Torifu returned to the camp as quickly as he could.
When he saw from a distance the huge stain on the top of the cliff where the medical tent was located, Torifu feared the worst.
Although he could see the carp in perfect condition, Torifu could already imagine the bad news.
He quickly approached the nearest ninja and asked what had happened.
Upon seeing Torifu, the poor genin stuttered a little and recounted what he had heard.
Listening to the genin, Torifu sighed upon hearing what happened.
Kitsuchi had played with him, luring him in, and he had fallen into the trap.
And to make matters worse, an elite Jonin from the Village of the Rock is leading this attack.
Gari, from the element explosion.
Torifu had to be careful with this ninja.
Although he wasn't afraid of him, it would be annoying to face him and defeat him without him escaping, in addition to the injuries caused by his explosions.
With Gari leading this operation, it was highly unlikely that anyone in the camp could have stopped his escape.
Recalling the damage at the top of the cliff and seeing the direction from which the attack came, Torifu knew that Gari had arrived at the medical tent first.
Although the medical tent was not destroyed, Torifu guessed that Gari either had a team with him or simply acted alone using Taijutsu and then caused that damage to the ground before retreating.
Torifu already expected that he had lost all the doctors and suffered a great loss this time.
But surprisingly, that didn't happen.
The reason?
Uchiha Natsuo
Torifu didn't believe what he heard, and the genin hadn't personally witnessed the incident, so he quickly went to find his nephews.
Although only Choka was his nephew by blood, Nara Shikase and Yamanaka Inoshin were also considered his nephews because he watched them grow up and trained them when he was not on missions.
When he found them, he quickly asked what happened and looked suspiciously when they answered the same thing as that genin he met on the road.
But after asking for details, she found out everything.
From the beginning when they detected a gap in the rear, their efforts to protect their doctors and meet with Gari, and the sudden appearance of Uchiha Natsuo to change the situation.
All the doctors and other surviving ninjas who were being treated at that time in the medical tent were questioned, and quickly the whole camp learned what happened inside the tent.
They were outnumbered by the attackers and it seemed they would not survive.
But suddenly, Uchiha Natsuo acted with a chakra sphere and a sharp kunai with wind element chakra in his hands and with his body covered in chakra.
Similar to the lightning armor of the Third Raikage, Uchiha Natsuo enhanced his body with chakra to increase his power.
Of course, unlike the Third Raikage, Uchiha Natsuo did not use any attributes.
Chakra enhancement is not unknown to everyone, but it was rare for someone to use it in battle because it strained the body too much and few ninjas were specialists in Taijutsu.
There's a reason why few ninjas actively train their bodies.
It required time and a higher consumption of food.
Time in a day is limited, and most ninjas don't have time to train their bodies if they see little result.
After all, a Jutsu is more powerful than their bodies, and they prefer to train their chakra abilities rather than train their bodies.
The Third Raikage is one of the few powerful Taijutsu users.
Of course, even the Third Raikage uses lightning element chakra to power up his body, so many don't see much potential in pure Taijutsu.
Inoshin was able to obtain the memories of that battle from the dead enemies and was able to share with them what happened in the tent with his clan's secret jutsu.
With a smile, Torifu enthusiastically reviewed Natsuo's performance and something caught his attention.
Although chakra enhancement was rare, Torifu did not focus on it.
He had heard that the boy ran around the camp every morning and it didn't seem strange to him that he was a Taijutsu user.
No, that didn't catch his attention.
What caught his attention was the chakra sphere spinning at full speed in the boy's hand, which had enough power to shatter the earth armor of the Rock Village ninjas.
He was also surprised by the lethality of the child with the Kunai covered in wind chakra, but Torifu had seen that many times before.
Even if Konoha doesn't compare to the Sand Village in the number of wind element users, there are still skilled ninjas capable of achieving the same feat as Natsuo.
His friend Danzo, for example.
Torifu was more interested in the chakra sphere because it was the first time he had seen something like that.
The chakra control required to form that chakra sphere, with that spinning power to give it greater destructive force, is incredible. It's no surprise, since Natsuo is a medical ninja.
What he did find strange was that the Uchiha clan didn't go around boasting about having a genius of such caliber.
Especially when Inoshin sent him his memory of the powerful Fire Jutsu that Natsuo launched to temporarily stop Gari.
Although the boy later collapsed from chakra exhaustion, it was impressive since the boy was only 13 years old.
Torifu asked Nara Shikase about his doubts and he informed him of what they knew about the child.
Uchiha Natsuo showed talent on the first day of the academy by being able to defend himself for a few minutes against Nawaki Senju, the deceased younger brother of Tsunade Senju and grandson of Mito Uzumaki.
But strangely, the boy did not become a genius specifically trained by the Uchiha clan and was allowed to become a medical ninja.
Uchiha Natsuo learned Medical Ninjutsu at the Uchiha hospital and nothing more was known about him until a year later when he was taken by Tsunade as a disciple.
Torifu nodded because that was obviously a move to bring the Uchiha clan closer to the Hokage and continued listening to Nara Shikase.
"Since then, the boy didn't attract any more attention until a few years later when he showed greater talent in Medical Ninjutsu, and almost a year and a half ago he was transferred to the camp."
"And here he showed great improvement, becoming the best medical ninja in the camp."
"Many say she's just like her teacher Tsunade," the Nata clan leader finished.
"Didn't the Uchiha object?" Torifu asked, curious that the Uchiha clan would allow a genius of that level to stay at the camp.
When Natsuo displayed his greatest skill in Medical Ninjutsu, Torifu was grateful that the Uchiha clan hadn't called him back to the village.
But from what Nara Shikaze said, it seemed that something was missing.
Before the war, Torifu wasn't bothered by the politics within the village. But he did know that the village leadership didn't want the Uchiha clan to be actively involved in the war.
Of course, some Uchiha could choose to participate in the war, but they are few while the majority stay in the village as a last 'defense'.
Torifu scoffed at the latter, as he knew the real reason why the Hokage and his three friends didn't want any more Uchiha to participate in the war.
The Sharingan.
As a powerful ocular technique alongside the Byakugan, the other clans paid attention to the Uchiha clan and knew the mental changes that would normally occur when an Uchiha awakens the Sharingan.
That is why the leaders of the various clans in Konoha reluctantly and silently agreed that the Uchiha clan would not actively participate in the war unless necessary.
Of course, only the village and clan leaders know this, so the Uchiha clan members are earning the contempt of other ninjas and civilians who are unaware of this.
On the other hand, the Uchiha clan itself was fine with this situation.
They didn't care what others thought and were content not to put their ninjas at risk.
"No"
"Apparently, the Hokage met with various clans to request that they send more doctors to this camp, and Natsuo was one of those sent by the Uchiha," said the leader of the Nara clan.
'There's something I don't know,' Torifu thought.
In order for a clan to agree with the Hokage to send its ninjas, the Hokage usually promises certain benefits.
But knowing his friends, Torifu knew they definitely wouldn't give the Uchiha clan any benefits when they could bring in a few more medical ninjas from other clans.
And even worse, Natsuo showed greater skill in the medical field, and the Uchiha clan would surely demand more benefits in exchange for not recalling the boy.