At the Shinobi Alliance Headquarters,
Coo…
A pigeon flies through the airspace of the headquarter. An invisible barrier blocks its movements.
"That's…"
The members of the barrier corps notice the presence of the pigeon.
"It's the messenger bird from the Infiltration and Reconnaissance Party." One of the members of the recon party recognizes the bird.
"It must be new intel! Retrieve it!"
A few minutes later, in the meeting hall.
The Kages and the leaders of each division gather around a round table as they discuss the new intel.
"The X-marks the location of the enemy hideout. It's known as the Mountain Graveyard."
Inoichi displays a projection of the map at the center of the table. The location of the Shinobi alliance headquarters and the Akatsuki headquarter are marked on the map.
"If we go by land, we'll pass through the Hidden Steam Village, the Hidden Frost Village, and the Land of Rice paddies before we reach the Akatsuki's base."
Inoichi marks a path on the map.
"Advice nations that possess the Hidden Steam Village, and the Hidden Frost Village to evacuate their civilians. Also, inform the Daimyo of the Land of Rice paddies to do the same." Gaara remarks.
"Noted!" Inoichi acknowledges his command and sends one of his subordinates to relay the order before he continues.
"According to the report by the Infiltration and Reconnaissance Unit, the enemy is roughly a hundred thousand strong. Their individual prowess is further enhanced by Kabuto's drug."
"That's bad news! With our eighty-thousand-strong army, it will be a hard-fought battle." Onoki grimaces.
"We have an advantage in terms of elites." A interrupts him.
"But the enemy has five hundred immortal soldiers who don't need to eat and sleep." Onoki rebuts him.
"Hmm… I have already made arrangements for the Edo-Tensei group." Minato assures them.
Mm…
The rest of Kage nods, and the meeting continues.
"Considering the mobilizing of such a regiment of that size, it's most likely that a portion of them will travel through the sea to ambush our rear." Mifune marks a route on the map.
"If it's some other army, then that would most likely be the case. But the Zetsu army is a bit special." Minato shakes his head.
"How so?!" The rest of the members frown.
"The intel unit of Konoha has thoroughly analyzed every member of the Akatsuki. We have detailed knowledge of all of their abilities, strengths, and weaknesses." Minato remarks with a smile.
'Well, it's part of the contingency plan prepared by Izuna. From the looks of it, he probably knew such a situation will occur.'
"Oh!" Onoki raises an eyebrow.
"Zetsu is the weakest member of Akatsuki in terms of combat strength. However, Zetsu has multiple unusual abilities, which might be quite difficult to handle."
Minato places a scroll on the table and reveals the intel on Akatsuki. One by one, every member of the war council reads the intel in the scroll.
"This is…"
Their gaze stiffens as they read through the scroll.
"That's so terrifying! We would surely suffer an immense loss if we didn't know about it beforehand." The Kage sucks a deep breath of air.
"This weak Zetsu is the most terrifying member of Akatsuki. Not only he can hide his presence from Sensors, but he can also travel underground and ambush our back lines. But the most terrifying part is that he can shapeshift into allies and infiltrate our camp, and there is no way to identify him from the enemy unless someone spots him in the open." Onoki's hands tremble as he reads the intel.
Minato retrieves the scroll and gazes at everyone.
"I am sure this intel must have been an eye-opener for you all." A faint smile appears on Minato's face.
"Lord Minato, if what this scroll says is true; then our allies. They…"
Rasa's hands tremble as he passes the scroll to Minato.
"Yes, you are right! Zetsu has already infiltrated the ranks of every shinobi nation except for Konoha and Kiri." Minato drops a bombshell of news on them.
"What?" The Kages from the three nations immediately stand up from their seat.
Onoki is the first person to regain his cool.
"Only three nations. Does that mean Konoha and Kiri don't have any hidden Zetsu among their ranks?"
Tsunade turns towards him and smiles.
"Yes, you are right! Konoha and Kiri have already purged spies from all factions."
"Izuna purged the spies in Kiri during the civil war," Mei remarks.
"We cleaned the spies in Konoha up after the events of the Chunnin exam." Tsunade glances in Rasa's direction.
"Not only that but this intel on Akatsuki members was also gathered by Izuna," Minato adds.
"Why do you think Akatsuki didn't make a move despite all their preparations?" Tsunade questions them.
"It was because Izuna was restricting their movements. He would foil Akatsuki's every ploy before it could take shape. Only after Akatsuki made sure that Izuna wasn't there to disrupt them did they make their move." Mei answers her question.
Suddenly, A and Onoki recall their previous action of almost waging a war against Konoha.
'If we did wage a war, then the only one to suffer losses would be us. Konoha's intelligence-gathering abilities are truly terrifying, especially that Izuna Uchiha.'
A and Onoki glance at each other and nod.
"So, if you are revealing this fact to us now, does that mean?"
"Yes, we have a method to sense the Zetsu spies from the rest of the shinobis and currently there is no Zetsu spy in this room. However, there are a few spies among important management positions in the army." Minato replies to them.
Minato passes a list to them.
"This is the list of spies among our rank. Don't worry, I have carefully assigned unimportant jobs to them. They won't have access to any crucial intelligence. I didn't inform you earlier because your actions might alert them. But now, we can feed misinformation to these spies and gain an advantage in war." Minato reveals his strategy to them.
"I see! Very well!" Onoki nods in understanding.
'I didn't expect Minato to be such a scheming character!' He adds in his mind.
"Then it all comes down to who will make the first move!" Mifune remarks.
"Convene the Ambush unit immediately!" A issues an order to Samui.
"Have the main regiment reform their formation!" Sakumo also issues an order to one of the captains.
"Yes, sir!" Samui and the captain reply in unison and swiftly departs.
Tsunade turns to Shizune.
"Make sure the medical unit is well supplied with medical ninja tools and medicinal pills."
"Yes, Lady Tsunade!" Shizune issues order to her subordinates.
"Shikaku and Inoichi, help the intelligence and logistic unit recheck their chain of command."
"Roger!"
"Chojuro, contact Ao and the sensory unit and have them hurry!" Mei turns to Chojuro.
"Y-yes, ma'am."
The group quickly mobilizes their subordinates according to the new intel.
"On the matter of alliance, here…"
Gaara passes headbands to every Kage.
"These are…"
Tsunade curiously picks up the headband. A kanji for 'Shinobi' is engraved on the headband.
"Headbands for the Allied shinobi force, eh?"
"Nice work!" The group praises the headband.
"Of course, I came up with the design. Former enemies who once battled each other are now one shinobi force!" Mifune proudly nods at them.
"Furthermore, the shinobi and samurais have joined forces to war against a greater evil. The time for war is imminent."
"You are right! Let's pummel some sense into those Akatsuki bastards!" A clenches his fists.
Suddenly,
HONNNKKK….
Horn blares in the alliance headquarters to alert the group of enemy presence.
"Quick, stop them!"
Whoosh… whoosh…
One after another, multiple shinobis of the combat division exit the alliance headquarters and barricade it.
"What's the matter? What's will all this commotion? Did enemies already attack our headquarters?" Onoki frowns and glances outside the window.
"Let me check it!"
Minato makes a series of hand signs to activate the projection of the CPS system in the room. Two red beacons appear on the map.
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Minato projects the image of enemies in front of the group.
"Hmm… these two are…:"
He glances at the Konoha headband on the enemy's forehead.
"They seem to be Konoha shinobi but something seems to be wrong with their movement. Their bodies are quite stiff."
Minato frowns.
"Let me check them!"
Whoosh…
Minato teleports from his position and reappears at the entrance of the headquarter.
He walks towards the two Konoha shinobis. One of them is from the Aburame clan, while the other is from the Hyuga clan.
"What's the matter, you two?" Minato enquires.
Sasori, who is controlling the duo from a distance, monitors their movement through a remote technique. He shares his vision with the duo and notices Minato.
"That's Minato Namikaze, the Fourth Hokage. He isn't an ideal target for an ambush. If I blow these two up, he can always escape from the explosion with his teleportation jutsu. I have to look for someone else."
Sasori controls them and two replies to Minato.
"Lord Fourth, we both are a member of the Infiltration and Reconnaissance Party. We have urgent intel to relay."
Hmm…
Minato senses something amiss with their movement but leads them into the headquarter, nonetheless.
"Follow me!"
He leads them inside a room in the Allied Shinobi Forces headquarters.
"Wait for me here, I will inform other Kages."
"Yes, Lord Fourth!"
Minato reenters the room with the other Kages and informs them of their arrival.
"These two are a part of the team that sent intel about enemies to us. But I sense something odd with their movements. I can't exactly pinpoint it, but I have this odd feeling in my heart." Minato shakes his head.
Hmm…
The rest of the Kages frown at Minato's speculation.
"These two have made a significant contribution to the Allied Shinobi forces, so by right we should reward them. But if their actions are controlled by enemies, then we can only get rid of them." Onoki remarks as he glances at Muta and Tokuma's figure.
"That's true, but I don't want to lose two capable shinobi because of my suspicion." Minato is also stuck in a dilemma.
"Lord Fourth, can I take a closer look at them?" Rasa, who was maintaining his silence the whole time, speaks.
"Sure, but what if alert the enemies?"
"I have a solution for that!" Tsunade interrupts them.
A few minutes later,
The gate of the meeting room cracks open, and a figure walks inside. Muta and Tokuma glance at the door. Both of their movement freezes as a pair of red eyes appear in their vision.
A few seconds later, Rasa and Minato walk inside the room. Itachi nods at them and exits the room.
Itachi's Tsukiyomi is a very powerful genjutsu that can affect the perception of the victim. If Muta and Tokuma are mind-controlled, then their controller must have a method to observe their movements and share senses with them, similar to how a summon shares its sense with its contractor.
Rasa walks towards the duo alongside Minato as he speaks.
"When it comes to mind control, I can only think of a certain shinobi."
"Sasori of the Red Sand!" Minato murmurs.
"Yes! Sasori was a prodigy puppeteer of the Sand. He was of the same generation as me. But sometime during his youth, Sasori's obsession with puppets deluded his mind. He went from controlling puppets to controlling humans.
After the end of the Third Shinobi War, Sasori mind controlled multiple members of the elder council and plotted an assassination of the Third Hokage. He successfully assassinated the Third Hokage with the aid of mind-controlled elders and later refined the Third Hokage into a puppet." Rasa shakes his head as he sympathizes with his predecessor.
"Later, we captured the mind-controlled elders and studied Sasori's mind-control technique in detail."
Rasa walks beside the two recon team members and inspects their heads and neck.
"Found it!"
Minato walks beside Rasa and glances at the two extremely small red dots hidden on their head hidden between their hairs.
"These two are definitely mind-controlled. Sasori's mind control technique includes the injection of multiple hair-size chakra strings with Fuinjutsu seals inside the victim's mind to override their will. This effectively turns his victim into living puppets. These chakra strings are so small that even Byakugan can't sense their presence.
Sasori can use his Puppet Sense sharing technique on these controlled individuals to share his sense with them. Sigh…"
Rasa sighs and shakes his head.
"These two are already dead since Sasori has already destroyed their bodies. I suspect he rigged their bodies with traps and explosives. A similar situation occurred with the bodies of the elders."
As if on cue, the bodies of the two shinobis glow with resplendent light.
Fwoosh…
Minato grabs the two of them and teleports them away into the sea.
A few seconds later,
BOOM…
A terrifying explosion occurs in the distance as a cloud of smoke and water vapors rise in the air.
Fwoosh…
Minato reappears in the room and heaves a sigh of relief. The scale of the explosion was quite powerful.
"If those two exploded here, then despite the various barriers and restrictions, I suspect half of the headquarter would be blown to smithereens.
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Somewhere in the sea, on top of a giant bird,
"What's the matter, Sasori my man? Why did you blow up my C0 bombs?"
Deidara planted his modified C0 bombs inside Muta and Tokuma. He got the inspiration for it during the moments of his death. He blew himself using his ultimate C0 bomb. So, an idea came to his mind that he could do the same with others. So, with Sasori's help, he created two living C0 human beings that can be remotely detonated from a distance.
"They found my traps!" Sasori nonchalantly replies to them and turns to Kabuto.
"I will leave for the battlefield." He ignores Deidara's whining and jumps from the top of the flying clay bird.
Click… clack…
A flying puppet attaches itself to him and Sasori flies towards the battlefield.
"Hmm… I didn't expect him to possess such a puppet." Kabuto stares at Sasori in amusement.
Kuku…
Kabuto turns towards Deidara and smiles.
"Damn! Sasori, my man, don't leave me alone with this creepy bastard."
"…"
"You are already dead! What worse could happen to you?" Kabuto glares at him.
"Fine! I will follow your lead." Deidara gives up and pilots the giant clay bird according to Kabuto's instructions.
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The eyes of the rest of the Kage's narrow as they stare at two gigantic pillars of light in the distance.
"That's Deidara's C0." Onoki recognizes the forbidden ninjutsu of his village.
"So, Akatsuki revived him too." Onoki narrows his eyes.
A few moments later, Minato, Rasa, and Itachi return to the central room.
"Looks like your suspicion was correct." Tsunade nods at Minato.
"It's a shame to lose two capable shinobis." She silently mourns Muta and Tokuma's death.
"Hokage, this isn't the time for mourning. We can spare our tears for after-war funerals. Currently, we have to pay back the Akatsuki for what they did to our shinobis." A clenches his fists.
"He is right! It's not the time to get sentimental. We can only commemorate their death by crushing Akatsuki in the war." Onoki agrees with A.
Tsunade grits her teeth and turns towards Itachi.
"It was thanks to Itachi; we were able to diffuse them without alerting the enemies."
It was her idea to use Itachi's powerful genjutsu to disrupt Sasori's senses with his Tsukiyomi. Since Sasori shares his senses with the two living puppets, then Itachi's genjutsu will also affect him through their shared senses. So, she took a gamble with her life.
And she was proven correct when Itachi's' genjutsu disrupted Sasori's senses for an instance.
'I always win the gamble when the stakes are my life.' Tsunade mumbles to herself.
Frantic shouts echo in their ears as multiple shinobis gather outside the allied shinobi force headquarters.
"Looks like the distribution of headbands is complete. It's about time we make an appearance."
The Kages glance at each other and nod. They exit the headquarter and walk up to a podium located high on a pedestal.
The Kages silently glance at the shinobis from various nations.
Shouts of chaos, anger, distrust, vengeance, and even bloodlust fill the air as multiple shinobis from different shinobis nations are at loggerheads against each other.
"I won't forgive you for killing my friend." A shinobi from Konoha clashes against a Suna shinobi.
"You Kiri bastard! You killed my brother on a mission seven years ago." A Kumogakure shinobi points his blade toward a Kiri shinobi.
"I don't trust these backstabbing bastards from Iwagakure." Another group of shinobis from the Land of Waterfall engage against Iwa shinobis.
The Kages stare at the chaotic scene in silence.
"It's hard for past enemies with death grudges to work together against a common foe." Tsunade shakes her head.
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A/N:- My new Naruto fan-fic, 'The Rogue Demon of the Shinobi World' is out.
Also, check out my pat reon www.pa treon.com/ForgottenLife to support my work and get a sneak peak at the latest chapters of both series in advance. Read upto 80+ chapters from both series combined in advance.
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