The ability to detect emotions and intentions was a skill that Natsuo was grateful to have developed at a young age.
Although it was not used for most of his life since Natsuo was just an orphan with no direct enemies in his family and was not largely involved in the village's politics against the Uchiha, it proved its worth when he easily detected a potential enemy.
And the fact that this ninja is from the Shimura clan and has bad intentions right after Natsuo showed a little more fighting skill, made it easy to assume that it had something to do with Danzo.
While it was possible that he was a spy from another village disguised as a ninja from the Shimura clan, Natsuo thought it was more likely that Danzo had ordered him to keep an eye on him.
The reason for this was that he had already encountered this Ninja from the Shimura clan a few days ago, and his ability did not detect such intentions towards him at that time.
To have a spy in disguise in another village, it would take a long time to gather vital information about the disguised ninja's life. And since only a few days had passed, it was highly unlikely that he was a spy from another village.
"¡Hey!, ¡Natsuo!"
Suddenly, a loud voice was heard in the tent and everyone turned to look at the newcomers.
He was the leader of the camp, followed by the Ino-Shika-Cho trio.
With a huge smile on his face, Torifu headed towards the bed where Natsuo was resting under the gaze of everyone present.
For now, Natsuo had to greet the visitors while keeping an eye on the ninja from the Shimura clan.
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Torifu's visit to Natsuo lasted only a short time before he had to leave quickly.
In addition to thanking him for protecting his companions, the man also congratulated him for creating an A-Rank technique.
Although it wasn't as flashy, the Rasengan had great destructive power according to tests on the bodies of the Rock ninjas and had a high level of difficulty to learn.
Unlike in the original world, the Rasengan was now created by Natsuo first, and the news was quickly known by everyone in the camp.
It was fortunate that the Seven Heavens Breathing technique was mistaken for a simple chakra-boosting technique, and Natsuo didn't clarify the misunderstanding, so it didn't attract any more attention.
Of course, there was now something more important than creating new A-rank techniques.
The war had started again and the conflicts had resumed.
The Rock Village was not the only one that attacked one of the Leaf Village's camps.
The Sand Village had done the same, and the war had intensified again.
And the most important thing?
It seems that the two villages, the Sand Village and the Rock Village, had agreed to pause their own conflicts and fight against the Leaf Village.
At that moment, a ninja appeared in the tent and notified Torifu about the arrival of an important message, and the man had to withdraw for the time being but said he would return later.
Of course, Torifu could not fulfill that promise anytime soon because the war intensified.
Unlike the camp in the land of grass, the leaf camp in the land of rivers did lose most of its medical ninjas due to a sneak attack from the sand village.
Since the Sand ninjas use poison on their puppets, the Leaf ninjas will have a difficult time in the near future due to the loss of these medical ninjas.
While still working as a doctor at the camp, Natsuo heard that Tsunade had arrived at the Leaf camp in the land of rivers and taken the lead of a new medical team that had arrived from the village.
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The days passed and the war intensified.
Every day there were battles on the battlefield and the number of dead and wounded grew each day.
Although Natsuo demonstrated some of his power, he was not called to fight on the front lines because his skill as a medical ninja was valued more.
Meanwhile, he listened attentively to the conversations around him.
Although Torifu had the advantage in a direct battle against Kitsuchi, the son of the Third Tsuchikage, the Leaf ninjas were unable to push back the Earth ninjas much at first.
Seeing that he did not have the advantage, Kitsuchi led small squads of his men to carry out stealth attacks to halt the advance of the Leaf ninjas.
Of course, this could not last long due to the superiority of the Leaf ninjas.
There's a reason why the Leaf Village is known as the strongest village in the world.
With tactics devised by Nara Shikaze, many of these Rock ninja squads were ambushed and sneak attacks were largely stopped, leaving only a few squads to harass and halt the Leaf ninjas' advance.
Natsuo even heard that Gari was almost captured.
Having lost half of his team, Gari retreated to the Rock camp.
For now, the Rock ninjas were repelled and entrenched themselves in the area around their camp.
Although Gari no longer led his team after he was almost caught in one of Nara Shikaze's traps, he was a danger to the Leaf ninjas if they wanted to attack the Rock ninjas.
Suddenly, Natsuo received a message from a shadow clone and smiled when he read the message.
His shadow clones had managed to replicate the wood release chakra.
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While Natsuo remained as a doctor at the grassland camp, the war continued its course.
As Natsuo had heard, the Rock ninjas were forced to retreat to their camp, and Kitsuchi was not in good spirits.
He had underestimated the Leaf ninjas and his recent attacks had not been successful.
Torifu had refused to actively attack at the start of the war, and Kitsuchi saw this as a weakness.
But he was wrong.
Unlike those who desired the resources of the land of fire, the Leaf ninjas had no need to invade another country for resources, and Torifu had no reason to strive to fight to the death against the Rock ninjas.
Since Tierra del Fuego was not directly affected and they had more resources than the Rock Village, Torifu was happy with the pause in the conflict.
But when the Rock ninjas attacked, Torifu had to retaliate.
So now they were in this position protecting their camp.
If it weren't for Gari and his ability to create explosive clay protecting the area around the camp, and a few squads attacking the Leaf ninjas from behind and the sides, the Leaf ninjas would have invaded the camp and driven them out of the land of grass.
Reading the letter in his hand, Kitsuchi cursed again at the bad news.
Initially, Kitsuchi had two guarantees to resume the conflict with the Leaf ninjas.
But now those two guarantees have vanished.
First, his father couldn't support him because he had to go to the eastern border to stop the cloud invaders.
Although the cloud village did not officially participate in the war, they took the opportunity to invade the land and steal a large amount of resources.
Until now they didn't know how they did it, but somehow the cloud ninjas were able to take tons of resources from the country's main warehouses and leave as if they had nothing on them.
The few witnesses to these robberies confirmed that the cloud ninjas did not carry large storage scrolls where they could carry all the stolen goods.
Furthermore, the larger storage scrolls can only carry a certain number of items before filling up, and cloud ninjas would need to carry hundreds of storage scrolls to carry all the stolen goods.
With this doubt, his father had to go in person to the eastern border of the land and could not help him in a short time.
Especially since the Third Raikage has been seen nearby, apparently as reinforcements for his ninjas if they are ambushed.
Due to the invasion of the Land of Earth into the Land of Lightning when the Second Raikage died, and the counter-invasion when the Second Tsuchikage died, the two countries have been in conflict.
So at any moment a w
ar could break out between the two countries, and his father must be on the lookout for the Third Raikage.
And the second guarantee was the sand ninjas.
Although the Sand ninjas were more successful in eliminating the Leaf doctors in the land of rivers, they did not expect Hatake Sakumo and his blade to become their worst nightmare.