"What? Kumogakure and Iwagakure are already at war?!" Kaze stared at his subordinate in disbelief.
He had meticulously planned several schemes to incite a conflict between the two villages.
But now, they had started fighting without him even implementing those plans?
"Um, I thought it was your doing... Isn't it?" The subordinate looked equally bewildered.
After casually shooing the subordinate away, Kaze stroked his chin, a mischievous smile creeping across his face.
"This is getting interesting. Let's see who can't hold back and reveals themselves."
He guessed that it was probably Madara, that old rascal, who had stirred up the muddy waters first and then planned to fish in the troubled waters.
His aim, of course, was to seize the tailed beasts!
"What a pity I don't have the Rinnegan. Otherwise, I might try to claim the Ten-Tails."
Muttering to himself, branches wriggled around Kaze's right arm, crunching as they gathered together.
An orange-yellow wooden mask slowly took shape in his hands.
"Obito, hope you don't mind if I borrow your appearance for a while."
Even if he might not gain anything, the chance to witness a real-life Naruto battle up close was hard to resist for any Naruto fan.
Maybe he'd even get to see the legendary Madara Uchiha!
"Charge!"
The white-clad Cloud Ninjas clashed fiercely with the earth-yellow-clad Iwagakure ninjas, their battle cries shaking the heavens.
Compared to the previous battles between powerhouses, this one was the most normal and realistic.
A Cloud Ninja fought bravely through the bloodshed and finally managed to slay his opponent.
But in an instant, a long sword stabbed through him, claiming his life.
People kept falling, yet more rushed in. The casualties were heavy. This was war.
On this battlefield, even Jonin were like floating duckweeds in the rain, at the mercy of the current and always in danger of being swallowed by the waves.
So, when Kaze observed the battle from a high vantage point, two Cloud Ninjas fighting side by side stood out.
They advanced almost unimpeded, effortlessly dispatching any Iwagakure ninjas in their path.
"Sharingan!"
The scarlet eyes glowed as Kaze scrutinized the two for a moment before breaking into a smile.
Well, he unexpectedly bumped into two acquaintances.
The chakra of one belonged to Uchiha Rin, and the other to Orochimaru.
"I really didn't expect Orochimaru to get involved with them."
Kaze chuckled, finding the situation increasingly intriguing.
It was a pity he hadn't seen Madara. What a shame.
[Host, you can still laugh.] The System suddenly piped up.
[Aren't you afraid they'll successfully summon the Ten-Tails and beat you up badly?]
"Get out of here. Can't you wish me some good luck?" Kaze retorted irritably.
"Besides, whether they can summon the Ten-Tails depends on whether I give them the chance."
The battlefield in the Land of Rivers.
Tanzō controlled two giant wooden figures and chased after the fully transformed One-Tailed Shukaku, pummeling it mercilessly.
It looked like a scene of Ultraman ganging up on a little monster.
Except for a few extremely powerful ninjas, the others all stayed far away, not daring to get involved.
This is like a fight between gods. Who the hell would dare to get close without some cheat codes!
Forget it, this is so boring.
"Ouch! Ouch! I just wanted to come out and play, not to get beaten up!" Shukaku let out a series of strange cries.
It recalled the fear of being dominated by Hashirama Senju in those days.
Although this guy in front of it was much weaker than Hashirama, for some reason, he carried the aura of the old man. Shukaku didn't want to fight at all. It wanted to go home!
"Damn monk, let me go back right now, damn monk... Shit!"
After shouting for a while, Shukaku suddenly remembered that it had knocked Bunpuku out in order to come out and play...
"Forget it, just let it be."
Shukaku simply lay down on the ground and gave up resistance.
Anyway, it was going to get beaten. It might as well find a more comfortable position.
"Shukaku, what are you doing? Get up and attack him quickly!"
Seeing this scene, Chiyo, who had pinned her hopes of a comeback on Shukaku, almost spat out a mouthful of blood in anger.
Not only Chiyo, but also the Sand ninjas were stunned.
If they remembered correctly, the tailed beasts were supposed to be ultimate weapons for destroying the world, not stupid things that came out to act cute.
"No way."
Shukaku lazily refused and even rolled over to let the two wooden figures beat it from another position.
As long as it imagined the beating as a powerful human exerting great effort to massage it, Shukaku's mood improved a lot.
"Pfft!"
Chiyo spat out a mouthful of old blood in anger.
If she had known Shukaku was such a slacker, she would never have let her husband bring this useless thing back!
"Dad, you're really old. Haven't you finished the fight after so long?"
At this time, a figure appeared beside Tanzō. With arms folded, he sneered playfully.
"Rebellious son!"
Being outshone by his son, Tanzō snorted coldly and didn't care about his chakra consumption anymore.
He clapped his hands forcefully and crazily mobilized his chakra, going all out!
Boom! Boom! Boom! Another wooden figure appeared, and then two, three more...
Watching more and more wooden figures walking towards it with grinning faces, Shukaku suddenly felt something was wrong.
"Hey, what are you doing? You two are having a father - son quarrel, you can't... Ah!"
A bunch of wooden figures surrounded Shukaku, and then...
"No way! No way!"
Sure enough, the tailed beast lived up to its name. Its shrill screams echoed across the entire battlefield, which was extremely heart - wrenching.
It was truly heart - breaking for those who heard it and tear - inducing for those who listened.
Wood Release · Sage Art · Thousand Hands Manipulation Force: Thrust
While the father was abusing the little animal, Kaze wasn't idle either. He was driving the Daibutsu and massacring enemies on the battlefield.
Although Kaze didn't have much chakra, in the Shikkotsu Forest Sage Mode, his chakra recovered extremely quickly.
Using the weakened version of Thousand Hands Manipulation Force: Thrust a few times wasn't too strenuous.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Standing on the nearly thousand - meter - tall Daibutsu, Kaze couldn't see the people below clearly. He could only see a cluster of colorful dots.
Fortunately, the Daibutsu had thousands of arms. All he had to do was activate his ultimate move across the whole area and just slap around randomly.
He shouted, 「Ora ora ora!」
He roared, 「Muda muda muda!」
The Sand ninjas were running in front, and the Daibutsu was chasing after them. It was quite a lively scene.
The Konoha ninjas looked at each other. For a moment, they felt a bit lost.
Who am I? Where am I? Didn't I come here to fight in the war?
They had clearly made up their minds to sacrifice themselves for the country.
But now they could do nothing and could only stand aside, waiting for victory to come.
This feeling... was just awesome!
「Help!」
「Run!」
In contrast to Konoha, the Sunagakure soldiers were wailing and cursing. They only wished they knew the Flying Thunder God Technique.
「Damn it, stop! Stop right now!」
Chiyo's eyes were blood - red. She controlled the Chikamatsu Collection and rushed towards the Daibutsu without hesitation.
Slap.
A huge hand slapped down. Chiyo, along with her ten Puppets, was turned into powder.
The dream girl of countless Hokage fans has passed away.
As for Kaze, the one who started it all, he was completely unaware and still kept slapping.
The task on the other side was almost done, but he still had hundreds of slaps left to finish. He was in a rush to finish up!
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