'When facing someone like Kuroto-San, Cloud Village has no chance of winning even with the Nibi Jinchuriki, so having a Raikage is necessary for them to survive!'
Kuroto only coughed, feeling a little embarrassed, but this embarrassment wasn't noticed by Kakashi and Guy as they were still wondering about Cloud Village's strange reaction.
In fact, Kuroto was more regretful that the Detonation Charm they used in setting up the trap went to waste, so it made him quite sad.
After deciding to withdraw from the Land of Hot Water, Team-11 set up a large-scale trap, to give Cloud Village goodbye greetings.
After setting up the detonation charms around the cave, Kuroto, and Shisui, each left their shadow clone while Kakashi left two Shadow Clones, one his and another Guy's to complete the trap.
Team-11 expected some squad led by Jonin or Chunin to find that cave, so no matter how they escaped, there would have been some damage on the enemy side.
However, contrary to their expectations, it was Nibi's Jinchuriki that showed up.
Once the Jinchuriki enters the tailed beast state, it is difficult to cause fatal damage.
What's more, Yugito Nii is a perfect Jinchuriki, so her cooperation with Nibi will make most of the traps against her useless, not to mention the hastily prepared trap by the Team-11.
Even if the trap failed to cause any fatal damage to the Cloud's side, the members of Team-11 were not too disappointed. Or even if there were some regrets, they can't afford to be depressed over it.
As Cloud Village deployed more and more forces in the Land of the Hot Water, this country became more and more dangerous therefore, they didn't have any other option but to retreat.
So, after digesting the information from the shadow Clone, they continued to travel towards the Land of Fire.
Perhaps because of the conflict between the two great shinobi villages, the wandering ninjas in the Land of Hot Water have long since escaped. So, the Team-11 didn't have to get involved in useless battles, and after continuously moving along the coastline for a few days, except for the short breaks they took, they finally returned to the territory of the Land of Fire.
In their own territory, Team-11 quickly met with a Konoha ninja team who was responsible for patrol and investigation. Through these Konoha ninjas, they learned about some general situations of the frontline.
As per Kuroto's expectations, Cloud's raid was just some temptation.
This entire conflict with the Cloud Village can even be considered the follow-up effects of the Kyuubi's Rebellion, a chain reaction of Orochimaru's defection, and the death of Yondaime Hokage-Sama and his wife Uzumaki Kushina.
Cloud Village would obviously not want to escalate it into full-scale war as long as there is no benefit, and Konoha's current situation doesn't allow it to push the stalemate any further.
Since the situation turned unfavorable for the Cloud's side, they showed their willingness to negotiate and Hokage-Sama readily accepted this offer.
Although Hokage-Sama doesn't know the exact situation that was caused by the Team-11 and how much troubled Cloud Village was because of them, he would have chosen to negotiate nonetheless, because Konoha simply couldn't afford a war given their current lack of power and personnel.
Now Konoha and Cloud have entered a cease-fire agreement and Cloud Village has withdrawn all their troops from the border of the Land of Fire a few days ago…
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Chapter 77: Chapter – 75 A Rather Heated Discussion
Inside a damp cave in the Land of Rain.
Drip…
The echo of water dripping within the silent cave gave a gloomy atmosphere to it.
At this moment a Venus Flytrap-like extension slowly rose from the ground and a strange face that was half white and half black with green hair and yellow eyes appeared within those green flytrap-like leaves.
The swirled masked man sitting upon a rock glanced slightly at the strange existence without batting an eye and asked casually, "How is the situation?"
The strange half-black-half-white person who appears to be more of a plant and less of a human, while still being partially submerged underground replied to the masked man's question, "The conflict between Cloud Village and Konoha Village is almost over, both parties seem to have agreed for the peace talks, which is completely different from what you expected."
The masked man was silent for a while listening to the person named Zetsu, and asked another question, "Why did Cloud Village Slow down their offensive, they were at a complete advantage?"
At the beginning of the raid Cloud Village's movements seemed unstoppable, completely breaking through the frontal defense of Land of Fire. Including the masked man, everyone believed that this time Cloud Forces would be able to reach the Konoha Village without much problem.
No one expected that not only Cloud Village couldn't reach the Konoha Village, but in fact, had to completely terminate their attack.
Zetsu Shook his head, "I don't know"
Keeping track of the complete battlefield within the territory of the Land of the Fire already tired out Zetsu, so he was unable to place his attention on the events outside the Land of Fire, and most likely something that happened in the Land of Lightning, Land of Frost, or Land of Hot Water prompted Cloud Village to put forward the idea of peace talks.
But what exactly?
Zetsu isn't clear yet.
The masked man was a little annoyed: "Heh… Cloud Village wasted such a good opportunity!"
Zetsu recalled a little of what he heard and based on the information he had, "There is something that happened at the rear of Cloud's frontal assault units. Before their forces withdrew from the territory of the Land of Fire, the deployment of their forces was quite weird. Even Nibi's Jinchuriki left the assault troops all of a sudden and hurried back to the rear. Whatever happened there is the ke-…"
However, before Zetsu could continue any further, the masked man waved his hand, "Forget it!"
He is not interested too much in this. As far as he thinks, whether Konoha or Cloud, they are all just some pieces on his chessboard. Since the best they are useful is for being played around, there is no point in having many expectations off of them.
So, the masked man doesn't care too much about them.
Since the masked man displayed his disinterest, Zetsu didn't continue the topic and asked, "What are you going to do now?"
The masked man smiled, "From the conflict against Cloud, Konoha's complete distrust of the Uchiha is revealed. We should start with the Uchiha to further weaken the Village's strength."
"What do I need to do?"
"Find an Uchiha Clansmen for me." After a short pause, he continued but this time his tone became gloomier by the second: "I need someone useful enough to stimulate the relationship between the Uchiha and the Village…"
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Konoha Village, Uchiha Clan.
Knock… Knock… Knock…
A rapid knock on the door sounded from the outside of the courtyard of a house.
Uchiha Shisui, who had just returned home after a long mission, had to drag his tired body to open the courtyard door, and as soon as he opened the door, the young figure of Itachi appeared before his eyes.
The young Itachi noticed Shisui open the door, and he said with clear joy in his voice "Shisui-San, you are finally back!"
The Uchiha Clansmen were obviously aware that Shisui went on some secret mission by the orders of the Hokage-Sama.
So, for the past more than a month, when there was no news from Shisui, nor was there information about his presence on any of the battlefield, all the Uchiha clansmen thought that this is Sandaime-Sama's handiwork. Deliberately sending their most genius ninja to some mission to get rid of him.
Although Itachi didn't believe in it, he was worried about Shisui nonetheless, now finally confirming that Shisui returned safely, Itachi was greatly relieved.
Shisui seemed to notice Itachi's worry, so, with a smile, he led Itachi into the house.
After being seated, Shisui briefly mentioned the details [to the extent that Hokage-sama allowed Team-11] to Itachi and reassured him with a helpless smile, "Don't worry, there is Kuroto-San in our team, so obviously there won't be a danger!"
Hearing some brief explanation from Shisui, and noticing from the gist that Team-11 caused some big troubles in and around the territory of the Land of Hot Water, Itachi looked more curious, "So, Shisui-San, that is to say, Cloud Village slowed down and terminated their offensive towards Konoha because of your team?"
Cloud's strange behavior has left all the villages that aren't aware of the exact situation in strange doubt. There were various speculations even among the discussion of the Konoha Villagers until the final doubt of something being wrong at their rear was pointed out, as soon as Hokage-Sama realized this, he personally led the troops to launch an attack on Cloud's assault troops.
As a result, the assault troop had no choice but to retreat under the offensive.
Shisui smiled and nodded at Itachi's question.
Even now when Shisui recalls the surprised look of Hokage-Sama when he listened to the complete report of the actions taken by Team-11, his mood becomes extremely cheerful.
When the Team-11 returned to Konoha Village, all the doubts were finally cleared.
Precisely because of the surprise attack that Team-11 conducted on the secret warehouse and the regular harassment of the Cloud transport line, the cloud assault troops slowed down their offensive giving enough respite period for Konoha.
From this alone, Team-11 played the most critical role.
After chatting for a while, Itachi suddenly said seriously, "Shisui-San look!"
As he said, Itachi's eyes suddenly turned blood red with two black tomoe revolving around them.
Shisui asked in surprise, "Did you awaken the Sharingan!?"
Itachi nodded, "It happened on the battlefield a few weeks ago."
"Battlefield? What were you doing there?" – again Shisui asked in great surprise.
Itachi said, "I have graduated ea-…."
However, before Itachi could finish, a figure appeared into the courtyard of Shisui's house and said, "Shisui, Patriarch is holding a clan meeting, you are to attend it now!"
Shisui's face suddenly solidified.
He nodded to the Uchiha ninja, and after nodding to Itachi he left his house.
When he arrived at the mansion, Shisui looked at the faces of people present here.
In the room, other than the Patriarch Uchiha Fugaku who sat silently at the center, there were only elites of the Uchiha Police. A dozen of them and without a doubt all of them elite Jonin Class.
Seeing such a group Shisui felt a little depressed.
Even the Special Jonin weren't eligible to participate in this meeting. He can already guess what will be the topic of discussion this time.
"Patriarch!"
After a polite greeting to the Patriarch, he sat at the corner silently.
Fugaku glanced slightly and nodded.
With Shisui's arrival, the Uchiha Clan's meeting officially began.
An elite of the Uchiha Police Force, Uchiha Denki, said, "Patriarch, I have received accurate news that this time the Village lost more than 30 ninjas of the Special Jonin to Elite Jonin Class from the Hyuga, Sarutobi, Nara, Akimichi, Yamanaka, Aburame, and Inuzuka. Some of the high-level ninjas also died in the battles, not to mention countless Chunin and genin.
As he continued talking, this Uchiha elite stood up and said with a fanatical expression, "After suffering such a big loss, Sandaime actually agreed to the peace talks. Many of the clans and villagers are dissatisfied with his actions. This is the best opportunity for Uchiha!"
Another Uchiha elite also stood up as he expressed his views, "There are also rumors that the Hokage also lost some of the strong Anbu elites, so their strength is more weakened."
As soon as the news of the Anbu was discussed all faces turned towards Shisui.
Currently, only Shisui is a member of the Anbu so Uchiha's source of obtaining Anbu intelligence is only him.
Shisui who was bored until a moment ago was now the center of everyone's attention, but unfortunately, he could only say, "I don't have much information, because of being away for the mission, but probably three Anbu squads died!"
Hearing Shisui's words, all the Uchiha had fire ignited in their eyes as they were excited one-by-one. One of them stood up and said to Uchiha Fugaku, "Patriarch, it's the best opportunity, this time the position of Hokage can definitely be the Uchiha's!"
"Yes, Patriarch, please do it!"
"Please give your orders patriarch!"
The atmosphere was getting heated up, as more and more Uchiha's got excited at the opportunity.
The patriarch was still sitting silently.
Finally, after sighing, his gaze fell upon Shisui as he asked, "What is your opinion Shisui?"
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